Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages, black and white photographs throughout. Foreword by Cornell Capa. Clean copy.
Softcover. West Islip, ULAE Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Black & white photographs by Robert Rauschenberg. Softcover slipcase edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A monograph focusing for the first time exclusively on Kertesz's early Hungarian prints; selected from more than 1,000 contact prints in the artist's estate and reproduced actual size. Photographs by Andre Kertesz; introduction by Bruce Silverstein; essay by Robert Gurbo. 160 pages; 66 duo-toned b&w plates + 11 text illustrations; 5.25 x 5.25 inches.
Softcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 101 pages. Softcover with moderate rubbing on paper wrappers. Slight musty odor. Black and white photographs throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Berlin, Argon, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photos throughout. GERMAN TEXT. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Brooklyn, NY, PowerHouse Cultural Entertainment, Incorporated, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean tight copy with light edge wear to corners. Black and white pictures throughout. Large format, unpaginated, about 275 pages with three short essays by Mr. Galella, Michael Musto and Anthony Haden Guest. The remainder of the book are full page plates with occasional collages in sepia depicting the garish, loud and tawdry excesses of the time wrapped in celebrity overkill of the likes of Steve Rubell, Calvin Klein, Halston, Liza Minnelli, Bianca Jagger, Grace Jones, and that guy with the blonde hair and glasses who's always taking pictures. Venues include Studio 54, Gynmnasium, the Met, The Roxy, Limelight, Plato's Retreat, Xenon, Trax, Cat Club.
Softcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 85 pages, b&w photographs. Minor fading along cover edges and spine. Otherwise, in clean condition.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Still in Publisher's shrink wrap. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket. Light bumps on bottom edge front cover edge.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Eakins Press Foundation, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket issued. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap.
Hardcover. Santa Fe, NM, Arena, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages, 58 duotone photos. Hardcover with dust jacket. Text by Patti Smith and Rudolph Wurlitzer. Like-new condition.
NY, US Camera Publishing, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 424 pages. Catagories of photos include post-war European photography, the year's best pictures American-International, Elisofon's Africa-in color, combat in Korea, The News in Pictures. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Waterbury VT, Silver Print Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages. !00 beautiful b&w portraits of farm women in Vermont. Autograph copy emblem to cover. SIGNED by the photographer and author Peter Miller on the half title page.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated. In mylar dust jacket. The theatrical photos of Thompson--mainly of women, several of a single, elaborately made-up woman's eye--derive their style from a combination of Man Ray and fashion photography. They are reproduced in full-page color plates of the best quality in this oversized (11.25x14.25") volume. Plain cardboard slipcase soiled.
Rome, Contrasto, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 136 pages, 53 b&w plates. A collection of 53 photographs of Pompeii, never published before, shot by the master photographer Mimmo Jodice. Unique images, visions conjuring up a long-lost past tradition, coupled with texts by Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet and Jay Parini. No dj issued.
Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 195 pages, bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with nearly 200 handsomely printed b/w photographs. 195 pages. Slim square 4to, silver-lettered black cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed. The book was opened roughly at the title page causing some small tears at the frontispiece along gutter. Same thing at the last page. Images not affected. A good plus copy of this scarce monograph.
Hardcover. Zurich, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. 130 of Chin's striking fashion and celebrity portraits in color and b&w. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. A collection of b&w images Brandt made in the 1930s of how the various classes of English society lived their lives. Brandt personally supervised the printing of the plates. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeey, University of California, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages, nearly 150 b&w photos accompany the text. A survey of photography in East Germany; from 1945 to 1989. In a very good dust jacket with light fade to spine. "Behind the Iron Curtain, against all odds, photography flourished as an art in the German Democratic Republic. The many images in this volume amply demonstrate that fact while also providing an illustrated social history of people 'caught' in the conflicting dictates of ideology, artistic oppression, a troubled national past, and basic human desires."
Softcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Oblong softcover, 182 pages. A wonderful photographic documentary of the era: daily life, workers, the rich and/or famous, the military, public schools, etc.
Softcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, clean bright copy. A celebration of the snapshot with a collection of fascinating images, 54 color and 88 in b&w.
Hardcover. Stockport UK, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. "The photographs in this book are selected from Lenny Gottlieb's unique collection of 30,000 amateur photographic prints, all rejects processed in a commercial photolab in Boston in the fall of 1968."
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, b&w illustrations. Kirkland was a photographer for Life magazine when it started in 1937. Dust jacket with edge wear, chipping.
Softcover. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy white pictorial wraps. Unpaginated (152 pp.), 6 color plates + over 60 full page duotone photographs. A superbly preserved copy of this major retrospective catalogue, based upon the 1988 Stedelijk Museum show in Amsterdam, mounted just prior to Mapplthorpe's untimely death. With text in English and German.
Hardcover. Livingston MT, Clark City Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 B&w photographs of Hollywood stars & lifestyles by one of Life magazine's original photographers. "A collection of portraits by one of the original four Life photographers features candid, offscreen shots of such Hollywood stars as Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Alfred Hitchcock, young Elizabeth Taylor, and Orson Welles."
Softcover. Mount Vernon NY, Consumers Union, 1st wraps, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages, numerous b&w photo-illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A very good copy with a corner crease to the rear cover.. The author/photographer recorded his visits to the poor in: South Dakota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Tennessee, Illinois, Wyoming, New York City, Arkansas, Boston, California. Includes interviews and commentary by Richards; edited by Christine Bird; story researcher by Janine Altongy. Winner of the 1987 International Center of Photography Journalism Award. Richards is often overlooked as one of America's best photojouralists.
Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st UK, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages, 128 duotone plates. Introduction by Ann Beattie. John Loengard, one of the great LIFE magazine photographers, sums up his fifty-year career in this handsome volume.
Softcover. Germany, Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 128 pages, b&w photos. Portraits include Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Jones, Marilyn Manson, Radiohead, Tubac, Andy Warhol, Mike Tyson , Frank Stella, Louise Bourgeois, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated with 208 b&w photographs. Dust jacket has some wear and rubbing, unclipped. Great pictorial reference. Introduction and commentaries on the pictures by Betjeman.
Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, first edition, first printing. 9.5 x 13 inches. 192 pages with 113 duo-toned b&w photographic images offering a 40-year retrospective of the Magnum photographer's front line work. Compelling war pictures.
Hardcover. Fort Worth TX, Amon Carter Museum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 111 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color images by both Ketchum and Porter. An essay by John Rohrbach illuminates the development of the two photographers and their lasting legacy in nature photography.
Hardcover. NY, D.A.P. /Distributed Art Publishers, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 140 pages, b&w photos. Commentary by Marvin Heiferman and Carole Kismaric. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Color plates throughout. All photographs have been made in NYC from the same apartment window which gives a large view on Central Park and on the street. Ruth Orkin gathers photographs around the Sheep Meadow area of Central Park in New York, and includes shots of parades, rallies, and the Manhattan skyline. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages. llustrated by Nicholas Nixon with 28 full-page b/w photos, 29 counting the cover photo. Includes an interview with him and a brief biography. Bound in the original white wraps.
Hardcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, b&w photos by Oppersdorff taken in County Kerry. Depicts the people living along country lanes in tents and barrel-top wagons, travellers - or tinkers, as they often are called. He took most of the images in the late 1960s at Puck Fair. Unread in a bright dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 117 pages. Introduction by William Shawcross. Text and photographs by Tim Page, a photo-journalist. Cover is a photograph of soldier with rifle in a rice paddy with yellow lettering. Rear cover is white with black lettering, states price of $14.95, and shows date of 3/83. Last page of book has list of photographs. Almost all photographs are in color. Book is square and tight.
Hardcover. New Haver CT, Yale University , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, 59 plates in duotone, large format. Friedlander ventures into new territory, turning his eye to the rarefied world of fashion and revealing precisely what is commonplace about it: behind the glamorous spectacle of the runway are many people hard at work. The photographs, commissioned by the 'New York Times Magazine,' were taken in 2006 during New York Fashion Week, when the artist spent time backstage at the Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Zac Posen, Oscar de la Renta, and Proenza Schouler shows. The resulting images, many of which are published here for the first time, depict a flurry of toiling stylists, dressers, makeup artists, photographers, and models--all of them preparing, but not quite prepared, for an image to be taken.
NY, Shannongrove Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 146 pages, A rare view of Hollywood's Golden Age as seen through the private family album of MGM's top box office draw in the 1940s, Van Johnson. This book is packed with hundreds of never before seen images of Hollywood at home. His wife, Evie Wynn Johnson, an amateur shutterbug captured behind-the-scenes images of their friends, some of Hollywood's most famous stars, such as Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin and Humphrey Bogart on the road, on the set, around the pool, and at their Hollywood home. Schuyler Johnson, Van's daughter, shares these casual and candid images from her mother's album that have never been published .
Hardcover. Orangeburg SC, Sandlapper Publishing, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, b&w illustrations. The author documents the customs and lifestyles of a proud group of Sea Island blacks. Beginning with the first freedmen and their descendents, he reveals a colorful and provocative story, told in words of island natives and illustrated with photographs taken around the turn of the century. INSCRIBED BY DAISE on the half-title page. Clean copy with color fading to dust jacket spine and part of front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Includes full reprint of her autobiographic work, "Annals of My Glass House." Twenty illustrations and sixty full-page reproductions. Includes portraits of Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Sir John Herscel, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dame Ellen Terry, Mrs. Leslie Stephen, and George Frederick Watts. Clean in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State University , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, oblong quarto, 265 pages, illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked.
Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 228 pages. Photographs by Robert Capa, Lois Conner, Stuart Franklin, Zhang Hai-er, Wu Jialin, Wang Jinsong, Hiroji Kubota, Sebastiao Salgado, Liu Heung Shing, and others. This magnificent volume unfolds a series of in-depth portfolios by twenty of the most important Chinese and Western photographers of the era, conveying the extent of their involvement in politics, culture, and everyday life.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli/Electa/Brooklyn Museum, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glazed boards, 176 pages in color and b&w. Documents the infamous New York disco club in the 1970s. There has never been--and will never be--another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. This catalog accompanies an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum exploring how Studio 54 was a unique zeitgeist of an era. From the moment it opened in 1977, Studio 54 celebrated spectacle and promised a never-ending parade of anything goes. Although it existed for only three years, it served as a catalyst that brought together some of the most famous, creative, and strangest people in the world. It quickly became known for its all-ages celebrity guest list and its uniquely chic clientele of superstars and freaks of all races and sexual preferences who would often show up half-dressed or in costume. From the cutting-edge lighting displays and sound system to its elaborate sets that would change on a whim, altering the environment and ambiance, it was the beginning of nightclub as performance art.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages, color and b&w photographs. You know them by their first names: Christy. Naomi. Linda. Kate. Gisele. Their faces are unforgettable. They are supermodels, and the pages of Harper's Bazaar are their stage-and the stage for fashion's biggest names. Harper's Bazaar: Models gives an exclusive look at the top models that have graced the magazine for the last sixty years. Harper's Bazaar editor at large Derek Blasberg has selected twenty-eight women for this book from the publication's rich and diverse history: iconic beauties from Suzy Parker, Dovima, and China Machado to Iman, Patti Hansen, and Cindy Crawford. Alongside essays written by Blasberg, who is a friend and confidant to many of the models, are more than 200 stunning photographs shot by leading photographers including Richard Avedon, Francesco Scavullo, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, and more. Filled with revealing anecdotes and images from the archives, Harper's Bazaar: Models is a celebration of the gorgeous women who have lent so much inspiration and beauty to the pages of this visionary magazine. Clean in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. A collection of Arbus's photographs from her formative years, 1956-62; 125 images in all, more than half published here for the first time. No dust jacket issued. This book is the definitive study of the artist's first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum's Diane Arbus Archive--a remarkable treasury of photographs, negatives, appointment books, notebooks, and correspondence--it is an essential contribution to our understanding of Arbus and her oeuvre.
Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, b&w plates throughout. Hoppe traveled throughout Germany between 1925 and 1938, photographing movie stars, workers and peasants, the birth of the Autobahn, and the explosion of industrial building. This collection includes parts of his 1930 book "Deutsche Arbeit" and many photos never previously seen. Clean copy in a dust jacket.
NY, Abrams, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, 93 b&w plates. This volume is a retrospective of the work of famed French photographer Marc Riboud. Photographs from Paris, China, Vietnam, and the Middle East are included. Printed in rich duotone, spanning the years from the early 1950s to the late 1980s. Clean, in a bright dust jacket.
Winooski VT, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six glossy b&w photographs taken in the aftermath of the 1927 flood, most with handwritten comments on back.
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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.
Since these are used and antiquarian books, condition and availability vary from copy to copy. Pick a monograph and order online.
 "Fruit Tramps: A Family of Migrant Farmworkers by: Emmet, Herman Leroy")
 "Andre Kertesz: The Early Years by: Kertesz, Andre")
 "Emmet Gown: Photographs by: Gown, Emmet")
 "Das Grosse Berlin: Photographien 1899-1935 by: Missmann, Max")
 "Disco Years by: Galella, Ron")
 "Years of Bitterness and Pride: Farm Security Administration Photographs 1935-1943 by: Evans [photographer, Hiag Akmakjian (Introduction), Walker")
 "Portraits: The Human Clay by: Friedlander, Lee")
 "Love, Cecil: A Journey with Cecil Beaton by: Lisa Immordino Vreeland")
 "Lee Friedlander: Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom by: Friedlander, Lee")
 "Monument by: Davis, Lynn")
 "U.S. Camera 1954 by: Maloney (Ed.), Tom")
 "Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art by: Szarkowski, John")
 "Vermont Farm Women (SIGNED COPY) by: Miller, Peter")
 "Michael Thompson: Images by: Thompson, Michael")
 "Pompeii: Echoes from the Grand Tour by: Jay Parini, Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet, Angelo Cannavacciuolo (Creator), Mimmo Jodice (Photographer), Marcello Fiori (Introduction")
 "Callahan by: Szarkowski (Ed.), John")
 "Walter Chin: Work In Progress by: Chin, Walter; Truman James; Sozzani Franca")
 "London in the Thirties by: Brandt, Bill")
 "Caught - The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic by: Kuehn, Karl Gernot")
 "Talent for Detail, A - The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston 1889-1910 by: Daniel, Pete and Raymond Smock")
 "Close to Home: An American Album by: Waldie, D.J.")
 "Walker Evans: A Biography by: Rathbone, Belinda")
 "Lost and Found in America: The Home Front Fall 1968 Family Photos During the Vietnam War by: Gottlieb, Lenny")
 "Recollections of a Life Photographer by: Kirkland, Wallace")
 "Robert Mapplethorpe: Ten By Ten by: Mapplethorpe, Robert")
 "Peter Stackpole: Life in Hollywood, 1936-1952 by: Stackpole, Peter")
 "Below the Line: Living Poor in America by: Richards, Eugene")
 "As I See It by: Loengard, John")
 "Mad Dog by: Watson, Albert")
 "Victorian and Edwardian London from Old Photographs by: Betjeman, John")
 "Dark Odyssey by: Griffiths, Philip Jones")
 "Regarding the Land: Robert Glenn Ketchum and the Legacy of Eliot Porter by: Ketchum, Robert Glenn, Rohrbach, John")
 "Local News: Tabloid Pictures from the Los Angeles Herald Express 1936 - 1961 by: Keaton, Diane")
 "More Pictures From My Window by: Orkin, Ruth")
 "Family Pictures: Photographs by Nicholas Nixon (Photographers at Work Smithsonian Series) by: Nixon, Nicholas")
 "People of the Road : The Irish Travellers by: Oppersdorff, Mathias")
 "Tim Page's Nam by: Tim Page; William Shawcross, introduction")
 "Lee Friedlander - Dressing Up: Fashion Week NYC by: Lee Friedlander, Kathy Ryan")
 "Van Johnson's Hollywood: A Family Album by: Johnson, Schuyler/ Varney, Carleton (Introduction By)")
 "Reminiscences of Sea Island Heritage: Legacy of Freedmen on St. Helena Island (SIGNED COPY) by: Daise, Ronald")
 "Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Photographic Work by: Gernsheim, Helmut")
 "Times of Sorrow and Hope: Documenting Everyday Life in Pennsylvania During the Depression and World War II: A Photographic Record by: Allen Cohen; Ronald L. Filippell")
 "China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic by: Yang, Rae")
 "Studio 54: Night Magic by: Yokobosky, Matthew")
 "Harper's Bazaar Models by: Blasberg, Derek")
 "Diane Arbus: In the Beginning by: Rosenheim, Jeff L")
 "E.O. Hoppe: The German Work: 1925-1938 by: Phillip, Prodger")
 "Marc Riboud: Photographs at Home and Abroad by: Riboud Marc")
 "6 ORIGINAL B&W PHOTOS OF 1927 VERMONT FLOOD/ Various sizes by: N/A")