Photography

Softcover. Greensboro NC, Weatherspoon Art Museum, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Text by Nancy Doll, George Dimock, Tom Beck, Verna Posever Curtis and Patricia J. Fanning. Includes photographs by Lewis Hind, F. Holland Day, Gertrude Dasebier, Clarence H. White, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Edward Weston. 64 pages, paper with stiff cover. Black and white reproductions. 12" x 9 ". Clean, very good.

Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Zenith Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The Battle for Hue became one of the most important of the Vietnam War, a month of grueling house-to-house fighting through buildings and around civilians. Marines in Hue City documents the intense urban combat in Hue with many never-before-published photographs. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Softcover. Germany, Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 128 pages, b&w photos. Portraits include Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Jones, Marilyn Manson, Radiohead, Tubac, Andy Warhol, Mike Tyson , Frank Stella, Louise Bourgeois, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Paris FR, Centre National de la Photo Graphie, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 unnumbered pages, 40 b&w plates. FRENCH TEXT. The panoramic photography of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, taken between 1922 and 1929; the catalogue for an exhibition. Wonderful work. Text by Michel Frizot. Unpaginated, 40 full-page duo-toned b&w plates; 11 x 10.25 inches. Bibliography, chronology, exhibitions list.

Hardcover. NY, PowerHouse, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Women's liberation in Shanghai, China as captured through the lens of Bettina Rheims, with beautiful full-page photographs throughout. Textual insight (in English) by Serge Bramly. 11-1/4 x 13"; 252 pages. Rheims beautifully stages photographs of real women from all walks of life.

Softcover. New York , Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, b&w photographs throughout. In 1929, Lee Miller, already a legendary fashion model, left the United States to study photography in Paris. Here she became the disciple and lover of Man Ray, and she was soon taking on both portrait and fashion assignments for Vogue and running her own studio. The Second World War saw her as Vogue's war correspondent: she covered the siege of Saint Malo, the liberation of Paris, and the entry of the U.S. Army into the Dachau concentration camp. Her later years were spent in London and Sussex with her husband, the painter and writer Roland Penrose. During her extraordinary life, Miller came into contact with an astonishing range of painters, sculptors, actors, writers, musicians, fashion designers, and socialites. Many became her friends and the subjects of her penetrating portraits. The finest of these photographs are collected together here, along with a selection of portraits of Miller herself, taken by other photographers. The images include not only Miller's highly perceptive and sympathetic studies of Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire, and others but also her pictures of unsung individuals engaged in war work and powerful photographs of victims and perpetrators of Nazi oppression. 157 duotone illustrations.

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. London, Reel Art Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Includes 240 black and white and color photographs: . "Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are." - David Hurn - This volume is the first anthology dedicated to Hurn during one of his most iconic periods of the 1960s.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w photography.

Hardcover. US, Graphis Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. More than 200 color plates.Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 98 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light soil to dust jacket front cover, else a clean, tight copy. Most of the eighty-one excellent color photos show some quirky aspect of the American scene including some old favorites that pop up regularly in similar books, these three are in California, the Cabazon dinosaurs, the bulldozer shaped building in Turlock and Randy's Donuts in Inglewood. All the photos have captions which mostly explain the location and circumstance though the intriguing house (page fifty-two) on stilts with a half-track vehicle in front only gets 'Vienna, Virginia, 1986.

Softcover. Middlebury VT, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1st, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Some creasing to front cover. Some foxing to back page, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 60 b&w photos of literary figures taken by Knopf. Published on the 60th anniverary of the publishing house. Like new in a bright dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1992, 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 special edition focused on the people of Haiti and photography by and the Haitians. Includes interview with Marie Yolande St. Fleur; Amy Wilentz; Donald Cosentino on Vodou Carnival; Haiti Snapshots by Jonathan Demme; Elizabeth McAlister on Vodou in New York and Haiti; others. Photography by Bruce Gilden; Jonathan Demme; Lynne Warberg; Chantal Regnault; Maggie Steber; Les Stone; Tony Savino; others.

Hardcover. US, Prestel, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Like new still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. US, Konemann, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 776 pages, illustrated throughout on sepia, b&w and color. Light edgewear and scratching to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. This groundbreaking publication announces the death of the conventional portrait. In an age when we are bombarded with flawless images of youthful beauty, when rejuvenation is available through a jar of cream or a scalpel, artists and photographers seek to portray the face in new ways.Through a variety of techniques, including computer manipulation, photomontage, and retouching, the artists present their new portraits. They replace clarity with blur, the split-second with the elastic moment, questioning the notion of a fixed identity, of universality of expression, of what constitutes beauty.Whether Cindy Sherman's disquieting disguises, Gillian Wearing's masked self-portrait, LawickMuller's composite portraits of couples, or Orlan's disturbing experiments with cosmetic surgery, these faces demand attention. 260 illustrations, 165 in color.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. The great fashion photographer Martin Munkacsi was born in Hungary in 1896, spent the 20s and 30s in Berlin, and immigrated to New York City in 1934. For many years the best paid photographer of his time and a profound influence on photographers like Richard Avedon, his work was out of fashion at the time of his death in 1963. Recently, Munkacsi has emerged from history as one of the most significant talents of the twentieth century, having shaped the beginnings of modern photojournalism, set in motion a previously static medium and combined fact-finding accuracy with a highly formal aesthetic standard. Munkacsi was an outstanding representative of the 'Neues Sehen' (New Way of Seeing), certainly photography's weightiest contribution to advanced art. His fashion and sports photography were both groundbreaking and unmatched. Up until now, however, all this work has been scattered throughout the world, and much of it has been lost, although the Ullstein Archive in Berlin maintains an extensive collection of Munkacsi's work from Hungary and Germany. Martin Munkacsi gathers and assembles this mid-century master's images as never before. It contains pictures from each of his artistic phases and several photographs and reports that haven't been seen since their initial magazine publications. A major collection featuring 318 tritones, it offers a valuable glimpse of photography's tense, technology-obsessed, glamorous and contradictory beginnings.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages, large format with 260 b&w plates. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap. Brings together definitive works by the noted documentary photojournalist who created "Migrant Mother," in a photographic collection that is culled from her archives at the Oakland Museum and highlights such subjects as the Great Depression, migrant workers, and sharecroppers. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover. Berlin, Guido Hackebeil, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages plus tables, ads in rear. Red cloth spine, cream colored boards with light soil. A book on amateur film making, b&w illustrations, German text. AGFA has an ad in the back with actual film stills. Previous owner's bookplate, signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 156 pages, 121 duotone photographs. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. In this, his third book, John Comino-James shows us the world that is contained within just a few streets in the very ordinary neighbourhood of Cayo Hueso in Havana, Cuba. Through portraits and candid observation he builds an honest and intimate record of a small and tight-knit community. This is not the Havana of the tourist, but a city in which people go about their daily lives, dealing with the everyday realities that have resulted from decades of political isolation.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st thus, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. August Sander (1876-1964) spent his life intending to create a collective portrait of the German people, an undertaking which remained incomplete at the time of his death. This reconstruction by Keller, a professor of art history, in collaboration with Gunther Sander, the photographer's son, was compiled from Sander's notes and negatives. The photographs cover the years of the Kaisers, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, and the early Federal Republic and have become a landmark in the history of photography. 512 pages; 431 full-page duo-toned b&w plates + 75 text illustrations; 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Bibliography. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 38 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Santa Barbara CA, At Speed Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Flat-signed in black ink on the title page by the photographer, Jesse Alexander. Fully-illustrated B&W wrappers. With 47 B&W photo illustrations on semi-glossy stock. Jesse Alexander [1929-2021] was an American photographer who covered motorsports, portraits, birds and travel. One of his first photo expeditions was in 1953 to the Carrera Panamericana race in Mexico. Since 1954, he covered large European races such as 24 Hours of Le Mans in France, and the Mille Miglia and Targa Florio of Italy. He served as the European editor for Car and Driver magazine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Ecco, 2nd pr., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 734 pages, b&w illustrations. The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs. It is impossible to understand the transfixing power of Arbus's photographs without exploring her life. Lubow draws on exclusive interviews with Arbus's friends, lovers, and colleagues; on previously unknown letters; and on his own profound critical insights into photography to explore Arbus's unique perspective and to reveal important aspects of her life that were previously unknown or unsubstantiated. He deftly traces Arbus's development from a wealthy, sexually precocious free spirit into first, a successful New York fashion photographer and then, a singular artist who coaxed secrets from her subjects. Lubow reveals that Arbus's profound need not only to see her subjects but to be seen by them drove her to forge unusually close bonds with these people, helping her discover the fantasies, pain, and heroism within each of them, and leading her to create a new kind of photographic portraiture charged with an unnerving complicity between the subject and the viewer.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. For decades, the sunny village of Cannes has hosted a wealth of glamour, talent, and beauty from A to Z. As the site of the most prominent international cinema contest in the world, Cannes is a magical milieu that has attracted paparazzi and film critics from the entire world. But often hidden from view are the sumptuous villas and yachts of millionaires that Cannes has been home to for more than a century. Here is a carnival of celebrities captured by photographers that covered the annual event. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. US, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. The paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century, but during the 1930s he was also among the nation's premier photographers. Much of his photographic work was sponsored by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration, where his colleagues included Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.Ben Shahn's American Scene: Photographs, 1938 presents one hundred superb photographs from his most ambitious FSA project, a survey of small-town life in the Depression. John Raeburn's accompanying text illuminates the thematic and formal significance of individual photographs and reveals how, taken together, they address key cultural and political issues of the years leading up to World War II. Shahn's photographs highlight conflicts between traditional values and the newer ones introduced by modernity as represented by the movies, chain stores, and the tantalizing allure of consumer goods, and they are particularly rich in observation about the changes brought about by Americans' universal reliance on the automobile. They also explore the small town's standing as the nation's symbol of democratic community and expose the discriminatory social and racial practices that subverted this ideal in 1930s America.

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 254 pages, b&w illustrations. George Alexander Grant is an unknown elder in the field of American landscape photography. Just as they did the work of his contemporaries Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, and others, millions of people viewed Grant's photographs; unlike those contemporaries, few even knew Grant's name. Landscapes for the People shares his story through his remarkable images and a compelling biography profiling patience, perseverance, dedication, and an unsurpassed love of the natural and historic places that Americans chose to preserve. A Pennsylvania native, Grant was introduced to the parks during the summer of 1922 and resolved to make parks work and photography his life. Seven years later, he received his dream job and spent the next quarter century visiting the four corners of the country to produce images in more than one hundred national parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields, and other locations. He was there to visually document the dramatic expansion of the National Park Service during the New Deal, including the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Grant's images are the work of a master craftsman. His practiced eye for composition and exposure and his patience to capture subjects in their finest light are comparable to those of his more widely known contemporaries. Nearly fifty years after his death, and in concert with the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service, it is fitting that George Grant's photography be introduced to a new generation of Americans.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket with small closed tears. 158 pages, many illustrations from photographs; bibliography. A monograph with sections devoted both to Muybridge's documentary work as well as his famous studies of movement. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A monograph focusing for the first time exclusively on Kertesz's early Hungarian prints; selected from more than 1,000 contact prints in the artist's estate and reproduced actual size. Photographs by Andre Kertesz; introduction by Bruce Silverstein; essay by Robert Gurbo. 160 pages; 66 duo-toned b&w plates + 11 text illustrations; 5.25 x 5.25 inches.

Hardcover. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Starkly beautiful photos of abandoned and converted movie theaters with new essays by Peter Bogdanovich, Molly Haskell, Andrew Sarris, and Chester H. Liebs. The single-screen movie theaters that punctuated small-town America's main streets and city neighborhoods since the 1920s are all but gone. The well-dressed throng of moviegoers has vanished; the facades are boarded. In Silent Screens, photographer Michael Putnam captures these once prominent cinemas in decline and transformation. His photographs of abandoned movie houses and forlorn marquees are an elegy to this disappearing cultural icon.

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, square format monograph, bound in cream colored cloth covered boards with embossed title on cover. With 155 full-page duotone photographs, 324 pages. Short foreword by Yves Bonnefoy. An excellent and beautifully-printed survey of Cartier-Bresson's work. Lacks the dust jacket, small color sticker on title page, otherwise a clean, bight copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, oblong format, 336 pages. 25 color, 375 duotone + 210 b/w illustrations. This important publication is the first comprehensive study and complete catalogue of Riis's world-famous images, and places him at the forefront of early-20th-century social reform photography. It is the culmination of more than two decades of research on Riis, assembling materials from five repositories (the Riis Collection at the Museum of the City of New York, the Library of Congress, the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, and the Museum of South West Jutland, Denmark) as well as previously unpublished photographs and notes. In this handsome volume, Bonnie Yochelson proposes a novel thesis--that Riis was a radical publicist who utilized photographs to enhance his arguments, but had no great skill or ambition as a photographer. She also provides important context for understanding how Riis's work would be viewed in turn-of-the-century New York, whether presented in lantern slide lectures or newspapers. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, softcover. This striking collection of photographs features nearly every important figure in the world of rock & roll, from Elvis to Eric Clapton, the Beatles to Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix to John Coltrane. The more than fifty photographers who contribute to the volume are among the most talented in their field, including Lee Friedlander, Lynn Goldsmith, Bob Gruen, Mick Rock, and many more. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. London/NY, Phaidon, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, square format. Original photo-illustrated cover and spine, back cover black cloth, with white and black lettering on cover and spine. Contains nine hundred and thirty-seven photographs selected by Capa's brother Cornell Capa and Richard Whelan, Capa's biographer. The chronologically arranged photographs constitute a documentation of twenty-two years (1932-1954) of Capa's work, featuring many catastrophic and dramatic events with brief commentaries. Risking his life over and over again Robert Capa is considered the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history. He was the cofounder of Magnum Photos in 1947, an international photographic cooperative, and was awarded the Medal of Freedom by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1947 for his work recording World War II. No dust jacket issued. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 167 pages. A previously unpublished photo series by Irwin Klein of northern New Mexican counterculture communes from 1967-1971 blended with modern essays on the topic. Dropouts, renegades, utopians. Children of the urban middle class and old beatniks living alone, as couples, in families, or as groups in the small Nuevomexicano towns. When photographer Irwin Klein began visiting northern New Mexico in the mid-1960s, he found these self-proclaimed New Settlers and many others in the back country between Santa Fe and Taos. His black-and-white photographs captured the life of the countercultures transition to a social movement. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Reel Art Press, 1sr, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The first anthology dedicated to one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th century, Dennis Stock, during his most celebrated period of the 1950s-1970s. Undisputedly one of America's greatest photographers, in early 1955 Dennis Stock captured one of the iconic images of the 20th century: the black-and-white image of the unknown James Dean walking across a deserted Times Square, trademark cigarette in hand, a brooding and introspective figure hunched into his oversized coat, braced against the rain and set against the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. Stock took a series of photographs in New York, Hollywood and in Dean's hometown of Fairmount, Indiana. Stock went on to photograph Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn resting her head on a car window on the cusp of fame, JFK on the campaign trail. His catalogue of work throughout this period reflects his ability to empathize with his subjects but not become subservient to them. In the late 1950s, Stock's focus shifted to the leading jazz musicians and performers of the day; this book contains some of the best photographs ever taken of artists such as Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Miles Davies and Louis Armstrong. This book is a beautiful tribute to Stock's timeless legacy and complete access to the Stock Archive was granted for this stunning 288-page edition.