Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 56 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Shocking pink--hot pink, as it is called today--was the signature color of Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) and perhaps her greatest contribution to the fashion world. Schiaparelli was one of the most innovative designers in the early 20th century. Many design elements that are taken for granted today she created and brought to the forefront of fashion. She is credited with many firsts: trompe l'oeil sweaters with collars and bows knitted in; wedge heels; shoulder bags; and even the concept of a runway show for presenting collections. Hot Pink explores Schiaparelli's childhood in Rome, her introduction to high fashion in Paris, and her swift rise to success collaborating with surrealist and cubist artists like Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau. The book includes an author's note, a list of museums and websites where you can find Schiaparelli's fashions, endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Ten Speed Press, Revised Ed., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Revised Edition of a book first published in 1990 in London. 204 pages illustrated with detailed color and b&w photographs. Court fashion of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a wraparound title band. This handsome volume explores the modern discipline of fashion collecting, presenting remarkable works from one of the greatest private collection of 20th-century costume. This group of clothing and accessories, assembled over several decades by Sandy Schreier, includes many rare and historically significant pieces that define key moments in fashion. Her collection features not only iconic garments by established designers but also looks by pioneering couturiers rarely represented in museum collections. Outstanding works, by designers that include Gilbert Adrian, Cristobal Balenciaga, Boue Soeurs, Gabrielle Chanel, Christian Dior, Mariano Fortuny, Karl Lagerfeld, Paul Poiret, and Valentina, are illustrated with new photography by fashion photographer Nicholas Cope. An informative introduction traces the progress of her collecting from its roots in Detroit to the present day. The book also includes descriptions of over 80 works, including garments, accessories, and rare designer drawings, in addition to a lively interview with Schreier by Andrew Bolton that reveals her collecting philosophy.
Hardcover. US, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 116 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 3rd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages, color and b&w plates. A 100-year history of woman's fashion from the pages of the magazine. Some wrinkles along spine on cover where paper over boards got crimped in production. Otherwise very good in a bright dust jacket.
Softcover. Taschen, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in a pictorial slipcase. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin's work has graced the walls and pages of some of the world's finest galleries and fashion magazines, and if it is surprising that their photographs easily float between these worlds, it is by virtue of their ease in creating imagery that seeks homes in both culturally elite and mainstream outlets. For some of their photographs, such as their portrait of Bjork or campaign for Givenchy, van Lamsweerde and Matadin have worked in collaboration with the art directors M/M (Paris), who have also designed this retrospective that looks back at pretty much everything? that the photographers have been working on for over two decades and that has brought them to the forefront in the fields of both art and fashion. 702 pages. 11 x 11 inches.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 288 pages. Witty, playful, and effortlessly chic, Inge Morath: On Style reveals the vital forms of fashion and self-expression that blossomed into existence in England, France, and the United States in the postwar decades. The book follows the photojournalist Inge Morath (1923-2002) through intimate sessions with Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn; scenes of window-shopping on Fifth Avenue; American girls discovering Paris; the frenetic splendor of society balls; and working women--from actresses to seamstresses to writers--everywhere taking their place in the world. The photographs in On Style focus on an extraordinary period of Morath's creativity, from the early 1950s to mid- 1960s, with a coda of work from later years. Here are the fundamental humanism, joy, and unerring eye for life's brilliant theatricality that characterized her work and made her one of the most celebrated photographers of her time. Clean copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A tight copy. Inge Morath: On Style reveals the vital forms of fashion and self-expression that blossomed into existence in England, France, and the United States in the postwar decades. The book follows the photojournalist Inge Morath (1923-2002) through intimate sessions with Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn; scenes of window-shopping on Fifth Avenue; American girls discovering Paris; the frenetic splendor of society balls; and working women--from actresses to seamstresses to writers--everywhere taking their place in the world. The photographs in On Style focus on an extraordinary period of Morath's creativity, from the early 1950s to mid- 1960s, with a coda of work from later years. Here are the fundamental humanism, joy, and unerring eye for life's brilliant theatricality that characterized her work and made her one of the most celebrated photographers of her time.
Hardcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 352 pages, a fascinating behind the scenes look at the New York fashion world; as seen through 100's of stunning, full-color photos. Foreword by Katie Couric. Introduction by Fern Mallis.
Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The first major retrospective of the work of Irving Penn in more than twenty years will open at The Museum of Modern Art on September 13, 1984. The exhibition surveys Penn"s long career, spanning the past four decades, and features his work in portraiture, fashion, advertising, the nude, ethnographic subjects and still life, as well as a selection of Penn"s early, unpublished photographs.
Softcover. Italy, Charta/Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 396 pages illustrated in color. Italian Eyes presents the most important fashion magazines in the world and the advertising campaigns photographed for Italian and international designers--a sort of visual atlas of Italian evolution of fashion photography. Various chapters unfold with images accompanied by texts analyzing fashion photography according to different themes: portrait, narration, the fashion photo set, the evolution of masculine and feminine images, and others. Clean, very good.
Bologna, Damiani, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 280 pages. American fashion photographer James Moore (1936-2006) was an influential voice in mid-20th-century fashion photography, working for Harper's Bazaar during its 1960s heyday under the leadership of legendary editor Carmel Snow. Shooting languid mod gamines and luxe bohemians in arresting, often surreal or cinematic compositions, Moore helped shape the visual vocabulary of '60s fashion alongside better-known colleagues such as art director Alexey Brodovitch (under whom Moore studied). Moore also directed television commercials and contributed photographs to European magazines in the 1980s and 1990s, and taught photography at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and the Rochester Institute of Technology.Every Moore photograph is an intricate exploration of space and beauty, with an attention to detail that betrays the photographer's peerless eye. Something of a "photographer's photographer," Moore influenced the next generation of great fashion photographers but has been somewhat neglected in histories of 1960s fashion and culture--until now. James Moore: Photographs 1962-2006 collects a half century of extraordinary photographs by Moore, the first time his work has been collected in a single monograph. Including texts from the leading editors, models, photographers and designers of the day, this volume takes stock of James Moore's astounding career and an extraordinary cultural moment.
Bologna, Damiani, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 280 pages. American fashion photographer James Moore (1936-2006) was an influential voice in mid-20th-century fashion photography, working for Harper's Bazaar during its 1960s heyday under the leadership of legendary editor Carmel Snow. Shooting languid mod gamines and luxe bohemians in arresting, often surreal or cinematic compositions, Moore helped shape the visual vocabulary of '60s fashion alongside better-known colleagues such as art director Alexey Brodovitch (under whom Moore studied). Moore also directed television commercials and contributed photographs to European magazines in the 1980s and 1990s, and taught photography at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and the Rochester Institute of Technology.Every Moore photograph is an intricate exploration of space and beauty, with an attention to detail that betrays the photographer's peerless eye. Something of a "photographer's photographer," Moore influenced the next generation of great fashion photographers but has been somewhat neglected in histories of 1960s fashion and culture--until now. James Moore: Photographs 1962-2006 collects a half century of extraordinary photographs by Moore, the first time his work has been collected in a single monograph. Including texts from the leading editors, models, photographers and designers of the day, this volume takes stock of James Moore's astounding career and an extraordinary cultural moment.
Hardcover. NY, Universe, 5th pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 272 pages. Despite Prohibition, the '20s was the decade of jazz, flappers and hip flasks. While some took their vote and joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Movement, others, well, took liberties. Compiled here for the first time are more than 200 publicity stills and photos of some of America's first "It" girls--the silent film-era starlets who paved the way for the cacophony of Monroes and Madonnas to follow. Accompanying these iconic images are the stories behind them, including accounts from surviving Ziegfeld Girls, as well as ads featuring them that helped perpetuate the allure of It girl glamour. When rare and striking portraits of these women surfaced on the internet in 1995, author Robert Hudovernik began researching their source. What he discovered was the work of one of the first "star makers" identified most with the Ziegfeld Follies, Alfred Cheney Johnston. Johnston, a member of New York's famous Algonquin Round Table who photographed such celebrities as Mary Pickford, Fanny Brice, the Gish Sisters, and Louise Brooks, fell out of the spotlight with the demise of the revue. A sumptuous snapshot of an era, this book is also a look at the work of this "lost" photographer. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, folio. This original, illustrated monograph recounts haute couture designer Jean Patous charmed life and career during the apex of 20th-century glamour, and is drawn from extensive research into previously unpublished family archives. 250 color plates. Remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Universe, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Black cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. White pictorial dust jacket with light wear to edges and slight soiling. A very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The first published collection of the work of Joe Eula, oe of the 20th century's greatest fashion illustrators. Brings 200+ gorgeous b/w and full-color sketches and finished illustrations; sheds light on Eula's development as an artist, and his contributions to the worlds of fashion, design and arts and entertainment.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. The first collection of the work of Joe Eula, the foremost illustrator of the late twentieth century, featuring more than 200 black-and-white and full-color sketches and illustrations, the majority of which have never been published before.
Hardcover. US, Antique Collectors Club Dist, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Throughout the 1960s and 70s John Bates dominated the British fashion scene with a unique brand of style and innovation. No other designer had such a comprehensive influence on what the UK wore.
Hardcover. US, Antique Collectors Club Dist, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Throughout the 1960s and 70s John Bates dominated the British fashion scene with a unique brand of style and innovation. No other designer had such a comprehensive influence on what the UK wore.
NY, Cernunnos/Abrams, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion, journalist Alfons Kaiser, who knew Lagerfeld personally for many years, introduces readers to the public and private life of the charismatic fashion designer. Kaiser explores the many eras of Lagerfeld's life: the youthful outsider in the north German flatlands; the urbane genius in Paris; the tireless draftsman; the enthusiastic photographer; the passionate book collector; and the disciplined Prussian workaholic. What is behind this larger-than-life figure who, despite a massively public persona, kept his own life story a secret? Drawing from many previously untapped sources, this biography investigates the man behind the persona: the precocious boy who preferred to draw in the attic than play with his peers; the son who quarreled with his parents but never got away from them; Yves Saint Laurent's competitor, whom he outshone in the end; the brother, uncle, friend--and finally the partner of Jacques de Bascher, the great love of his life. Remainder dot top edge otherwise like new.
Hardcover. NY/Cologne, Taschen, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, silver metallic boards. Mario Testino is recognized as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation but his pictures of Kate Moss transcend fashion. The result of three decades of extraordinary friendship, and phenomenal glamour, this iconic collaboration is an intimate insight into the lives and minds of two of the world's definitive style leaders. This book follows the journey of this exceptional fashion partnership, from early days backstage at the shows to behind-the-scenes glimpses of the groundbreaking editorials they continue to produce for the world's most respected magazines. Of the 100-plus images, many photographs have been chosen from Testino's private archive. They are accompanied by a foreword by Testino and an exclusive essay by Kate Moss. This is a smaller format edition that Taschen published in 2010. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. US, Damiani, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 360 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This volume is a catalogue raisonne of the work of Brazilian photographer Klaus Mitteldorf (born 1953) from 1983 to the present. Now primarily involved in fashion photography, Mitteldorf began his career as a surf photographer in Brazil in the 1970s.
Hardcover. Germany, Daab, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.. The Label Book of Clothing Culture presents over 40 TOP labels within the fashion business which are among the very best in the world. Great names such as Barbour and Brioni stand next to numerous 'Hidden Champions' of clothing culture. But this extraordinary coffee-table book is about much more than mere fashion, it also presents craftsmanship and history, style and quality; it highlights those companies that have committed themselves to this tradition with heart and soul. The editor and enthusiastic art collector, Dr. Dr. Thomas Rusche, knows what he is talking about, since it is he that coined the term 'clothing culture.' He shares his knowledge of the true champions of the business and provides interesting background information about the companies presented here.
Hardcover. Cincinnati, Poe & Hitchcock, 1st, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 762 pages, b&w illustrations. Cloth and leather covers. Some foxing to pages, edgewear to covers, some pages dog-eared, else a very nice, tight copy.
Softcover. Newbury, MA, Newburyport Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 400 pages. Illustrated in color, b&w. Very good flexi-cover (no dustwrapper as published) This book has chapters on skin stories; a planetary symbolism, the stuff of heroes, the black leather jacket, rebel rock, the age of ideals, leathersex, the body is staged, the triumph of accessories, leather in transformation.
Hardcover. New Haver CT, Yale University , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, 59 plates in duotone, large format. Friedlander ventures into new territory, turning his eye to the rarefied world of fashion and revealing precisely what is commonplace about it: behind the glamorous spectacle of the runway are many people hard at work. The photographs, commissioned by the 'New York Times Magazine,' were taken in 2006 during New York Fashion Week, when the artist spent time backstage at the Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Zac Posen, Oscar de la Renta, and Proenza Schouler shows. The resulting images, many of which are published here for the first time, depict a flurry of toiling stylists, dressers, makeup artists, photographers, and models--all of them preparing, but not quite prepared, for an image to be taken.
Hardcover. Boston, University of Massauchusetts Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white photographs in center. Little to no wear to edges.
Hardcover. Sydney AU, T&G PUBLISHING, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 395 pages, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Lewis Morley - I to Eye will illuminate and crystallise this body of work in a career retrospective, incorporating literally hundreds of photographs covering all aspects of Morley's work, from England, france and the united States, also the fashion beginnings in the 1950s through the personality portraits of the 60s to his work of the 70's, 80s and 90s. In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960's London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable (and most copied) of any photographs of any time.
Hardcover. Sydney AU, T&G PUBLISHING, 1st, 2011-11-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 395 pages, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Lewis Morley - I to Eye will illuminate and crystallize this body of work in a career retrospective, incorporating literally hundreds of photographs covering all aspects of Morley's work, from England, france and the united States, also the fashion beginnings in the 1950s through the personality portraits of the 60s to his work of the 70's, 80s and 90s. In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960's London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable (and most copied) of any photographs of any time.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 311 pages, b&w illustrations. In the 1930s and 1940s, English fashion houses, spurred by economic and wartime crises, put London on the map as a major fashion city. In this book, Michelle Jones examines the creation of a London-based couture industry during these years, exploring how designer collaboration and the construction of specific networks and narratives supported and shaped the English fashion economy. Haute couture-the practice of creative made-to-measure womenswear-was widely regarded as inherently French. Jones shows how an English version emerged during a period of economic turbulence, when a group of designers banded together in a collective effort to shift power within the international fashion system. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Omnibus Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 176 pages. While many books, films and documentaries claim to have captured the phenomenon that was Swinging London, just one magazine was present in the capital during the 1960s to illustrate this extraordinary moment as it unraveled. London Life emerged in October 1965 and, over the next fifteen months, would document the capital's action at its absolute zenith. With imagery from the likes of David Bailey, Duffy and Terence Donovan, designs from Peter Blake, David Hockney, Gerald Scarfe and fledgling artist Ian Dury plus words and opinions from those riding high on the city`s cutting-edge, London Life remains the coolest document from the capital's most exciting period. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Reminder mark to bottom edge, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This exceptional album features over two hundred images by the most important modern and contemporary photographers, including David Bailey, Henry Clarke, Patrick Demarchelier, Karl Lagerfeld, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, David Sims, Bert Stern, Juergen Teller, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber. This book features images from iconic Vuitton advertising campaigns from the 20s through to the present, with magazine editorials from publications including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Interview, and others.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martins Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 145 pages. From the front dust jacket flap "Louise Dahl-Wolfe, one of the most celebrated photographers of the thirties, forties and fifties, was a uniquely American artist whose work had enormous ramifications for Horst, Avedon, Penn, and other great photographers who followed her. Working in the heydey of Harper's Bazaar with editor-in-chief Carmel Snow and renowned fashion editor Diana Vreeland, she came to fashion photography at a time when formal, sometimes stilted, European elegance was the norm and infused it with her fresh new vision - informal, intimate, and undeniably American". Preface by Frances McFadden.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Renowned as the world's leading female fashion photographer from the 1930s to the 1960s, Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) was acclaimed for her fashion photographs, still lifes, and portraits.This book is the first comprehensive retrospective on this important photographer. In addition to her fashion images, the 200 photographs gathered here include Louise Dahl-Wolfe's experimental color work and black-and-white portraits of such luminaries as Mae West, Cecil Beaton, Josephine Baker, Christian Dior, Orson Welles, Isamu Noguchi, and others. In sum, they evoke a glamorous and unforgettable era.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.
Softcover. Germany, Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 128 pages, b&w photos. Portraits include Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Jones, Marilyn Manson, Radiohead, Tubac, Andy Warhol, Mike Tyson , Frank Stella, Louise Bourgeois, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Munich, Prestel Verlag, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. "Born Dora Kallmus (1881-1963), the Austrian fashion and portrait photographer who went by the moniker Madame d'Ora was the most acclaimed portraitist of fin de siecle Vienna. After relocating to Paris in the 1920s, she opened one of the most stylish Art Deco portrait studios where her models included Pablo Picasso, Josephine Baker, and Collette, among many others. This book, accompanying the largest exhibition devoted to Madame d'Ora ever presented in the United States, includes sections focusing on the different periods of the photographer's life, from her early upbringing as the daughter of Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, to her days as a premier society portraitist, through her survival during the Holocaust." Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Munich, Prestel Verlag, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. "Born Dora Kallmus (1881-1963), the Austrian fashion and portrait photographer who went by the moniker Madame d'Ora was the most acclaimed portraitist of fin de siecle Vienna. After relocating to Paris in the 1920s, she opened one of the most stylish Art Deco portrait studios where her models included Pablo Picasso, Josephine Baker, and Collette, among many others. This book, accompanying the largest exhibition devoted to Madame d'Ora ever presented in the United States, includes sections focusing on the different periods of the photographer's life, from her early upbringing as the daughter of Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, to her days as a premier society portraitist, through her survival during the Holocaust." Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Softcover. Milan, Skira, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In publisher's shrinkwrap. A tribute to the world renowned phenomenon of Made in Italy on the occasion of two memorable dates: the fiftieth anniversary of the first Italian fashion show (Florence, 1951) and the fortieth anniversary of the International Furniture Show (Milan, 1961). The book, devoted to fifty years of Italian fashion and design, examines the complex mosaic of Made in Italy divided into different aspects and themes.
Softcover. Minneapolis, Creative Publishing International, First Edition, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover with french flaps. DVD ROM laid in. Full page, full color illustrations & details throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Corte Madera CA, Gingko Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 257 pages. Recognized as the most original photographer of the 20th century, Man Ray delighted the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s with daring, creative experimentation. He was the first Surrealist photographer, a gifted rebel with an incisive eye and a passion for freedom and pleasure. This outstanding monograph sheds new light on Man Ray's photographic genius -- incredibly, around one third of these images have never before been published. Visually spectacular and intellectually stimulating it shatters the myth -- cultivated by Man Ray himself -- that his photographic creativity resulted from timely mistakes and chance occurrences. Featured are many of his solarizations, rayographs, unconventional portraits and sensual nudes. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Softcover. New York, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2010-10-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Color illustrations of women's shoes by Blahnik. Here, more than 130 of Blahnik's witty, seductive drawings are collected into one inspiring volume. Manolo's New Shoes is organized thematically to express his current inspirations and passions.