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Circus Girlby: Das, Saibal,/ Rae, Nola
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Circus Girl
by: Das, Saibal,/ Rae, Nola

Hardcover. London/Calcutta, Seagull Books , 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Circuses provide surreal, fantastic entertainment. At times magical and at others chilling, the circus is a world of magic and spectacle for the viewer, but for the performer, a career in the circus often brings with it a nomadic, lonely life. In Circus Girl, photographer Saibal Das captures beautiful and unusual images of circus girls, photographs which evokes this sense of darkness and resignation that underlies the otherworldly feats they perform under the big top. For instance, in one photograph, a circus girl whose act involves a lioness is seen sitting in front of a mirror putting on her makeup. The lioness that she usually whips in the ring stands behind her, her paw touching the girl's shoulder affectionately. But both wear a solemn look. In another, the girl sits on her props, staring silently at the snack packets strewn on the ground. The giant marquee is empty. Internationally renowned mime Nola Rae provides a haunting accompanying text that poetically comments on the transient wanderings of the circus performers who often yearn for a conventional family life while donning their costumes and taking hold of the trapeze. Rae gives voice to the circus girls, articulating the thoughts too often hidden by the brilliant illusion of stage lights.

Record # 380156

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Louisiana Cajuns / Cajuns De La Louisianeby: Browne, Turner
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Louisiana Cajuns / Cajuns De La Louisiane
by: Browne, Turner

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Introduction by William Mills. French text rendered by James and Elisabeth Spohrer. Brown tweed with photo and blind stamped cover. Clear plastic cover not present. Numerous full page black & white photographs by Turner Browne, map of Louisiana highlighting the Cajun Country, text in English and French,

Record # 381217

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1896 Calendar of Beautyby: N/A
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1896 Calendar of Beautyby: N/A1896 Calendar of Beautyby: N/A

1896 Calendar of Beauty
by: N/A

Softcover. NY, Automatic Photograph Co., 1995, Book: Very Good, Unique item: 13 rounded cards, 4 X 6 1/2", hole-punched at the top with a string binding. The top card is the title, listing the women shown in the following cards for the 12 months of the year. Each has a pasted down actual photograph of the female celebrity: Katherine Grey, Lillian Russell, Maud Adams, Lulu Tabor, etc. All in excellent condition in the original white box which is worn at the corners.

Record # 381511

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Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehanby: Sheehan, Beowulf, Foreword: Rushdie, Salman
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Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehanby: Sheehan, Beowulf, Foreword: Rushdie, SalmanAuthor: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehanby: Sheehan, Beowulf, Foreword: Rushdie, Salman

Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan
by: Sheehan, Beowulf, Foreword: Rushdie, Salman

Hardcover. NY, Black Dog & Leventhal,, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A beautiful and moving collection of photographs by Beowulf Sheehan, whose work captures the essence of 200 of our most prominent writers, historians, journalists, playwrights, and poets. Beowulf Sheehan is considered to be his generation's foremost literary portrait photographer, having made portraits of the literary luminaries of our time across the globe, from Roxane Gay to Masha Gessen, Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Karl Ove Knausgaard to J.K. Rowling, and Jonathan Franzen to Toni Morrison. Clean copy.

Record # 382566

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In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space by: Curran, Douglas
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In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space
by: Curran, Douglas

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Silver titles on spine and blind stamped on front of black cloth covers, 144 pages illustrated in color and b&w including bibliography and index. Updated and expanded edition of material first published in 1985. A fascinating look at the stories and creations of individuals obsessed with outer space and extraterrestrials. The author travelled around an collected the stories and photographs for the book. Clean copy.

Record # 383872

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Bill Brandtby: Bill Brandt (Author), Ramon Esparza (Author), Nigel Warburton (Contributor)

Bill Brandt
by: Bill Brandt (Author), Ramon Esparza (Author), Nigel Warburton (Contributor)

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial covers.

Record # 385115

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Spirit of a Community: The Photographs of Charles Teenie Harris:an exhibition by: Harris, Charles H
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Spirit of a Community: The Photographs of Charles Teenie Harris:an exhibition
by: Harris, Charles H

Softcover. Greensburg PA, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. In his forty-year career as a photojournalist, free-lancer and portrait photographer Charles Teenie Harris produced over 80,000 images that documented daily life in the black communities of Pittsburgh. The collection provides the most comprehensive visual record of any single African-American urban environment. This sampling of his work includes 30 black and white images. Clean copy.

Record # 385483

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The Power of the Polaroid: Instantly Foreverby: Hambro, Jo
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The Power of the Polaroid: Instantly Foreverby: Hambro, JoThe Power of the Polaroid: Instantly Foreverby: Hambro, Jo

The Power of the Polaroid: Instantly Forever
by: Hambro, Jo

Hardcover. London, Clearview, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a paste-down label, 160 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Foreword by Elton John and David Furnish. A polaroid is the physical and organic reminder of a particular moment, enabling the creative team to step back and fully consider the technical and artistic direction of a photoshoot. The excitement of watching the image slowly developing and seeing the final result makes the polaroid a tiny artwork all of its own.In this book, uber-stylist and storyteller Jo Hambro showcases some of her vast personal records of polaroids taken from the fashionshoots she has worked on over the last two decades. Combined with her extraordinary notebooks, scribbles and sketches formulating the stories that each shoot is based on, (in which polaroids are an indispensable part), we are taken into the hidden world of fashion's creative process. Clean copy.

Record # 385758

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James Van Der Zeeby: Van Der Zee, James
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James Van Der Zee
by: Van Der Zee, James

Hardcover. Dobbs Ferry, Morgan & Morgan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs of life in Harlem. Previous owner's signature at top right corner of front endpaper. Small 1/4" chip missing from dust jacket at top of spine. Dust jacket price clipped at bottom of interior flap. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2558

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Beautiful Death: The Art of the Cemeteryby: Dean Koontz / David Robinson (photographer)
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Beautiful Death: The Art of the Cemetery
by: Dean Koontz / David Robinson (photographer)

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Studio, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 120 pages, color plates throughout. A collection of photographs from the burial grounds of Europe explores the beauty of cemeteries and the emotions the survivors of the dead placed into the making of the tombs, accompanied by a meditation on the death of his own parents by Dean Koontz. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 386042

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Our Kind of People - American Groups and Ritualsby: Owens, Bill
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Our Kind of People - American Groups and Rituals
by: Owens, Bill

Hardcover. San Francisco, Straight Arrow Books, 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos. Dj price clipped otherwise VG/VG. "In his widely acclaimed first book, Suburbia, Bill Owens' camera captured the essence of the American Dream as symbolized in the life styles and fantasies of his neighbors and friends. Probing beneath the outer wrappings, he now presents a unique portrait of the myriad clubs and organizations to which these people belong, the symbols of their beliefs and loyalties, their pleasure and their pain." Profusely illustrated with annotated b/w photographs.

Record # 60539

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Photography and Landscapeby: Rod Giblett, Juha Tolonen
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Photography and Landscape
by: Rod Giblett, Juha Tolonen

Softcover. Bristol UK, Intellect, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages. With a focus on the settler societies of the United States and Australia, Photography and Landscape is a new critical account of landscape photography created through a unique collaboration between a photography writer and a landscape photographer. Beginning with the frontier days of the American West, the subsequent century-long popularity of landscape photography is exemplified by images from Carleton Watkins to Ansel Adams, the New Topographics to Richard Misrach, all of whose works are considered here. Along with discussions of other contemporary photographers, this extensively illustrated volume demonstrates the influence of settler societies on landscape photography, in which skilled photographers captured the fascination with and the appeal of the land and its expanse. Clean copy.

Record # 386782

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When the Borders Bleed - The Struggle of the Kurdsby: Kashi, Ed
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When the Borders Bleed - The Struggle of the Kurds
by: Kashi, Ed

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. 110 color photos by Kashi. 140 pages. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

Record # 69634

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Photographs by Cartier Bresson by: Henry Cartier Bresson Lincoln Kirstein and Beaumont Newhall
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Photographs by Cartier Bresson
by: Henry Cartier Bresson Lincoln Kirstein and Beaumont Newhall

Softcover. NY, Grossman, 1st pbk, 1963, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, square pictorial wrappers, The first paperback edition, published by Grossman Publishers in 1963. Introductions by Lincoln Kirstein and Beaumont Newhall. Illustrated with the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson. A near fine example of this title.

Record # 386995

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On The Plainsby: Brown, Peter
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On The Plains
by: Brown, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color photos. Introduction by Kathleen Norris. 130 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This is an excellent collection of 77 photos taken 1985-1995 across the high plains states from Montana to Texas. All are in richly captured color, and all manage to bring the panorama of this wide open country within the viewfinder of the still camera. Brown's achievement is to show the suggestive and telling details that transform these "empty" landscapes into spaces that are filled with drama and atmosphere.

Record # 150042

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The Darkness and the Light: Photographs By Doris Ulmann with a New Heaven and Earth By Robert Colesby: Ulmann, Doris and William Clift, Robert Coles

The Darkness and the Light: Photographs By Doris Ulmann with a New Heaven and Earth By Robert Coles
by: Ulmann, Doris and William Clift, Robert Coles

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 387445

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Arnold Newman in Floridaby: Weber, Bruce
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Arnold Newman in Florida
by: Weber, Bruce

Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 23 pages of text plus 63 black & white plates. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Dust jacket with mild edgewear, protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 206245

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Robert Doisneau: Retrospectiveby: Hamilton, Peter
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Robert Doisneau: Retrospective
by: Hamilton, Peter

Softcover. London, Tauris Parke Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages. 107 b&w plates. A retrospective for exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 396740

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Forty-Deuce, The: The Times Square Photographs of Bill Butterworth, 1983-1984by: Ruiz, Hilton Ariel
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Forty-Deuce, The: The Times Square Photographs of Bill Butterworth, 1983-1984
by: Ruiz, Hilton Ariel

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, non-paginated, illustrated throughout with photos in color. Minor shelf-wear to laminated boards, remainder mark to bottom edge. Clean, tight copy. A series of photographs capturing a gritty, glamorous, and authentic old- school New York, well before Mickey Mouse took over Times Square and scrubbed it clean. Curators and editors Beatriz and Hilton Arial Ruiz have collected and preserved the work of local street photographer Bill Butterworth, and have drawn from his work to create a revealing portrait of the Forty-Deuce, inside and out-- capturing the unique street life and street style of the era.

Record # 350001

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Recollections: Three Decades of Photographyby: John Sexton

Recollections: Three Decades of Photography
by: John Sexton

Hardcover. Carmel CA, Ventana Editions, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 140 pages, 55 b&w plates. John Sexton's highly anticipated fourth book. invites the viewer into the contemplative landscapes and human-made environments, filled with viant luminosity. Seen through Sexton's eyes. his subjects are transformed into images of tranquility. wonder. and mystery. From the purity of a fresh snowfall in Yosemite Valley to the enigmatic rock forms of the Colorado Plateau. Sexton explores the subtle nuances of details rather than grand vistas. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397154

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Our Lives and Our Children: Photographs Taken Near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plantby: Adams, Robert
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Our Lives and Our Children: Photographs Taken Near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant
by: Adams, Robert

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 93 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers. Small red stain to fore-edge, else a clean, tight copy. 74 full page black and white photographs. First edition, first printing. "One day in the early 1970s, Robert Adams and his wife saw from their home a column of smoke rise above the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant." (blurb). This series is the result of Adams attempt to document what stood to be lost in case of a nuclear disaster.

Record # 350062

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News Art: Manipulated Photographs from the Burns Archive (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED)by: Stanley B. Burns/ Sara Cleary Burns

News Art: Manipulated Photographs from the Burns Archive (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED)
by: Stanley B. Burns/ Sara Cleary Burns

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 127 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY STANLEY BURNS on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. An unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography and journalism, takes the reader back to the days before Photoshop and reveals how newspaper editors would doctor images for effect and intent. These images, from 1900-1960 illustrate the range of art enhancement, from outlining and airbrushing to complete overpainting with subjects ranging from crime scenes, world events and social personalities.

Record # 397218

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Imperialby: Vollmann, William T.
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Imperial
by: Vollmann, William T.

Hardcover. New York, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2009-07-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Folio. The writer's first collection of photographs provides a photographic essay of the Imperial Valley, California.

Record # 350093

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The Americansby: Frank, Robert & Jack Kerouac

The Americans
by: Frank, Robert & Jack Kerouac

Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 6th pr., 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. With an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just Frank's subject matter, cars, jukeboxes and even the road itself that redefined the icons of America; it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally and linguistically, that made The Americans so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was 75 years ago. A beautiful copy with Steidl kigh quality reproductions.

Record # 397250

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Martin Roemers: Relics of the Cold Warby: Hofland, H.J.A.
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Martin Roemers: Relics of the Cold War
by: Hofland, H.J.A.

Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Dutch documentary photographer Martin Roemers decided to track down the remains of deserted atom bomb shelters of the Cold War period. For over ten years he traveled through formerly hostile countries on both sides of the line: through eastern and western Germany, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine, and other former East Bloc nations. Hardcover, 144 pages, 73 color plates, essays by Roemers, H.J.A. Hofland, and Nadine Barth.

Record # 350141

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The First Photographs of the Holy Landby: Ely Schiller (Ed.)

The First Photographs of the Holy Land
by: Ely Schiller (Ed.)

Hardcover. Jerusalem, Ariel Publishing House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, maroon cloth covers in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 380 pages. Photo-album of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the second half of 19th to beginning of 20th centuries. Includes an introductory essay in Hebrew and English about "The Pioneers of Photography in the Holy Land, 1840-1930" by Dan Kyram. The photographs depict the physical and cultural landscape of Ottoman Palestine: from the villages, cities and holy sites to photographs of the customs and attire of the various inhabitants of the land. The photographs are accompanied by captions in English and Hebrew, and appended by a short introduction in English and a slightly longer one in Hebrew. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397810

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On the Beach: Chance Portraits from Two Shoresby: Douglas McCulloh and Jacques Garnier
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On the Beach: Chance Portraits from Two Shores
by: Douglas McCulloh and Jacques Garnier

Hardcover. Daytona Beach FL, Southeast Museum of Photography, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages with 69 color plates. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The memorable and sometimes aggressive photographic portraits of On The Beach are the result of a six year project by two well-known photographers, Douglas McCulloh and Jacques Garnier. They placed a studio lighting setup directly in the sand, making California and Florida beaches their backdrop. The beach eliminates conceits, concealment, and clothing. People who cross onto the sand become a little naked. To this equation of vulnerability, the two photographers add unforgiving strobe lights and a ruthless high resolution camera.

Record # 350184

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Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984by: Adams, Ansel

Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984
by: Adams, Ansel

Softcover. Boston/NY, Little, Brown, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 418 pages, b&w illustrations. Ansel Adams wrote literally thousands of letters to fellow photographers, environmentalists, politicians, family, and friends during his long life - letters that reveal the growth of the artist and the man, while contributing a unique overview of twentieth-century photography and the environmental movement. Among those with who he corresponded are such eminent names as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Nancy and Beaumont Newhall, and Jimmy Carter. Wallace Stegner notes in his foreword that the letters 'show him as his family and friends knew him, in the intimate interchange of daily life and at the highest reaches of his thinking and feeling. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 397990

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The Antarctic: From the Circle to the Poleby: Klipper, Stuart
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The Antarctic: From the Circle to the Pole
by: Klipper, Stuart

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

Record # 350222

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Granite and Cedar: The People and the Land of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom (SIGNED COPY)by: Miller/Howard Frank Mosher, John M.
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Granite and Cedar: The People and the Land of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom (SIGNED COPY)
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. SIGNED BY BOTH MOSHER AND MILLER on the half-title page. 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 # 398136

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Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teskeby: Cox, Julian
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Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske
by: Cox, Julian

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

Record # 350254

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Ernst Haas in Black and White by: Haas, Alexander / Haas, Ernst / Hughes, Jim
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Ernst Haas in Black and White
by: Haas, Alexander / Haas, Ernst / Hughes, Jim

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, introduction by Jim Hughes. 144 pages; 114 duo-toned plates plus text illustrations; 10 x 11.25 inches. Bibliography of b&w work. Best known for his masterful color work, this volume presents for the first time Ernst Haas' b&w work including street work from around the world, portraiture, abstractions and Europe after World War II. Minor chips to top of dust jacket, clean copy.

Record # 398285

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Forever Englandby: Bailey, Liam
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Forever England
by: Bailey, Liam

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages, 125 color plates. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The remarkable photographs in Forever Engand were taken at Bekonscot Model Village in Beaconsfield. Initially built by a London accountant to entertain his house guests, it opened to the public in 1929 and is the oldest model village in the world. Bekonscot's miniature population of 3,000 people and 300 animals becomes real, their lives frozen in time, as we are carried back to an England we all know and long for.

Record # 350294

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This Is War!: A Photo-Narrative of the Korean War by: David Douglas Duncan; Harrison E. Salisbury [Foreword]
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This Is War!: A Photo-Narrative of the Korean War
by: David Douglas Duncan; Harrison E. Salisbury [Foreword]

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Intense eyewitness writing, and photographs on the opening weeks of the Korean War, by the renowned LIFE photographer. First Printing of this edition, originally published in 1951. Clean copy.

Record # 398314

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A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005by: Leibovitz, Annie
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A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
by: Leibovitz, Annie

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2006, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Large heavy monograph illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket and boards. "I don't have two lives," Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990--2005. "This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it." Portraits of well-known figures-Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, William Burroughs, George W. Bush with members of his Cabinet-appear alongside pictures of Leibovitz's family and friends, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early Nineties, and landscapes made even more indelible through Leibovitz's discerning eye. The images form a narrative rich in contrasts and continuities: The photographer has a long relationship that ends with illness and death. She chronicles the celebrations and heartbreaks of her large and robust family. She has children of her own. All the while she is working, and the public work resonates with the themes of her life.

Record # 350367

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Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Ageby: Salgado, Sabastiao
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Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age
by: Salgado, Sabastiao

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, 350 duotone images. More than those of any other living photographer, Sebastiao Salgado's images of the world's poor stand in tribute to the human condition. His transforming photographs bestow dignity on the most isolated and neglected, from famine-stricken refugees in the Sahel to the indigenous peoples of South America. "Workers" is a global epic that transcends mere imagery to become an affirmation of the enduring spirit of working women and men. The book is an archaeological exploration of the activities that have defined labor from the Stone Age through the Industrial Age, to the present. Divided into six categories -- "Agriculture," "Food," "Mining," "Industry," "Oil" and "Construction"-- the book unearths layers of visual information to reveal the ceaseless human activity at the core of modern civilization. Extended captions provide a historical and factual framework for the images. "Salgado unveils the pain, the beauty, and the brutality of the world of work on which everything rests," wrote Arthur Miller of this photobook classic, upon its original publication in 1993. "This is a collection of deep devotion and impressive skill." An elegy for the passing of traditional methods of labor and production, "Workers" delivers a message of endurance and hope. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398345

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Stepping Through the Ashesby: Richards, Eugene
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Stepping Through the Ashes
by: Richards, Eugene

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

Record # 350437

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In the Warsaw Ghetto, Summer 1941: Photographs by Willy Georg by: Georg Willy (photos by) Scharf, Rafael (passages compiled by)
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In the Warsaw Ghetto, Summer 1941: Photographs by Willy Georg
by: Georg Willy (photos by) Scharf, Rafael (passages compiled by)

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1stt, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 112 pages, b&w plates, comments and observations of ghetto residents accompany photographs, taken by a German soldier, of Jewish ghetto life in 1941 Warsaw. Clean copy.

Record # 398384

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Orientalist Photographs: 1870-1950by: Milet, Eric
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Orientalist Photographs: 1870-1950
by: Milet, Eric

Hardcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Pays homage to the ultimate travel dream of that era. This collection of over 100 autochrome, sepia, and black and white photographs captures delicate, lost details: the dusty, labyrinthine walls of the casbah; the dappled sunlight on the market stall of a souk; the intricate metal work of traditional jewelry. Each image is accompanied by an informative text that situates the photograph in its historical reality.

Record # 350516

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Hotel LaChapelleby: David LaChapelle
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Hotel LaChapelle
by: David LaChapelle

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch / Little Brown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Large folio in color printed thick glossy boards in color printed thick glossy card box. LaChapelle offers readers insight into the book and his photographic process: "And when people come for a photo session with me, they are giving themselves over, sort of checking in. When you stay at a hotel you're living for one day in a place where you don't normally live. That feeling can be true with photographs, too." LaChapelle's photographs can be spotted a mile away. If you read magazines, you know his work: it jumps out like none other with the expertly created environments and alternate realities in which he places his subjects. These universes are complete and constantly evolving to fit dynamic personalities. Hotel LaChapelle is filled with a celebrity cast as well as what LaChapelle calls "characters on the peripheries." The colors are as vibrant and inorganic as the settings that encapsulate his models. In this world, heads are sewn onto different-colored bodies, a nurse holds a face with a pair of tweezers, Marilyn Manson works as a school crossing guard, Madonna is a Krishna goddess, Leonard DiCaprio becomes Marlon Brando, and Ewan McGregor's face peers into a dollhouse while his body bleeds from a gunshot wound fired from Barbie's diminutive gun. The list goes on, and what it says about LaChapelle's vision is that excess is never too much. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398407

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Jurgen Schadebergby: Schadeberg, Jurgen
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Jurgen Schadeberg
by: Schadeberg, Jurgen

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the early 1950s, Berlin-born photographer Jurgen Schadeberg captured Nelson Mandela, (then a young attorney), singer Miriam Makeba and the nightlife in Sophiatown, a dynamic black neighborhood in Johannesburg. Revealing the poverty endemic to the majority of South Africa's black population became Schadeberg's chief focus. He arrived there in 1950, at the advent of apartheid, to work for Drum, the first magazine for black readers. In 1964, when Drum was banned, Schadeberg left South Africa for Europe and the United States, creating a body of portraits unique in their ability to cut across race, class and social standing. In 1994, Schadeberg created an iconic image of Nelson Mandela, by then the first black President of South Africa, standing at the window of his former prison cell on Robben Island, where he had been detained on charges of conspiracy from 1964-1982. Schadeberg, whose work has been highly influential to younger artists, now lives and works near Paris. This substantial volume collects 250 images from across his career.

Record # 350578

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The Isaac Mizrahi Pictures: New York City 1989-1993 Photographs by Nick Waplingtonby: Waplington, Nick
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The Isaac Mizrahi Pictures: New York City 1989-1993 Photographs by Nick Waplingtonby: Waplington, Nick The Isaac Mizrahi Pictures: New York City 1989-1993 Photographs by Nick Waplingtonby: Waplington, Nick

The Isaac Mizrahi Pictures: New York City 1989-1993 Photographs by Nick Waplington
by: Waplington, Nick

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. 168 pages, color photos. From 1989 to 1993, New York fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi granted the British photographer Nick Waplington rare backstage access to photograph every detail of the designer's fitting sessions in the weeks before his twice-yearly fashion shows. Combining Waplington's gritty verite style with Mizrahi's haute couture sensibilities, the resulting images offer a candid glimpse into the world of fashion when supermodels including Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell reigned supreme. At the same time, Waplington set out to document the wildly creative nightlife of the '90s "club kid" culture in New York, juxtaposing his images of uptown style with downtown looks and taking pictures at some of the city's most infamous clubs, such as the Pyramid Club and Save the Robots. Clean copy in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 398457

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Vintage 80's: London Street Photographyby: Stiletto, Johnny
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Vintage 80's: London Street Photography
by: Stiletto, Johnny

Softcover. London, Frances Lincoln, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in b&w. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. No other city has the variety of hairstyles male and female that parade the streets of London. The bouffant, the duck arse, the white wings of power swept over the ears, the coxcomb punk, the flat top, the social outrider's bowl cut. They're all there to make a place. In respect of the hair of the 80s, the rest of the world was dead from the neck up.' Buy a 35mm camera at the beginning of 1980 and spend the next 10 years walking around London taking half a roll of black and white a day and photograph whatever happens in front of you. You get Mick Jagger, New Romantics, Ra Ra skirts, Boy George, Sloane Rangers. The beginning of Covent Garden, Yuppies, The IRA bombings, the Iranian Embassy siege. 100s of newspaper flyers - John Lennon Shot Dead - Margaret Thatcher's London, Fashions that came and went. Here are 160 unique street photographs of London when it was the style, musical, political and fashion capital of the world.

Record # 350680

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Eugene Atget: Unknown Parisby: David Harris/Atget

Eugene Atget: Unknown Paris
by: David Harris/Atget

Softcover. NY, The New Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 199 pages. For thirty years, Eugene Atget photographed the historic core of Paris, its buildings and monuments, its ancient streets and civic spaces, its public parks and gardens. With the exception of his earliest photographs, he chose not to represent a particular site by a single, definitive photograph but produced sequences of interrelated images that create a cumulative portrait. A collection of case studies of archetypal urban settings, this book examines Atget's approach to photography. It features 240 of his photographs-nearly all of which have never been published-assembled to display the integral relationship between the photographer's working method and his subject matter, revealing the character of Le Vieux Paris itself. Clean copy.

Record # 398662

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Passportby: Mark, Mary Ellen
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Passport
by: Mark, Mary Ellen

Softcover. New York , Lustrum Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 58 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers with moderate foxing and creasing. Mark's first book.

Record # 350729

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Wildfowling with a Cameraby: Squire, Lorene

Wildfowling with a Camera
by: Squire, Lorene

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in dark blue. 216 pages, 100 full-page b/w photographs by the author. Presumed First Edition. Atmospheric photographs of waterfowl and shorebirds in the wild. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 399170

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Outside Insideby: Davidson, Bruce
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Outside Inside
by: Davidson, Bruce

Hardcover. Gottingen, Steidl, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Outside Inside is a gorgeous three-volume box set of 800 photographs drawn from this master photographer's immense archive. Chosen by Davidson himself, the selection spans a 60-year career, and features such seminal bodies of work as Circus (1958), Brooklyn Gang (1959), East 100th Street (1966-1968), The Civil Rights Movement (1961-1965), Subway (1980) and Central Park (1992-1995), as well as his two most recent works in progress--a series of urban landscapes made in Paris (2007) and Los Angeles (2009)--and many unpublished photographs. Each volume with the following format: Hardcover. Fine cloth, with tipped-in tritone plate on cover and title stamped in black on cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued. All three volumes are contained in a custom paper-covered slipcase with title stamped in silver. Photographs and text by Bruce Davidson. Edited by Bruce Davidson, with the assistance of Amina Lakhaney. Designed by Bernard Fischer and Gerhard Steidl. Volume I: 1954-1961, 300 pp., with 264 tritone plates; Volume II: 1961-1966, 272 pp., with 228 tritone plates; Volume III, 1966-2009, 372 pp., with 342 tritone plates. Scans by Steidl's digital darkroom; production and printing by Steidl, Gottingen. Each volume 11-5/8 x 12 inches.

Record # 350880

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Chihuahua: Pictures from the Edgeby: Virgil Hancock, Charles Bowden

Chihuahua: Pictures from the Edge
by: Virgil Hancock, Charles Bowden

Softcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 67 pages. A collection of 40 color photographs depicting the building facades and ruins of modern day Chihuahua, Mexico. The culminating effect of the brilliantly colored photos is nearly hallucinatory, taking in both the paintings of Bugs Bunny affixed to store facades, and political graffiti with a postmodern inclusiveness which says volumes about the spirit and poverty of this community. An accompanying text essayed by Charles Bowden, author of Blood Orchid , complements the images with a kind of poetic, meandering, and intimate meditation on the physical and existential state of Chihuahua. Lacks an index and bibliography. Clean copy.

Record # 399228

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In the Picture: Production Stills from the TCM Archivesby: Osborne, Robert
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In the Picture: Production Stills from the TCM Archives
by: Osborne, Robert

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 160 pages, 120 b&w film stills taken on movie sets in the 1940s and 50s. In publisher's shrinkwrap. During the golden age of Hollywood studios, set photographers documented film shoots to record key particulars: set arrangements, prop placements, blocking, costumes, and hairstyles. A unique photography book unto itself from the commanding archives of Turner Classic Movies, In the Picture collects 150 of these disarming and fascinating documentary images, imparting the delight of vintage Hollywood as well as a wealth of details for all movie lovers. Stills from beloved classics -- Ben-Hur, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, and The Wizard of Oz on up to Giant, The Dirty Dozen, and Bullitt -- reveal masterful set compositions and period details as well as images of actors between takes conferring with directors and crew. Capturing beloved movie moments both on- and off-camera from the silent era through the '60s, In the Picture provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood at work.

Record # 351121

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From Adams to Steiglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photographyby: Nancy Newhall

From Adams to Steiglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photography
by: Nancy Newhall

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages. Nancy Newhall wrote some of the most incisive work ever published on the inner lives of the photographers who shaped the medium. Her friendship with photographers such as Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Helen Levitt, to name a few, lends her writing a vibrancy rarely found in essays on photography. Newhall was one of the few people to gain access to the inner circle--and thoughts--of the imposing Alfred Stieglitz, and her intimate portrait of him, previously unpublished, reveals a man of genius, humor, and kindness. Clean copy.

Record # 399250

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