Photography

Softcover. Los Angeles, Hennessey & Ingalls, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 130 pages, b&w and color photographs. A pictorial study of dead factories, rail-yards, harbors, and aircraft boneyards, originally published in Germany in 1981. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Graphis Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 106 pages, 45 full-page nude photographs by the Hungarian-born photographer Ferenc Berko, who worked in in Aspen Colorado since 1949. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong format, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A photographic collection by renowned photographer Ernst Haas, showcasing a vibrant and colorful portrait of the United States through his lens, capturing diverse landscapes, people, and cultural moments across the country, often utilizing saturated colors and creative composition to depict the essence of "living Americana" with a unique artistic perspective; considered a landmark work in color photography, particularly for its innovative use of Kodachrome film to portray the American experience in rich detail.

Hardcover. New York, Five Ties Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 163 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Contains 93 color photos spanning 25 years of the photographer's work; Includes photos of Exeter Cathedral, the Millenium Dome, Lloyds of London, Washington National Gallery, the Louvre, and many more.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Volume Four Only. First Edition. Photographs by Eugene Atget. Essay and notes to the plates by Maria Morris Hambourg. 182 pages, 117 bw photographic plates and several text illustrations. A nice, bright copy.

Softcover. Vancouver BC, Arsenal Pulp Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. "One Ring Circus pays homage to the wrestling life: the sound and the fury and the die-hard fans who are often as colorful and outrageous as the wrestlers they clamor for."

NY, te Neues Publishing, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated with b&w portraits by Sandro, 76 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. 136 pages, 40 color & 50 black & white illustrations. Helio Oiticia (1937-80) was one of the most influential artists of the late twentieth century. At the end of the 1960s Oiticica was invited to exhibit at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. This book captures not only a pivotal moment in the life and career of a unique artist but also in the development of the avant-garde in London.

Softcover. NY, Thunders Mouth Press, 1sts thus, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages in color and b&w. Helmut Newton's best photographic work from the 1960's to the 1990's traveled around Europe in a major retrospective in 1993. This 1996 first printing collection contains all the icons of Newton's special fields of interest including fashion, nudes, portraits as well as works for which he became world famous: the sensational fashion photos for the British magazine Vogue, Liz Taylor with a parrot in a swimming pool, Helmut Berger naked at his fireplace, Helmut Kohl with a German oak, Salvador Dali on an IV drip, the "Big Nudes" and some of his later macabre wax figures. Clean copy.

Softcover. Milano, Longanesi & Co., 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 103 pages. Text in Italian. Light edgewear to wrappers, faint foxing to edges and end papers.

Softcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 95 pages, b&w photos by Tice. The enduring work of photographer George Tice is represented here in 80 black-and-white images, beautifully presented in a small format book. Clean copy.

Softcover. Buffalo NY, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 278 pages. Illustrated throughout with 195 b/w plates. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. The Cold War, Sputnik, Joseph McCarthy, Fidel Castro, the Rosenbergs, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, Father Knows Best and Rebel Without a Cause are just a few of the events, people, and cultural phenomena that marked the decade of the 1950s. This stunning book, a collection of two hundred large-scale duotone photographs of the 1950s culled from the New York Times photo archives, brings this watershed period to life and examines who and what was important and why.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 167 pages. A previously unpublished photo series by Irwin Klein of northern New Mexican counterculture communes from 1967-1971 blended with modern essays on the topic. Dropouts, renegades, utopians. Children of the urban middle class and old beatniks living alone, as couples, in families, or as groups in the small Nuevomexicano towns. When photographer Irwin Klein began visiting northern New Mexico in the mid-1960s, he found these self-proclaimed New Settlers and many others in the back country between Santa Fe and Taos. His black-and-white photographs captured the life of the countercultures transition to a social movement. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Chris Boot, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Offers an account of eccentric objects collected by the author, includes his memorabilia of political leaders and movements, other mythologized characters Osama bin Laden and the Spice Girls, his collections of photographic trays and kitsch wallpaper, objects commemorating the M1 motorway, 9 11, and the Sputnik mission.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An exploration of the career of Western photographer William Henry Jackson features forty photographs of such subjects as Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon and discusses how his work and life parallel the opening of the West in the 1800s. 132 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Photographer Camilo Jose Vergara has been chronicling the neighborhood for forty-three years, and Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto is an unprecedented record of urban change. Vergara began his documentation of Harlem in the tradition of such masters as Helen Levitt and Aaron Siskind, and he later turned his focus on the neighborhood's urban fabric, both the buildings that compose it and the life and culture embedded in them. By repeatedly returning to the same locations over the course of decades, Vergara is able to show us a community that is constantly changing--some areas declining, as longtime businesses give way to empty storefronts, graffiti, and garbage, while other areas gentrify, with corporate chain stores coming in to compete with the mom-and-pops. He also captures the ever-present street life of this densely populated neighborhood, from stoop gatherings to graffiti murals memorializing dead rappers to impersonators honoring Michael Jackson in front of the Apollo, as well as the growth of tourism and racial integration. Woven throughout the images is Vergara's own account of his project and his experience of living and working in Harlem. Taken together, his unforgettable words and images tell the story of how Harlem and its residents navigated the segregation, dereliction and slow recovery of the closing years of the twentieth century and the boom and racial integration of the twenty-first century. A deeply personal investigation, Harlem will take its place with the best portrayals of urban life.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in dark blue. 216 pages, 100 full-page b/w photographs by the author. Presumed First Edition. Atmospheric photographs of waterfowl and shorebirds in the wild. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, VIRGIN BOOKS, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 143 pages, b&w photos. Faint foxing to edges and dust jacket. Light sunning to spine.

Softcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 67 pages. A collection of 40 color photographs depicting the building facades and ruins of modern day Chihuahua, Mexico. The culminating effect of the brilliantly colored photos is nearly hallucinatory, taking in both the paintings of Bugs Bunny affixed to store facades, and political graffiti with a postmodern inclusiveness which says volumes about the spirit and poverty of this community. An accompanying text essayed by Charles Bowden, author of Blood Orchid , complements the images with a kind of poetic, meandering, and intimate meditation on the physical and existential state of Chihuahua. Lacks an index and bibliography. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Skira, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, hardcover, color and b&w plates. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Work by Becky Beasley, Bianca Brunner, Lisa Castagner, Simon Cunningham, Annabel Elgar, Anne Hardy, Lucy Levene, Gareth Mcconnell, Brigida Mendes, Suzanne Mooney, Melissa Moore, Harold Offeh, Kirk Palmer, Sarah Pickering, Sophy Rickett, Esther Teichmann, Heiko Tiemann & Danny Treacy.

Softcover. Nordlingen, Greno, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 82 pages, b&w portraits. GERMAN TEXT. Contemporary (1980s) photographic portraits of people from the St.Pauli district of Hamburg. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York , Norton, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages, b&w and color illustrations. The author documents the invention, technological evolution, and commercial history of the photobooth with extensive illustrations culled from twenty-five years of collecting. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 319 pages, mostly b&w photographs (some color), essays by 7 contributors including Henry Miller. Beautiful copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages, large format with 260 b&w plates. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap. Brings together definitive works by the noted documentary photojournalist who created "Migrant Mother," in a photographic collection that is culled from her archives at the Oakland Museum and highlights such subjects as the Great Depression, migrant workers, and sharecroppers. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press , 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 139 pages of b&w photographs. Originally published in 1985, this first book devoted to Butcher and his photographs presents a unique visual chronicle of Great Plains settlement and established Butcher"s place in frontier photography. Previous owner's inscription on title page otherwise clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alskog/Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, b&w photographs by Gene Smith. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise very good. This is a seminal photography book by the wonderful documentary photographer W. Eugene Smith and his wife Aileen M. Smith, showing incredible bravery in which the Smith's risk their own life after W. Eugene Smith is physically beaten. Also, this is the first photography book to examine the toxic affect on human beings of toxics in the water system.

Softcover. Aperture, 1st, May 31, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 78 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Very good.

Hardcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages, 80 richly printed, b/w duotone photo plates. Vivian Cherry began her career in the 1940s while working as a dancer in Broadway shows and nightclubs. Cherry supported herself partly as a 'darkroom technician' for Underwood & Underwood, a prominent photo service to news organizations. She began shooting the world around her during this time of change, combining informal portraiture with cityscapes of the Lower East Side, the Third Avenue El (and its ensuing demolition), the streets of Harlem, Hell's Kitchen, and the Meatpacking District. She joined the Photo League where she studied with Sid Grossman. - throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Her work from this period provides lively vignettes of New York City, of gritty street-scenes, of social consciousness, and of history. Cherry's work is in major national collections. and has been well published. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. Oversized. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Many full page color photographs throughout. Contains a promotional poster of front cover with Humphrey Bogart. A bright, clean copy.

Softcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This issue features the work of Raghubir Singh, Raghu Rai, Roaslind Solomon, Linda Connor, Mitch Epstein, Alex Webb and others.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 130 full-page photographs by Matthew Rolston with an introduction by Tim Burton. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. Extraordinary photographs, along with extensive captions, document the transition from a barely explored paradise to a modern nation.This stunning collection of 720 photographs, many of them drawn from family archives and scrapbooks and all carefully restored, is one of the most important visual records of Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ever to have been published. The early photographers captured the beauty and dangerous allure of life on this spectacular frontier: the ceremonies and traditional attire of the native people, the fantastic machinery used in construction of the Uganda Railway, the gradual development of trade on the coast and in the country's interior, the hardships of the East African Campaign during World War I, and the pioneering spirit of early European settlers and farmers. Many of the most famous names and places connected with Africa appear in these pages, including Karen Blixen's farm and Ernest Hemingway and Theodore Roosevelt on safari.

Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. In original shrink wrap, spotless and tight. Poet, scholar, philosopher, and master of Vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhism, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche led a life of profound dedication to spiritual enlightenment and teaching. During the final fourteen years of his life his personal assistant was Matthieu Ricard. Together they traveled throughout Tibet, Bhutan, India, and Nepal, returning to the places of Khyentse Rinpoche's youth: his birthplace in Eastern Tibet; the monastery of Shechen which he had entered at the age of eleven; and the retreats where he spent years in meditation and study. At every stop on his journey, Khyentse Rinpoche was welcomed with elaborate ceremonies and outpourings of devotion. Ricard's deeply personal photographs of this journey are enhanced by a biographical narrative that is interspersed with extensive passages from the writings and teachings of Khyentse Rinpoche. Together, these images and texts form an inspiring portrait of one of the great spiritual leaders and teachers of our time. Many masters of Tibetan Buddhism studied with Khyentse Rinpoche, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who regarded him as his principal instructor in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

Hardcover. Koln GR, Walther Konig, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Text in German and English. 96 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. Photographer Henry Horenstein presents his earliest photographs, made from 1970 to 1973: a collection of portraits of family and friends, landscapes, and period imagery. These photographs describe a time familiar to everyone, when one moves from adolescence to adulthood-remaining a part of a family while beginning to create a network of one's own.

Hardcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. gilt titles on spine. Includes extensive bibliography. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. The photographs of Simeon Schwemberger, who worked as lay brother at the Franciscan Mission of St. Michaels near Windowrock, AZ, from 1901 through 1908. His outstanding photographs of the Native American Indians in that area are coupled with the fine essay by Michele M. Penhall. This photographers work has been compared with the work of Charles Lummis, A.C. Vroman, and J.K. Hillers.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton/ Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 153 pages, b&w illustrations. "Mather and Weston first met in Los Angeles in 1913. They soon developed a close relationship, eventually working together as full-fledged artistic partners and even co-signing the photographs they produced. Weston was also madly in love with Mather, and the two engaged in an affair during his first marriage, even though Mather was more interested in women. This book which features art by both artists, chronicles their twelve-year association and sheds light on Mather, whose artistry, sexual identity, and mysterious past have been overshadowed by the massive reputation of Edward Weston and his subsequent association with Tina Modotti."

Cape Town SA, Koeberg, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. B&W photo essay on Cedarberg of the Western Cape of South Africa. Stated 369 of an unspecified number, edgeworn dust jacket. Endpaper map.

Hardcover. Nevada City CA, Carl Mautz Pub, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cloth. 126 pages illustrated by photographs and including an extensive bibliography and a directory of photographers. A typically well produced book from this publisher on the history of photography in the pioneer west as well as a scholarly effort. Both the book and jacket are bright, crisp and unworn.

Hardcover. Reading, Garnet, 1st UK, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 118 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Freya Stark. 1/2" deep closed tear at top right corner of first 4 pages - appears to be publishers error. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Netherlands, Uitgeverij Luster, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Germaine Van Parys (1893-1983) was one of Belgium's most important photographers. As a press photographer, she had the privilege of looking in on the lives of the royal families, but her work also features rock-and-roll stars and the common man. Her godchild Odette Dereze (born in 1932) followed in her godmother's footsteps from a young age and started a career as a photo journalist. Extensive research done by photo historian Johan Swinnen resulted in the rediscovery of much hitherto unknown archival material of significant photographic-historical value created by these two strong female photographic pioneers.

Softcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2nd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Charles Moore. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York , Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover. 76 pages. Winter 1984. Includes an article on Brassai and Gilbert and George. Another article on the upheaval in 1968 Prague with numerous black and white images by Josef Koudelka. Also includes images by Philip Jones Griffiths, Susan Meiselas, Gilles Peress, Don McCullin, Shomei Tomatsu.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, The Stationery Office, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with minor wear. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Black & white photographs throughout. Clean unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York, Glitterati, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The book is the first to document the American punk scene to the public at large and now represents the epitome of the scene at the timeFeatures photographs of artistic and performance luminaries such as Man Ray, Tennessee Williams, Mick Jagger, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Zandra Rhodes, Divine, Lance Loud, and Marilyn Chambers, among others.

Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 205 pages, color photos throughout by Mayer. Edited by Gunther Doeker-Mach. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color photographs of native peoples of Russian Far East hunting, fishing, reindeer herding and their environment. Includes three essays describing problems of these peoples arising from tension between Russian colonisation and their struggle to preserve their identity.

Hardcover. New York , PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Every city-dweller has seen them, and ever city-dweller could list the telltale signs: the fur, the gold, the hats, the cars. They are the original macks, the original players. They are Big City pimps--the heroes of gangsta rap. Bob Adelman and Susan Hall dive headlong into their world in the classic investigative docudrama Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp, an in-depth exploration of the underworld figures that populate our streets at night. The first book of its kind, Gentleman of Leisure, originally published in 1972 and now reproduced in a facsimile edition, is a collection of photographs and interviews dramatically documenting the private life of a pimp and his prostitutes. The people who appear in this book are not models: they are real people with real lives. Only their names have been changed to protect the guilty, their stories are real. Armed only with a camera and a tape recorder, Adelman and Hall entered the lives of the pimp Silky and his women. What they found flew in the face of prevailing prejudices: stripped of stereotype and myth, the pimps and whores that shared their tales were complex people embroiled in romantic dramas, with a code of behavior as intricate as the Mafia's, and a defined sense of self.

Paperback. Hanover NH, Hood Museum of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 87 pages, paperback. Photo documentation of the 1968 student riots in France. Essays by Thomas Crow and Anne Sa'adah. Light rubbing to wraps. Black-and-white photography throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean. A tight copy. May 9 through 13, 1968 was the beginning of a time of upheaval and social spectacle that pitted students and workers against an unsympathetic government in a series of spirited protests that would fundamentally change France. This catalogue showcases photographs of the famous events by French photographer Serge Hambourg. Hambourg captured the various moods and moments of the protests, including powerful portraits of student leaders Jacques Sauvageot, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and Alain Geismar, writer Louis Aragon, and filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.

Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Dresden GR, Verlag der Kunst/Weingarten, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 211 pages. Text in German and English. Survey of the works of the noted American photojournalist, from 1938 to 1980; notable for the documentary photos of Haiti (1958/59) and of the South Bronx (1980). Essays by Rice and Naomi Rosenblum; biographical chronology and selected bibliography. Clean copy.