Photography

Softcover. Havertown PA, Pen and Sword Military, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 302 pages illustrated in b&w. Craig Allen, a Paratrooper for 29 years, returned to 2 PARA as a reservist and unofficial photographer for the Battlegroup's dramatic 2008 Tour in Helmand. As both a respected soldier and photographer he had unrivaled access to the fighting and moved from area to area following the action. Every evening he wrote up his experiences and those of the men he was with, whose trust he had as 'a member of the club'. He had a ringside seat to a very costly summer tour, with the Taliban proving themselves worthy enemies to even the most elite British Army soldiers. His story tells in superb action photographs and no-nonsense prose of the hardships, courage, fears and cost suffered by front line soldiers over prolonged periods. He captures the color of life and death in Afghanistan for both combatants and the luckless civilian population caught up in this vicious spiral of war. An unforgettable book which has true visual appeal. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 2003, 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.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of color and black and white photographs from the famed Life photographer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2019, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. For some 70 years, Leo Goldstein's East Harlembodyof work remained mostly untouched and unseen.The silver gelatin prints were catalogued in 2016,and a selection is gathered here for the first time.The photographs were taken over a number of years,beginning in 1949 when Goldstein was a memberof the Photo League.The East Harlem corpus, edited by Regina Monfort,represents an important and unique addition to thephotographic history of New York City. Because thereare no negatives in existence, it was of particularimportance to preserve the images in book form andmake them available to the public.The selected images reflect the postwar years in theEast Harlem community, which would grow intoa center of Puerto Rican culture and life in the U.S.From the families portrayed gathering on stoops, tothe kids at their shoeshine stations, to youths playingball in the streets, to posters on neighborhood walls,Goldstein's images of East Harlem provide a windowinto the socio-economic, cultural, and politicallandscape of the time.

Softcover. London/NY, I. B. Tauris & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 354 pages, b&w illustrations. The advent of photography opened new worlds to 19th-century viewers, who became able to visualize themselves, their immediate surroundings, their communities, and the world beyond. The geographical imagination--the ability to know the world and situate oneself in space and time--fostered the expectations and applications of photographic technologies, and photographic technologies expresses the form and reach of the geographical imagination. This dialectic is the basis of this collection of intriguing essays, which explore the diverse ways in which the relationship manifested.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. Essays by leading authorities on the artist's work accompany a stunning collection of nearly two hundred photographs by modernist American photographer Charles Sheeler, offering a landmark retrospective of of the work of the influential master of twentieth-century photography. Sheeler visited Europe in 1929 and an important part of this trip was to photograph Chartres Cathedral, he called it "...one of the outstanding experiences of a lifetime". The book includes thirteen beautiful shots of the Cathedral and they look remarkably like his photos of the Ford Motor Rouge River blast furnaces and other exterior bits of the industrial plant which he took in 1927. After 1929 Sheeler concentrated on his paintings. The photos in the book for this period: 1929 to 1939, include house interiors and several for his Power series. One of these, the wheels of a Hudson steam loco was the basis of his famous super realist 1939 painting 'Rolling Power'. The images in the book are taken from Lane Collection, of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, who own the Sheeler photographic estate and the book was originally published in conjunction with exhibitions in 2003/4. The 190 photos are printed as tritones with a 250 screen. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. In this unique collaboration Arturo Patten, one of the most important portrait photographers of our time, and acclaimed writer Russell Banks visit the hardscrabble north country of Patten, Maine, to study its inhabitants. Patten's haunting portraits of the town's residents evoke characters who exist in Russell Banks's fiction. Banks, the author of Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction, observes Patten's "characters" from his remote cabin in the Adirondack hills of upstate New York, where he surrounds himself with the thirty-seven portraits and contemplates what they tell us about Patten, Maine, about portraiture, and ultimately about ourselves.

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with decorated boards in decorated slipcase,298 pages, illustrations from photographs. 'With texts by various writers, selected by Roger Hudson'. Sepia-tone archive photographs throughout. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Bologna Italy, Damiani, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, color illustrations throughout. Light edgewear and rubbing to cardboard covers, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket issued.

Softcover. NY, Writers And Readers Publishing, reprint, 1993, Book: Good, Softcover, 201 pages. Ex-lib with residue to endpapers, spine label. This photographic essay provides a fascinating historical overview of 34 black women photographers from 1839 to 1985. It is divided into five time periods and includes the general history of each period, along with the particular photographers' place in it. This volume is profusely illustrated with the work of each photographer and includes both biographical information and a critique of her work. All photographs are in black and white and are excellently reproduced. The writing is personalized and exciting. This is an upbeat, positive presentation of the role black women played in recording their history and their world. One page (179) loose, laid in.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages. Manuel Alvarez Bravo was one of the foremost practitioners of visual arts in the twentieth century. Manuel Alvarez Bravo, the first major retrospective of his eighty-year career, showcases hundreds of iconic photographs and unveils more than twenty previously unpublished images. Featuring landscapes, still lifes, rural and urban scenes, religious and vernacular subjects, as well as portraits of luminaries such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Carlos Fuentes, and Octavio Paz, the work is chronologically arranged and richly varied. Three illuminating essays reveal the poetry of Bravo's photographsfrom his use of light and form to his fascination with dreams and his preoccupation with death. This definitive monograph is a powerful tribute to Mexico's most distinguished photographer.

Softcover. Racine/Lannoo, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 239 pages, b&w and color plates. Text in English and French. Featuring the most well-known photos from Robert Doisneau since the beginning of his career. This retrospective also gives an insight in the lives of famous artists such as Picasso and Niki de Saint Phalle. The book is themed by three subjects: the main characteristics of his work and his importance for 20th century photography, the notion of the poetry of realism and 164 photos, which are also themed: daily beauty, Palm Springs, artists' studios. Published to accompany an exhibition in Musee Ixelles (Brussels) from 19 October 2017 until 4 February 2018. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Skira, 1ST, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 224 pages. Insightful essays and gorgeous portraits by one of contemporary photography's most remarkable artists.

Hardcover. NY, The Burns Archive Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, measures 6 x 6 3/4". SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY BURNS on the title page. Mirror, Mirror features an extraordinary scope of early photography from one of the most important and comprehensive private collections in the world. Over 250 daguerreotypes presented in full-color reproductions illustrate the depth and beauty of this special medium. Showcasing a wide range of American, British and French images, revealing the clear distinctions in the style and presentation of each country, makes this book an excellent guide for novice collectors as well as a resource for connoisseurs and curators. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Jerusalem, Ariel Publishing House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, maroon cloth covers in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 380 pages. Photo-album of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the second half of 19th to beginning of 20th centuries. Includes an introductory essay in Hebrew and English about "The Pioneers of Photography in the Holy Land, 1840-1930" by Dan Kyram. The photographs depict the physical and cultural landscape of Ottoman Palestine: from the villages, cities and holy sites to photographs of the customs and attire of the various inhabitants of the land. The photographs are accompanied by captions in English and Hebrew, and appended by a short introduction in English and a slightly longer one in Hebrew. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Waanders Publishers/Van Gogh Museum , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Gray cloth hardcover, photo label on cover, interior unread, no d/j as issued, 144 pages, illustrated w/ 52 photos and 50+ plates, articles by Pam Roberts, Anne E. Having, Verna Posever Curtis, Edwin Becker, catalogue of 95 prints, notes, bibliography, index. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston/NY, Little, Brown, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 418 pages, b&w illustrations. Ansel Adams wrote literally thousands of letters to fellow photographers, environmentalists, politicians, family, and friends during his long life - letters that reveal the growth of the artist and the man, while contributing a unique overview of twentieth-century photography and the environmental movement. Among those with who he corresponded are such eminent names as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Nancy and Beaumont Newhall, and Jimmy Carter. Wallace Stegner notes in his foreword that the letters 'show him as his family and friends knew him, in the intimate interchange of daily life and at the highest reaches of his thinking and feeling. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Softcover. New York , Aperture Foundation, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 80 pages. Features photographs: William Eggelston, Paolo Pellegrin, Eikoh Hosoe, Andre Kertesz, Annie Leibovitz, Sophie Calle, Matthew Rolston, Tony D'uson, Elaine Ling and others. Very good.

Hardcover. Thistle Hill Publications & Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 108 pages, 68 b&w photographs. SIGNED BY BOTH MOSHER AND MILLER on the half-title page. Granite and Cedar represents an unusual collaboration between a documentary photographer and a writer of fiction to produce a haunting portrait of the people and the land of Vermont's most rural area, often referred to as the "Northeast Kingdom." Veteran photographer JOHN M. MILLER uses his brilliant collection of elegiac, but unsentimental, images dating from the 1970s to evoke the disappearing folkways, the rugged people, and the desolate and abandoned landscape of his native corner of the Green Mountain State. Miller's austere, black-and-white photos richly detail the erosion and the breakup of the small farms of the region and of the families who worked those farms. While they emphasize the stark beauty of the land, they also pay homage to the innate dignity and fierce pride of the people who live in such hardscrabble circumstances.

Softcover. n/a, self-published, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover booklet, 48 pages. Black and white pictures throughout. Scarce self-published book.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, introduction by Jim Hughes. 144 pages; 114 duo-toned plates plus text illustrations; 10 x 11.25 inches. Bibliography of b&w work. Best known for his masterful color work, this volume presents for the first time Ernst Haas' b&w work including street work from around the world, portraiture, abstractions and Europe after World War II. Minor chips to top of dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 336 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos from the war in Vietnam and Indochina from the 1950s to 1975. Listing 135 photographers ( men & women ) from all sides of this conflict are recorded as missing or having been killed. A very emotional book and one of the better memorials to the war correspondents who died and who are still missing.

Hardcover. Colbyville, VT, Silver Print Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 154 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Migrations, Sebastiao Salgado turns his attention to the staggering phenomenon of mass migration. Photographs taken over seven years across more than 35 countries document the epic displacement of the world's people at the close of the twentieth century. Wars, natural disasters, environmental degradation, explosive population growth and the widening gap between rich and poor have resulted in over one hundred million international migrants, a number that has doubled in a decade. This demographic change, unparalleled in human history, presents profound challenges to the notions of nation, community, and citizenship. The first extensive pictorial survey of the current global flux of humanity, Migrations follows Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Africans traveling into Europe, Kosovars fleeing into Albania and many others. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A staff photographer for the "Philadelphia Inquirer" presents intimate pictures and lively personal anecdotes for readers nostalgic for their own hometown diner. 145 photos, 125 in color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 114 pages, color and b&w photos by Pietropaolo.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Volume Three Only. First Edition. 188 pages, 120 plates. Fore-edge of dust jacket has chipping, edgewear. Otherwise a clean, VG copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages. Collects 170 of the twentieth-century photographer's portraits of actors, artists, models, royalties, and socialites, in a volume complemented by extensive notes on both the subjects and sittings and a complete chronology.

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 300 pages. This monograph, Signs, is dedicated to Nino Migliori, one of the old masters of photography who had a significant effect on the history of Italian imagery after World War II. Signs presents a broad range of his production which has always been marked by creativity, versatility, and innovation. Included here are Miglori's portraits, landscapes, architecture, street scenes, abstract imagery, and polaroids. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York , Quantuck Lane, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, color photographs. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The North Fork is the roughly sixty-mile-long spit of New York's Long Island that runs from Riverhead to Orient Point. With the fairly well protected Long Island Sound on the North and Peconic Bay on the South, it was a logical place for some of the earliest English immigrants to settle and build barns. It is still home to more working farms than any other part of the island. And from the timber-frame barns of the British farmers of the seventeenth century to the pole barns of the twentieth, the variety is stunning. In a survey sponsored by the Old House Society in Cutchogue, Mary Ann Spencer spent the last few years making a comprehensive inventory and photographing more than six hundred barns on the North Fork. Two hundred of them are still in use, although their fate is by no means certain. Here in their glory (and sometimes less than that) are the most interesting barns,which reveal, among other things, their functional development, their often haphazard fenestration, their soft patina of age, and their fit in the landscape. Spencer's complete survey forms a second part of this book, which provokes feelings of nostalgia and raises our fears for the future of these wonderful structures. More than 150 color photographs.

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

Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 335 pages. Illustrated black & white photographs, and some full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy. "This book is the first comprehensive monograph on the Swiss photographer, filmmaker, and painter Jakob Tuggener (1904-1988). The main themes of Tuggener's oeuvre were work in the factory, life in the countryside, and society events such as the magnificent New Year's Eve balls at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz. At the time of his death, Tuggener left an overwhelming and practically untouched trove of work, consisting of thousands of prints, over twenty silent films, and hundreds of drawings, watercolors and oil paintings.

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Indentations on back cover otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 304 pages. The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Nexus Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 118 pages. Glossy color illustrated boards, color illustrated end-papers, color and black-and-white illustrations from photographs throughout, accompanying 16 page facsimile journal laid in (no publishing info) with reproductions of polaroids of Burke's. 'Mine Fields' (a sequel to Bill Burke's justly famous I Want To Take Picture), is Burke's scrapbook of his life and his pursuit of the history and daily life of Cambodia. Part adventure story, part personal confession, part travelogue, and always fascinating, Burke's negotiation of the mine fields of divorce and war is a compelling collage of photographs, found objects, stories, and the contrast between glorious ancient temples and the horrors of war and genocide.

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. 180 pages, b&w photo by Feldman. Mild soil to rear panel of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 280 pages. Preface by Geoff Dyer. Essay by David Van Reybrouck. Includes 20 color plates and 80 halftones. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. The First World War presents a startlingly different perspective, one based on rare glass plate photographs, that reveals the war with previously unseen, even uncanny, clarity.Scanned from the original plates, with scratches and other flaws expertly removed, these oversized reproductions offer a wealth of unusual moments, including scenes of men in training, pictures of African colonial troops on the Western front, landscapes of astonishing destruction, and postmortem portraits of Belgian soldiers killed in action. Readers previously familiar with only black-and-white or sepia-toned prints of the hostilities will be riveted by the book's many authentic color photographs, products of the early autochrome method. From children playing war games to a wrenching deathbed visit, these images are extraordinary not only for their subject matter, but also for the wide range of emotions they evoke.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. A photograph can serve as as both witness and catalyst, art object and call to action. In this catalog of a pivotal exhibition of works from the Ralph R. Parsons Photography Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, photographs capture the heartbeat and mindset of America. Works by French photographer Brassai set the stage; the bulk of the exhibition features photographs by Robert Frank, Helen Levitt , Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand, among others. When many of these works were first shown, they were met with criticism and outrage, but today, we've accepted them as profound documents of our nation and era. Includes essays by exhibition curator Cornelia H. Butler, as well as Max Kozloff, A.D. Coleman, Liz Kotz and Emily Aer. Dimension: 9 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches, 125 duotone & 11 color reproductions, Exhibition Catalog.

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.

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

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

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

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

Hardcover. Lubbock TX, Texas Tech University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, 132 b&w photos by J. Marcus Weekley. Documents the dance hall culture across the state.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ARNOLD on front fly leaf. 161 color photographs by Arnold. Dust jacket with light wear. A short 1/2" tear at top of spine but not affecting integrity of binding.