Used & Rare Photography Books - pg. 17 including Aperture 149: Dark Days: Mystery, Murder, Mayhem (Aperture Magazine)by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Photographers:Michael Ackerman, Kenneth Anger, Marc Asnin, Jerry Berndt, Christian Boltanski, Ken Botto, James Casebere, Bruce Charlesworth, Larry Clark, Stephen Frailey, Jean Genet, Jim Goldberg, William N. Jennings, Anselm Kiefer, Andrew Lichtenstein, Ken Light, Richard Misrach, Cristina Salvador, Lucas Samaras, Chuck Samuels, Andres Serrano, Stephen Shames, Cindy Sherman, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Gerald Slota, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Andy Uzzle, Max Waldman, Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol, Joel-Peter Witkin
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Special Monograph Issue: Edward Weston Portraits. Foreword by Cole Weston Biographical Essay by Susan Morgan.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Features: The Earth Remembers By Jeanloup Sieff, Blaise Cendrars, and Ernst Junger Photographs by Jeanloup Sieff Midway Poem by Robert Desnos Photographs by Marc Le Mene Moments in the City Vignettes by Annie Ernaux Photographs by Dolores Marat In the World's Heart Poem by Blaise Cendrars Photographs by Mi-Hyun Kim, Sarah Moon Autobiographical Stories Installations and texts by Sophie Calle Love Chambers Photographs and texts by Bernard Faucon Evening Poem by Tristan Tzara Photographs by Caroline Feyt The Light of Home Photographs and text by Raymond Depardon Two-Way Mirrors By Xavier Emmanuelli Photographs by Jean-Francois Joly Uprooted Lives: France's New Poverty Photographs and text by Marie-Paule Negre Veiled Destinies: Women in Algeria Photographs and text by Nadia Benchallal No Pity For Sarajevo By Jean Baudrillard Photographs by Jean-Claude Coutausse War And Dreams Photographs and text by Christine Spengler Monuments To Darkness Installations by Christian Boltanski Apartheid Photographs and text by Marc Pataut The Theatrical Identity Photographs by Lise Sarfati, Pierre et Gilles, Jean-Francois Lepage, Keiichi Tahara Sines, poem by Raymond Queneau Photography in its Childhood Interview with Robert Delpire
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. The Mexican book series Rio de Luz was a courageous and energetic presentation of Latin American photography. To honor the accomplishments of the series and the artists, an issue of Aperture is devoted to the Rio de Luz collection.Separate chapters address the outstanding themes concerning the editors of the Rio de Luz series-revolution, the American way of life and Cuba, the 1950s, and "poetry of the onlooker." Artists include Lazaro Blanco, Raul Corrales, Hector Garcia, Graciela Iturbide, Nacho Lopez, Pedro Meyer, Miguel Rio Branco, and Mariana Yampolsky. Authors include Carlos Monsivais, Alvaro Mutis, Victor Flores Olea, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Roberto Tejada, Raquel Tibol, and Veronica Volkow.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Aperture's second Explorations issue presents heretofore undiscovered images by photographers whose work is bound to become widely known. They probe the metaphysical through ritual, invoke dark metaphors in circus performance, find religion in nocturnal deserts, and study the ties that bind. The convergence of these uniquely powerful images and the artists' personal stories provokes an examination of the ever expanding boundaries of contemporary photography.Artists included are Stephen Barker, Neil Folberg, Jill Graham, Kimberly Gremillion, Jan van Leeuwen, Anne Arden McDonald, Andreas Rentsch, Maruch Santiz Gomez, and Dayanita Singh.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Articles are: Eve Arnold on "Martine Franck," Richard Avedon on "Amy Arbus," Harry Callahan on "Emmet Gowin," Henri Cartier-Bresson on "Ferdinando Scianna," Eikoh Hosoe on "Antonio Turok," Helen Levitt on "Bill Arnold," and Inge Morath on "Anthony Suau."
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. A new generation of Czech and Slovak photographers--heirs to the legacy of such modern masters as Josef Sudek and Frantisek Driktol--will be the subject of the August 1998 issue of Aperture, featuring images never before published in the West. In the Aperture tradition of investigating the contemporary photography of individual nations, Crossing Borders probes the cultural, social, and emotional climate of the post-Communist era as experienced by twenty-three photographers.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Photographers:Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Virginia Beahan, H. H. Bennett, Marilyn Bridges, Wynn Bullock, Evelyn Cameron, Paul Caponigro, Tseng Kwong Chi, John Cliett, William Clift, Lois Conner, Lynn Davis, Robert Dawson, Peter Gasser, David Gibson, Laura Gilpin, Frank Gohlke, Nancy Goldring, Wanda Hammerbeck, F. J. Haynes, William Henry Jackson, Barbara Kasten, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Stuart Klipper, Koichiro Kurita, Steve Lawson, Sally Mann, Laura McPhee, Richard Misrach, Eadweard Muybridge, Joan Myers, Herman Nielson, Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Stephen Shore, Art Sinsabaugh, Paul Strand, Jerry N. Uelsmann, Carleton E. Watkins, Brett Weston, Minor White
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. A diverse compilation of images and writing, this 1st issue of the new Aperture signifies the magazine's commitment to the remarkable range of cross-cultural experiences that photography addresses. From the stark isolation of Mimmo Jodices's Mediterranean island landscapes to Julian Cardona's disturbing photo-essay on foreign owned factories in Mexico, issue 159 presents a dynamic and vital window on the myriad happenings in the photographic community.Other features in this issue include Neil Selkirk on designer Tibor Kalman's use of photography, The photographic books of Jeff Bridges accompanied by a discussion between the artist and Richard Misrach, love letters to Edward Weston, the life and work of Marilyn Silverstone and an essay by Francine Prose on the phenomenon of the wedding ritual accompanied by the work of photographers as diverse as Henri Cartier-Bresson and William Wegman.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Includes numerous images by Paul Caponigro, Dr. Howard Eugene Edgerton, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Eadweard Muybridge, Rineke Dijkstra, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Nicholas Nixon and many more.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Steps in Space features early photographs of the sun and moon, as well as NASA images of Mars, and the astonishing images of the generation and decay of stars that the Hubble telescope has provided us in recent years. Against this background, the issue presents interpretive photographs by Kikuji Kawada, Hiro, Sophie Ristelhueber, and others, as well as works by Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames, and Cai Guo-Qiang. Mark Holborn, former Aperture editor, is the guest editor of this issue.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Portfolios and Essays from Vince Aletti, Madonna, Wayne Koestenbaum, Michael L. Sand, Jonathan Williams, and Max Kozloff.Photographs by: Maarten Vanden Abeele, Juan Carlos Alom, Alexander Apostol, David Armstrong, Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Tina Barney, Letizia Battaglia, Cecil Beaton, Claude Cahun, Elinor Carucci, Helen Chadwick, Marianne Courville, Gregory Crewdson, Imogen Cunningham, Bruce Davidson, Jesse DeMartino, Baron Adolf de Meyer, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Elliot Erwitt, Paul Fusco, Anna Gaskell, Robert Gligorov, Burt Glinn, Nan Goldin, Janine Gordon, Peter Hujar, Mimmo Jodice, Seydou Keita, Gyorgy Kepes, Barbara Kruger, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Clarence John Laughlin, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Ellen Mark, Will McBride, Ana Mendieta, Tracey Moffat, Mariko Mori, Yasumasa Morimura, Shirin Neshat, Nic Nicosia, Nicholas Nixon, John O'Reily, Luigi Ontani, Jaime Palacios, Adrian Piper, Sylvia Plachy, Richard Prince, Miguel Rio Branco, Herb Ritts, Walter Rosenblum, Paolo Roversi, David Salle, Lucas Samaras, Gary Schneider, David Seymour, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Sandy Skoglund, Paul Strand, Dennis Stock, Laureana Toldeo, Ronald Treager, David Wanderman, Andy Warhol, Carrie Mae Weems, and Garry Winogrand.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Summary: Funky Town, Like Silk, Whose town? Questioning Community and Identity, Appalachia: The Other Side of the Mountain (Photographs and text by Shelby Lee Adams), The Fruited Plain, Home, S.O.P. Photographs by: Jules Allen, Robert Amberg, Amy Arbus, S.A. Backman, Ken Botto, Peter Brown, Lynn Butler, David Byrne, Sophie Calle, Jack Carnell, Gregory Crewdson, Ted Degener, Philip-Lorce di Corcia, Donna Ferrato and many others.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Summary: Elegy in White (Combining sculpture with photography, Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz encapsulate the quaint and the macabre in snow-globes), Lost Worlds: Recent Discoveries in Andean Photo-History, Reading newspaper pictures: a thousand words, and then some, Roger Ballen?s world, John Dugdale and John Kelly: photo play. Photographers: Roger Ballen, Carrie Boretz, Crisanto Cabrera, Julio Cordero Castillo, Gregory Crewdson, Stephen Crowley, John Dugdale, Christophe Ena, Luis Gismondi, Manuel Jesus Glave, Jose Gabriel Gonzales, Tyler Hicks, James Hill, Kenneth Jarecke, Edward Keating, Chang W. Lee, Walter Martin, Paloma Munoz, Carlos and Miguel Vargas
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Don McCullin on Aids in Africa / Japanese Photography in Houston / Baryshnikov on the Light Fantastic / Cold War Relics / John Coffer's Tintypes / Russian Pictorialism
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps.
Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Communalistic living--the concept of living together to foster the common good--claims a long tradition in America and continues to be a vital reality today. Shared Lives photographically explores five communities in the U.S. and one in Mexico. Photo essays include Eugene Richards' intimate portrayal of a communie in Oregon and Margaret Morton's chronicle of a village built by tenacious homeless people in New York City.
Hardcover. NY, powerHouse, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. Time Frames, Michael Spano's long-awaited first monograph, catalogues the artist's exploration of spatial and temporal dimensions in photography. The book is divided into five chapters: Panoramas, Grids, Portraits, Multi-Exposures, and Diptychs; each employs a distinctive technical process to provide a new way of looking at life in New York City. Panoramas (1977-1983) show interacting urbanites moving through elongated frames as the lens of an extremely wide field camera pans during exposure. Grids (1980-1990) captures eight moments on a single negative as Spano moves through a sequence of events, pre-determinedly exposing a portion of the grid every four seconds. Portraits (1984-1990) focus on individual inhabitants transformed and etched out from their settings through the solarization and blurring forms into an atmospheric world. Multi-Exposures (1985-1998) combine solarizations with multiple perspectives. These single-negative layered compositions orchestrate and compress selected intervals of time and space into one image. Diptychs (1998-1999) fuse two distinct moments on one negative where scale, focal planes, and perspectives shift and comprise a dual image of urban spaces.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. Featuring a six-page gatefold and more than 160 photographs, a collection of the photographer's classic and previously unpublished works includes nostalgic post-war portraits as well as action shots of some of today's most popular players, in a volume complemented by commentary by a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.
Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. In this unique collaboration Arturo Patten, one of the most important portrait photographers of our time, and acclaimed writer Russell Banks visit the hardscrabble north country of Patten, Maine, to study its inhabitants. Patten's haunting portraits of the town's residents evoke characters who exist in Russell Banks's fiction. Banks, the author of Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction, observes Patten's "characters" from his remote cabin in the Adirondack hills of upstate New York, where he surrounds himself with the thirty-seven portraits and contemplates what they tell us about Patten, Maine, about portraiture, and ultimately about ourselves.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 95 pages. Gathers Harold Lloyd's 3-D photographs of Hollywood actors, actresses, and celebrities. 3-D glasses included in back pocket.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages. Collects 170 of the twentieth-century photographer's portraits of actors, artists, models, royalties, and socialites, in a volume complemented by extensive notes on both the subjects and sittings and a complete chronology.
Softcover. NY, Edition 7L, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible vinyl covers, 232 pages. Out documents an era at once so close and so far away: the wild, glamorous, disco-and-drugs decade between the end of the Vietnam war and the advent of AIDS, when, in certain parts of Manhattan, every night was party night. As the editor of Andy Warhol's Interview from 1971 to 1983, Bob Colacello was perfectly placed to record this life of art openings, movie premieres, cocktail parties, dinner parties, charity balls and after-hours clubs; he wrote about the best of them in a monthly column called "Out." In 1975, Swiss art dealer Thomas Ammann gave Colacello one of the first miniature 35mm cameras, a black plastic Minox small enough to hide in his jacket pocket, and Colacello began snapping photographs too. Sneaking a shot of Henry Kissinger holding forth at a dinner party, or Bianca Jagger letting loose at Studio 54, Colacello was in the middle of the action, "an accidental photographer" more akin to a secret agent than any typical paparazzo. With their skewed angles, multilayered compositions, and moody lighting, his images have an immediacy and grit not often found in the work of professional party photographers. And what subjects! Diana Vreeland, Calvin Klein, Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere, Cher, Raquel Welch, Mick Jagger, Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Nan Kempner, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and always Warhol himself. Because space in Interview was limited, only a handful of Colacello's pictures were published each month. Most of those collected in Out have never been seen before.
Softcover. NY, Edition 7L, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible vinyl covers, 232 pages. Out documents an era at once so close and so far away: the wild, glamorous, disco-and-drugs decade between the end of the Vietnam war and the advent of AIDS, when, in certain parts of Manhattan, every night was party night. As the editor of Andy Warhol's Interview from 1971 to 1983, Bob Colacello was perfectly placed to record this life of art openings, movie premieres, cocktail parties, dinner parties, charity balls and after-hours clubs; he wrote about the best of them in a monthly column called "Out." In 1975, Swiss art dealer Thomas Ammann gave Colacello one of the first miniature 35mm cameras, a black plastic Minox small enough to hide in his jacket pocket, and Colacello began snapping photographs too. Sneaking a shot of Henry Kissinger holding forth at a dinner party, or Bianca Jagger letting loose at Studio 54, Colacello was in the middle of the action, "an accidental photographer" more akin to a secret agent than any typical paparazzo. With their skewed angles, multilayered compositions, and moody lighting, his images have an immediacy and grit not often found in the work of professional party photographers. And what subjects! Diana Vreeland, Calvin Klein, Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere, Cher, Raquel Welch, Mick Jagger, Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Nan Kempner, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and always Warhol himself. Because space in Interview was limited, only a handful of Colacello's pictures were published each month. Most of those collected in Out have never been seen before.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages. A noted photographer offers a visual tour of Christian communities around the world--in such diverse areas as Cuba, Jerusalem, Lourdes, the United States, Mali, and Russia--that explores what it means to be a Christian at the dawn of a new millennium.
Hardcover. NY, powerHouse, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. In 1999, photographer Thomas Roma found himself within the walls of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison, one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, doing a special photographic project for Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory. During downtime Roma wandered through this nineteenth-century fortress, walking in and out of many of its seven hundred or so cells. After Holmesburg's inception in 1896--on the occasion of which one Philadelphia reporter warned, "Abandon all hope all ye who enter here"--it quickly became the prison for Philadelphia's worst criminals, eventually packing up to five prisoners into six by eight foot cells designed for single-occupancy. After leaving the site, Roma found his mind often inhabiting the space of the prison with its halls of flaking paint and graffiti-covered cells. Overwhelmed by the evidence of the lives spent inside those small rooms, Roma returned to photograph on his own, creating the images now collected for In Prison Air: The Cells of Holmesburg Prison.
Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages. These photographs--rejects found at a commercial photolab in the States--were taken at the time of the Vietnam War--a pivotal period in American history. Here is the intimacy that danced in the eyes of family photographers as they framed everyday life--as it was in the fall of 1968.The images, predominantly prints from early 126mm point-and-shoot cameras, are an uninterpreted presentation of everyday life. Reflecting both private and public spheres of consciousness, they convey unmediated perspectives of mores, values and icons through what was intended to be personal visual documentation in its most direct form. No dj issued.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 300 pages. In this lavishly produced volume, journalist Gaudriault accompanies photographer Rancinan to Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States to interview 23 masters of contemporary photography, paying homage to fashion photographers and photojournalists, traditional chroniclers of their times and conceptual artists. Rancinan's photographs record each encounter in portraits that encapsulate each subject's relationship with his shared discipline. Readers follow paparazzo Ron Galella fending off the camera; Martin Parr, the sardonic chronicler of middle-class British life, having tea in a cafe; Rankin, the creator of the hip magazine Dazed and Confused, hopping into a trashcan filled with his own cast-off images. Gaudriault's short essays quote liberally from her interviews and provide both biographical information and incisive commentary. Several of the older photographers strike an elegiac tone and confess to finding themselves at the end of the eras that gave birth to their visions, but optimism reigns among younger practitioners: David LaChapelle is reinventing himself in Hawaii; Rankin is bearing witness to an age that is still young; and Oliviero Toscani, the radical combination of journalist and marketer behind the Benetton campaigns, describes billboards as the church frescoes of today.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. Between 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life in the Jewish shtetlekh of Poland, Romania, Russia, and Hungary, communities that even then seemed threatened-not by destruction and extermination, which no one foresaw, but by change. Using a hidden camera and under difficult circumstances, Vishniac was able to take over sixteen thousand photographs; most were left with his father in a village in France for the duration of the war. With the publication of Children of a Vanished World, seventy of those photographs are available, thirty-six for the first time. The book is devoted to a subject Vishniac especially loved, and one whose mystery and spontaneity he captured with particular poignancy: children.
Hardcover. NY, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 192 pages. 200 black-and-white photographs by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, and Others. Black cloth, missing dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth spine. The photo book Naked Hollywood by Weegee and Mel Harris is a phenomenal collaborative body of work. You are introduced to a new insight on Hollywood in the late 1950s. The work brings a new irony to the time period with images that are not only outrageous but also portray the illusion of the 1950's Hollywood glamour. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. A collection of images taken by the noted director of photography at MOMA. Accompanying the photographs are excerpts from a life-time's correspondence giving a glimpse of Szarkowski's perspective on life and photography. Curator Sandra Phillips contributes an introductory essay.
Hardcover. Dark Horse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. For 15 years Preston has been photographing cartoonists in their natural habitats, the studios in which they work. Revealing the faces behind the familiar drawings, Preston aims his lenses at artists engaged in virtually every realm of cartooning, including superhero comics (Alex Ross, Todd McFarlane); newspaper strips (Cathy Guisewite, Berke Breathed); alternative and underground comics (R. Crumb, the Hernandez brothers); and animation (Chuck Jones, Joseph Barbera). The best portraits capture the spirit of the subjects' work. Mad mainstay Sergio Aragones is surrounded by toy figurines. Loopy caricaturist Arnold Roth's mug sports a wacky grin. Art Spiegelman, known for his formal mastery of the comics medium, looks dead serious. The studio of gritty urban realist Frank Miller looks out on a brick wall. Most welcome are valedictory portraits of titans in the comics field who have passed on since Preston photographed them, including Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, and Carl Barks. Fans of cartooning and of photographic portraiture should enjoy Preston's evocative images of these often-reclusive figures in their working sanctums.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages, b&w illustrations. From the construction of the Berlin Wall through every major conflict of his adult lifetime up to the Syrian Civil War, photographer Don McCullin has left a trail of iconic images. Unreasonable Behavior traces the life and career of one of the top photojournalists of the twentieth century and beyond. Born in London in 1935, McCullin worked as a photographer's assistant in the RAF during the Suez Crisis. His early association with a North London gang led to the first publication of his pictures. As an overseas correspondent for the Sunday Times Magazine beginning in 1966, McCullin soon became a new kind of hero, taking a generation of readers beyond the insularity of post-war domestic life through the lens of his Nikon camera. He captured the realities of war in Biafra, the Congo, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the human tragedy of famine and cholera on the Bangladesh border and later, the AIDs epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. McCullin now spends his days in a Somerset village, where he photographs the landscape and arranges still-lifes. Harrowing and poignant, Unreasonable Behavior is an extraordinary account of a witness who triumphed over the memories that could have destroyed him.
Softcover. Nordlingen, Greno, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 82 pages, b&w portraits. GERMAN TEXT. Contemporary (1980s) photographic portraits of people from the St.Pauli district of Hamburg.
Hardcover. London, Trolley, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 303 pages. More than 200 color photos by Osodi document the damage done to the Niger Delta and it's people by economic exploitation. Small tear to rear edge of spine, else like new
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster/Ridge Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. A famous photographic exploration of childhood. Over 300 b&w images trace toddlers to teenagers playing, learning and growing up. Light shelfwear, previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket good plus with $10 flap price.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. This volume surveys over thirty groundbreaking women who were able to negotiate the conventional boundaries of their time in order to forge successful careers and build distinguished bodies of work. Includes works by Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, etc.
Hardcover. NY, Scalo/DAP, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 572 pages, b&w photos. As a photographer for Life magazine from 1936 to 1959, John Phillips witnessed his share of troubles. His discerning and unflinching eye captured images as horrific as concentration camps and battlefield remnants with a kind of detachment that seemed to share his audience's senses of shock and outrage. He also found himself in the company of such illustrious leaders as FDR, Churchill, Stalin, and Tito during his prodigious travels across the world. Phillips, who died in 1996, was with the magazine from its inception, and his work helped to cement the publication's reputation for capturing unforgettable moments and images. Though plenty of lighter moments grace these pages, many of the included photographs are devoted to exposing one of the most turbulent periods of the 20th century, giving the book a historic sense of tragedy that can still be felt 50 years later.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 135 pages, Color photos by Schiffman that originally appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. Brief profiles accompany portraits of Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Lilly Tomlin, Jerry Lewis, Jonathan Winters, Whoopi Goldberg, and other comedians.
Softcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. Introductions by Barbara Hitchcock and Deborah Klochko; essay Deborah Martin Kao. Mostly color Illustrated. Photos by Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe and many more.
Hardcover. Corte Madera CA, Gingko Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 257 pages. Recognized as the most original photographer of the 20th century, Man Ray delighted the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s with daring, creative experimentation. He was the first Surrealist photographer, a gifted rebel with an incisive eye and a passion for freedom and pleasure. This outstanding monograph sheds new light on Man Ray's photographic genius -- incredibly, around one third of these images have never before been published. Visually spectacular and intellectually stimulating it shatters the myth -- cultivated by Man Ray himself -- that his photographic creativity resulted from timely mistakes and chance occurrences. Featured are many of his solarizations, rayographs, unconventional portraits and sensual nudes. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 114 pages, color and b&w photos by Pietropaolo.
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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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