Photography

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 480 pages. Large volume, 15.25 x 11.75" in a slipcase. Color drawings of fashion on endpapers, color and b&w photographs throughout of Ralph Lauren and his world. Foreword by Audrey Hepburn. Clean copy. Due to size and weight this volume is domestic shopping only.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. "A lavish, information-packed look at the people and places of an important, exciting era in art history. "?Publishers Weekly.From 1900 to 1930, Montparnasse was the center of artistic life for the whole world. A major contribution to the social and cultural history of the period? with its informative text and hundreds of photographs?. As The Washington Post said, Kiki's Paris "celebrates the people who made the modern movement in art, music and literature, most of whom were friends or lovers of Kiki, the woman Hemingway called 'The Queen of Montparnasse.'"

Softcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Features photographs of female impersonators who have performed in the gay district of Osaka, Japan, from the '90s to the present, along with an essay discussing the photographer's work and the country's gay culture. Text by Eric Shiner and Simone Fukayuki.

Softcover. US, Turner, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 270 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text in English and Spanish. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Featuring work by Cecil Beaton, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko and dozens more of the most outstanding photographers of the twentieth century. Analyzes photography as an artistic medium from 1900 to 2000-paying particular attention to the myriad ways that human beings have been portrayed across the years.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Text by Robert Flynn Johnson; introduction by Alexander McCall Smith. 208 pages; over 220 duo-toned and color photos; 10 x 10 inches. A collection of interesting vernacular photography.

Hardcover. Sydney AU, T&G PUBLISHING, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 395 pages, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Lewis Morley - I to Eye will illuminate and crystallise this body of work in a career retrospective, incorporating literally hundreds of photographs covering all aspects of Morley's work, from England, france and the united States, also the fashion beginnings in the 1950s through the personality portraits of the 60s to his work of the 70's, 80s and 90s. In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960's London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable (and most copied) of any photographs of any time.

Hardcover. Gottingen, Steidl, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 123 pages, 65 color plates. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Documentary project on the prostitutes of Falkland Road, Bombay. Originally shot as a photo-essay for Geo magazine, which deemed it too raw for American audiences, it was picked up by Stern and run in September 1981. The first book-form edition was released the same year by Knopf. This second edition is 2.5 inches wider, allowing the photos to run uncropped and has additional images.

Softcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A Siamese cat beneath a clothes line, three women with linked arms standing on the front lawn, a man drying his hands on a dish towel in front of the kitchen stove. These scenes are part of Close to Home and the accompanying the Getty Museum exhibition held from October 12, 2004 to January 16, 2005, which celebrate snapshots--"found" photographs by anonymous photographers--that capture everyday life in all of its joy, banality, and mystery. Taken between 1930 and the mid-1960s, these photographs, most of them in black-and-white, create an unpretentious portrait of suburban American life by untrained photographers whose images can be unexpectedly lyrical and moving.

Hardcover. Harrisonburg VA , Vision On, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Now, for the first time, photographs from Jim's extensive color archive are published in book form, offering a fresh insight into the work of this renowned photographer and a new look at some of the great figures in music history. His unique style and fearless approach gained him unlimited access to everyone from Miles Davis to Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and The Who right up to recent sessions with Velvet Revolver.

Hardcover. New York , PowerHouse Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Every city-dweller has seen them, and ever city-dweller could list the telltale signs: the fur, the gold, the hats, the cars. They are the original macks, the original players. They are Big City pimps--the heroes of gangsta rap. Bob Adelman and Susan Hall dive headlong into their world in the classic investigative docudrama Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp, an in-depth exploration of the underworld figures that populate our streets at night. The first book of its kind, Gentleman of Leisure, originally published in 1972 and now reproduced in a facsimile edition, is a collection of photographs and interviews dramatically documenting the private life of a pimp and his prostitutes. The people who appear in this book are not models: they are real people with real lives. Only their names have been changed to protect the guilty, their stories are real. Armed only with a camera and a tape recorder, Adelman and Hall entered the lives of the pimp Silky and his women. What they found flew in the face of prevailing prejudices: stripped of stereotype and myth, the pimps and whores that shared their tales were complex people embroiled in romantic dramas, with a code of behavior as intricate as the Mafia's, and a defined sense of self.

Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Never opened, still in original shrink wrap. 192 pages, 146 illustrations, 30 in color. Foreword by William Claxton. Foreword by Joachim E. Berendt. Text is in French, English and German.

Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 117 pages. Introduction by William Shawcross. Text and photographs by Tim Page, a photo-journalist. Cover is a photograph of soldier with rifle in a rice paddy with yellow lettering. Rear cover is white with black lettering, states price of $14.95, and shows date of 3/83. Last page of book has list of photographs. Almost all photographs are in color. Book is square and tight.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 361 pages, b&w plates throughout. Portrays America in the last years of the Great Depression and the first years of World War II in nearly three hundred images by Lange, Delano, Evans, Vachon, Collins, Lee, Rothstein, Parks, Bubley, Wolcott, et al. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 91 pages, large photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Photo essay on "the granite city of northern Scotland -- its buildings, avenues, and people" (jacket front flyleaf). Introduction by Allan Massie.

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. US, Focal Point, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Nearly 50 years of photography by seasoned National Geographic photographer Bill Allard. Allard was a pioneer of color photography with a style that called for entering people's homes and hearts; by winning their confidence he was able to capture "off guard" moments, and reveal the depth of human nature as never before seen in the pages of National Geographic. Always in search of "what is happening at the edges," his work reveals beauty, mystery, and a sense of adventure. Part photography retrospective and part personal memoir, this book paints a full picture -through images and narrative -of the life of a globe-trekking photographer over the past half century.

Softcover. Wet Angel, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 b&w shamelessly provocative pin-ups.

Hardcover. NY, Distributed by E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Large format hardcover, 423 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear, rubbing and sun-fade to price clipped dust jacket. Light staining to end papers from red flaps, else a clean, tight copy.

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. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages, large format. B&w plates throughout. Introduction by Hubert de Givenchy. Skrebneski is celebrated as one of the world's finest fashion and portrait photographers. His diverse body of work has won him international accolades and, for more than half a century, he has photographed the world's most famous people, from Orson Welles, Truman Capote, and Audrey Hepburn to Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and Iman. In 1962, Skrebneski became the exclusive photographer for Estee Lauder, and over the years his flawless images of models such as Paulina Porizkova and Willow Bay made history. Five Beautiful Women is an elegant portfolio published to commemorate his twenty-five year collaboration with Estee Lauder. For the project, five distinctly beautiful models were chosen--Phyllis Connor, Karen Harris, Karen Graham, Shaun Casey, and Willow Bay--and, as Hubert de Givenchy notes, "[Skrebneski] succeeded in his very personal way to convey not only the external individuality of his subjects but, what in my opinion is most important, their inner beings."

Hardcover. Lily Bay Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcovr, 98 pages. After the horrendous events of September 2001, photographer Peter Elliott loaded his cameras and some clothes into his car and began a cross-country journey, looking for the flag. He found it everywhere: painted on a retaining wall in Tacoma, flying over a trailer in Bozeman, carried billowing by a lone man walking a sandbar in Florida, made of plastic cups stuck in a fence in Mississippi, draped over a fake horse in Salinas, immaculately hanging from a Beverly Hills mansion's window. Home Front is both a tribute to the profound emotions of the country and a testament to Elliott's eye. His genius in these eighty-seven arresting images is to wed these serendipitous meetings with the flag to a language of light and composition that draws as much from classic landscape photography as it does from urban visual idioms. Elliott manages to convey here America's stirring and complex national character, one in which those who have not benefited from the nation's prosperity nonetheless feel the same sense of pride as those who have. With its inspiring introduction by Julia Reed, Home Front is the record--both somber and joyous--of Elliott's encounters with spontaneous patriotism.

Softcover. New York , Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Winter 1987. 78 pages. Features articles on Graciela Iturbide, Sergio Larrain, Miguel Rio Branco. Also includes images by: Sandra Eleta, Pedro Meyer, Raul Corral, Jorge Aguirre, Julio Mitchell. A near fine and clean copy in wrappers.

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

Hardcover. Berlin, Argon, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 136 pages, historical images of Linden, Germany. Many from the late 1800s, mostly landmarks and buildings. Endpapers map of the city. Essay by Dieter Hildebrandt, introduction by Hans-Werner Klunner. GERMAN TEXT.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, 100 color, 200 b&w images by the world's best photographers. Essays by Christopher Hichens, others. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Vanity Fair: The Portraits brings together 300 iconic portraits from Vanity Fair's 95-year history in a remarkable book that captures the image of modern fame--the magical thing that happens when individual talent and beauty (and sometimes genius) is caught in the spotlight of popular curiosity and passion. The photographers--from Edward Steichen and Cecil Beaton to Annie Leibovitz and Mario Testino--are a glittering and celebrated group themselves. Their portraits have become the iconic likenesses of the best-known figures from the worlds of art, film, music, sports, business, and politics.

Hardcover. London, London Stereoscopic Company, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Slip case. Gilt lettering on spine. Stereoscopic images from 1850s England, showing real scenes of farming and village life. Printed on thick glossy paper.

Softcover. US, Institute of Modern Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 71 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Since showing at Cannes in 1993, the Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Dia Center for the Arts in 1998, Tracey Moffatt's films and photo series have been exhibited worldwide. Moffatt works with a potent mix of gender, class, race and colonialism, using a broad palette of influences from popular culture to high art, presented through the most popular media of our time. Her lyric subtlety builds a layered, escalating tension that invites repeated viewing. This publication contains the full set of images of four of her most significant works (Laudanum, Up in the Sky, Scarred for Life, and Something More) and stills from three of her films (Heaven, beDevil and Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy). An essay by Regis Durand and an interview with Gerald Matt give insight into her complex and provocative practice.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated, illustrated throughout with 46 photographs in full color. Foreword by Norman Mailer. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Very nice, tight, clean copy.

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

Softcover. Mount Vernon NY, Consumers Union, 1st wraps, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages, numerous b&w photo-illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A very good copy with a corner crease to the rear cover.. The author/photographer recorded his visits to the poor in: South Dakota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Tennessee, Illinois, Wyoming, New York City, Arkansas, Boston, California. Includes interviews and commentary by Richards; edited by Christine Bird; story researcher by Janine Altongy. Winner of the 1987 International Center of Photography Journalism Award. Richards is often overlooked as one of America's best photojouralists.

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

Softcover. Millbrae, CA, Celestial Arts, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 185 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Black and white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. Manchester, UK, Cornerhouse Publications, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. B&w photos. The cast of characters in Bruce Gilden's theatre of the street is outrageous. Sometimes tawdry or out-of-this-world, they are mostly mysterious. To Gilden and his fellow New Yorkers, they're just neighbors. In broad and simple terms, and with great expressive authority, Gilden has captured the uniquely individualistic, self-styled New York personality on the run. Bruce Gilden is a MAGNUM photographer and native New Yorker. His work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries all over the world.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st US, October 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oversized. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges and corners. Inside is bright and clean, many b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy.

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Gilt stamped black cloth. The complete history of the legendary Pirelli Calendar. Launched in 1963 to a privileged shortlist of customers, the quality and creativity of Pirelli's photographers have made the limited-edition calendar a paradigm of the genre and a coveted collector's item. This volume contains all the calendars published since 1964--including the 1997 edition photographed by Richard Avedon--for a total of 264 full color images. Small chunk gone from rear of dust jacket. 407 pages.

Hardcover. New York , Grove Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Netherlands, Uitgeverij Luster, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Germaine Van Parys (1893-1983) was one of Belgium's most important photographers. As a press photographer, she had the privilege of looking in on the lives of the royal families, but her work also features rock-and-roll stars and the common man. Her godchild Odette Dereze (born in 1932) followed in her godmother's footsteps from a young age and started a career as a photo journalist. Extensive research done by photo historian Johan Swinnen resulted in the rediscovery of much hitherto unknown archival material of significant photographic-historical value created by these two strong female photographic pioneers.

Softcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (86 pages), maroon illustrated wrappers. This is an album of early photographs taken of the New York red light district around 1912 by Bellocq. Friedlander took prints from the original plates for this book and they provide a fascinating documentary on bordellos at this interesting time in history. Reputedly never taking 'dirty' pictures of the girls, Bellocq confined his endeavors to recording for posterity these ladies in both clad and unclad poses. The foreword takes the form of a conversation between Friedlander and Dan Leyrer, who was also a photographer and a contemporary of Bellocq.

Softcover. New York , Aperture Foundation, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 80 pages. Features photographs: William Eggelston, Paolo Pellegrin, Eikoh Hosoe, Andre Kertesz, Annie Leibovitz, Sophie Calle, Matthew Rolston, Tony D'uson, Elaine Ling and others. Very good.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Mary Ellen Mark, voted by the readers of "American Photography" as the most influential woman photographer of all time, has made some of America's most iconic images in a career spanning more than three decades. In "Twins," her fourteenth publication, Mark turns her acute eye and her heart to the extraordinary bond that exists between these very special siblings. A collection of 80 tritone images and interviews of twins taken by Mark at a twins festival in Twinsburg, Ohio.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Brassai (1899-1984) was the first and is still the most famous photographer to chronicle Paris after dark. Born in Hungary, he came to the French capital in 1924, working first as a journalist and then embracing photography, but it was the Paris of the 1930s that forms the bedrock of his body of work. Walking the city's streets at night, Brassai captured a previously unseen world on camera. He shows us every face and every facet, from tough guys and showgirls to prostitutes and pleasure-seekers, from the bustling cafes and dance halls to the stillness of deserted streets and mist-shrouded monuments. Through his eyes, Paris becomes a world of shadows, in which light, the prerequisite for any photograph, is reduced to dimly lit windows, streetlamps in the fog, or reflections on a rain-soaked pavement. This book brings together some of the best-known images from Brassai's classic Paris After Dark and The Secret Paris of the 30's, showcasing them alongside previously unpublished photos and archive material. It places his work in its historical and artistic context, analyzing the unique nature of his photographic vision: part reportage, part social document, part poetic exploration. 296 illustrations, 214 in duotone.

Hardcover. Carmel CA, Friends of Photography/Matrix, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, 61 duotone photographs by Morris, beautifully reproduced. Limited to 500 copies SIGNED BY MORRIS. Dust jacket with fading to spine, price-clipped. In a lightly worn, rubbed cardboard slipcase.

Hardcover. US, Taschen, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Taken between the mid-1960s and early 1980s, this selection of Newton fashion editorials-one of the first books he ever published-is accompanied by journal entry-style texts by Newton providing anecdotes and describing the circumstances of each shoot. On every page is evidence of Newton's groundbreaking vision that transformed fashion photography-an influence that can still be seen today in the pages of the greatest fashion magazines.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 166 pages. Accompanied by a biographical essay by Carolyn Kinder Carr, this collection of seventy-five of Hans Namuth's photographic portraits, taken between 1950 and 1989, shows how his friendships with his often reclusive subjects and his determination to capture the essence of each artist's style resulted in revealing portraits of such notable painters as Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Andrew Wyeth, Helen Frankenthaler, and Andy Warhol. Although Namuth identified most closely with the Abstract Expressionists who became famous in the 1950s and early 1960s, his repertoire included a new generation of 1980s artists, among them Julian Schnabel and David Salle. In both his black-and-white and color photographs, Namuth used subtle but telling poses, settings, and details: John Steinbeck appears with his famous dog Charley; Philip Johnson stands jauntily on a staircase in the Museum of Modern Art beside a painting that he donated; Louise Nevelson wears jewelry that echoes the sweeping lines of her wood sculpture.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages. Hailed by Ansel Adams as "the greatest photographer of the nude," Ruth Bernhard is an icon in the photographic world. As told by Ruth in countless conversations with close friend and biographer Margaretta Mitchell, this thoughtful, illustrated memoir is a true tribute to the legendary artist. Reminiscent of a personal scrapbook, the engaging text is adorned with an abundance of fascinating memorabilia and nostalgic snapshots. Woven throughout is correspondence between Ruth and her mentor Edward Weston, as well as interviews with friends, colleagues, students, and her long-time printer. Also included is a special section entitled "Workshop," which surveys Ruth's acclaimed teaching methods. Coinciding with an exhibition in honor of Ruth's 95th birthday, Ruth Bernhard: Between Life and Art is a beautiful celebration of an extraordinary woman.

NY, Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 367 pages. Brassai: The Eye of Paris is both the catalog of an exhibition of Brassai's photographs organized by the Houston Fine Arts Museum and a valuable biography of the artist. In 1932, only three years after he purchased his first camera (a Leica), Brassai published a portfolio of 64 photos titled Paris by Night that caused an immediate sensation. His lively eye (seen in an enigmatic photograph at the beginning of the book) captured fresh, unique images of the city and its citizens. Fascinated by the underworld, he moved easily among gangsters and prostitutes in bars and bordellos; he was equally at home among the fashionable and wealthy, and just as devastating in his depiction of them. He used magnesium flares for low-contrast shadows, catching his subjects in natural poses at significant moments. The wide range of Brassai's work is suggested by his formal nudes, which have an affinity with Edward Weston's, and his informal portraits, which remind viewers of Diane Arbus, who admired his work. Brassai was a central figure in the intellectual and artistic circles of Montparnasse that made Paris the most exciting city in the world during the 1930s. In a long essay that includes lively anecdotes of the photographer's relationships with Picasso, Henry Miller, Kertesz, and many other luminaries, the author re-creates the aesthetic and philosophical ferment of the period. Brassai: The Eye of Paris recognizes the artist's talents in five different media--photography, filmmaking, sculpture, writing, and drawing--but focuses on what he is best known for: lyrical and penetrating photographs of the City of Light.

Hardcover. Munchen, Georg Muller , 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt design on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 124 pages of text in German, followed by 248 b&w plates of portraits and scenes in India. One of a series of books on indigenous cultures by this publisher. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, photos in color. Minor shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. This book documents the two most recent works by the critically acclaimed British artist and filmmaker, Isaac Julien, both of which continue his investigation of issues of race and global politics. True North, shot in the spectacular landscapes of Iceland and Northern Sweden, is conceived around the expedition writings of the African-American explorer Matthew Henson, one of the key members of Robert E. Peary's 1909 Arctic expedition, and arguably the first person to reach the North Pole. True North's diametric counterpart, Fantome Afrique, weaves cinematic and architectural references through the rich imagery of urban Ouagadougou, Africa's cinematic center, and the arid spaces of rural Burkina Faso. The film is punctuated by archival footage from early colonial expeditions and landmark moments in African history.

Hardcover. Vilnius, Baltos Lankos, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 69 duotone plates, images taken by the Lithuanian photographer Jozef Chechowicz (1819-1888). Mostly landscapes of the city and it's buildings, some with people. Beautifully produced volume, limited to 2000 copies. Light edgewear to dust jacket.