Softcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A Siamese cat beneath a clothes line, three women with linked arms standing on the front lawn, a man drying his hands on a dish towel in front of the kitchen stove. These scenes are part of Close to Home and the accompanying the Getty Museum exhibition held from October 12, 2004 to January 16, 2005, which celebrate snapshots--"found" photographs by anonymous photographers--that capture everyday life in all of its joy, banality, and mystery. Taken between 1930 and the mid-1960s, these photographs, most of them in black-and-white, create an unpretentious portrait of suburban American life by untrained photographers whose images can be unexpectedly lyrical and moving.
Softcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Warhol's career as an artist has been a love affair with the United States. Culled from his photographic archives, "America" is a lavishly illustrated selection of Warholian images of people and places and a photographic portrait of modern life from Warhol's camera's eye. 1st edition in paperback. Clean, bright copy, like new.
Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, photos in color. Minor shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. This book documents the two most recent works by the critically acclaimed British artist and filmmaker, Isaac Julien, both of which continue his investigation of issues of race and global politics. True North, shot in the spectacular landscapes of Iceland and Northern Sweden, is conceived around the expedition writings of the African-American explorer Matthew Henson, one of the key members of Robert E. Peary's 1909 Arctic expedition, and arguably the first person to reach the North Pole. True North's diametric counterpart, Fantome Afrique, weaves cinematic and architectural references through the rich imagery of urban Ouagadougou, Africa's cinematic center, and the arid spaces of rural Burkina Faso. The film is punctuated by archival footage from early colonial expeditions and landmark moments in African history.
Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 183 pages. Profile of Strand by Calvin Tompkins. Features excerpts from correspondence, interviews, and other documents along with numerous black and white images by Strand. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The 150 photographs in this collection represent a unique vision of a nation struggling to define itself. These images are accompanied by essays from renowned Japanese experts, who provide social and historical insight into this period and its photographic output. The first comprehensive review of this period in Japanese photography,.
Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 143 pages. Beautiful black & white photos by Minor White (1908-1976) who is an icon in the world of photography. and was also the editor of "Aperture" for many years. There is a biographical essay by James Baker Hall and a chronology and title list of photographs in the rear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Sports Illustrated, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Celebrates the art of that uniquely American institution, the Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit issue.Beginning with the inaugural issue on January 24, 1964, which featured model Babette March in a modest four-page spread, Knockouts goes on to document the evolution of the swimsuit issue through five decades of models who, largely by virtue of their appearances here, became celebrities, including Elle Macpherson, Cheryl Tiegs, Tyra Banks, and Kathy Ireland.Besides assembling a selection of the best photographs in book form for the first time, Knockouts offers an ample selection of outtakes and other previously unpublished photos, various quotes from models, photographers, art directors, and commentaries on the logistics and technical aspects of the shoots and the exotic ports of call in which they were staged.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 247 pages with 191 plates. Those familiar with Newton's fashion work for Vogue , Elle , etc., his photo essays for Life , or his earlier books will not be surprised by these portraits of celebrities shown as never before. Newton's dancers, designers, and grand dames, indeed "elite society's newsmakers, night-lifers, and would-be transgressors," act a part in dramas he has contrived. From Salvador Dali to Grace Jones to Natassia Kinski (dancing with a Marlene Dietrich doll) to Prince Rainier, Newton's portraits are often shocking, manipulative, and bizarre; they are never boring. Fine, full-page reproductions and Carol Squiers's revealing interview with Newton enhance the work. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, photographs and afterword by Ferdinando Scianna. 124 pages; full-page duo-toned b&w plates throughout; 10 x 12.5 inches. Biography, bibliography. Since he began taking photographs in the 1960s, journalist and Magnum photographer Ferdinando Scianna has been fascinated by the sight of sleepers. Over four decades Scianna has captured thousands of images of people and animals sleeping in the countryside, in cities, in deserts, on street corners, in moving trains, and in their own homes.
Hardcover. Gottingen, Steidl/ICP , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 175 pages. In 1934, after reading John Dos Passos' 1919, Gerda Taro left her home in Stuttgart for Paris. There she met the now legendary photographer Robert Capa, with whom she traveled to Spain at the start of the Civil War. As his lover and photographic partner--and as his manager--she is often credited with launching his career. She was also the first woman photojournalist to enter the heat of battle. The couple worked together until Taro was killed while photographing a crucial clash near Madrid in July 1937, just six days shy of her twenty-sixth birthday. The International Center of Photography holds by far the world's largest collection of Taro's work, including approximately 200 prints as well as original negatives. This selective survey of the ICP's holdings is organized chronologically, and set in context with the inclusion of magazine layouts; it is the first major collection of Gerda Taro's photographs ever published. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Atlanta, High Museum of Art, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The catalogue of a traveling exhibition organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, examining the significant interrelationships between sports, photography, and culture in the US, Europe, and Russia since the late 19th century. The 141 works featured (32 color, 109 duotone) by 120 photographers (including such masters as Stieglitz, Adams, Cartier-Bresson, and Arbus) are drawn from American and European public and private collections and the archives of Life and Sports Illustrated . Includes essays by Harvey Green, John M. Hoberman, and Peter Schjeldahl.
Softcover. Tokyo, Parco Publishing, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, wrapped in a clear acetate cover with no printing. Unpaginated. 72 photographs including several color prints that were among the first ever collected in book form. Many portraits, including Patti Smith, Ken Moody. Text in English and Japanese. Clean copy.
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.'"
Softcover. NY, Aperture, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. This is a compelling portrait of three communities blighted by drugs and isolation: East New York, North Philadelphia, and the Red Hook housing projects in Brooklyn, New York. With a chilling and informative afterword by Dr. Stephen W. Nicholas, a pediatric AIDS physician in Harlem, Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue reveals how first steps toward solutions to overcome the drug trade have actually contributed to public denial and further isolation of the trapped communities. Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue is a history of our times, a terrifying document that will educate us and promote dialogue. B&w photos throughout. Eugene Richards' wrenching photographic study of the culture of cocaine in three inner-city neighborhoods gives faces to some of the victims of addiction. It provides a shocking and heartrending picture of the damage inflicted by the drug."-Charles Hagen, The New York Times . Clean copy.
Softcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (86 pages), maroon illustrated wrappers. This is an album of early photographs taken of the New York red light district around 1912 by Bellocq. Friedlander took prints from the original plates for this book and they provide a fascinating documentary on bordellos at this interesting time in history. Reputedly never taking 'dirty' pictures of the girls, Bellocq confined his endeavors to recording for posterity these ladies in both clad and unclad poses. The foreword takes the form of a conversation between Friedlander and Dan Leyrer, who was also a photographer and a contemporary of Bellocq.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn, soiled dust jacket. 94 pages. Features a short foreword by Margaret Mead. Includes numerous black and white images by Jill Krementz. Light tan cloth with blue lettering on spine. The book is in clean, excellent condition, the dj fair to poor.
Hardcover. Canada, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The material that was saved from Warsaw in 1939 included more than ten color slides. These slides are the only color photo documents showing that historic moment from the perspective of city residents. The slides were found only in recent years by the photographer's son, Sam Bryan. In addition to color slides this album also includes photographs recorded by Julien Bryan on black-and-white film at that time and iater subjected to a complicated process of colorizing. The colorizing took piace after Bryan's return to the United States in 1939.
Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 238 pages, b&w photography by Alex Harris. New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures ? Hispanic and Anglo ? meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and becomes their teacher. With the tools of simple labor ? shovel and axe, irony and humor ? he shows them how to survive, even flourish, in their isolated village. A remarkable look at modern life in the mountains, River of Traps also magically evokes the now-vanished world in which Romero tended flocks on frontier ranges and absorbed the values of a society untouched by cash or Anglo America. His memories and wisdom, shared without sentimentality, permeate this absorbing story of three men and the place that forever shaped their lives. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, Revised Ed., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. A revised and expanded edition of the 1985 first edition. Foreward by Tom Wolfe.
Hardcover. NY/London, St. Martin's Press/Academy, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with tape repair to reverse which bleeds through on front panel. A collection of black and white photographs from this early British photographer.
Hardcover. New York, Filipacchi Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages. Candid photographs of movie stars in between shots, relaxing on movie sets. Mostly black and white, some color. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Softcover. NY, Crown Publishers, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, BW-photographic and navy blue dust jacket with gold lettering. 128 pages, 115 b&w photographs. Official U.S. Navy and Marine Corps photographs of combat in the Pacific and the Atlantic. Edited by Edward Steichen; text by Tom Maloney. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Center for American Places, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages. The Mississippi River flows through American history and culture as a mythic waterway brimming with tragedy and hope, and awash in passionate ambitions and harsh realities. In 1953, a young Charles Dee Sharp traveled twice down the Mississippi (first by towboat and then by car along the renowned river road Highway 61) to make a documentary film of it, taking black-and-white photographs of the river, its communities, and its people.While Sharp's documentary never came to fruition, the striking images he captured survived as moving and evocative historical testaments to a lost era, now collected in his new book The Mississippi in 1953. These images create a vivid portrait of America's heartland a half century ago, and they are enriched with excerpts from Sharp's original trip journal, intriguing anecdotes from the people he encountered along his journey, and an engaging environmental history of the river by historian John O. Anfinson. The Mississippi in 1953 offers an original and poignant look at the living artery of the American landscape and how it molded the United States into the nation it is today.
Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 316 pages, b&w illustrations. Written by his ex-lover, business associate, and close friend, an explicit memoir offers a new perspective on the renowned celebrity photographer with a taste for kinky sex and drugs who died of AIDS in 1989. Fritscher's brutally frank memoir of his ex-lover, confidant, and colleague, drawn from the author's personal documents, seeks to strip away the notoriety surrounding the defiant photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. As editor and writer for the gay magazine Drummer, Fritscher was the first to publish Mapplethorpe's highly charged camera shots depicting a seamy world of "leathersex," sadomasochism, taboos, and fetishes. Here, Fritscher graphically portrays the masculine subculture of the homosexual community that Mapplethorpe inhabited until his death from AIDS in 1989, at age 42. He also discusses the censorship of Mapplethorpe's work within the mainstream gay community. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 95 pages. Summer 1988. Includes work by: Hans Christian Adam, Martin Munkasci, Larry Sultan, Connie Imobden, Sally Mann, Harry Callahan, Ray Metzker, Fernand Fonssagrives, Will McBride, Barbara Crane, Sylvia Plachy, Leonard Freed, Laurie Simmons, Elliot Erwitt, Larry Fink, Nan Richardson. Also has writing by: Theodore Roethke, Derek Walcott, Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda. A clean, tight issue.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages, color photographs, Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Doors of the Kingdom is a unique collection of photographs depicting the ancient and disappearing craft of doormaking in Arabia. The Islamic concept of hurma, or sanctity of a place of dwelling or worship, is recurrent throughout Arabic poetry and literature. The door (bab), preserver of sanctity, becomes symbolic of the boundary between public and private space, and between the profane and the sacred. In 1995, Haajar Gouverneur traveled throughout the Arabian Peninsula photographing each region's distinctive doorways and the remaining artisans who make them. The doors of Arabia, painstakingly hand-carved from the wood of the Al-Athel trees, last in their exquisite variety for hundreds of years. This ancient craft, passed down from generation to generation in the central and northern regions of Saudi Arabia, is now nearly extinct. Modern materials, technology, and changing priorities threaten the continuity of the sacred and artisanal tradition of doormaking.
Hardcover. Krause Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. As the 2004 Presidential Election was beginning to take shape, Kyle Cassidy took note of the important role the simple concept of gun ownership was playing. Hardly anyone he knew didn't have an opinion in the debate over owning guns. Why was a constitutionally protected right so heavily debated, and who exactly as these folks that own guns? "I began to wonder who these seventy or so million Americans were, how they lived and what was important to them. I set out to photographs as many gun owners as I could and ask them one question: "Why do you own a gun." Cassidy traveled over 20,000 miles, crisscrossing the country to meet with gun owners in their homes. Cassidy's photo essays create a powerful, thought provoking and sometimes startling view of gun ownership in the U.S. These "everyman" portraits, and the accompanying views of gun owners, fashion a riveting and provocative book.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 153 pages, foreward by M.F.K. Fisher. A collection of b&w photos, some color, by Robert Doisneau. Commentary by Chevalier. In a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, soiling to rear panel. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt & Co, 1s, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. B&w portraits. Jill Krementz has made a career of photographing writers. The Jewish Writer features her portraits of 78 "people of the book," among them Saul Bellow, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Sendak, and David Mamet. Some of these portraits are contemplative; others are joyous. What distinguishes them is Krementz's ability to capture the essence of a moment that is at once exquisite and mundane, be it playwright Wendy Wasserstein rolling up her sleeves at her computer or an elfin Stanley Kunitz half-hiding in the blooms of his Provincetown garden. A mischievous Bruce Jay Friedman dashes around Southampton in a spiffy convertible; a bearded, bandana'd, and bespectacled Allen Ginsberg appears at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. (Though some of these photographs date from the early '70s, most are much more recent.) Each portrait is accompanied by a description of the author's life and work, and the relationship of each to Judaism, or, more accurately, Jewishness. The Jewish Writer is a spirited testament to the enormous and diverse contributions Jewish writers have made to our literary landscape.
Softcover. Aperture, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Very good. Guest edited by W.M. Hunt, this issue of Aperture features work by photographers and scientists in their efforts to capture delirium on paper. Images ranging from contemporary through 19th Century show how delirium, clinical or colloquial, has been documented, analyzed, codified, worked over, and wondered about for the last 150 years, together creating a psychic agitation that can be as dark as it is witty. Artists included Nancy Burson, Debbie Fleming Caffrey, Ellen Carey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eugene Richards, Weegee and many others.
Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, Clean copy in a bright dust jacket. Edited by Stephen Daiter. Introduction by Fred Ritchin. Essay by Kerry Tremain. A wide ranging collection of 190 duotone images. Miller's work always contained a peculiar empathy, whether he was photographing American servicemen, Italian street urchins, or Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb, and that ethos extends to his subsequent landmark studies of the famous Bronzeville neighborhood in postwar Chicago.
Hardcover. NY, Hearst Communications, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, oversized, b&w photographs of celebrities throughout: Claude Levi-Strauss, Elizabeth II., Andre Kertesz, Samuel Beckett, Faye Dunaway, Vladimir Horowitz, Yves Saint-Laurent, Andy Warhol, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Johnny Depp, Kate Moss, many others.Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Like many who grew up during the spread of sprawl--with its predictable landscape of housing developments, shopping malls, interstate highways, and big-box construction--acclaimed photographer Jeff Brouws is drawn to places that still embody the vernacular past as well as to those that starkly portray the soulless, franchised American landscape. What began as cultural geography of Main Streets became a visual critique of the myth of upward mobility that created this car-centered, paved-over universe. Some images look outward to the edges of suburbia where sprawl is encroaching upon nature. Others turn inward, documenting the devastated inner cities. All the stunning color photographs reflect the complex beauty and desolation of visual life in our time. 100 color photographs.
Hardcover. London, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Photographs throughout, spotless and tight copy. Following his maxim, 'Look, Observe and Think', the German photographer, August Sander, was a craftsman of unerring precision. Despising 'tricks, poses and effects', Sander found inspiration in his determination to create images which were absolutely 'true to nature'. His resulting body of work is a diverse catalogue of portraits which capture people of all ages, from every social setting and calling, which provide, in turn, a rich overview of the personalities who shaped Germany's Weimar Republic.A master of camera portraiture, August Sander began photographing people as a boy around the iron-ore mines of his German hometown. As he grew older, he began to foster strong ideas about the function of photography. These opinions culminated in his 'Confession of Faith in Photography', written in 1927, where he talked of showing the 'truth about our age and its people'. This vision is reflected in the universal quality his images share: the innate ability of the photographer to present more than a portrait to show the characters of his sitters. Published to coincide with the National Portrait Gallery's major exhibition of Sander's photographs, this fascinating book offers a comprehensive overview of Sander's rich body of work. Opening with an introductory essay which gives a thorough analysis of Sander's techniques, the book's range of black and white photographs (over 190 in total) are interspersed with contemporary observations regarding Sander's work (these include the photographer's own words). Spanning more than fifty years, the images shown in August Sander offer a pictorial overview of an era and its people. Dominated by the portraits which make up his huge portfolio, 'People of the 20th Century', this catalogue also includes family photographs and a selection of Sander's haunting landscapes.
Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued. 48 pages with 23 four-color plates (printed one to a sheet), beautifully printed on heavy-stock uncoated paper. 13-5/8 x 17-3/4 inches. Photographs by Phillip Toledano. Includes several reproduced "anonymous" brief corporate memos. Designed by Jack Woody. This edition was limited to 1000 hardbound copies.
Hardcover. Aperture, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 132 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Slight edgewear, creasing, tanning to white dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Graphis Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. More than 200 color plates.Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd printing, 1985-10-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 122 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York , Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover. 80 pages. Portfolios by Constantin Brancusi, Petah Coyne, Louise Lawler, Chris Marker, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richet, Richard Pousette-Dart, Kiki Smith, Wim Wenders.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers. Black & white photos. Foreword by Leland Hayward. Browning to page edges. Stain to bottom edge.
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. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. A collection of Carroll's child portraits, wonderfully reproduced in sepia.
Hardcover. US, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. color and Black and white pictures throughout. Simon Weller presents his vivid photographs of these shops, their signage and their patrons alongside interviews with the proprietors, customers and the sign makers.
Hardcover. Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 299 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. US, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Zurich, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Christian Vogt. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scalo Publishers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing and discoloration on edges of pages, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Red boards with black lettering to the spine. Heavily illustrated throughout with full page black and white photographs, color photographs and many textual photographs. A lovingly composed collection of photographs that celebrate "gender euphoria".
Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch Press, First Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover. Wine cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Full page, black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. US, Smart Art Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 90 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. ''Anthony Hernandez's "Pictures for Rome" (1998-99), made while he was a fellow at the American Academy, make no reference to any iconic images of that historic city and its famous edifices. Instead, these elegantly disturbing color photographs examine what could be considered a series of unofficial urban monuments composed from the distressed architectural elements and detritus found inside abandoned buildings..."Pictures for Rome" are pictures of haunted places. Whether they chronicle the bones and viscera of an aborted commercial structure or never-finished hospital, a vacant housing complex or long-deserted schoolhouse, these images engage the ghostly relic of urban renewal, the failed construction projects and real estate disasters that conjure modernism's less glamorous side. And they remind us that even in Rome, the mother city, everything is disposable... "Pictures for Rome" are not, in other words, the same thing as pictures "of" Rome. These images do not describe a specific city at all; instead, they chart concealed landscapes that exist in a world apart from the vitality and velocity of today's consumerist metropolis...A deep undersea silence seems to engulf the modern ruins that Hernandez photographs... Blurring the line dividing past and present, they leave our temporal compass spinning wildly.''--Ralph Rugoff