documentary Photography

Softcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, 55 photos. Born in 1941, Larry Fink was a teenager in the 1950s in an America on the cusp of radical social change. Growing up on Long Island in New York, Larry Fink was disinterested in the consumer-driven culture of 1950s' America. A disaffected teenager, his parents transferred him to art school where his career as a photographer began to flourish. His parents were supportive of his interest in the arts, and Fink would later drop out of college to join a circle of artists living in Greenwich Village. Fink spent the 1960s watching and learning from the prominent photographers of the time: Henri Cartier- Bresson, Robert Frank, W. Eugene Smith, and in many ways, his photographic aesthetic and rebellious spirit encapsulate the dramatic lose of innocence that the US underwent after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. photographic mentor.

Hardcover. New Haver CT, Yale University , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, 59 plates in duotone, large format. Friedlander ventures into new territory, turning his eye to the rarefied world of fashion and revealing precisely what is commonplace about it: behind the glamorous spectacle of the runway are many people hard at work. The photographs, commissioned by the 'New York Times Magazine,' were taken in 2006 during New York Fashion Week, when the artist spent time backstage at the Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Zac Posen, Oscar de la Renta, and Proenza Schouler shows. The resulting images, many of which are published here for the first time, depict a flurry of toiling stylists, dressers, makeup artists, photographers, and models--all of them preparing, but not quite prepared, for an image to be taken.

Softcover. New York , Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, b&w photographs throughout. In 1929, Lee Miller, already a legendary fashion model, left the United States to study photography in Paris. Here she became the disciple and lover of Man Ray, and she was soon taking on both portrait and fashion assignments for Vogue and running her own studio. The Second World War saw her as Vogue's war correspondent: she covered the siege of Saint Malo, the liberation of Paris, and the entry of the U.S. Army into the Dachau concentration camp. Her later years were spent in London and Sussex with her husband, the painter and writer Roland Penrose. During her extraordinary life, Miller came into contact with an astonishing range of painters, sculptors, actors, writers, musicians, fashion designers, and socialites. Many became her friends and the subjects of her penetrating portraits. The finest of these photographs are collected together here, along with a selection of portraits of Miller herself, taken by other photographers. The images include not only Miller's highly perceptive and sympathetic studies of Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire, and others but also her pictures of unsung individuals engaged in war work and powerful photographs of victims and perpetrators of Nazi oppression. 157 duotone illustrations.

Softcover. New York , Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, b&w photographs throughout. In 1929, Lee Miller, already a legendary fashion model, left the United States to study photography in Paris. Here she became the disciple and lover of Man Ray, and she was soon taking on both portrait and fashion assignments for Vogue and running her own studio. The Second World War saw her as Vogue's war correspondent: she covered the siege of Saint Malo, the liberation of Paris, and the entry of the U.S. Army into the Dachau concentration camp. Her later years were spent in London and Sussex with her husband, the painter and writer Roland Penrose. During her extraordinary life, Miller came into contact with an astonishing range of painters, sculptors, actors, writers, musicians, fashion designers, and socialites. Many became her friends and the subjects of her penetrating portraits. The finest of these photographs are collected together here, along with a selection of portraits of Miller herself, taken by other photographers. The images include not only Miller's highly perceptive and sympathetic studies of Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire, and others but also her pictures of unsung individuals engaged in war work and powerful photographs of victims and perpetrators of Nazi oppression. 157 duotone illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. An illustrated biography of Smith by Ben Maddow. Includes a wide range of Smith's images and various subject matter and includes some of his most iconic images. A clean and tight very good copy in gray cloth boards. The definitive volume on W. Eugene Smith's life and work, containing his major photo-essays, the portrait work, and spanning his career from his days aboard an aircraft carrier, through the breadth of Pittsburgh, to the human suffering explicit in his last great essay from Minamata. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl/Howard Greenberg Library, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 143 pages. Tan cloth with pictorial paste-down. In 1936, science-teacher turned photographer Lewis Hine was commissioned by the National Research Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration, to produce a visual document of the industries that the US government hoped would provide the jobs that would lift the country out of the Great Depression. Hine, already well-established as a chronicler of social conditions of his day, produced more than 700 photographs for this project, the last major work of his career.By emphasizing the inherent tension between machinery and workers, Hine imbued these compelling images with his characteristic rigor and aesthetic appeal. These photographs, and their implied message, are particularly relevant today given high unemployment rates and radical shifts in the role of the worker in the rapidly changing world economy. Included in this book is an essay by the eminent photographic historian, Judith Mara Gutman, in which she discusses the project and the photographs in the context of the economic conditions of the time and the artistic and technological innovations of the era.

Hardcover. New York, Walker Publishing, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 156 pages, 95 b&w plates by Hine. Dust jacket edgeworn, soiled, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Historically significant title visually addresses the plight of the poor in the early years of the 20th century. Hines' stark, social realism gave way to an American social conscience as few photographers had ever attempted before.

NY, Walker, 1st , 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos by Hine. 156 pages. Related material laid-in: exhibition card and newspaper article by author on Hine. Previous owner's stamp front fly leaf, old ink price on flap. Light edgewear, soil to dust jacket otherwise VG/VG

Hardcover. New York, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2005-07-06, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover. Portraits of life in Benin from the 1960's and 70's. A collection of never-before-seen photographs made in West Africa whose discovery opens a new chapter in the history of African and world photography. 136 pages.

Hardcover. New York, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2005-07-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover. Portraits of life in Benin from the 1960's and 70's. A collection of never-before-seen photographs made in West Africa whose discovery opens a new chapter in the history of African and world photography. 136 pages.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Photography by David Goldblatt. Excerpts from Gordimer's prose alongside Goldblatt's striking black and white photographs. Goldblatt was an important South African photographer and documented apartheid under personal peril.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Photography by David Goldblatt. Excerpts from Gordimer's prose alongside Goldblatt's striking black and white photographs. Goldblatt was an important South African photographer and documented apartheid under personal peril.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages of nearly 200 candid, off-screen photos of actors and actresses, directors and producers, that professional photographer Louis Goldman took during his nearly 70 major films. Introduction by Gregory Peck. In a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. Bologna IT, Damiani, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Spanning 50 years and three generations, Joe's Junk Yard is a personal narrative that explores the history of the family's scrap metal business. Kereszi's disquieting, tender photographs of the last decade of the junkyard, accompanied by business ephemera and family scrapbook photographs, tell the story of this family and its struggles with a changing economy.

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 352 pages, b&w illustrations. A photographic account of Jewish life in America draws on the archives of the premiere national Jewish newspaper, Forward, in a visual tribute that pairs essays by leading intellectuals, including Leon Weiseltier and Deborah E. Lipstadt, with images of such subjects as a shtetl beauty contest, Lower East Side pushcart markets, and labor rallies.

Hardcover. NY, D.A.P. /Distributed Art Publishers, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 140 pages, b&w photos. Commentary by Marvin Heiferman and Carole Kismaric. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, 190 historical photos of London. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. A collection of b&w images Brandt made in the 1930s of how the various classes of English society lived their lives. Brandt personally supervised the printing of the plates. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. A large and lovely appreciation of London, with text by Pritchett and photographs throughout by Evelyn Hofer, which capture the look of London in the early 1960s. The photographs include 18 pages in full color and 111 pages in monochrome gravure. There is a bookplate on the inside cover, a small stamp to the half-title page, and a crease to the dj flap. The interior of the book is clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 480 pages, 410 b&w duotone plates seected from the 145,000 photographs made between 1935 and 1943 by a team of now-famous photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration, whose ranks included Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Dorothea Lange, and Walker Evans. The agency's mission went well beyond photographing dispossessed rural people, and this book is proof. It includes 410 remarkable images made in large citiesas well as dozens of small towns and villages throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Large format in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

NY, Norton, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 480 pages, 410 b&w duotone plates seected from the 145,000 photographs made between 1935 and 1943 by a team of now-famous photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration, whose ranks included Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Dorothea Lange, and Walker Evans. The agency's mission went well beyond photographing dispossessed rural people, and this book is proof. It includes 410 remarkable images made in large citiesas well as dozens of small towns and villages throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Large format in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. Middlebury VT, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1st, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Some creasing to front cover. Some foxing to back page, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Stockport UK, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. "The photographs in this book are selected from Lenny Gottlieb's unique collection of 30,000 amateur photographic prints, all rejects processed in a commercial photolab in Boston in the fall of 1968."