Photography

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Oversized. Black cloth cover, gilt design, very little wear. Dust jacket with minor wear. Many b&w photographs throughout. A bright, clean copy. The story of William Notman and his sons and proteges who for over 60 years chronicled North America ( Canada and continental United States ) through the eye of a camera. He gives an invaluable view of what was like to live in the latter part of the Victorian era.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The photographs produced by the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression constitute one of America's greatest artistic legacies. A team of young photographers, including Dorothea Lange, Walter Evans, and Gordon Parks, not only created an extraordinary and powerful portrait of American life between the wars but in doing so also set a new standard for contemporary photography. 357 pages. Over 470 photographs, many of which have never been published before.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages, color and b&w pictures by various photographers. In a bright dust jacket, clean. Essays by Karen Finley, Dario Fo, Charles Simic. Alluring symbols of womanhood, breasts have fascinated generations of image-makers. Here, for the first time in book form, is the breast in photography: the titillating, maternal ageing and symbolic.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated (176 pages). This irresistible celebration captures dogs in their finest moments, at the charming and idiosyncratic society dog shows of the 1930s and '40s, when both dogs and owners were at their dapper best. Selected from the collection of the late, renowned society photographer Bert Morgan, these more than 150 exquisite duotone photographs evoke an era of refined leisure with the famous and fabulous-and their dogs-in competition and at home: eight-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier, Band-Aid on her knee, stands beaming on her front lawn with her enormous Great Dane; firehouse Dalmations line up at the Westminster Kennel Club's annual show; and descendents of Napoleon Bonaparte admire their distinguished pup on a park bench. Pedigreed pets vault walls, preen and promenade, all for the admiration of their owners-and the judges.

hardcover. Austin, TX, Texas Monthly Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. A collection of black & white documentary photos taken in Texas in the 1940's. 149 pages. Dust jacket unclipped.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, 60 pages, VG+ in pictorial boards, as issued, without dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated in b&w. Bill Burke's seminal book originally published by Nexus Press in 1987. In the early 1980's Burke traveled to Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as Cambodia where he documented the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime. The book was produced using the original plates, and features the same layout and scale as the first edition.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 414 pages, numerous b/w illustrations, owner's gift inscription on endpaper, slight foxing, text clean and sound. Small paper scar at bottom of spine where sticker was removed.

Softcover. New York, Universe, 1st wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Interviews with top models, - Jean Shrimpton, Penelope Tree, Jerry Hall, Iman, Isabella Rossellini, Helena Christensen, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Georgina Cooper, James, Karen Elson, and Alek Wek--as well as their agents, photographers, fashion editors, and designers, Illustrated with color and b&w photos by Bailey. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt & Co., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. The noted photojournalist draws on her archive of photographs of the most important Jewish writers of the twentieth century to present an album of ninety pictures accompanied by an assessment of their significance

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A Couple of Ways of Doing Something replicates a deluxe limited-edition portfolio whose initial run was only 75 copies. This clothbound edition preserves the luxurious sensibility of the original with 22 extraordinary oversized daguerreotypes printed in rich tritone. Working with daguerreotype master Jerry Spagnoli to conquer the complexities of this venerable process, which yields images of astonishing detail and gravity, Chuck Close photographed many of the same artist-friends who have made regular appearances in his paintings over the years: Laurie Anderson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Cecily Brown, Gregory Crewdson, Carroll Dunham, Ellen Gallagher, Philip Glass, Bob Holman, Elizabeth Murray, Elizabeth Peyton, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, James Siena, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, James Turrell, Robert Wilson, Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage and himself. Each image is complemented by a poem on its subject by Bob Holman, the celebrated and widely published New York School poet who originated and hosted the famous Poetry Slams at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and now runs the Bowery Poetry Club. With the counterpoint of Holman's engaging poetry, the collected work becomes a transfixing group portrait of Close's influential and highly creative circle of friends and colleagues, as well as an exploration of a challenging photographic medium.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. remainder dot to top edge. 192 pages, b/w plates., index, Her lifetime in photography .

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 2000, 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 diverse compilation of images and writing, this 1st issue of the new Aperture signifies the magazine's commitment to the remarkable range of cross-cultural experiences that photography addresses. From the stark isolation of Mimmo Jodices's Mediterranean island landscapes to Julian Cardona's disturbing photo-essay on foreign owned factories in Mexico, issue 159 presents a dynamic and vital window on the myriad happenings in the photographic community.Other features in this issue include Neil Selkirk on designer Tibor Kalman's use of photography, The photographic books of Jeff Bridges accompanied by a discussion between the artist and Richard Misrach, love letters to Edward Weston, the life and work of Marilyn Silverstone and an essay by Francine Prose on the phenomenon of the wedding ritual accompanied by the work of photographers as diverse as Henri Cartier-Bresson and William Wegman.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Lili Almog's color photos taken at three Carmelite monasteries (of nuns) are revealing of their faith.. The sisters showing their distinctive profession crucifixes (normally worn hidden under their scapulars, and pinned to their beds when they go to sleep) are revealing their personal symbols of "perfect intimacy." And the statues and/or holy cards of our holy mother St. Teresa, our holy father St. John of the Cross, St. Therese, and St. Joseph make Carmelites feel right at home. The monasteries are also significant: they are on Mt. Carmel (Haifa) and in Bethlehem--founded by Sister Miriam, "the little Arab"; and in Port Tobacco, Maryland, whose community is the oldest and first Discalced Carmelite convent founded in the US. The spartan surroundings emphasize the importance of the nuns' relationship with God. The photos of the sisters revealing their profession crucifixes, which they wear near their hearts and pin to their beds when going to sleep, I found especially moving. Almog's photos are neither stilted nor rigid, but reminiscent of the photos that St. Therese's sister Celine took of her! The quotations from Blessed Teresa of the Andes are very apt comments on the photos.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Pictorial photography is noted for its artistic expressiveness, careful design and composition, and muted focus. In 1914 Clarence White (1871-1925) left Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession group, abandoned his ambitions to be a photographic illustrator, and opened the Manhatten-based Clarence H. White School of Photography. Lecturers at his school included Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Steichen. White's unique teaching skills, especially his encouragement of women students, nurtured the careers of such talented photographers as Margaret Bourke-White, Laura Gilpin, and Dorothea Lange. Presented by the Detroit Institute of Arts and the George Eastman House, this companion volume for a traveling exhibition contains the elegant photographic imagery of White and his students. The clear text by two photography curators imparts how the revered teacher's romantic pictorialism became the foundation for the student's avant-garde modernism. By far the most substantial review of White's work and influence in print.

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. Dobbs Ferry NY, Morgan & Morgan, Revised Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan covers with maroon lettering. No dust jacket. 164 pages. A revised edition of the famed photographic dance document. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Updated choreography record and statements by both Martha Graham and Barbara Morgan. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages. Working for the government's Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, photographers set out across the country to capture the human face of the Depression. Walker Evans' portraits of sharecroppers and Dorothea Lange's images of migrant families today stand as the most popular images from the FSA's project. Yet, in their own time, the pictures functioned as urgent, powerful reminders that one-third of the nation was in a real crisis. Focusing on these and other well-known FSA photographs, Finnegan examines how popular magazines constructed complex and often contradictory messages about poverty. Picturing Poverty also explores a moment in American history when visual images took center stage as the nation struggled with economic, political, and social strife. By striving to understand the original context of the photographs, Finnegan shines new light on the meanings of poverty, the Depression, and the various roles of the media. At once a persuasive analysis of FSA images and a balanced commentary on the role of the media, Picturing Poverty is above all a look into the difficult issue of how the mass media presents social issues to Americans.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University Of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with silver lettering in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. An immensely important record of black life in Chicago at the near end of the 1940's. Apart from a few photos of entertainers the rest capture, in fascinating detail, life in Chicago's south side. The workplace and workers, interiors of homes and bars, parades, funerals, sport and street scenes with plenty of activity. The detail in all these pictures is impressive and typical of Miller's eye to capture a scene that reveals so much. Foreword by Orville Schell. commentaries by Gordon Parks and Robert Stepto. Small color sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. The Sixties is the product of a 30-year collaboration between photographer Richard Avedon and writer Doon Arbus, whose images and words combine in this volume to create a compelling portrait of one of the 20th century's most tumultuous decades. Avedon, the celebrated photographer whose portraits of some of the best-known personalities of our age have graced the pages of Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and The New Yorker magazines since the early 1950s, was prolific during the '60s. Looked at together, his images from those years create a visual time capsule. This large book is filled with a cacophony of Yippies, Black Panthers, Weathermen, Hare Krishnas, Andy Warhol Factory Superstars, pop artists, rock musicians, astronauts, pacifists, politicians, electroshock therapists, media correspondents, civil rights lawyers, antiwar activists, and more--all shot against his signature white background. Arbus, a novelist and writer for magazines including Rolling Stone and The Nation (and the daughter of photographer Diane Arbus), conducted interviews with many of the subjects. Snippets of those conversations provide an intimate and unforgettable document of the tension, vulnerability, anger, recklessness, hope, and empowerment many people experienced during that era. Brief biographies of the portrait sitters, as well as a chronology that spans the first signs of the war in Vietnam in 1960 to its final conclusion in 1973, provide excellent context for the images.

Hardcover. Danbury NH, Addison House, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. INSCRIBED BY JACOBI on title page. Black & white photography of Lotte Jacobi.

Hardcover. New York, Glitterati Incorporated, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Beautifully photographed images of horses.

Hardcover. New York, Getty Publishers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages. Softcover still in publisher's wrap.

Softcover. London, Afterall Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Illustrated with b&w and color plates. Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama shows a painstakingly clean-swept corner in the house of an Alabama sharecropper. Taken in 1936 by Walker Evans as part of his work for the Farm Security Administration, Kitchen Corner was not published until 1960, when it was included in a new edition of Walker Evans and James Agee's classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The 1960 reissue of Evans and Agee's book had an enormous impact on Americans' perceptions of the Depression, creating a memory-image retrospectively through Walker's iconic photographs and Agee's text. In this latest addition to the Afterall One Work series, photographer Olivier Richon examines Kitchen Corner. The photograph is particularly significant, he argues, because it uses a documentary form that privileges detachment, calling attention to overlooked objects and to the architecture of the dispossessed.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, color photography by Greenfield. Critically acclaimed for Girl Culture and Fast Forward, Lauren Greenfield continues her exploration of contemporary female culture with Thin, a groundbreaking book about eating disorders. Greenfield's photographs are paired with extensive interviews and journal entries from twenty girls and women who are suffering from various afflictions. Very good in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Reel Art Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, b&w and color photos by Glinn. One of the few books to capture the mayhem and idealism of the Cuban Revolution as it happened. All recorded in 10 days, it is photojournalism at it's best.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, large square format, 144 pages, 100 photographs by Pete Turner, personal favorites, classics; he published in Look Esquire, Holiday, Twen, Photo, etc. Remainder line to bottom edge, inscription on front5 fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Automatic Photograph Co., 1995, Book: Very Good, Unique item: 13 rounded cards, 4 X 6 1/2", hole-punched at the top with a string binding. The top card is the title, listing the women shown in the following cards for the 12 months of the year. Each has a pasted down actual photograph of the female celebrity: Katherine Grey, Lillian Russell, Maud Adams, Lulu Tabor, etc. All in excellent condition in the original white box which is worn at the corners.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 192 pages. A critical examination of American photographer Gertrude Kasebier. Features text by Barbara L. Michaels. Includes 120 duotone illustrations. NAME ON FRONT FLY LEAF, OTHERWISE CLEAN.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster/Ridge Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. A famous photographic exploration of childhood. Over 300 b&w images trace toddlers to teenagers playing, learning and growing up. Light shelfwear, previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket good plus with $10 flap price.

Hardcover. NY/Munich, Prestel, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. This book is the culmination of an advertising campaign by the exclusive design company Vitra, which had the idea of photographing famous personalities sitting on Vitra chairs. The resulting photographs collected are remarkable in their portrayal of world-famous personalities from the fine and performing arts commenting on the link between style and status.

Hardcover. Framingham MA, Old America Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt, 306 pages. Illustrated by the author with many b&w photos and sketches. SIGNED BY NUTTING on the front fly leaf. A pictorial history of Virginia, mostly landscapes and buildings. Spine gilt faded, clean copy.

Hardcover. Nevada City CA, Carl Mautz Publishung, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oblong hardcover. 111 pages. Researched and edited by Susan Herzig and Paul Hertzman. Essay by Peter Palmquist. Includes 60 illustrations with 47 color and duotone plates.

Hardcover. Louisville, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket., 160 pages. Sulky races at the Mercer County Fair, church suppers, sorghum making, shooting marbles in the school yard, housing tobacco, loafing at the courthouse-here are 129 beautifully reproduced images of who we were as Kentuckians not so long ago-during the Depression and the early years of World War II. This collection is part of the remarkable series of photos shot for the Farm Security Administration-more than 125,000 photographs taken over a period of nine years by some of the best American photographers of the time, including Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, John Vachon, and Arthur Rothstein. To reintroduce us to that important slice of our history, Beverly Brannan and David Horvath have selected a rich sampling from among several thousand photos taken in Kentucky for the FSA. They have added an extra dimension to the images by including in their commentary excerpts from the photographers' own correspondence and field notes.

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1973, Softcover, 136 pages. First Edition. Introduction by Jonathan Williams. Stories by Lafcadio Hearn. Captions, and a Statement, by Laughlin. Glossy illustrated wrappers. The Aperture Monograph issued in connection with the Laughlin exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1973. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Torino, Italy, Hopeful Monster Editore, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color and black and white photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy. Italian Text.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st, 2000-09-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout with photos in color and b&w. Minor shelf-wear to illustrated boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages, b&w plates. An accomplished photographer of the American scene presents a unique artistic record that captures a vanishing part of our country, the main streets, barber shops, schoolhouses, and inhabitants of our small towns. In his 19th book on the American scene, Plowden has focused on what epitomizes small towns-before this endangered species disappears altogether. The well-produced images, arranged roughly by topic (e.g., schools, theaters, churches, home interiors, restaurants, stores, and grain elevators) and representing towns in many states (including Iowa, Kansas, West Virginia, New York, Minnesota, and Idaho), speak eloquently of small-town life. Even more so, they speak of change; by the time Plowden photographed these towns, most had been cut off from their rural heritages. Nevertheless, the photographs convey order, calm, and congeniality; the best of them evoke the work of Walker Evans, who, like Plowden, left scenes unaltered when he photographed them. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 127 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY STANLEY BURNS on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. An unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography and journalism, takes the reader back to the days before Photoshop and reveals how newspaper editors would doctor images for effect and intent. These images, from 1900-1960 illustrate the range of art enhancement, from outlining and airbrushing to complete overpainting with subjects ranging from crime scenes, world events and social personalities.

Softcover. NY, Swann Galleries, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. with pictorial covers, unpaginated, 598 lots, indexed. Fully illustrated with b/w halftones. Prices realized list laid in.

Softcover. NY, Aperture, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 108 pages with b&w illustrations. The eight essays in Beauty in Photography provide a critical appreciation of photography by one of its foremost proponents. The result is a rare book of criticism, alive to the pleasure and mysteries of true exploration. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Gloucestershire UK, History Press, 1st pbk, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 237 pages. Before Marilyn tells the story of Marilyn Monroe's modeling career, during which time she was signed to the famous Blue Book Agency in Hollywood. The head of the agency, Miss Emmeline Snively, saw potential in the young woman and kept detailed records and correspondence throughout their professional relationship and beyond. On the day of Monroe's funeral, Snively gave an interview from her office, talking about the girl she had discovered, before announcing, rather dramatically, that she was closing the lid on her Marilyn Monroe archive that day - to 'lock it away forever'. This archive was purchased by Astrid Franse, and together with bestselling Marilyn Monroe biographer Michelle Morgan they draw on this collection of never-before-seen documents, letters and much, much more. Before Marilyn explores an aspect of Monroe's life that has never been fully revealed - by charting every modelling job she did, and illustrating the text with rare and unpublished photographs of the young model and her mentor.

Hardcover. NY/Cologne, Taschen, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, silver metallic boards. Mario Testino is recognized as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation but his pictures of Kate Moss transcend fashion. The result of three decades of extraordinary friendship, and phenomenal glamour, this iconic collaboration is an intimate insight into the lives and minds of two of the world's definitive style leaders. This book follows the journey of this exceptional fashion partnership, from early days backstage at the shows to behind-the-scenes glimpses of the groundbreaking editorials they continue to produce for the world's most respected magazines. Of the 100-plus images, many photographs have been chosen from Testino's private archive. They are accompanied by a foreword by Testino and an exclusive essay by Kate Moss. This is a smaller format edition that Taschen published in 2010. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large square quarto; 309 pages; afterword; index; photographs in black and white (some full-page) on virtually every page; fine in ivory cloth; hinges tight; pages crisp and unmarked; in very good dust jacket, rubbed along top and bottom edges, and light chipping to corners. Classic survey of photographs made for the Farm Security Administration of the 1930's, a chronicle of small-town and rural America produced by 11 gifted photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn and Carl Mydans; O'Neal's text introduces each of the photographers, followed by generous samples of their work, many never before published, accompanied in most cases by each photographer's own commentary; with a concluding essay by O'Neal and an afterword by Paul S.Taylor, who as a young economist during the New Deal was involved with and gave strong support to the photographic work of his wife, Dorothea Lange.

Hardcover. Damiani Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 189 pages. La Strada captures the life and drama of Italy's streets from World War II through the 1970s. Its exquisite photographs, made by some of the most deeply skilled artists of the mid-twentieth century, are imbued with the essence of Neo-Realism, the aesthetic that produced some of the most influential Italian film and literature of the same era. The American gallerist and curator Keith de Lellis's selection of more than 200 pictures, some previously unpublished, by more than 60 masters--including Mario Giacomelli, Nino Migliori, and Mario De Biasi--reveals the touching, the humorous, and the tragic in the day-to-day lives of the Italian people, liberated from the grips of Fascism. A treasure trove, and a case for the continuing recognition of this inspired group of picture-makers. Clean copy

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. Rebecca Solnit on Eliot Porter as pioneer in color photography and environmental propagandist, Peter Moore's photographs and Barbara Moore's writing reveal the adventurous, often subversive spirit of the avant garde, Donna DeCesare on the street gangs of El Salvador, L.A.'s export to Central America, Danny Lyon's personal reflections on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, more.

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, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Liu Bolin first became invisible in 2006. When the artist village in Beijing where he worked as a sculp-tor's assistant was demolished, he decided to protest. He camouflaged himself in the ruins with acrylic paints and photographed the finished product, marking the first of his Hiding in the City series. Since then, he has "disap-peared" in many different places around the world--from politically fraught areas in China to grocery stores, toy stores, and more. His work protests specific political acts of the Chinese government and offers commentary on consumer culture. This comprehensive book showcases Bolin's most striking photographs and sculptures and explores the techniques he uses to create his unforgettable art. Bolin has also helped other people disappear, including the members of Bon Jovi for the band's recent album cover, as well as the fashion designers Jean Paul Gaultier, Missoni, Valentino, and more, and a selection of these photographs is featured throughout the book.

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.