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A Life in Fashion: The Wardrobe of Cecil Beaton by: Wild/Tim Walker, Benjamin

A Life in Fashion: The Wardrobe of Cecil Beaton
by: Wild/Tim Walker, Benjamin

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages. With 73 illustrations. Foreword by Tim Walker. Red cloth with white titles to spine and turquoise papers with photographs and white titles to board. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 353187

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A Life In Photographyby: Steichen, Edward

A Life In Photography
by: Steichen, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Imaginative, artistic photography and stunning b&w photographs of luminaries such as Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper, Therese Duncan, The Sandburgs, Katherine Cornell, Gallant Fox and countless more. Despite having a 1963 date on the title page this is a later reprint with an ISBN number and no color images (as were in the first printing). Also the initials A.L.I.P. where flap price should be. Still, in beautiful condition with a nice dust jacket.

Record # 383573

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A Year in the Life of Andy Warhol by: Dalton, David. (Text) McCabe, David. (Photographs)

A Year in the Life of Andy Warhol
by: Dalton, David. (Text) McCabe, David. (Photographs)

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, translucent dust jacket, 240 pages. In late 1964 Andy Warhol commissioned young fashion photographer David McCabe to document his daily activities for one year. During the course of this project, whenever the artist called McCabe would come to meet him at The Factory, an opening, a party, a coffeeshop or any place where Warhol would decide that he wanted to be accompanied by the photographer and his camera. In the end, these images were never published, perhaps because they revealed more than the increasingly-famous Warhol was willing to share with the public. Hidden away for almost 40 years, the significant majority of these 400 duotone photos are now presented together for the first time to fulfill their original intention in an astounding tour de force of dynamic and often poignant realism: A Year in the Life of Andy Warhol. These images not only represent unique documentation of one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, but also provide a rare behind-the-scenes look at the New York art world at a time when Pop art was at its peak. McCabe's photographs are accompanied by the entertaining descriptions and reminiscences of Factory insider David Dalton, one of Warhol's first assistants.

Record # 378607

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A.A.E. Disderi and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photographby: McCauley, Elizabeth Anne

A.A.E. Disderi and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photograph
by: McCauley, Elizabeth Anne

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 262 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. This portrait of Disderi and the carte de visite he patented in Paris in 1854 is far more than a biography. The c-d-v, or photographic calling card, was a relatively inexpensive product that made the photographic portrait available to the middle class . McCauley's carefully documented work explores Disderi's career and oeuvre , the impact of mass-produced celebrity cartes on the social and cultural life of mid-19th-century France, and aesthetics in c-d-v portraiture. The final third of the book is an art historical evaluation of the importance of the c-d-v for portrait painting of the period . The fine bibliography, generous illustrative matter, and detailed notes add to the value of this work for the avid student of photohistory or 19th-century studies.

Record # 604113

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Albert Renger-Patszch: Photographer of Objectivityby: Ann Wilde and Jurgen Wilde

Albert Renger-Patszch: Photographer of Objectivity
by: Ann Wilde and Jurgen Wilde

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. Albert Renger-Patzsch, together with August Sander and Karl Blossfeldt, was one of the undisputed pioneers of twentieth-century German photography. Indeed, what Sander achieved in portrait photography and Blossfeldt in plant photography, Renger-Patzsch achieved in his renderings of objects and the material world. As a protagonist of the movement that came to be known as Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), he wanted to record, phenomenologically as it were, the exact appearance of objects -- their form, material, and surface. Thus he rejected any kind of artistic claim for himself. Believing that the photographer should strive to capture the "essence of the object," he called for documentation rather than art.

Record # 362780

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Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures Making Painters by: Rose, Phyllis

Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures Making Painters
by: Rose, Phyllis

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 259 pages, b&w, some color illustrations. Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O'Keeffe's husband. This new book from celebrated biographer Phyllis Rose reconsiders Stieglitz as a revolutionary force in the history of American art. Born in New Jersey, Stieglitz at age eighteen went to study in Germany, where his father, a wool merchant and painter, insisted he would get a proper education. After returning to America, he became one of the first American photographers to achieve international fame. By the time he was sixty, he gave up photography and devoted himself to selling and promoting art. His first gallery, 291, was the first American gallery to show works by Picasso, Rodin, Matisse, and other great European modernists. His galleries were not dealerships so much as open universities, where he introduced European modern art to Americans and nurtured an appreciation of American art among American artists. Clean copy.

Record # 385579

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Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1882-1966: A Monographby: Coburn, Alvin Langdon

Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1882-1966: A Monograph
by: Coburn, Alvin Langdon

Hardcover. US, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, illustrated throughout in sepia. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966) is remembered today as one of photography's early masters and great innovators. This monograph investigates the unconventional nature of his personal and artistic achievements. Coburn's landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, and Vortographs reflect his unprecedented steps towards the creation of a photography of symbol and abstraction.

Record # 350727

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American West in the Thirties: 122 Photographsby: Rothstein, Arthur

American West in the Thirties: 122 Photographs
by: Rothstein, Arthur

Softcover. New York, Dover Publications Inc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. Rothstein was a photojournalist for more than 45 years and the photographs in this volume are from his years as photographer for the Farm Security Administdration. His job was to photographs small towns, rural areas and general agricultural conditions throughout the country.

Record # 352525

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American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frankby: Smith, R. J.

American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank
by: Smith, R. J.

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2017, Hardcover, 352 pages. As well-known as Robert Frank the photographer is, few can say they really know Robert Frank the man. Born and raised in wartime Switzerland, Frank discovered the power and allure of photography at an early age and quickly learned that the art meant significantly more to him than the money, success, or fame. The art was all, and he intended to spend a lifetime pursuing it. American Witness is the first comprehensive look at the life of a man who's as mysterious and evasive as he is prolific and gifted. Leaving his rigid Switzerland for the more fluid United States in 1947, Frank found himself at the red-hot social center of bohemian New York in the '50s and '60s, becoming friends with everyone from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky to photographer Walker Evans, actor Zero Mostel, painter Willem de Kooning, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Bob Dylan, writer Rudy Wirlitzer, jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus, and more. Frank roamed the country with his young family, taking roughly 27,000 photographs and collecting 83 of them into what is still his most famous work: The Americans. His was an America nobody had seen before, and if it was harshly criticized upon publication for its portrait of a divided country, the collection gradually grew to be recognized as a transformative American vision.

Record # 363337

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An Eightieth Year Tribute to Winston Churchill Statesman Historian Sportsman Soldier and Orator by: Ingram Bruce / editor

An Eightieth Year Tribute to Winston Churchill Statesman Historian Sportsman Soldier and Orator
by: Ingram Bruce / editor

Softcover. London, Illustrated London News , 1954, Original printed red card wrappers. Light rubbing of the covers, some thumbing of the leading edge; top spine worn, overall, this book is in good to very good condition. 68 pages. Gilt decorated red cover, color frontispiece portrait, gravure and color plates, photographs, illustrations, genealogical table. Contributors include Cyril Falls (Sir Winston Churchill in War), E.D. O'Brien (Sir Winston Churchill- the Man), Charles Petrie (Sir Winston Churchill's Place in History), Edward Winterton (Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament). Frontispiece by Yousuf Karsh.

Record # 383265

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An Eightieth Year Tribute to Winston Churchill Statesman Historian Sportsman Soldier and Orator by: Ingram Bruce / editor

An Eightieth Year Tribute to Winston Churchill Statesman Historian Sportsman Soldier and Orator
by: Ingram Bruce / editor

Softcover. London, Illustrated London News , 1954, Original printed red card wrappers. Light rubbing of the covers, some thumbing of the leading edge; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. 68 pages. Gilt decorated red cover, color frontispiece portrait, gravure and color plates, photographs, illustrations, genealogical table. Contributors include Cyril Falls (Sir Winston Churchill in War), E.D. O'Brien (Sir Winston Churchill- the Man), Charles Petrie (Sir Winston Churchill's Place in History), Edward Winterton (Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament). Frontispiece by Yousuf Karsh.

Record # 378245

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Annie Leibovitz At Workby: Leibovitz, Annie

Annie Leibovitz At Work
by: Leibovitz, Annie

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 240 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Wraparound present. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Annie Leibovitz describes how her pictures were made, starting with Richard Nixon's resignation, a story she covered with Hunter S. Thompson, and ending with Barack Obama's campaign. In between are a Rolling Stones Tour, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, The Blues Brothers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith Haring, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patti Smith, George W. Bush, William S. Burroughs, Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. The most celebrated photographer of our time discusses portraiture, reportage, fashion photography, lighting, and digital cameras.

Record # 351143

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Annie Leibovitz At Workby: Leibovitz, Annie

Annie Leibovitz At Work
by: Leibovitz, Annie

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Beige cloth covers, no paper wraparound band. Annie Leibovitz describes how her pictures were made, starting with Richard Nixon's resignation, a story she covered with Hunter S. Thompson, and ending with Barack Obama's campaign. In between are a Rolling Stones Tour, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, The Blues Brothers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith Haring, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patti Smith, George W. Bush, William S. Burroughs, Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. The most celebrated photographer of our time discusses portraiture, reportage, fashion photography, lighting, and digital cameras.

Record # 361940

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Ansel Adams - Letters and Images 1916-1984by: Adams, Ansel

Ansel Adams - Letters and Images 1916-1984
by: Adams, Ansel

Boston, N.Y. Graphic Society, BC Ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos. 400 pages. Flap has price, (C) page with First Edition statement but actually Book Club edition. Edited by Mary Street Alinder & Andrea Gray Stillman. In his early years in Yosemite, Adams formed the habit of writing letters at every opportunity. His correspondence, therefore, virtually provides the full record of his life. Through the years, wherever he went, from the Southwest to Maine to Alaska, he wrote literally thousands of letters and postcards. Among the family, friends, fellow photographers, environmentalists, and politicians with whom he corresponded rank such eminent names as Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Paul Strand, jimmy Carter, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, Garry Trudeau, and Edward Weston. Including both sides of continuing dialogues with these people and others, this book revels the growth of the artist and the whole man, as well as the development of the art of photography through the voices of the masters. A companion volume to his best-selling autobiography, ANSEL ADAMS: LETTERS AND IMAGES is illustrated with over 100 of his photographs from monumental landscapes to family snapshots. This combination of images with the highlights of a lifetime of letter writing creates a compelling portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest artists and conservationists and one of the most personable and memorable of men.

Record # 67379

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Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984by: Adams, Ansel

Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984
by: Adams, Ansel

Softcover. Boston/NY, Little, Brown, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 418 pages, b&w illustrations. Ansel Adams wrote literally thousands of letters to fellow photographers, environmentalists, politicians, family, and friends during his long life - letters that reveal the growth of the artist and the man, while contributing a unique overview of twentieth-century photography and the environmental movement. Among those with who he corresponded are such eminent names as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Nancy and Beaumont Newhall, and Jimmy Carter. Wallace Stegner notes in his foreword that the letters 'show him as his family and friends knew him, in the intimate interchange of daily life and at the highest reaches of his thinking and feeling. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 397990

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Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulman, Theby: Niles, John Jacob (Intro by)

Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulman, The
by: Niles, John Jacob (Intro by)

Hardcover. Penland, NC, Jargon Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 63 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges. Related news clipping laid in.

Record # 367998

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Arnold Newman: The Early Workby: Philip Brookman , Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman: The Early Work
by: Philip Brookman , Arnold Newman

Hardcover. GR, Steidl, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages. When celebrated photographer Arnold Newman began his career in 1938 in chain portrait studios in Philadelphia, Baltimore and West Palm Beach, he also immediately began to make abstract and documentary photography on his own, studying people and places impoverished by the Depression. In June of 1941, Beaumont Newhall of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Alfred Stieglitz "discovered" him, and he was given an exhibit with Ben Rose at the A.D. Gallery that September. There Newman began to combine his independent work with the portraiture that had been his bread-and-butter, developing the approach for which he is best known, which came to be called "environmental portraiture," and which is so widely influential today that it might be the new standard practice. This style made Newman a distinctive contributor to publications like Life, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times Magazine, brought him into the collections of museums around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography in New York, and led to his recognition in photography histories and with awards including France's Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. The photographs collected here were made before Newman achieved recognition as a pioneering portraitist, during the formative years from 1938 to 1942. They highlight the early stirrings of a great photographic master.

Record # 361638

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Artist at Work: Jacques Lipchitz, Theby: Van Bork, Bert

Artist at Work: Jacques Lipchitz, The
by: Van Bork, Bert

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, inc, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 220 pages. B&w photography throughout. Foreword by Karl Katz, critical evaluation by Dr. Alfred Werner. Dust jacket somewhat edgeworn but protected by mylar covering. Nice clean copy in good shape.

Record # 605095

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Artist Within, Theby: Preston, Greg

Artist Within, The
by: Preston, Greg

Hardcover. US, Dark Horse Books, 2nd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. The culmination of more than fifteen years of photography by renowned photographer Greg Preston, this book is a living history of the men and women who have shaped the imaginations of countless millions of people around the world through their work in the fields of animated cartoons, comic books, comic strips and editorial cartooning. The list of more than two hundred artists includes such luminaries as Frank Miller, Al Hirschfeld, Joe Barbera, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Moebius, Walter and Louise Simonson and many more, all in photographs exclusive and shot expressly for this book.

Record # 352450

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As I See Itby: Loengard, John

As I See It
by: Loengard, John

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st UK, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages, 128 duotone plates. Introduction by Ann Beattie. John Loengard, one of the great LIFE magazine photographers, sums up his fifty-year career in this handsome volume.

Record # 357609

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Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Iconby: Pepper, Terence/Helen Trompeteler

Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon
by: Pepper, Terence/Helen Trompeteler

Hardcover. New York, Skira Rizzoli, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom of the text block. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Large black & white and color photographs throughout. Tight copy. Many portraits ranging throughout Audrey's life.

Record # 352947

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Autobiography 1980by: Lewitt, Sol

Autobiography 1980
by: Lewitt, Sol

Softcover. New York, Multiples Inc & Lois and Michael K. Torf , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages, paperback. Hundreds of b&w photographs documenting the personal belongings in LeWitt's living and working space in New York City in 1980. Fascinating look into the private life of one of the pioneers of minimal and conceptual art. Age toning to spine. Light rubbing, slight soiling, and mild age toning to wraps. Unmarked. Very scarce. A tight copy.

Record # 952414

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Avedon Advertisingby: Richard Avedon, The Richard Avedon Foundation, et al.

Avedon Advertising
by: Richard Avedon, The Richard Avedon Foundation, et al.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 352 pages. Richard Avedon was one of the most sought-after and influential advertising photographers in America from the 1940s to the beginning of the 21st century, creating work that exemplified Madison Avenue at the height of its influence in world culture. Working with a talented cadre of models, copy writers, and art directors, Avedon made images that enticed consumers to embrace the new, especially in the areas of fashion and beauty, with campaigns for Revlon, Chanel, Calvin Klein, Dior, and Versace, among many others. Avedon Advertising tells this story, reproducing memorable ads that range from the buoyant 1940s and 1950s, when post-war prosperity opened up new experiences to consumers; through the explosive '60s; and into the era defined by celebrity culture and global brand awareness.

Record # 371343

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Avedon: Something Personalby: Stevens, Norma

Avedon: Something Personal
by: Stevens, Norma

Hardcover. New York, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 720 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 362264

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Avedon: Something Personalby: Stevens, Norma

Avedon: Something Personal
by: Stevens, Norma

Hardcover. New York, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 720 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 353148

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Babe, The: A Life in Picturesby: Ritter, Lawrence and Mark Rucker

Babe, The: A Life in Pictures
by: Ritter, Lawrence and Mark Rucker

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 282 pages, illustrated throughout with vintage b&w photos, documenting the Yankee star's career. Small nick to dust jacket along fore-edge, light edgewear, otherwise very good.

Record # 405330

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Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac's On the Roadby: Gewirtz, Isaac

Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac's On the Road
by: Gewirtz, Isaac

Hardcover. NY, Scala, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road was a touchstone for a generation and the centrepiece of the Beat movement in literature and art. This new book examines Kerouac's life and career, and accompanies a major exhibition at The New York Public Library to celebrate the 50th anniversary of On the Road's publication in 1957. Kerouac's achievement as both a literary and cultural figure is traced, including his innovations in narrative techniques and in character development. His counterculture vision is explored, showing his image as a seer and sage who wanted to save America from its obsession with consumerism, the inhibition of sexuality and other conventional bourgeois pieties. The author also explores Kerouac's relationships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and other Beats, as well as the Beat movement in general. The book is heavily illustrated, with material from the extensive Kerouac literary archive owned by The New York Public Library, including typescript drafts of On the Road.

Record # 361626

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Before Marilyn: The Blue Book Modeling Yearsby: Astrid Franse and Michelle Morgan

Before Marilyn: The Blue Book Modeling Years
by: Astrid Franse and Michelle Morgan

Softcover. Gloucestershire UK, History Press, 1st pbk, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 237 pages. Before Marilyn tells the story of Marilyn Monroe's modeling career, during which time she was signed to the famous Blue Book Agency in Hollywood. The head of the agency, Miss Emmeline Snively, saw potential in the young woman and kept detailed records and correspondence throughout their professional relationship and beyond. On the day of Monroe's funeral, Snively gave an interview from her office, talking about the girl she had discovered, before announcing, rather dramatically, that she was closing the lid on her Marilyn Monroe archive that day - to 'lock it away forever'. This archive was purchased by Astrid Franse, and together with bestselling Marilyn Monroe biographer Michelle Morgan they draw on this collection of never-before-seen documents, letters and much, much more. Before Marilyn explores an aspect of Monroe's life that has never been fully revealed - by charting every modelling job she did, and illustrating the text with rare and unpublished photographs of the young model and her mentor.

Record # 380400

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Being There: The Life & Career of James P. Blair National Geographic Society, Staff Photographerby: Jenkins, Mark Collins

Being There: The Life & Career of James P. Blair National Geographic Society, Staff Photographer
by: Jenkins, Mark Collins

Hardcover. Self published, 1st Edition, 2013, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 442 pages. Very large hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Vibrant, decorated glossy cover boards with black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages unmarked, clean and bright. Spine straight, binding tight. A beautifully photo-illustrated biography about a gifted photographer's life and career, including his distinguished time with the National Geographic Magazine. Scarce. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99246

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Bela Bartok: His Life in Pictures and Documents.by: Bonis, Ferenc

Bela Bartok: His Life in Pictures and Documents.
by: Bonis, Ferenc

Hardcover. New York , Belwin Mills Publishing , 1st U.S., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket is worn on edges and corners. Many b&w photographs, and reproductions of documents, throughout.

Record # 853154

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Berenice Abbott: A Biographyby: Van Haaften, Julia

Berenice Abbott: A Biography
by: Van Haaften, Julia

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 634 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dj. In Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography, author, archivist, and curator Julia Van Haaften brings this iconic public figure to life alongside outlandish, familiar characters from artist Man Ray to cybernetics founder Norbert Wiener. A teenage rebel from Ohio, Abbott escaped first to Greenwich Village and then to Paris-photographing, in Sylvia Beach's words, "everyone who was anyone." As the Roaring Twenties ended, Abbott returned to New York, where she soon fell in love with art critic Elizabeth McCausland, with whom she would spend thirty years. In the 1930s, Abbott began her best-known work, Changing New York, in which she fearlessly documented the city's metamorphosis. When warned by an older male supervisor that "nice girls" avoid the Bowery-then Manhattan's skid row-Abbott shot back, "I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer...I go anywhere." This bold, feminist attitude would characterize all Abbott's accomplishments, including imaging techniques she invented in her influential, space race-era science photography and her tenure as The New School's first photography teacher. With more than ninety stunning photos, this sweeping, cinematic biography secures Berenice Abbott's place in the histories of photography and modern art, while framing her incredible accomplishments as a female artist and entrepreneur.

Record # 353248

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Bettie Page: The Lost Yearsby: Brem, Ron

Bettie Page: The Lost Years
by: Brem, Ron

Hardcover. Guilford, CT, Lyons Press, 1st, 2018, 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 edges. Hundreds of never before seen black & white photographs and private letters spanning 1949 - 2000.

Record # 353415

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Bill Brandt: A Lifeby: Delany, Paul

Bill Brandt: A Life
by: Delany, Paul

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. Oversized. Black cloth cover, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has some wear to corners and edges, small faint smudge. Inside is bright and clean. Many b&w photographs throughout. A nice, tight copy.

Record # 455490

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Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withersby: Preston Lauterbach

Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers
by: Preston Lauterbach

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 339 pages, b&w illustrations. The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured--and influenced--a critical moment in American history. Ernest Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and '60s: Martin Luther King, Jr., riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till's uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at his nephew's killer; scores of African-American protestors carrying a forest of signs reading "i am a man." But at the same time, Withers was working as an FBI informant. In this gripping narrative history, Preston Lauterbach examines the complicated political and economic forces that informed Withers's seeming betrayal of the people he photographed, and "does a masterful job of telling the story of civil rights in Memphis in the 1960s" (Ed Ward, Financial Times), including the events surrounding Dr. King's tumultuous final march in Memphis. Small remainder dot to top edge.

Record # 374029

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Brancusi: The White Workby: Mola, Paola

Brancusi: The White Work
by: Mola, Paola

Hardcover. Milan, Skira, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. This book accompanies an exhibit a the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the first show solely devoted to Brancusi's photography.

Record # 368196

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Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carverby: Carver, Raymond and Bob Adelman

Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver
by: Carver, Raymond and Bob Adelman

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, illustrated throughout with b&w photographs by Bob Adelman. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 350054

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Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925by: McCauley, Anne

Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925
by: McCauley, Anne

Princeton University Art Museum, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages. Clarence H. White (1871-1925) was one of the most influential art photographers and teachers of the early 20th century and a founding member of the Photo-Secession. This beautiful publication offers a new appraisal of White's contributions, including his groundbreaking aesthetic experiments, his commitment to the ideals of American socialism, and his embrace of the expanding fields of photographic book and fashion illustration, celebrity portraiture, and advertising. Based on extensive archival research, the book challenges the idea of an abrupt rupture between prewar, soft-focus idealizing photography and postwar "modernism" to paint a more nuanced picture of American culture in the Progressive era. The illustrations are well reproduced and comprehensive.

Record # 361101

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Close Relationsby: Horenstein, Henry

Close Relations
by: Horenstein, Henry

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. Photographer Henry Horenstein presents his earliest photographs, made from 1970 to 1973: a collection of portraits of family and friends, landscapes, and period imagery. These photographs describe a time familiar to everyone, when one moves from adolescence to adulthood-remaining a part of a family while beginning to create a network of one's own.

Record # 351661

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Close Relationsby: Horenstein, Henry

Close Relations
by: Horenstein, Henry

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. Photographer Henry Horenstein presents his earliest photographs, made from 1970 to 1973: a collection of portraits of family and friends, landscapes, and period imagery. These photographs describe a time familiar to everyone, when one moves from adolescence to adulthood-remaining a part of a family while beginning to create a network of one's own.

Record # 351660

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Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitressby: Taylor, Candacy A.

Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress
by: Taylor, Candacy A.

Softcover. NY, ILR Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Color pictures throughout. "Career waitresses do more than just serve food. They are part psychiatrist, part grandmother, part friend, and they serve every walk of American life: from the retired and the widowed, to the wounded and the lonely, and from the working class to the wealthy. The classic diner waitress is an icon of American culture.... This book takes a moment to honor and recognize waitresses' contribution to our communities. Doing this project has helped me to redefine my perspective on life, work, and happiness. It has made me reevaluate the myth of the American dream that says you need to have an 'important' job to be happy."

Record # 352878

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Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitressby: Taylor, Candacy A.

Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress
by: Taylor, Candacy A.

Softcover. New York, ILR Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Color pictures throughout. "Career waitresses do more than just serve food. They are part psychiatrist, part grandmother, part friend, and they serve every walk of American life: from the retired and the widowed, to the wounded and the lonely, and from the working class to the wealthy. The classic diner waitress is an icon of American culture.... This book takes a moment to honor and recognize waitresses' contribution to our communities. Doing this project has helped me to redefine my perspective on life, work, and happiness. It has made me reevaluate the myth of the American dream that says you need to have an 'important' job to be happy."

Record # 352877

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Creative Composites: Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle (The Phillips Book Prize Series)by: Kroiz, Lauren

Creative Composites: Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle (The Phillips Book Prize Series)
by: Kroiz, Lauren

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 267 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This book examines the often-neglected role played by immigrant artists and critics in the circle of Alfred Stieglitz, including Japanese-German author Sadakichi Hartmann, Mexican-born caricaturist Marius de Zayas and English Sri-Lankan curator Ananda Coomaraswamy, as well as better-known U.S.-born painters, including Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Record # 350451

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David Bailey: Bailey Exposedby: Bailey, David (Photographer)

David Bailey: Bailey Exposed
by: Bailey, David (Photographer)

Softcover. London, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover. Color and B/W photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 352259

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David Bailey: Bailey Exposedby: Bailey, David (Photographer)

David Bailey: Bailey Exposed
by: Bailey, David (Photographer)

Softcover. London, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover. Color and B/W photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 352258

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Daybooks of Edward Weston, The (2 Volumes): Mexico (Vol. 1), California (Vol. 2)by: Weston, Edward

Daybooks of Edward Weston, The (2 Volumes): Mexico (Vol. 1), California (Vol. 2)
by: Weston, Edward

Softcover. NewYork, Aperture, 2nd, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 1: 214 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers slightly yellow with age, clean inside and intact. Vol. 2: 290 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers slightly yellow with age, clean inside and intact. Soil/stain on bottom foredge, does not affect pages. From the back cover of Vol. 1: "To see, to react, to create; these are the fundamentals of all art production. But also to share is the measure of the great artist and the great person. In both his magnificent photographs and in the confidences and clarifications of his Daybook, Edward Weston takes us into himself and shares with us his particular mirror of beauty and compassion."

Record # 30421

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Diana Vreelandby: Eleanor Dwight

Diana Vreeland
by: Eleanor Dwight

Softcover. NY, Harper Design, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 308 pages. Eleanor Dwight delivers the definitive biography of Diana Vreeland, the twentieth century's most influential fashion editor. Lavishly illustrated with exclusive photographs and personal materials from the legendary style maker's private collection, and featuring a new preface from Vogue's Andre LeonTalley, Diana Vreeland is an indispensible look at a grand dame of great couture. Lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred drawings and photographs, many by the best fashion photographers of the time: Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton, and Brassai. Here, too, are the trendsetters, artists, models, and celebrities with whom Vreeland worked and played, including Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta, Elsie de Wolfe, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, and Jacqueline Kennedy.

Record # 361836

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Diane Arbus: A Biographyby: Bosworth, Patricia

Diane Arbus: A Biography
by: Bosworth, Patricia

NY, Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 369 pages, b&w illustrations. in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Examines the life behind the eerie, mesmerizing photographs: Diane"s pampered childhood; her passionate marriage to Allan Arbus and their work together as fashion photographers during the fifties; the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of that marriage; and the radically dark, liberating, and ultimately tragic turn Diane"s art took during the sixties. Bosworth"s engrossing book is a compassionate portrait of the woman behind some of the most powerful photographs of our time.

Record # 357550

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Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographerby: Lubow, Arthur

Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
by: Lubow, Arthur

Hardcover. New York, Ecco, 2nd pr., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 734 pages, b&w illustrations. The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs. It is impossible to understand the transfixing power of Arbus's photographs without exploring her life. Lubow draws on exclusive interviews with Arbus's friends, lovers, and colleagues; on previously unknown letters; and on his own profound critical insights into photography to explore Arbus's unique perspective and to reveal important aspects of her life that were previously unknown or unsubstantiated. He deftly traces Arbus's development from a wealthy, sexually precocious free spirit into first, a successful New York fashion photographer and then, a singular artist who coaxed secrets from her subjects. Lubow reveals that Arbus's profound need not only to see her subjects but to be seen by them drove her to forge unusually close bonds with these people, helping her discover the fantasies, pain, and heroism within each of them, and leading her to create a new kind of photographic portraiture charged with an unnerving complicity between the subject and the viewer.

Record # 353250

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Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographerby: Lubow, Arthur

Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
by: Lubow, Arthur

Hardcover. New York, Ecco, 2016, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 734 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352416

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Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan America's Most Mysterious War Photographer by: Robert Sullivan

Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan America's Most Mysterious War Photographer
by: Robert Sullivan

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 464 pages. A personal exploration of the American West and the work of one of America's greatest photographers. Timothy O'Sullivan is America's most famous war photographer. You know his work even if you don't know his name: A Harvest of Death, taken at Gettysburg, is an icon of the Civil War. He was also among the first photographers to elevate what was then a trade to the status of fine art. The images of the American West he made after the war, while traveling with the surveys led by Clarence King and George Wheeler, display a prescient awareness of what photography would become; years later, Ansel Adams would declare his work 'surrealistic and disturbing.' At the same time, we know very little about O'Sullivan himself. Nor do we know-really know-much more about the landscapes he captured. Robert Sullivan's Double Exposure sets off in pursuit of these two enigmas. This book documents the author's own road trip across the West in search of the places, many long forgotten or paved over, that O'Sullivan pictured. It also stages a reckoning with how the changes wrought on the land were already under way in the 1860s and '70s, and how these changes were a continuation of the Civil War by other means.

Record # 397198

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