Hardcover. Loa Angeles, Los Angeles Times, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Hollywood's classic stars were icons for most of the world. But for The Los Angeles Times and The Los Angeles Mirror, these celebrities were the stuff of everyday local news. And the newspapers' photographers were on hand to record all the important events of Los Angeles' emerging film community. Marriages. Divorces. Births. Even, perhaps especially, arrests, court appearances and suicides. You'll find 200 of these extraordinary photos inside, many of them in their first-ever printing. You'll see Marilyn Monroe as she entered Hollywood, and as she left it; Liz Taylor when she signed her first studio contract at age 11 and as she lived with it for the next four decades; Mae West, in wax and in trouble. Also pictured are Jane Russell, Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Errol Flynn and scores of other stars at the height, and sometimes the depth, of their Hollywood lives.
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,
New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated black cloth, 160 pages. An amazing treasure trove of unpublished images, this intriguing and entertaining book looks at how women explored their identity through popular photography in the 20th centurySnapshots preserve more than individual likeness and memory. Photographs of celebrations, vacations, and gatherings of family and friends are collected with the aim of constructing and preserving a personal identity for future generations. What happens, however, when a snapshot is subsequently discarded or displaced and becomes merely an "anonymous" image? This and many other questions are discussed in this fascinating selection of anonymous images depicting three women. Presumably all taken by nonprofessionals, these snapshots were acquired over time by a private collector interested in their eclectic yet familiar details, who named the grouping after the iconic Greco-Roman motif.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press / A Studio Book, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. A classic retrospective monograph with an introduction by Cyril Connolly. Includes many of Brandt's best known images. Survey of the British photographer's images from the 1930s-60s, including nudes, landscapes, portraits of many artists and writers, and shots of British every day life among the various classes. Notes by Marjorie Beckett. Mostly black and white photographs, but a few color shots at the rear. Clean, bright copy with fragments of dust jacket laid in.
Softcover. NY, Ziff-Davis Publications,, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. 282 pages of b&w and color photographs by various photographers from the previous year. Bright, clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Ziff-Davis Publications,, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. 250 pages of b&w and color photographs by various photographers from the previous year. Bright, clean copy. . Photographers' Index. Among photographers : Hugh Bell, Don Briggs, Frank Cowan, Yousuf Karsh (Casals & Steinbeck), Cartier-Bresson, Sanford Roth, George Tames, Garry Winogrand, many others.
Softcover. NY, Ziff-Davis Publications,, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. 250 pages of b&w and color photographs by various photographers from the previous year. Bright, clean copy. . Photographers' Index. Photographic essays : Ansel Adams "Master of Daylight", Ed Feingersh "Master of Available Light", Philippe Halsman "Master of Artifical Light", and more
Softcover. NY, Ziff-Davis Publications,, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. 282 pages of b&w and color photographs by various photographers from the previous year. Bright, clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Ziff-Davis Publications,, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. 282 pages of b&w and color photographs by various photographers from the previous year. Bright, clean copy. Photographers's Index. Among photographers : Rawlings (cover), Bagby, Brassai, Case, Doisneau, DeCarava, Mydans, Schneiders, W. Eugene Smith, Weiner, many others.
Softcover. NY, Ziff-Davis Publications,, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. 250 pages of b&w and color photographs by various photographers from the previous year. Bright, clean copy. Photographers's Index. Among photographers: Garry Winogrand, Cornell Capa, Horace Bristol, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Izis, Angus McDougall, Philippe Halsman, Milton H. Greene, Takamasa Inamura, Ralph Ginzburg, Robert Doisneau, Bruce L. Davidson, Andreas Feininger, Francesco Scavullo, many others.
Softcover. NY, Ziff-Davis Publications,, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. 250 pages of b&w and color photographs by various photographers from the previous year. Bright, clean copy. Photographers's Index. Among photographers: Tom Kelly (cover), W. Eugene Smith "Portfolio", Margaret Bourke-White, Yousuf Karsh "President Eisenhower", Edgerton, Halsman, Leiter, Nilsson, Parks, Irving Penn, Schneiders, Ultang, many others.
Softcover. NY, Ziff-Davis Publications,, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. 250 pages of b&w and color photographs by various photographers from the previous year. Bright, clean copy. Photographers's Index. Among photographers: Ansel Adams "Master of Daylight", Ed Feingersh "Master of Available Light", Philippe Halsman "Master of Artifical Light", Bert Stern, Newman, many others.
Softcover. NY, Ziff-Davis Publications,, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. 242 pages of b&w and color photographs by various photographers from the previous year. Bright, clean copy. Photographers's Index. Among photographers: Richard Avedon; a portfolio by Bruce Davidson; a tribute to Dan Weiner; and work by Elliott Erwitt, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Wingate Paine, Irving Penn, David Douglas Duncan, Weege many others.
Bologna, Damiani, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 280 pages. American fashion photographer James Moore (1936-2006) was an influential voice in mid-20th-century fashion photography, working for Harper's Bazaar during its 1960s heyday under the leadership of legendary editor Carmel Snow. Shooting languid mod gamines and luxe bohemians in arresting, often surreal or cinematic compositions, Moore helped shape the visual vocabulary of '60s fashion alongside better-known colleagues such as art director Alexey Brodovitch (under whom Moore studied). Moore also directed television commercials and contributed photographs to European magazines in the 1980s and 1990s, and taught photography at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and the Rochester Institute of Technology.Every Moore photograph is an intricate exploration of space and beauty, with an attention to detail that betrays the photographer's peerless eye. Something of a "photographer's photographer," Moore influenced the next generation of great fashion photographers but has been somewhat neglected in histories of 1960s fashion and culture--until now. James Moore: Photographs 1962-2006 collects a half century of extraordinary photographs by Moore, the first time his work has been collected in a single monograph. Including texts from the leading editors, models, photographers and designers of the day, this volume takes stock of James Moore's astounding career and an extraordinary cultural moment.
NY, Abrams Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 380 pqges, color and b&w photos. An action-packed memoir that takes readers on the road with rock and roll's hardest-working photographer. Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and connected photographers in rock and roll. For almost 50 years, he has documented the music scene in pictures that have captured the world's attention. Right Place, Right Time is Gruen's first written account of his winding, adventure-filled journey. He takes us on visits to John and Yoko's apartment, on a cross-country road trip with the Ike and Tina Turner band, to Glasgow with Debbie Harry, backstage with KISS, inside CBGB, and on the bus as he swaps steel-toed boots with Sid Vicious. In wildly entertaining stories and iconic images, Gruen gives the reader a unique window into the evolution of American music culture over the last five decades.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 216 pages. Galleries of Friendship and Fame is the first comprehensive investigation of the origin, development, and practices of 19th-century American photograph albums. In this fascinating book, the author argues that the album--whether functioning as family record, parlor entertainment, social register, national portrait gallery, or advertisement for photography itself--helped transform the nature of self-presentation at the cusp of modernity.This handsome volume examines carte de visite and cabinet card albums from their introduction in the United States in 1861 through the rise of the snapshot at the century's end. By examining a wealth of previously overlooked primary materials, this study offers a completely new understanding of photograph albums, revealing how they emerged, how they were marketed and sold, and how families displayed and told stories through them. Galleries of Friendship and Fame addresses the history of technology and innovation, the interconnectedness of the commercial and domestic spheres, and the ways photography helped shape notions of identity, family, and nation in a rapidly changing America.
Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped with dark blue design, 124 pages, sepia tone photos throughout. This work is Gilpin's photographic love letter to the Pueblos of the southwest. Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) attained international recognition as photographer and her images of the Navajo and Pueblo peoples of the four corners area offer an important record of these cultures. She excelled in a field that up to the point, had largely been the purview of men. Cloth covers with edgewear, light soil. Inscription on inside front cover. Covers fair, interior good+.
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.
Hardcover. Paris, Editions de Lodi, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, glossy boards in a matching bright dust jacket. Large format, 484 pages, FRENCH TEXT. A collection of over 500 historical photos of old Paris printed in sepia tone. Around 1832 Parisian-born Charles-Francois Bossu (1813-1879) shed his unfortunate last name (bossu means hunchback in French) and adopted the pseudonym Marville. After achieving moderate success as an illustrator of books and magazines, Marville shifted course in 1850 and took up photography, a medium that had been introduced 11 years earlier. His poetic urban views, detailed architectural studies, and picturesque landscapes quickly garnered praise.By the end of the 1850s, Marville had established a reputation as an accomplished and versatile photographer. From 1862, as official photographer for the city of Paris, he documented aspects of the radical modernization program that had been launched by Emperor Napoleon III and his chief urban planner, Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann. In this capacity, Marville photographed the city's oldest quarters, and especially the narrow, winding streets slated for demolition. Even as he recorded the disappearance of Old Paris, Marville turned his camera on the new city that had begun to emerge. Many of his photographs celebrate its glamour and comforts, while other views of the city's desolate outskirts attest to the unsettling social and physical changes wrought by rapid modernization. Taken as a whole, Marville's photographs of Paris stand as one of the earliest and most powerful explorations of urban transformation on a grand scale. Clean, bright copy.
London, Hardie Grant, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed black boards stamped in white, 250 pages, color photos. Wanting You to Want Me is a collection of anonymous stories from the world of London strip clubs, documented by the women themselves. The stories range from behind-the-scenes conversations in the changing rooms, to dancefloor and private room etiquette, from emotional and intellectual connections between dancer and client, to the often-blurred boundaries that exist in between.Journalist Emily Dinsdale and filmmaker Bronwen Parker-Rhodes have collected images and stories from the women working in the London strip clubs over several years. Having been part of the industry themselves, they have a unique and intimate access to the seldom-heard stories, giving voice to an age-old industry, from the perspective of the traditionally voiceless workers. Supported by original, behind the scenes photography from the authors, these narratives express vulnerability, empowerment, curiosity and the complexity and duplicity of relationships--in short, what it is to be human.
Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Minnesota Historical Society, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 143 pages, b&w photos throughout. After serving in World War II, John Glanton returned home to Minnesota and began taking his camera around the streets, parks, clubs, restaurants, and private homes of Minneapolis, capturing the sights and scenes of everyday life for African Americans in the city. The images--from intimate portraits to public gatherings--reveal a dynamic and diverse community at a time when the nation was entering the postwar boom but before the civil rights movement had taken root. Glanton's photos offer a rare look into the lives and lifestyles of families and individuals often left out of histories of Minnesota's past, showing people at work and play, young and old, happy and sad. The images highlight black-owned businesses of the day, the music and club scene, and weddings and other family occasions to depict the experiences of African American people as presented through the lens of an African American photographer. Long forgotten in the garage of a family member, the photo negatives were recently rediscovered and digitized. A selection of 200 of the more than 800 images are featured here, along with commentary that further illuminates the lives and experiences of African Americans in postwar Minnesota.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams/Hood Museum of Art, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A beautiful and intimate treatment of the architecture of the early industrialization of New England. 108 pages of color plates. Essays by Noel Perrin & Kenneth Breisch. Clean copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st pbk, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 180 pages. A retrospective examination of the pioneering 20th-century photographer's work that spanned some seventy years. Drawn primarily from Cunningham's archives at the Imogen Cunningham Trust, the most complete collection of her prints and negatives in the world. 120 black-and-white photographs. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institute Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 54 pages. The most well-known celebrity photographer working today focuses on a longtime fascination: dance. This collection of photographs features portraits of Mikhail Baryshnikov, taken over a period of more than ten years, which show the man behind the legend and also includes a selection of photos of other dancers. 30 black-and-white photographs. Light soil to covers.
Hardcover. Boston MA, Boston Globe, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 122 pages, b&w plates. A collection of over 100 b&w photographs about various subjects & impressions by a German immigrant who became a staff photographer on 'The Boston Globe'. SIGNED, inscribed & dated in year of publication by the Author on copyright page. Previous owner's name in bold letters on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 361 pages, b&w plates throughout. Portrays America in the last years of the Great Depression and the first years of World War II in nearly three hundred images by Lange, Delano, Evans, Vachon, Collins, Lee, Rothstein, Parks, Bubley, Wolcott, et al. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Spurl Editions, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Color plates throughout, unpaginated. Limited to 500 copies. Clean. Documents the eerie fragments of existence left behind in one city. John Brian King photographed RIVIERA from 2016 to 2018 in Palm Springs, California, and its surroundings; a full-time resident at the time, he used a cheap instant film camera to give his photographs a unique, washed-out, hazy aesthetic. King depicts a city that is frozen in a visually arresting state of decline.
Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 165 pages. Little is known about the fifth and last western expedition of the celebrated explorer John Charles Frmont. The great effort to survey a transcontinental railway route across the 38th parallel ended short of success in the snows of Utah in 1854 but involved a meticulous photographic documentation-in daguerreotypes-of the route from the Mississippi westward. It was believed that a central railroad across the country would favor abolitionists in the great debate then raging in the country over slavery. Solomon Nunes Carvalho was hired by Frmont to photograph the expedition-the first time a western expeditionary survey had been systematically documented in photographs. Tragically, the daguerreotypes were destroyed by fire, and Fremont's fifth expedition was lost to history. Author and daguerreotypist Robert Shlaer remarkably has reconstructed the expedition in 120 original daguerreotypes. Using Frmont's maps, expedition documents, and Carvalho's diary accounts, Shlaer recreates the lost expedition across America's most breathtaking landscape using photography's first and most venerable method of daguerreotypy.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, color illustrations. a noted commercial photogrpher shows how he approaches and executes a given job. 30 color plates with commentary. Also a lengthy interview with Maisel by editor Susan Weiley.
Hardcover. Wake Forest University Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Introduction by Ciaran Carson. A collection of 70 duotone photographs that transforms the visually dramatic landscape of Donegal into a dramatic visual narrative of its places & people. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, oblong format. 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. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Framingham MA, Old America Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt, 306 pages. Illustrated by the author with many b&w photos and sketches. SIGNED BY NUTTING on the front fly leaf. A pictorial history of Virginia, mostly landscapes and buildings. Spine gilt faded, clean copy.
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.
Hannibal Publishing , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 394 pages; in English and Dutch. First overview of portrait photographer Koos Breukel's work at the retrospective at Den Haag. 'Me, We' was the full text of the improvised poem that Muhammad Ali delivered to a crowd of Harvard students in 1975. It can be interpreted as a cheerful tribute to life, expressing unity and at the same time individuality. Dutch photographer Koos Breukel (1962) chose it as the title for this book that assembles portraits from the first 30 years of his career, focusing on the circle of life: be born, grow up, develop and express yourself, love, suffer and die. Koos Breukel is a portraitist of farmers and artists, newborn babies and politicians, the sick and the old. ME WE, with a poignant contribution by the prizewinning author Erwin Mortier, is Breukel's mid-career retrospective as well as his homage to life. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Wellington NZ, Listener, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 159 pages in color. This book is the record of a personal journey by two men, a writer and a photographer, into the rural heartland of New Zealand. covers musters in Glenray Station deep in the high back country of Southland. From that experience grew the idea of taking part in different kinds of sheep and cattle musters throughout N.z. from the rivers of Westland to the dunes of Northland, from the remote east coast to the South Island's vast Molesworth Station. The idea was to capture the glory of these uniquely NZ farming adventures which had already endured intact for 100 years, before inevitable changes in landscape and methods. This book is a feast of back-country colour and action which you will never ever get to see unless invited along. Mild tanning to dust jacket at top and bottom edge. Otherwise clean and bright.
Hardcover. Dobbs Ferry NY, Morgan & Morgan, Revised Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan covers with maroon lettering. No dust jacket. 164 pages. A revised edition of the famed photographic dance document. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Updated choreography record and statements by both Martha Graham and Barbara Morgan. Clean copy.
Softcover. Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Softcover, pictorial boards with chipped glassine wrappers. An atmospheric, engaging set of photographs of post-war London alongside Prevert's poetry. 136 pages, handsome b/w photogravures by Izis-Bidermanas. FRENCH TEXT.
Softcover. Corte Madera CA, Gingko Press, 1st, 1998, Softcover, 96 pages. This book is a collection of rare, previously unpublished, photographs from The International Historical Press Photo Collection of Stockholm that provide fascinating glimpses of everyday life in one of the world's greatest cities during the 1920s and 1930s. These remarkable, large format images open a window to the past that is absolutely stunning. London in the twenties and thirties was still a hub of a powerful empire - an exciting, lively place that brought people and goods together fromall over the world. It is shown here wearing many different faces, but one thing is clear: London has always been full of hustle and bustle. Pulsating street scenes, vibrant architectural portraits, and touching human encounters all come together to create an image of a city that was every bit as exciting then, as it is now.
Hardcover. Switzerland, A. Guichard, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A very good hardcover copy, 126 pages with decorative burgundy boards and gilding on the spine and covers. Covers, spine head and tail have some light wear. Small scrape on front cover. Tight binding. Clean pages. Though not indicated as such, appears to be a book of 164 facsimile tipped-in plates. Production by Edita S. A. Lausanne. Illustration by Imprimerie Centrale Lausanne S. A. Text by Offset Jean Genoud S. A. Lausanne. Engraving by Photogravure Dupuis & Cie Lausanne. Binding by Maurice Busenhart, Lausanne.
Hardcover. Berkeley, University Of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with silver lettering in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. An immensely important record of black life in Chicago at the near end of the 1940's. Apart from a few photos of entertainers the rest capture, in fascinating detail, life in Chicago's south side. The workplace and workers, interiors of homes and bars, parades, funerals, sport and street scenes with plenty of activity. The detail in all these pictures is impressive and typical of Miller's eye to capture a scene that reveals so much. Foreword by Orville Schell. commentaries by Gordon Parks and Robert Stepto. Small color sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. B&w photographs. Collaborating with some of the world's finest dancers from such illustrious dance companies as the Martha Graham Dance Company, Pilobolus, San Francisco Ballet, the Parsons Dance Company, and Ballet Tech, she captures moments of startling grace and power. In 90 duotone images, Greenfield's dancers defy gravity and push the limits of the possible. A preface takes us behind the scenes in her studio, and the photographer's own captions illuminate the challenges of making pictures that recreate the seeming effortlessness of dance. As inspiring as it is technically remarkable, this collection of incomparable images is sure to captivate dance lovers, photographers, and all who admire the beauty and strength of the human body.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Imaginative, artistic photography and stunning b&w photographs of luminaries such as Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper, Therese Duncan, The Sandburgs, Katherine Cornell, Gallant Fox and countless more. Despite having a 1963 date on the title page this is a later reprint with an ISBN number and no color images (as were in the first printing). Also the initials A.L.I.P. where flap price should be. Still, in beautiful condition with a nice dust jacket.
Softcover. London, Vision On, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages of b&w and color photos. Willoughby became one of the very few photographers to capture not only the charm, charisma and dangerous cool of Sinatra the untouchable "Chairman of the Board", but also the tenderness and fragility of Frankie the father, the friend and human being. Beginning on the set of his Oscar-winning portrayal of Maggio in From Here To Eternity, through to the heady, hard-drinking razzmatazz of the Rat Pack's Las Vegas residency to film the original Ocean's 11, Tilloughby's beautifully collated portfolio includes stolen moments between Sinatra and a host of his friends and costars, including Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Shirley MacLaine and Judy Garland. Elsewhere in the book we see Sinatra negotiating with film producers, hanging with fellow Rats, giving it the irresistible "Old Blue-Eyes" whammy to Kim Novak and Juliet Prowse, turning on the magic on stage and enjoying quiet moments at home with his daughter Nancy. And while many of the images have become classics and will be familiar to even the most casual admirers, more still previously unpublished glimpses of Sinatra's turbulent life. Put together, they represent the most illuminating insights into the heydey of the Hoboken player ever printed. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This collection of more than 250 remarkable images is the result of seven years of painstaking fieldwork across the Pacific Ocean, using photographic techniques that Middleton developed to capture these extremely fragile creatures on camera, creatures who are astonishingly diverse in their shapes, patterns, textures, and colors--in nature's fashion show, they are the haute couture of marine life. Middleton also provides short essays that examine the place these invertebrates occupy on the tree of life, their vast array of forms, and their lives in the ocean.Scientist Bernadette Holthuis contributes profiles describing each species, many of them for the first time. Middleton's book is a stunning view of nature that harmoniously combines art and science. 255 pages in color. Clean copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New Bedford MA, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 221 pages, b&w photographs. The photographs and descriptive captions provide a wealth of information on the whaling vessel, its gear, shipboard routine, whaleboats, and the cutting in and processing of whales. The photographs the artist Ashley took for his own reference and constitute the most complete known pictorial record of a sperm whaling voyage. ... The photographs and descriptive captions provide a wealth of information on the whaling vessel, its gear, shipboard routine, whaleboats, and the cutting of whales. No dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Brown cloth boards with gilt titles, in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. 180 pages, 91 illustrations (6 in color), text by Dennis Longwell. Includes a catalog of the plates, an essay on Steichen's printing techniques, a selected bibliography and an index to the plates. Covers with mild soil, interior clean and bright. Related clippings laid in.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt decoration, in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, short closed tears. A collection of 74 color and black and white photographs by Bischof taken all over the world. Part biography, part celebration of the work of the great Swiss photographer and member of Magnum, who had been killed in a road accident five years before. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. Munchen, Georg Muller , 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt design on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 124 pages of text in German, followed by 248 b&w plates of portraits and scenes in India. One of a series of books on indigenous cultures by this publisher. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Glitterati Incorporated, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 368 pages. An expanded edition of the best-selling collection, Freeze Frame: Second Cut, featuring 150 new photographs (more than 450 in all) of stars shot on-set over a period of more than 50 years, by the planet's most famous on-set photographer, Douglas Kirkland. From Angelina Jolie and Brigitte Bardot to Baz Luhrmann and Antonio Banderas, Kirkland, an artist in his own right, has been chronicling the making of films for more than half a century through his lens, and his riveting images take us behind the scenes to reveal much about the way movies are made. Going beyond the first edition, this book includes stories and anecdotes of behind the scenes, along with the pictures ranging from the 1960s through the 2000s. Here is a glamorous volume in a luxurious oversized format, chock-full of amazing portraits of the most illustrious and talented movie stars, directors, and performers from the last half-century of movie-making. Clean copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
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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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