animals photography

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated with color photos by Larry Carrara. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND AUTHOR on front fly leaf. A Moose for Jessica is a non-fiction book about a moose named Josh that spent some time in Shrewsbury, Vermont with a hereford cow called Jessica. Josh was attracted to Jessica and stayed in the vicinity for 76 days.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown/Bulfinch, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Introduction by Judith Jamison. Beautifully clean, new-looking condition. Really nice black & white photos by Ritts. Remainder line bottom edge. Hardbound, dust jacket. Unpaginated, but about 140 pages with some leaves printed one side only. Oblong, 14-1/2 by 12-1/4 inches. Seventy-five duotone photograph reproductions of people, landscapes and animals of Africa. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 88 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, gray cloth covers with black lettering. Review slip laid in. Mark from paper clip no longer present. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. GR, Steidl, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. One of the most intriguing and little studied forms of nineteenth-century photography is the tintype. Introduced in 1856 as a low-cost alternative to the daguerreotype and the albumen print, the tintype was widely marketed from the 1860s through the first decades of the twentieth century as the most popular photographic medium. The picture-making preference of the people, it was almost never used for celebrity portraiture: It was affordable, portable, unique and available almost everywhere. Because of its ubiquity, the tintype provides a startlingly candid record of the political upheavals that rocked the four decades following the American Civil War-and the personal anxieties they induced. As this book's author, Steven Kasher, argues, the tintype studio became a kind of performance space in which sitters could act out their personal identities. Sitters brought to the tintype studio not just their family and friends but also the tools of their trade, costumes, toys, stuffed animals and other such props. Often they would enact stereotypes and fantasies that reflected or challenged conventional gender, race and class roles. Surprisingly, the tintype was almost exclusively an American phenomenon, rarely used in other countries, and this book demonstrates how this modest form of photography provides extraordinary insight into the development of national attitudes and characteristics in the formative years of the early Modern era. Featured in this book are more than 200 remarkable examples of tintypes, mostly drawn from the Permanent Collection of the International Center of Photography in New York.

Hardcover. NY, Welcome Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, no dust jacket. A collection of magical & clever animal portraits by Ledner. Cutouts of keyholes, doorways & windows provides teasing glimpses of what dwells beyond the next door or curtain- sheep, ostrich, raccoon, kangaroo, etc. A stunning volume for all ages. Small inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated red cloth cover with a yawning hippo and bright gilt lettering on front, spine lettering faded. Slight cock to spine. 12 photography plates by Elwin R. Sanborn, Official Photographer for the New York Zoological Society. 72 b&w drawings by the author. INSCRIBED BY BREARLEY on front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 132 pages. Color and b&w photos. Ylla was the pseudonym for the Hungarian photographer, Camilla Koffler. A fascinating book of photographs of wild and domesticated animals in India, with text from Ylla's diary. She was killed in an accident on this trip while photographing a bullock race at Bharatpur. A memorable record of a 7 month journey which ended in a tragic accident in 1955. The last photo in this book is the last photo Ylla ever took before she fell to her death from her jeep. In addition to her photographs Ylla left 3 notebooks in which she made almost daily entries - never intended for publication, but as a private record of her impressions and the circumstances under which the pictures were taken. Sticker on front fly leaf, dj price-clipped.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 90 full color plates. In this vivid and engaging book, Arpad Kovacs explores the social, symbolic, scientific, and aesthetic approaches to a subject that has been of continuous interest to photographers across the centuries.

Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated, approx. 200 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a nice, bright copy. In this first collection of his work, more than 120 of Theodore Cross's photograpic bird portraits are magnificently reproduced in full color.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Brutal Kinship explores the relationship between humankind and its closest relative, the chimpanzee, presenting these extraordinary animals in the wild, in captivity and in protective sanctuaries. In photographs and commentary Michael Nichols and Jane Goodall show us that chimpanzees are physically, emotionally and intellectually closer to us than we imagined and that we have forced them into a more human yet less humane existence. The book is filled with over 100 remarkable color photographs

Hardcover. NY, Parker P Simmons, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped with a 2-color design of a little girl having tea with two bunnies, Illustrated throughout with b&w photos by Henry Whittier Frees. The rabbits are posed with dolls and dressed in costumes. Inscription on front fly leaf. Front hinge partially cracked but overall a very good, clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with still in publishers shrink wrap. Visions of an American Dreamland highlights more than 200 images from Coney Island's history, including paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, posters, film stills, architectural artifacts, and carousel animals.

Hardcover. Munich, Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color and b&w photos. In this stunning photographic series, Pieter Henket presents images of the children of Odzala-Kokoua telling the oral history of the Congo in enchanting and creative ways. Shot over the course of a month, Henket documented the children of this remote region as they designed, planned, created costumes for, and acted out a series of myths - about their tribes, their landscape, and the animals and plants that they live among. Text in English and French. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Dare Wright. Previous owners name and address at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket with surface stain at back of doll image, interior tape repairs - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages, 125 color plates. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The remarkable photographs in Forever Engand were taken at Bekonscot Model Village in Beaconsfield. Initially built by a London accountant to entertain his house guests, it opened to the public in 1929 and is the oldest model village in the world. Bekonscot's miniature population of 3,000 people and 300 animals becomes real, their lives frozen in time, as we are carried back to an England we all know and long for.

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.

Hardcover. Safari Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 254 pages. Great African Trophies is a photographic showcase of some of the greatest game trophies ever taken on the Dark Continent, and it includes elephants, buffaloes, the big cats, spiral-horned antelopes, and dozens of other magnificent animals. The focus is on animals that rank in the top five of each species in the Safari Club International and Rowland Ward record books, but also included are historic, unlisted, and little-known trophies, along with their stories. This book is a feast for the eyes for anyone who loves African wildlife, and it contains the best available historical and modern photos of superlative African game animals, as well as the tales--many never before told--of the hunters who were fortunate to connect with them. The photos are accompanied by a description of where, when, and how the animal was taken, and the book provides, if possible, the details of the hunt and how it unfolded. Clean copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

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

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild fade to spine. Mary Ellen Mark fell in love with the Indian circus in 1969, during her first trip to India. As she watched a huge hippopotamus walk around the ring with its mouth wide open, wearing a pink tutu, she was struck by the beauty and innocence of the show. She returned to India many times, and in 1989 and 1990 she devoted six months to photographing eighteen circuses, following them around the continent by train, plane, van, and auto-rickshaw. Secretive, highly competitive, and each a closed, self-sufficient society, the circuses embody what Mark calls "a poetry and a craziness that are still uncorrupted, and honest, and pure." Beautifully printed in tri-tone, this remarkable collection of photographs captures the texture of circus life outside of the ring - exhausting, humorous, poignant, and often bizarre - as well as the affection and devotion that the performers have for each other and their animals. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Lavishly illustrated with black & white photographs by Louise Birt Baynes and Ernest Harold Baynes. 145 pages. Super condition, bookmark of former Governor of Vermont (Redfield Proctor) on inside front cover. Otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. Stillwater MN, Voyager Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A tribute to the elk, one of the most popular game animals in the U.S. Featured are writings by some of the outstanding authors in American outdoor literature, including the former editor in chief of Field & Stream and Outdoor Life, Clare Conley; Hal Borland, a longtime writer for the New York Times; Jack Ward, former head of the U.S. Forest Service; and even Teddy Roosevelt. The collection of elk-hunting stories is excellent to read, and the accompanying photographs are truly breathtaking.

Hardcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art/Steidl, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible boards, 264 pages. B/w and color illustrations throughout. Published to accompany exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Super clean. By repeatedly re-photographing her images, transferring them from video to film and back again, and manipulating them digitally, Michal Rovner creates photographic and video imagery that abstract familiar subjects like houses, animals, and people into ambiguous and iconic forms. Working with representation but against the traditions of narrative and documentary purpose, her artworks imply a tentative universe, one that is paradoxically peaceful and unsettled, vivid and shrouded, and completely counter-factual. If the changing nature of art has resulted in a general blurring of boundaries--between painting and photography, reality and memory, presence and absence--Rovner mines this haziness, refuses to respect borders, and exists completely in The Space Between.

Softcover. US, Damiani, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 pages, softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Absence of Subject and Two Crowns of the Egg are Somoroff's most intriguing books of photography. In this edition of Two Crowns, the still life art work is as stunning as the female nudes. Of note, the rare combinations of objects (such. books of literature, high polished knives, exquisite dishes) and life matter (such pomegranates, honey, eggs, human skulls) set one's imagination in fire. These strange image compositions are as odd as the pairing of words by Postmodern poet Giannina Braschi who writes love poems to objects, animals, beings. The scholarly introduction by art historian Donald Kuspit is respectable but a bit dry. Regardless the imagery and poetry tower over any essay that one could write about them.