Photography

Softcover. New York, powerHouse, 1st, August 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages, color photographs throughout. A very clean, tight copy. For adults only. Every day, thousands of young Asian women go to work in the sex industry, a marketplace in which any desire can be satisfied for a price--despite the fact that many Asian countries are repressive to the point of banning certain standard sexual practices. For six years, Asian-American photographer Reagan Louie journeyed through this sexual underworld, visiting nearly a dozen countries including Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Vietnam, Tibet, Thailand, and Japan, among others, photographing the day-to-day lives of women who, either by choice or by necessity, exchange their bodies for money. 

Hardcover. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. 204 pages, b&w photographs. Arrested collects hundreds of celebrity mugshots from the last 150 years including: James Brown Lenny Bruce, Al Capone, Jeffrey Dahmer, Eminem, Bill Gates, Saddam Hussein, Mick Jagger, Malcolm X, Al Pacino, Elvis Presley, Bugsy Siegel, Joseph Stalin ,Sid Vicious and more!

Softcover. London, Random House UK, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, illustrated throughout with b&w photos of England's coastline. Light wear to wrappers, else a very neat, tight copy.

Softcover. Surrey UK, FAB Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 165 pages The Satanic Sluts are 666 of the world's most attitudinal, creative and original women, linked by a shared interest in all things dark, sexual and Satanic. Here, in a series of unique photographic portraits and personal statements, 50 elite members of the official Satanic Sluts open up their souls and their bodies to display their sexual fantasies, lusts and twisted ideologies for the first time.

Hardcover. London ; New York, NY, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oversized. Black cloth cover, light wear to edges of cover and dust jacket. Many b&w photographs throughout. An epic collection of poignant and often controversial stories photographed and written by acclaimed social documentary photographer Eugene Richards (b.1944). The culmination of a dozen years of reporting, both on and off assignment, these stories, each one different in style and tone, immerse us in the lives of Honduran coffee growers, members of a Kansas City street gang, drought-plagued villagers from Niger, and doctors in an embattled Bosnian hospital. A bright, clean copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

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

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Part of the Photographers at Work Series. Includes an interview with Eggleston along numerous color photographs of horses and dogs in various situations.

Hardcover. Stockholm, Journal, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages, 85 color, 210 b&w plates. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Today, roughly fifty thousand Tarahumara continue living in ways similar to those of their ancestors, retaining many customs from their pre-Columbian past. Striking sepia-toned monochrome photographs and a historical narrative document the lives and past of people in mountainous southwestern Chihuahua, Mexico.

Softcover. New York , Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover. 80 pages. Terrific issue that features articles on Allen Ginsberg snapshots, images from Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eric Fischl, Eugene Atget, Robert Walker and others. Also includes text by William S. Burroughs.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 334 pages. Extensive b&w and color photography throughout. Extensive photo documentation and bibliography. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to jacket.

Hardcover. Bologna, Italy, Damiani, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Includes decorative slip case. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Shoebox Studio records a moment in a fashion model's career that is rarely seen by a wider public: the model's first "getting-acquainted" photoshoot, in which no attempt is made to beautify or exaggerate her face, pose or expression. Having produced photo campaigns for some of the world's premier beauty clients (Lancome, L'Oreal, Revlon), French photographer and painter Stephane Coutelle is ideally placed to make these portraits of vulnerability and aspiration: his Shoebox Studio sees an unending parade of young women, newly arrived from all over the world and pursuing their first career. His first meeting with a model aims to establish their character and psychology, before professional reflexes take hold, and before complicity is established between photographer and model. Shoebox Studio gathers portraits of aspiring models taken between 2006 and 2010.

Hardcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages, 87 full page b&w plates, 23 illustrations in text. Contributions by Naomi and Walter Rosenblum, Alan Trachtenberg. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 136 pages, b&w photos of the artist at work. Foreword by David Driskell, introduction by Ruth Fine.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 251 pages. Illustrated with 200 black & white photographs by Tazio Secchiaroli. Lots of Sophia Loren. Black remainder line on bottom edge at spine. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 88 pages, Summer 2006. Features work by William Christenberry (in Memphis), Jessie Mann, Bruce Conner (his "Punk" photographs), and more. A clean, tight issue.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white photographs by Lewis W. Hine. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper; handwritten poem on rear endpaper. Green cloth covers with light rubbing to corners. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Quantuck Lane Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages, color plates. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has gathered richly detailed images from neglected corners of American's towns and small cities, and created a fascinating mosaic. Businesses, religious sects, and community groups announce their presence, offer their services, and pitch their messages, while commercial signs, graffiti, posters, and public notices blanket the surfaces of buildings and public spaces. Paintings and movie posters, dime-store novels and daily newspapers, figurines and mannequins, decals and stenciled graffiti, and children's letters and drawings are laid out as artifacts of a greater whole. Patriotism, consumerism, censorship, nostalgia for a simpler past coupled with a desire for a less complicated present...touching on all these themes, Bergerson's quietly ironic but empathetic tone encourages the reader to imagine how our own ordinary world might appear to viewers in a hundred or more years' time. 119 color photographs.

Softcover. Boston, The Solio Foundation, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages. Softcover with minor wear to edges. Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. Clean unmarked text.

Softcover. Australia, National Gallery of Australia, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Picture Paradise chronicles the transmission and adoption of new developments in photography from Europe to the Asia-Pacific region. It is the first survey of the early photography from this diverse region covering India and Sri Lanka, Southeast and East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, to the West Coast of North America. It includes pioneer local photographers as well as European photographers working in the region and reveals the rich heritage and the many outstanding achievements of the first century of photography in the Asia-Pacific region.

Hardcover. New York , The Museum of Modern Art, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. 109 illustrations (64 tritones, 45 duotones). Oversized red cloth cover with light wear to edges. Dust jacket has minor bumping to some edges, otherwise clean. Inside is bright and neat. A nice copy.

Hardcover. US, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages. Lynn Davis, known for surveys of natural and man-made wonders, has long been fascinated with the objects and venues of space exploration. Her photographs of the architectural icons, cornerstones, and abandoned sites of the space race reflect the many facets of a historically complex industry: the beginnings of space exploration; the changing nature of technology; and a fascination with otherworldly ruins. She emphasizes the bold modernism of these sites while evoking the presence of obsolete technologies. Davis traveled to historic sites in Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany, French Guiana, and the United States. She received special permission to visit Baikonur in Kazakhstan, a leading launch site shrouded in secrecy since the 1950s, and her photographs offer one of the first inside glimpses of launches, transmission towers, fuel lines, and satellites.

Softcover. Great Britain, Midnight Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Softcover. B/w illustration throughout. In excellent shape. Wrapper has a little label residue, but otherwise pristiine and unripped. Clean and unmarked inside. Binding tight.

Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Freelance photographer Harvey Caplin recorded ranch life in the American West from the 1940s to the 1980s, before the last roundup, magnificent landscapes, and picturesque people. See 173 of his beautiful images and revel at the grandeur of the land and drama of life played out upon it.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday and Co., reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Photographs and text by Edward Steichen. Includes a biographical outline. Illustrated end pages. 249 black and white plates. Measures 11.5x10 inches. Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Later he worked for Conde Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair. After World War II he became the Director of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Note: This book is the First edition, second printing (The book was originally published in 1963 with duotone and color plates, this second printing is in black and white only). In a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Photographs by Andre Kertesz; edited by Nicolas Ducrot. 192 pages; 184 full-page, gravure-printed b&w plates; 9 x 11.25 inches. A lovely collection of Kertesz's photographs of New York City, most published here for the first time.

Hardcover. New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages. Combining images from early masters and well-known fine art photographers with text and observations from noted writers, this is one of a kind book. It provides stimulating perspectives on Santa Fe's transformation over the last 160 years, presenting a historical and contextual perspective on the important role photography has played in documenting and shaping Santa Fe's image. Includes selected images from more than one hundred noted photographers.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, New Haven, Connecticut Yale University Art Gallery 2015 Hardcover, illustrated photographic boards with white lettering. 140 pages with bw photos throughout. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Donald Blumberg Photographs: Selections from the Master Sets at Yale University Art Gallery, August to November 2015. With an introduction by Jock Reynolds. "Words and Images from the American Media gathers over 162 images that Donald Blumberg has photographed directly from newspapers and television screens since the 1960s.

Softcover. Hanover, NH, Hood Museum of Art, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 70 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Crisp photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Livingston MT, Clark City Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 B&w photographs of Hollywood stars & lifestyles by one of Life magazine's original photographers. "A collection of portraits by one of the original four Life photographers features candid, offscreen shots of such Hollywood stars as Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Alfred Hitchcock, young Elizabeth Taylor, and Orson Welles."

Hardcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State University , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, oblong quarto, 265 pages, illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Santa Monica CA, RoseGallery/DAP, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red and burgundy cloth boards with yellow stamped lettering. 144 pages. Color and b&w illustrations, portraits. Eyes in His Eyes reintroduces some of the artist's overlooked masterpieces, and reveals, for the first time, a broad selection of never-before-seen images from his private archives. In his 80-year career, Alvarez Bravo printed, published and exhibited only a thousand images. This portfolio, culled with the help of the artist himself, and completed after his death, is full of unfamiliar abstractions, portraits, landscapes and street photography.

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. In this latest celebration of his art Bailey brings together for the first time the best of all his "beauty" photographs from the 1960s up to the present day. Commissioned by the best-known fashion magazines of the time, these portraits of what Vogue once called "The Bailey Kind of Girl" include models such as Jean Shrimpton, Marie Helvin, Penelope Tree, and Bailey's wife, Catherine Dyer. Blended with these are Bailey's startling ethnographic portraits of, for example, Asaro mud men and Indian dancers, and his own paintings. In his illuminating introduction, Robin Muir sets these photographs in the context of the period in which they were taken and reminds us that for over forty years Bailey has challenged our notions of female beauty with his own highly personal vision. The sensational color images collected here testify that few are more expert than this photographer on a subject that is today preoccupying us more than ever. No admirer of either beauty or Bailey will want to be without this book. 110 color photographs.

Softcover. GR, Steidl, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes in a card slipcase. 750 total pages. Lost since 1939, the Mexican suitcase contains nearly 4,500 negatives documenting the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Chim (David Seymour), and Gerda Taro. These films had traveled from Paris via the south of France to Mexico City, where, almost seventy years later, they were rediscovered and now reside in the collection of the International Center of Photography.

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

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages. A photo essay depicting the British Army struggling to come to terms with contemporary life. No dj issued.

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. A new generation of Czech and Slovak photographers--heirs to the legacy of such modern masters as Josef Sudek and Frantisek Driktol--will be the subject of the August 1998 issue of Aperture, featuring images never before published in the West. In the Aperture tradition of investigating the contemporary photography of individual nations, Crossing Borders probes the cultural, social, and emotional climate of the post-Communist era as experienced by twenty-three photographers.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. Time Frames, Michael Spano's long-awaited first monograph, catalogues the artist's exploration of spatial and temporal dimensions in photography. The book is divided into five chapters: Panoramas, Grids, Portraits, Multi-Exposures, and Diptychs; each employs a distinctive technical process to provide a new way of looking at life in New York City. Panoramas (1977-1983) show interacting urbanites moving through elongated frames as the lens of an extremely wide field camera pans during exposure. Grids (1980-1990) captures eight moments on a single negative as Spano moves through a sequence of events, pre-determinedly exposing a portion of the grid every four seconds. Portraits (1984-1990) focus on individual inhabitants transformed and etched out from their settings through the solarization and blurring forms into an atmospheric world. Multi-Exposures (1985-1998) combine solarizations with multiple perspectives. These single-negative layered compositions orchestrate and compress selected intervals of time and space into one image. Diptychs (1998-1999) fuse two distinct moments on one negative where scale, focal planes, and perspectives shift and comprise a dual image of urban spaces.

Hardcover. Dark Horse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. For 15 years Preston has been photographing cartoonists in their natural habitats, the studios in which they work. Revealing the faces behind the familiar drawings, Preston aims his lenses at artists engaged in virtually every realm of cartooning, including superhero comics (Alex Ross, Todd McFarlane); newspaper strips (Cathy Guisewite, Berke Breathed); alternative and underground comics (R. Crumb, the Hernandez brothers); and animation (Chuck Jones, Joseph Barbera). The best portraits capture the spirit of the subjects' work. Mad mainstay Sergio Aragones is surrounded by toy figurines. Loopy caricaturist Arnold Roth's mug sports a wacky grin. Art Spiegelman, known for his formal mastery of the comics medium, looks dead serious. The studio of gritty urban realist Frank Miller looks out on a brick wall. Most welcome are valedictory portraits of titans in the comics field who have passed on since Preston photographed them, including Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, and Carl Barks. Fans of cartooning and of photographic portraiture should enjoy Preston's evocative images of these often-reclusive figures in their working sanctums.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1997, Hardcover,224 pages, 93 full-color photographs. Much has been written about Alfred Stieglitz and his role in establishing photography as an art. Little attention, however, has been paid to the pictorial photographers who followed Stieglitz, among them Imo Jean Cunningham, Edward Weston, Clarence H. White, and a host of others -- those who, in a widespread movement, approached photography in a painterly fashion, creating beautiful images through the use of careful lighting, manipulated tones, soft focus effects, and artistic compositions. In this important volume, Christian A. Peterson finally gives the pictorialists of the first half of the twentieth century their due. He describes the backgrounds of the movement, their methods, the photo clubs they belonged to, and their work, illustrated here with ninety-three stunning reproductions. The movement seemed to die out, Peterson suggests, with the rising popularity of 35mm photography in mid-century, when the care and slow working procedures required by large-format cameras became unpopular.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Beige cloth covers, no paper wraparound band. Annie Leibovitz describes how her pictures were made, starting with Richard Nixon's resignation, a story she covered with Hunter S. Thompson, and ending with Barack Obama's campaign. In between are a Rolling Stones Tour, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, The Blues Brothers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith Haring, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patti Smith, George W. Bush, William S. Burroughs, Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. The most celebrated photographer of our time discusses portraiture, reportage, fashion photography, lighting, and digital cameras.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is renowned for her provocative and unsettling portraits of modern Americans. This book presents a significant body of previously unpublished pictures by Arbus and proposes a radically new way to understand her goals, strategies, and overall work. Diane Arbus: Family Albums examines unknown contact sheets from several of Arbus's portrait sessions, including more than three hundred photographs she took of a New York family one weekend in 1969. Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz put to the test Arbus's claim that she was developing a "family album." They present other images Arbus shot for Esquire magazine (including pictures of the families of Ricky Nelson, Jayne Mansfield, and Ogden Reid) and discuss her interest in photographic groupings of both traditional and alternative families. Challenging common interpretations of Arbus, the authors reveal a photographer far more savvy with the camera, more aware of photography as an artistic and commercial practice, and more sensitive to the social and cultural tensions of the 1960s than has been acknowledged before.

Hardcover. NY, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. In the six photo essays compiled in this well-designed volume, widely admired American photographer Friedlander (e.g., The American Monument) presents images of factory, technology, and telemarketing workers. This visual workplace odyssey starts with "factory valleys" in Ohio and Pennsylvania in 1979 and ends in Omaha, NE, with "telemarketing" in 1995. Throughout, Friedlander centers his black-and-white photographs on the faces of individual workers-bored by repetition, firm in vocational resolve, or frozen for a moment in a physically demanding job. Benson (dean, Yale Univ. Sch. of Art) gives Friedlander a helping hand with a comforting afterword that connects these portraits of work with its reality. Maybe it is unfair to expect a collection of photo essays, commissioned by companies or art institutions, to show us something we never knew before, but a photography book succeeds or fails by its images. With no surprises to convey-we already know that many jobs are tedious and that the people stuck in them drift into a trance to get through the day-this book seems like an effort merely to expand the Friedlander bibliography.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. B&w photos by Freesman. Dust jacket with mild edgewear. Beautiful copy of a scarce book. A photo essay on the experiences of firemen.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Although Stock has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1951 and his work has been collected in numerous books (California Trip; Jazz Street), he remains best known for his unforgettable b&w photographs of Dean, which soared beyond routine celebrity shots. Stock's photo essay in Life, "Moody New Star," attracted attention the same week East of Eden opened in 1955, and in the years since, his photos of Dean have resurfaced in magazines, books and exhibitions. Published on the 50th anniversary of Dean's death, this collection of 80 duotones recaptures the few weeks in 1954 Stock spent with the actor in New York and his Fairmount, Ind., hometown before the two flew back to L.A. for the filming of Rebel Without a Cause. Hyams (James Dean: Little Boy Lost) calls the haunting shot of Dean alone in a rainy Times Square "one of the foremost iconic images of the 20th century." A surreal scene at the Fairmount farm shows Dean banging bongo drums for an audience of cows and pigs, and a peek inside an Actors Studio session is a rarity since Lee Strasberg "almost never let anyone photograph his classes." Stock's own brief memoir of his friendship with Dean is well written, evocative and insightful.

Softcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 220 pages. This comprehensive catalogue traces the career of Cindy Sherman, examining her achievements as one of the leading American artists of our time. By exploring the myriad constructions of female identity and the body in our culture, Sherman imitates and confronts assorted representational stereotypes, becoming for many an icon of the contemporary concerns of feminism and postmodernism.Essayists Amada Cruz, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Amelia Jones offer keen insight and observations from several distinct vantage points, demonstrating that Sherman's work is a lens through which to view contemporary art and its ongoing concern with the profound issues of the structures of the self. More than 200 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centerfolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales, and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets, and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process.

Hardcover. NY, Sports Illustrated, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. A panoramic compilation of outstanding sports photography features 150 classic images from the legendary photographer's more than four-decade career, with dramatic portraits of MIchael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Muhammad Ali and Joe Fraser, and other great sports figures, accompanied by behind-the-scenes anecdotes about each photograph and its subject.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Published on the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Reflections in a Looking Glass presents Carroll's remarkable photography. Richly illustrated, this important book presents seldom-seen works-most of them formal portraits and staged scenes that combine Carroll's famous childlike sense of play with the Victorian propriety that characterized his age. Also included in Reflections are selected drawings by Lewis Carroll and by John Tenniel, who illustrated the original Alice books. The central text by Morton N. Cohen, the world's leading authority on Lewis Carroll, provides an in-depth account of Carroll's experimentations in the new medium of photography. His hobby opened the door to many of his "child friends" as well as to leading artistic and literary figures of the day, all of whom came to Carroll's studio to sit for their portraits. Excerpts from Carroll's diaries combine with Cohen's annotated captions to make this book an invaluable resource. The book also includes a Preface by Mark Haworth-Booth, curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Afterword is by Roy Flukinger, curator of photographs at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, the source collection for much of the material in this extraordinary book.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Edited and with an afterword by Gerard Malanga. Foreword by Robert Creeley, Brown buckram binding. Bibliography, brief biographies of contributors. Malanga examines the intersection of photography and voyeurism in this intriguing collection of interviews with and previously unpublished images from thirty artists and writers, including Peter Beard, Andy Warhol, Edward Ruscha, Larry Rivers, Duane Michals, William Burroughs, Jeanloup Sieff, George Krause, and Francesca Woodman.