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Walker Evans: Kitchen Corner by: Olivier Richon
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Walker Evans: Kitchen Corner
by: Olivier Richon

Softcover. London, Afterall Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Illustrated with b&w and color plates. Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama shows a painstakingly clean-swept corner in the house of an Alabama sharecropper. Taken in 1936 by Walker Evans as part of his work for the Farm Security Administration, Kitchen Corner was not published until 1960, when it was included in a new edition of Walker Evans and James Agee's classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The 1960 reissue of Evans and Agee's book had an enormous impact on Americans' perceptions of the Depression, creating a memory-image retrospectively through Walker's iconic photographs and Agee's text. In this latest addition to the Afterall One Work series, photographer Olivier Richon examines Kitchen Corner. The photograph is particularly significant, he argues, because it uses a documentary form that privileges detachment, calling attention to overlooked objects and to the architecture of the dispossessed.

Record # 372910

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Abschied und Anfang: Ostdeutsche Portrats, 1989-1990 (German Edition) by: Moses, Stefan Click Image To View Larger
Abschied und Anfang: Ostdeutsche Portrats, 1989-1990 (German Edition) by: Moses, StefanAbschied und Anfang: Ostdeutsche Portrats, 1989-1990 (German Edition) by: Moses, Stefan

Abschied und Anfang: Ostdeutsche Portrats, 1989-1990 (German Edition)
by: Moses, Stefan

Hardcover. GR, Edition Cantz, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 255 pages. A collection of b&w portraits of contemporary German workers. GERMAN TEXT. No dj issued. Clean.

Record # 372913

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Iceland Small World by: Sigurgeir Sigurjonsson
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Iceland Small World by: Sigurgeir SigurjonssonIceland Small World by: Sigurgeir Sigurjonsson

Iceland Small World
by: Sigurgeir Sigurjonsson

Hardcover. Portfolio, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 194 pages. A great book by the bestseller author Sigurgeir Sigurjonsson. In this breathtaking new book about Icelandic landscape Sigurgeir entwines nature and culture in a dramatic, vivid and unforgettable moments. You can really feel the energy and flow of all that Iceland has to offer while going through the pages. This is the large edition 25x25 cm. The book comes in a beautiful bag.

Record # 373094

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Lake Champlain Album: Volume 2 (SIGNED COPY) by: Glenn, Morris F.
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Lake Champlain Album: Volume 2 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Glenn, Morris F.

Softcover. Alexandria VA, self-published, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 250 pages, blue wrappers with white title and sketch of lighthouse. A collection of historical facts and b&w photographs of the Lake Champlain ares, mostly New York. Covers with light edgewear. SIGNED BY GLENN on the title page. Otherwise clean. Scarce.

Record # 373223

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Days Gone By: Roadside Photographs of the American South by: Jorg Rubbert
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Days Gone By: Roadside Photographs of the American South
by: Jorg Rubbert

Hardcover. Benteli Verlags , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover with a pictorial label, 192 pages. The faded remnants of a glorious past are captured in all their morbid beauty, in images that manifest the ephemeral and go beyond all conventional associations and conceptions of the American South: Days Gone By combines carefully crafted photographs from the past ten years with a cultural history of the region's social and structural changes. With an unflinching gaze, Jorg Rubbert presents the demise of countless small towns between Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, their suffering particularly tangible following the financial crisis. Rural towns, idyllic at first glance, are soon revealed as forgotten relics of times long past.

Record # 373412

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Halfway to Paradise: The Birth of British Rock by: Alwyn Turner/Harry Hammond (photographer)
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Halfway to Paradise: The Birth of British Rock by: Alwyn Turner/Harry Hammond (photographer)Halfway to Paradise: The Birth of British Rock by: Alwyn Turner/Harry Hammond (photographer)

Halfway to Paradise: The Birth of British Rock
by: Alwyn Turner/Harry Hammond (photographer)

Hardcover. London, V & A Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages. From the emergence of Bill Haley and his Comets to the meteoric rise of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Halfway to Paradise is an extraord Wer'e allowed see near legendary performers still at the height of their powers like Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Little Richard from the State, and Lonnie Donnegan, Marty Wilde, Billy Fury, and Petula Clark of England. This pictures, posed or candid, are well done and open us to a world of music from the golden age of British rock.

Record # 373413

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

The Oldest Living Things in the World by: Rachel Sussman/Carl Zimmer
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The Oldest Living Things in the World
by: Rachel Sussman/Carl Zimmer

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 304 pages. The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way.

Record # 373416

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Romare Bearden by: Stewart, Frank(photographer)
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Romare Bearden
by: Stewart, Frank(photographer)

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 136 pages, b&w photos of the artist at work. Foreword by David Driskell, introduction by Ruth Fine.

Record # 373442

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Skrebneski: Five Beautiful Women by: Skrebneski, Victor
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Skrebneski: Five Beautiful Women
by: Skrebneski, Victor

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

Record # 373486

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 
 

Sports Photography of Robert Riger by: Riger, Robert
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Sports Photography of Robert Riger
by: Riger, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Foreword by David Halberstam. Introduction by John Szarkowski. Slight dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. "Robert Riger was the preeminent artist of a golden age of American sports," David Halberstam notes in his introduction to this collection of Riger's classic photographs. "He was good because he knew what he was doing, understood the games, understood both the talent and the passion of the athletes." Riger's photographs are remarkable testaments to his love for sports, his acute insight into what it is that athletes do, and his uncanny knack for locating the decisive moment in a play or gesture.

Record # 373487

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 
 

To the Village Square: From Montague to Fukushima: 1975 - 2014 (SIGNED COPY) by: Lionel Delevingne
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To the Village Square: From Montague to Fukushima: 1975 - 2014 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Lionel Delevingne

Hardcover. Stockbridge MA, Prospecta Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 144 pages. INSCRIBED BY PHOTOGRAPHER on title page. Essay by Anna Gyorgy. This collection of vivid photographs tells the story of citizens who spoke up against the nuclear power industry, who refused to be nuclear neighbors, and who fought for years to stop construction or to close reactors in their backyards. The photographs also introduce us to the victims of nuclear power, among them the children who developed cancer and other grave health problems, even generations after the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl. Through Lionel Delevingne's record, we can see for ourselves the tragedies of the worst accident sites: Three Mile Island in the United States, Chernobyl in Russia, and Fukushima in Japan.

Record # 373498

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

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

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Andre Kertesz: Paris, Autumn 1963 by: Andre Kertesz (Author), Matthieu Rivallin (Introduction)
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Andre Kertesz: Paris, Autumn 1963 by: Andre Kertesz (Author), Matthieu Rivallin (Introduction)Andre Kertesz: Paris, Autumn 1963 by: Andre Kertesz (Author), Matthieu Rivallin (Introduction)

Andre Kertesz: Paris, Autumn 1963
by: Andre Kertesz (Author), Matthieu Rivallin (Introduction)

Hardcover. NY, Flammarion, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages illustrated in b&w. A previously unpublished body of work from the late, great photographer Andre Kertesz, featuring a collection of photographs that capture the ephemeral beauty of Paris in 1963. Andre Kertesz, a master photographer of the twentieth century, was a pioneer in photographic composition and photojournalism who gained critical acclaim for his image distortions. Born in Hungary, he moved from Paris to New York during World War II. In 1963, he returned to Paris and took more than 2,000 black-and-white photographs and nearly 500 slides that capture the city's essence--from Montmartre to the banks of the Seine to its gardens and parks. Kertesz edited these photographs into book form, but the work was set aside and was only recently rediscovered in his archives, twenty-five years after his death. The previously unpublished material is reproduced here as he originally intended and completed with archival documents and a critical essay.

Record # 374021

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Sam Shaw by: Lorie Karnath/Sam Shaw
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Sam Shaw by: Lorie Karnath/Sam ShawSam Shaw by: Lorie Karnath/Sam Shaw

Sam Shaw
by: Lorie Karnath/Sam Shaw

Hardcover. 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with cover pastedown, gilt lettering. The amiably spontaneous pictures taken by Sam Shaw (1912-1999) are well known: the native and life-long New Yorker shot countless cover photographs for Life and Look in the fifties and sixties, and later also took the still images for the films he produced himself. Shaw and Marilyn Monroe were friends, and he captured her unique aura in countless unpretentious portraits. During the filming of The Seven Year Itch, he staged his probably best known picture with her: Marilyn standing over a subway grate, a waft of air blowing the skirt of her white dress above her knees. Sam Shaw also portrayed almost every major Hollywood star of his day, consistently capturing the moment in his quest for truthfulness, with enthusiasm and from a new perspective, just as if he were selecting the camera angle for a film sequence. The researcher and author Lorie Karnath, the book's editor, enhances the publication with very personal memories of her long-time friend.

Record # 374023

Price: $45.00
Price: $45.00 

Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny by: Ann Marks
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Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny
by: Ann Marks

Hardcover. NY, Atria Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 368 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life. Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the world with her masterful images and mysterious life. Before posthumously skyrocketing to global fame, she had so deeply buried her past that even the families she lived with knew little about her. No one could relay where she was born or raised, if she had parents or siblings, if she enjoyed personal relationships, why she took photographs and why she didn't share them with others. Now, in this definitive biography, Ann Marks uses her complete access to Vivian's personal records and archive of 140,000 photographs to reveal the full story of her extraordinary life. Based on meticulous investigative research, Vivian Maier Developed reveals the story of a woman who fled from a family with a hidden history of illegitimacy, bigamy, parental rejection, substance abuse, violence, and mental illness to live life on her own terms. Left with a limited ability to disclose feelings and form relationships, she expressed herself through photography, creating a secret portfolio of pictures teeming with emotion, authenticity, and humanity. With limitless resilience she knocked down every obstacle in her way, determined to improve her lot in life and that of others by tirelessly advocating for the rights of workers, women, African Americans, and Native Americans. No one knew that behind the detached veneer was a profoundly intelligent, empathetic, and inspired woman--a woman so creatively gifted that her body of work would become one of the greatest photographic discoveries of the century.

Record # 374024

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

A Kentucky Album: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935-1943 by: Beverly W. Brannan, David Horvath, et al.
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A Kentucky Album: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935-1943
by: Beverly W. Brannan, David Horvath, et al.

Hardcover. Louisville, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket., 160 pages. Sulky races at the Mercer County Fair, church suppers, sorghum making, shooting marbles in the school yard, housing tobacco, loafing at the courthouse-here are 129 beautifully reproduced images of who we were as Kentuckians not so long ago-during the Depression and the early years of World War II. This collection is part of the remarkable series of photos shot for the Farm Security Administration-more than 125,000 photographs taken over a period of nine years by some of the best American photographers of the time, including Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, John Vachon, and Arthur Rothstein. To reintroduce us to that important slice of our history, Beverly Brannan and David Horvath have selected a rich sampling from among several thousand photos taken in Kentucky for the FSA. They have added an extra dimension to the images by including in their commentary excerpts from the photographers' own correspondence and field notes.

Record # 374027

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Edith Tudor Hart: In the Shadow of Tyranny by: Edith Tudor Hart (Photographer), Duncan Forbes (Contributor)
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Edith Tudor Hart: In the Shadow of Tyranny by: Edith Tudor Hart (Photographer), Duncan Forbes (Contributor)Edith Tudor Hart: In the Shadow of Tyranny by: Edith Tudor Hart (Photographer), Duncan Forbes (Contributor)

Edith Tudor Hart: In the Shadow of Tyranny
by: Edith Tudor Hart (Photographer), Duncan Forbes (Contributor)

Hardcover. NY, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 192 pages. This volume surveys the work of Viennese photographer Edith Tudor-Hart (1908-1973), who was among the foremost social documentarians of the 1930s. In 1933 she fled to the U.K., where she documented social divisions in London, Wales and Scotland, posthumously gaining notoriety for her involvement with the "Cambridge Five" spies.

Record # 374028

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers by: Preston Lauterbach
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Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers
by: Preston Lauterbach

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 339 pages, b&w illustrations. The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured--and influenced--a critical moment in American history. Ernest Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and '60s: Martin Luther King, Jr., riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till's uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at his nephew's killer; scores of African-American protestors carrying a forest of signs reading "i am a man." But at the same time, Withers was working as an FBI informant. In this gripping narrative history, Preston Lauterbach examines the complicated political and economic forces that informed Withers's seeming betrayal of the people he photographed, and "does a masterful job of telling the story of civil rights in Memphis in the 1960s" (Ed Ward, Financial Times), including the events surrounding Dr. King's tumultuous final march in Memphis. Small remainder dot to top edge.

Record # 374029

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Magnum China by: Magnum Photos (Author), Zheng Ziyu (Editor), Colin Pantall (Editor),
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Magnum China by: Magnum Photos (Author), Zheng Ziyu (Editor), Colin Pantall (Editor),Magnum China by: Magnum Photos (Author), Zheng Ziyu (Editor), Colin Pantall (Editor),

Magnum China
by: Magnum Photos (Author), Zheng Ziyu (Editor), Colin Pantall (Editor),

Hardcover. NY/London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated boards with short wrap-around dust jacket. 400 color photos. This lavishly illustrated book is the history of China, spanning the pre-revolutionary years to China's present day rise as a global power as told through the Magnum photo agency's legendary photographs. Magnum Photos first covered China on assignment in the 1930s, when Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson established what has become a long-standing cultural engagement with the ever-changing country. Magnum's long history with China puts the agency in the unique position of being able to provide an in-depth photographic account of China, its people, and the changes they have witnessed over the last nine decades. Featuring an outstanding selection of photographs, Magnum China is a thorough illustrated history of a vast, enigmatic country, fascinating for China-watchers and novices alike. Chronologically organized into four parts, charting the history of China from 1933 to the present day, Magnum China presents in-depth portfolios by individual photographers, accompanied by introductory commentaries on the featured work and group selections that curate individual photographs to illustrate the diverse state of China. Each part also features an introduction by respected scholar Jonathan Fenby, as well as "key dates" timelines and lists of the photographers' travels, setting the socio-political and historical context for the photography on show. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Record # 374032

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

American Daguerreotypes: From the Matthew R. Isenburg Collection by: N/A
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American Daguerreotypes: From the Matthew R. Isenburg Collection
by: N/A

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Catalogue of an exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery, 10 November 1989 - 3 January 1990. Hardcover, 8.75 x 11 inches, 126 pages, illustrated, annotated.

Record # 374041

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Chapters by: Emmert, Fred H.
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Chapters
by: Emmert, Fred H.

Hardcover. Lunenburg VT, privately printed, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth, 158 pages, b&w duotone photographs throughout accompanied by verse from various writers. A fine production printed by The Stinehour Press. The author war a pilot who witnessed the atomic destruction at Nagasaki and later became a research professor who studied nuclear fallout. He traveled extensively in the 1970s and was an avid and talented photographer. This was his fourth book published, all limited to 100 copies and shows a exceptional eye in the style of well-known street photographers. No dj issued.

Record # 374126

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Tina Freeman: Lamentations by: Tina Freeman
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Tina Freeman: Lamentations
by: Tina Freeman

Hardcover. Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 80 pages. Over the past eight years, Tina Freeman has photographed the Louisiana wetlands and Arctic and Antarctic glaciers. In Lamentations, Freeman pairs images from each place in a series of diptychs that address climate change, ecological balance, and the connectedness of things across time and space. Lamentations demonstrates how the rising waters along the coast of Louisiana are both visually and physically connected to the melting glaciers at the poles, despite the separation of vast distances. Freeman's work makes plain the crucial, threatening, and global dialogue between water in two physical states. Lamentations is published to accompany an exhibition of the same name, organized by and presented at the New Orleans Museum of Art, September 11, 2019 to February 22, 2020. Text was provided by Tina Freeman, Russell Lord, Brent Goehring, and Jady Surrounding along with a forward by Susan M. Taylor.

Record # 374273

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Sending Milk The Northeast Farms and Farmers of the Cabot Creamery Cooperative by: Chalmers, Skye (Photographer) and Stephen Kiernan (Intro)
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Sending Milk The Northeast Farms and Farmers of the Cabot Creamery Cooperative by: Chalmers, Skye (Photographer) and Stephen Kiernan (Intro)Sending Milk The Northeast Farms and Farmers of the Cabot Creamery Cooperative by: Chalmers, Skye (Photographer) and Stephen Kiernan (Intro)

Sending Milk The Northeast Farms and Farmers of the Cabot Creamery Cooperative
by: Chalmers, Skye (Photographer) and Stephen Kiernan (Intro)

Hardcover. Burlington VT, 3X120 Press., 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a collection of arresting black and white photographs of the dairy farms of the northeast. Skye Chalmers, a Vermont native, has brought his keenly honed eye and deep love of the land to this project and created a work of documentary photography at its finest. Sending Milk captures all aspects of dairy life - the families, the cows, the fields and barns, the equipment, the stunningly sublime and the hardships. An introduction by award-winning Vermont author, educator, and journalist Stephen Kiernan is the only text in this volume. The images speak for themselves. Clean, brighy copy.

Record # 374277

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Vineyard Voices: Word, Faces & Voices of Island People by: Linsey Lee/Mark Lennihan
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Vineyard Voices: Word, Faces & Voices of Island People
by: Linsey Lee/Mark Lennihan

Softcover. Martha's Vineyard Historical Society, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, b&w photos by Mark Lennihan. It is the people of Martha's Vineyard who give voice to the Vineyard "sense of place." Here, in their own words excerpted from interviews with oral historian Linsey Lee, are the photographed portraits and stories of seventy-five Vineyarders, chronicling the continuity and the changes of life on the Vineyard over the last one hundred years. We find farmers, fishermen, neighbors, boat builders and summer people. There are stories of shipwrecks, race relations, ice cutting, rum running, one-room schoolhouses, whaling captains and whaling wives, Portuguese customs, Wampanoag heritage and more, chronicling a way of life that has continued for generations and is fast disappearing.

Record # 374311

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Silent Screens the Decline and Transformation of the American Movie Theater by: Putnam, Michael
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Silent Screens the Decline and Transformation of the American Movie Theater
by: Putnam, Michael

Hardcover. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Starkly beautiful photos of abandoned and converted movie theaters with new essays by Peter Bogdanovich, Molly Haskell, Andrew Sarris, and Chester H. Liebs. The single-screen movie theaters that punctuated small-town America's main streets and city neighborhoods since the 1920s are all but gone. The well-dressed throng of moviegoers has vanished; the facades are boarded. In Silent Screens, photographer Michael Putnam captures these once prominent cinemas in decline and transformation. His photographs of abandoned movie houses and forlorn marquees are an elegy to this disappearing cultural icon.

Record # 374318

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Small Town America by: Plowden, David
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Small Town America
by: Plowden, David

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages, b&w plates. An accomplished photographer of the American scene presents a unique artistic record that captures a vanishing part of our country, the main streets, barber shops, schoolhouses, and inhabitants of our small towns. In his 19th book on the American scene, Plowden has focused on what epitomizes small towns-before this endangered species disappears altogether. The well-produced images, arranged roughly by topic (e.g., schools, theaters, churches, home interiors, restaurants, stores, and grain elevators) and representing towns in many states (including Iowa, Kansas, West Virginia, New York, Minnesota, and Idaho), speak eloquently of small-town life. Even more so, they speak of change; by the time Plowden photographed these towns, most had been cut off from their rural heritages. Nevertheless, the photographs convey order, calm, and congeniality; the best of them evoke the work of Walker Evans, who, like Plowden, left scenes unaltered when he photographed them. Clean copy.

Record # 374328

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

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

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

The Jewish Writer by: Jill Krementz
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The Jewish Writer
by: Jill Krementz

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt & Co., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. The noted photojournalist draws on her archive of photographs of the most important Jewish writers of the twentieth century to present an album of ninety pictures accompanied by an assessment of their significance

Record # 374407

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Love, Cecil: A Journey with Cecil Beaton by: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
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Love, Cecil: A Journey with Cecil Beaton
by: Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket. Light bumps on bottom edge front cover edge.

Record # 374435

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Striptease Artists of the 1950s by: Bunny Yeager
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Striptease Artists of the 1950s
by: Bunny Yeager

Softcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer Books, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages, b&w photos throughout. Here are the ladies who pioneered and perfected the art of titillating performance in the 1950s, as captured by famous female photographer and pin-up girl Bunny Yeager. Celebrities shown include Dixie Evans, Blaze Starr, Bonnie Bell, Michelle Toots LAmour, and Kitten DeVille, and Lana Loy. These women practiced the art of teasing with varying and increasing degrees of nudity, and were billed under many monikers, including stripper, exotic or erotic dancer, burlesque queen, and stripteuse. Though most strip clubs have abandoned the delayed gratification of teasing in recent decades, the art of striptease is undergoing revival. Yeagers images embody the mix of sultry and playful that characterized the art during the 1950s. Here famous subjects pose in the spotlight amidst smoky nightclubs, as well as at home or relaxing on the beach. If you love women, youll love this journey back into the era of the 1950s.

Record # 374438

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Working in Times Square Is Hell and I Love It: Pictures From 2007-2016 by: Ben Van Buren
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Working in Times Square Is Hell and I Love It: Pictures From 2007-2016
by: Ben Van Buren

Softcover. NY, Yonkers International Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations. The author promoted New York theater productions in Times Square. Amid the tourists and street performers he took these b&w photos. Inferior printing job but a fascinating record nevertheless. Uncommon.

Record # 374442

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Vermont People (SIGNED COPY) by: Miller, Peter
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Vermont People (SIGNED COPY)
by: Miller, Peter

Hardcover. Waterbury VT, Vermont People Project, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY MILLER on the title page. Photographs and text about native Vermonters discussing their life and the change they have seen in Vermont during the latter part of the 20th Century as the state turns from a rural, agriculture society. They are a disappearing culture. Clean copy.

Record # 374560

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Saint Paul de Vence: Paul, Jacques, Yves et les autres by: Gomot, Jacques (photog.) Verdet, Andr
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Saint Paul de Vence: Paul, Jacques, Yves et les autres by: Gomot, Jacques (photog.) Verdet, AndrSaint Paul de Vence: Paul, Jacques, Yves et les autres by: Gomot, Jacques (photog.) Verdet, Andr

Saint Paul de Vence: Paul, Jacques, Yves et les autres
by: Gomot, Jacques (photog.) Verdet, Andr

Hardcover. Editions Dromadaire, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 140 pages with b&w photos. Gomot was a local photographer in the ancient and picturesque French village of Saint Paul. The town became a favored vacation spot for artists, movie personalities and other celebrities in the 1950s and 60s. Many French stars like Simone Signoret, Jean BelMondo, as well as other film stars like Sophia Loren, David Niven, Kirk Douglas and Paul Newman are pictured drinking, eating and dancing at local gathering spots.Text in French and English. Clean copy. Limited to 3000 copies.

Record # 374710

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

La Muraille de Chine by: Leonardo Bonzi
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La Muraille de Chine
by: Leonardo Bonzi

Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 89 pages. FRENCH TEXT. A pictorial documentary on the great interior of China and it's people, color and b&w photos. Clean copy.

Record # 374937

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Following the Frontier with F. Jay Haynes, Pioneer Photographer of the Old West by: Tilden, Freeman
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Following the Frontier with F. Jay Haynes, Pioneer Photographer of the Old West by: Tilden, FreemanFollowing the Frontier with F. Jay Haynes, Pioneer Photographer of the Old West by: Tilden, Freeman

Following the Frontier with F. Jay Haynes, Pioneer Photographer of the Old West
by: Tilden, Freeman

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 414 pages, numerous b/w illustrations, owner's gift inscription on endpaper, slight foxing, text clean and sound. Small paper scar at bottom of spine where sticker was removed.

Record # 374950

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Life and Work of Sid Grossman by: Keith Davis / Sid Grossman
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The Life and Work of Sid Grossman by: Keith Davis / Sid GrossmanThe Life and Work of Sid Grossman by: Keith Davis / Sid Grossman

The Life and Work of Sid Grossman
by: Keith Davis / Sid Grossman

Hardcover. GR, Steidl, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sid Grossman (1913-55) and his work were largely forgotten after his untimely death in 1955. Labeled as a communist by the FBI after the war, his hard-earned reputation as a free-thinking photographer quickly fell into oblivion for the rest of the century and beyond. Grossman was one of the founders of the famous New York Photo League and a notoriously demanding and capricious teacher who always challenged his students. This monograph, the first comprehensive survey of Grossman's life and work, contains more than 150 photographs that demonstrate Grossman's enduring talent. The images range from his early social documentary of the late 1930s to the more personal, dynamic street photography of the late 1940s, as well as later experiments with abstraction in both black and white and color. It features an essay by renowned historian Keith F. Davis, and concludes with excerpted transcripts from recordings of a course Grossman taught in 1950.

Record # 374977

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

James Karales by: James Karales
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James Karales
by: James Karales

Hardcover. GR, Steidl , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "James Karales (1930-2002) was big-time in the best time but is not as well-known as he should be," argues photographic historian Vicki Goldberg. This book will change that. Early in his career, Karales began a photo-essay documenting Rendville, Ohio, an important stop on the Underground Railroad during the Civil War and one of the few racially integrated communities in America in the late 1950s. These pictures demonstrate his striking ability to capture the essential qualities of a community, are reminiscent of images made for the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, and reflect Karales' state of mind as he grappled with the racial issues that were to preoccupy him and America for many years to come. Karales worked for Look from 1960 until it ceased publication in 1971. Among many important assignments for the magazine, Karales documented Martin Luther King and the fifty-mile, five-day Selma (Alabama) march in 1965. Fifteen minutes before the end of the march, the sky darkened and Karales' wide-angle shot of the protesters silhouetted against the horizon has since become an emblem of the march and has insured the photographer's place in this tumultuous period of American history. In this new publication we discover that Karales' stature as a photojournalist and social documentary photographer par excellence is based on much more than one iconic image.

Record # 374979

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Scavullo on Beauty by: Scavullo, Francesco
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Scavullo on Beauty
by: Scavullo, Francesco

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust. B&w photos by Scavullo of top models along with their beauty secrets. Clean copy.

Record # 375074

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Imogen! Imogen Cunningham Photographs 1910-1973 by: Imogen Cunningham, Introduction: Margery Mann
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Imogen! Imogen Cunningham Photographs 1910-1973
by: Imogen Cunningham, Introduction: Margery Mann

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Introduction by Margery Mann. A retrospective look at Cunningham's long career. Includes many of her best images. B&w images throughout. A clean copy in wrappers.

Record # 375400

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Bruce Davidson Photographs by: Bruce Davidson
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Bruce Davidson Photographs
by: Bruce Davidson

Hardcover. NY, Agrinde Publications, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, brown paper-covered boards over beige cloth spine, gilt lettering to spine, copiously illustrated with mostly full-page or two-page renderings of Davidson's photography, 167 pages, 11 1/4 X 11 3/4", 116 black and white photos. Introduction by Henry Geldzahler. Small ink notation on rear free endpaper otherwise clean.

Record # 375402

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960 by: John Szarkowski
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Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960
by: John Szarkowski

Softcover. NY/Boston, MOMA/New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages. Text by the brilliant curator John Szarkowski accompanies a wide ranging collection of B&W and Colour photographs by the articts such as Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Paul Caponegro, Danny Lyon, Bruce Davidson and numerous others. A tight, clean copy.

Record # 377817

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Ten Years After: Vietnam by: Tim Page
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Ten Years After: Vietnam
by: Tim Page

Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. 103 color photographs by Page. Introduction by William Shawcross. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 377832

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Walker Evans by: 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

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

National Lampoon Foto Funnies by: National Lampoon
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National Lampoon Foto Funnies
by: National Lampoon

Softcover. NY, Natioal Lampoon, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Minor wear to wrappers, clean inside.

Record # 377886

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

East Harlem: The Postwar Years by: Leo Goldstein, A.D. Coleman, et al.
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East Harlem: The Postwar Years by: Leo Goldstein, A.D. Coleman, et al.East Harlem: The Postwar Years by: Leo Goldstein, A.D. Coleman, et al.

East Harlem: The Postwar Years
by: Leo Goldstein, A.D. Coleman, et al.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2019, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. For some 70 years, Leo Goldstein's East Harlembodyof work remained mostly untouched and unseen.The silver gelatin prints were catalogued in 2016,and a selection is gathered here for the first time.The photographs were taken over a number of years,beginning in 1949 when Goldstein was a memberof the Photo League.The East Harlem corpus, edited by Regina Monfort,represents an important and unique addition to thephotographic history of New York City. Because thereare no negatives in existence, it was of particularimportance to preserve the images in book form andmake them available to the public.The selected images reflect the postwar years in theEast Harlem community, which would grow intoa center of Puerto Rican culture and life in the U.S.From the families portrayed gathering on stoops, tothe kids at their shoeshine stations, to youths playingball in the streets, to posters on neighborhood walls,Goldstein's images of East Harlem provide a windowinto the socio-economic, cultural, and politicallandscape of the time.

Record # 377888

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Sometimes Overwhelming by: Arlene Gottfried
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Sometimes Overwhelming by: Arlene GottfriedSometimes Overwhelming by: Arlene Gottfried

Sometimes Overwhelming
by: Arlene Gottfried

Softcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 2nd Ed., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Before gentrification, New York City was a gritty and inspiring place. And in its midst was Arlene Gottfried, whose eye for the sublime caught it all. Sometimes Overwhelming, her second powerHouse Book, is a manic yet romantic ode to the people of New York City in the 1970s and 80s. From Coney Island to a Hasid at Riis Beach's nude bay to the disco nights of sexual abandon and the children in the original Village Halloween parade, Sometimes Overwhelming is a delightfully lighthearted look at the most outrageous people you might ever see.

Record # 377889

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Pilgrims : Becoming the Path Itself by: Lena and Werner Herzog
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Pilgrims : Becoming the Path Itself
by: Lena and Werner Herzog

Hardcover. London, Arcperiplus Publishing, 1st UK, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Two major events in the Buddhist world occurred in 2002. In January, the small village of Bodhgaya in Bihar, India, was chosen by the Dalai Lama as the site for the highly important Kalachakra Initiation ceremony. Some half-million pilgrims made their way there by any means possible. In May, at the holy Mount Kailash in Tibet, the celebration of the Buddha's birth and death was particularly auspicious in this Year of the Horse, and the usual trickle of pilgrims swelled to tens of thousands. Photographer Lena Herzog, wife of film director Werner Herzog, presents this evocative album of 146 color images of the holy and the penitent.

Record # 377894

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Notman: Visionary Photographer by: H
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Notman: Visionary Photographer
by: H

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Hazan, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. This beautifully illustrated book offers a comprehensive look at the career of photographer William Notman (1826-1891). Born in Scotland, Notman emigrated to Canada in 1856; he settled in Montreal and opened a photography studio that later had branches throughout Canada and the United States. Notman documented the development of a continent, photographing street scenes in burgeoning cities and modern transportation by steam and rail, and creating portraits of such notable figures as Mark Twain, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sitting Bull, and Buffalo Bill. By fully exploiting the commercial and aesthetic potential of the rapidly advancing photographic technology, Notman contributed to the establishment of the socio-economic prominence of Montreal and played a key role in the formation of a Canadian national identity. Published and unpublished photographs are paired with texts that explore the photographer's numerous achievements.

Record # 377959

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Notman: Visionary Photographer by: H
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Notman: Visionary Photographer
by: H

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Hazan, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. This beautifully illustrated book offers a comprehensive look at the career of photographer William Notman (1826-1891). Born in Scotland, Notman emigrated to Canada in 1856; he settled in Montreal and opened a photography studio that later had branches throughout Canada and the United States. Notman documented the development of a continent, photographing street scenes in burgeoning cities and modern transportation by steam and rail, and creating portraits of such notable figures as Mark Twain, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sitting Bull, and Buffalo Bill. By fully exploiting the commercial and aesthetic potential of the rapidly advancing photographic technology, Notman contributed to the establishment of the socio-economic prominence of Montreal and played a key role in the formation of a Canadian national identity. Published and unpublished photographs are paired with texts that explore the photographer's numerous achievements.

Record # 377960

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Anthony Friedkin: The Gay Essay by: Julian Cox, Eileen Myles, et al.
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Anthony Friedkin: The Gay Essay
by: Julian Cox, Eileen Myles, et al.

Hardcover. Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 143 pages. An unprecedented look at a moving photographic series that chronicles the gay communities of Los Angeles and San Francisco from 1969 to 1972. For more than forty years, American photographer Anthony Friedkin (b. 1949), creating full-frame black-and-white images, has documented people, cities, and landscapes primarily in his home state of California. During the culturally tumultuous years of 1969 and 1970, Friedkin made a series of photographs that together offer an eloquent and expressive visual chronicle of the gay communities of Los Angeles and San Francisco at the time. This is the first book to explore the series, titled The Gay Essay, in depth, within the broader historical context that gave rise to it. 1969 witnessed the Stonewall riots in New York City and was a turning point in the history of community building and organized political activism among homosexuals in the United States. The Gay Essay provides a singular, intimate record of this crucial moment. Friedkin's portraits, taken in streets, hotels, bars, and dancehalls, demonstrate a sensitivity and an understanding that has imbued the photographs with an enduring resonance. This handsome book features seventy-five full-page plates and is accompanied by engaging essays and a poem by Eileen Myles.

Record # 377961

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 


  

Out-of-Print & Collectible Photography Books

Our photography collection covers monographs, retrospectives and survey histories in used, rare and out-of-print editions. Browse artist volumes such as Paul Strand: The World on My Doorstep, James Van Der Zee and Brigitte Lacombe, alongside period studies like Roy Flukinger's The Formative Decades: Photography in Great Britain, 1839-1920.

The range extends from fine-art portraiture and fashion, including Steichen in Color, to documentary and landscape work such as Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West. Many are exhibition catalogues and plate-heavy hardcovers valued by collectors, and signed or limited printings surface here from time to time.

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