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Aperture 130: Explorations : 10 Portfolios (Aperture Magazine)by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff
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Aperture 130: Explorations : 10 Portfolios (Aperture Magazine)
by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1993, 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. Many contributors.

Record # 361649

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Aperture 154: Explorations: Nine Portfolios (Aperture Magazine)by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff
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Aperture 154: Explorations: Nine Portfolios (Aperture Magazine)
by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1999, 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. Aperture's second Explorations issue presents heretofore undiscovered images by photographers whose work is bound to become widely known. They probe the metaphysical through ritual, invoke dark metaphors in circus performance, find religion in nocturnal deserts, and study the ties that bind. The convergence of these uniquely powerful images and the artists' personal stories provokes an examination of the ever expanding boundaries of contemporary photography. Artists included are Stephen Barker, Neil Folberg, Jill Graham, Kimberly Gremillion, Jan van Leeuwen, Anne Arden McDonald, Andreas Rentsch, Maruch Santiz Gomez, and Dayanita Singh.

Record # 361667

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Aperture No. 162 Jessie Mann on being Photographed - Winter 2001 (Aperture Magazine)by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff
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Aperture No. 162 Jessie Mann on being Photographed - Winter 2001 (Aperture Magazine)
by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 2001, 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.

Record # 361684

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Naked Hollywoodby: Mel Harris / Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig
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Naked Hollywoodby: Mel Harris / Arthur 'Weegee' FelligNaked Hollywoodby: Mel Harris / Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig

Naked Hollywood
by: Mel Harris / Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth spine. The photo book Naked Hollywood by Weegee and Mel Harris is a phenomenal collaborative body of work. You are introduced to a new insight on Hollywood in the late 1950s. The work brings a new irony to the time period with images that are not only outrageous but also portray the illusion of the 1950's Hollywood glamour. No dust jacket.

Record # 361861

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World of William Notman: The Nineteenth Century Through a Master Lensby: Gordon Dodds and Roger Hall
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World of William Notman: The Nineteenth Century Through a Master Lens
by: Gordon Dodds and Roger Hall

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 234 pages. Long acknowledged as the giant of nineteenth-century Canadian photography, William Notman - along with his sons and protegees - created perhaps the most vital photographic studio of his day, a venture that spanned almost sixty years and an entire continent. As the authors clearly demonstrate in this stunning new book, Notman's ambition did not expire at the Canadian border but continued far into the United States; and his photographs chronicled not only the nineteenth century but extended well into the twentieth.

Record # 361885

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The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965by: Sam Stephenson
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The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
by: Sam Stephenson

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 268 pages. After having a breakdown in the midst of working on a photo-essay on Pittsburgh in 1957, legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith holed up in a loft in New York's Chelsea, in the Tin Pan Alley area. There, over the next several years, he became deeply embroiled in the New York City jazz scene, opening his home as a practice and performance space for some of the great artists of mid-century jazz, including Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims and many others. Of course, he took pictures--both of musicians and of a window-size view of mid-century New York--and also wired the place for recording, logging hours and hours of tape, capturing the music and the talk around it. These photos and tapes had been thought lost--the stuff of rumor, buried in Smith's archive--until Stephenson dug them out and culled the best, along with transcriptions of material from the tapes, for this landmark book. Smith's stunning use of contrast makes figures like Monk seem dramatic and completely ordinary at the same time. The photos of the city offer a rare glimpse into a neighborhood being itself when it thought no one was watching. This will be an essential book for jazz fans, photography lovers and those interested in the history of New York.

Record # 361935

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My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America, 1840-1860by: Joan L. Severa
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My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America, 1840-1860
by: Joan L. Severa

Hardcover. OH, Kent State University, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages. During the nineteenth century-a time of great technical and cultural change-fashion was a cultivating force in the development of American society, influenced by one's social status, geographic location, and economic standing. My Likeness Taken is a collection of daguerreotype portraits of men, women, and children taken between 1840 and 1860. Selected from the top collections in the United States, each image is analyzed to clarify datable clothing and fashion components. With subjects from among the best-dressed members of society, these portraits-reproduced in full color-reflect the latest fashion developments, trends, and influences. For students of photographic and costume history, this is extraordinary material. Many of these images have never before been published, and Severa's keen analysis adds immeasurably to our understanding of the importance of dress in American society. Photo archivists and collectors, costume curators, social historians, material culturalists, and theater designers will find My Likeness Taken an invaluable resource.

Record # 361988

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David Plowden: The American Barnby: Plowden, David
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David Plowden: The American Barn
by: Plowden, David

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. A tribute to the barn by the master documentarian of our time. As an elemental part of our landscape and our history, barns evoke childhood memories for many of us, recollections of a simpler way of life. Regardless of their size or shape, their forms follow their functions. They are honest. They are beautiful. And they are rapidly vanishing. Across the land we see abandoned farms with barns falling down, being torn down, and only occasionally being converted to other uses. As urban sprawl eats up the countryside and food-producing Goliaths put small farmers out of business, the need for old barns has diminished. For most of his life as a photographer, David Plowden has admired and photographed barns. In recent years, as their disappearance accelerated, he made it his mission to document these beautiful structures, before they too are lost. The result is this beautiful book, his hymn to the American barn. 130 duotone photographs.

Record # 362054

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Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivanby: Toby Jurovics, Carol Johnson, et al.
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Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
by: Toby Jurovics, Carol Johnson, et al.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. The image of the untamed American West persists as one of our country's most enduring cultural myths, and few photographers have captured more compelling images of the frontier than Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Trained under Mathew Brady, O'Sullivan accompanied several government expeditions to the West--most notably with geologist Clarence King in 1867 and cartographer George M. Wheeler in 1871. Along these journeys, O'Sullivan produced many beautiful photographs that exhibit a forthright and rigorous style formed in response to the landscapes he encountered. Faced with challenging terrain and lacking previous photographic examples on which to rely, O'Sullivan created a body of work that was without precedent in its visual and emotional complexities. The first major publication on O'Sullivan in more than thirty years, Framing the West offers a new aesthetic and formal interpretation of O'Sullivan's photographs and assesses his influence on the larger photographic canon. The book features previously unpublished and rarely seen images and serves as a field guide for O'Sullivan's original prints, presenting them for the first time in sequence with the chronology of their production.

Record # 362098

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Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965by: Bruce Davidson , John Lewis, et al.
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Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965
by: Bruce Davidson , John Lewis, et al.

Hardcover. St. Ann's Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages. On May 25, 1961, Bruce Davison joined a group of Freedom Riders traveling by bus from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi. The actions of these youths challenged and disobeyed federal laws allowing for integrated interstate bus travel. These historic episodes, which ended in violence and arrests, marked the beginning of Davidson's exploration into the heart and soul of the civil rights movement in the United States during the years 1961-1965. In 1962, Davidson received a Guggenheim Fellowship and continued documenting the era, including an early Malcolm X rally in Harlem, steel workers in Chicago, a Ku Klux Klan cross burning near Atlanta, farm migrant camps in South Carolina, cotton picking in Mississippi, protest demonstrations in Birmingham, and the heroic Selma March that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was instrumental in changing the political power base in the segregated Southern states. In the 140 photographs collected here, many of which have never before been published, we see intimate and revealing portraits of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and other leaders made by Davidson during those turbulent times. These images describe the mood that prevailed during the civil rights movement with a lyrical imagery that is both poignant and profound. As Davidson bears witness to these historical events, and documents the degradation and segregation that were endured, he gives testimony to the struggle for freedom, equality, justice, and human dignity.

Record # 362244

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Faces of Christianity: A Photographic Journeyby: Abbas
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Faces of Christianity: A Photographic Journey
by: Abbas

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages. A noted photographer offers a visual tour of Christian communities around the world--in such diverse areas as Cuba, Jerusalem, Lourdes, the United States, Mali, and Russia--that explores what it means to be a Christian at the dawn of a new millennium.

Record # 362319

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Sports Illustrated 50 Years: The Anniversary Bookby:
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Sports Illustrated 50 Years: The Anniversary Book
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Hardcover. NY, Sports Illustrated , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. A fiftieth anniversary compilation of the best from the Sports Illustrated archives features memorable photographs and articles from the pages of the popular sports magazine since its launch in 1954, offering an entertaining and informative look at great moments in American sports history.

Record # 362392

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Vietnam: Spirits of the Earthby: Mary Cross and Frances Fitzgerald
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Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth
by: Mary Cross and Frances Fitzgerald

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages. Combines photography with the writings of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author to create a portrait of contemporary Vietnam healed from the war and replete with lush landscapes, customs, villages, traditions, and cities.

Record # 362433

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The Misfits:  Story of a Shootby: Arthur Miller, Serge Toubiana, et al.
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The Misfits: Story of a Shoot
by: Arthur Miller, Serge Toubiana, et al.

Hardcover. Phaidon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. The story of the making of the film, The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift. The Magnum Photographic Agency was given exclusive rights to photograph the making of the film, and sent nine of it's most famous photographers; Dennis Stock, Inge Morath, Ernst Erwitt, Bruce Davidson, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cornell Capa, and Eve Arnold. With 200 of the photographs reproduced here, with an essay and interview with Arthur Miller. As new in original shrinkwrap.

Record # 362456

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Commuteby: Suzette Bross
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Commute
by: Suzette Bross

Hardcover. np, Suzette Bross, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 28 pages (including inner covers) on very thick card, mainly color photos by Bross showing her Commute series of ink-jet photos. Self-published.

Record # 362521

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Womanby: Andreas H. Bitesnich

Woman
by: Andreas H. Bitesnich

Hardcover. Te Neues Publishing, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Following on the heels of his breathtaking, award-winning Nudes, Andreas Bitesnich focuses his astute camera on the female form in this sumptuous new collection. Powerful, sensuous, and technically magnificent Bitesnich?'s photographs embrace the classic ideal of womanly beauty and transform it into a sublimely artistic exercise of form, composition, and contrast. Photographed in locations that took the artists all over the world, Bitesnich?s women are strong, shapely, and uncompromisingly erotic. Glancing through these pages makes the viewer aware how Bitesnich sees the human body as a unique landscape, with clean lines, graceful undulations, and an unmistakable presence in the space it occupies. By treating his models as truly artistic objects? abstract, architectural, and natural?, Bitesnich imbues his celebration of women with the insight and originality of a true master.

Record # 362638

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Apples & Olivesby: Lee Friedlander
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Apples & Olives
by: Lee Friedlander

Hardcover. NY, Fraenkel Gallery/Hasselblad Foundation, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 1stpages. The master photographer best known for his extensive, insightful documentation of "the American social landscape"--from jazz musicians to factory hands to New York pedestrians and office workers zoning out at their keyboards--has recently been spending more time looking at the literal, natural landscape. His monumental 2005 MoMA retrospective showed, for the first time, a new series of landscapes made in the American West, while for Olives and Apples, he has looked back over the last decade's work and culled a forest, tree by tree. His docile subjects, apple trees photographed in New York State and olive trees photographed in France, Italy and Spain from 1997-2004, are presented in circumstances ranging from sunny, leafy summer health to glittering winter ice-storm glory. Some of the most striking compositions are shot from just inside the reach of a tree's furthest twigs, so that expanding branching limbs fill the frame, stretching out around the viewer.

Record # 363170

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Sol Lewitt (Itallian Text)by: Paladino, Mimmo
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Sol Lewitt (Itallian Text)
by: Paladino, Mimmo

Hardcover. Torino, Italy, Hopeful Monster Editore, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color and black and white photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy. Italian Text.

Record # 368294

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Cleveland's Urban Landscape: The Sacred and the Transientby: Levy, Michael S.
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Cleveland's Urban Landscape: The Sacred and the Transient
by: Levy, Michael S.

Hardcover. London, Kent State University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with color pictures throughout.

Record # 369046

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Bruno Bisang: 30 Years of Polaroids (Italian Edition)by: Bisang, Bruno
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Bruno Bisang: 30 Years of Polaroids (Italian Edition)
by: Bisang, Bruno

Hardcover. US, teNeues, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. For his third book with teNeues, Bruno Bisang shares a vivid cross-section of his Polaroid archives. Once a simple tool to test lighting, angles, and moods, this format is now a relic of photography's analog age-with its own unique qualities. At the time designed to be disposable, every annotation and misstep captured on Polaroids--a depth lacking in today's digital manipulation--is now a part of cultural and artistic history. Page by page, readers witness the unfolding of Bisang's vision. Featuring such stars as Naomi Campbell and Tyra Banks, this collection may just become a cult classic.

Record # 369106

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Marlene Dietrich: Portraits, 1926-1960 by: Wensinger, Arthur S.
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Marlene Dietrich: Portraits, 1926-1960
by: Wensinger, Arthur S.

Hardcover. Munchen, Schirmer/Mosel., 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 269 pages. "Here is a breathtaking visual celebration of this all-time movie goddess, with the world's greatest photographers contributing their most famous landmark portraits collected from the thirty-five years during which Marlene Dietrich reigned supreme in the history of motion pictures."

Record # 371211

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New York in the Sixties by: Talbot Allan R.; Lehnartz Klaus
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New York in the Sixties
by: Talbot Allan R.; Lehnartz Klaus

Softcover. NY, Dover, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. "Compelling photographs offer a vivid and varied tableau of daily life: shoppers, subways, Central Park, Coney Island, dozens of other revealing views of the city. 159 photographs by Lehnartz." Text by Allan Talbot. Clean.

Record # 372846

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Granite and Cedar: The People and the Land of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom by: Miller/Howard Frank Mosher, John M.
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Granite and Cedar: The People and the Land of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom
by: Miller/Howard Frank Mosher, John M.

Hardcover. Thistle Hill Publications & Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 108 pages, 68 b&w photographs. Granite and Cedar represents an unusual collaboration between a documentary photographer and a writer of fiction to produce a haunting portrait of the people and the land of Vermont's most rural area, often referred to as the "Northeast Kingdom." Veteran photographer JOHN M. MILLER uses his brilliant collection of elegiac, but unsentimental, images dating from the 1970s to evoke the disappearing folkways, the rugged people, and the desolate and abandoned landscape of his native corner of the Green Mountain State. Miller's austere, black-and-white photos richly detail the erosion and the breakup of the small farms of the region and of the families who worked those farms. While they emphasize the stark beauty of the land, they also pay homage to the innate dignity and fierce pride of the people who live in such hardscrabble circumstances.

Record # 373499

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Birds of Prey (SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER)by: Merrick, Tad (Photographer) and Floyd Scholz
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Birds of Prey (SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER)
by: Merrick, Tad (Photographer) and Floyd Scholz

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, illustrations and color photographs by Tad Merrick throughout. SIGNED BY MERRICK on title page. Slight dust jacket rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Visual reference for North American raptors examines 17 hawks, falcons, eagles, and osprey--a must-have volume for carvers and others interested in these magnificent birds.

Record # 374397

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Walker Evansby: Clement Cheroux, Svetlana Alpers, et al.
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Walker Evans
by: Clement Cheroux, Svetlana Alpers, et al.

Hardcover. NY, Prestel , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 320 pages. Some of Walker Evans' most iconic images of 20th-century American culture are showcased in this book celebrating his 50-year career. Walker Evans was one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century. His focus on everyday life in America, in both urban and rural settings, makes him also one of the most relatable. This retrospective volume traces Evans' career through more than 300 images--from his first photographs of the late 1920s to his Polaroids of the 1970s. Organized thematically, the book examines topics such as Evans' relationship with the impresario Lincoln Kirstein, his work in postcards and magazines, and his lifelong exploration of the American vernacular. In addition, this volume features items from the photographer's own collection, including personal writings, signage, postcards, and other ephemera. Through these ancillary objects and a thorough overview of Evans' career, readers will come away with a better understanding of a photographer whose iconic photographs remain timeless.

Record # 377865

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Band of Bikers 1962/1972by: Scott Zieher
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Band of Bikers 1962/1972
by: Scott Zieher

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

Record # 377980

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To Image and to See: Crow Indian Photographs by Edward S. Curtis and Richard Throssel 1905-1910 by: Northern Tamara; Brown Wendi Starr
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To Image and to See: Crow Indian Photographs by Edward S. Curtis and Richard Throssel 1905-1910
by: Northern Tamara; Brown Wendi Starr

Softcover. Hanover NH, Hood Museum of Art, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, b&w plates. Clean copy.

Record # 378677

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The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technologyby: Sarah Kate Gillespie
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The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technology
by: Sarah Kate Gillespie

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The daguerreotype, invented in France, came to America in 1839. By 1851, this early photographic method had been improved by American daguerreotypists to such a degree that it was often referred to as "the American process." The daguerreotype-now perhaps mostly associated with stiffly posed portraits of serious-visaged nineteenth-century personages-was an extremely detailed photographic image, produced though a complicated process involving a copper plate, light-sensitive chemicals, and mercury fumes. It was, as Sarah Kate Gillespie shows in this generously illustrated history, something wholly and remarkably new: a product of science and innovative technology that resulted in a visual object. It was a hybrid, with roots in both fine art and science, and it interacted in reciprocally formative ways with fine art, science, and technology. Gillespie maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from its introduction to the ascendancy of the "American process," tracing its relationship to other fields and the professionalization of those fields. She does so by recounting the activities of a series of American daguerreotypists, including fine artists, scientists, and mechanical tinkerers. She describes, for example, experiments undertaken by Samuel F. B. Morse as he made the transition from artist to inventor; how artists made use of the daguerreotype, both borrowing conventions from fine art and establishing new ones for a new medium; the use of the daguerreotype in various sciences, particularly astronomy; and technological innovators who drew on their work in the mechanical arts.

Record # 380398

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PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL. 1952 Edition. A Selection of the World's Greatest photographs by the Editors of Popular Photography.by: Bruce Downes (Ed. Popular Photography)
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PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL. 1952 Edition. A Selection of the World's Greatest photographs by the Editors of Popular Photography.
by: Bruce Downes (Ed. Popular Photography)

Softcover. NY, Ziff-Davis Publications,, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. 282 pages of b&w and color photographs by various photographers from the previous year. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 381359

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Wanting You to Want Me: Anonymous Stories From Secret World of Strip Clubsby: Dinslade, Emily/ Parker-Rhodes, Bronwen
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Wanting You to Want Me: Anonymous Stories From Secret World of Strip Clubs
by: Dinslade, Emily/ Parker-Rhodes, Bronwen

London, Hardie Grant, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed black boards stamped in white, 250 pages, color photos. Wanting You to Want Me is a collection of anonymous stories from the world of London strip clubs, documented by the women themselves. The stories range from behind-the-scenes conversations in the changing rooms, to dancefloor and private room etiquette, from emotional and intellectual connections between dancer and client, to the often-blurred boundaries that exist in between. Journalist Emily Dinsdale and filmmaker Bronwen Parker-Rhodes have collected images and stories from the women working in the London strip clubs over several years. Having been part of the industry themselves, they have a unique and intimate access to the seldom-heard stories, giving voice to an age-old industry, from the perspective of the traditionally voiceless workers. Supported by original, behind the scenes photography from the authors, these narratives express vulnerability, empowerment, curiosity and the complexity and duplicity of relationships--in short, what it is to be human.

Record # 381677

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Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographsby: Morgan, Barbara
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Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs
by: Morgan, Barbara

Hardcover. Dobbs Ferry NY, Morgan & Morgan, Revised Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan covers with maroon lettering. No dust jacket. 164 pages. A revised edition of the famed photographic dance document. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Updated choreography record and statements by both Martha Graham and Barbara Morgan. Clean copy.

Record # 383161

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Inge Morath: On Styleby: Jacob, John P., Introduction: Picardie, Ms. Justine View larger image
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Inge Morath: On Style
by: Jacob, John P., Introduction: Picardie, Ms. Justine

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 288 pages. Witty, playful, and effortlessly chic, Inge Morath: On Style reveals the vital forms of fashion and self-expression that blossomed into existence in England, France, and the United States in the postwar decades. The book follows the photojournalist Inge Morath (1923-2002) through intimate sessions with Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn; scenes of window-shopping on Fifth Avenue; American girls discovering Paris; the frenetic splendor of society balls; and working women--from actresses to seamstresses to writers--everywhere taking their place in the world. The photographs in On Style focus on an extraordinary period of Morath's creativity, from the early 1950s to mid- 1960s, with a coda of work from later years. Here are the fundamental humanism, joy, and unerring eye for life's brilliant theatricality that characterized her work and made her one of the most celebrated photographers of her time. Clean copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 383919

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Important 19th & 20th Century Photographs: October 19 2004by: N/A
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Important 19th & 20th Century Photographs: October 19 2004
by: N/A

Softcover. NY, Swann Galleries, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. with pictorial covers, unpaginated, 598 lots, indexed. Fully illustrated with b/w halftones. Prices realized list laid in.

Record # 385453

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They Ride the Rodeo: The Men & Women of the American Amateur Rodeo Circuitby: Joe Englander
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They Ride the Rodeo: The Men & Women of the American Amateur Rodeo Circuit
by: Joe Englander

Softcover. NY, Collier Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages, b&w photod by Englander.

Record # 385486

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Brahmins & Bullyboys: G. Frank Radway's Boston Album by: Stephen and Brenda Halpert
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Brahmins & Bullyboys: G. Frank Radway's Boston Album by: Stephen and Brenda HalpertBrahmins & Bullyboys: G. Frank Radway's Boston Album by: Stephen and Brenda Halpert

Brahmins & Bullyboys: G. Frank Radway's Boston Album
by: Stephen and Brenda Halpert

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 143 pages with 111 b&w photos. "This book presents a collection of socially and historically relevant photographs of Boston and vicinity, taken between 1890 and 1920 by G. Frank Radway, a highly perceptive if unknown photographer...." From the Introduction. Clean copy.

Record # 385809

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Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert Westby: n/a
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Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West
by: n/a

Hardcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles to spine and front cover. Red fabric covered. Some age wear to dust jacket, otherwise very clean copy, bright pages. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf. Published to accompany an exhibition. From the front flap: "The photographs are presented to the greatest advantage in full-color plates and stunning tritone and duotone black-and-white reproductions. The 22 essays by leading historians, novelists, journalists, and environmentalists trace the shifting perceptions of the arid lands of the American West from a wide range of literary and scholarly perspectives.

Record # 30411

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Author Photo: Portraits, 1983-2002 by: Ettlinger, Marion
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Author Photo: Portraits, 1983-2002
by: Ettlinger, Marion

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Collects, for the first time in book form, more than two hundred of Ettlinger's most famous photographs. Immortalized in these pages are many of America's greatest writers, including Raymond Carver, Francine Prose, Walter Mosley, Mary Karr, John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Truman Capote, Cormac McCarthy, Patricia Highsmith, Ken Kesey, Edwidge Danticat, and Jeffrey Eugenides. Shot exclusively in natural light and in black-and-white film, each of these images is an intimate artwork, putting the reader closer than ever before to the writers they revere and admire. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 386056

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Jakob Tuggener Photographsby: Gasser, Martin
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Jakob Tuggener Photographs
by: Gasser, Martin

Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 335 pages. Illustrated black & white photographs, and some full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy. "This book is the first comprehensive monograph on the Swiss photographer, filmmaker, and painter Jakob Tuggener (1904-1988). The main themes of Tuggener's oeuvre were work in the factory, life in the countryside, and society events such as the magnificent New Year's Eve balls at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz. At the time of his death, Tuggener left an overwhelming and practically untouched trove of work, consisting of thousands of prints, over twenty silent films, and hundreds of drawings, watercolors and oil paintings.

Record # 63261

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Chris Marker: Staring Backby: Marker, Chris/ Horrigan, Bill (Editor)
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Chris Marker: Staring Back
by: Marker, Chris/ Horrigan, Bill (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Wexner Center and MIT Press, 1sr, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards, Any new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers one of their most memorable experiences with La Jetee (1962)-a time-travel montage set after a nuclear war that inspired Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (1995). His still camerawork is not as well known, but Marker has been taking photographs as long as he has been making films. Staring Back presents 200 black-and-white photographs from Marker's personal archives, taken from 1952 to 2006. Some of the photographs are related to his classic films (which include Le Jetee, Sans Soleil, Cuba Si!, and The Case of the Grinning Cat), others are portraits of famous faces (Simone Signoret, Akira Kurosawa), but most are pictures of people Marker has encountered as he has traveled the world (an extra who appeared in Kurosawa's Ran, a woman seen on a street in Siberia). The central section of the book contains a series of photographs documenting political protests Marker has witnessed, including the march on the Pentagon in 1967, the events of May 1968 in Paris, and the tumultuous 2006 demonstrations protesting the French government's proposed employment policies. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 386946

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Ben Shahn's New York - The Photography of Modern Timesby: Kao, Deborah Martin and others
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Ben Shahn's New York - The Photography of Modern Times
by: Kao, Deborah Martin and others

Hardcover. New Haven, CONNECTICUT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos by Shahn, 340 pgs. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 125447

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Premiere Nudesby: Allen, Albert Arthur / Kaplan, Daile
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Premiere Nudes
by: Allen, Albert Arthur / Kaplan, Daile

Hardcover. Twin Palms, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, black cloth in pictorial dust jacket (with pink belly band dj present and intact). Lavishly illustrated in duotone photographs of female nudes. During the 1920s. a time when the United States was, from all appearances, open to artistic experimentation, a Bay Area photographer named Albert Arthur Allen unwittingly took on the Goliath of nudity and politics. An obscure figure who operated outside the margins of the fine art community, Allen was known to a small coterie of clients who bought boudoir studies, pictures of comely young voluptuaries. (In Europe these photographic etudes were an acknowledged integral part of the academic tradition.) A homespun aesthetician who had a marked propensity for self-invention, Allen produced photographic protfolios that were initially inspired by the naturist movement. Today his images, which are typically perceived as high camp, are more familiar than his name.

Record # 387229

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Cent Ans De Voilesby: Beken of Cowes
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Cent Ans De Voiles
by: Beken of Cowes

Hardcover. London, Editions Gallimard, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. First French Edition. 14.25" x 10.5". French language throughout. Foreword by H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh. Presented by Christian Fevrier. A collection of superb photographs from the archives of the well known photographers Beken of Clowes covering the hundred years from 1880 to 1980. All related to sailing, yachting, boats and printed in sepia duo-tone process with some as fold out spreads. Photographic index and captioned section at rear. Full bound maroon cloth with gold blocking to spine. Unclipped dust wrapper.

Record # 178966

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Wisdom
by: Zuckerman, Andrew

Hardcover. NY, PQ Blackwell/Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Judi Dench on the dust jacket. A collection of color portraits featuring aged greats. CD in rear pocket. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 387452

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Rembrandt Album, The (Watkins Glen, New York)by: n.a.
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Rembrandt Album, The (Watkins Glen, New York)
by: n.a.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Williams, Brown & Earle, unknown, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Album of photographs (circa 1900) 20 2"x3" original photographs of landscapes and scenery at Watkins Glen, N,Y. in framed mounts on 10 pages. The last page, with frames empty, leaves room to add four additional photographs. Oblong small folio. Two color cloth, red with heavy gilt vine floral decor, brown with gilt title. Photographs all in very good condition. The album covers show some wear and chipping around edges. Good.

Record # 219954

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Henri Cartier Bresson: Photographer by: Cartier-Bresson, Henri
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Henri Cartier Bresson: Photographer
by: Cartier-Bresson, Henri

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

Record # 396743

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Robert Adams: No Small Journeys, Across Shopping Center Parking Lots, Down City Streetsby: Adams, Robert
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Robert Adams: No Small Journeys, Across Shopping Center Parking Lots, Down City Streets
by: Adams, Robert

Softcover. New York , Matthew Marks Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 116 pages, softcover, 52 duotone illustrations. Designed by Catherine Mills. Produced in conjunction with a 2003 New York gallery exhibition, this is a somber volume that reproduces fifty-two photographs taken by Robert Adams between 1974 and 1984 of everyday folks traversing parking lots and city streets in the metropolitan Denver area. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 350034

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Eugene Atget: Paris (Masters of the Camera)by: Eugene Atget

Eugene Atget: Paris (Masters of the Camera)
by: Eugene Atget

Hardcover. NY, Te Neues, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 109 pages. This is a high-quality publication with printing on heavy stock paper with incredible depth to its black and white plates of Atget's iconic images of Paris; and some less common ones too. Clean, like new.

Record # 397160

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Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto (Historical Studies of Urban America)by: Vergara, Camilo Jose
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Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by: Vergara, Camilo Jose

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Wandering the streets of Harlem for the past forty years, Camilo Vergara has noticed and miraculously recorded those moments of great human invention that have been largely overlooked by the official chronicles of architecture and urban history. For this reason, his photographs are unique and indispensable.

Record # 350070

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Early Medical Photography in America 1839-1883 (SIGNED COPY)by: Stanley B. Burns MD

Early Medical Photography in America 1839-1883 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stanley B. Burns MD

Hardcover. NY, The Burns Archive., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering and a pastedown plate on the front cover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY BURNS on the title page. Reprints articles in facsimile that Burns wrote for the New York State Journal of Medicine on the history of early medical photography. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397225

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Kiki Smith: Photographsby: Brown, Elizabeth A.
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Kiki Smith: Photographs
by: Brown, Elizabeth A.

Hardcover. New York, Prestel, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Artist Kiki Smith is a print-maker. sculptor and photographer. Elizabeth Brown"s illustrated essay "I Myself Have Seen It: Photography and Kiki Smith" opens the book, followed by five photographic essays by Kiki Smith, Generously illustrated. 8-3/4 x 10-3/4".

Record # 350106

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