Softcover. NY, Crown, 1st wraps, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Black & white photos by Farley. 160 pages. "Farley has gathered these portraits of cowgirls - not showbiz cowgirls, but the real thing. Her subjects work in harsh, unpredictable climates, bring up families while they manage their ranches, and compete - and win - in rodeos alongside men. Her black-and-white photographs capture the spirit and energy of authentic working cowgirls and the raw beauty of the western landscape." Oblong format.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick red cloth with a color photo illustrations on the front board with gilded and black letters to the front boards and spine, 168 pages. A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold rush through the lens of the daguerreotype camera.The California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in depth by photography. This fascinating volume offers a fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the people, places, and culture of that historical episode as seen through daguerreotypes and ambrotypes of the era. After gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, thousands made the journey to California, including daguerreotypists who established studios in cities and towns and ventured into the gold fields in specially outfitted photographic wagons. Their images, including portraits, views of cities and gold towns, and miners at work in the field, provide an extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of mining culture and technology, the variety of nationalities and races involved in the mining industry, and the growth of cities such as San Francisco and Sacramento. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 101 pages. Black & white photos of Hollywood in the 1980s. Introduction by Bret Easton Ellis.
Softcover. Corte Madera, CA, Gingko Press, 1st Wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, black & white photograph, 96 pages. "This book is a remarkable collection of photographs that will take you on a fascinating journey back to Berlin of the 1920s and early 1930s". A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Waterbury VT, Silver Print Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages. !00 beautiful b&w portraits of farm women in Vermont. Autograph sticker on cover. SIGNED by the photographer and author Peter Miller on the half title page.
Austin, University of Texas , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 154 pages. Many B&W, color photos by Kennerly. The last 30 years of the 20th century produced a compelling range of images: Vietnam and the student protests, Robert Kennedy's assassination and Richard Nixon's election, the trauma of Watergate and the recovery under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, the fragile beginnings of peace in the Middle East and the crumbling of the Soviet Union. David Hume Kennerly's astonishing photographs of these and many other events that shaped our times are among the images forever imprinted in our memories. Kennerly was always there with his camera - on the battlefield, at ringside, or behind closed doors in the Oval Office. This eyewitness collection presents over 250 of his most dramatic photographs, many published here for the first time. Augmented by Kennerly's first-hand recollections of the historic events he witnessed, the photographs range from an early Supremes concert through Jonestown, with vivid coverage of Vietnam and other wars, the final days of the Nixon presidency, the inside workings of the Ford Administration, and groundbreaking events in international diplomacy.
Hardcover. Berlin, Hatje Cantz, reprint, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 319 pages. Text by David Campany, Jeff Wall, Hans-Michael Koetzle. Text in English and German. Fred Herzog is known for his unusual use of color in the 1950s and 1960s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. The Canadian photographer worked almost exclusively with Kodachrome slide film for over 50 years, and only in the past decade has technology allowed him to make archival pigment prints that match the exceptional color and intensity of the Kodachrome slide. In this respect, his photographs can be seen as a pre-figuration of the New Color photographers of the seventies. This book brings together over 230 images, many never before reproduced, and will feature essays by acclaimed authors David Campany and Hans-Michael Koetzle. Small bunp tp top of front board otherwise very good, clean copy.
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. India, Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Indian Heritage in the Photographs of Jean Philippe Vogel, 1901-1913. 191 pages, b&w photographs. Frontis, 1 color map, profuse b/w photos. The early twentieth century proved to be a highly innovate period for Indian historical archaeology and heritage care. This highlights Vogel's contribution to early twentieth-century archaeology, documenting his explorations and excavations.
Hardcover. NY, Burns Archive Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, 46 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY BURNS on the title page. This most unusual photo book is a collection of images depicting psychiatric patients in the early 1900s. Self-published by Stanley Burns, MD--collector of historic photography, particularly of the marginalized, hidden, and uncomfortable--Seeing Insanity (2007) offers a brief history of psychiatric imagery with examples from the 1800s and earlier. The primary subjects, however, are women patients of an Uruguayan hospital, dating 1907-1909. Many of the photos were taken for intake and discharge documentation. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2005-07-06, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover. Portraits of life in Benin from the 1960's and 70's. A collection of never-before-seen photographs made in West Africa whose discovery opens a new chapter in the history of African and world photography. 136 pages.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2010, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, The first still-life photograph was created around 1827, more than a decade before the news of photography's invention was announced in Paris and London in 1839. This volume surveys some of the innovative ways photographers have explored the traditional genre of still life from photography's earliest years to the present day. The introductory essay is followed by an illuminating sequence and juxtaposition of plates selected from the J. Paul Getty Museums collection. Still life has served as both a conventional and an experimental form during periods of significant aesthetic and technological change. Illustrating that here are nineteenth-century masterpieces by practitioners such as Hippolyte Bayard and Roger Fenton, twentieth-century examples that include the diverse styles of Baron Adolph de Meyer, Irving Penn, and Edward Weston, and a sampling of contemporary artists, some recalling styles from the past. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 190 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text in German and English. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Oliver Mark (born 1963) has photographed countless artists, actors, politicians and other celebrities. Subjects included here are Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, George Lucas, Sir Ridley Scott, Jenny Holzer, Mia Farrow, Norbert Tadeusz, Kenny Scharf, Georg Baselitz, David Chipperfield, Luc Tuymans, Cate Blanchett, Balthus and Sir Peter Ustinov. Besides Mark's most successful portraits, this volume also contains some of his most beautiful fashion photographs and other stills, many of which have appeared in several well-known magazines.
Hardcover. NY/Cologne, Taschen, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, silver metallic boards. Mario Testino is recognized as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation but his pictures of Kate Moss transcend fashion. The result of three decades of extraordinary friendship, and phenomenal glamour, this iconic collaboration is an intimate insight into the lives and minds of two of the world's definitive style leaders. This book follows the journey of this exceptional fashion partnership, from early days backstage at the shows to behind-the-scenes glimpses of the groundbreaking editorials they continue to produce for the world's most respected magazines. Of the 100-plus images, many photographs have been chosen from Testino's private archive. They are accompanied by a foreword by Testino and an exclusive essay by Kate Moss. This is a smaller format edition that Taschen published in 2010. Clean, bright copy.
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.
Softcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st pbk., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 262 pages. Essays by Miles Barth, Alain Bergala and Ellen Handy. Includes 265 duotones. A very near fine copy in a French style wrappers. One of the best monographs on Weegee.
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. Osterfildern GR, Cantz, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 184 pages with 140 b&w images by Stock. A monograph surveying Stock's career from the 1950s through the 1970s. Photographs and introduction by Dennis Stock (1928-2010); essay by Richard Whelan. This is dual language German/English book containing the photographic works of Stock. Covers his years as photojournalist, refugees, jazz, James Dean, Hollywood, Hippies, being on the road and California. Biography list of photos and places taken. Dust jacket with several closed tears, interior clean, very good.
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. NY, Aperture Foundation , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, navy blue cloth cover, silver lettering on spine, 156 pages. Features essays by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin. Includes over 100 duotones taken from throughout the early years of Salgado's career. From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastiao Salgado explores the live of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart. 'Published on the occasion of a major exhibition presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 4-December 2, 1990.'/ Includes bibliographical references (page 156). VG, dj has some edge wear, cover and pages clean and tight. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
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. NY, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Volume Two Only. First Edition. Photographs by Eugene Atget. Essay and notes to the plates by Maria Morris Hambourg. Appendixes include Berenice Abbott's typewritten copy of Andre Calmette's handwritten letter to her (late 1928). Maroon cloth with debossed title blind-stamped on cover and in gilt on spine, with dust jacket. 192 pp. with 116 plates and 84 black and white reference illustrations. Printed by The Meriden Gravure Company from halftone negatives made by Richard Benson. Clean, tight copy.
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.
Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages with 90 iconic black & white photographs on high gloss paper. A rare poem by Ursula K. Le Guin at the front and a biographical essay by Raphael Shevelev at the back. A generous collection of superb photographs forms the bulk of the contents, with some commentary by the photographer. Mild wear to bottom corner of wrappers, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
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.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 464 pages. An autobiography from this important photographer. Includes numerous color and black and white images. A record of the photographic career of David Douglas Duncan, LIFE photographer and chronicler of wars from 1939 to Vietnam. From Picasso's private life and his unknown paintings to never-photographed treasures in Moscow's Kremlin, to America's historic 1968 Presidential Convention (also NBC's first photo-news one-man report), the results of Duncan's exuberance and keen eye are finally assembled in Photo Nomad. 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. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 100 pages. No dust jacket issued. Eugene Atget, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Andre Kertesz, Brassai, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Robert Doisneau? -some of the greatest photographers of Paris? were relatively unknown when they began their most innovative work. Not yet burdened with conventional career expectations, they found the city the perfect environment in which to invent and develop an entirely new approach to conceiving the photographic image. In the 1920s and 1930s, the generation of photographers after Atget responded not only to the physical city itself but also to a new sensibility of time as a spontaneous act. Masterworks by these now-famous visionaries of the medium are featured in this elegant book of photographs of Paris from the 1850s to the 1950s, drawn from the remarkable collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 236 pages, b&w illustrations. This book has 9 essays on such themes as: Australian made; vernacular photographies; post-photography & photogenics. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pebbles white cloth stamped in gilt. 170 pages. 83 tipped in color plates throughout. This enormous volume features full-color photography of art rarely seen in the West. From one of the most extensive - yet hidden - collections in Europe comes this treasury of works of art, statuary, tapestry, jewelry, and much, much more. Comprehensively annotated by one of the foremost art historians specializing in Russian artworks. Hairline crack to cover at spine, overall clean with tight binding. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 132 pages, 110 ill. (109 color, including covers). Photographs taken on Guggenheim Foundation and Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 1983 and 1984 in Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand, India, the Philippines, China, Burma, South Borneo, and Vietnam. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.
Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. B&w photographs. Collaborating with some of the world's finest dancers from such illustrious dance companies as the Martha Graham Dance Company, Pilobolus, San Francisco Ballet, the Parsons Dance Company, and Ballet Tech, she captures moments of startling grace and power. In 90 duotone images, Greenfield's dancers defy gravity and push the limits of the possible. A preface takes us behind the scenes in her studio, and the photographer's own captions illuminate the challenges of making pictures that recreate the seeming effortlessness of dance. As inspiring as it is technically remarkable, this collection of incomparable images is sure to captivate dance lovers, photographers, and all who admire the beauty and strength of the human body.
Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 178 pages, 70 color plates by Fitch of deserted buildings and locations in the Great Plains. Soft cover edition, published simultaneously iwith the hardcover. In publisher's shrinkwrap.
Softcover. Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover 96 pages. Otto Ping began taking pictures of the people and places of his native Brown County, Indiana, in 1900 at the age of seventeen in order to make some extra money. He continued doing so for forty years while he worked at such other endeavors as peddling, farming, canning, and chicken raising. Unlike the painters and photographers who came to the county in these years to capture quaint and rustic scenes for sophisticated audiences elsewhere, Ping made his pictures for the people who were in them. Primarily a portraitist, Ping photographed individuals, couples, family groups, and larger gatherings. He had no studio and carried with him no lights or props. His portraits are characterized by hastily thrown up backdrops, stark lighting, and rigid poses. They have a documentary quality, and one senses in the faces that peer from these images the determination with which these people met lives of toil and hardship. Many of the portraits betray a sense of melancholy. Life was tenuous for both young and old, and the photographer often worked against time to provide a family with images of the living before his efforts became memorial. Ping photographed people at work and play. Images abound of stiffly posed groups in front of sawmills, churches, schools, and lodge halls; families in front of cabins or newly framed houses; couples with buggies; and children at play. Clean copy.
Softcover. Aspen CO, Aspen Art Museum, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 34 pages,15 color plates by Gaskell. Introduction by Dean Sobel.
Hardcover. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 205 pages. Hardback with jacket. 88 black and white photographs. Texts by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. San Francisco, Mercury House, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, b&w photographs. Sanford Roth (d. 1962) quit an executive position in 1946 to pursue photography in Paris. His wife's anecdotal essay recalls their experiences photographing figures in the arts, including Colette, Picasso, Cocteau, and Stravinsky. Roth later became photographer to the film industry and made portraits of James Dean, Ava Gardner, and dozens of others. His photographs, which appeared in Life , Paris-Match , etc., are photojournalistic and new to today's audience.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Gray Malin is the artist of the moment for the Hollywood and fashion elite. His awe-inspiring aerial photographs of beaches around the world are shot from doorless helicopters, creating playful and stunning celebrations of light, shape, and perspective, as well as summer bliss. Beaches features more than twenty cities across six continents: Australia: Sydney/North America: Santa Monica, Miami, San Francisco, Kaua'i, Chicago, the Hamptons, and Cancun / South America: Rio de Janeiro / Europe: Capri, Rimini, Forte dei Marmi, Viareggio, Amalfi Coast, Barcelona, Lisbon, and Saint-Tropez / Africa: Cape Town / Asia: Dubai. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Danbury NH, Addison House, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. approximately 125 pages, b&w images. Collection of surreal photographic stories some of which have handwritten text by the noted photographer. Simultaneous paperback issue.
Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Arena Editions, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages. 125 erotic images used in research at the Kinsey Institute. Preface by Betsy Stirratt and Jeffrey Wolin. Very good in bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Macmillan, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. An photo essay of the intimate details of daily life among primitive Indians of the Brazilian jungle. Tall yellow boards, 32 pages text, 127 b&w photos, 16 color plates. Minimal shelf wear,small chip to top of dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. Just One Guy Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. In his most recent body of work, Hollingsworth sends up his former home of Los Angeles, the vortex of American pop culture, playing the characters who populate and define it: personas ranging from the well-worn stereotypes to the forgotten and disenfranchised. Shot entirely on Polaroid film, the images have a mug-shot aesthetic, whereby each character seems to have been momentarily plucked from his immediate environment for scrutiny under the artist's no-holds-barred gaze.