Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages, 242 photographs reproduced in four-color process. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Edward Steichen was already a famous painter and photographer in America and abroad when, in early 1923, he was offered the most prestigious position in photography's commercial domain: that of chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair. Over the next fifteen years, he would produce a body of work of unequaled brilliance, dramatizing and glamorizing contemporary culture and its achievers. Here are icon images of Gloria Swanson, Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, and Charles Chaplin, as well as numerous other celebrities drawn from an archive of more than 2,000 original prints.
Hardcover. University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, text by Morris, color photos by David Rae Morris. The author's last book, written in his characteristically limpid, lyrical prose, offers a heartfelt appreciation of his home state, a place often dismissed as poor and backward by "outlanders," Morris' term for non-Mississippians. This is not a defensive recitation of Mississippi's virtues nor is it a whitewash of its less-than-attractive features. First, Morris wants the reader to understand the state's beauty--"physically beautiful in the most fundamental and indwelling way, [in that] it never leaves you." Then, with both pride and understanding, he brings into sharp focus Mississippi's peculiar tensions and ambivalence and also its passions--"we are a singular people," he says of his native folk. The second half of the book is an album of full-color photographs taken by Morris' son, a professional photojournalist. These shots informally capture ordinary moments in the lives of Mississippians, from a young couple standing next to their truck with their new baby in their arms to a group of local citizens hanging out in front of the main store in a small town. Together, the text and the photographs showcase Mississippians doing what they do best--being themselves completely without artifice. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Gottingen, Steidl, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Haunts is the second book in a trilogy that began with Trying to Dance, in which Engstrom writes, "I'm always looking for presence. Whenever I try, my doubts get unmasked..." These doubts and questions are prevalent in Haunts as well, but in this volume Engstrom focuses more on public spaces and life in the streets. At the center of these pictures is a strong feeling of being in an endless present tense. The confrontation between "now" and the photographer's memories is inevitable. He doesn't try to separate emotions from objectivity: his images embody their questions.
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. London, Chris Boot, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild fade to spine. Mary Ellen Mark fell in love with the Indian circus in 1969, during her first trip to India. As she watched a huge hippopotamus walk around the ring with its mouth wide open, wearing a pink tutu, she was struck by the beauty and innocence of the show. She returned to India many times, and in 1989 and 1990 she devoted six months to photographing eighteen circuses, following them around the continent by train, plane, van, and auto-rickshaw. Secretive, highly competitive, and each a closed, self-sufficient society, the circuses embody what Mark calls "a poetry and a craziness that are still uncorrupted, and honest, and pure." Beautifully printed in tri-tone, this remarkable collection of photographs captures the texture of circus life outside of the ring - exhausting, humorous, poignant, and often bizarre - as well as the affection and devotion that the performers have for each other and their animals. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Glitterati Incorporated, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Beautifully photographed images of horses.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray boards with a dark brown cloth spine and a pictorial label on the cover. No dust jacket issued. Legendary for his massive photographic undertaking, The North American Indian, Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) recorded much more than portraits of Native American tribespeople. Among his huge body of work are numerous images of all manner of native dwellings: tipis, hogans, huts, cliff houses, adobes, and many more that are far less familiar to the public eye. Though people are largely absent from these photographs, each image speaks volumes about the lives and lifestyles of the tribes to which they belonged. Other structures such as tombs, religious buildings, granaries, and totem poles are also featured prominently, further glimpses into ways of life that were in the process of disappearing. Taken from the Dan and Mary Solomon collection,Sites & Structures: The Architectural Photographs of Edward S. Curtis is the first book of Curtis photographs to explore these dwellings and structures, faithfully reproduced from the original prints and gravures.
Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Stafford worked for Commerical Press in Shanghai and his photographs capture both sides of the revolutionary struggle in China.
Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Robert Capa: Photographs is a major retrospective of one of the century's greatest photographers. Drawing upon hundreds of previously unseen images, this collection reveals Capa as one of the great poets of the camera. In these photographs, we see the world through the eyes of a driven humanist who was also a documentarian of the highest caliber. While previous volumes on Capa have focused on his role as a war photographer, Robert Capa: Photographs shows us the remarkable range of his work: the sufferings as well as the tenderness, humor, and wonder of his subjects. The extraordinary book includes poignant comments by Capa's close friend Henri Cartier-Bresson and by Cornell Capa (Robert's younger brother and the Founding Director of the International Center of Photography), as well as a historical essay by Robert Capa biographer Richard Whelan. The dramatic collection of images in Robert Capa: Photographs shows that he captured-through the events of history-the very heart of humanity.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 267 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This book examines the often-neglected role played by immigrant artists and critics in the circle of Alfred Stieglitz, including Japanese-German author Sadakichi Hartmann, Mexican-born caricaturist Marius de Zayas and English Sri-Lankan curator Ananda Coomaraswamy, as well as better-known U.S.-born painters, including Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Softcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 3rd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 9 3/4 " - 12" tall. Foreword by Ntozake Shange. 91 full-page plates in black-and-white by Robert Mapplethorpe; from the inside of the front cover: "Mapplethorpe's exquisitely printed pictures of both gay and straight males are explicit and erotic. In their use of flattering lights and lavish deep-toned printing, they openly declare their bold belief in the esthetic equality of the male as model. But Mapplethorpe's pictures ironically confirm the Kenneth Clark doctrine: despite their smart, gleaming finish, they hail the body divine in the most traditional manner--with the sexes swapped." Clean copy
Hardcover. New York, Skira, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 199 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Twenty-five years after Mapplethorpe"s death, an overview on his nudes, portraits, self-portraits, floral still lifes, and other works compiled by the art critic Germano Celant. Robert Mapplethorpe"s wide, provocative, and powerful body of work has established him as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Since 1977, Germano Celant has studied the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe, participating in interviews and writing essays for several publications and exhibitions. For the first time, this volume gathers the complete anthology of Celant"s writings on the artist.
Softcover. Italy, Damiani, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. A collection of photographs of Hollywood actors, royalty and other celebrities from the golden age of Italian film--the 1950s and 1960s--arriving in Rome, back when comings and goings were event enough to merit a flash, and when the photographers who are now known as paparazzi could walk right up to the airplane steps. Here those independent lensmen--a profession and a genre born in the era documented here, one on the forefront of new realism and photojournalism--capture the salutes and waves, flamboyant and discreet, of Rome's stars as they descended to earth, seizing the mythical something that they seemed to bring with them from the sky to terra firma. Clean copy.
Softcover. US, Taschen, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. During the 1950s and 60s, Tom Palumbo was part of an influential group of young photographers working for the best fashion magazines in America -Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Tom perfected his craft under the guidance of legends like Alexey Brodovitch, Carmel Snow, Diana Vreeland, and Alex Liberman. Tom's serene style contrasted with Richard Avedon's jazzed-up images and Lillian Bassman's soft blurred effects. Often Tom's particular layouts provided the balance in an issue. His pictures invariably enhanced the fashions of the 50s, where women were thought of as objects of worship, and beauty was thought of as an ideal. Tom photographed every day, producing unique images like jazz legend Miles Davis laughing. He loved taking pictures of artists like next-door neighbors Comden and Green; the young Mia Farrow and Jane Fonda; novelist Jack Kerouac. Late in life, Tom worked in theatre. But to him there was never much difference in the photographs he took or the plays he directed since both contained drama. Paradox and revelation-these two elements energized Tom Palumbo's life. These rediscovered photographs, celebrated in their time but not seen in decades, are presented here in book form for the first time ever, by award-winning author and Palumbo's widow, Patricia Bosworth. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. New York, Silverstein Photography, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, 89 b&w images. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Born in 1926, Paulin came of age as a photographer in the 1940s studying with the likes of Harry Callahan and art director Alexey Brodovitch. By the 1950s, the streets of New York City had established themselves as Paulin's primary muse, and black-and-white film his medium. The book features images from his prodigous body of work created over four decades, in New York City, as well as Paris, Seville, New Orleans and Atlantic City.
Softcover. New Riders / Pearson, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 256 pages. Jay Maisel, hailed as one of the most brilliant, gifted photographers of all time, is much more than that. He is a mentor, teacher, and trailblazer to many photographers, and a hero to those who feel Jay's teaching has changed the way they see and create their own photography. Color photos throughout. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. New York , Harmony Books, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 70 pages, nicely reproduced b&w landscape photography by McCullin. Introduction by John Fowles. Very good in a similar unclipped dust jacket. Everyone in their 50's and over will remember Don McCullin's emotive, highly charged documentary photography of the Vietnam, Biafran, Middle-eastern wars of the '60's, 70's and 80's. Here is another side to this thoughtful, insightful, deep thinking man, a book of technically superb but rather melancholy works on his local Somerset area. Beautifully observed photographs, wonderfully printed.
Softcover. NY, Dover, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 154 pages. 131 rare photographs capture some of the most remarkable Victorian-Edwardian interiors ever created. Extraordinary furnished drawing rooms, dining rooms, studies, libraries, bedrooms, music rooms, kitchens, and bathrooms in the homes of well-to-do New Yorkers recall turn-of-the-century charm. Text by Clay Lancaster. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Steidl, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes sharing the following format: Hardcover. Fine cloth-covered boards with tipped-in four-color plate on cover; no dust jacket as issued. The three volumes are contained in a custom foil-embossed slipcase. Photographs by William Eggleston. Text by Thomas Weski. 588 pp., with 250 four-color plates. 12-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches. Between 1965 and 1974 William Eggleston and Walter Hopps traveled together in the US, Eggleston taking photographs, Hopps driving. During these travels the title Los Alamos was born. The negatives for what became known as the Los Alamos Project were made between 1965 and 1974, and were archived in two boxes labeled Box #17 and Box #83. The latter was lost for several years. The project is presented in its entirety in this three-volume set for the first time. An earlier edition of "Los Alamos" edited by Thomas Weski was published by Scalo in 2003. Weski"s original essay is included in this revised edition. "Los Alamos Revisited" has been drawn from the complete set of photographs, including the long lost negatives from Box #83. NOTE: DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 112 pages. Abelardo Morell makes magical camera obsucra images in darkened interiors. The deceptively simple process - he blacks out all the windows, leaving just a pinhole opening in one of them - produces photographs of astonishing, complex beauty. Because of the nature of refracted light, the world outside is projected upside down into the nearly blackened room, in essence converting the space into the interior of a camera. Morell then photographs the results with a large-format view camera, often requiring exposures of eight hours or more. Locations around the world were chosen for the interesting details and juxtapositions they would elicit - the Empire State Building lies across a bedspread in a midtown Manhattan interior; the Tower of London is imprinted on the walls of a room in the Tower Hotel; the countryside in rural Cuba, Morell's birthplace, plays across the walls of a crumbling chamber that is rich with the patina of its own history. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Merrell Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages illustrated with 85 color and 100 b&w plates. Essays by William Ewing and Adelheid Rasche. In publisher's shrinkwrap. A lavishly illustrated retrospective of one of the greatest international fashion photographers. From the 1950s until his death in the crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996, Puhlmann worked with most of the top models, stylists and designers in the fashion industry. Features arresting portraits of Isabella Rossellini, Cindy Crawford, Cheryl Tiegs, Mel Gibson, Calvin Klein, Jerry Hall, Naomi Sims and many others.
Softcover. New York, Sotheby's , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages with 488 lots, illustrated throughout. Dozens of famous photographers from Arbus to Kertesz, Brett Weston, Lange, Cindy Sherman, many others. Light pencil notes on 3 lots. Covers with light wear, otherwise clean, very good.
Softcover. Chicago, Stepen Daiter Gallery, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 38 pages, illustrated with 26 b&w photos by Kertesz. Essay by Robert Gurbo.
Hardcover. New York, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 160 pages. For over three years, writer Anthony LaSala and photographer Seth Kushner trekked tirelessly across the borough, documenting these charismatic characters in 'The Brooklynites,' a collection of images, interviews, and essays. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Santa Monica CA, Santa Monica Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w photographs by Altman. Introduction by Ben Fong-Torres. The Sixties brings together a collection of photographs of the people, events, culture, rock and roll stars, writers, political figures, and other iconic individuals and celebrities who made the sixties the most influential decade of the twentieth century.The Sixties tells the story of that particularly colorful generation with the affection and devotion of someone who has experienced the revolution firsthand. Robert Altman's captivating photographs bring immense power to both quiet, intimate moments and scenes of thunderous anarchy alike.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 371 pages, b&w illustrations. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket; tape-repaired cut on rear. Else a very clean, tight copy. Focuses on the multiple roles of Alfred Stieglitz-as influential gallery owner, photographer, and impresario of the emerging art scene--at a series of significant moments in his career.
Hardcover. New York , Universe, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Approximately 100-150 full page and double page b&w and color intimate photos of female nudes. Large format. The award-winning and renowned photographer behind the lens of Beautiful, Marc Baptiste offers us another very intimate look at women. Baptiste's inspired, unique, and sensual classicism is bolder than ever in Intimate. Surpassing standard portraiture, his photographs manifest a strong eroticism while incorporating the cinematic power of his fashion work.
Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, 136 photos, 126 in color. Tim Page's photographs of the Vietnam War brought its horrific reality before the eyes of the world. Since then, his images of the conflicts in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos have been published, broadcast, and exhibited to universal praise. In the years following the war Page has returned to Indochina some thirty times. Now he has carefully selected and arranged the finest photographs from his journeys across this ancient and intensely spiritual land.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages. Introduction by Anne Rice. A collection of 154 black and white and color images from: Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Imogen Cunningham, Steven Meisel, Man Ray, Bettina Rheims, Helmut Newton, Sally Mann, Kurt Markus, Jerome Zerve, Ellen von Unwerth, Andre Kertesz, Arthur Elgort, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Herbert List, Eve Arnold, Brassai and numerous others. Photographs of the nude (or rather semi-nude) male and female in underwear.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2nd Printing, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 155 pages, large black & white photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Photos from the Rome-based hunters of famous faces and celebrities in the 1960s who inspired Fellini's LA Dolce Vita.
Hardcover. Zurich, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Photographs, drawings, sculpture and installations by Jack Pierson. Essays by Yilmaz Dziewior, Gerard A. Goodrow and Peter Weiermair. Includes a chronology with exhibitions and publications.
Hardcover. New York, Collins Design, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 color plates of female celebrities, photographed as Vargas-style pin-ups. including Gina Gershon, Kate Hudson, Susan Sarandon, Molly Sims, Vanessa Williams, and many more . . . Red slipcase, in publisher's slipcase.
Hardcover. US, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, Hardcover. b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Welcome Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a die-cut slipcase. an outrageous imaginary collection of botanical shoes and accessories created by photographer and artist Michel Tcherevkoff. Each virtual shoe and handbag is amazingly crafted out of numerous photographs of a single plant or flower. 96 pages.
Hardcover. New York, W W. Norton :& Co., 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 368 pages. Like new. 127 pages with 28 pages of text, 98 pages of duotone photographs. The story of a man who left an archive of sixty thousand images to the Library of Congress: Angelo Rizzuto, who lived in a single, run-down room in a crummy hotel; who every day left at 2:00 p.m. to photograph New York City obsessively. Clean, very good in an unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Saint-Ouen FR, Editions Intervalles, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 221 pages, b&w photographs, text in English and French. For more than twenty-five years, Xavier Lambours has portrayed those who made cinema a myth: actors (Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Harvey Keitel, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Nicole Kidman, Liz Taylor), directors (Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Orson Welles, Francois Truffaut, Wong Kar-Wai), screenwriters, cinematographers, set decorators; they all played the portrait game under the direction of this hugely talented eye.
Hardcover. Boston, Pond Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 78 pages, color photographs by Graham. Like new in a bright dust jacket. Graham's delightful look at the curious and the oddly juxtaposed in 68 color photographs made along the American roadside. Introduction by Robert Venturi.
Softcover. New York , Bulfinch Press, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A retrospective photo-essay of photographer Gordon Parks' work in B&W and color photos from the 1940s to his latest works and impressionist photos. 95 color and 195 duotone plates. Softcover, clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st Thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages plus 4 pages of captions. Newspaper book review glued to front endpaper. Dust jacket with 3" tape repaired tear on back bottom edge. Not price clipped. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A Couple of Ways of Doing Something replicates a deluxe limited-edition portfolio whose initial run was only 75 copies. This clothbound edition preserves the luxurious sensibility of the original with 22 extraordinary oversized daguerreotypes printed in rich tritone. Working with daguerreotype master Jerry Spagnoli to conquer the complexities of this venerable process, which yields images of astonishing detail and gravity, Chuck Close photographed many of the same artist-friends who have made regular appearances in his paintings over the years: Laurie Anderson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Cecily Brown, Gregory Crewdson, Carroll Dunham, Ellen Gallagher, Philip Glass, Bob Holman, Elizabeth Murray, Elizabeth Peyton, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, James Siena, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, James Turrell, Robert Wilson, Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage and himself. Each image is complemented by a poem on its subject by Bob Holman, the celebrated and widely published New York School poet who originated and hosted the famous Poetry Slams at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and now runs the Bowery Poetry Club. With the counterpoint of Holman's engaging poetry, the collected work becomes a transfixing group portrait of Close's influential and highly creative circle of friends and colleagues, as well as an exploration of a challenging photographic medium.
Softcover. Heidelberg, Kehrer Verlag, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexi-softcover. Illustrated with full color photographs by Sandra Mann. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The definitive study of the images made by a pioneer journalist and photographer who passionately advocated for America's urban poor. 336 pages, 25 color, 375 duotone + 210 b/w illustrations.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1985, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 228 pages. Pink cloth covered hardcover with gray lettering on spine. Square quarto. B/W and color plates. a romantic and nostalgic look back at the fabulous nightclubs and palaces of entertainment that lined the Hollywood hills and spread across California's Southland in the heyday of the film capital, from 1915 to 1945. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. US, The MIT Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Remainder mark on top page block. Boston played a crucial role in the development of American photography, including criticism, collecting, and curating, in the second half of the twentieth century. This book accompanies a landmark exhibition at the DeCordova Museum that includes such important American artists as Berenice Abbott, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Marie Cosindas, Harold Edgerton, Nan Goldin, Jerome Liebling, Nicholas Nixon, Barbara Norfleet, Olivia Parker, Rosamond Purcell, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White.The period from 1955 to 1985 reflects photography's acceptance as an art form, the influence of modernism, and the coalescence of a unique constellation of educational institutions, museums, and technological development in the Boston area that directly influenced artistic options for photography. Minor White's arrival at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 to run the Center for Creative Photography and the Polaroid Corporation's innovative support of photographic art suggest how developments built upon one another to create a regional critical mass in photography.The book contains twenty-five color plates, sixty duotones, and essays by A. D. Coleman, Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, and Kim Sichel.
Hardcover. Little, Brown, & Co., New York Graphic Society, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Retrospective on famed artist. Edited by Dr. David Mellor. With color and b&w plates throughout. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Light fading and foxing to front flyleaf. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.
Softcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 88 pages, Summer 2007. Features photographers: Mary Ellen Mark, Barry Frydlender, Florian Maier-Aichen. Also includes articles by Gerry Badger and Vince Aletti. A clean, tight issue.
Hardcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, non-paginated, illustrated throughout with photos in color. Minor shelf-wear to laminated boards, remainder mark to bottom edge. Clean, tight copy. A series of photographs capturing a gritty, glamorous, and authentic old- school New York, well before Mickey Mouse took over Times Square and scrubbed it clean. Curators and editors Beatriz and Hilton Arial Ruiz have collected and preserved the work of local street photographer Bill Butterworth, and have drawn from his work to create a revealing portrait of the Forty-Deuce, inside and out-- capturing the unique street life and street style of the era.