documentary Photography

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, Aperture, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 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. Bottom right corners of covers lightly bumped. 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. Remainder stamp to bottom edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. A collection of Arbus's photographs from her formative years, 1956-62; 125 images in all, more than half published here for the first time. No dust jacket issued. 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. 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.

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.

Hardcover. David Zwirner, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. A new collection of photographs by Diane Arbus illuminates her singular ability to enter private worlds. It brings together forty-five photographs made in private places across New York, New Jersey, California, and London between 1961 and 1971. Through her singular combination of intelligence, charisma, intuition, and courage, Diane Arbus (1923-1971) was frequently invited into personal realms seldom seen by strangers. Though made in intimate settings, the photographs collected in this volume convey no sense of intrusion or trespass-instead, they reveal an unspoken exchange between photographer and subject, a moment of recognition in which confidences emerge freely and without judgment. Arbus's desire to know people embraced a vast spectrum of humanity. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 205 pages. Hardback with jacket. 88 black and white photographs. Texts by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to spine, 96 pages, 50 color photographs. Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. government has been quietly focusing on how to utilize the vast tracks of land that were sequestered as munitions plants during WWII. In Joliet, Illinois, Terry Evans has photographed one such plant, and it's surrounding landscape, creating a gentle sense of irony in these beautiful color landscapes, many of which are low altitude aerial photographs. Part of the Center for American Places Series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Merrell, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Wright Morris was the poet laureate of Middle America. An icon of the 1940s, he died in 1998. Honored many times for his literary work, Morris twice received the prestigious American Book Award for The Field of Vision (1957) and Plains Song (1981), and pioneered the "photo-text." But Morris also created memorable images capturing the soul and mystique of the Midwest.Morris's images are the expression of his life-long quest to discover a vernacular and imagined America. His images brilliantly subvert such "cliched" motifs as grain elevators, Model T Fords, a farmer's cutlery set, or dusty badlands. Here, for the first time, the full emotional impact of his extraordinarily beautiful photographs-as forceful as his more celebrated writing-has been given free reign.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 361 pages, b&w plates throughout. Portrays America in the last years of the Great Depression and the first years of World War II in nearly three hundred images by Lange, Delano, Evans, Vachon, Collins, Lee, Rothstein, Parks, Bubley, Wolcott, et al. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated (176 pages). This irresistible celebration captures dogs in their finest moments, at the charming and idiosyncratic society dog shows of the 1930s and '40s, when both dogs and owners were at their dapper best. Selected from the collection of the late, renowned society photographer Bert Morgan, these more than 150 exquisite duotone photographs evoke an era of refined leisure with the famous and fabulous-and their dogs-in competition and at home: eight-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier, Band-Aid on her knee, stands beaming on her front lawn with her enormous Great Dane; firehouse Dalmations line up at the Westminster Kennel Club's annual show; and descendents of Napoleon Bonaparte admire their distinguished pup on a park bench. Pedigreed pets vault walls, preen and promenade, all for the admiration of their owners-and the judges.

Hardcover. New York, Flammarion, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 560 b&w photographs of Doisneau's beloved Paris, many published for the first time, accompanied by anecdotes from Doisneau's personal notebooks. Sections include Paris by Surprise: Parks and Gardens, Pedestrian Ballet, Urban Flirtation, Bistros; Paris for Parisians: Les Halles, Everyday Parisians, A Home for Tenants, A few Tenants More, Paris-by-the-Seine; Paris at Play: Fairs, Cabarets and Nightclubs; Society, Fashion; and Paris in Concrete. As the photographer said, "There are days when the technique of an aimless stroll - without timetable or destination - works like a charm, flushing out pictures from the non-stop urban spectacle."

Hardcover. Italy, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. A retrospective survey of the photographs of Donald McCullin. The text is in Italian. He covered lots of violent events, war, civil war, terrorism. 50+ photos in this book from: Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Biafra, Cambodia, Beirut, India. ITALIAN TEXT. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Milano, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 62 pages. Text in Italian with an essay by Mark Haworth-Booth. Includes numerous black and white images by British photographer McCullin. A clean near fine copy in photo-illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages, color photographs, Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Doors of the Kingdom is a unique collection of photographs depicting the ancient and disappearing craft of doormaking in Arabia. The Islamic concept of hurma, or sanctity of a place of dwelling or worship, is recurrent throughout Arabic poetry and literature. The door (bab), preserver of sanctity, becomes symbolic of the boundary between public and private space, and between the profane and the sacred. In 1995, Haajar Gouverneur traveled throughout the Arabian Peninsula photographing each region's distinctive doorways and the remaining artisans who make them. The doors of Arabia, painstakingly hand-carved from the wood of the Al-Athel trees, last in their exquisite variety for hundreds of years. This ancient craft, passed down from generation to generation in the central and northern regions of Saudi Arabia, is now nearly extinct. Modern materials, technology, and changing priorities threaten the continuity of the sacred and artisanal tradition of doormaking.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages, large format with 260 b&w plates. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap. Brings together definitive works by the noted documentary photojournalist who created "Migrant Mother," in a photographic collection that is culled from her archives at the Oakland Museum and highlights such subjects as the Great Depression, migrant workers, and sharecroppers. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages, large format with 260 b&w plates. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap. Brings together definitive works by the noted documentary photojournalist who created "Migrant Mother," in a photographic collection that is culled from her archives at the Oakland Museum and highlights such subjects as the Great Depression, migrant workers, and sharecroppers. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Minnesota Historical Society, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 143 pages, b&w photos throughout. After serving in World War II, John Glanton returned home to Minnesota and began taking his camera around the streets, parks, clubs, restaurants, and private homes of Minneapolis, capturing the sights and scenes of everyday life for African Americans in the city. The images--from intimate portraits to public gatherings--reveal a dynamic and diverse community at a time when the nation was entering the postwar boom but before the civil rights movement had taken root. Glanton's photos offer a rare look into the lives and lifestyles of families and individuals often left out of histories of Minnesota's past, showing people at work and play, young and old, happy and sad. The images highlight black-owned businesses of the day, the music and club scene, and weddings and other family occasions to depict the experiences of African American people as presented through the lens of an African American photographer. Long forgotten in the garage of a family member, the photo negatives were recently rediscovered and digitized. A selection of 200 of the more than 800 images are featured here, along with commentary that further illuminates the lives and experiences of African Americans in postwar Minnesota.

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.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Photographs in black-and-white portray residents in the Town of Camden and Wilcox County, Alabama in the early 1970s, with accompanying text by photographer Bob Adelman and editor Susan Hall. A remarkable document by the photographer renowned for his photographic portraits of the Civil Rights Movement.

Hardcover. The New Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. Historian Michael Lesy, author of Wisconsin Death Trip, has produced another haunting volume with Dreamland. The book chronicles a day in the life of America at the turn of the 20th century, an optimistic, peaceful time. Lesy chose 208 black-and-white pictures from the archive of the Detroit Publishing Company, the hugely successful postcard business. The images depict skyscrapers under construction, bustling urban streets, farmers and dusty country roads, and the glories of the newly charted American West, with its cowboys, miners, and distant prairie towns. The atmosphere of order and calm portrayed in the photographs is deceptive, as Lesy's thoughtful essays reveal.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong format, in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. B&w and color photographs by Delevingne. Focusing on Adams County in the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington, Drylands, a Rural American Saga is a pictorial essay documenting the reality underlying our national self-portrait. Both an exception to and a paradigm of the country's agricultural folkways, Adams County offers a panorama of rolling cropland, sagebrush scree, and deep coulees formed by volcanic forces and ice-age floods. The shortage of rainfall, however, mocks the richness of the soils produced by prehistoric events. Yet as documented in these pages, the harvests of Adams County produce a significant share of the nation's food, standing as clear testimony to the skill and perseverance of those who work the land. Clean copy.

Softcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Features essays by William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Dara Horn, and more. Text in German and English. Clean, bright copy.