Photography

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, 120 b&w images. Once locked away in European archives, these early modernist photographs of America rival those of Steichen and Evans. Emil Otto Hoppe was born in Munich in 1878 but lived in London from 1900 until his death in 1972. He was an early and important modernist whose seminal views of the United States in the 1920s rival those of his peers: Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, and Walker Evans. His work shows us an America as only an outsider could: brave, new, and grand in scale but with a hint of trouble brewing in the gaps between its multicultural and economic diversities.

Hardcover. Zurich, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Edited by Karl Steinarth and with the text of his interview of Berko. Features essays by Colin Ford and Helmut Gernsheim. Includes numerous color and black and white images list of previous exhibitions and bibliography.

Hardcover. New York , Umbrage Editions, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.217 pages, b&w photos documenting Edinger's travels, some color. Essays by Simonetta Persichetti and Nan Richardson.

Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st pbk, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages, full-page black & white photographs throughout. Minor edge wear and fade, else, clean and tight. The photographer's love affair with New York City is evident in this amazing collection of images spanning 4 decades.

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 196 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In Yamuna Walk, photographer and multimedia artist Atul Bhalla documents a five-day trek along the sacred Yamuna River as it passes through his home city of New Delhi, India. Through his vivid and haunting photographs, Bhalla explores the myriad ways that modern life along the Yamuna is shaped by water, from the rural outskirts of the city to the polluted landscape of urban Delhi. Climbing over fences, crossing concrete overpasses, and navigating between blooming fields and piles of waste on his journeys, Bhalla also shows the diverse marks of human development that can be read in the image of the river.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Berlin , Steidl, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Robert Polidori is known for his large format photographs of habitats and rooms saturated with the traces of human intervention. In EYE and I, he turns the lens around to reveal the portraits of people he has encountered in his work of over thirty years photographing around the world, particularly in the Middle East and India. These instantaneous portraits of mutual recognition reveal the photographed subject and the photographer intersecting with each other in a fleeting gaze of mutual regard.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages, Color, black & white photos, maps of Amundsen's expeditions. Dust jacket price clipped, rubbing, light edgewear to bottom spine edge, corner.

Hardcover. Stockport UK, Dewi Lewis, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, 40 color images by Simoneau documenting his relationship with Caroline Annandale. Clean. No dust jacket issued. Simoneau, a Montreal-based photographer, chronicles his long romantic relationship with Caroline Annandale. Having met at a photography workshop in 2000, Simoneau and Annandale engaged in what the book's description calls a "feverish" relationship, which took a turn on September 11th 2001, the date of the World Trade Center attacks in New York. Shortly afterwards, Annandale enlisted in the US Army and was shipped off to Iraq. Simoneau, the photographer of this love story, stayed behind. Simoneau does not present what might be expected from a 'war' book, nor does he delve into the gender role switch of the female partner going to combat while the male stays back on the homefront. Instead, his view of war becomes a unique assembly of what he sees and feels from a distance. Removed from the actual conflict, but connected emotionally to Caroline Annandale, Simoneau's view takes on a limited frame: he can see only what is sent to him or what is represented in the media during wartime. Love and War therefore is a book about war, and yet, the war is defined by the absence it's created in Simoneau's life.

Hardcover. East Sussex UK, Book Guild, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, b&w period photos from the turn of the last century. Like new in shrink-wrap. From a box brimming with fantastic photographs come this collection of the works of photojournalist Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles assembled by his grandson. 38 pages of text. 110 plates.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. "Fifty years after Kennedy's death, this book observes the public's reaction to the president's election and assassination, featuring many photographs published here for the first time. In his travels throughout America during this period, Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) encountered these responses and photographed what he witnessed. From Washington, D.C., to Buffalo to Minneapolis to Los Angeles, Friedlander has captured a moment in American history that galvanized the nation and continues to resonate today." 48 b&w images by Friedlander.

Hardcover. New York, PowerHouse, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, bright copy. Rocking on tour with America"s heavy metal superstars--Kiss, Poison, Iron Maiden, Slaughter, Ted Nugent, Dokken, and Cinderella--photographer David Yellen tailgated among the headbangers, metalheads, burnouts, and self-styled fanatics waiting for the show or hanging around backstage hoping to meet their idols. The results are a captivating record of Yellen"s trip to metal"s Shangri-la.

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.

Softcover. New York, Aperture Magazine, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Aperture Magazine. Features: Josef Koudelka, Jan Tumlir, Fred Ritchin, Robert Hariman, David Campany, more. Illustrated with full color and black & white photography. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Canada, 5 Continents, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. light ding to bottom edge front board. 272 pages, many color and b&w photos. Josef Sudek (1896-1976) was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague. He was a bookbinder before turning to photography after losing his right arm in WWI. This book, published to accompany an exhibition, examines how Sudek's photographs reflect his relationship to the world around him, from intimate explorations of cherished objects and views through his window to his night walks through the streets of Prague and its periphery, as well as excursions into the surrounding countryside. With essays, reminiscences by two former assistants, and stunning illustrations, here is a compelling view of Sudek's photographs, and the art of his friends and fellow artists. Sudek's legacy includes some of the 20th century's most haunting images of nature, monuments, city streets, and objects--all transformed by his sensitivity to the power of light to reveal and the power of darkness to render all impenetrable.

hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 108 pages. First trade edition of a book originally self-published in a small edition in 1978. A b&w photo essay on Richards' hometown of Dorchester, Massachussetts. With a new afterword by the photographer. In addition to including all the original photographs and text, this expanded edition includes pictures Richards took of the racial strife in nearby South Boston in the 1970`s as well as additional text.

Hardcover. US, Prestel, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The first publication dedicated to Rose Mandel, a pioneering woman in photography, introduces her remarkable, if often overlooked, body of work to a wider audience. Born in Poland, Rose Mandel immigrated to California in 1942. A love of photography soon brought her into contact with Edward Weston, and then with Ansel Adams and Minor White, both of whom had a strong influence on Mandel's work. Including her important sequence The Errand of the Eye, this book presents the sensitivity and clarity of Mandel's vision. Images from natural and man-made environments, eloquent portraits, and abstract landscapes convey Mandel's delight in the compositions and patterns that can be found anywhere, whether walking along a city street or a country path. These photographs are the result of a highly refined sense of craftsmanship and a complex understanding of psychology and abstract expressionism that caused Mandel to be described as "a painter with a camera." The first monograph on the artist, this volume features an enlightening overview of Mandel's life and work, along with an illustrated chronology and exhibition history.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Mild wear to dust jacket top edge. Light fading to top boards. Foxing and faint soiling to text block. A bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Lickle Pub Inc, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Fayetteville, AK, University of Arkansas press, Reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 77 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHORS. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Cover boards bound in brown cloth. Binding tight, clean inside and out. In beautiful shape. Like new.

Hardcover. Stichting Kunstboak , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Duel language French-English. Angelo Turconi, traveler and photographer in Africa, shares his remarkable images of everyday life in Congo. Congo on the Road is the result of many journeys in this multifaceted country and documents his encounters along the road: the Yaka chief in ceremonial dress, the chief of the Pende and Chokwe in prestigious attire, the Emperor of the Lunda on his throne, a family photo of the Kitawala sect. Turconi's photographs testify of a deep respect for the ones captured by the lens. We experience daily life as it is, with its deprivation and many struggles, nonetheless Angelo Turconi highlights the courage and joy of people and their endless ingenuity and creativity in overcoming obstacles. The beautiful and diverse scenery is as evocative as poetry. It opens the heart and fills it with admiration, memories and - for those that had the chance to experience life in deep central Africa - even nostalgia.

Softcover. Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap), 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. First edition, first printing. Photographically illustrated laminated stiff wrappers (published only in wraps). Photographs by David Levinthal. Introduction by Merry A. Foresta and Steve Dietz. Essay by David Corey. 160 pp. with numerous four-color and black and white reproductions. 9 1/8x 10 1/4 inches.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large square quarto; 309 pages; afterword; index; photographs in black and white (some full-page) on virtually every page; fine in ivory cloth; hinges tight; pages crisp and unmarked; in very good dust jacket, rubbed along top and bottom edges, and light chipping to corners. Classic survey of photographs made for the Farm Security Administration of the 1930's, a chronicle of small-town and rural America produced by 11 gifted photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn and Carl Mydans; O'Neal's text introduces each of the photographers, followed by generous samples of their work, many never before published, accompanied in most cases by each photographer's own commentary; with a concluding essay by O'Neal and an afterword by Paul S.Taylor, who as a young economist during the New Deal was involved with and gave strong support to the photographic work of his wife, Dorothea Lange.

Hardcover. Chicago, Paper Mirror Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large format, 117 pages. B&w photos by Elliott. Images from another age in baseball history. Chicago photojournalist Peter Elliott brings to life the rhythms and character of this revered stadium during 1977, one of its most celebrated seasons. Elliott's recent discovery of negatives lost for 23 years proudly displays the earthy, forgotten life of old-time Chicago baseball before the advent of corporate sky-boxes and gourmet hot dogs. His refined style demonstrates both the lush eye of youthful talent and the singular drive that brought him back to Comiskey Park over and over again during that strange and captivating time known as "the summer of the Chicago Hit Men." The old park never looked so good. And its reappearance through the artistry of Peter Elliott permits it to live again in the hearts of life-long fans and everyone who loves baseball. An engaging narrative accompanies the photographs and catalogues the history and foibles of park, team, and fans.

Hardcover. New York, Bantam Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 259 pages, b&w photos by Arnold. Offers unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes world of Mikhail Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theatre, chronicling the daily lives of the dancers & their director. Text by John Fraser. Clean, very good in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Berlin, Argon, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photos throughout. GERMAN TEXT. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Zurich, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. 130 of Chin's striking fashion and celebrity portraits in color and b&w. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, D.A.P. /Distributed Art Publishers, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 140 pages, b&w photos. Commentary by Marvin Heiferman and Carole Kismaric. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Winooski VT, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six glossy b&w photographs taken in the aftermath of the 1927 flood, most with handwritten comments on back.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, prostitutes, teachers, singers, athletes, poets, writers, painters, musicians, theater directors, political activists, performance artists, and businesswomen. "Each of these pictures must stand on its own," Susan Sontag writes in the essay that accompanies the portraits. "But the ensemble says, So this what women are now -- as different, as varied, as heroic, as forlorn, as conventional, as unconventional as this."

Hardcover. Berlin GR, Nicolai, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 125 pages, b&w duotone photos throughout. Documents life in post-war Berlin. Essays by Edzard Reuter and Janos Frecot. GERMAN TEXT. Clean in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. One of the great pioneers of fashion photography, Norman Parkinson is famous for his sense of style and glamour. Heralded as one of the true innovators in his field, he pushed the boundaries of the day by bringing the model out of the studio and onto the street. He set the model against unusual and daring backdrops, such as the gritty working-class districts of London, and was a seminal influence on subsequent generations of fashion photogaphers. Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour is a lavish portrait of Parkinson's long career from the 1930s through the 1980s. In a unique collaboration with the Norman Parkinson archives in London, his iconic photographs for Vogue, Queen, and Harper's Bazaar are reproduced alongside a trove of previously unpublished fashion work. The classics of Parkinson's career are also shown here, providing the full breadth of his career. This exciting and definitive look into Parkinson's illustrious legacy is sure to rank among the most important publications on fashion and photography.

Hardcover. GR, Edel Classica Gmbh , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 120 pages. Party Tonight: Berlin Hamburg Frankfurt Cologne Munich Dancing, Clubbing, Chilling A night out in Germany's trendsetting metropolises -- five of the life-style magazine MAX's hottest night life photographers set out to party in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Munich. Along the way, their fascinating pictures capture a glimpse of all the things the night has to offer. Cruising, Clubbing, Party, and Chill Out in the cities' most stylish places. Music CDs: House and Chill Out music from the trendsetting labels Kontor and MAXELECT-Records on 4 CDs turn night to day.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. An evocative and candid collection of some of the first photographs made in that country. Along with descriptive captions, these images describe the daily life and surroundings of an era now passed. The people are as seen through Western eyes, and the places are as traversed by foreigners. These early photographers were explorers and adventurers. They lugged huge cameras with heavy glass plates over rugged, unfamiliar terrain. Interspersed throughout the book are passages from significant texts and travelers' diaries, observations and opinions that echo and illuminate the images. For many Chinese, these photographers were the first white faces ever seen, and they carried with them previously undreamed-of contraptions. For all this, there is an unguarded air to many of the portraits, and the street scenes have the candid look of today's street photographer.

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1997, 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 very well-illustrated book of essays, appreciations, criticism, and portfolios of photography. Writings by Paul Schimmel; Rosalind Krauss; Gerhard Richter; Petah Coyne; Anne Baldassari; Wim Wenders; Charles Hagen; David Frankel; Mark Muro; others. Photography by Picasso, Edvard Munch, Wim Wenders, Louise Lawler, Chris Marker, Kiki Smith, Brancusi, Richard Pousette-Dart.

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Portfolios and Essays from Vince Aletti, Madonna, Wayne Koestenbaum, Michael L. Sand, Jonathan Williams, and Max Kozloff.Photographs by: Maarten Vanden Abeele, Juan Carlos Alom, Alexander Apostol, David Armstrong, Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Tina Barney, Letizia Battaglia, Cecil Beaton, Claude Cahun, Elinor Carucci, Helen Chadwick, Marianne Courville, Gregory Crewdson, Imogen Cunningham, Bruce Davidson, Jesse DeMartino, Baron Adolf de Meyer, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Elliot Erwitt, Paul Fusco, Anna Gaskell, Robert Gligorov, Burt Glinn, Nan Goldin, Janine Gordon, Peter Hujar, Mimmo Jodice, Seydou Keita, Gyorgy Kepes, Barbara Kruger, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Clarence John Laughlin, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Ellen Mark, Will McBride, Ana Mendieta, Tracey Moffat, Mariko Mori, Yasumasa Morimura, Shirin Neshat, Nic Nicosia, Nicholas Nixon, John O'Reily, Luigi Ontani, Jaime Palacios, Adrian Piper, Sylvia Plachy, Richard Prince, Miguel Rio Branco, Herb Ritts, Walter Rosenblum, Paolo Roversi, David Salle, Lucas Samaras, Gary Schneider, David Seymour, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Sandy Skoglund, Paul Strand, Dennis Stock, Laureana Toldeo, Ronald Treager, David Wanderman, Andy Warhol, Carrie Mae Weems, and Garry Winogrand.

Hardcover. TACO/Taschen, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. This volume surveys over thirty groundbreaking women who were able to negotiate the conventional boundaries of their time in order to forge successful careers and build distinguished bodies of work. Includes works by Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, etc.

Hardcover. Milan, Skira, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. An outstanding photographic monograph from the Twenties and Thirties brings back the memory of ways of living, ceremonies, adorned bodies of an Africa that be aptly defined as "lost". These extraordinary, unpublished pictures, taken with great technical skill and with a sense of great dignity of the people portrayed, constitute a monument to the African continent as it was. Kazimir Ostoja Zagourski (1880-1941) was born in Poland and moved to Congo in 1924. Zagourski was the first professional photographer to travel throughout the interior of Congo and visited also the neighboring countries, Tchad, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa. During his long stay in Africa he took hundred of pictures, 500 of which, divided in two extraordinary series on different tribes, build up to a unique historic and ethnographic survey. In a sense, Zagourski's work constitutes the first "non-European" look, devoid of the colonial overtones that characterize much contemporary work. His forays into the depths of the African continent took him into the most remote villages of Kuba, Mangbetu, Bwaka, Tutsi, Masai, etc. where he took unprecedented pictures of great ethnographic interest. he documented for example, ceremonies (initiation, circumcision, excision, masked dances, etc.), the great African creativity in body ornament (from scarification to hair dresses, from jewels to lip plugs), clothes and all utilitarian objects placed in their appropriate cultural context (musical instruments, shields, stools, knives, containers, etc.).

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

Softcover. Taschen, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 232 pages. Mario Testino is recognized as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation but his pictures of Kate Moss transcend fashion. The result of two 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 and are published here for the first time. They are accompanied by a foreword by Testino and an exclusive essay by Kate Moss.

Hardcover. Lannoo, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. 365 images at the western front of World War One give the reader a unique view on the battlefield and the daily life in and around the trenches.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. n 1984 Sebastiao Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan, where approximately one million people died from extreme malnutrition and related causes. Working with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, Salgado documented the enormous suffering and the great dignity of the refugees. This early work became a template for his future photographic projects about other afflicted people around the world. Since then, Salgado has again and again sought to give visual voice to those millions of human beings who, because of military conflict, poverty, famine, overpopulation, pestilence, environmental degradation, and other forms of catastrophe, teeter on the edge of survival. Beautifully produced, with thoughtful supporting narratives by Orville Schell, Fred Ritchin, and Eduardo Galeano, this first U.S. edition brings some of Salgado's earliest and most important work to an American audience for the first time. Twenty years after the photographs were taken, Sahel: The End of the Road is still painfully relevant.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 164 pages. "With assistant curator of photographs Paul Martineau's intriguing biographical essay (based, in part, on the Getty's archive of Outerbridge papers), 104 stunningly beautiful plates, a chronology, checklist, and index, this catalog offers a highly visual and seductive overview. A section featuring selected photographs from Outerbridge's California years, a period missing from earlier books, makes this publication of interest to specialists as well."--ARLIS/NA Reviews

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Lili Almog's color photos taken at three Carmelite monasteries (of nuns) are revealing of their faith.. The sisters showing their distinctive profession crucifixes (normally worn hidden under their scapulars, and pinned to their beds when they go to sleep) are revealing their personal symbols of "perfect intimacy." And the statues and/or holy cards of our holy mother St. Teresa, our holy father St. John of the Cross, St. Therese, and St. Joseph make Carmelites feel right at home. The monasteries are also significant: they are on Mt. Carmel (Haifa) and in Bethlehem--founded by Sister Miriam, "the little Arab"; and in Port Tobacco, Maryland, whose community is the oldest and first Discalced Carmelite convent founded in the US. The spartan surroundings emphasize the importance of the nuns' relationship with God. The photos of the sisters revealing their profession crucifixes, which they wear near their hearts and pin to their beds when going to sleep, I found especially moving. Almog's photos are neither stilted nor rigid, but reminiscent of the photos that St. Therese's sister Celine took of her! The quotations from Blessed Teresa of the Andes are very apt comments on the photos.

Hardcover. 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. Born in 1902, Manuel Alvarez Bravo is Mexico's most celebrated photographer. His far-reaching body of work includes many of the 20th century's most recognizable and iconic images. Collected here is a seductive, timeless, and entrancing sampling of the maestro's nudes, images taken in 1939 and as recently as the 1990s. Sensitively edited and sequenced by Ariadne Kimberly Huque, and with an impassioned and poetic introduction by Carlos Fuentes, this delicate, elegant volume beautifully reproduces some of Bravo's most favorite work, and provides an intimate window through which to view the career of one of the camera's true masters.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Michael von Graffenried, an award-winning Swiss photographer, covertly photographed civil strife in Algeria from the early 1990s through 1998. In a land where Islamic terrorists have executed over sixty journalists and photographers in the last seven years, Graffenried's very survival is remarkable. His extraordinary accomplishment, however, is these photographs, which form a composite of Algeria that is more whole than the nation itself, fractured by one segment of the population in favor of democracy and another in favor of an Islamic state.Graffenried makes his pictures secretly, using an antique Widelux panoramic camera with a hidden lens. He would risk his picture and his life were he to raise a camera to his eyes. Instead, he shoots from the hip, with his hands clasped over what looks like a pair of binoculars. In learning to frame his photographs without a viewfinder, he opens himself to a rich array of surprise and irony in his pictures, and reveals a society that has been concealed from the international community for nearly seven years.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Robert Capa: Photographs is a major retrospective of one of the century's greatest photographers. Drawing upon hundreds of previously unseen images, this collection reveals Capa as one of the great poets of the camera. In these photographs, we see the world through the eyes of a driven humanist who was also a documentarian of the highest caliber. While previous volumes on Capa have focused on his role as a war photographer, Robert Capa: Photographs shows us the remarkable range of his work: the sufferings as well as the tenderness, humor, and wonder of his subjects. The extraordinary book includes poignant comments by Capa's close friend Henri Cartier-Bresson and by Cornell Capa (Robert's younger brother and the Founding Director of the International Center of Photography), as well as a historical essay by Robert Capa biographer Richard Whelan. The dramatic collection of images in Robert Capa: Photographs shows that he captured-through the events of history-the very heart of humanity.

Hardcover. Steidl, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Alberto Diaz Gutierrez--better known as Alberto Korda--is internationally recognized as the master of revolutionary Cuban photography. His most famous image is his powerful 1960 portrait of Che Guevara, "Heroic Guerrilla," which has since become the most reproduced image in the history of photography--though Korda never received any royalties from its reproduction, because he made the photograph for the Cuban newspaper, Revolucion. It is less well known that, prior to the 1959 Revolution, Korda was considered the "Avedon of Cuba," a progressive fashion photographer whose portraits of leading Cuban models, such as Norka, graced the covers of fashion magazines around the world. Likewise, his work of the 1970s and 80s, in which he explored underwater photography and also returned to fashion, has been largely neglected.Korda: A Revolutionary Lens covers every aspect of Korda's extraordinary output, paying particular attention to his work in fashion, Cuban society and the Revolution. It also includes his extensive documentation of Castro and Che. All prints have been produced under the supervision of Jose A. Figueroa, Korda's photographic assistant throughout the 1960s and 70s.

Hardcover. Netherlands, Terra Lannoo, 1st, 2005, Hardcover, 168 pages. In English and Dutch. First edition. Book is published simultaneously with an exhibition 'Getting the Picture' at Jan Cunen Museum, Oss, The Netherlands, November 6, 2005 - February 6, 2006. A beautifully produced retrospective of this versatile London born photographer. From his early black and white photographs of 1950's New York and his famous photographic reportage of graffi (a collaboration with Norman Mailer), to his commercial work later in his career.