photography portraits

Hardcover. Hal Leonard Corporation, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 226 pages. Haunting the recording studios, jam sessions, concert halls, and nightclubs of New York City, William "PoPsie" Randolph chronicled the postwar transformation of American music from swing and jazz, to rhythm & blues and rock n' roll. The 100,000 negatives left behind after his death in 1978 span the giddy, glitzy heyday of swing in the 1940s, the hot and cool jazz spawned in the clubs of 52nd Street, the rumbling emergence of black R&B and doo-wop, the sudden explosion of rock n' roll in the late '50s, the rise of Brill Building pop and the British Invasion of the '60s, and the growth of rock into a multibillion-dollar industry by the '70s. PoPsie's son Michael has chosen the very best of his father's collection for inclusion in this remarkable book. Here readers will find luscious black-and-white photos of everyone from Benny Goodman and Billie Holiday to Elvis, The Beatles, Hendrix, and the Rolling Stones. Insightful text explains the time, people, and place of each captured moment.

Hardcover. NY, H.N. Abrams, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. On-set photographs and reminiscences of the the making of the film White Nights, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Isabella Rossellini, and Gregory Hines. Photographs and text by Eve Arnold, Anthony Crickney, Josef Koudelka, and Terry O'Neill; introduction by filmmaker Taylor Hackford. 176 pages; 110 color and 65 b&w plates. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 111 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. The author's revealing photographs of the famous Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, taken during the last years of his life are combined with reminiscences of her friendship with him. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages. Published to accompany a touring exhibition during 2002 / 2004. Features reference to figures such as Richard Avedon, Everett Shinn, George W. Bellows, Pablo Picasso, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Paul Manship, Morris Louis, Ralston Crawford, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and many others. Color and b&w photos.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. ARTnews, the oldest art magazine in America and the most widely circulated art magazine in the world, is celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary in 2002. This attractive book celebrates and commemorates this milestone event, presenting one hundred of the best photographic portraits commissioned by and reproduced in the magazine since its origin. These fascinating photographs chronicle the history of the magazine and present a "who's who" of people who have shaped the art world over the last century. Portrait of the Art World includes photographs of many of the great European and American artists of the twentieth century, including George Bellows, Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, and Alice Neel. The photographers-often as fascinating as their subjects-range from Zaida Ben-Yusuf, Alice Boughton (early members of Alfred Stieglitz's circle), and Jessie Tarbox Beals (perhaps the first woman photojournalist) to Stieglitz himself, Man Ray, and Cecil Beaton. Contemporary photographers featured in the book include Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Arnold Newman, Richard Avedon, and Robert Mapplethorpe. The book also presents an essay by William F. Stapp exploring the historical context of portrait photography in ARTnews; an essay on the history of ARTnews by Pete Hamill; and an essay by Milton Esterow, the current editor and publisher of ARTnews, discussing his personal view of the magazine. This handsomely illustrated book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society from September 27, 2002, to January 5, 2003, which will then travel to Washington, Chicago, and San Francisco

Hardcover. Germany, Steidl Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Minor yellowing to textblock edges. Black and white photographs throughout. Richard Avedon, America's preeminent portraitist and fashion photographer, photographed the many faces of politics throughout his career. Portraits of Power brings together Avedon's political portraits for the first time. Juxtaposing images of elite government, media and labor officials with counter-cultural activists, writers and artists, as well as ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it offers a five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of America's best-known artists. The book features several of Avedon's extended projects addressing these themes, including coverage of the civil rights debate in the early 1960s (published in 1964 in Nothing Personal); the American anti-war movement and the war in Vietnam from 1969-1971; portraits of the American power elite in 1976, produced for his groundbreaking Rolling Stone portfolio "The Family;" "Exiles: The Kennedy Court at the End of the American Century," a retrospective homage to the Camelot generation published in the New Yorker in 1993; and his final photo-essay, "Democracy," surveying the national mood during the politically fractious period prior to the 2004 presidential elections (published posthumously in the New Yorker in 2004).

Softcover. San Francisco, Mercury House, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, b&w photographs. Sanford Roth (d. 1962) quit an executive position in 1946 to pursue photography in Paris. His wife's anecdotal essay recalls their experiences photographing figures in the arts, including Colette, Picasso, Cocteau, and Stravinsky. Roth later became photographer to the film industry and made portraits of James Dean, Ava Gardner, and dozens of others. His photographs, which appeared in Life , Paris-Match , etc., are photojournalistic and new to today's audience.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Published to commemorate the Hall of Presidents in the National Portrait Gallery. Features reproductions of portraits of every American president from George Washington to Bill Clinton. Historical notes accompany each illustration. Near fine condition; comes in original shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Still in Publisher's shrink wrap. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 247 pages with 191 plates. Those familiar with Newton's fashion work for Vogue , Elle , etc., his photo essays for Life , or his earlier books will not be surprised by these portraits of celebrities shown as never before. Newton's dancers, designers, and grand dames, indeed "elite society's newsmakers, night-lifers, and would-be transgressors," act a part in dramas he has contrived. From Salvador Dali to Grace Jones to Natassia Kinski (dancing with a Marlene Dietrich doll) to Prince Rainier, Newton's portraits are often shocking, manipulative, and bizarre; they are never boring. Fine, full-page reproductions and Carol Squiers's revealing interview with Newton enhance the work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ed. by Gerald Hausman and Bob Kapoun. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Greensboro NC, Weatherspoon Art Museum, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Text by Nancy Doll, George Dimock, Tom Beck, Verna Posever Curtis and Patricia J. Fanning. Includes photographs by Lewis Hind, F. Holland Day, Gertrude Dasebier, Clarence H. White, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Edward Weston. 64 pages, paper with stiff cover. Black and white reproductions. 12" x 9 ". Clean, very good.

Softcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Introduction by Anthony Burgess. Candid shots of the stars off their guard; Romy Schneider, Tom Jones, Dustin Hoffman, Raquel Welsh, Richard Burton, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Brigitte Bardot, Mick Jagger, Onassis, Edith Piaf. Many others.

Softcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Introduction by Anthony Burgess. Candid shots of the stars off their guard; Romy Schneider, Tom Jones, Dustin Hoffman, Raquel Welsh, Richard Burton, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Brigitte Bardot, Mick Jagger, Onassis, Edith Piaf. Many others.

Hardcover. New York, Bantam Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 259 pages, b&w photos by Arnold. Offers unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes world of Mikhail Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theatre, chronicling the daily lives of the dancers & their director. Text by John Fraser. Clean, very good in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The high school prom is an American tradition, a rite of passage, and one of the most important rituals of youth in this country. The internationally recognized documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark took on the extraordinary challenge of working with the Polaroid 20x24 Land camera to produce this fascinating look at dozens of young people from a diverse range of backgrounds on this memorable night in their lives.Traveling across the United States to complete the project from 2006 to 2009, Mark photographed prom-goers at thirteen schools from New York City to Charlottesville, Virginia, to Houston to Los Angeles. Mark's husband, the filmmaker Martin Bell, collaborated with her on the project to produce and direct a film, also called Prom, featuring interviews with the students about their lives, dreams, and hopes for the future. A DVD of the film is packaged with the book. The 127 large-format photographs are reproduced in rich detail, and quotations from the student interviews punctuate the book. Some of the students' statements are comical, while others are deeply touching. The result is a captivating and revealing document of American youth at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The high school prom is an American tradition, a rite of passage, and one of the most important rituals of youth in this country. The internationally recognized documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark took on the extraordinary challenge of working with the Polaroid 20x24 Land camera to produce this fascinating look at dozens of young people from a diverse range of backgrounds on this memorable night in their lives.Traveling across the United States to complete the project from 2006 to 2009, Mark photographed prom-goers at thirteen schools from New York City to Charlottesville, Virginia, to Houston to Los Angeles. Mark's husband, the filmmaker Martin Bell, collaborated with her on the project to produce and direct a film, also called Prom, featuring interviews with the students about their lives, dreams, and hopes for the future. A DVD of the film is packaged with the book. The 127 large-format photographs are reproduced in rich detail, and quotations from the student interviews punctuate the book. Some of the students' statements are comical, while others are deeply touching. The result is a captivating and revealing document of American youth at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Hardcover. New York, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. color and duotone illustrations and b&w photos throughout. Beautifully illustrating the art of one of Americas most popular artist, Navaho R. C. Gorman. Photography by Chuck Henningsen. SIGNED BY GORMAN on titlepage. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front. A very attractive and well preserved copy.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st trade, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 368 pages. "A photographer once said that beauty in women is endless. Perhaps it was I who said it. I love photographing women and could say that the form of the female body is absolute and perfect. "Master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his work with an in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously composed, and loaded with subtle provocations, Gibson's mysterious, dreamlike images pay homage to greats such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while continually pursuing new frontiers. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 100 pages. 54 color photograph by Richard Billingham, many double-page. Edited by Michael Collins and Julian Germain. This is Billingham's best-known book, "a British family-album so cool that I can see and hear what goes on between the frames" (Robert Frank). The photographer's portrait of his alcoholic father. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Sepia pictures throughout. To celebrate the acquisition of the archive of distinguished artist Tom Phillips, the Bodleian Library asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, ordinary people could afford to own portraits of themselves. Each book in the series contains two hundred images chosen from a visually rich vein of social history. Their covers also feature thematically linked paintings, specially created for each title, from Phillips's signature work, A Humument. Readers, as its title suggests, shows people reading (or pretending to read) a wide variety of material, from the Bible to Film Fun, either in the photographer's studio, in their own home, or on vacation on the beach. Each of these unique and visually stunning books give a rich glimpse of forgotten times and will be greatly valued by art and history lovers alike.

Hardcover. London, Vision On/Omnibus Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 159 pages illustrated in b&w. Few photographers had greater access to Bob Dylan than Barry Feinstein. Having taken the iconic photograph that appeared on Bob Dylan's 'The Times They Are A-Changin' album in 1963, Feinstein was invited as the exclusive photographer on Dylan's European tour of 1966 and US tour of 1974. This title includes these photographs from these sessions and concerts.

Softcover. New York, Robert Miller Gallery, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover with minimal wear to paper wrappers. 14 black and white plates. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 9 through May 4, 1996. Photographs of Strand's first wife, Rebecca Salisbury made between 1921 and 1932, and reproduced actual size from Strand's vintage platinum and silver prints. Edited and designed by John Cheim. Includes a total of 16 images with 14 internal plates and 2 images on the dust jacket. Tight copy with dust jacket wrapper.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson , 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in white boards stamped in gilt. A comprehensive, chronological history surveying over ninety years of fashion on the Oscars red carpet. The red carpet is so much more than fabulous gowns on famous people; it reflects the styles and values of each era and has become a platform to make social statements. Red Carpet Oscars presents over ninety years of fashion worn at the film world's biggest event since its inception in 1929, charting what the stars wore and why. From homemade and preloved dresses to ready-to-wear and haute couture, it tracks the style evolution of Hollywood's leading stars, the commercialization of the red carpet, the emergence of stylists, and the radical shifts that reshaped formal dressing. This comprehensive chronological survey showcases a thousand looks across almost a century. In addition to carefully curated images of the most iconic and inspiring outfits, each year features a short overview, sharing the stories behind the looks and tapping into fashion trends, along with the social and political influences of the time. Fashion writer Dijanna Mulhearn has compiled the ultimate fashion resource that celebrates both the glamour and the impact of one of the most watched red-carpet runways in the world. DUE TO WEIGHT. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.