Photography

Hardcover. London, Clearview, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a paste-down label, 160 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Foreword by Elton John and David Furnish. A polaroid is the physical and organic reminder of a particular moment, enabling the creative team to step back and fully consider the technical and artistic direction of a photoshoot. The excitement of watching the image slowly developing and seeing the final result makes the polaroid a tiny artwork all of its own.In this book, uber-stylist and storyteller Jo Hambro showcases some of her vast personal records of polaroids taken from the fashionshoots she has worked on over the last two decades. Combined with her extraordinary notebooks, scribbles and sketches formulating the stories that each shoot is based on, (in which polaroids are an indispensable part), we are taken into the hidden world of fashion's creative process. Clean copy.

Softcover. US, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. The paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century, but during the 1930s he was also among the nation's premier photographers. Much of his photographic work was sponsored by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration, where his colleagues included Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.Ben Shahn's American Scene: Photographs, 1938 presents one hundred superb photographs from his most ambitious FSA project, a survey of small-town life in the Depression. John Raeburn's accompanying text illuminates the thematic and formal significance of individual photographs and reveals how, taken together, they address key cultural and political issues of the years leading up to World War II. Shahn's photographs highlight conflicts between traditional values and the newer ones introduced by modernity as represented by the movies, chain stores, and the tantalizing allure of consumer goods, and they are particularly rich in observation about the changes brought about by Americans' universal reliance on the automobile. They also explore the small town's standing as the nation's symbol of democratic community and expose the discriminatory social and racial practices that subverted this ideal in 1930s America.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Studio, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 120 pages, color plates throughout. A collection of photographs from the burial grounds of Europe explores the beauty of cemeteries and the emotions the survivors of the dead placed into the making of the tombs, accompanied by a meditation on the death of his own parents by Dean Koontz. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, hardcover, 695 photographs. "[A] spectacular collection of images from the personal archives of Italian countess Camilla McGrath (1925-2007). McGrath and her husband, Earl--at various times a screenwriter, record producer, and art curator--had an outsized social life, and the sheer number of celebrities who passed through their orbit is mind-boggling. Among the photographs are ones capturing Jackie Kennedy lounging by a pool, Andy Warhol smiling alongside his dachshund Archie, and vacation shots with Princess Margaret and Bianca Jagger. As art dealer Beatrice Monti remembers of McGrath's gift, "She was able to capture something of each one of us even in the middle of a party." . . . These spellbinding photos will beguile photographers, artists, and those enamored of the glamour of a bygone era." No dj issued.

Softcover. NY, Pantheon, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. With an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just Frank's subject matter--cars, jukeboxes and even the road itself that redefined the icons of America; it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally and linguistically, that made The Americans so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was 75 years ago. This edition was printed in Switzerland by Jean Genoud under the direst supervision of Robert Frank. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. The photography of Angus McBean encompasses more than three decades of the history of British theater. His work includes most of the memorable productions of the Old Vic Company and of what is now the Royal Shakespeare Company; opera productions at Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; ballet and operetta at Sadler's Wells; and West End productions of plays and musicals both old and new-hundreds of productions in all. McBean was the favorite photographer of Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and Edith Evans, and he photographed countless plays starring John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Alec Guinness, not to mention younger stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor. In fact, McBean photographed virtually every great actor of his era, perhaps the most brilliant years in the annals of British theater.

Hardcover. NY, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. 218 b&w gravure plates. Dust jacket with minor wear, price-clipped. "This book is a retrospective of Andre Kertesz's long career and contains all of his best known works: Hungarian scenes, classic photographs of Mondrian's staircase, portraits of his artist and writer friends, as well as his famous Surrealist distortions." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. For five years, noted Paris-based portrait photographer Lillian Birnbaum documented a group of girls during their transition from childhood to young womanhood, examining their initial, innocent awakenings to their own feminine allure. This is a state that is particularly difficult to capture, according to essayist Doris van Drathen, for Birnbaum's photographs present that delicate space between the unconscious and the conscious; the passage from a world of dreams, chaos and fantasy into a world more and more contained by the forces of reality. A moment at the threshold between 'no longer' and 'not yet' in the life of a girl, just prior to her realizing that her feminine seductiveness will one day actually curb her freedom as an independent individual and she will begin to mirror her womanhood in how others view her.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 190 pages. A smaller edition of the book published in 2019. Rewind back to the midcentury, before the age of Instagram and Snapchat, where people were using 35mm cameras loaded with color film to document both monumental and mundane moments in their lives. They took pictures of their loved ones, their vacations, their celebrations. They memorialized the births of babies; a child in a cowboy outfit; a new color television set; sightseeing in National Parks; fishing trips; lazing on the beach; weddings; office parties; family reunions; holding hands, kissing and dancing. Imagining these lives and the possible stories that lie behind the images is what makes The Anonymous Project such a compelling journey into our past. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Mets & Schilt, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small, square and orange. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Illustrated in b/w and color throughout. - Hira Mandi (literally Diamond Market) is the tangled maze of backstreets and alleys hat is the red light district of Lahore (the second largest city in Pakistan) and is as famous in South Asia as the Amsterdam red light district is throughout the West. Hira Mandi is a portrait of the unknown world of Pakistan's transsexual and homosexual subculture.

Hardcover. Penland, NC, Jargon Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 63 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges. Related news clipping laid in.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams/Hood Museum of Art, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A beautiful and intimate treatment of the architecture of the early industrialization of New England. 108 pages of color plates. Essays by Noel Perrin & Kenneth Breisch. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 464 pages. A personal exploration of the American West and the work of one of America's greatest photographers. Timothy O'Sullivan is America's most famous war photographer. You know his work even if you don't know his name: A Harvest of Death, taken at Gettysburg, is an icon of the Civil War. He was also among the first photographers to elevate what was then a trade to the status of fine art. The images of the American West he made after the war, while traveling with the surveys led by Clarence King and George Wheeler, display a prescient awareness of what photography would become; years later, Ansel Adams would declare his work 'surrealistic and disturbing.' At the same time, we know very little about O'Sullivan himself. Nor do we know-really know-much more about the landscapes he captured. Robert Sullivan's Double Exposure sets off in pursuit of these two enigmas. This book documents the author's own road trip across the West in search of the places, many long forgotten or paved over, that O'Sullivan pictured. It also stages a reckoning with how the changes wrought on the land were already under way in the 1860s and '70s, and how these changes were a continuation of the Civil War by other means.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, first edition, first printing. 9.5 x 13 inches. 192 pages with 113 duo-toned b&w photographic images offering a 40-year retrospective of the Magnum photographer's front line work. Compelling war pictures.

Hardcover. NY, The Burns Archive Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, measures 6 x 6 3/4", 164 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY BURNS on title page. The first published expose focusing on the war-time clinical photographs of Dr. Reed Bontecou. Photographs of wounded Civil War soldiers from New York regiments, on display for the first time since the 19th century, show the supreme sacrifices made by Americans and their families in sobering detail. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Univ of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1995-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A in depth study of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955, and its influence, with a final chapter on "Edward Steichen, Robert Frank and American Modernism".

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor wear. 104 pages with 55 beautiful, luminous black & white plates, accompanied by selected texts from Adams, Emerson, and other poets and naturalists, chosen by the Editor, Janet Swan Bush. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, b&w plates throughout. Hoppe traveled throughout Germany between 1925 and 1938, photographing movie stars, workers and peasants, the birth of the Autobahn, and the explosion of industrial building. This collection includes parts of his 1930 book "Deutsche Arbeit" and many photos never previously seen. Clean copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Quantuck Lane Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The human (and sometimes non-human) hands are, with the possible exception of the eyes, the most expressive parts of the body, asking for more or less, telling us to come or to go, asking questions and answering them, scolding, rewarding, searching and finding, and, at their most intimate, loving and lustful. Hands reward us, calm us, feed us, and scratch our backs. They intimidate, bless, encourage, and stop us. They soothe, caress, and sometimes go where they shouldn't. We may take hands for granted. But Elliott Erwitt does not. Here is Erwitt at his most serious-and-yet-whimsical best, giving us the moments which, without hands, would not exist. 100 duotone images.

Hardcover. Schirmer/Mosel, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 108 pages. A classic, indeed perhaps the best of the Mapplethorpe books. And for many most certainly the most typical Mapplethorpe, now available once again thanks to this re-edition. The Black Book, first published in 1986, presents 96 formally stringent and highly erotic nudes, all of them photographs of black men, either as full figures, or staged as details, as fragments of their bodies. Stylized as classical statues or provocatively in all their presence and sensuous radiance. Black-and-white photography was Mapplethorpe's preferred medium. And his obsessive aesthetics was based on completely mastering it, as this enabled him to visualize any number of tonal gradations and penetrate deep into the very pores of the gleaming black skin. It is a method that reached a climax in these images. The Black Book, Mapplethorpe s homage to the black male body, has always been one of the most important visual contributions to the discussion on beauty, sensuality, and sexuality in photography.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 161 color photographs by Arnold. Dust jacket with light wear. This book represents the result of two years traveling the USA. Arnold was a member of Magnum and though born and raised in the US, spent some 30 years in Britain; this was her way of reconnecting with her birth country and thus provides a look at US culture in the late 1970s/early 80s. Eve Arnold (1912-2012) was an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951 as the first women, and became a full member in 1957. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. A new generation of Czech and Slovak photographers--heirs to the legacy of such modern masters as Josef Sudek and Frantisek Driktol--will be the subject of the August 1998 issue of Aperture, featuring images never before published in the West. In the Aperture tradition of investigating the contemporary photography of individual nations, Crossing Borders probes the cultural, social, and emotional climate of the post-Communist era as experienced by twenty-three photographers.

Softcover. NY, Abrams, 1st pbk, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 399 pages plus index. This book offers a powerful new perspective on a much photographed subject: New York City, Veteran news photographer Ralph Ginzburg assigned himself the daunting task of photographing a different news event in The Big Apple on 365 consecutive days. The result is a year-long, 510-image extravaganza of the high drama and grandeur that are the everyday life of Gotham. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Monacelli Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. An artful photographic voyage documenting the impact of modern industry and consumerism on our planet, A Common Destiny presents a hauntingly beautiful vision of a world perched on the edge of an abyss. Juxtaposing images of pristine wilderness with photos of mines, abandoned nuclear reactors, large industrial farms, and spaces that exemplify artificiality and our increasing distance from nature--such as indoor ski slopes in Dubai, large-scale suburban housing development sites, and lavish casinos--Cedric Delsaux creates a powerful meditation on our ruthless hunger for mass production and energy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Intense eyewitness writing, and photographs on the opening weeks of the Korean War, by the renowned LIFE photographer. First Printing of this edition, originally published in 1951. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 85 pages, b&w photographs. Minor fading along cover edges and spine. Otherwise, in clean condition.

Hardcover. NY, Horizon Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, original black cloth with silver and black lettering on cover, red and silver on spine. With an introduction by Harold Rosenberg. Illustrated with fifty full page b/w photographs by Aaron Siskind. The first monograph on Siskind, beautifully designed and printed; an important post-war photobook. There is a light water stain to rear panel of dust jacket, not affecting book. A clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2nd Pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 320 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs from the pages of The New York Daily News. Remainder mark in black across bottom edge at spine. Light wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b/w photography throughout. 83 pages. Maggie Lee Sayre was born deaf near Paducah, Kentucky, in 1920. She lived 51 years of her life on a river houseboat as her family made a living fishing throughout Kentucky and Tennessee. This collection of her photos, accompanied by descriptive captions from Sayre, reveals a traditional river culture that is rooted in subsistence living. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Celestial Arts , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 154 pages. Photographs tell the story of Rick and Larissa, who can see the future, and describes their feelings about ecology and the possible end of the world

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages. In the early 1940s as the conflict between the Axis and the Allies spread worldwide, the U.S. State Department turned its attention to Axis influence in Latin America. As head of the Office of Inter-American Affairs, Nelson Rockefeller was charged with cultivating the region's support for the Allies while portraying Brazil and its neighbors as dependable wartime partners. Genevieve Naylor, a photojournalist previously employed by the Associated Press and the WPA, was sent to Brazil in 1940 by Rockefeller's agency to provide photographs that would support its need for propaganda. Often balking at her mundane assignments, an independent-minded Naylor produced something far different and far more rich--a stunning collection of over a thousand photographs that document a rarely seen period in Brazilian history. Accompanied by analysis from Robert M. Levine, this selection of Naylor's photographs offers a unique view of everyday life during one of modern Brazil's least-examined decades. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, 289 photographs from her own collection. Legendary actress Marlene Dietrich is honored in this beautiful coffee-table book, which is introduced by brief recollections from director Josef von Sternberg, Orson Welles (who worked with her in Touch of Evil), Ernest Hemingway, and others. The Film Museum of Berlin contains 25,000 objects and 18,000 images related to Dietrich, and this book is like a museum exhibition held expressly for Dietrich lovers. It is divided into sections such as "Portraits," "Beads, Furs, and Feathers," and "Possessions" and displays her dresses and accessories in pristine condition, alongside excerpts from letters and diaries. Daughter Maria Riva (author of a 1994 biography, Marlene Dietrich) provides extended captions to the many photographs of the actress and her belongings. Also included are a filmography, theatography, concertography, discography, and collection inventory with exhibitions.

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st UK, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a small close tear. The corpse of a young man lies in the street, his eyes half open, his face covered with insects. The uncaptioned image is like a jolt of electricity; no words could improve upon it. Ian Thomson's introduction confirms that life has little value in Haiti (cheap for humans, worthless for animals), a once proud nation that has declined into a police state where brutal poverty is the order of the day. Bruce Gilden's largely shocking black-and-white pictures reveal that decline as perhaps never before in a shoot-from-the-hip style of photojournalism. 120 pages. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, PowerHouse, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. The high-profile magazines call prestigious portrait photographer Nigel Parry for only the most illustrious assignments: President Bill Clinton for The New York Times Magazine; Martin Scorsese for Vanity Fair; Dennis Quaid for Entertainment Weekly; Susan Sarandon for Premier; Tommy Lee Jones for W; John Cusak for GQ; Jake Lamotta for Esquire; and Liam Neeson for The London Sunday Times; and so on. With such distinguished occasions to encounter the powers that be, Parry has used these opportunities to create his own portfolio of private images of today's top movie stars, film directors, musicians, politicians, and sundry entertainment celebrities.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Brown cloth boards with gilt titles, in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. 180 pages, 91 illustrations (6 in color), text by Dennis Longwell. Includes a catalog of the plates, an essay on Steichen's printing techniques, a selected bibliography and an index to the plates. Covers with mild soil, interior clean and bright. Related clippings laid in.

Hardcover. Editions Dromadaire, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 140 pages with b&w photos. Gomot was a local photographer in the ancient and picturesque French village of Saint Paul. The town became a favored vacation spot for artists, movie personalities and other celebrities in the 1950s and 60s. Many French stars like Simone Signoret, Jean BelMondo, as well as other film stars like Sophia Loren, David Niven, Kirk Douglas and Paul Newman are pictured drinking, eating and dancing at local gathering spots.Text in French and English. Clean copy. Limited to 3000 copies.

Softcover. US, Real Comet Press, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy. "This book is based on Jo Spence's 'Review of Work', a retrospective exhibition in 1985 which covered her career from high street photographer to critic - still using her camera - of NHS treatment of cancer patients. Far from a conventional book of photography, what emerges is a political, personal and photographic autobiography. It is impossible to separate the strands. Her photography is as much a part of her as her brain, her politics and her subjectivity. As she says: 'I put myself in the picture.'"

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages. One remarkable woman, five remarkable careers: Leni Riefenstahl is the exception to the rule. From dancer to actress to film-maker to photographer to diver, she has excelled in each field and is one of the most important and controversial artists of the 20th century. Her contributions to the art and technique of film-making were vast, most notably in her epochal film "Olympia" (1938). Critically acclaimed during the 1930's for her work under the Hitler administration and harshly criticized after the war, Riefenstahl surged on, completing the famous "Tiefland" in 1954. In the 1960s and 70s she traveled to Africa and extensively photographed East Africa and the Nuba tribes in Sudan, publishing three books. Ready for yet another change, she took up deep-sea diving at the age of 71, beginning a new chapter as an underwater photographer.Though she has attracted much attention throughout her life and has been the subject of many books, articles, and films, Leni Riefenstahl Five Lives is the first book to showcase her entire career in pictures. Produced in collaboration with Riefenstahl herself, the book includes her most famous images as well as many previously unpublished pictures from her private archives.

Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, pictorial dust jacket featuring Ken Griffey, Jr. Walter Iooss, a Sports Illustrated photographer for over 30 years, captures what he calls in his introduction "a thread that has connected the various stages of my life, as well as my photographic career. Baseball." 160 color phots of the game's greats.

Softcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, clean bright copy. A celebration of the snapshot with a collection of fascinating images, 54 color and 88 in b&w.

Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. 103 color photographs by Page. Introduction by William Shawcross. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, National Gallery of Art/Callaway Editions, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 247 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with 2 tape repaired tears at bottom edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy. Alfred Stieglitz was a seminal figure in 20th century art. One of the foremost photographers in the century, he also helped other photographers define what the aesthetic means in photography. He also was a champion for many of the best known photographers, and seriously boosted their careers. In painting, he was an early advocate of important 20th century artists like Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe. In addition, he published two influential journals about photography, and exhibited art in his famous gallery in New York. Clearly, though, photography was his first love. "I have all but killed myself for Photography." This book focuses on his central vision of photography ("search for objective truth and pure form") which increasingly was about "antiphotographs" or images that move beyond simple representation. This concept is examined both in 73 of his best images and through numerous excerpts from his voluminous writings on the subject (over 200 essays).

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Articles are: Eve Arnold on "Martine Franck," Richard Avedon on "Amy Arbus," Harry Callahan on "Emmet Gowin," Henri Cartier-Bresson on "Ferdinando Scianna," Eikoh Hosoe on "Antonio Turok," Helen Levitt on "Bill Arnold," and Inge Morath on "Anthony Suau."

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 202 pages. A collection of 188 portraits of world leaders, artists, writers, and celebrities by Armenian-Canadian photographer, Yousuf Karsh . With portraits of Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and numerous other twentieth-century luminaries. 12 in color. Small nick to dj cover at bottom edge, previous owner's inscription on verso of front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, very good copy.

Softcover. Koln, Benedikt Taschen, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. At the turn of the 20th century the cigarette was both symbolic of emancipation and evocative of female eroticism. The photographs collected in this volume illustrate the piquant fascination of that blue-grey haze. sepia tone photos throughout of partially clothed and nude women smoking and holding cigarettes. Erotic. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Text assenbled by Arno Karten. SIGNED BY ORKIN on half-title page. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Color photographs of Central Park and environs from Orkin's 15th floor window, with short quotations from the famous authors assembled by Arno Karlen. 119 pages.

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages in color. In this volume, the Webbs share their thoughts about a wide range of practical and philosophical issues, from questions about seeing and being in the world with a camera, to how to shape a complete body of work in a way that's both structured and intuitive. Award-winning novelist Teju Cole, a student of the Webbs, provides the introduction. Clean copy.

Hardcover. teNeues, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 216 pages. Eve Arnold didn't even consider photography until a boyfriend gave her a Rolleicord when she was 34. But her talent and daring brought her immediate recognition and she was picked up by Magnum Photos only 5 years later. Arnold may be best known for her black and white images of Marilyn Monroe, but she has chronicled figures as diverse as migrant potato workers and heads of state in addition to screen icons during her assignments, which involved everything from politics, social issues, travel, to current events and a little glamour. Guided by her own words, this volume features Arnold's now iconic photographs as well as many never-before published images. teNeues Press has published this magnificent monograph, with a superb introduction by Liz Jobey who details the important steps in Eve Arnold's life, career and artistic impact.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Photographer Laura McPhee, noted for her stunning large-scale landscapes and portraits of the people who live and work in them, has been traveling to eastern India for over a decade. This book features a selection of McPhee's works in and around India's former capital.

Hardcover. London, Editions Gallimard, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. First French Edition. 14.25" x 10.5". French language throughout. Foreword by H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh. Presented by Christian Fevrier. A collection of superb photographs from the archives of the well known photographers Beken of Clowes covering the hundred years from 1880 to 1980. All related to sailing, yachting, boats and printed in sepia duo-tone process with some as fold out spreads. Photographic index and captioned section at rear. Full bound maroon cloth with gold blocking to spine. Unclipped dust wrapper.