Photography

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to spine, 96 pages, 50 color photographs. Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. government has been quietly focusing on how to utilize the vast tracks of land that were sequestered as munitions plants during WWII. In Joliet, Illinois, Terry Evans has photographed one such plant, and it's surrounding landscape, creating a gentle sense of irony in these beautiful color landscapes, many of which are low altitude aerial photographs. Part of the Center for American Places Series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 240 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Wraparound present. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Annie Leibovitz describes how her pictures were made, starting with Richard Nixon's resignation, a story she covered with Hunter S. Thompson, and ending with Barack Obama's campaign. In between are a Rolling Stones Tour, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, The Blues Brothers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith Haring, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patti Smith, George W. Bush, William S. Burroughs, Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. The most celebrated photographer of our time discusses portraiture, reportage, fashion photography, lighting, and digital cameras.

Softcover. Nordlingen, Greno, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 82 pages, b&w portraits. GERMAN TEXT. Contemporary (1980s) photographic portraits of people from the St.Pauli district of Hamburg. Clean copy.

Softcover. Montclair NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages, stapled exhibition catalog. 16 b&w plates by Sherman, many multiple images. Like new. The Unseen Cindy Sherman, curated by MAM's Chief Curator Gail Stavitsky, offers a little-known selection of works by this leading contemporary artist. Primarily culled from family collections, the exhibition comprises early photographs and photographic assemblages created by Sherman as a college student, when she had begun to use herself as the subject of staged photographs. These early works vividly illustrate Sherman's early explorations of the myriad constructions of self and female identities as a young woman, and her interest in challenging conventions of beauty and behavior.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a die-cut window. 180 pages with b&w photos. SIGNED BY NORMAN in a shaky hand on the front fly leaf. ALSO a signed note ("Dorothy") on her stationary taped to the rear endpapers. Newspaper review of book laid in.

Hardcover. New York, Flammarion, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 560 b&w photographs of Doisneau's beloved Paris, many published for the first time, accompanied by anecdotes from Doisneau's personal notebooks. Sections include Paris by Surprise: Parks and Gardens, Pedestrian Ballet, Urban Flirtation, Bistros; Paris for Parisians: Les Halles, Everyday Parisians, A Home for Tenants, A few Tenants More, Paris-by-the-Seine; Paris at Play: Fairs, Cabarets and Nightclubs; Society, Fashion; and Paris in Concrete. As the photographer said, "There are days when the technique of an aimless stroll - without timetable or destination - works like a charm, flushing out pictures from the non-stop urban spectacle."

Hardcover. London/NY, Frieze, London and Distributed Art Publishers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Billy Name was the principal photographer of Andy Warhol's Factory. Now, All Tomorrow's Parties reproduces for the first time Billy Name's recently discovered photos of Warhol, his crowd, and the Factory years, images that give the era another dimensions. These color photos with their experimental use of weird color balances and diptych printing are uncannily contemporary. Together with Dave Hickey's essay and Collier Schorr's interview, Billy Name's photos reveal the Factory in all its intimate grunge and glamour. 135 photos, 122 in color. First 3 pages with mild wrinkling, otherwise very good.

Softcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st pbk, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 154 pages. Michael Harrington was a political scientist and activist best known for The Other America, an examination of poverty in the midst of affluence in the U.S. Here, he reexamines the state of the U.S. twenty years after his landmark book. Bob Adelman is a respected photojournalist, b&w photos throughout; 11 x 8.5 inches. SIGNED BY ADELMAN. "Adelman has moved beyond the familiar cliches of most documentary photography into that rare sphere wherein technical ability and social vision combine to create a great work of art." Quote by Ralph Ellison.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover. Features 136 black & white photographs by Robert Adams. Poem by Cid Corman and an essay by Adams. Beautifully reproduced landscape images. Very good in very good, unclipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages.

Softcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Essays by Tillie Olsen, Julie Olsen Edwards, and Estelle Jussim. This issue features the work of Larry Fink, Paul Fusco, Joseph Szabo, Bruce Davidson, Linda Brooks, Barbara Crane, Jill Freedman, Danny Lyon, Harry Callahan, Eve Arnold, Dorothea Lange, Starr Ockenga, and many more. A clean, very good copy.

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.

Hardcover. Daab Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. David Bradford is a photographer and New York City taxi driver, who epitomizes the concept of carrying a camera during regular day-to-day activities. Bradford mainly shoots while he's working, capturing the essence of New York City in all its human, architectural and climatic diversity. In his second book, he presents a selection of his passengers, which sat down at his backseat. The result is a collection that captures the breadth of humanity - the whole world of people - that can pass through the back seat of a New York City taxi.

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. 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. London, Random House UK, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, illustrated throughout with b&w photos of England's coastline. Light wear to wrappers, else a very neat, tight copy.

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.

Hardcover. London ; New York, NY, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oversized. Black cloth cover, light wear to edges of cover and dust jacket. Many b&w photographs throughout. An epic collection of poignant and often controversial stories photographed and written by acclaimed social documentary photographer Eugene Richards (b.1944). The culmination of a dozen years of reporting, both on and off assignment, these stories, each one different in style and tone, immerse us in the lives of Honduran coffee growers, members of a Kansas City street gang, drought-plagued villagers from Niger, and doctors in an embattled Bosnian hospital. A bright, clean copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, 60 pages, VG+ in pictorial boards, as issued, without dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated in b&w. Bill Burke's seminal book originally published by Nexus Press in 1987. In the early 1980's Burke traveled to Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as Cambodia where he documented the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime. The book was produced using the original plates, and features the same layout and scale as the first edition.

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Part of the Photographers at Work Series. Includes an interview with Eggleston along numerous color photographs of horses and dogs in various situations.

Hardcover. Stockholm, Journal, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages, 85 color, 210 b&w plates. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Today, roughly fifty thousand Tarahumara continue living in ways similar to those of their ancestors, retaining many customs from their pre-Columbian past. Striking sepia-toned monochrome photographs and a historical narrative document the lives and past of people in mountainous southwestern Chihuahua, Mexico.

Softcover. New York , Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover. 80 pages. Terrific issue that features articles on Allen Ginsberg snapshots, images from Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eric Fischl, Eugene Atget, Robert Walker and others. Also includes text by William S. Burroughs.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 334 pages. Extensive b&w and color photography throughout. Extensive photo documentation and bibliography. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to jacket.

Hardcover. Bologna, Italy, Damiani, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Includes decorative slip case. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Shoebox Studio records a moment in a fashion model's career that is rarely seen by a wider public: the model's first "getting-acquainted" photoshoot, in which no attempt is made to beautify or exaggerate her face, pose or expression. Having produced photo campaigns for some of the world's premier beauty clients (Lancome, L'Oreal, Revlon), French photographer and painter Stephane Coutelle is ideally placed to make these portraits of vulnerability and aspiration: his Shoebox Studio sees an unending parade of young women, newly arrived from all over the world and pursuing their first career. His first meeting with a model aims to establish their character and psychology, before professional reflexes take hold, and before complicity is established between photographer and model. Shoebox Studio gathers portraits of aspiring models taken between 2006 and 2010.

Hardcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages, 87 full page b&w plates, 23 illustrations in text. Contributions by Naomi and Walter Rosenblum, Alan Trachtenberg. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 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, Abrams, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 251 pages. Illustrated with 200 black & white photographs by Tazio Secchiaroli. Lots of Sophia Loren. Black remainder line on bottom edge at spine. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 88 pages, Summer 2006. Features work by William Christenberry (in Memphis), Jessie Mann, Bruce Conner (his "Punk" photographs), and more. A clean, tight issue.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white photographs by Lewis W. Hine. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper; handwritten poem on rear endpaper. Green cloth covers with light rubbing to corners. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Quantuck Lane Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages, color plates. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has gathered richly detailed images from neglected corners of American's towns and small cities, and created a fascinating mosaic. Businesses, religious sects, and community groups announce their presence, offer their services, and pitch their messages, while commercial signs, graffiti, posters, and public notices blanket the surfaces of buildings and public spaces. Paintings and movie posters, dime-store novels and daily newspapers, figurines and mannequins, decals and stenciled graffiti, and children's letters and drawings are laid out as artifacts of a greater whole. Patriotism, consumerism, censorship, nostalgia for a simpler past coupled with a desire for a less complicated present...touching on all these themes, Bergerson's quietly ironic but empathetic tone encourages the reader to imagine how our own ordinary world might appear to viewers in a hundred or more years' time. 119 color photographs.

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.

Softcover. Australia, National Gallery of Australia, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Picture Paradise chronicles the transmission and adoption of new developments in photography from Europe to the Asia-Pacific region. It is the first survey of the early photography from this diverse region covering India and Sri Lanka, Southeast and East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, to the West Coast of North America. It includes pioneer local photographers as well as European photographers working in the region and reveals the rich heritage and the many outstanding achievements of the first century of photography in the Asia-Pacific region.

Hardcover. New York , The Museum of Modern Art, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. 109 illustrations (64 tritones, 45 duotones). Oversized red cloth cover with light wear to edges. Dust jacket has minor bumping to some edges, otherwise clean. Inside is bright and neat. A nice copy.

Hardcover. US, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages. Lynn Davis, known for surveys of natural and man-made wonders, has long been fascinated with the objects and venues of space exploration. Her photographs of the architectural icons, cornerstones, and abandoned sites of the space race reflect the many facets of a historically complex industry: the beginnings of space exploration; the changing nature of technology; and a fascination with otherworldly ruins. She emphasizes the bold modernism of these sites while evoking the presence of obsolete technologies. Davis traveled to historic sites in Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany, French Guiana, and the United States. She received special permission to visit Baikonur in Kazakhstan, a leading launch site shrouded in secrecy since the 1950s, and her photographs offer one of the first inside glimpses of launches, transmission towers, fuel lines, and satellites.

Softcover. Great Britain, Midnight Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Softcover. B/w illustration throughout. In excellent shape. Wrapper has a little label residue, but otherwise pristiine and unripped. Clean and unmarked inside. Binding tight.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 356 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This monumental survey is the first to do justice to Cecil Beaton's astonishing photographic career spanning six decades, from the 1920s to the 1970s. To create it, Mark Holborn thoroughly explored Beaton's vast studio archive, revealing an artist of extraordinary energy and ambition who made definitive portraits of the leading figures of his time, including Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, and Mick Jagger. Beaton immerses the reader in memorable social and cultural scenes, including the ceremony of the British royal family, the society of the 1920s, the glamour of Hollywood, the drama of World War II, the high artistic bohemia of Paris and London, and the pop royalty of the 1960s. Holborn contributes an introductory essay, and Annie Leibovitz offers an appreciation of Beaton as a portrait photographer.

Hardcover. Bunker Hill Publishing Inc, Piermont, NH, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color pictures throughout. Neon Mesa: Wonders of the Southwest is a stunning photographic record of the vernacular landscape of the American Southwest - the roadside landscape littered with the signs, relics, sights and debris of countless anonymous road trips. The Four Corners is a unique region where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah meet. Rob Atkins' photos capture the irony and pathos of the place in icons of the American Dreams, be they those of the Nuclear Age, the Frontier, the Cowboy, or the Native American, all caught in the stark majestic images of a present already passing, in rusting road-signs, flickering neon light, and derelict motels, set against some of America's most awe-inspiring natural scenery. The dazzling light of the Southwest, the enormous skies and stark desert imagery form the back drop to Rob Atkins stunning exploration of a quintessential American landscape. He captures visual gems with his camera from the ghostly quarries of old motels and roadside wrecks, of decaying signs and faded walls, and writes about the minutiae of lost Americana with affection and great style.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture Foundation and Fundacion Televisa, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover issued without a dust jacket. This publication tells the story of the photographer's journeys through Mexico in the early 1930s. In search of a fresh start, Strand traveled to Mexico City in late 1932 at the invitation of Carlos Chavez, the eminent Mexican composer and conductor. The culmination of Strand's time in Mexico was his collaboration with Emilio Gomez Muriel and Academy Award-winning director Fred Zinnemann on the groundbreaking film, Redes (The Wave) (1936). A remastered DVD version of the film is included in this volume. Illus., 100 color/89 tritone/240 b&w. 356 pages.

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. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Illustrated with 75 gorgeous b&w photographs of John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline and their children by Richard Avedon. Foreword by Robert Dallek. Text by Shannon Thomas Perich.

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

Rome, Contrasto, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 136 pages, 53 b&w plates. A collection of 53 photographs of Pompeii, never published before, shot by the master photographer Mimmo Jodice. Unique images, visions conjuring up a long-lost past tradition, coupled with texts by Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet and Jay Parini. No dj issued.

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. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, b&w plates throughout. Hoppe traveled throughout Germany between 1925 and 1938, photographing movie stars, workers and peasants, the birth of the Autobahn, and the explosion of industrial building. This collection includes parts of his 1930 book "Deutsche Arbeit" and many photos never previously seen. Clean copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale /Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages. Chen Changfen (b. 1941) began to photograph the Great Wall twenty years before the Chinese government officially adopted it as the national symbol in 1984. This fascinating book presents a small fraction of his decades-long study of the monumental form and conveys the fertile range of themes and ideas that Chen has investigated, each informed by traditional Chinese art, history, and philosophy. Combining a unique blend of traditional and contemporary technical processes, Chen's richly evocative photographs at once celebrate the remarkable series of building campaigns that produced the Wall and memorialize the thousands of conscripted laborers whose lives were sacrificed to its construction.One of the most striking features of Chen's photographs is their unexpected variety of perspectives and moods, capturing the vicissitudes of weather, time, and human history that have acted upon it. By excluding the people, highways, factories, and modern buildings that encroach on and daily destroy sections of the Wall, however, Chen eliminates major aspects of the Wall's present reality from his pictures. In a thoughtful essay and interview with the artist, Anne Wilkes Tucker probes the meanings of such omissions and guides the reader through Chen's extraordinary images. The Great Wall of China is essential reading for photographers, historians, and travelers.

Hardcover. Berlin, Museum fur Verkehr und Technik, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards with paste-down label, 40 pages. Wonderful duotone photos, mostly portraits of Berliners in 1948. GERMAN TEXT. Introduction by Alfred Gottwaldt. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Bologna IT, Damiani, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 100 pages. Original publisher's illustrated laminated boards. Issued without dust jacket. Copiously illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Beatrice Haverich believes that "trees embody life. They show us the seasons in a city landscape, and they provide us with wood, food and shelter. Their silence demands our respect." Her subjects, for whom she has the utmost sympathy, are survivors, stalwarts: for example, the Yew trees in Kingsley Vale, UK, are 4,000 years old. Among these portraits, she observes branches molded by the wind into lopsided hairstyles, and roots exposed by the rain. Some trees survive in cement planters or remain in the bounds of their sidewalk squares, but others reclaim their habitat, taking over old greenhouses and popping the glass panes one by one as they grow. Up from sand and boulders and cliffs and pavement, Haverich's trees are shaped by their landscape, but they persist in shaping it as well.

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

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages. Italian photographer Maurizio Galimberti works exclusively in Polariod. His mosaics of square, white-bordered frames have captured personalities including Andres Serrano, Wim Wenders, Monica Bellucci and Sting, among many others, piece by piece. When he doesn't scratch designs onto the developing pictures with a stick or even a toothbrush, preemptively disrupting any sense that his work directly reflects the real, he takes hundreds of shots of the same subject and eventually assembles up to 140 in a single finished grid. His patrons have included Conde Nast, Rizzoli and Time, and, in advertising, Cartier, Rolex, Nokia, Fiat and Veuve Cliquot. This personal portfolio of the city of New York is full of clean-edged skyscrapers and bridges, limitless streets, multicolored signs, vivid people and limpid skies. Galimberti's Big Apple is thoroughly deconstructed and reconstructed, and the resulting unreal city corresponds perfectly with the soul of New York.

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. Guest edited by W.M. Hunt, this issue of Aperture features work by photographers and scientists in their efforts to capture delirium on paper. Images ranging from contemporary through 19th Century show how delirium, clinical or colloquial, has been documented, analyzed, codified, worked over, and wondered about for the last 150 years, together creating a psychic agitation that can be as dark as it is witty. Artists included Nancy Burson, Debbie Fleming Caffrey, Ellen Carey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eugene Richards, Weegee and many others .