Photography

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

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

Hardcover. Koln GR, Walther Konig, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Text in German and English. 96 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

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. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Photographs in black-and-white portray residents in the Town of Camden and Wilcox County, Alabama in the early 1970s, with accompanying text by photographer Bob Adelman and editor Susan Hall. A remarkable document by the photographer renowned for his photographic portraits of the Civil Rights Movement.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 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 , Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Photography by David Goldblatt. Excerpts from Gordimer's prose alongside Goldblatt's striking black and white photographs. Goldblatt was an important South African photographer and documented apartheid under personal peril.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy. More than 10,000 images reside in public archives and private collections, depicting every aspect of what popular historian Pierre Berton has called "one of the strangest mass movements in history." For this book, Berton selected 200 photographs, some iconic, some touchingly personal, and most previously unpublished.The Klondike Quest brings to life the panoramic drama of the great stampede for gold as seen by the ordinary gold-seeker. The photographs are beautifully reproduced and informatively and colorfully captioned. "One million people, it is said, laid plans to go to the Klondike. One hundred thousand actually set off. And so the Klondike saga is a chronicle of humanity in the mass.... For the next eighteen months, the Yukon interior plateau became a human anthill."

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.

Hardcover. New York , Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages, clean hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w photographs throughout by Bischof. His images were influenced by the major photo-movements of his time: the formal concepts of Das Neues Sehen (New Vision), the surrealism of Man Ray, and the documentary tradition of photojournalism. From the 1940s through the early 1950s, he covered World War II, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the Korean War for Life , Paris-Match , and other publications; his most famous series, "Famine in India," appeared in Life in 1951. This first major compilation of Bischof's work is nicely complemented by the text, a joint effort by son Marco and Swiss art historian Magnaguagno that vividly integrates biography and history.

Softcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, 55 photos. Born in 1941, Larry Fink was a teenager in the 1950s in an America on the cusp of radical social change. Growing up on Long Island in New York, Larry Fink was disinterested in the consumer-driven culture of 1950s' America. A disaffected teenager, his parents transferred him to art school where his career as a photographer began to flourish. His parents were supportive of his interest in the arts, and Fink would later drop out of college to join a circle of artists living in Greenwich Village. Fink spent the 1960s watching and learning from the prominent photographers of the time: Henri Cartier- Bresson, Robert Frank, W. Eugene Smith, and in many ways, his photographic aesthetic and rebellious spirit encapsulate the dramatic lose of innocence that the US underwent after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. photographic mentor.

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages,97 b&w photographs taken by Collier between 1948 and 1953, with map, and text by Benally. Never opened, still in original shrink wrap.

Softcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 138 pages, illustrated by the photographer's miniature tableaux, all in color. INSCRIBED BY TRESS on title page. Cardboard slipcase.

Softcover. Aperture, 1st, November 30, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Very good. The Mexican book series Rio de Luz was a courageous and energetic presentation of Latin American photography. To honor the accomplishments of the series and the artists, an issue of Aperture is devoted to the Rio de Luz collection.

Softcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Introduction by Anthony Burgess. Candid shots of the stars off their guard; Romy Schneider, Tom Jones, Dustin Hoffman, Raquel Welsh, Richard Burton, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Brigitte Bardot, Mick Jagger, Onassis, Edith Piaf. Many others.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 108 pages. In the basement of an apartment building in Manhattan, Scott Zieher discovered a pile of photographs among the effects of a recently deceased tenant. These photographs,presented for the first time in Band of Bikers, offer an intimate portrait of a group of gay bikers in the city and the woods, and a touching snapshot of an entire generation at it's carefree zenith.Newly aware of muscle and biker magazines and their heavy-handed eroticism, photographer and photographed brimwith a subtly vibrant, chromatic pride. The photographs as a whole bring into focus a brief, specific period of relative innocence, when middle-of-the-road Americans more often than not failed to perceive the homoerotic undertones of their most heterosexual of institutions. With conceptual light cast by issues ranging from anonymity in homosexuality and underground motorcycle chic, to vernacular photography's pop-culture ramifications, a warm and generous spirit of camaraderie pervades this subterranean survey. Like a real-world set forScorpio Rising casually captured byan unpretentious extra, presented as Band of Bikers and accompanied by an essay by Zieher, this found cache of old-school, leather party snapshots attains archeological significance.

Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. A collection of highlights from the Maresca collection of snapshot photographs housed at the Newark Musuem, featuring images from the 1920s through the 1960s. Essays by Marvin Heiferman, Geoffrey Batchen, and Nancy Martha West; interview with Frank Maresca conducted by Heiferman; foreword by Mary Sue Sweeney Price. 192 pages; profusely illustrated in duo-toned b&w and color.

Hardcover. US, RM, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 84 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This publication presents Yvonne Venegas' series on the public and private lives of Maria Elvia de Hank, wife of the eccentric millionaire and former mayor of Tijuana Jorge Hank Rohn.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. This book has an international bent: Hand has taken photographs in more than fifty countries over the past fifty-five years. These 162 black-and-white photographs present a sampling of his best work from around the world and show how the railway is a compelling subject no matter the locale. An introduction by well-known transportation reporter and railroad columnist Don Phillips explains how Hand got interested in railways and how his approach to the subject developed; extended captions provide historical context. The book includes an afterword by rail and photography historian Jeff Brouws.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages. 24 color plates, high quality printing, interview, short biography; part of Photographers at Work / A Smithsonian Series.

Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. There is a voyeuristic thrill in contact sheets, the direct prints used by photographers of the pre-digital age to edit their work. You look directly through the photographer's eyes as each photo gets closer to that perfect shot. And yet, it's often the photos not chosen that best capture the true spirit of their subjects and the life they lead after the director yells cut. This was never truer than in the classic Hollywood era, where behind-the-scenes photos were carefully vetted for marketing purposes and unapproved shots were never expected to be seen again. Hollywood Frame by Frame presents hundreds of never-before-published photos from the sets of some of the greatest films of the twentieth century. Hollywood's biggest stars are caught with their guard down behind the scenes of movie classics from Some Like It Hot and Breakfast at Tiffany's to Taxi Driver and The Silence of the Lambs. A treasure trove for any fan of Hollywood's Golden Age, this rare glimpse of the unseen silver screen will intrigue even movie buffs who think they've seen everything.

Hardcover. Lars Muller Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 320 pages. The photographer Lukas Felzmann was fascinated by the very thing that some driving past would find boring, flat, and disconsolate: the vast Sacramento Valley, located just a hundred miles from San Francisco. Felzmann discovers with his camera the hidden charms of that seeming nonplace. For him, exploring a place means both walking around and lingering quietly, until the valley opens up like a book, with stories that cry out to be read and discovered. With his camera he traces how time, determined here by the growth of the plants, slows on the plane, and how the horizontality of the surface becomes a reassuring balance to the hectic city of millions nearby. The photographs show the diversity of the plane: the original landscape in its natural state, the large swaths put to agricultural use, the modern provincial towns, and the transitional areas in between. Photographs of water in all its facets run through the book, just as water runs through and forms a valley.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 300 pages. In this lavishly produced volume, journalist Gaudriault accompanies photographer Rancinan to Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States to interview 23 masters of contemporary photography, paying homage to fashion photographers and photojournalists, traditional chroniclers of their times and conceptual artists. Rancinan's photographs record each encounter in portraits that encapsulate each subject's relationship with his shared discipline. Readers follow paparazzo Ron Galella fending off the camera; Martin Parr, the sardonic chronicler of middle-class British life, having tea in a cafe; Rankin, the creator of the hip magazine Dazed and Confused, hopping into a trashcan filled with his own cast-off images. Gaudriault's short essays quote liberally from her interviews and provide both biographical information and incisive commentary. Several of the older photographers strike an elegiac tone and confess to finding themselves at the end of the eras that gave birth to their visions, but optimism reigns among younger practitioners: David LaChapelle is reinventing himself in Hawaii; Rankin is bearing witness to an age that is still young; and Oliviero Toscani, the radical combination of journalist and marketer behind the Benetton campaigns, describes billboards as the church frescoes of today.

Hardcover. NY, Atria Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 368 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life. Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the world with her masterful images and mysterious life. Before posthumously skyrocketing to global fame, she had so deeply buried her past that even the families she lived with knew little about her. No one could relay where she was born or raised, if she had parents or siblings, if she enjoyed personal relationships, why she took photographs and why she didn't share them with others. Now, in this definitive biography, Ann Marks uses her complete access to Vivian's personal records and archive of 140,000 photographs to reveal the full story of her extraordinary life. Based on meticulous investigative research, Vivian Maier Developed reveals the story of a woman who fled from a family with a hidden history of illegitimacy, bigamy, parental rejection, substance abuse, violence, and mental illness to live life on her own terms. Left with a limited ability to disclose feelings and form relationships, she expressed herself through photography, creating a secret portfolio of pictures teeming with emotion, authenticity, and humanity. With limitless resilience she knocked down every obstacle in her way, determined to improve her lot in life and that of others by tirelessly advocating for the rights of workers, women, African Americans, and Native Americans. No one knew that behind the detached veneer was a profoundly intelligent, empathetic, and inspired woman--a woman so creatively gifted that her body of work would become one of the greatest photographic discoveries of the century.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w images. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Richards' response to the trauma of September 11, 2001, with interviews with some of the families who lost sons, daughters, husbands, wives, mothers, and fathers. According to one reviewer: "It may be the best photo book yet on those hard days." Photographs and afterword by Eugene Richards; interviews by Janine Altongy.

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, Edition 7L, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible vinyl covers, 232 pages. Out documents an era at once so close and so far away: the wild, glamorous, disco-and-drugs decade between the end of the Vietnam war and the advent of AIDS, when, in certain parts of Manhattan, every night was party night. As the editor of Andy Warhol's Interview from 1971 to 1983, Bob Colacello was perfectly placed to record this life of art openings, movie premieres, cocktail parties, dinner parties, charity balls and after-hours clubs; he wrote about the best of them in a monthly column called "Out." In 1975, Swiss art dealer Thomas Ammann gave Colacello one of the first miniature 35mm cameras, a black plastic Minox small enough to hide in his jacket pocket, and Colacello began snapping photographs too. Sneaking a shot of Henry Kissinger holding forth at a dinner party, or Bianca Jagger letting loose at Studio 54, Colacello was in the middle of the action, "an accidental photographer" more akin to a secret agent than any typical paparazzo. With their skewed angles, multilayered compositions, and moody lighting, his images have an immediacy and grit not often found in the work of professional party photographers. And what subjects! Diana Vreeland, Calvin Klein, Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere, Cher, Raquel Welch, Mick Jagger, Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Nan Kempner, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and always Warhol himself. Because space in Interview was limited, only a handful of Colacello's pictures were published each month. Most of those collected in Out have never been seen before.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, color photographs throughout. Showcases work by American photographer Robert Bergman (b. 1944), who took these photographs with "a simple 35mm camera, amateur film, no tripod, and no special lighting." The pictures are a result of months of car travel throughout the Rust Belt (Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Gary) and the East Coast, presenting "everyday people who moved him profoundly." With an introduction by Toni Morrison and an afterword by Meyer Schapiro.

Hardcover. Loa Angeles, Los Angeles Times, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Hollywood's classic stars were icons for most of the world. But for The Los Angeles Times and The Los Angeles Mirror, these celebrities were the stuff of everyday local news. And the newspapers' photographers were on hand to record all the important events of Los Angeles' emerging film community. Marriages. Divorces. Births. Even, perhaps especially, arrests, court appearances and suicides. You'll find 200 of these extraordinary photos inside, many of them in their first-ever printing. You'll see Marilyn Monroe as she entered Hollywood, and as she left it; Liz Taylor when she signed her first studio contract at age 11 and as she lived with it for the next four decades; Mae West, in wax and in trouble. Also pictured are Jane Russell, Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Errol Flynn and scores of other stars at the height, and sometimes the depth, of their Hollywood lives.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages, 73 duotone and 11 color photographs by David Bailey. Includes images of the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Queen, Bob Geldof, George Michael, The Beatles, Duke Ellington, U2, etc, Clean copy. Light fading to red spine, some yellowing to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , El Leon Literary Arts, 1st Bilingual, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Preface By Julia Alvarez. 95 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Beautiful, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Pound Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Photographing the intersection between culture and nature for over 25 years, Virginia Beahan creates luminous and finely detailed images with an 8x10 view camera that describe the complexities of this relationship in diverse geographic settings. Her eight-year project in the waning years of Fidel Castro's revolutionary Cuba resulted in a major 2009 monograph entitled CUBA singing with bright tears. The images depict a country both tragic and beautiful, struggling beneath the weight of history. Larger-than-life images of revolutionary heroes Che Guevara and Jose Marti populate the island. The Bay of Pigs is sublime and treacherous; an atmospheric body of water rimmed with jagged black coral is the same unwelcoming shore that greeted invading CIA-trained Cuban exiles over forty-seven years ago. On a billboard, Fidel Castro reminds us that the US might invade again, and if so, he "will die fighting." Virginia Beahan's work falls within the tradition of great American photographers such as Walker Evans and Robert Adams. Her luminous and detailed large-format photographs reveal a landscape imbued with nuanced stories of culture shaped by geography and human action. Cuba's long and complicated relationship with the United States is part of this unfolding drama. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Umbrage Editions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Having worked as a photojournalist in the 1990s in Zaire, Sierra Leone and Angola, van Lohuizen had seen the effects of the diamond trade first hand, and in 2005, he went back to Africa to assess the situation under new peace agreements. His haunting black and white images follow diamonds from the mines in Africa to retail spaces in New York and parties in London.

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 352 pages, b&w illustrations. A photographic account of Jewish life in America draws on the archives of the premiere national Jewish newspaper, Forward, in a visual tribute that pairs essays by leading intellectuals, including Leon Weiseltier and Deborah E. Lipstadt, with images of such subjects as a shtetl beauty contest, Lower East Side pushcart markets, and labor rallies.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Limited to 3000. 162 pages with 60 illustrations. The cyanotypes reproduced in Mississippi Blue come from an album of photograhs taken by Henry P. Bosse for the Army Corps of Engineers. They show the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Louis, and were taken from 1882 to 1892 as part of the Corps' effort to document and understand the ever-changing river.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 1993-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A collection of vintage stock photos depicting the salesman, circa 1950.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Antarctica remains largely unknown and infinitely fascinating. Stuart Klipper has traveled to Antarctica six times in twentyyears to photograph this astounding body of work, offering a sweeping look at this majestic continent, which has lately become central to global climate change concerns. Shot in panoramic formatthe only way to encompass a landscapethat seems to stretch on foreverKlipper's work captures major features and surprising details: ships suspended in the frozen sea, glowing blue icebergs, vistas of endless snow, and troops of penguins. This volume's substantial size, panoramic shape, and unique vertical-opening case emphasize the grandeur of these austere and lovely photographs from the bottom of the world.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 154 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Whatever his subject matter, rubbish bins or the human body, Edmund Teske (1911 - 1996) used the medium of photography: its film, chemistry, optics and mechanics to create serious, reflective and often composite works of art. This volume accompanied an exhibition of his photographs at the J Paul Getty Museum in 2004. As well as over 110 illustrations, the book contains Julian Cox;s biographical and critical essay and an interview with Teske's close friend of 30 years, the artist George Herms.

Softcover. Vancouver BC, Arsenal Pulp Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. "One Ring Circus pays homage to the wrestling life: the sound and the fury and the die-hard fans who are often as colorful and outrageous as the wrestlers they clamor for."

Hardcover. London , Westzone, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout.Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. " Guns seem to have followed me around most of my working life", writes award-winning British photojournalist Zed Nelson, who has covered armed conflict in Afghanistan, Somalia, El Salvador and elsewhere, before photographing U.S. guns and gun owners. Gun Nation, a collection of 103 of Nelson's images, displays shots of gun shows, gunshot victims, Columbine survivors and mourners, a coffee klatch-style group of female gun owners, and police are interspersed with brief commentary that leaves no doubt as to where his sympathies lie. 103 duotone photographs.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s, but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively narrow field of these images. Revolutionizing the history of street photography, Unfamiliar Streets explores the work of Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Charles Moore (1931-2010), Martha Rosler (b. 1943), and Philip-Lorca diCorcia (b. 1951), four American photographers whose careers in fashion, photojournalism, conceptual art, and contemporary art are not usually associated with the genre. Bussard's lively and engaging text, a timely response to a growing interest in urban photography, challenges the traditional understanding of street photography and makes original and important connections among urban culture, social history, and the visual arts, constructing a new historical model for understanding street photography. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, this book provides an interpretation of a compelling genre that is as fresh as its consideration of the city streets themselves, sites of commerce, dispossession, desire, demonstration, power, and spectacle.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages, color photographs, Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Doors of the Kingdom is a unique collection of photographs depicting the ancient and disappearing craft of doormaking in Arabia. The Islamic concept of hurma, or sanctity of a place of dwelling or worship, is recurrent throughout Arabic poetry and literature. The door (bab), preserver of sanctity, becomes symbolic of the boundary between public and private space, and between the profane and the sacred. In 1995, Haajar Gouverneur traveled throughout the Arabian Peninsula photographing each region's distinctive doorways and the remaining artisans who make them. The doors of Arabia, painstakingly hand-carved from the wood of the Al-Athel trees, last in their exquisite variety for hundreds of years. This ancient craft, passed down from generation to generation in the central and northern regions of Saudi Arabia, is now nearly extinct. Modern materials, technology, and changing priorities threaten the continuity of the sacred and artisanal tradition of doormaking.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, first edition, first printing. 9.5 x 13 inches. 192 pages with 113 duo-toned b&w photographic images offering a 40-year retrospective of the Magnum photographer's front line work. Compelling war pictures.

Hardcover. Millerton NY, Aperture, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 b& plates by Arbus. True first with Two Girls in Identical Raincoats plate, later supressed. Very good in very good dust jacket that's unclipped. When Diane Arbus committed suicide in 1971, only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972--along with the concurrent retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art--offered the general public its first encounter with the breadth and power of her work. Now considered a classic of photographic literature, it is probably the best selling photography book of all time.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, color illustrations. a noted commercial photogrpher shows how he approaches and executes a given job. 30 color plates with commentary. Also a lengthy interview with Maisel by editor Susan Weiley.

Hardcover. New York, PowerHouse, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photography by Larry Fink. Introduction by Guy Trebay. Unpaignated. A collection of black and white photographs set in and around the fashion industry. Clean. tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Includes full reprint of her autobiographic work, "Annals of My Glass House." Twenty illustrations and sixty full-page reproductions. Includes portraits of Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Sir John Herscel, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dame Ellen Terry, Mrs. Leslie Stephen, and George Frederick Watts. Clean in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 79 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Introductory essay by Lawrence Durrell. Includes 61 black and white photographs, many of which are some of his more iconic images.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Portrait Gallery/ Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 378 pages, illustrated with numerous b&w plates. Exhibition catalog for a show at the National Portrait Gallery in 1978. Tight, clean copy.

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 with the hardcover. In publisher's shrink wrap.