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A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold Warby: Curley, John J.

A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War
by: Curley, John J.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 352404

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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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Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image: The Photography Workshop Seriesby: Webb, Alex; Norris Webb, Rebecca

Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image: The Photography Workshop Series
by: Webb, Alex; Norris Webb, Rebecca

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages in color. In this volume, the Webbs share their thoughts about a wide range of practical and philosophical issues, from questions about seeing and being in the world with a camera, to how to shape a complete body of work in a way that's both structured and intuitive. Award-winning novelist Teju Cole, a student of the Webbs, provides the introduction. Clean copy.

Record # 397166

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Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values by: Robert Adams

Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values
by: Robert Adams

Softcover. NY, Aperture, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 108 pages with b&w illustrations. The eight essays in Beauty in Photography provide a critical appreciation of photography by one of its foremost proponents. The result is a rare book of criticism, alive to the pleasure and mysteries of true exploration. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397257

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Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photographyby: Morris, Errol

Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
by: Morris, Errol

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color pictures throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The author untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs. With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris shows how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal, and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs.

Record # 352203

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British Rubbishby: Noble, Tim/Sue Webster

British Rubbish
by: Noble, Tim/Sue Webster

Hardcover. New York, Skira Rizzoli, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Full color, full page photographs throughout. Dust jacket designed to look torn with trash underneath. Tight copy. The work of counterculture artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster, whose art is a complex punk-rock take on modern consumer culture. Enormous neon signs, intricate silhouette portraits constructed of trash heaps, and a work titled Instant Gratification: British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster thrive on the thrills of illumination, love, language, shadows, garbage, and cash. British Rubbish showcases their work in all its splashy glory. Their art evokes both gaudy Vegas culture and down-and-dirty punk rock: a combination of cynical extravagance and a defiant, rebellious sensibility. Extravagant, irreverent, sometimes coarse, and always sharply clever, British Rubbish is both a paean to and sly denunciation of conspicuous consumption.

Record # 352912

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Cai Guo-Qiang: Light Cycle: Explosion Project for Central Parkby: Eleey, Peter

Cai Guo-Qiang: Light Cycle: Explosion Project for Central Park
by: Eleey, Peter

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.

Record # 353316

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Caught - The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republicby: Kuehn, Karl Gernot

Caught - The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic
by: Kuehn, Karl Gernot

Hardcover. Berkeey, University of California, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages, nearly 150 b&w photos accompany the text. A survey of photography in East Germany; from 1945 to 1989. In a very good dust jacket with light fade to spine. "Behind the Iron Curtain, against all odds, photography flourished as an art in the German Democratic Republic. The many images in this volume amply demonstrate that fact while also providing an illustrated social history of people 'caught' in the conflicting dictates of ideology, artistic oppression, a troubled national past, and basic human desires."

Record # 357546

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Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Moviesby: Sanders, James

Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies
by: Sanders, James

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 498 pages, index, B&W photos and illustrations culled from studio archives and privste collections, show the image of New York city in the world of film. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

Record # 456479

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Cindy Shermanby: Burton, Johanna (Editor)

Cindy Sherman
by: Burton, Johanna (Editor)

Softcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, November 1, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to wrappers. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 452651

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Circles of Confusion: Film-Photography-Video: Texts 1968-1980by: Frampton, Hollis

Circles of Confusion: Film-Photography-Video: Texts 1968-1980
by: Frampton, Hollis

Softcover. Rochester NY, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages, paperback. Fictions and the fictions of theory from acclaimed theorist of film. With a foreword by Annette Michelson. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Light bumping to spine. Previous owner's signature to front endpapers. Scarce. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952385

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Create and Be Recognized: Photography on the Edgeby: John Turner and Deborah Klochko

Create and Be Recognized: Photography on the Edge
by: John Turner and Deborah Klochko

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. Create and Be Recognized is the first survey of a compelling, always surprising art form -- outsider photography. Presented here is the work of seventeen largely self-taught artists who have used photography or photographic elements in their creations, including such luminaries as Adolf Wolfli, Howard Finster, and Henry Darger, as well as discoveries from little known, equally dramatic artists. As with most outsider art, the work here is fuelled by singular passions, marginalized mindsets, and extreme circumstances, falling outside mainstream picture-making. Employing collage (affixing photos or reproductions to a background), photocollage (photographs cut and pasted together to form a new whole), and tableaux (works based on manipulation and staging), the artists here present work that is, by turns, lyrical and frightening, and always fascinating. Published to coincide with a major touring exhibition of the same name originating at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Create and Be Recognized documents an emerging and important facet of contemporary photography.

Record # 362304

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Duane Michals: Foto Follies: How Photography Lost Its Virginity on the Way to the Bankby: Michals, Duane

Duane Michals: Foto Follies: How Photography Lost Its Virginity on the Way to the Bank
by: Michals, Duane

Softcover. New York , Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 350177

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Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870by: Phillips, Sandra S.

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870
by: Phillips, Sandra S.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. 230 color illustrations throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 352915

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Face of Forgiveness, The: Salvation and Redemptionby: Coleman, A.D. (Foreword)

Face of Forgiveness, The: Salvation and Redemption
by: Coleman, A.D. (Foreword)

Hardcover. New York, PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. With sumptuous black-and-white photographs that recall the religious fervor of El Greco and the anguish of Francis Bacon, The Face of Forgiveness: Salvation and Redemption takes us inside evangelical meetings across the world and bears witness to the driving emotional faith of Christian revival, where emotion and love pours from the eyes and mouths of the faithful, praying and thanking the Lord.

Record # 353139

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Grid-Portraits (SIGNED)by: Levy, Stu

Grid-Portraits (SIGNED)
by: Levy, Stu

Hardcover. Portland, OR, Nazraeli Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages. This printing limited to 1000 copies. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Creasing to a few pages. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. In the mid-1980s, Stu Levy began making 'grid-portraits' in order to overcome his his frustration with traditional portraiture's limited point of view. These constructs of photographs, consisting of twelve to twenty-five individual images, scan the architecture and flow of time in a subject's living or working environment. The resulting portraits, usually of artists, craftspeople and musicians, are made in the subjects' studios or living spaces and serve as a backstage tour of the artist s mind and creative process. Levy is fascinated by the artifacts that fill these spaces the possessions by which the subjects are themselves possessed. Rather than confining himself to a single 'decisive' moment, Levy explore its antithesis, a maze of scrambled time. These are made with a view camera using 4 x 5-inch negatives to allow for precision of detail. The sections are printed together to form the illusion of glancing through a window at a 'snapshot' of an event, which in reality might consist of fragmentary views made months apart and in totally separate rooms or environments. Among the subjects included in this important new monograph are Dr. Stanley Burns, Linda Connor, Barbara Crane, Jay Dusard, David Hockney, Graham Nash, and Jerry Uelsmann. Beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper and bound in black Japanese cloth, this first printing of Grid-Portraits is limited to 1,000 copies.

Record # 353374

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James Feeby: Krull, Craig

James Fee
by: Krull, Craig

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, St. Ann's Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Limited to 200 copies. Presented here are the many black and white photographs of American icons and imagery that are thematically connected by Fee's obsession with the decline and destruction of the America that he knew as a young man: we see his series of New York imagery, including the Chrysler building and the Brooklyn Bridge; pictures of the crumbling Penn State penitentiary; Beat inspired series of photographs of the American road; a distinctive and unique series of nude imagery; as well as his innovative collaborations with multimedia artist George Herms.

Record # 353069

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John Szarkowski: Photographsby: John Szarkowski and Sandra S. Phillips

John Szarkowski: Photographs
by: John Szarkowski and Sandra S. Phillips

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. A collection of images taken by the noted director of photography at MOMA. Accompanying the photographs are excerpts from a life-time's correspondence giving a glimpse of Szarkowski's perspective on life and photography. Curator Sandra Phillips contributes an introductory essay.

Record # 361862

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Kertesz on Kertesz: A Self-Portraitby: Kertesz, Andre

Kertesz on Kertesz: A Self-Portrait
by: Kertesz, Andre

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs in b&w. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Jacket sunned on spine and upper edge, slight foxing to front fly leaf, else a nice, clean copy. Kertesz's comments and photographs from his years in Hungary, Paris and New York.

Record # 450317

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Landscape Beyond: A Journey into Photographyby: David Ward

Landscape Beyond: A Journey into Photography
by: David Ward

Softcover. Argentum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages in color. Critically acclaimed photographer David Ward explores the essential attributes of a successful landscape photograph--simplicity, ambiguity, and beauty--in this intriguing companion to his first book, Landscape Within. David discusses how the notion of beauty has been viewed by artists and psychologists and how, despite various modifications over the centuries, the concept of beauty remains relevant. David suggests that all photographers' work either poses a question or seeks to impose the photographer's viewpoint, and he goes on to investigate how photography affects our interpretation of the world around us. Accompanied by a selection of David's stunning, large-format landscape images, this is an elegant and insightful look into the nature of photography. Clean copy.

Record # 397169

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Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Artby: Szarkowski, John

Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
by: Szarkowski, John

Hardcover. NY, MOMA, 2nd Pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages, 100 duotone plates. Szarkowski's classic work with critical essays on each picture. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Mild shelf wear.

Record # 355640

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Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaborationby: Warren, Beth Gates

Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration
by: Warren, Beth Gates

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton/ Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 153 pages, b&w illustrations. "Mather and Weston first met in Los Angeles in 1913. They soon developed a close relationship, eventually working together as full-fledged artistic partners and even co-signing the photographs they produced. Weston was also madly in love with Mather, and the two engaged in an affair during his first marriage, even though Mather was more interested in women. This book which features art by both artists, chronicles their twelve-year association and sheds light on Mather, whose artistry, sexual identity, and mysterious past have been overshadowed by the massive reputation of Edward Weston and his subsequent association with Tina Modotti."

Record # 351757

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Martine Sitbon: Alternative Visionby: Sitbon, Martine

Martine Sitbon: Alternative Vision
by: Sitbon, Martine

Hardcover. New York, NY, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Martine Sitbon has become an icon among designers and fashionistas, earning her praise from Karl Lagerfeld as being "the only living French designer." With never-before-seen sketches and photographs, this book allows readers to gain a better understanding of the designer's personal universe and inspirations that have until now been largely hidden from view.

Record # 353422

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Master Photographersby: Roberto Koch , Laura Leonelli, et al.

Master Photographers
by: Roberto Koch , Laura Leonelli, et al.

Hardcover. Flammarion, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 448 pages. This elegant, large-format volume presents twenty masters of photography via 300 extraordinary authorial photographs, providing a broad yet accessible overview of twentieth-century photography. From Man Ray's pioneering experimentations to the elegant and provocative fashion shots of Helmut Newton and Herb Ritts, the twenty master photographers featured in this handsome tome are masters of their craft across different photographic genres, from reportage and documentary to art and portraiture to fashion and glamour photography. A portfolio for each photographer features a selection of their legendary images, an introduction to the photographer's oeuvre, a brief biography, and commentary on each of the featured photographs. The volume features a striking, elegant design and large format, bringing these iconic photographs into sharp focus.Master Photographers features the work of Araki Nobuyoshi, Gabriele Basilico, Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Mario Giacomelli, Mimmo Jodice, William Klein, Peter Lindbergh, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, James Nachtwey, Helmut Newton, Martin Parr, Herb Ritts, Sebastiao Salgado, and August Sander.

Record # 362572

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Minor White: Rites & Passagesby: White, Minor

Minor White: Rites & Passages
by: White, Minor

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Minor White was one of the twentieth century's most influential B&W art photographers. Rites & Passages, is a compilation of his writings and photographs, with a biographical essay by James Baker Hall. The book is well writen and edited, and is a significant insite into the thoughts and motivations of a great artist. With a generous number of stunning photographs, expertly printed on quality paper, it is a book worthy of any discriminating collection.

Record # 351348

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Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960 by: Szarkowski, John

Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960
by: Szarkowski, John

Softcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st pbk., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 152 pages. 127 plates, 17 in color. Photographs by eighty-four artists, including such established figures as Paul Caponigro, Judy Dater, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meyerowitz, Helen Levitt, and Garry Winogrand, as well as various artists who were less known at the time such as Gary Beydler, Frank Gohlke, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Misrach, and Eve Sonneman. Clean copy.

Record # 385490

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Nancy Newhall A Literacy of Imagesby: Klochko, Deborah

Nancy Newhall A Literacy of Images
by: Klochko, Deborah

Hardcover. US, Museum of Photographic Arts, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white photographs throughout. This publication is the first comprehensive survey of Nancy Newhall, a prolific writer and major contributor to the history of photography. During the first half of the twentieth century, Newhall helped define photography and was one of the first to write about visual literacy- the importance of reading images and how text can change their meaning. Using her skills as designer, editor and collaborator, Nancy Newhall helped shape the concept of the modern photographic book. A Literacy of Images celebrates the 100th anniversary of her birth, exhibiting her photographs (many for the first time) and the work of her circle of friends, including well-known photographers such as Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Helen Levitt and Edward Weston.

Record # 369105

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On Photographyby: Sontag, Susan

On Photography
by: Sontag, Susan

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in dark gray cloth, gilt title on spine. Some light fading to covers at top and bottom of spine (shelfwear). Gray endpapers. Dust jacket price-clipped, some light tanning and chipping to edges of dj (see image). Pages clean and unmarked. Foreedge has some light spots of soil and a touch of tanning (see image). Binding tight. Spine straight. Sontag examines a wide range of problems, both aesthetic and moral, raised by the presence and authority of the photographed image in the lives of everyone today. Appendix "A Brief Anthology of Quotations" included.

Record # 369356

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Photography and Landscapeby: Rod Giblett, Juha Tolonen

Photography and Landscape
by: Rod Giblett, Juha Tolonen

Softcover. Bristol UK, Intellect, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages. With a focus on the settler societies of the United States and Australia, Photography and Landscape is a new critical account of landscape photography created through a unique collaboration between a photography writer and a landscape photographer. Beginning with the frontier days of the American West, the subsequent century-long popularity of landscape photography is exemplified by images from Carleton Watkins to Ansel Adams, the New Topographics to Richard Misrach, all of whose works are considered here. Along with discussions of other contemporary photographers, this extensively illustrated volume demonstrates the influence of settler societies on landscape photography, in which skilled photographers captured the fascination with and the appeal of the land and its expanse. Clean copy.

Record # 386782

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Photography and Playby: Garcia, Erin C.

Photography and Play
by: Garcia, Erin C.

Hardcover. Boston, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Featuring eighty-seven photographs, all drawn from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, that span nearly 150 years of image making.

Record # 353011

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Photography and the Optical Unconscious by: Smith, Shawn Michelle, Sliwinski, Sharon (Editors)

Photography and the Optical Unconscious
by: Smith, Shawn Michelle, Sliwinski, Sharon (Editors)

Softcover. Duke University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 381 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range from examinations of Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's writings to the work of Kara Walker and Roland Barthes's famous Winter Garden photograph, the contributors explore what photography can teach us about the nature of the unconscious. They attend to side perceptions, develop latent images, discover things hidden in plain sight, focus on the disavowed, and perceive the slow. Of particular note are the ways race and colonialism have informed photography from its beginning. The volume also contains photographic portfolios by Zoe Leonard, Kelly Wood, and Kristan Horton, whose work speaks to the optical unconscious while demonstrating how photographs communicate on their own terms. The essays and portfolios in Photography and the Optical Unconscious create a collective and sustained assessment of Benjamin's influential concept, opening up new avenues for thinking about photography and the human psyche. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386836

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Photography as Fictionby: Garcia, Erin C.

Photography as Fiction
by: Garcia, Erin C.

Hardcover. Boston, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Photography as Fiction includes seventy-six color plates illustrating works from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection that embrace theatricality and are unconcerned with documenting the world as it exists.

Record # 353012

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Photography Theoryby: James Elkins

Photography Theory
by: James Elkins

Softcover. NY/London, Routledge, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 470 pages. Forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen, Carol Squiers, Margaret Iversen and Abigail Solomon-Godeau in animated debate on the nature of photography. Photography has been around for nearly two centuries, but we are no closer to understanding what it is. For some people, a photograph is an optically accurate impression of the world, for others, it is mainly a way of remembering people and places. Some view it as a sign of bourgeois life, a kind of addiction of the middle class, whilst others see it as a troublesome interloper that has confused people's ideas of reality and fine art to the point that they have difficulty even defining what a photograph is. For some, the whole question of finding photography's nature is itself misguided from the beginning. This provocative second volume in the Routledge The Art Seminar series presents not one but many answers to the question what makes a photograph a photograph? Clean copy.

Record # 386783

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Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence H. White School of Photographyby: Marianne Fulton

Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence H. White School of Photography
by: Marianne Fulton

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Pictorial photography is noted for its artistic expressiveness, careful design and composition, and muted focus. In 1914 Clarence White (1871-1925) left Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession group, abandoned his ambitions to be a photographic illustrator, and opened the Manhatten-based Clarence H. White School of Photography. Lecturers at his school included Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Steichen. White's unique teaching skills, especially his encouragement of women students, nurtured the careers of such talented photographers as Margaret Bourke-White, Laura Gilpin, and Dorothea Lange. Presented by the Detroit Institute of Arts and the George Eastman House, this companion volume for a traveling exhibition contains the elegant photographic imagery of White and his students. The clear text by two photography curators imparts how the revered teacher's romantic pictorialism became the foundation for the student's avant-garde modernism. By far the most substantial review of White's work and influence in print.

Record # 363413

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Picturing an Exhibition: The Family of Man and 1950s Americaby: Sandeen, Eric J.

Picturing an Exhibition: The Family of Man and 1950s America
by: Sandeen, Eric J.

Hardcover. US, Univ of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1995-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A in depth study of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955, and its influence, with a final chapter on "Edward Steichen, Robert Frank and American Modernism".

Record # 350063

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Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination by: Joan M. Schwartz / James R. Ryan

Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination
by: Joan M. Schwartz / James R. Ryan

Softcover. London/NY, I. B. Tauris & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 354 pages, b&w illustrations. The advent of photography opened new worlds to 19th-century viewers, who became able to visualize themselves, their immediate surroundings, their communities, and the world beyond. The geographical imagination--the ability to know the world and situate oneself in space and time--fostered the expectations and applications of photographic technologies, and photographic technologies expresses the form and reach of the geographical imagination. This dialectic is the basis of this collection of intriguing essays, which explore the diverse ways in which the relationship manifested.

Record # 386780

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Power of Photography, The: How Photographs Changed Our Lives (SIGNED COPY)by: Goldberg, Vicki

Power of Photography, The: How Photographs Changed Our Lives (SIGNED COPY)
by: Goldberg, Vicki

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Mild wear to dust jacket top edge. Light fading to top boards. Foxing and faint soiling to text block. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951326

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Raymond Depardon: Adieu Saigonby: Depardon, Raymond

Raymond Depardon: Adieu Saigon
by: Depardon, Raymond

Softcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Adieu Saigon covers a varied range of imagery from Saigon, where Depardon photographed two wars and, on visits as recent as 2014, the unrecognizable, globalized city now called Ho Chi Minh. Depardon's work bears witness to a city in transition.

Record # 353014

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Raymond Depardon: Adieu Saigonby: Depardon, Raymond

Raymond Depardon: Adieu Saigon
by: Depardon, Raymond

Softcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Adieu Saigon covers a varied range of imagery from Saigon, where Depardon photographed two wars and, on visits as recent as 2014, the unrecognizable, globalized city now called Ho Chi Minh. Depardon's work bears witness to a city in transition.

Record # 353013

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Rise of Photography, The: 1850-1880 by: Gernsheim, Helmut

Rise of Photography, The: 1850-1880
by: Gernsheim, Helmut

Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 3rd Revised, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor yellowing to dust jacket edges and spine. Previous owners inscription in pen to top edge of front flyleaf. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. 206 photographs, 16 in color. Follows the developments in the art and science of photography from the invention of the wet-collodion process through the evolution of dry plates.

Record # 353361

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Robert Doisneau: From Craft to Artby: ChEvrier, Jean-FranAois

Robert Doisneau: From Craft to Art
by: ChEvrier, Jean-FranAois

Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 100 black and white photographs. Tight copy.

Record # 352998

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Robert Doisneau: From Craft to Artby: ChEvrier, Jean-FranAois

Robert Doisneau: From Craft to Art
by: ChEvrier, Jean-FranAois

Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 100 black and white photographs. Tight copy.

Record # 352999

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Symbols of Ideal Life - Social Documentary Photography in America 1890 - 1950by: Stange, Maren

Symbols of Ideal Life - Social Documentary Photography in America 1890 - 1950
by: Stange, Maren

Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 190 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. The documentary style that dominates American photography had its origins in the social reform publicity campaigns of the turn of the century. This book traces the history of this genre and its main participants, including Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Russell Lee. Clean copy.

Record # 609077

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The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violenceby: Linfield, Susie

The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence
by: Linfield, Susie

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 321 pages, b&w illustrations. In The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images--and learning to see the people in them--is an ethically and politically necessary act that connects us to our modern history of violence and probes the human capacity for cruelty. Grappling with critics from Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to Susan Sontag and the postmoderns--and analyzing photographs from such events as the Holocaust, China's Cultural Revolution, and recent terrorist acts--Linfield explores the complex connection between photojournalism and the rise of human rights ideals. In the book's concluding section, she examines the indispensable work of Robert Capa, James Nachtwey, and Gilles Peress and asks how photography should respond to the increasingly nihilistic trajectory of modern warfare. Clean copy.

Record # 396317

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The Photographer by: Gerard Rancinan and Caroline Gaudriault

The Photographer
by: Gerard Rancinan and Caroline Gaudriault

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 300 pages. In this lavishly produced volume, journalist Gaudriault accompanies photographer Rancinan to Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States to interview 23 masters of contemporary photography, paying homage to fashion photographers and photojournalists, traditional chroniclers of their times and conceptual artists. Rancinan's photographs record each encounter in portraits that encapsulate each subject's relationship with his shared discipline. Readers follow paparazzo Ron Galella fending off the camera; Martin Parr, the sardonic chronicler of middle-class British life, having tea in a cafe; Rankin, the creator of the hip magazine Dazed and Confused, hopping into a trashcan filled with his own cast-off images. Gaudriault's short essays quote liberally from her interviews and provide both biographical information and incisive commentary. Several of the older photographers strike an elegiac tone and confess to finding themselves at the end of the eras that gave birth to their visions, but optimism reigns among younger practitioners: David LaChapelle is reinventing himself in Hawaii; Rankin is bearing witness to an age that is still young; and Oliviero Toscani, the radical combination of journalist and marketer behind the Benetton campaigns, describes billboards as the church frescoes of today.

Record # 361842

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The Photographer's Eyeby: John Szarkowski

The Photographer's Eye
by: John Szarkowski

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages. A guide to the mediums visual language through works by such early masters as Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Evans, Strand and Weston. It contains 172 illustrations that reveal the range of the photograph from the early days of the mediums development to the mid-1960s.

Record # 397158

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The Privileged Eye: Essays on Photographyby: Kozloff, Max

The Privileged Eye: Essays on Photography
by: Kozloff, Max

Softcover. Albuquerque, University Of New Mexico Press, 1st pbk, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 285 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Nineteen essays on various issues in photography; includes essays about Photographers at War, Robert Doisneau, Helen Levitt, William Klein, Atget, and more. Clean copy.

Record # 387250

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Thomas Eakinsby: Eakins, Thomas

Thomas Eakins
by: Eakins, Thomas

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 of Eakins's most significant paintings, watercolors, drawings, photographs, and sculpture, the book features essays by prominent scholars who place his art in the context of the history and culture of late nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where he lived.

Record # 353115

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Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca diCorciaby: Bussard, Katherine A.

Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia
by: Bussard, Katherine A.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s, but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively narrow field of these images. Revolutionizing the history of street photography, Unfamiliar Streets explores the work of Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Charles Moore (1931-2010), Martha Rosler (b. 1943), and Philip-Lorca diCorcia (b. 1951), four American photographers whose careers in fashion, photojournalism, conceptual art, and contemporary art are not usually associated with the genre. Bussard's lively and engaging text, a timely response to a growing interest in urban photography, challenges the traditional understanding of street photography and makes original and important connections among urban culture, social history, and the visual arts, constructing a new historical model for understanding street photography. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, this book provides an interpretation of a compelling genre that is as fresh as its consideration of the city streets themselves, sites of commerce, dispossession, desire, demonstration, power, and spectacle.

Record # 352508

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Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca DiCorciaby: Bussard, Katherine A.

Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca DiCorcia
by: Bussard, Katherine A.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Black & white and color photographs throughout. City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s, but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively narrow field of these images. Revolutionizing the history of street photography, Unfamiliar Streets explores the work of Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Charles Moore (1931-2010), Martha Rosler (b. 1943), and Philip-Lorca diCorcia (b. 1951), four American photographers whose careers in fashion, photojournalism, conceptual art, and contemporary art are not usually associated with the genre. Bussard's lively and engaging text, a timely response to a growing interest in urban photography, challenges the traditional understanding of street photography and makes original and important connections among urban culture, social history, and the visual arts, constructing a new historical model for understanding street photography. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, this book provides an interpretation of a compelling genre that is as fresh as its consideration of the city streets themselves, sites of commerce, dispossession, desire, demonstration, power, and spectacle.

Record # 352926

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