catalog photography

Softcover. Seattle WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A biography of the celebrated documentary photographer, Milton Rogovin, and catalogue that accompanied an exhibition at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, in 2006. Rogovin (1909-2011) was an optometrist in Buffalo, NY, who turned to photography as a means of expression when he was discredited -- and thereafter lost his business -- by the HUAC committee in 1952. For the rest of his life he documented the lives of the working class around the world. Photographs by Milton Rogovin; text by Melanie Anne Herzog; foreword by Douglas R. Nickel; afterword by Catherine Linder Spencer. 176 pages; 126 duo-toned b&w plates + 21 text illustrations; 9 x 11 inches. Bibliography.

Softcover. New York, Independent Curators Inc, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran January 21 through March 6, 1992 and then May 20 through June 30, 1992 at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York. Introduction by Klaus Ottmann. Essay by Leslie Tonkonow. Includes numerous black and white images from these photographers who were in the show: Robert Doisneau, Diane Arbus, Thomas Struth, Neal Slavin, William Klein, Walker Evans and many others.

Softcover. NY, Pace Gallery/Wilderstein, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog that is actually two catalogs published back to back (unusual format). One side is Maquettes for Monumental Sculpture and the other Wood Sculpture and Collages. Approx. 60 pages all together. B&W and color photography throughout. Sewn bindings with slight wear. Overall, a nice, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectral Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with some minor wear to dust jacket edges. Otherwise tight copy. A collection of black and white, and color photographs from the Maresca collection housed at the Newark Musuem, featuring images from the 1920s through the 1960s.

Hardcover. GR, Museum Folkwang Essen, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that started in Essen and ran May 13 through July 15, 2001 and then went on to Milan, Rotterdam, and two other cities for additional dates. Text in English and German. Preface by Ute Eskildsen. Essay by Jurgen Muller. Includes a look at Irving Penn's various editorial work in magazines with numerous color images. An excellent copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. GR, Museum Folkwang Essen, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that started in Essen and ran May 13 through July 15, 2001 and then went on to Milan, Rotterdam, and two other cities for additional dates. Text in English and German. Preface by Ute Eskildsen. Essay by Jurgen Muller. Includes a look at Irving Penn's various editorial work in magazines with numerous color images. An excellent copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. GR, Museum Folkwang Essen, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that started in Essen and ran May 13 through July 15, 2001 and then went on to Milan, Rotterdam, and two other cities for additional dates. Text in English and German. Preface by Ute Eskildsen. Essay by Jurgen Muller. Includes a look at Irving Penn's various editorial work in magazines with numerous color images. An excellent copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. Daytona Beach FL, Southeast Museum of Photography, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 152 pages, color photographs. A catalog of beach photos exhibited at the Southeast Museum of Photography in November 2006 thropugh January 2007. Two photographers present a portfolio of random close-up color portraits they made to show beachgoers at various beaches in Southern California and Florida. Locations and subjects' names are omitted. Essay about the project by Tyler Stallings, curator of the Laguna Art Museum.

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

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Louis Stettner is one of the last living members of the avant-garde New York School of photography of the 1950s, which challenged many of the long-accepted foundations of art form. His Penn Station series of the late 1950s represents some of his most important work, gathered here in a single form for the first time. The series is less a portrait of the building than a study of people at once in transit and in suspension. 

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, PhotoPlace Gallery, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of 75 portraits in color and b&w chosen by Frank Goodyear, Associate Curator at the National Portrait Gallery. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Universe, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated (approx. 110 pages), illustrated in color throughout. A catalog for an exhibition organized by Peter T. Tunney which first ran in Milan in 1997. One-page Introduction by Beard, essay by Owen Edwards. Extremely scarce. Color illustrated wraps, like new condition.

Softcover. London, Phillips de Pury & Company, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Phillips de Pury & Company of London - auction catalog (May 17, 2008 - Lots 201-341) featuring modern photography. Auction Lots include photographs by: Peter Beard, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, LaChapelle, Sally Mann, Irving Penn, M. Tichy, and more. Shallow creases on front cover. Light wear. Clean, tight.

Softcover. NY, Swann Auction Galleries, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pictorial covers, unpaginated. 453 lots, many black and white illustrations. Among the photographers represented: Yousef Karsh, A. Kertesz, R. Doisneau, Mathew Brady, E. Ruscha, and others. All pages are clean, crisp and tight.

Softcover. New York, Sotheby's , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages with 488 lots, illustrated throughout. Dozens of famous photographers from Arbus to Kertesz, Brett Weston, Lange, Cindy Sherman, many others. Light pencil notes on 3 lots. Covers with light wear, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Boston, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Featuring eighty-seven photographs, all drawn from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, that span nearly 150 years of image making.

Hardcover. Boston, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Photography as Fiction includes seventy-six color plates illustrating works from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection that embrace theatricality and are unconcerned with documenting the world as it exists.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 367 pages, color and b&w illustrations. This publication comprises a comprehensive catalogue of the collection post-1960s and brings much-needed new critical perspective on the most prominent artists working with the photographic medium of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. At a moment when photography is undergoing fast-paced changes and artists are seeking to redefine its boundaries in new and exciting ways, Photography at MoMA serves as an excellent resource for understanding the expanded field of contemporary photography today. The book is organized with an in-depth introductory chapter and eight chapters of full-colour plates, each introduced by a short essay, and features work by over 250 artists, including Diane Arbus, John Baldessari, Jan Dibbets, Rineke Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Helen Levitt, Sigmar Polke, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Wall, Carrie Mae Weems, Hannah Wilke and Garry Winogrand, among many others. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Generously illustrated account [435 b/w photo reproductions] of the photogrphy produced by various well-known Bauhaus associates such as Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, T. Lux Feininger, Florence Henri, Herbert Bayer, and others during the mid-1920s and early 1930s. An invaluable compilation of images and information about the work of this dynamic group of artists, designers, photographers and their students who had such an important impact on Western aesthetics and culture throughout the subsequent decades of the 20th century.

Hardcover. New York, Flammarion, 1st English, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Catalog of a traveling exhibition first held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, subsequently held at various European museums. Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre. Minor rubbing and fading to dust jacket, mostly to top edge. Slight bumping to corners. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institute, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 95 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally conceived to accompany the exhibition, Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery. Presents the development of photography accompanied by portraits illustrating various photographic techniques. Includes suggestions for organizing and maintaining a collection of prints. Clean copy.

Softcover. Australia, National Gallery of Australia, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Picture Paradise chronicles the transmission and adoption of new developments in photography from Europe to the Asia-Pacific region. It is the first survey of the early photography from this diverse region covering India and Sri Lanka, Southeast and East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, to the West Coast of North America. It includes pioneer local photographers as well as European photographers working in the region and reveals the rich heritage and the many outstanding achievements of the first century of photography in the Asia-Pacific region.

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.