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The Bitter Years: Edward Steichen and the Farm Security Administration Photographsby: Francoise Poos, Jean Back, Gabriel Bauret

The Bitter Years: Edward Steichen and the Farm Security Administration Photographs
by: Francoise Poos, Jean Back, Gabriel Bauret

Hardcover. NY, D.A.P. /Distributed Art Publishers, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 288 pages. The Bitter Years was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Edward Steichen, and 2012 marks its fiftieth anniversary. The show featured 209 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935-41, as part of Roosevelt's New Deal. The FSA, set up to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression, included an ambitious photography project that launched many photographic careers, most notably those of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. The exhibition featured their work as well as that of ten other FSA photographers, including Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans and Arthur Rothstein. Their images are among the most remarkable in documentary photography--testimonies of a people in crisis, hit by the full force of economic turmoil and the effects of drought and dust storms. This volume includes all the photographs in the original show, in a structure and sequence that reflect those devised by Steichen for the exhibition. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 400326

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Peter Keetman: Volkswagenwerk 1953by: Keetman, Peter (Photographer)

Peter Keetman: Volkswagenwerk 1953
by: Keetman, Peter (Photographer)

Hardcover. Kerber, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. In 1953, Peter Keetman spent a week at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg. The result was a series of exceptionally clear, almost abstractly detailed photographs that document the entire production process of the VW Beetle. Storage stacks of shiny metal bumpers look like so many Modernist sculptures; car bodies hovering above the assembly line retrospectively form a surreal Pop art montage. This oversize publication reproduces the Volkswagenwerk series in full, in their original size, together with texts that refer both to this series and to Keetman's greater oeuvre. Keetman was known throughout his career as photographer of systemically conceived picture series on themes that included close-ups of water and oil drops, a style of working he developed as a member of Fotoform. Fotoform, a German movement of the 1950s of which Keetman was a primary proponent, was critical in the development of German photography as it is today: the group's "subjective photography" combined scientific objectivity with abstraction. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 351371

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Woman in the Mirror, Theby: Avedon, Richard
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Woman in the Mirror, The
by: Avedon, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages, illustrated with 10 color and 125 tritone plates. A collection of the photographer's portraits of women, 1945-2004. Essay by Anne Hollander. This volume includes photos of Elton John, Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin, Maria Callas, Isak Dinesen, Suzy Parker, Twiggy, Kate Moss, Tina Turner and many more.. Remainder dot to top edge otherwise very good in similar dust jacket.

Record # 402514

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Trailersby: Burch-Brown, Carol and David Rigsbee
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Trailers
by: Burch-Brown, Carol and David Rigsbee

Softcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 94 pages, b&w photos. In publisher's shrinkwrap. n an evocative blending of words and images, painter-photographer Carol Burch-Brown and poet David Rigsbee offer a depiction of trailers and their inhabitants. The understated imagery of Burch-Brown's 48 photos implies rather than proclaims the living conditions of these mobile-home dwellers, while Rigsbee's meditative, autobiographical essay parallels and illuminates the subjects and chronicles family histories with trailers.

Record # 351524

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Czechowicz: Nineteenth Century Sights of Vilniusby: Skeiviene, Laima and Kestutis Stoskus

Czechowicz: Nineteenth Century Sights of Vilnius
by: Skeiviene, Laima and Kestutis Stoskus

Hardcover. Vilnius, Baltos Lankos, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 69 duotone plates, images taken by the Lithuanian photographer Jozef Chechowicz (1819-1888). Mostly landscapes of the city and it's buildings, some with people. Beautifully produced volume, limited to 2000 copies. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 406606

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Men of World War II: Fighting Men at Easeby: Bachner, Evan
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Men of World War II: Fighting Men at Ease
by: Bachner, Evan

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 160 pages, with profuse full-page illustrations of black & white photographs of World War II soldiers and sailors during breaks from combat.

Record # 351670

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Casalsby: Henle, Fritz (photographer)
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Casals
by: Henle, Fritz (photographer)

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, b&w photographs throughout, 2 photographs of Casals laid in. Light edge wear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451996

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E. O. Hopp
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E. O. Hopp

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, 120 b&w images. Once locked away in European archives, these early modernist photographs of America rival those of Steichen and Evans. Emil Otto Hoppe was born in Munich in 1878 but lived in London from 1900 until his death in 1972. He was an early and important modernist whose seminal views of the United States in the 1920s rival those of his peers: Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, and Walker Evans. His work shows us an America as only an outsider could: brave, new, and grand in scale but with a hint of trouble brewing in the gaps between its multicultural and economic diversities.

Record # 351780

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People, Places & Flingsby: n/a
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People, Places & Flings
by: n/a

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, Geranium Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 95 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454917

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Flesh and Spiritby: Edinger, Claudio
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Flesh and Spirit
by: Edinger, Claudio

Hardcover. New York , Umbrage Editions, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.217 pages, b&w photos documenting Edinger's travels, some color. Essays by Simonetta Persichetti and Nan Richardson.

Record # 351931

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Regina Relang: The Elegant World Of Regina Relangby: Relang, Regina, Ulrich Pohlmann and Andreas Ley
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Regina Relang: The Elegant World Of Regina Relang
by: Relang, Regina, Ulrich Pohlmann and Andreas Ley

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Text is in English and German. Oversized hardcover issued without a dust jacket. Cover has faint wear to corners and edges. Inside is bright and clean, 210 b&w photographs throughout. This handsomely illustrated volume reproduces fine vintage prints from Relang's early reportage career and from the height of her days as a documenter of style, while also providing valuable insight into the historical background of her work.

Record # 455525

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Yvon's Parisby: Stevens, Robert
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Yvon's Paris
by: Stevens, Robert

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket. Also small tear with piece missing from dust jacket bottom fore edge front. The photographer Pierre Yves-Petit, who called himself "Yvon," wandered the streets of Paris between the world wars looking for the moment when the shifting light and clouds would perfectly reveal the city?s ephemeral, iconic beauty. The dramatic images of the city and its people that he made during those years would become the most popular postcards in France. Yvon?s Paris reproduces more than one hundred of his loveliest images, many made from recently discovered glass negatives.

Record # 352076

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Passage: A Work Recordby: Penn, Irving
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Passage: A Work Record
by: Penn, Irving

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 300 pages, photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and small crease on back cover, remainder line on top edge along spine, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456970

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Aperture 97 by: N/A
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Aperture 97
by: N/A

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

Record # 352154

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Altered Landscape, The by: Pool, Peter E. (Editor)
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Altered Landscape, The
by: Pool, Peter E. (Editor)

Hardcover. Reno ; Las Vegas, University of Nevada Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages, 69 BW and color plates, 36 figures. Essays by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Dave Hickey, and Thomas W. Southall. Includes work by John Pfhal, Terry Evans, Mark Klett and many others, with brief photographer biographies.Clean, unmarked copy with only minor shelf-wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458905

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White Trash Uncutby: Makos, Christopher
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White Trash Uncut
by: Makos, Christopher

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 time Features 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.

Record # 352278

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Early Days in the Adirondacks: The Photographs of Seneca Ray Stoddardby: Adler, Jeanne Winston
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Early Days in the Adirondacks: The Photographs of Seneca Ray Stoddard
by: Adler, Jeanne Winston

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 179 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464623

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South African Township Barbershops & Salonsby: Weller, Simon
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South African Township Barbershops & Salons
by: Weller, Simon

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.

Record # 352472

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Photographer of the World: A Biography of Herbert Pontingby: Arnold, H. J. P.
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Photographer of the World: A Biography of Herbert Ponting
by: Arnold, H. J. P.

London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white photos. Very small closed tear on spine of dust jacket. An account of his life and work. Ponting became the official photographer of Scott's second expedition to the South Pole. With 77 black and white photographs taken on his travels.

Record # 511197

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American West in the Thirties: 122 Photographsby: Rothstein, Arthur
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American West in the Thirties: 122 Photographs
by: Rothstein, Arthur

Softcover. New York, Dover Publications Inc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. Rothstein was a photojournalist for more than 45 years and the photographs in this volume are from his years as photographer for the Farm Security Administdration. His job was to photographs small towns, rural areas and general agricultural conditions throughout the country.

Record # 352525

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Cuba y Cubaby: Burri, Rene
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Cuba y Cuba
by: Burri, Rene

Hardcover. Washington, D. C., Smithsonian, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 58 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609386

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Readers: Vintage People on Photo Postcardsby: Phillips, Tom
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Readers: Vintage People on Photo Postcards
by: Phillips, Tom

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Sepia pictures throughout. To celebrate the acquisition of the archive of distinguished artist Tom Phillips, the Bodleian Library asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, ordinary people could afford to own portraits of themselves. Each book in the series contains two hundred images chosen from a visually rich vein of social history. Their covers also feature thematically linked paintings, specially created for each title, from Phillips's signature work, A Humument. Readers, as its title suggests, shows people reading (or pretending to read) a wide variety of material, from the Bible to Film Fun, either in the photographer's studio, in their own home, or on vacation on the beach. Each of these unique and visually stunning books give a rich glimpse of forgotten times and will be greatly valued by art and history lovers alike.

Record # 352614

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Du: Robert Frank - Part Twoby: NA/Robert Frank
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Du: Robert Frank - Part Two
by: NA/Robert Frank

Softcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Features essays by William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Dara Horn, and more. Text in German and English. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 610038

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Anthony Hernandez: Pictures for Romeby: Rugoff, Ralph
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Anthony Hernandez: Pictures for Rome
by: Rugoff, Ralph

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

Record # 352713

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Steel & Real Estate - Margaret Bourke-White and Corporate Culture in Cleveland 1927 - 1929by: Bourke-White, Margaret/Geraldine Wojno Kiefer
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Steel & Real Estate - Margaret Bourke-White and Corporate Culture in Cleveland 1927 - 1929
by: Bourke-White, Margaret/Geraldine Wojno Kiefer

Softcover. Wooster, College of Wooster Art Museum, The, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 55 pages. Softcover. Minor wear to cover edges. Full page black & white photographs throughout. Clean unmarked text.

Record # 750030

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Great British, Theby: Arnold, Eve
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Great British, The
by: Arnold, Eve

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 69 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352784

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Forgotten Peoples of Siberia, Theby: Mayer, Fred
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Forgotten Peoples of Siberia, The
by: Mayer, Fred

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

Record # 850630

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Sunderby: Haley, Bruce
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Sunder
by: Haley, Bruce

Hardcover. Daylight Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 144 pages. 55 black and white photographs. The world of Bruce Haley is not for the faint-hearted. Bruce has traveled the globe photographing some of the darkest moments that only the intrepid want to face and visiting his website is a nail biting experience. SUNDER is a stunning exploration of the former USSR and other Iron Curtain countries, but equally as interesting are the accompanying essays, in particular, the wonderful piece by Andrei Codrescu (you may be famliar with his essays read on NPR), and by Kirsten Rian. He is a master photographer showing us the pathos and beauty of a culture that has been ravaged by war and turmoil. His eight year photographic investigation is a stark perspective of the collapse of the communist empire, but Bruce shares it on a human scale.

Record # 352841

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Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourgby: Hambourg, Serge
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Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg
by: Hambourg, Serge

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

Record # 952484

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Home and the World, The: A View of Calcuttaby: McPhee, Laura
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Home and the World, The: A View of Calcutta
by: McPhee, Laura

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in publisher's shrink-wrap. 160 pages, illustrated with 110 color images. 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. There she has devoted her perceptive vision to picturing layers of history, culture, religion, and class as they appear in private heritage homes and public markets, in lively street festivals, and in the faces of city dwellers in Calcutta (also known as Kolkata). This exquisitely produced book features a selection of McPhee's works made in and around India's former capital.

Record # 352874

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Ardent Eye by: Kemp, Hans
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Ardent Eye
by: Kemp, Hans

Hardcover. Hong Kong, Visionary World, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Price sticker on rear dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Over 20 years worth of photography from Asia.

Record # 352946

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Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990by: Benn, Nathan (Photographer), and Farber, Paul M (Contributions by), and Buckley, Richard, Dr., MD (Foreword by)
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Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990
by: Benn, Nathan (Photographer), and Farber, Paul M (Contributions by), and Buckley, Richard, Dr., MD (Foreword by)

Hardcover. New York, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages color photos throughout. Benn was a National Geographic photographer for 20 years.

Record # 353228

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Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation by: Arnold, Eve
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Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation
by: Arnold, Eve

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 141 pages, 70 b&w and color photos of Marilyn Monroe. Over a ten-year period from the early 1950's until shortly before Marilyn Monroe's death - the years in which she went from virtual anonymity to super-stardom,photographer Eve Arnold had six photo sessions with her. And here she has chosen the best images. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 353453

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Years of Bitterness and Pride: Farm Security Administration Photographs 1935-1943by: Evans [photographer, Hiag Akmakjian (Introduction), Walker
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Years of Bitterness and Pride: Farm Security Administration Photographs 1935-1943
by: Evans [photographer, Hiag Akmakjian (Introduction), Walker

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.

Record # 354125

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Talent for Detail, A - The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston 1889-1910by: Daniel, Pete and Raymond Smock
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Talent for Detail, A - The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston 1889-1910
by: Daniel, Pete and Raymond Smock

Softcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Oblong softcover, 182 pages. A wonderful photographic documentary of the era: daily life, workers, the rich and/or famous, the military, public schools, etc.

Record # 357548

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People of the Road : The Irish Travellersby: Oppersdorff, Mathias
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People of the Road : The Irish Travellers
by: Oppersdorff, Mathias

Hardcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, b&w photos by Oppersdorff taken in County Kerry. Depicts the people living along country lanes in tents and barrel-top wagons, travellers - or tinkers, as they often are called. He took most of the images in the late 1960s at Puck Fair. Unread in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 357906

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One-Room Schools of the Middle West: an Illustrated History by: Fuller, Wayne E.
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One-Room Schools of the Middle West: an Illustrated History
by: Fuller, Wayne E.

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. B&w vintage photos throughout. The Midwest's one-room schools were, Fuller observes, the most democratic in the nation. Located in small, independent school districts, these schools virtually wiped out illiteracy, promoted democratic values, and opened up new vistas beyond the borders of their students' lives. Entire communities, Fuller shows, revolved around these schools. At various times they were used as churches, polling places, sites of political caucuses, and meeting halls for local organizations. But as America urbanized and the movement to consolidate took hold in rural counties, these little centers of learning were left at the margins of the educational system. Some were torn down, some left to weather away, some sold at auction, and still others transformed into museums.

Record # 360681

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French Daguerreotypesby: Buerger, Janet E.
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French Daguerreotypes
by: Buerger, Janet E.

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Lavishly illustrated, this volume is the first complete catalog of the French daguerreotype collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Janet E. Buerger uses this remarkable collection of images to produce a cultural history of the daguerreotype's most learned following--an elite group of mid-nineteenth-century intellectuals who sought to understand and develop the usefulness, potential, and beauty of this camera image. This varied group, including entrepreneurs, painters, scientists, and historians, enables Buerger to trace the influence of photography into virtually every area of nineteenth-century European intellectual life.

Record # 360916

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Zu Gast im alten Berlin (German Edition)by: Taubrich, Hans-Christian
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Zu Gast im alten Berlin (German Edition)
by: Taubrich, Hans-Christian

Hardcover. Munchen GR, Hugendubel, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, Over 250 historical photos featuring public buildings, storefronts, cafes and other gathering spaces in the city. GERMAN TEXT. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket. Appears to be a reprint of a book first published in 1990.

Record # 361014

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Face of China, The: As Seen by Photographers & Travelers 1860-1912by: Goodrich, L. Carrington & Nigel Cameron
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Face of China, The: As Seen by Photographers & Travelers 1860-1912
by: Goodrich, L. Carrington & Nigel Cameron

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, reprint, 1998 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 162 pages, many B&W & sepia period photographs of China, its people and culture. Very richly illustrated, captions, chronology, list pioneer photographers, sources, general bibliography, acknowledgments. Photographs from the archives of Arnold Arboretum - Harvard University.

Record # 361191

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The Invisible Empire: Ku Klux Klanby: Anthony S. Karen
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The Invisible Empire: Ku Klux Klan
by: Anthony S. Karen

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. Established in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan still remains one of America's most secretive organizations. New York photojournalist Anthony Karen first transcended that secrecy several years ago when he got the opportunity to photograph a KKK cross-lighting ceremony. Since then, Karen has been documenting Klan organizations throughout the country. In The Invisible Empire: Ku Klux Klan, those photographs are compiled to form an absorbing document of one of the most notorious groups in history. Taken with unrestricted access, Karen's images bring us deep inside America's most private white nationalist organizations. Beginning with a brief introduction into the history of the Klan, the book provides detailed visual accounts of modern-day Klan life, including candid shots of rallies, individual portraits of Klansmen and women, as well as a look at the naturalization process for new members. Presented in intimate profiles are: a functioning Klan ministry, a group that has merged National Socialism with Klan ideologies, and a 58-year-old seamstress who makes custom Klan robes, among others. Accompanied by quotations from the late Dale Fox, Imperial Wizard of The Brotherhood of the Klans, The Invisible Empire: Ku Klux Klan offers an unprecedented glimpse into the shadowy society and its mysterious inner workings.

Record # 361535

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Lady Gaga X Terry Richardsonby: Lady Gaga and Terry Richardson
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Lady Gaga X Terry Richardson
by: Lady Gaga and Terry Richardson

Hardcover. NY, Grand Central, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 360 pages. 500 photos. Text in English. In this book of original, behind-the-scenes photographs, acclaimed photographer Terry Richardson follows superstar Lady Gaga during one year of her life, from Lollapalooza through the final show of her Monster Ball tour. During the time period he followed Gaga, Richardson took over 100,000 images and attended more than 30 Monster Ball dates around the world.

Record # 361637

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Aperture: Number 139: Strong Hearts: Native American Visions and Voices Summer 1995 (Aperture Magazine)by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff
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Aperture: Number 139: Strong Hearts: Native American Visions and Voices Summer 1995 (Aperture Magazine)
by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1995, 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.

Record # 361663

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Aperture No 127, Spring 1992. Our Town (Aperture Magazine)by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff
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Aperture No 127, Spring 1992. Our Town (Aperture Magazine)
by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1999, 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. Summary: Funky Town, Like Silk, Whose town? Questioning Community and Identity, Appalachia: The Other Side of the Mountain (Photographs and text by Shelby Lee Adams), The Fruited Plain, Home, S.O.P. Photographs by: Jules Allen, Robert Amberg, Amy Arbus, S.A. Backman, Ken Botto, Peter Brown, Lynn Butler, David Byrne, Sophie Calle, Jack Carnell, Gregory Crewdson, Ted Degener, Philip-Lorce di Corcia, Donna Ferrato and many others.

Record # 361680

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Lost and Found in Americaby: Lenny Gottlieb
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Lost and Found in America
by: Lenny Gottlieb

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages. These photographs--rejects found at a commercial photolab in the States--were taken at the time of the Vietnam War--a pivotal period in American history. Here is the intimacy that danced in the eyes of family photographers as they framed everyday life--as it was in the fall of 1968. The images, predominantly prints from early 126mm point-and-shoot cameras, are an uninterpreted presentation of everyday life. Reflecting both private and public spheres of consciousness, they convey unmediated perspectives of mores, values and icons through what was intended to be personal visual documentation in its most direct form. No dj issued.

Record # 361832

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Innovation Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photographyby: Barbara Hitchcock
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Innovation Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography
by: Barbara Hitchcock

Softcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. Introductions by Barbara Hitchcock and Deborah Klochko; essay Deborah Martin Kao. Mostly color Illustrated. Photos by Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe and many more.

Record # 361879

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Evening Ragas: A Photographer in Indiaby: Moore, Derry
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Evening Ragas: A Photographer in India
by: Moore, Derry

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. This is a magnificent portrait of post-Raj India before the modern world swept across the subcontinent. Featuring 100 superbly reproduced, full-page photographs, this is Derry Moore's splendid photographic evocation of an independent India that had all but vanished by the late 1970s--above all, an India still untouched by mass tourism. Initially, Moore set out to photograph the princely palaces, but he became increasingly intrigued by the lesser-known buildings, and those that inhabited them. In them, he found eccentricity, originality, and an extraordinary hybrid of Indian and British taste.

Record # 361908

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John Gutmann: The Photographer at Workby: Sally Stein , Douglas R. Nickel, et al.
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John Gutmann: The Photographer at Work
by: Sally Stein , Douglas R. Nickel, et al.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press;, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. John Gutmann (1905-1998) was one of America's most distinctive photographers. Born in Germany where he trained as an artist and art teacher, he fled the Nazis in 1933 and settled in San Francisco, reinventing himself as a photo-reporter. Gutmann captured images of American culture, celebrating signs of a vibrant democracy, however imperfect. His own status as an outsider--a Jew in Germany, a naturalized citizen in the United States--informed his focus on individuals from the Asian-American, African-American, and gay communities, as well as his photography in India, Burma, and China during World War II. This handsome book acknowledges Gutmann's place in the history of photography. Drawing on his archive of photographs and papers at the Center for Creative Photography, it presents both unfamiliar works and little-known contexts for his imagery, linking his photography to his passionate interest in painting and filmmaking, his collections of non-Western art and artifacts, and his pedagogy. In addition to a major essay by Sally Stein, the volume includes an introduction by Douglas R. Nickel, and an overview of the Gutmann archive by Amy Rule.

Record # 361980

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Old Ocean City: The Journal and Photographs of Robert Craighead Walker, 1904-1916by: C. John Sullivan
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Old Ocean City: The Journal and Photographs of Robert Craighead Walker, 1904-1916
by: C. John Sullivan

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. "Vacationers of today," writes C. John Sullivan, "can only dream of what this seaside resort was like for those who visited in the early 1900s." With Old Ocean City, Sullivan brings back those long-ago summers through the words and photographs of the Walker family of Washington, D.C. Avid photographers as well as sports enthusiasts, the Walkers preserved their Ocean City summers in hundreds of snapshots. And the Walkers' son, Robert, kept a detailed record of those days in a small leather-bound journal, titled My Vacation, in which he wrote almost daily from 1912 to 1916. In Old Ocean City, Sullivan mixes his own commentary and explanatory captions with excerpts from Robert Walker's journal and more than one hundred family photographs (discovered in 1994, Sullivan notes, in a sweltering attic in Berlin, Maryland). Views of handsome beach architecture and grass-covered dunes suggest an Ocean City almost unimaginable today. Rare photographs and accounts of shorebird hunting (banned in 1918 to protect sandpipers, plover, herons, and other species) are an arresting contrast to more familiar scenes of boating, fishing, and beachcombing. We see the Walker children growing up-and Ocean City growing up around them. The result is a surprising look at a place "far different than our memories would recall." Sullivan includes a time line of Ocean City history and Walker family visits, starting with the formation of the Atlantic Hotel Company in 1868 (the company's stockholders chose the name Ocean City at their 1875 meeting in Salisbury) and ending with the Walkers' sale of their beloved cottage in 1950.

Record # 362042

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Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fieldingby: Jed Fielding , Britt Salvesen, et al.
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Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding
by: Jed Fielding , Britt Salvesen, et al.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 132 pages. Sight is central to the medium of photography. But what happens when the subjects of photographic portraits cannot look back at the photographer or even see their own image? An in-depth pictorial study of blind schoolchildren in Mexico, Look at me draws attention to (and distinctions between) the activity of sight and the consciousness of form. Combining aspects of his earlier, acclaimed street work with an innovative approach to portraiture, Chicago-based photographer Jed Fielding has concentrated closely on these children's features and gestures, probing the enigmatic boundaries between surface and interior, innocence and knowing, beauty and grotesque. Design, composition, and the play of light and shadow are central elements in these photographs, but the images are much more than formal experiments; they confront disability in a way that affirms life. Fielding's sightless subjects project a vitality that seems to extend beyond the limits of self-consciousness. In collaborative, joyful participation with the children, he has made pictures that reveal essential gestures of absorption and the basic expressions of our creatureliness.

Record # 362082

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