documentary Photography

Softcover. NY, Signet/ New American Library, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated. Celebrated American photographer David Douglas Duncan's broadside on Khe Sanh, Vietnam, on behalf of "the men who will never get out, for whom help came too late." Incredible photographs by the author. An important document of the war, much sought-after and scarce. As issued, in stiff paper covers, a clean, unmarked copy. First Printing, April 1968 (stated). Red spine faded, interior is bright, clean. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. An evocative portrait of mid-century New York City by master documentary photographer. It focuses on the work photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons, and in all weather. Buildings, signage, vehicles, the passing throngs, isolated figures, curious eccentrics-from the Brooklyn Bridge to Harlem, this book is a rich portrait of the everyday life and architecture of New York. Webb's work is focused and layered with light and shadow, capturing the soul of this city shaped by the friction and frisson of humanity. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. An evocative portrait of mid-century New York City by master documentary photographer. It focuses on the work photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons, and in all weather. Buildings, signage, vehicles, the passing throngs, isolated figures, curious eccentrics-from the Brooklyn Bridge to Harlem, this book is a rich portrait of the everyday life and architecture of New York. Webb's work is focused and layered with light and shadow, capturing the soul of this city shaped by the friction and frisson of humanity. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Abrams, 1st pbk, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 399 pages plus index. This book offers a powerful new perspective on a much photographed subject: New York City, Veteran news photographer Ralph Ginzburg assigned himself the daunting task of photographing a different news event in The Big Apple on 365 consecutive days. The result is a year-long, 510-image extravaganza of the high drama and grandeur that are the everyday life of Gotham. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, 60 pages, VG+ in pictorial boards, as issued, without dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated in b&w. Bill Burke's seminal book originally published by Nexus Press in 1987. In the early 1980's Burke traveled to Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as Cambodia where he documented the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime. The book was produced using the original plates, and features the same layout and scale as the first edition.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, 60 pages, VG+ in pictorial boards, as issued, without dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated in b&w. Bill Burke's seminal book originally published by Nexus Press in 1987. In the early 1980's Burke traveled to Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as Cambodia where he documented the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime. The book was produced using the original plates, and features the same layout and scale as the first edition.

Hardcover. New York, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2009-07-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Folio. The writer's first collection of photographs provides a photographic essay of the Imperial Valley, California.

Hardcover. New York, Other Press LLC, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. Hardcover. Nearly 500 full color and black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with light fading & small tear to spine edge. Clean, unmarked and bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 161 color photographs by Arnold. Dust jacket with light wear. This book represents the result of two years traveling the USA. Arnold was a member of Magnum and though born and raised in the US, spent some 30 years in Britain; this was her way of reconnecting with her birth country and thus provides a look at US culture in the late 1970s/early 80s. Eve Arnold (1912-2012) was an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951 as the first women, and became a full member in 1957. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. In 1999, photographer Thomas Roma found himself within the walls of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison, one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, doing a special photographic project for Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory. During downtime Roma wandered through this nineteenth-century fortress, walking in and out of many of its seven hundred or so cells. After Holmesburg's inception in 1896--on the occasion of which one Philadelphia reporter warned, "Abandon all hope all ye who enter here"--it quickly became the prison for Philadelphia's worst criminals, eventually packing up to five prisoners into six by eight foot cells designed for single-occupancy. After leaving the site, Roma found his mind often inhabiting the space of the prison with its halls of flaking paint and graffiti-covered cells. Overwhelmed by the evidence of the lives spent inside those small rooms, Roma returned to photograph on his own, creating the images now collected for In Prison Air: The Cells of Holmesburg Prison.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1stt, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 112 pages, b&w plates, comments and observations of ghetto residents accompany photographs, taken by a German soldier, of Jewish ghetto life in 1941 Warsaw. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 192 pages. 200 black-and-white photographs by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, and Others. Black cloth, missing dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 231 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Paris/London, Robert Delpire/Photography Magazine, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 25 pages & 77 plates, finely printed in photogravure. Original white cloth. 4to. Text by Manuel Tunon de Lara. Werner Bischof's last assignment, completed by Robert Frank and Pierre Verger. Early Frank publication, preceding The Americans. Clean. No dust jacket

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages. 136 beautifully reproduced color plates by Beny (tipped-in). Large format. A detailed portrait of India based on Roloff Beny's 20,000 mile travels through the various terrain. His photographs include monuments and temples, diverse population, various cultures, religious sites and statues, palaces and fortresses, landscape, etc.

Hardcover. Munchen, Georg Muller , 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt design on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 124 pages of text in German, followed by 248 b&w plates of portraits and scenes in India. One of a series of books on indigenous cultures by this publisher. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Michael von Graffenried, an award-winning Swiss photographer, covertly photographed civil strife in Algeria from the early 1990s through 1998. In a land where Islamic terrorists have executed over sixty journalists and photographers in the last seven years, Graffenried's very survival is remarkable. His extraordinary accomplishment, however, is these photographs, which form a composite of Algeria that is more whole than the nation itself, fractured by one segment of the population in favor of democracy and another in favor of an Islamic state.Graffenried makes his pictures secretly, using an antique Widelux panoramic camera with a hidden lens. He would risk his picture and his life were he to raise a camera to his eyes. Instead, he shoots from the hip, with his hands clasped over what looks like a pair of binoculars. In learning to frame his photographs without a viewfinder, he opens himself to a rich array of surprise and irony in his pictures, and reveals a society that has been concealed from the international community for nearly seven years.

Hardcover. New York, Glitterati, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 page. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A unique linsight into life in Brazil's infamous favelas. A honest portrayal of the 'other side' of Brazil's society.Portrays a world that came to prominence with the hit film City of God. Combining thought-provoking text and hard-hitting, stunning photography, Inside the Favelas provides a compelling commentary on the life in Brazil's shanty townsIncludes a foreword by The Honorable Sergio Cabral Filho, Govenor of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Hardcover. Lausanne, Clairefontaine, 1st , 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Black & white photos by Schuh printed in gravure. Documentary images of people in the Cartier-Bresson style. FRENCH TEXT by Fouchet. Nice condition. Schuh's early work as freelance photojournalist for several magazines, including "Paris Match" and "Life," led him throughout Europe and as far as Indonesia. In this work, Schuh presents the realities of daily life through a selection of his early photographs, including his two most famous: "Enfant javanais jouant" (a boy stretched out playing a game), and "Danseuses sacrees de Bali" (temple dancer), both taken in Indonesia in 1938-39.

Hardcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 352 pages, a fascinating behind the scenes look at the New York fashion world; as seen through 100's of stunning, full-color photos. Foreword by Katie Couric. Introduction by Fern Mallis.

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Dust jacket unmarked. Binding is strong. Clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 167 pages. A previously unpublished photo series by Irwin Klein of northern New Mexican counterculture communes from 1967-1971 blended with modern essays on the topic. Dropouts, renegades, utopians. Children of the urban middle class and old beatniks living alone, as couples, in families, or as groups in the small Nuevomexicano towns. When photographer Irwin Klein began visiting northern New Mexico in the mid-1960s, he found these self-proclaimed New Settlers and many others in the back country between Santa Fe and Taos. His black-and-white photographs captured the life of the countercultures transition to a social movement. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, photos in color. Minor shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. This book documents the two most recent works by the critically acclaimed British artist and filmmaker, Isaac Julien, both of which continue his investigation of issues of race and global politics. True North, shot in the spectacular landscapes of Iceland and Northern Sweden, is conceived around the expedition writings of the African-American explorer Matthew Henson, one of the key members of Robert E. Peary's 1909 Arctic expedition, and arguably the first person to reach the North Pole. True North's diametric counterpart, Fantome Afrique, weaves cinematic and architectural references through the rich imagery of urban Ouagadougou, Africa's cinematic center, and the arid spaces of rural Burkina Faso. The film is punctuated by archival footage from early colonial expeditions and landmark moments in African history.