documentary photography

Hardcover. London, Reel Art Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Includes 240 black and white and color photographs: . "Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are." - David Hurn - This volume is the first anthology dedicated to Hurn during one of his most iconic periods of the 1960s.

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.

Hardcover. Monacelli Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. An artful photographic voyage documenting the impact of modern industry and consumerism on our planet, A Common Destiny presents a hauntingly beautiful vision of a world perched on the edge of an abyss. Juxtaposing images of pristine wilderness with photos of mines, abandoned nuclear reactors, large industrial farms, and spaces that exemplify artificiality and our increasing distance from nature--such as indoor ski slopes in Dubai, large-scale suburban housing development sites, and lavish casinos--Cedric Delsaux creates a powerful meditation on our ruthless hunger for mass production and energy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of John Lennon's death, this previously unpublished collection of poignant photographs is a record of one day with The Beatles--just after Sgt. Pepper was released. In September 1968, critically acclaimed photojournalist Don McCullin was invited to spend a day photographing The Beatles in locations ranging from Paul McCartney's garden to the banks of the Thames, as well as in their recording studio. The timing of this was, in hindsight, significant. The Beatles had just released Sgt. Pepper, Vietnam was in turmoil, and riots had spread through America's cities and campuses. It was the moment when the innocence and optimism of the sixties darkened--the instant the youth movement, of which The Beatles were icons, converged with the antiwar protests, the civil rights movement, and the burgeoning counterculture. One of the most poignant photographs taken that day was of John Lennon posing as dead, surrounded by the other three band members. Lennon himself carefully choreographed the image as a pose of protest, but it is now seen as tragic and strangely prophetic. These images of four inspired artists at the pinnacle of success and on the cusp of transformation mark the passing of an era, and in them, we can glimpse our own lost youth.

Hardcover. Louisville, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket., 160 pages. Sulky races at the Mercer County Fair, church suppers, sorghum making, shooting marbles in the school yard, housing tobacco, loafing at the courthouse-here are 129 beautifully reproduced images of who we were as Kentuckians not so long ago-during the Depression and the early years of World War II. This collection is part of the remarkable series of photos shot for the Farm Security Administration-more than 125,000 photographs taken over a period of nine years by some of the best American photographers of the time, including Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, John Vachon, and Arthur Rothstein. To reintroduce us to that important slice of our history, Beverly Brannan and David Horvath have selected a rich sampling from among several thousand photos taken in Kentucky for the FSA. They have added an extra dimension to the images by including in their commentary excerpts from the photographers' own correspondence and field notes.

Hardcover. Insight Editions, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. In this curated collection of art and photography from his personal archive, Graham Nash's life as a musician and artist unfolds in vivid detail. Best known as a founding member of the Hollies and supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, Graham developed a love of photography from the time he was a child. Inspired by his father, Nash began taking pictures at 10 years old and would go on to take his camera with him ever since--on tour with the Hollies and later CSN and CSNY, among friends at Laurel Canyon and abroad. Many of his photographs depict intimate moments with family and friends, among them Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young. This volume presents these images alongside Nash's own reflections, telling the story behind the pictures and giving insight into the life of one of the greatest musicians of all time. Still in publiher's shrinkwrap. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear, 158 pages. SIGNED BY PLOWDEN on the half title page. Midwestern rural America is captured in photographs of the farmhouses, furnishings, barns, and grain elevators, as well as the men and women who live and work in the region. Clean copy.

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

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World is an extraordinary record of the lives of German and Eastern European Jews in the years immediately preceding the Holocaust. Vishniac, a Russian Jew, began to take photographs of village life during World War I, when Russian Jews who lived near the front were accused of being German spies and were deported to Siberia. He later moved to Germany, where he witnessed the horrible events of Kristallnacht and the anti-Jewish legislation that allowed Hitler to declare his enemies stateless and therefore unworthy of international protection. As we study Vishniac's photographs--a surviving fraction of the more than 16,000 he took--we are aware that we are seeing the faces of those soon to die, witnessing a world that has all but perished. Yet that world, of shops and schools, of busy streets and quiet farms, remains with us if only as a ghostly memory, thanks in part to Vishniac's compassionate eye.

Softcover. Chicago, Stephen Daiter Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages, an exhibition catalog featuring 20 of the photographer's abstract images from the late 1940s and early 50s. White card wraps with a heavy paper dust jacket.

Softcover. Chicago, Stephen Daiter Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages, an exhibition catalog featuring 20 of the photographer's abstract images from the late 1940s and early 50s. White card wraps with a heavy paper dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 141 pages. Cartier-Bresson's usual stunning photos that capture the people and culture of place; this time, Russia/The Soviet Union. Included are the people and spaces of Leningrad, Moscow, Russian SSR, Baltic Countries, The Caucasus, and Central Asia (the "Stans"), with an introduction by the photographer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Munich, Prestel, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages illustrated in color. INSCRIBED BY NICKELSBERG on the front fly leaf. Noted documentary photographer Robert Nickelsberg's photographs help bring into focus the day-to-day consequences of war, poverty, oppression, and political turmoil in Afghanistan. Since the attack on the World Trade Center, Afghanistan has evolved from a country few people thought twice about to a place that evokes our deepest emotions. TIME magazine photographer Robert Nickelsberg has been publishing his images of this distant yet all too familiar country since 1988, when he accompanied a group of mujahideen across the border from Pakistan. This remarkable volume of photographs is accompanied by insightful texts from experts on Afghanistan and the Taliban. The images themselves are captioned with places, dates, and Nickelsberg's own extensive commentary. Timely and important, the book serves as a reminder that Afghanistan and the rest of the world remain inextricably linked, no matter how much we long to distance ourselves from its painful realities. Clean copy.

Hardcover. MIT Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth stamped with silver lettering. an autobiography in pictures, 400 pages. Ai Weiwei is China's most celebrated contemporary artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. In April 2011, when Ai disappeared into police custody for three months, he quickly became the art world's most famous missing person. Since then, Ai Weiwei's critiques of China's repressive regime have ranged from playful photographs of his raised middle finger in front of Tiananmen Square to searing memorials to the more than 5,000 schoolchildren who died in shoddy government construction in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Against a backdrop of strict censorship, Ai has become a hero on social media to millions of Chinese citizens. This book, prohibited from publication in China, offers an intimate look at Ai Weiwei's world in the years after his return from New York and preceding his imprisonment and global superstardom. The photographs capture Ai's emergence as the uniquely provocative artist that he is today. There is no more revealing portrait of Ai Weiwei's life in China than this. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, The Quantuck Lane Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages in a dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 90 color portraits and landscapes celebrate the people and buildings of a struggling yet dynamic community. Sometimes haunting, sometimes ironic, always striking, these images form an eloquent visual testament to the Harlem we can see and remember.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 129 pages. The 'upper class' in America might also be called the hidden class. To be born into wealth in America is to belong to a world apart, a world most of us never glimpse. This group -- whose wealth is several generations old -- has been envied, castigated, and mythologized, but rarely documented or photographed. Barbara Norfleet, photographer and sociologist, depicts this hidden world through a series of candid images at once fascinating and unsettling, combined with interviews. Norfleet captures her subjects in context: at social gatherings, athletic events, in their exclusive clubs and vast private estates. Dust jacket has some sun-fade along spine edge otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch Press, First Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover. Wine cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Full page, black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages, 87 full page b&w plates, 23 illustrations in text. Contributions by Naomi and Walter Rosenblum, Alan Trachtenberg. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Softcover. NY, Random House, 1st pbk, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 360 pages. profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Portraits and interviews with Nevada test site workers, veterans who trained at the site, and people living nearby who suffered health problems from the radiation. Minor shelf wear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. BY, Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first collection of the extensive and superlative work realized by Mary Ellen Mark in the United States. The book is composed of many previously unpublished images, as well as photographs from several of her best-known projects. From "Streetwise" to "The Damm Family," Mary Ellen Mark includes the most iconic images from these groundbreaking stories, as well as powerful, never-before-seen photographs Mark accomplished in subsequent years. She makes a deeply felt commitment to her subjects, and her empathy and humanity come through in every image. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

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.

Hardcover. New Haven, Mercatorfonds, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The flourishing of photography as a medium in the mid-19th century coincided with a rise in curiosity about China on the part of the Western world. As the number of foreigners living and traveling in China increased, early photographs of China were taken by and for an international audience. Among the Celestials assembles 250 fascinating images of China in the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th, captured by the Western camera lens. The photographs portray the gritty side of the country as well as stunning views of palaces, temples, harbors, and gardens. This juxtaposition of the sordid and the serene provides a multidimensional picture of China's physical and social landscape before Mao Zedong's ascent to power changed the country forever. The photographs, many published here for the first time, are both beautiful and moving, and together offer a new understanding of a social and cultural history associated with a time of significant historical change.

Softcover. New York, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Softcover. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers. A photographic memoir of the sixties by McDarrah who was the picture editor for The Village Voice.