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Antonio Guccione: Fashion and Faces by: Giuliana Scime
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Antonio Guccione: Fashion and Faces
by: Giuliana Scime

Hardcover. NY, Skira, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. A collection of portraits of famous personalities by one of Italy's finest photographers.

Record # 362064

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Genesis by: Sebastiao Salgado
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Genesis
by: Sebastiao Salgado

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 520 pages. Over 30 trips-traveled by foot, light aircraft, seagoing vessels, canoes, and even balloons, through extreme heat and cold and in sometimes dangerous conditions-Salgado created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous peoples in breathtaking beauty. Mastering the monochrome with an extreme deftness to rival the virtuoso Ansel Adams, Salgado brings black-and-white photography to a new dimension; the tonal variations in his works, the contrasts of light and dark, recall the works of Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Georges de La Tour. What does one discover in GENESIS? The animal species and volcanoes of the Galapagos; penguins, sea lions, cormorants, and whales of the Antarctic and South Atlantic; Brazilian alligators and jaguars; African lions, leopards, and elephants; the isolated Zo'e tribe deep in the Amazon jungle; the Stone Age Korowai people of West Papua; nomadic Dinka cattle farmers in Sudan; Nenet nomads and their reindeer herds in the Arctic Circle; Mentawai jungle communities on islands west of Sumatra; the icebergs of the Antarctic; the volcanoes of Central Africa and the Kamchatka Peninsula; Saharan deserts; the Negro and Jurua rivers in the Amazon; the ravines of the Grand Canyon; the glaciers of Alaska... and beyond. Having dedicated so much time, energy, and passion to the making of this work, Salgado calls GENESIS "my love letter to the planet."Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 362066

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Marilyn, August 1953: The Lost LOOK Photos by: Mr. Brian Wallis Chief Curator and John Vachon
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Marilyn, August 1953: The Lost LOOK Photos
by: Mr. Brian Wallis Chief Curator and John Vachon

Hardcover. NY, Calla Editions, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 128 pages. Picture this: A master photographer shoots the most breathtaking movie star of her time high in the Canadian Rockies in the summer of 1953. And the negatives are filed away for nearly 60 years -- most never seen until now! It was yet another assignment for LOOK magazine staff photographer John Vachon. But when he arrived in Banff, Alberta, in mid-August of 1953 to shoot Marilyn Monroe on location making River of No Return, Vachon encountered an opportunity never afforded the many great photographers who took pictures of Marilyn during her short life. Due to an injured ankle that prevented her from filming, Vachon got access to Marilyn over a period of several days. Vachon's lens captured her in a variety of contexts and countenances. Here is Marilyn the way we want to remember her: luminous, sexually charismatic, smiling radiantly -- even on crutches. This extraordinary portfolio of revealing images ranges from her mugging poolside to riding high on a ski lift to nuzzling with her then-husband-to-be, the legendary Joe DiMaggio -- the only time that the two posed formally together for a photographer.

Record # 362068

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

365 images 1914-1918 by: Lannoo Publishers
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365 images 1914-1918
by: Lannoo Publishers

Hardcover. Lannoo, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. 365 images at the western front of World War One give the reader a unique view on the battlefield and the daily life in and around the trenches.

Record # 362071

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (SIGNED COPY) by: Shaylor, Andrew
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Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (SIGNED COPY)
by: Shaylor, Andrew

Hardcover. London/NY, Merrell Publishers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Photographer Andrew Shaylor has been given unique and long-term access to the secret world of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Over 300 stunning photographs reveal the rich diversity of the HAMC. Includes HAMC events, members? motorcycles (always Harley Davidsons), clubhouses, over 100 incisive portraits and a multitude of details that uniquely define HAMC culture. Specially commissioned foreword by American legend Sonny Barger, internationally well-known and respected member of the HAMC. Limited to 1000 copies SIGNED by Andrew Shaylor on the limitation label to the front endpaper.

Record # 362076

Price: $170.00
Price: $170.00 

Americans, The by: Frank, Robert
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Americans, The
by: Frank, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Grossman, 2nd Ed., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, revised and enlarged, this is the 2nd American edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. With stills from several of Frank's earliest films. With an introduction by Jack Kerouac.

Record # 362078

Price: $600.00
Price: $600.00 

Dassonville: William E. Dassonville, California Photographer, (1879-1957) by: Paul Hertzmann and Susan Heraig
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Dassonville: William E. Dassonville, California Photographer, (1879-1957)
by: Paul Hertzmann and Susan Heraig

Hardcover. Nevada City CA, Carl Mautz Publishung, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oblong hardcover. 111 pages. Researched and edited by Susan Herzig and Paul Hertzman. Essay by Peter Palmquist. Includes 60 illustrations with 47 color and duotone plates.

Record # 362079

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding by: Jed Fielding , Britt Salvesen, et al.
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Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding
by: Jed Fielding , Britt Salvesen, et al.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 132 pages. Sight is central to the medium of photography. But what happens when the subjects of photographic portraits cannot look back at the photographer or even see their own image? An in-depth pictorial study of blind schoolchildren in Mexico, Look at me draws attention to (and distinctions between) the activity of sight and the consciousness of form. Combining aspects of his earlier, acclaimed street work with an innovative approach to portraiture, Chicago-based photographer Jed Fielding has concentrated closely on these children's features and gestures, probing the enigmatic boundaries between surface and interior, innocence and knowing, beauty and grotesque. Design, composition, and the play of light and shadow are central elements in these photographs, but the images are much more than formal experiments; they confront disability in a way that affirms life. Fielding's sightless subjects project a vitality that seems to extend beyond the limits of self-consciousness. In collaborative, joyful participation with the children, he has made pictures that reveal essential gestures of absorption and the basic expressions of our creatureliness.

Record # 362082

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Powerful Days - The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore by: Moore, Charles/Michael S. Durham
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Powerful Days - The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
by: Moore, Charles/Michael S. Durham

Softcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2nd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Charles Moore. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 362093

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Pilgrimage by: Leibovitz, Annie
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Pilgrimage
by: Leibovitz, Annie

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Remainder mark to bottom edge, else like new in publishers shrink-wrap. White cloth hardcover in the dust jacket and name band , 244 page book . With color and black & white photo illustrations by Annie Leibovitz .

Record # 362095

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan by: Toby Jurovics, Carol Johnson, et al.
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Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
by: Toby Jurovics, Carol Johnson, et al.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. The image of the untamed American West persists as one of our country's most enduring cultural myths, and few photographers have captured more compelling images of the frontier than Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Trained under Mathew Brady, O'Sullivan accompanied several government expeditions to the West--most notably with geologist Clarence King in 1867 and cartographer George M. Wheeler in 1871. Along these journeys, O'Sullivan produced many beautiful photographs that exhibit a forthright and rigorous style formed in response to the landscapes he encountered. Faced with challenging terrain and lacking previous photographic examples on which to rely, O'Sullivan created a body of work that was without precedent in its visual and emotional complexities. The first major publication on O'Sullivan in more than thirty years, Framing the West offers a new aesthetic and formal interpretation of O'Sullivan's photographs and assesses his influence on the larger photographic canon. The book features previously unpublished and rarely seen images and serves as a field guide for O'Sullivan's original prints, presenting them for the first time in sequence with the chronology of their production.

Record # 362098

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Firehouse by: Freedman, Dennis Smith, Jill
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Firehouse
by: Freedman, Dennis Smith, Jill

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. B&w photos by Freesman. Dust jacket with mild edgewear. Beautiful copy of a scarce book. A photo essay on the experiences of firemen.

Record # 362110

Price: $200.00
Price: $200.00 

Happy Times by: Brendan Gill and Jerome Zerbe
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Happy Times
by: Brendan Gill and Jerome Zerbe

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. Collection of society photographer Zerbe's b&w photos chronicling the celebrities and events of the 20th century, with additional photographs of the Pacific Theater in World War II. Jacket design by Philip Grushkin.

Record # 362113

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying by: Laurie Simmons and Kate Linker
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Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying
by: Laurie Simmons and Kate Linker

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Hardcover, 156 pages, 104 color plates. The intimate ache of the dollhouse and its air of manipulation (whether as consumer object or ventriloquist dummy) has become as identified with pioneering photographer Laurie Simmons as with Ibsen. She's even designed a dollhouse for a toy company. Mostly self-taught, Simmons began working in the 1970s, when color and staged tableaux were first being explored by fine-art photographers, and has since mapped out a world all her own, mostly in haunting miniature. Over the past 25 years, her photographs have conveyed a bittersweet nostalgia for the 1950s, while edgily commenting on consumerism, feminism and other fraught aspects of postwar American culture. The accompanying essay by Kate Linker concentrates on selected series that cover the artist's entire oeuvre--from "Ventriloquism," "Walking Objects" and "Lying Objects" to the 1997 "Self-Portraits" and "Cafe of the Inner Mind"--and so is essential reading for any photography aficionado.

Record # 362115

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Working Stiffs: Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes by: Michael L. Carlebach
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Working Stiffs: Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes
by: Michael L. Carlebach

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. The tintype, patented in 1856, was a cheap, fast, easy-to-make, practically indestructible type of photograph that became enormously popular among the working class in the late nineteenth century. For common laborers and their families, the opportunity to join the ranks of those who owned pictures of family and friends--the upper classes--was momentous. This collection exhibits more than eighty examples of a specific kind of tintype: occupational portraits, photographs of working people with the tools of their trade. Michael L. Carlebach examines the historical significance of these tintypes and finds that they reveal a great deal about late nineteenth-century values. The subjects of these images are plumbers proudly holding their wrenches and pipe cutters, carpenters with their saws and lathing hatchets, textile workers with their spindles and yarn, icemen with their tongs. These people lived and worked at a time when a depersonalized factory system run by production and efficiency experts was beginning to dominate American industry and culture. Many of the men and women in these tintypes were part of a disappearing class of self-employed artisans and journeymen; their portraits proudly stress their individuality and the essential nobility of their work.

Record # 362116

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43 by: Paul Hendrickson
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Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43
by: Paul Hendrickson

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Taken from 1939 to 1943 under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, these 175 "lost" photos feature shots by Russell Lee, Andreas Feininger and Marion Post Wolcott, using the then-revolutionary technology of Kodachrome film. Color photographs taken before 1939 have largely deteriorated, so these surviving photos are later than the most familiar b&w Depression-era shots. This 11 3/4 "x8 1/2 " volume thus "colorizes" one's normally black-and-white impressions of a very vibrant time, as Hendrickson (Sons of Mississippi) notes in his introduction. The logic behind the arrangement of the photos, which at first seems largely random, as it follows neither photographer, location nor chronology, becomes clear by the end of the book: the U.S.'s industrial rise. Images of urban lethargy and farmhands picking cotton under hot blue skies (the unbearable conditions of cotton-picking somehow seem more apparent in color) gradually give way to images of mobility, mechanization and a changing economy. Arnold T. Palmer's gleaming portraits of Rosie the riveter-like aircraft workers follow Jack Delano's earthier photos of male railroad workers, their sweaty and intent faces caked with soot. Tellingly, the book ends with photos of bombers flying over California.

Record # 362120

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008 by: Alison de Lima Greene, Anne Wilkes Tucker, et al.
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Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008
by: Alison de Lima Greene, Anne Wilkes Tucker, et al.

Softcover. Museum of Fine Arts Houston , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. Amy Blakemore (b. 1958) is renowned for her deceptively simple photographs of friends, family, and local landscapes. Her images, featured here for the first time in book form, evoke fleeting aspects of personality and memory and have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including the 2006 Whitney Biennial.

Record # 362123

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Andr?© de Dienes: Marilyn by: Steve Crist and Andre De Dienes
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Andr?© de Dienes: Marilyn
by: Steve Crist and Andre De Dienes

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, color photos. The fashion photographer and former fiance of Marilyn Monroe details his entire relationship with the star, including many private moments shared only between the two in his secret memoirs, which were discovered after his death in 1988.

Record # 362130

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders by: Etheridge, Eric
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Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
by: Etheridge, Eric

Hardcover. Atlas, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans--blacks and whites, men and women--converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace." Collected here in a richly illustrated, large-format book featuring over seventy contemporary photographs, alongside the original mug shots, and exclusive interviews with former Freedom Riders, is that testament: a moving archive of a chapter in U.S. history that hasn't yet closed.

Record # 362138

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change by: Philip Brookman , Marta Braun, et al.
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Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change
by: Philip Brookman , Marta Braun, et al.

Hardcover. Steidl, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 360 pages. In 1878, the Photographic Times claimed that ten minutes provided sufficient exposure for photographing a landscape. Six years earlier, an English immigrant to the West Coast named Eadweard Muybridge, going by the commercial name of Helios, had already pushed photography far in the opposite direction: not to soak up time into pictures, but to divide time with the quickest exposures then imaginable. In 1872, the tycoon Leland Stanford had commissioned Muybridge to photograph his horse, Occident, to determine whether it ever lifted all four hooves off the ground at once. In proving that this was indeed the case, Muybridge achieved a five-hundredth-of-a-second exposure, and so began an anatomy of motion-in humans, horses, birds-that exploded the possibilities of photography and ultimately led to the development of the motion picture. Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change offers an opportunity to trace the life and art of the great photographer. In the wake of a wave of recent scholarship and renewed interest, it pitches his entire body of work against the backdrop of one of the most transformative periods of American and European history. Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Helios features essays by Philip Brookman, Marta Braun, Corey Keller and Rebecca Solnit that provide a variety of new approaches to Muybridge's art and influences.

Record # 362142

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Chicago under Glass: Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News by: Mark Jacob , Richard Cahan, et al.
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Chicago under Glass: Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
by: Mark Jacob , Richard Cahan, et al.

Hardcover. Chicago IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 263 pages. When the Chicago Daily News closed its doors in March 1978 after over a century of publication, the city mourned the loss of an American original. The Daily News boasted the inventive, aggressive writing of such luminaries as Carl Sandburg and Ben Hecht. It was also one of the first newspapers in the country to feature black-and-white photography. In 1900, staffers from the paper's art department began lugging bulky cameras, heavy glass plates, and explosive flash powder throughout the city. A labor strike, a boxing match, or a crime scene--it was all in a day's work for the Daily News photographer. These cameramen helped sell papers, but, as Mark Jacob and Richard Cahan reveal, they also made art. Chicago under Glass: Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News is the first collection of images from the photo staff's early years, 1901 to 1930. Jacob and Cahan, seasoned journalists themselves, have selected more than 250 images--many of which have never before been published--from the nearly 57,000 glass negatives housed at the Chicago History Museum. They include rare photographs of a young Buster Keaton with his wife and child, waiting to board a train and the notorious Al Capone outside a courtroom, smoking a cigar and consulting with his lawyer. Each thematic section begins with a fascinating introduction by the authors, and each image is accompanied by insightful historical commentary.

Record # 362151

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852 1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by: Gordon Baldwin , Malcolm Daniel, et al.
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All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852 1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
by: Gordon Baldwin , Malcolm Daniel, et al.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England's most celebrated and influential photographer during the 1850s, the "golden age" of this radically new medium. Fenton's majestic pictures of cathedrals, country houses, and varied countryside were without peer in England--as were his views of the royal castles and Houses of Parliament that embodied Britain's power. But Fenton's choice of subjects ranged more widely still: he was among the first to photograph the Kremlin and other landmarks of Moscow and Kiev; he was commissioned in 1855 to document the Crimean War, producing early war photographs; and he created theatrical Orientalist costume pictures and a startling series of lush still lifes. Fenton had first studied law and painting, but soon after he took up the camera he was making photographs that were technically superb and highly original in their handling of composition, perspective, atmosphere, and light. Always he strove to demonstrate that photography could equal the art of painting and even surpass it. He was the force behind the founding of the Photographic Society (later the Royal Photographic Society), which worked to advance the profession and encouraged the exhibition of members' works throughout Britain. In a career of a single decade, Fenton did much to transform photography into a medium of powerful expression and visual delight. This exquisitely produced book--the first comprehensive publication on Fenton in almost twenty years--presents eighty-five of the artist's finest photographs and discusses every aspect of his work and his remarkable career.

Record # 362155

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Sweeney's Flight; With The Complete Revised Text Of "Sweeney Astray" (SIGNED BY HEANEY) by: Heaney, Seamus With Photographs By Rachel Giese
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Sweeney's Flight; With The Complete Revised Text Of "Sweeney Astray" (SIGNED BY HEANEY)
by: Heaney, Seamus With Photographs By Rachel Giese

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Stated First American edition. A handsome volume containing the revised text of Sweeney Astray by Heaney with 34 photographs by Rachel Giese. SIGNED BY HEANEY on title page and dated 2005 on occasion of his visit to The Breadloaf Writer's Conference in Vermont. There is a previous owner's signature on the front fly leaf.

Record # 362157

Price: $300.00
Price: $300.00 

A Useful Dream: African Photography 1960-2010 by: Frank Vanhaecke and Simon Njami
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A Useful Dream: African Photography 1960-2010
by: Frank Vanhaecke and Simon Njami

Softcover. Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Photography has proved a particularly essential art in the African continent's postcolonial era, both for recording the numerous seismic moments in its recent history, and for reclaiming the imagery of Africa from its colonial portrayers. As Africa has begun to step beyond its colonial subjugation, photography has also assumed a leading role in providing African countries with individual identities. Tracking the blossoming of postcolonial photography in Africa from 1960 to the present, and accompanying an exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, A Useful Dream: African Photography 1960-2010 celebrates 50 years of African photography. Among the 34 photographers gathered in its pages are Rui Assubuji, Nabil Boutros, Loulou Cherinet, James Depara, Samuel Fosso, David Goldblatt, Bob Gosani, Pierrot Men, Zwelethu Mtethwa, Eileen Perrier, Ricardo Rangel, Malick Sidibe and Patrice-Felix Tchikaya. The volume includes an introduction by Simon Njami and a text by Frank Vanhaec

Record # 362158

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Cindy Sherman by: Eva Respini, Johanna Burton, et al.
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Cindy Sherman
by: Eva Respini, Johanna Burton, et al.

Softcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages. 153 color illustrations and 102 duotone. Published to accompany the first major survey of Cindy Sherman's work in the United States in nearly 15 years, this publication presents a stunning range of work from the groundbreaking artist's 35-year career. Showcasing approximately 180 photographs from the mid-1970s to the present, including new works made for the exhibition and never before published, the volume is a vivid exploration of Sherman's sustained investigation into the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation. The book highlights major bodies of work including her seminal Untitled Film Stills (1977-80); centerfolds (1981); history portraits (1989-90); head shots (2000-2002); and two recent series on the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status. An essay by curator Eva Respini provides an overview of Sherman's career, weaving together art historical analysis and discussions of the artist's working methods, and a contribution by art historian Johanna Burton offers a critical re-examination of Sherman's work in light of her recent series. A conversation between Cindy Sherman and filmmaker John Waters provides an enlightening view into the creative process.

Record # 362160

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Cindy Sherman by: Eva Respini, Johanna Burton, et al.
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Cindy Sherman
by: Eva Respini, Johanna Burton, et al.

Softcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages. 153 color illustrations and 102 duotone. Published to accompany the first major survey of Cindy Sherman's work in the United States in nearly 15 years, this publication presents a stunning range of work from the groundbreaking artist's 35-year career. Showcasing approximately 180 photographs from the mid-1970s to the present, including new works made for the exhibition and never before published, the volume is a vivid exploration of Sherman's sustained investigation into the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation. The book highlights major bodies of work including her seminal Untitled Film Stills (1977-80); centerfolds (1981); history portraits (1989-90); head shots (2000-2002); and two recent series on the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status. An essay by curator Eva Respini provides an overview of Sherman's career, weaving together art historical analysis and discussions of the artist's working methods, and a contribution by art historian Johanna Burton offers a critical re-examination of Sherman's work in light of her recent series. A conversation between Cindy Sherman and filmmaker John Waters provides an enlightening view into the creative process.

Record # 362161

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Views from the Reservation (Center Books on American Places) by: Willis, John
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Views from the Reservation (Center Books on American Places)
by: Willis, John

Hardcover. Center for American Places, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. Professor and photographer John Willis is well aware of the exploitation that sometimes occurs when photographers enter impoverished communities for a project. So, in 1992, when he first traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the southwest corner of South Dakota, he assured the elders of the Oglala Lakota Sioux that he would not be exhibiting any of the images he took while there. Over time, however, Willis earned the respect and trust of the community, and the elders--hoping that the photographs might bring aid to their community--urged him to show his work. The product of several visits to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Views from the Reservation is meant to open our eyes, minds, and hearts to the life, culture, and conditions of the Oglala Lakota people.

Record # 362165

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Suburban World: The Norling Photos by: Brad Zellar and Alec Soth
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Suburban World: The Norling Photos
by: Brad Zellar and Alec Soth

Hardcover. Borealis Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Men wearing suits jousting with sailfish. Head-on bridge collision. Men with linoleum. Kitchen murder-suicide. Firemen playing donkey baseball. Ideal woman in apron. Through more than 10,000 images, Irwin Denison Norling, the unofficial town photographer for Bloomington, Minnesota, captured the strange juxtapositions, incongruities, and dark corners of the developing suburban America of the 1950s and '60s. A competitive amateur glued to his police radio, Norling spent years examining the light and darkness, tragedies and desolation, rituals of community and celebration through the lens of his camera, deftly capturing the uneasy dichotomy between the familiar and subversive--the familiarly subversive. "That was the way it was. And the way it was, that's what I was after." In 2002 veteran journalist Brad Zellar unearthed Norling's negatives from the archive of the Bloomington Historical Society. Compelled by the work of this man who had all but drifted into obscurity, Zellar collects the best of these images in Suburban World, a fascinating window into the uneasy contradictions in Norling's unforgettable and unselfconscious, funny and gritty, not-too-distant past.

Record # 362167

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

JFK: A Photographic Memoir by: Friedlander, Lee
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JFK: A Photographic Memoir
by: Friedlander, Lee

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. "Fifty years after Kennedy's death, this book observes the public's reaction to the president's election and assassination, featuring many photographs published here for the first time. In his travels throughout America during this period, Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) encountered these responses and photographed what he witnessed. From Washington, D.C., to Buffalo to Minneapolis to Los Angeles, Friedlander has captured a moment in American history that galvanized the nation and continues to resonate today." 48 b&w images by Friedlander.

Record # 362175

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Ben Shahn Photographer: An Album from the Thirties by: Shahn Ben; Ed. by Margaret R Weiss
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Ben Shahn Photographer: An Album from the Thirties
by: Shahn Ben; Ed. by Margaret R Weiss

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 82 pages. This is the first book devoted exclusively to Shahn's photographs. All of the photographs selected for this volume were taken during the 1930s from Rod Stryker's great Farm Security Administration project.

Record # 362211

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Isabella Rossellini: Looking At Me: On Pictures and Photographs by: Peter Lindbergh, Bruce Weber, et al.
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Isabella Rossellini: Looking At Me: On Pictures and Photographs
by: Peter Lindbergh, Bruce Weber, et al.

Hardcover. Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Self-reflection by celebrities tends to be fraught with unmentionable difficulties. Not, though, when the star in question is the ever intelligent, self-aware, articulate, and magnificent Isabella Rossellini. For years, a wall in the entrance of Rossellini's apartment has been covered in pictures taken of her by different photographers. Looking at the "Me Wall," Rossellini writes that she never really saw herself; instead she "saw the photographer's work, their ideas, and our collaboration in capturing fantasies." Looking at Me gathers together Rossellini's private collection of portraits taken of herself by some of the world's leading photographers, including Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Michel Comte, Patrick Demarchelier, Fabrizio Ferri, Horst P. Horst, Brigitte Lacombe, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Lindbergh, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel, Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, Paolo Roversi, Ellen von Unwerth, and Bruce Weber, as well as filmmakers David Lynch and Wim Wenders. Rossellini invites us to join her as she looks at her favorite portraits, privileging us with her witty, humorous, and self-ironical comments. She traces her career, in photographs, from boxing reporter in Muhammad Ali's training camp to highly successful model, from actress in some of Hollywood's more controversial films to head of her own cosmetic line, Manifesto. Mixed in with these public images are pictures of Rossellini in private, with her children, her dog Macaroni, and her pig Spanky. Irresistibly charming, intelligent yet whimsical, Looking At Me proves the perfect complement to Rossellini herself.

Record # 362212

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Robert Capa: A Look Ahead by: Capa, Robert
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Robert Capa: A Look Ahead
by: Capa, Robert

Hardcover. Gent : Snoeck, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. "Robert Capa, A Look Ahead" traces the extraordinary career of the famous war reporter through a wide range of duotone photos, many of which have remained unpublished. It also shows how Robert Capa unleashed a revolution in the press world as co-founder of the agency Magnum. Father of author's rights in photography, witness to the great events of his time, he never sought sensation but rather to convey his vision of the world. Capa's life, which was filled with exceptional encounters and intense moments, ended tragically when he was just forty years old. Edited and composed in close collaboration with Magnum Photos, this book is a reflection on the role of photojournalism in the media, both yesterday and today. Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer, photo journalist and also the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro.

Record # 362216

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Helena de Braganca: I Am Cuban by: Lemis Tarajano Noya, Liset Alea, et al.
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Helena de Braganca: I Am Cuban
by: Lemis Tarajano Noya, Liset Alea, et al.

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages. Traveling extensively in Cuba between 2007 and 2009, photographer Helena de Braganca (born 1978) sought to capture the nation's undocumented lives, from prostitutes and transvestites to punk rockers and swingers. De Braganca's lens temporarily transforms the alleyways, bedrooms and rooftops before her camera into both safe havens and stages.

Record # 362218

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Circus Days by: Freedman, Jill
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Circus Days
by: Freedman, Jill

Softcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. A photographic documentation of the Beatty-Cole Circus, recording and portraying the customs, activities, animals, and singular personalities of an endangered way of life. "I wanted to document the backstage everyday life of this ancient closed society and the people who live in it." Full-page b/w photos. Wrappers with light wear.

Record # 362219

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

American Music: Photographs by: Annie Leibovitz
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American Music: Photographs
by: Annie Leibovitz

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. color and b/w plates. Includes biographical sketches of all the musicians. Includes, but is not limited to: B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Beck, Bob Dylan, Mary J. Blige, Steve Earle, Miles Davis, Etta James, Pete Seeger, Emmylou Harris, Tom Waits, The Dixie Chicks, and more. Short essays by musicians Patti Smith, Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, Mos Def, Ryan Adams, and Beck.

Record # 362225

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Sahel: The End of the Road by: Sebastiao Salgado , Orville Schell, et al.
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Sahel: The End of the Road
by: Sebastiao Salgado , Orville Schell, et al.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. n 1984 Sebastiao Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan, where approximately one million people died from extreme malnutrition and related causes. Working with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, Salgado documented the enormous suffering and the great dignity of the refugees. This early work became a template for his future photographic projects about other afflicted people around the world. Since then, Salgado has again and again sought to give visual voice to those millions of human beings who, because of military conflict, poverty, famine, overpopulation, pestilence, environmental degradation, and other forms of catastrophe, teeter on the edge of survival. Beautifully produced, with thoughtful supporting narratives by Orville Schell, Fred Ritchin, and Eduardo Galeano, this first U.S. edition brings some of Salgado's earliest and most important work to an American audience for the first time. Twenty years after the photographs were taken, Sahel: The End of the Road is still painfully relevant.

Record # 362227

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

The Palestinians by: Dimbleby/Don McCullin, Jonathan
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The Palestinians
by: Dimbleby/Don McCullin, Jonathan

Hardcover. London, Quartet, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 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.

Record # 362230

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere by: Georges Didi-Huberman and Alisa Hartz
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Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere
by: Georges Didi-Huberman and Alisa Hartz

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. The story of how hysterics were "invented" in 19th-century Paris is a fascinating one. All the more so because the staged performances that Freud witnessed at the famous Salpetriere asylum were to form the basis of his theory of hysteria, a theory which had a lasting impact on both psychiatry and medicine. Photography played an important role in the way doctors learned about so-called hysteria, often under the guise of objectivity.

Record # 362235

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Handbook (with Footnotes) by: Arnold, Eve
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Handbook (with Footnotes)
by: Arnold, Eve

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 200 pages with gray paper boards in a black slipcase, unpaginated. Illustrated with full page color plates. A gorgeous collection from one of the world's legendary photographers- capturing human hands in all their vitality. At the end of a session, photographer Eve Arnold always took a parting shot of the hands -and sometimes the feet- of her sitters, for luck and for her personal records. "Handbook with Footnotes brings together two hundred of these superb pictures. A photojournalist who traveled around the world, Eve Arnold also worked on the sets of more than 40 Hollywood movies. These photographs, therefore, which span her career, include such luminaries as Isabella Rossellini, Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe, and Jimmy Stewart.

Record # 362237

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s by: Joshua P. Smith, Merry A. Foresta, et al.
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Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s
by: Joshua P. Smith, Merry A. Foresta, et al.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Pictures that are made, not taken, are the focus of this exciting collection of works by 90 American artists who are using appropriation, computer technology, performance, and numerous other sources of inspiration to stretch the limits and expand the possibilities of photographic art. "Perhaps in the future," Man Ray suggested to Duchamp, "photography would replace all art." The Photography of Invention hints at that future by documenting a decade of startling new work in American photography: work that challenges the accepted hierarchy of the arts and, arguably, establishes photography as the equal of the other arts. Pictures that are made, not taken, are the focus of this exciting collection of works by 90 American artists who are using appropriation, computer technology, performance, and numerous other sources of inspiration to stretch the limits and expand the possibilities of photographic art. The selection of nontraditional pictures includes works by some of the decade's most interesting experimenters-Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger, William Christenberry, Louise Lawler, Stefan Roloff, and others who create or manipulate the subject photographed.

Record # 362239

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Millionaires, Mansions, and Motor Yachts: An Era of Opulence by: Ross MacTaggart
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Millionaires, Mansions, and Motor Yachts: An Era of Opulence
by: Ross MacTaggart

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Through a lively text and 250 stunning duotone images (most never previously published), Millionaires, Mansions, and Motor Yachts re-creates an era of opulence and extravagance that today seems incredible. Dominating this volume are the mansions and yachts of Alfred and Jessie du Pont. Equally larger-than-life personalities include Thomas Lawson, his expansive estate, Dreamwold, and yachts such as Dreamer; empire builder John Spreckels's 227-foot Venetia; Emily Cadwalader, who commissioned a vessel destined for world renown as a U.S. presidential yacht, before checkmating this achievement by ordering the largest private yacht ever built, the 407-foot Savarona; Eugene Tompkins, the "Napoleon of Theater Managers"; George Fabyan; Harry Darlington; and William Rands. Enfolded in this volume's fascinating pages are not only the wealthy individuals who shaped this era but also curmudgeonly writer/yachtsman Thomas Fleming Day, photographer Nathaniel Stebbins, and the designers and builders who created the splendid yachts that here return to life.

Record # 362240

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies by: Gilles Mora
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The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies
by: Gilles Mora

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. The photography that Americans invented in the 1960s and ?70s was as fresh and vital as their music. Photographers of those years believed in their medium?s unlimited capacities of expression. Between the publication of Robert Frank?s The Americans (1958) and the coming of post-modernism, the photographers featured in this book embarked on their own personal quests. Whether they roamed the world, like Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand, or sought out its dark corners, like Larry Clark and Nan Goldin, they shared a fierce devotion to their medium and its unique qualities. The generation that created this work knew it was remarkable. Today, with Gilles Mora as a guide, we can look back on it with even greater appreciation, since we know that these were indeed the last photographic heroes. Also includes work by Joel Meyerowitz, William Eggleston, and many others.

Record # 362242

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965 by: Bruce Davidson , John Lewis, et al.
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Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965
by: Bruce Davidson , John Lewis, et al.

Hardcover. St. Ann's Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages. On May 25, 1961, Bruce Davison joined a group of Freedom Riders traveling by bus from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi. The actions of these youths challenged and disobeyed federal laws allowing for integrated interstate bus travel. These historic episodes, which ended in violence and arrests, marked the beginning of Davidson's exploration into the heart and soul of the civil rights movement in the United States during the years 1961-1965. In 1962, Davidson received a Guggenheim Fellowship and continued documenting the era, including an early Malcolm X rally in Harlem, steel workers in Chicago, a Ku Klux Klan cross burning near Atlanta, farm migrant camps in South Carolina, cotton picking in Mississippi, protest demonstrations in Birmingham, and the heroic Selma March that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was instrumental in changing the political power base in the segregated Southern states. In the 140 photographs collected here, many of which have never before been published, we see intimate and revealing portraits of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and other leaders made by Davidson during those turbulent times. These images describe the mood that prevailed during the civil rights movement with a lyrical imagery that is both poignant and profound. As Davidson bears witness to these historical events, and documents the degradation and segregation that were endured, he gives testimony to the struggle for freedom, equality, justice, and human dignity.

Record # 362244

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

James Dean: Fifty Years Ago by: Dennis Stock and Joe Hyams
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James Dean: Fifty Years Ago
by: Dennis Stock and Joe Hyams

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Although Stock has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1951 and his work has been collected in numerous books (California Trip; Jazz Street), he remains best known for his unforgettable b&w photographs of Dean, which soared beyond routine celebrity shots. Stock's photo essay in Life, "Moody New Star," attracted attention the same week East of Eden opened in 1955, and in the years since, his photos of Dean have resurfaced in magazines, books and exhibitions. Published on the 50th anniversary of Dean's death, this collection of 80 duotones recaptures the few weeks in 1954 Stock spent with the actor in New York and his Fairmount, Ind., hometown before the two flew back to L.A. for the filming of Rebel Without a Cause. Hyams (James Dean: Little Boy Lost) calls the haunting shot of Dean alone in a rainy Times Square "one of the foremost iconic images of the 20th century." A surreal scene at the Fairmount farm shows Dean banging bongo drums for an audience of cows and pigs, and a peek inside an Actors Studio session is a rarity since Lee Strasberg "almost never let anyone photograph his classes." Stock's own brief memoir of his friendship with Dean is well written, evocative and insightful.

Record # 362252

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Silent Places: Landscapes of Jewish Life and Loss in Eastern Europe by: Gusky/Judith Miller, Jeffrey
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Silent Places: Landscapes of Jewish Life and Loss in Eastern Europe
by: Gusky/Judith Miller, Jeffrey

Hardcover. NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. Jeff Gusky, a doctor of emergency medicine, decided at the age of 42 that he wanted to better confront the reality of modern Jewish history. A self-taught photographer who subsequently learned to make museum quality prints, he bought what he calls "a good, journalist-type camera and some lenses" and traveled to Poland-once the home of the largest concentration of Diaspora Jews. He read the instruction manuals on the plane en route. Over four trips, accompanied each time by a top Polish guide, Gusky traveled through the country, beyond the city ghettos and the sites of concentration camps, into remote villages where Jews had lived and worked for almost 1,000 years before the Holocaust-capturing on film the austere landscapes and the remains of a once thriving Jewish culture. The silence is deafening: here are Jewish cemeteries full of broken gravestones, ruined synagogues filled with trash and disfigured with graffiti, a Jewish home now used as a public toilet-"where people lived, walked, worshipped, and were, ultimately, exterminated," says Gusky. The doleful, understated clarity of what he saw and photographed captures a poignant sense of loss-making at the same time an indelible connection to the past.

Record # 362255

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Polly Borland: Australians by: Borland/Virginia Ginnane, Nick Cave, et al., Polly
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Polly Borland: Australians
by: Borland/Virginia Ginnane, Nick Cave, et al., Polly

Softcover. London, National Portrait Gallery , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. This collection of photographic portraits celebrates the achievements and contributions of prominent Australians to British society today. It includes photographs of figures such as Rolf Harris, Patricia Hewitt, Clive James and Nick Cave, and uses the photographic portrait to explore the worlds of business, publishing, entertainment and the arts. A catalogue to accompany the exhibition held at the NPG London in 2000 and in NPG Canberra in 2001.

Record # 362265

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Making Home in Havana by: Cececilia Lawless , Vincenzo Pietropaolo (Photog)
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Making Home in Havana
by: Cececilia Lawless , Vincenzo Pietropaolo (Photog)

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.

Record # 362270

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Likes of Us, The: Photography and the Farm Security Administration by: Cohen, Stu
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Likes of Us, The: Photography and the Farm Security Administration
by: Cohen, Stu

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. The FSA archive includes the work of dozens of photographers, from acknowledged giants like Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange to Marion Post Wolcott and Russell Lee, whose names and work may be less familiar. This book collects work from nine of these trips: Evans in Louisana and Alabama, Shahn in West Virginia, Lange in California, and others, uniting them with Stryker's shooting scripts, letters, and other relevant archival documents. Reproduced in duotone, the 175 photographs in The Likes of Us were all printed from the original negatives at the Library of Congress.

Record # 362271

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Alison Jackson: Confidential by: Alison Jackson , Will Self , et al.
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Alison Jackson: Confidential
by: Alison Jackson , Will Self , et al.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. Alison Jackson has photographed the Queen of England on the toilet, George Bush and Tony Blair chatting in the sauna, Mick Jagger doing gymnastics, and Monica Lewinsky lighting Bill Clinton's cigar. Or has she? The likenesses are uncanny, but of course, her subjects are look-alikes. Her photos demonstrate that while seeing is believing, the truth is another story entirely. In her work, Jackson says, "Likeness becomes real and fantasy touches on the believable. The viewer is suspended in disbelief. I try to highlight the psychological relationship between what we see and what we imagine. This is bound up in our need to look--our voyeurism--and our need to believe." Indeed, by showing "celebrities" ostensibly caught unawares, Jackson's pictures show us what we imagine might go on behind closed doors. Jackson's work causes controversy, because it threatens to cross the line between the private and public life of our contemporary icons. Because we unquestioningly accept the authenticity of the photograph, it would appear that we are being given a glimpse of something confidential, a private moment. It is only upon closer examination that we question the reality of the image, and hopefully this makes us question our unwitting tendency to believe everything we see in the media today.

Record # 362272

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance by: Paul Martineau
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Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance
by: Paul Martineau

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 164 pages. "With assistant curator of photographs Paul Martineau's intriguing biographical essay (based, in part, on the Getty's archive of Outerbridge papers), 104 stunningly beautiful plates, a chronology, checklist, and index, this catalog offers a highly visual and seductive overview. A section featuring selected photographs from Outerbridge's California years, a period missing from earlier books, makes this publication of interest to specialists as well."--ARLIS/NA Reviews

Record # 362277

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 


  

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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