art portraits

Softcover. Museo de Arte Contempaneo de Monterrey, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages. Numerous full page b&w photographs. Essay by Elena Poniatowska. Text in English and Spanish. Translated by John Page. Early 1900s portraits by a Mexican photographer in Guanajuato. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, a series of tipped-in color plates. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Light edge wear to covers, spine darkened. Light yellowing to end papers. Else a clean, tight copy. A humorous tribute to the Rossetti family and their circle, including Wilde, Ruskin, Millais, Ford Madox Brown, Swinburne, et al. Twenty two color plates mounted on art paper with amusing descriptive tissue guards.

Hardcover. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Illustrated with black & white portraits and paintings. When Peter Paul Rubens died in 1640 he left an indestructible reputation as one of the world's great painters. In every sense Baroque, his paintings have a wonderful fluidity, a powerful sensuality, a beauty and richness of color and texture. His prolific output included some 1,300 paintings (compare this with Leonardo's twenty and Vermeer's thirty-six) as well as books of engravings, architectural drawings, and sketches. He also left a beautiful young wife, a vast personal fortune, a palatial house in Antwerp, and collections of old masters, antiquities, precious stones, and silver work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An acclaimed photographer's images and the words of Russia's foremost writers combine in an intimate record of the contemporary Russian experience: an intractable culture in the throes of irrevocable change. 30 color and 70 black-and-white photographs. This handsome photo album with Morath's own foreword and captions depicts a world to which many Russians in the grip of post-Soviet nostalgia long to return. Morath's Russia is devoid of Soviet excresence: no ugly concrete apartment blocks, Stalinist skyscrapers, or exhortative banners appear. Landscapes and street scenes are poetic and largely deserted. Sidetrips to Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, and Uzbekistan are subsumed under "Russian culture." The people shown are mainly artists and intellectuals, and portraits of embattled dissident writers (Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky) testify to the moral support Morath and her husband Arthur Miller offered them in the 1960s. The album includes fond letters from Mandelstam and poet Andrei Voznesensky, as well as Olga Andreyev Carlisle's reminiscence of her 1967 trip to the Soviet Union with Morath. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Editions Dromadaire, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 140 pages with b&w photos. Gomot was a local photographer in the ancient and picturesque French village of Saint Paul. The town became a favored vacation spot for artists, movie personalities and other celebrities in the 1950s and 60s. Many French stars like Simone Signoret, Jean BelMondo, as well as other film stars like Sophia Loren, David Niven, Kirk Douglas and Paul Newman are pictured drinking, eating and dancing at local gathering spots.Text in French and English. Clean copy. Limited to 3000 copies.

Hardcover. NY, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 763 pages, b&w illustrations. From the author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography: Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandily steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison.

Hardcover. UK, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Pictures throughout. Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) is one of the most important photographers of the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Born to a preeminent English family, Acland first gained note as a portraitist whose illustrious subjects--among them two prime ministers, the physicist Lord Kelvin, and the noted art critic John Ruskin--were visitors to her family's Oxford home. Yet it was through her work in the thenfledgling field of color photography that Acland achieved her greatest acclaim. When her color photographs were shown at the Royal Photographic Society in 1905, many considered them to be among the finest work produced in the new medium. An introduction to Acland's entire body of work, this volume contains more than two hundred previously unpublished examples of her photographs, spanning portraiture, studies of Oxford architecture, and landscape and garden photographs captured in Madeira, Portugal. Additional images include four unrecorded portraits by Lewis Carroll of Acland and her brothers--shed light on the work of her contemporaries, including acquaintances and artistic influences like Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron. A fascinating look at the earliest days of color photography, this book also offers a glimpse into the lives of an influential English family and its circle of friends.

Hardcover. Oxford, UK, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. An introduction to Acland's entire body of work, this volume contains more than two hundred previously unpublished examples of her photographs, spanning portraiture, studies of Oxford architecture, and landscape and garden photographs captured in Madeira, Portugal.

Hardcover. Oxford, UK, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. An introduction to Acland's entire body of work, this volume contains more than two hundred previously unpublished examples of her photographs, spanning portraiture, studies of Oxford architecture, and landscape and garden photographs captured in Madeira, Portugal.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Takes us away from Sargent's famous society portraits and enters a world of open air studies and landscape paintings. Includes exerpts from Sargent's travel diaries. Light gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful, clean, crisp and tight copy in MINT condition. Looks brand new.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Takes us away from Sargent's famous society portraits and enters a world of open air studies and landscape paintings. Includes exerpts from Sargent's travel diaries. Light gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful, clean, crisp and tight copy in MINT condition. Looks brand new.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages. 32 plates in full color. Takes us past the image of Sargent, portrait painter of Edwardian and Georgian high society, and views instead his vast talent as a watercolorist. Blue cloth, silver lettering to spine and front color. Price clipped. Previous owner's inscription in front. Pictorial dust jacket with two minor sealed up tears, otherwise a very clean, tight and crisp copy.

Hardcover. US, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. a celebration of jazz legend Sonny Rollin's incredibly prolific career. This intimate appreciation in pictures and words combines the images of John Abbott, who was Rollin's photographer of choice for the past twernty years has captured the saxophonist at home and at work, and the essays of Bob Blumenthal, a jazz critic who has chronicled Rollins and his art for nearly four decades.

Hardcover. Boston, MFA Publications , 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages in color and b&w Barbra Streisand, Natalie Wood, Arlene Francis, Diahann Carroll, Joan Rivers, Mamie Eisenhower, Barbara Bush, Louise Nevelson... What these women have in common is that all were dressed by Scaasi. From his meteoric rise on Seventh Avenue in the late 1950s through his heyday in the boom decade of the 1980s, Arnold Scaasi has remained one of the most distinctive and successful designers in American fashion. With his signature combination of elegance, flamboyance, surprising colors and fabrics, and finely honed craftsmanship, Scaasi is both a bold American original and a couturier in the grand European tradition. Arnold Scaasi: American Couturier presents the best of Scaasi's fashions in a handsomely packaged, fluidly organized volume. Alongside sumptuous portraits of more than three dozen outfits, the book features numerous period photographs; sketches, notes and clippings from Scaasi's personal archives, most of them never before published; and interviews with Scaasi's famous clients, such as Joan Rivers, Mary Tyler Moore and Diahann Carroll, conducted specifically for this volume. A feast for fashion watchers and design aficionados alike, American Couturier contains all the glamour and thrill that for decades have been synonymous with the Scaasi label. Clean copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Topsfield MA, Salem House, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Not paginated but approximately 200 pages. Illustrated throughout in color and b/w by author. Steadman's 'portraits of the Nixon Years, Vietnam and Watergate, and now Reagan years, Pearlygate and the 1988 Presidential Election are powerful, disturbing and above all, savagely funny.' Clean copy.

Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 288 pages Illustrated with 206 b&w photos. What began as simple curiosity blossomed into an object of national pride; when Seydou Keita bought a camera to take pictures of his family, neighbors assumed his services were for hire and enlisted him to take portraits of themselves and their homes, turning a carpenter into a photographer and a hobby into artistic expression. In such a way did the self-taught Keita become the official photographer of Mali from 1962 to 1977, based almost solely on his impeccable reputation for quality and originality that developed by word of mouth. This stunning collection of 206 black-and white-portraits illustrates Keita's pride in his country and his gift for capturing the personalities of his subjects. His aim was to create the most natural settings and poses for the people in front of the lens, putting them at ease and gently nudging them into surrendering their inhibitions. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, Pond Ekberg, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Limited edition. #219/500 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Blue cloth spine. blue paper boards, gilt titles. No dust jacket. Light wear around edges and spine, front cover slightly sunned with tape mark from old price-sticker. Bookplate. A nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press / A Studio Book, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. A classic retrospective monograph with an introduction by Cyril Connolly. Includes many of Brandt's best known images. Survey of the British photographer's images from the 1930s-60s, including nudes, landscapes, portraits of many artists and writers, and shots of British every day life among the various classes. Notes by Marjorie Beckett. Mostly black and white photographs, but a few color shots at the rear. Clean, bright copy with fragments of dust jacket laid in.

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket with small closed tear to upper edge. Clean, tight copy. John Minihan was raised in Athy, Co. Kildare and has been photographing his home town and its people for over thirty years. The collection forms a portrait of an ordinary Irish county town which is gradually feeling the incursions of industry, comparative wealth and modernity. At the centre of the book is the wake of Katy Tyrrell, which Minihan photographed for two nights and three days. These photographs have been exhibited throughout the world. Here, they are accompanied by an introduction by Eugene McCabe, one of Ireland's finest writers. The collaboration between these two artists results in a timeless and moving portrait of a small Irish town. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Studio, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A gallery of the most compelling images from baseball's history. Beginning with a team portrait of the Cincinnati Red Stockings taken in 1869, the books charts the sport through the Black Sox scandal, when giants like Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson roamed the field; all through the Babe Ruth years, WWII, the Negro League and Jackie Robinson's first day in the major leagues. As well as the many famous famous, many unknowns are also shown with the criteria for inclusion being the artistic merit of the photograph.

Hardcover. China, Turner Photo, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 171 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Duotone vintage photographs throughout, bibliography. The Quing Dynasty, which spanned three centuries, from 1644 to 1911, was the last ruling dynasty of China. Before the collapse of the empire ended 2,000 years of Imperialism and ushered in a time of political and economic strife, artists and artisans turned out rich paintings, porcelain plates, vases and photographs--the last having arrived in the country in the 1840s. This publication presents a key selection of photographs of the Southern Chinese coast taken by both Chinese and European photographers. It touches on the cultural exchange between the Chinese and those Western photographers who began to explore the country, like Milton M. Miller, William Saunders and John Thomson. Miller, during a short period in the 1860s, set up a photo studio in Hong Kong and introduced portraiture in the formal Western style of the time to the Chinese upper-middle classes.

Hardcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 160 pages. Illustrated with color and b&w photos. A captivating exploration of London's iconic Soho district, capturing its vibrant and eclectic mix of people, subcultures, and street life. This photographic collection delves into Soho's rich history of art, nightlife, and diversity, revealing both the allure and the edgier, untamed aspects of this unique area. Opening with a look at Soho through the years, this book includes archival images of Suffragettes learning Jiu-jitsu in a Soho gym, David Bowie preparing to record at Trident Studios, and Francis Bacon drinking at the French House. The book then presents the work of photographers who have shed light on Soho's many faces through the decades, including Kelvin Brodie, Clancy Gebler Davies, Corinne Day, William Klein, and Anders Petersen. Also featured is a new series of work by young, up-and-coming photographer Daragh Soden, whose images were specially commissioned by The Photographers' Gallery for this project. These streetscapes and portraits are by turns intimate and haunting, visceral and vibrant, nostalgic and provocative. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Canada, Reel Art Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover without dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. James Dean on the set of Rebel Without a Cause; Audrey Hepburn on her bike with pet dog in tow; Marlon Brando taking out the garbage; Rock Hudson emerging from the shower; Elizabeth Taylor soaking up the sun. These are just a few of the iconic images for which Sid Avery is responsible. This sumptuous volume is a long overdue tribute to his prolific talent. The renowned photographer was one of the greatest names working in Hollywood from the 1940s to the 1960s, and became known for his candid portraits of the stars. He made history as the only photographer to shoot both the original 1960 cast of Ocean's Eleven and the 2001 remake, recreating his iconic group shot around the pool table. Avery was also responsible for establishing Mptvimages: the Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive. Run today by Avery's son, Ron, this publication has been produced together with mptvimages with full access granted to the depths of the archive. This complete anthology of Avery's work includes outtakes and contact sheets, with over half of the material never-before-seen.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 468 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Illustrated from photographs, paintings, and other works of art, portraits, and plans. Eastlake (1793-1865), an artist, scholar, collector, and public administrator, served as president of the Royal Academy and the first Director of the National Gallery. Robertson covers the artists, writers, scholars, and statesmen of Eastlake's Victorian art world, as well as exhibitions and sales, critical controversies and art-historical writing. With appendices which include checklists of Eastlake's own paintings and private collection, a record of the National Gallery's acquisitions of 1824-1865, and much more. Includes bibliographical references and index. Rubbing, edge wear to dust jacket; closed tears to bottom of spine and rear top right corner. Else a clean, tight copy.