Hardcover. Reno ; Las Vegas, University of Nevada Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages, 69 BW and color plates, 36 figures. Essays by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Dave Hickey, and Thomas W. Southall. Includes work by John Pfhal, Terry Evans, Mark Klett and many others, with brief photographer biographies.Clean, unmarked copy with only minor shelf-wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Koln GR, Walther Konig, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Text in German and English. 96 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Today, roughly fifty thousand Tarahumara continue living in ways similar to those of their ancestors, retaining many customs from their pre-Columbian past. Striking sepia-toned monochrome photographs and a historical narrative document the lives and past of people in mountainous southwestern Chihuahua, Mexico.
Softcover. London, Chris Beetles Dist, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 84 pages, lavishly illustrated throughout with 70 portraits in b&w and color. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Includes images of Noel Coward, J.R.R.Tolkein, Dame Iris Murdoch, Peter Cook, The Goons, Franco Zeffirelli, Jack Nicholson, Leonard Bernstein, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Arthur Miller, Tom Stoppard, Anthony Sher, Henry Moore, and many other famous faces either posing for a portrait, or caught in action.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Little Brown, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. The most photographed event in America during the 19th century. More than 10,000 images reside in public archives and private collections, depicting every aspect of what popular historian Pierre Berton has called "one of the strangest mass movements in history." For this book, Berton selected 200 photographs, some iconic, some touchingly personal, and most previously unpublished.
Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 132 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper, light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. As a serviceman in Paris after World War II, Peter Miller served as a US Army Signal Corps photographer. By day, he would snap one-star generals greeting four-star generals, and the innumerable grip and grins of Congressmen visiting soldiers. By night, Miller traversed the city of light, capturing the resilient spirit of Parisians in the wake of the devastating war. Miller's photographs reflect the vision of a sparkling city while his recollections document the wonder and enchantment felt by a young man from Vermont. From pictures of the Latin Quarter brimming with American jazz and blues to alluring models on the runways of Christian Dior; from romantic courtships in the streets to hobos along the River Seine, Miller captures these sights and impressions in dynamic compositions and sensitive recollections that are striking, compassionate, and a joy to all lovers of the city of light.
Hardcover. Mankato, Minn., NorthWord Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 105 pages, illustrated throughout with color photographs by Brandenburg. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket with a little sticker residue to front cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1999-12-08, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY MILLER.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd printing, 1985-10-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 122 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. US, Institute of Modern Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 71 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Since showing at Cannes in 1993, the Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Dia Center for the Arts in 1998, Tracey Moffatt's films and photo series have been exhibited worldwide. Moffatt works with a potent mix of gender, class, race and colonialism, using a broad palette of influences from popular culture to high art, presented through the most popular media of our time. Her lyric subtlety builds a layered, escalating tension that invites repeated viewing. This publication contains the full set of images of four of her most significant works (Laudanum, Up in the Sky, Scarred for Life, and Something More) and stills from three of her films (Heaven, beDevil and Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy). An essay by Regis Durand and an interview with Gerald Matt give insight into her complex and provocative practice.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Distributed by E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Large format hardcover, 423 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear, rubbing and sun-fade to price clipped dust jacket. Light staining to end papers from red flaps, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, Hardcover. b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 107 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Introduction by Rebecca Solnit. Afterword by John McPhee. INSCRIBED BY PHOTOGRAPHER VIRGINIA BEAHAN on half title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, 106 illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light shelf-wear to boards, faint foxing to edges.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 179 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. gilt titles on spine. Includes extensive bibliography. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. The photographs of Simeon Schwemberger, who worked as lay brother at the Franciscan Mission of St. Michaels near Windowrock, AZ, from 1901 through 1908. His outstanding photographs of the Native American Indians in that area are coupled with the fine essay by Michele M. Penhall. This photographers work has been compared with the work of Charles Lummis, A.C. Vroman, and J.K. Hillers.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 334 pages. Extensive b&w and color photography throughout. Extensive photo documentation and bibliography. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to jacket.
Softcover. Australia, National Gallery of Australia, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Includes extensive notes and documentation accompanying photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Scotland, Kiscadale Pub, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 104 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout. A well illustrated account of the author's collection of early photographs and post cards depicting Burma.
Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Brand new copy still in wrapper. Book in near fine condition. Very clean, unmarked copy. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 176 pages. This book features the vintage archaeological photography of John Beasley Greene, one of the first photographers in Egypt and Algeria. Few figures in 19th-century photography remain as elusive and intriguing as John Beasley Greene (1832-1856). Over the course of an exceptionally brief career he created a body of photographs that were publicly admired by his peers and continue to capture the imagination of contemporary audiences. Born in France to an American banker, he made his first expedition to Egypt in 1853, where he photographed ancient Egyptian monuments and is thought to be the first archaeologist to use photography. In these photographs, he positioned his horizon lines with precision, at times placing them so low in the frame that the photograph is nearly all blank sky, or so high that the monuments are almost swallowed up by vast seas of sand. Some of his Egyptian landscapes are so visually spare they appear to be of nothing at all. Greene also traveled to Algeria where he photographed the ancient cliff-top city of Constantine and the seaport town, Cherchell. By contrast, Greene's photographs from Algeria frequently present a densely layered abundance of visual detail. Breathtakingly beautiful, Greene's photographs construct a visual record of archaeological monuments and landscapes. Featuring some 100 vintage prints, this comprehensive book aims to introduce Greene's work to a new audience and to reconsider his place in the history of photography. Clean copy in shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Arena Editions, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Paul Jasmin?s photographs are dreamy tableaux that underscore a fascination with youthful play and innocence. Included in this long-awaited collection are playful nudes, portraits of friends and colleagues from the entertainment and art worlds, fashion shoots, and restful travel images that recall 19th-century romanticism. An influence on numerous artists, Jasmin?s photographs are both rarefied and accessible; his photos regularly appear in leading fashion magazines such as L?Uomo Vogue, W, Arena, and Nylon. Preface by Sofia Coppola. Clean copy.
Softcover. Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages. The American Southwest has shaped the lives and work of many artists and literary figures over the last century--Georgia O'Keeffe, D. H. Lawrence, N. Scott Momaday, to name a few--individuals unquestionably drawn to the unrivaled landscape, moved to express its beauty through the written word or through their art, and forever altered by the experience. The survey of photographers and photography in the Southwest between 1870 and 1970 begins with Timothy O'Sullivan and other late nineteenth-century expedition photographers and ends with the color landscape photography of Eliot Porter. In between are Laura Gilpin's portraits of Navajos taken during the 1930s and the documentary images of rural Hispanic communities by Farm Security Administration photographers John Collier Jr. and Russell Lee in the 1940s. Nineteen photographers in all are represented--also including Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Edward Weston--along with 102 photographs. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 132 pages. Illustrated throughout with Jackson's black and white photographs. In this fascinating book, Laurie Lawlor tells parallel stories of the settling of the western United States and the wanderings of a man who captured much of that history in singular and beautiful photographs. Lawlor includes forty of Jackson's photographs as illustrations for her narrative. Bibliography, timeline, glossary, and index. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 207 pages. Recounted in gripping words and unforgettable images, Avakian's remarkable experiences will draw readers into the Muslim world to meet friends and terrorists, leaders and thieves and everyday people. She lived and worked for two years in the Gaza strip, often in Islamic dress, once beaten bloody by Hamas. For several terrifying days in Somalia she was pinned down by sniper fire on the way to her hotel. She careened across the snowy Tien-Shen Mountains with Islamic fundamentalists in an ancient Lada, only to be detained and tossed out by the Uzbek KGB. All the while, she captured some of the most important stories of our time-the famine in Sudan, the violence in Gaza and Somalia, the daily life of Hezbollah. She traveled extensively with Yasser Arafat as one of the only non-Arab photographers given such access. Small scar to front of dust jacket otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. Houston, Rice University, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed blue cloth covers, 143 pages. Comprised of 72 duotone images, explanatory text, and an afterword co-authored with Anne W. Tucker, this elegant book presents a view of an area of the United States often passed over; this is deep East Texas, where Keith Carter grew up. "Keith Carter's luminous, poetic photographs are moving documents of people and places where time seems to have stopped. They tell the story of hard lives lived with simple dignity outside the frantic movement and gaudy neon of the big city."--the publisher. No dust jacket, clean copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 295 pages. A transporting work of photographic history that offers a haunting vision of how Americans viewed the world at the dawn of the twentieth century. In 1900 the stereograph was king. Its three-dimensional optics created a virtual presence for the viewer. Millions of Americans, especially schoolchildren, absorbed ideas about race, class, and gender from such 3D images, the embodiment of the notion that "seeing is believing." Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of some 300,000 stereographic views spanning the first decade of the twentieth century, Michael Lesy presents nearly 250 images displaying a riot of peoples and cultures, stark class divisions, and unsettling glimpses of daily life a century ago. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear, 158 pages. SIGNED BY PLOWDEN on the half title page. Midwestern rural America is captured in photographs of the farmhouses, furnishings, barns, and grain elevators, as well as the men and women who live and work in the region. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 183 pages in color. Introduction by Ansel Adams. A wonderful collection of color photos taken from a small single engine plane of various places around the United States. Mild fading to dust jacket along spine edge. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Co./New York Graphic Society, 1sr, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 86 color plates. A master of color photography shares the world closest to his heart in a collection of breathtaking, previously unpublished photographs of coastal Maine. Mild wear to edges of dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 133 pages. In 1968 the photographer Richard Brown fulfilled a romantic childhood dream when he moved to the Northeast Kingdom, a remote corner of Vermont just barely entering the twentieth century. There he encountered a way of life that was fast disappearing, a land of sheep, cattle, work horses, wood-burning stoves, and small family-run farms far removed from the industrial Northeast. Determined to record it before it disappeared, he saw a pastoral vision where, "for the briefest interval, a window opened and the spirit of Vermont's past" granite hills cleared and formed, hard lives lived and lost, struggle and endurance, a harsh land made starkly beautiful by nature and man? "was made palpable." He saw the land and also a people whose "endless hours of backbreaking, monotonous work were spent with a quiet ferocity" and who believed their "age-old labors were a struggle waged against time itself " labors that might just hold modernity at bay." And Brown did record it, with an 8 x 10" large plate view camera. Not only the hauntingly beautiful landscape but also the people who stayed and worked the stubborn hills and "did so with great but fierce attachment." This is a great ode to an America that has passed before our eyes almost without comment or notice. It is a valiant, indeed a brilliant, effort to make the past tangible, to bring it back to life. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 135 pages, b&w illustrations. Photographs taken in 1956 show Elvis Presley on the road, in rehearsal, backstage with fans, and in concert. A treasure trove of rare Presley photographs shot by Atlanta photographer Jay B. Leviton, who was on assignment for Collier's magazine during August, 1956. Leviton's unrestricted access to Elvis produced first-rate candids, portraits and concert sequences of Elvis's early triumphant years. 130 photographs. Introduction by Kurt Loder. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Atria Books, 1st pbk., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 355 pages, b&w and color illustrations. 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 "thorough, fascinating overview of an artist working for art's sake" (The New York Times), 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. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Atria Books, 1st pbk., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 355 pages, b&w and color illustrations. 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 "thorough, fascinating overview of an artist working for art's sake" (The New York Times), 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. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Cinemage Limited, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 241 pages. Black & white and color photography. Light rubbing to back cover, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers. Black & white photos. Foreword by Leland Hayward. Browning to page edges. Stain to bottom edge.
Softcover. NY, Delano Greenidge Editions, 1st paperback, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 229 pages. 207 color plates. Articles by A.D. Coleman and Henry Wilhelm. Large paperback format with glossy covers.
Hardcover. New York, Quantuck Lane Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 120 pages. Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley. Color photography of Alice Attie. Rubbing, light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 125 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Minor wrinkling at top of dust jacket spine; price-clipped.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2nd Pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 320 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs from the pages of The New York Daily News. Remainder mark in black across bottom edge at spine. Light wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs by David Douglas Duncan. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston , David R. Godine, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 93 pages. Black & white photographs. Foreword by Weston Naef. Dust jacket with edgewear.
London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white photos. Very small closed tear on spine of dust jacket. An account of his life and work. Ponting became the official photographer of Scott's second expedition to the South Pole. With 77 black and white photographs taken on his travels.
Cape Town SA, Koeberg, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. B&W photo essay on Cedarberg of the Western Cape of South Africa. Stated 369 of an unspecified number, edgeworn dust jacket. Endpaper map.
Hardcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages, 87 full page b&w plates, 23 illustrations in text. Contributions by Naomi and Walter Rosenblum, Alan Trachtenberg. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Barre, MA, Barre Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, photographs by Curtis. Introduction and commentary by Don D. Fowler. One hundred and eighteen superb representative photographs have been selected from Curtis's monumental work and reproduced in this book by The Meriden Gravure Company. Don Fowler describes Curtis the photographer and ethnographer, and the Indian groups depicted, commenting on the unique cultural characteristics of each tribe.
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Out-of-Print & Collectible Photography Books
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