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Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 464 pages. An autobiography from this important photographer. Includes numerous color and black and white images. A record of the photographic career of David Douglas Duncan, LIFE photographer and chronicler of wars from 1939 to Vietnam. From Picasso's private life and his unknown paintings to never-photographed treasures in Moscow's Kremlin, to America's historic 1968 Presidential Convention (also NBC's first photo-news one-man report), the results of Duncan's exuberance and keen eye are finally assembled in Photo Nomad. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 118 pages with b&w plates. From Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, Tunisia, Syria, and Jordan, Jodice's luminous photographs evoke a vision of Mediterranean civilization that is a conflation of history and mythology. His dramatic yet ethereal images refuse both classical and contemporary boundaries in a fusion of the topographical and the intimate. Ruined temples, lost cities, heroic landscapes, gods and goddesses, vistas of Vesuvius and of the omnipresent sea transcend the constraints of their historical context in terms of both time and space. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Barre VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 232 pages. Foreword by Harold Holzer & Donald H. Wickman. A very well done book on the history of the Union Soldiers of Vermont. B&w photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Gottingen, Steidl/ICP , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 175 pages. In 1934, after reading John Dos Passos' 1919, Gerda Taro left her home in Stuttgart for Paris. There she met the now legendary photographer Robert Capa, with whom she traveled to Spain at the start of the Civil War. As his lover and photographic partner--and as his manager--she is often credited with launching his career. She was also the first woman photojournalist to enter the heat of battle. The couple worked together until Taro was killed while photographing a crucial clash near Madrid in July 1937, just six days shy of her twenty-sixth birthday. The International Center of Photography holds by far the world's largest collection of Taro's work, including approximately 200 prints as well as original negatives. This selective survey of the ICP's holdings is organized chronologically, and set in context with the inclusion of magazine layouts; it is the first major collection of Gerda Taro's photographs ever published. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Koln, Benedikt Taschen, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. At the turn of the 20th century the cigarette was both symbolic of emancipation and evocative of female eroticism. The photographs collected in this volume illustrate the piquant fascination of that blue-grey haze. sepia tone photos throughout of partially clothed and nude women smoking and holding cigarettes. Erotic. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with 2 closed tears. Introduction by Ann Beattie. 37 black-and-white photographs by Sally Mann. 53 pages. Slim square 4to, light grey cloth, Dust jacket with $25.00. Book and pages clean and bright.

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st pbk, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 133 pages. For eighteen months in the mid-eighties, photographer Richard Misrach roamed through the natural beauty and man-made devastation of Bravo 20 [bombing range], while Myriam Weisang Misrach researched the history of military expansionism-and local protest- in the West. The result is a book that not only documents the ongoing battle for Bravo 20, but offers a suggestion on what best to do with the burst shells, bombed-out buses, automobile hulls, and other naval detritus: leave it right where it is. New. In shrink wrap.

Softcover. London, Merrell Publishers, 1st pbk, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages, mostly b&w photos, some color. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 16 - Apr. 29, 2001. The 94 African American photographers whose works appear in this volume, have used their equipment as tools of social commentary and personal and artistic exploration, bearing witness to the changes in American society over the past 50 years. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 202 pages. A collection of 188 portraits of world leaders, artists, writers, and celebrities by Armenian-Canadian photographer, Yousuf Karsh . With portraits of Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and numerous other twentieth-century luminaries. 12 in color. Small nick to dj cover at bottom edge, previous owner's inscription on verso of front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, very good copy.

Softcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 3rd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 9 3/4 " - 12" tall. Foreword by Ntozake Shange. 91 full-page plates in black-and-white by Robert Mapplethorpe; from the inside of the front cover: "Mapplethorpe's exquisitely printed pictures of both gay and straight males are explicit and erotic. In their use of flattering lights and lavish deep-toned printing, they openly declare their bold belief in the esthetic equality of the male as model. But Mapplethorpe's pictures ironically confirm the Kenneth Clark doctrine: despite their smart, gleaming finish, they hail the body divine in the most traditional manner--with the sexes swapped." Clean copy

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

Softcover. NY, Pantheon, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 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. This edition was printed in Switzerland by Jean Genoud under the direst supervision of Robert Frank. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. London, Greenhill Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. More than 200 images, together with the original German captions and English translations, portray the life and times of a career officer, from the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, to operations in Russia, Greece and the Balkans during 1941-44. In comparison with other units of the Second World War, relatively little has been published about Germany's commando forces. This unique collection of rare images was sourced from the photograph album of Wilhelm Walther.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 167 pages. A previously unpublished photo series by Irwin Klein of northern New Mexican counterculture communes from 1967-1971 blended with modern essays on the topic. Dropouts, renegades, utopians. Children of the urban middle class and old beatniks living alone, as couples, in families, or as groups in the small Nuevomexicano towns. When photographer Irwin Klein began visiting northern New Mexico in the mid-1960s, he found these self-proclaimed New Settlers and many others in the back country between Santa Fe and Taos. His black-and-white photographs captured the life of the countercultures transition to a social movement. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 100 pages. No dust jacket issued. Eugene Atget, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Andre Kertesz, Brassai, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Robert Doisneau? -some of the greatest photographers of Paris? were relatively unknown when they began their most innovative work. Not yet burdened with conventional career expectations, they found the city the perfect environment in which to invent and develop an entirely new approach to conceiving the photographic image. In the 1920s and 1930s, the generation of photographers after Atget responded not only to the physical city itself but also to a new sensibility of time as a spontaneous act. Masterworks by these now-famous visionaries of the medium are featured in this elegant book of photographs of Paris from the 1850s to the 1950s, drawn from the remarkable collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Diane Arbus. Arbus's commercial photography and articles are less well known than her other works. Her assignments for 'Esquire', 'Harper's Bazaar' and the 'Sunday Times Magazine' in London covered the leaders of theater, fashion, show business and literature. Here are over 100 portraits and feature profiles which originally accompanied them. Remainder stamp to bottom edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Diane Arbus. Arbus's commercial photography and articles are less well known than her other works. Her assignments for 'Esquire', 'Harper's Bazaar' and the 'Sunday Times Magazine' in London covered the leaders of theater, fashion, show business and literature. Here are over 100 portraits and feature profiles which originally accompanied them. Luminaries include Jayne Mansfield, Mae West, William Golding, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, and many others. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Tokyo, Parco Publishing, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, wrapped in a clear acetate cover with no printing. Unpaginated. 72 photographs including several color prints that were among the first ever collected in book form. Many portraits, including Patti Smith, Ken Moody. Text in English and Japanese. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, green cloth, gilt lettering, 144 pages. Discovered in Paris in 1987, these 80 color and 30 b&w photographs, taken about 1910-14, are artistic studies of the expressionist Russian writer, his family and friends, his home, and the countryside around St. Petersburg. Includes a biographical essay and a review of the Lumiere autochrome photographic process. Mild wear to top of dj spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

hardcover. Austin, TX, Texas Monthly Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. A collection of black & white documentary photos taken in Texas in the 1940's. 149 pages. The photographs are from the Standard Oil Company archive, compiled under the direction of Roy Stryker, and now housed at the University of Louisville. Dust jacket unclipped. Clean copy.

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages. In the early 1940s as the conflict between the Axis and the Allies spread worldwide, the U.S. State Department turned its attention to Axis influence in Latin America. As head of the Office of Inter-American Affairs, Nelson Rockefeller was charged with cultivating the region's support for the Allies while portraying Brazil and its neighbors as dependable wartime partners. Genevieve Naylor, a photojournalist previously employed by the Associated Press and the WPA, was sent to Brazil in 1940 by Rockefeller's agency to provide photographs that would support its need for propaganda. Often balking at her mundane assignments, an independent-minded Naylor produced something far different and far more rich--a stunning collection of over a thousand photographs that document a rarely seen period in Brazilian history. Accompanied by analysis from Robert M. Levine, this selection of Naylor's photographs offers a unique view of everyday life during one of modern Brazil's least-examined decades. Clean copy.

Softcover. Dayton OH, The Dayton Art Institute, 1st pbk, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, measures 12" X 12" - 342 pages, with 90 B&W, toned, and 10 color plates, plus text illustrations. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Barnes & Noble, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 162 pages, color throughout. The Tuscan countryside is among the most well-loved on earth, for its beauty, its natural bounty, its magnificent light. Award-winning photographer Joel Meyerowitz and novelist/playwright Maggie Barrett have combined talents to create a loving and personal portrait of Tuscany through the seasons. Meyerowitz provides the breathtaking images; Maggie Barrett offers poetic, evocative commentary that pays loving tribute to this alluring rural world. They take you inside everyday Tuscan life and landscape, and also capture the warmth of the people who live there and their profound connection to the land. Clean copy.

Softcover. Italy, Damiani, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. A collection of photographs of Hollywood actors, royalty and other celebrities from the golden age of Italian film--the 1950s and 1960s--arriving in Rome, back when comings and goings were event enough to merit a flash, and when the photographers who are now known as paparazzi could walk right up to the airplane steps. Here those independent lensmen--a profession and a genre born in the era documented here, one on the forefront of new realism and photojournalism--capture the salutes and waves, flamboyant and discreet, of Rome's stars as they descended to earth, seizing the mythical something that they seemed to bring with them from the sky to terra firma. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Callaway Editions, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First edition. Softbound oversize book housed in publisher's slipcase. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Schell, Orville [Foreword]; Parks, Gordon [Commentary]; Stepto, Robert B. [Commentary]. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, Wayne Miller was awarded a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation to photograph 'The Way of Life of the Northern Negro'." This project documented the wartime migration of African Americans northward, specifically looking at the black community on the south side of Chicago, covering all the emotions in daily life. The people depicted are mostly ordinary people, but some celebrities appear, such as Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Paul Robeson. He was a contributor to Magnum Photos beginning in 1958. Stamped name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st pbk, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 446 pages. This landmark book chronicles the development of a kind of photography that is created out of the energy and chance juxtapositions found in everyday life on the street. Street photography is at the heart of what makes photography unique. An unprecedented study that is the first history of this tradition ever published, Bystander explores street photography through a discussion of the medium's masters - Atget, Stieglitz, Strand, Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Kertesz, Evans, Levitt, Frank, Arbus, Winogrand, and many others - and reveals along the way much about the craft and creative process of photography. Profusely illustrated with the work of more than eighty photographers, the book is composed of four parts separated by lively folios of pictures. Each part discusses a different era - from the early days of the medium in nineteenth-century Europe, to America in the late twentieth century - and devotes entire chapters to the key figures of that period. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 300 pages. This monograph, Signs, is dedicated to Nino Migliori, one of the old masters of photography who had a significant effect on the history of Italian imagery after World War II. Signs presents a broad range of his production which has always been marked by creativity, versatility, and innovation. Included here are Miglori's portraits, landscapes, architecture, street scenes, abstract imagery, and polaroids. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An exploration of the career of Western photographer William Henry Jackson features forty photographs of such subjects as Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon and discusses how his work and life parallel the opening of the West in the 1800s. 132 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thomas Pakenham, no stranger to Africa with his award-winning books The Boer War and The Scramble for Africa, nor to remarkable trees with his bestselling Remarkable Trees of the World, combines his two interests on safari in Southern Africa. His particular quarry is the rare, the giant, the very old, the extraordinary, or the simply beautiful-from a giant baobab and a prickly quiver tree in Namibia to a glorious jacaranda in South Africa and sesame bushes attacked by elephants in Botswana. He uncovers trees written about by the great explorers of the past, or associated with magic, folklore, or ritual. The narrative accompanying each image interweaves the stories of Pakenham's own journey-at some moments scaling trees to escape from enraged wildlife, while at others standing in awe before a particular tree, connected by some primitive, atavistic bond-with those of the trees themselves, imbuing each with personality and presence. The result is a beautifully crafted blend of botany and social history, the product of a brilliant photographer, an original mind, and a superlative writer. 208 pages in color. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Washington Seen Fredric Miller and Howard Gillette bring together nearly four hundred unique photographs from the Gilded Age to the Great Society. Throughout, the focus is not on streets and monuments but on the complex relationships among the people of Washington-men and women, black and white-and the way they worked and lived. Here are Washingtonians at home and at work, at restaurant tables and lunch counters, in schools and churches, dancing the jitterbug and going to the movies, cheering the Redskins, the Senators, and the Homestead Greys. In the accompanying text, Miller and Gillette invite readers to enter into an intimate "conversation with the past," offering insightful commentary on the images of people whose faces cannot fail to captivate. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st UK, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a small close tear. The corpse of a young man lies in the street, his eyes half open, his face covered with insects. The uncaptioned image is like a jolt of electricity; no words could improve upon it. Ian Thomson's introduction confirms that life has little value in Haiti (cheap for humans, worthless for animals), a once proud nation that has declined into a police state where brutal poverty is the order of the day. Bruce Gilden's largely shocking black-and-white pictures reveal that decline as perhaps never before in a shoot-from-the-hip style of photojournalism. 120 pages. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Nashville TN, Turner Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 205 pages. Author Dermot Cole takes the reader on a journey through Alaska's pristine natural beauty and documents moments from the 1898 gold rush to the only World War II invasion on North American soil, to the long-awaited statehood and the incredible destruction wrought by the massive 1964 earthquake. Clean copy.

Softcover. Schirmer/Mosel , 1st pbk, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages, 186 duotone and color plates. Foreword by Katharine Hepburn. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 100 pages. 54 color photograph by Richard Billingham, many double-page. Edited by Michael Collins and Julian Germain. This is Billingham's best-known book, "a British family-album so cool that I can see and hear what goes on between the frames" (Robert Frank). The photographer's portrait of his alcoholic father. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Guggenheim / Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 120 pages with 70 duotone plates. 11-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches. It seems as though the twenty-first century artist has traveled back in time nearly five hundred years to photograph his famous subjects. While Sugimoto's portraits of historical figures appear to capture a lived moment in time, they are fictions. They are Images of wax museum figures shot as portraiture. Remainder mark on top edge, otherwise clean. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. During the 1950s and 60s, Tom Palumbo was part of an influential group of young photographers working for the best fashion magazines in America -Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Tom perfected his craft under the guidance of legends like Alexey Brodovitch, Carmel Snow, Diana Vreeland, and Alex Liberman. Tom's serene style contrasted with Richard Avedon's jazzed-up images and Lillian Bassman's soft blurred effects. Often Tom's particular layouts provided the balance in an issue. His pictures invariably enhanced the fashions of the 50s, where women were thought of as objects of worship, and beauty was thought of as an ideal. Tom photographed every day, producing unique images like jazz legend Miles Davis laughing. He loved taking pictures of artists like next-door neighbors Comden and Green; the young Mia Farrow and Jane Fonda; novelist Jack Kerouac. Late in life, Tom worked in theatre. But to him there was never much difference in the photographs he took or the plays he directed since both contained drama. Paradox and revelation-these two elements energized Tom Palumbo's life. These rediscovered photographs, celebrated in their time but not seen in decades, are presented here in book form for the first time ever, by award-winning author and Palumbo's widow, Patricia Bosworth. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. NY/London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, oblong format. Amandes Ameres (Bitter Almonds) is a portfolio of vivid color photographs that are characteristic of photographer and sculptor Jean-Marc Bustamante's photographic tableaux: intense yet contemplative cityscape images of the capital cities from around the globe, from Buenos Aires to Miami to Tel Aviv. A work of art in its own right, Amandes Ameres was launched in June 1997 at the international art event Documenta X in Kassel, Germany. The volume signifies a highly original distillation of Bustamante's subtle outlook, both in its presentation and in the selection of images designed to illustrate the strikingly sculptural, painterly and symphonic aspects of his innovative and sensitive use of the camera. The compilation is cutting-edge in the context of contemporary visual art and how it is presented, displaying a style that is carefully suited to the atmosphere evoked by Bustamante. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisdo, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. Founded in 1960 by Chris Strachwitz, the one-man operation Arhoolie Records eventually produced more than four hundred albums during more than forty years in operation, exploring the far corners of American vernacular music--blues, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, hillbilly, Texas-Mexican norteno music, and more. From the very beginning, Strachwitz brought his camera along with recording equipment as he met and recorded now-legendary artists such as Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Clifton Chenier, and Big Joe Williams. This book collects more than 150 of his best, most intimate, and exciting images--many never-before-seen--each with rich captions by Strachwitz and award-winning music journalist Joel Selvin, along with a substantial 20,000-word essay by Selvin about Arhoolie, Strachwitz, and the music. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. MIT Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth stamped with silver lettering. an autobiography in pictures, 400 pages. Ai Weiwei is China's most celebrated contemporary artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. In April 2011, when Ai disappeared into police custody for three months, he quickly became the art world's most famous missing person. Since then, Ai Weiwei's critiques of China's repressive regime have ranged from playful photographs of his raised middle finger in front of Tiananmen Square to searing memorials to the more than 5,000 schoolchildren who died in shoddy government construction in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Against a backdrop of strict censorship, Ai has become a hero on social media to millions of Chinese citizens. This book, prohibited from publication in China, offers an intimate look at Ai Weiwei's world in the years after his return from New York and preceding his imprisonment and global superstardom. The photographs capture Ai's emergence as the uniquely provocative artist that he is today. There is no more revealing portrait of Ai Weiwei's life in China than this. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Minnesota Historical Society, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 309 pages. A collection of b&w seasonal photos from Minnesota's past with excerpts from letters and journals from each season. The book is broken up into the four seasons of the year and the author wrote captions giving available information about each photo. A fun look into Minnesota's past. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An acclaimed photographer's images and the words of Russia's foremost writers combine in an intimate record of the contemporary Russian experience: an intractable culture in the throes of irrevocable change. 30 color and 70 black-and-white photographs. This handsome photo album with Morath's own foreword and captions depicts a world to which many Russians in the grip of post-Soviet nostalgia long to return. Morath's Russia is devoid of Soviet excresence: no ugly concrete apartment blocks, Stalinist skyscrapers, or exhortative banners appear. Landscapes and street scenes are poetic and largely deserted. Sidetrips to Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, and Uzbekistan are subsumed under "Russian culture." The people shown are mainly artists and intellectuals, and portraits of embattled dissident writers (Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky) testify to the moral support Morath and her husband Arthur Miller offered them in the 1960s. The album includes fond letters from Mandelstam and poet Andrei Voznesensky, as well as Olga Andreyev Carlisle's reminiscence of her 1967 trip to the Soviet Union with Morath. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pebbles white cloth stamped in gilt. 170 pages. 83 tipped in color plates throughout. This enormous volume features full-color photography of art rarely seen in the West. From one of the most extensive - yet hidden - collections in Europe comes this treasury of works of art, statuary, tapestry, jewelry, and much, much more. Comprehensively annotated by one of the foremost art historians specializing in Russian artworks. Hairline crack to cover at spine, overall clean with tight binding. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Wine Country Trucks Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 146 pages, color photos throughout. For decades, trucks have played a crucial role in the Wine Country of Northern California. This volume offers these old timers a chance to tell their lifelong tales. A large concentration of wineries and businesses from Napa and Sonoma counties have a rusted relic or a restored classic truck parked somewhere on their property. Sixty of these timeless treasures are featured with over 150 magnificent photos and fascinating stories of America's yesteryear. Several were props in movies. One entered the Great Race and drove across the country on America's back roads. Another was a local moonshine runner. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Softcover. London, Quartet, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 256 pages. Photographs and interviews help capture the feelings, outlook, and plight of the Palestinians, who have spent frustrating years as refugees caught up in the turbulence of the Middle East.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn, soiled dust jacket. 94 pages. Features a short foreword by Margaret Mead. Includes numerous black and white images by Jill Krementz. Light tan cloth with blue lettering on spine. The book is in clean, excellent condition, the dj fair to poor.