Hardcover. NY, United Technologies Corp., 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 120 pages. A catalogue for the exhibition Bourke-White: A Retrospective, organized and circulated by the International Center of Photography, New York, which toured various US museums in 1988-90. Black cloth with photo portrait of the legendary photojournalist with large-format camera perched on side of skyscraper affixed to front cover. Titles stamped in white on front boards and spine. Beautiful reproductions.
Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 79 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Introductory essay by Lawrence Durrell. Includes 61 black and white photographs, many of which are some of his more iconic images.
Hardcover. New York, Asia Society/Creative Time, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Accordion binding. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Central Park, Cai's Light Cycle fireworks display lit the New York sky with a circle of explosions on a September night in 2003. This 24-page accordion book documents it all from planning to performance, executed by the famous Grucci fireworks family. Separating the book's hardbound cloth covers reveals a continuous folded sheet with reproductions of Cai's gunpowder drawings (made by burning scant gunpowder on paper) on one side and photographs of the event and text on the other. In an interview, the artist compares his drawings to "love-making" and explains some technical aspects of his displays, such as a computer chip in each explosive shell.
Softcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black & white photographs throughout.
Paperback. New York, Prestel, Revised, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Oversize hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this book offers the first comprehensive critical examination of one of America's most celebrated living artists. Chuck Close reinvented portraiture almost four decades ago with a series of nine-foot-tall, black-and-white likenesses of himself and fellow artists, which astonished an art world dominated by minimalism and conceptualism. Close has since explored an array of mediums. This lavish, large-format volume is the first to deal with all aspects of Close's career and to place them in a biographical context. Christopher Finch's insight into CLose's achievement comes by way of hundreds of studio visits and thousands of hours of conversation since he met Close in 1968. Finch provides an engaging, in-depth analysis of Close's portraits on canvas, from the continuous-tone airbrushed heads of the 1960s and '70s to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past two decades. The more than 300 illustrations features in the book survey almost all of CLose's paintings, including his most recent work, together with a selection of his prints and multiples, and examples of his photographic oeuvre. This beautifully designed volume reveals not only the variety of pictorial strategies Close has devised, but the extrordinary personality of the artist behind the work.
Softcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 220 pages. This comprehensive catalogue traces the career of Cindy Sherman, examining her achievements as one of the leading American artists of our time. By exploring the myriad constructions of female identity and the body in our culture, Sherman imitates and confronts assorted representational stereotypes, becoming for many an icon of the contemporary concerns of feminism and postmodernism.Essayists Amada Cruz, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Amelia Jones offer keen insight and observations from several distinct vantage points, demonstrating that Sherman's work is a lens through which to view contemporary art and its ongoing concern with the profound issues of the structures of the self. More than 200 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centerfolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales, and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets, and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process.
Hardcover. New York, PaceWildenstein, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only edgewear. Full page color photographs throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Aperture, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 132 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Slight edgewear, creasing, tanning to white dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with still in publishers shrink wrap. Visions of an American Dreamland highlights more than 200 images from Coney Island's history, including paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, posters, film stills, architectural artifacts, and carousel animals.
Softcover. Spain, Fundacion La Caixa, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 284 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Beautiful color illustrations and photographs throughout.
Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Swiss artist Daniele Buetti is notorious for his defaced photographs of supermodels, which feature scars, tattoos and disenchanted fragments of text. Buetti has been questioning the socially determined constructs of beauty and the commodification of sexuality and glamour since the 1980s. His altered photographs--large-scale C-prints on aluminum or light-boxes--have messages like "How much is my body worth?" and "What shall I hope for?" scrawled across them in electric colors. Buetti also often energetically scratches out or draws over portions of the image in a manner that recalls the destructive doodling of a truculent adolescent. Maybe You Can Be One of Us focuses on Buetti's recent drawings, videos, sculptures and installations. In these newer pieces, the fashion models give way to enigmatic illustrative symbols, such as two disembodied hands conjuring a puff of smoke. This publication accompanies an exhibition of new work at the Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art in New York.
Softcover. The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 158 pages illustrated in color and b&w. From well-known luminaries of the medium such as Arbus, Goldin, Lange, Cunningham, Cindy Sherman and Annie Leibovitz, to far less known figures, this book celebrates the role women have had in shaping photography's vision. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, text in English by Rudi Fuchs and Jan Hein Sassen. Exhibition catalog for a 2001 Amsterdam retrospective. A very good copy in tall bound wrappers in very good photo-illustrated dustwrapper. Black-and-white and color reproductions of photography and art by Dennis Hopper.
Hardcover. France, Editions du ChIne, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black & white and color photographs throughout.
Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Diane Arbus. Arbus's commercial photography and articles are less well known than her other works. Her assignments for 'Esquire', 'Harper's Bazaar' and the 'Sunday Times Magazine' in London covered the leaders of theater, fashion, show business and literature. Here are over 100 portraits and feature profiles which originally accompanied them. Remainder stamp to bottom edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Diane Arbus. Arbus's commercial photography and articles are less well known than her other works. Her assignments for 'Esquire', 'Harper's Bazaar' and the 'Sunday Times Magazine' in London covered the leaders of theater, fashion, show business and literature. Here are over 100 portraits and feature profiles which originally accompanied them. Luminaries include Jayne Mansfield, Mae West, William Golding, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, and many others. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Over 100 of Diane Arbus' early photographs in black and white. Tight copy. Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time. This book is the definitive study of the artist's first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum's Diane Arbus Archive--a remarkable treasury of photographs, negatives, appointment books, notebooks, and correspondence--it is an essential contribution to our understanding of Arbus and her oeuvre.
Hardcover. Italy, Damiani, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 200 color illustrations throughout. Portraits of famous celebrities such as Jessica Alba, Gabriel Byrne, Sofia Coppola, Diane von Furstenberg, Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, Jack McCollough, Julianne Moore and Sting, as well as landscape photographs.
Hardcover. Philadelphia PA/New Haven CT, Philadelphia Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Published to commemorate the centenary of Levy's birth. With 300 photographs, including many unfamiliar works by well-known artists, the catalogue presents a stunning survey of this collection, long hidden from public view. Fading to dust jacket spine and fore edges. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston/NY, Bulfinch/Little Brown, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Essay by Maria Morris Hambourg. Includes 54 tritones, 10 text illustrations and 4 gatefolds. A clean and tight near fine copy. Published in conjunction with a traveling show that ran January 14 through April 21, 2002 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, LIKE NEW in publishers shrinkwrap. Ruscha's work comprises five black-and-white Los Angeles landscapes made in 1992 paired with color representations of the same sites as they appeared ten years later and draws attention to how often-overlooked changes in the evolving urban landscape are redolent of economic might and globalization or decline and stagnation.
Softcover. Zurich, Shedhalle Zurich, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Text in German and English. Black & white photographs by Francesca Woodman. 3 pages with brief underlining in ink. Light wear to covers. Introductory essays by Harm Lux and Kathryn Hixson. Chronology, bibliography, list of exhibitions. Francesca Woodman "was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring either herself or female models. Many of her photographs show young women who are nude, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured. Her work continues to be the subject of much critical acclaim and attention, years after she died by suicide at the age of 22, in 1981."