documentary Photography

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."

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages. These photographs--rejects found at a commercial photolab in the States--were taken at the time of the Vietnam War--a pivotal period in American history. Here is the intimacy that danced in the eyes of family photographers as they framed everyday life--as it was in the fall of 1968.The images, predominantly prints from early 126mm point-and-shoot cameras, are an uninterpreted presentation of everyday life. Reflecting both private and public spheres of consciousness, they convey unmediated perspectives of mores, values and icons through what was intended to be personal visual documentation in its most direct form. No dj issued.

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages. These photographs--rejects found at a commercial photolab in the States--were taken at the time of the Vietnam War--a pivotal period in American history. Here is the intimacy that danced in the eyes of family photographers as they framed everyday life--as it was in the fall of 1968.The images, predominantly prints from early 126mm point-and-shoot cameras, are an uninterpreted presentation of everyday life. Reflecting both private and public spheres of consciousness, they convey unmediated perspectives of mores, values and icons through what was intended to be personal visual documentation in its most direct form. No dj issued.

Hardcover. New York/Milano, Skira, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, duotone photographs taken between 1904 and 1914 by a missionary working in China. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Leone Nani (1880-1935) lived in central China from 1904 to 1914. His missionary work took him to remote villages where he captured a world beyond the reach of other Westerners. Working in large format (mostly on glass plates he developed and printed himself in his mobile studio), Nani portrayed young couples, dignitaries, peasants and artisans. Equally gifted as an observer and reporter, he recorded everyday life scenes, religious ceremonies, architecture, and landscapes. 

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Introduction by William Mills. French text rendered by James and Elisabeth Spohrer. Brown tweed with photo and blind stamped cover. Clear plastic cover not present. Numerous full page black & white photographs by Turner Browne, map of Louisiana highlighting the Cajun Country, text in English and French,

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with pastedown on front. The vibrant street life and people of New York City's Lower East Side and Upper West Side in the 1950s and 1960s are presented in this book of black-and-white photographs by Jonathan Brand. A census taker and later an advertising copywriter, Brand chronicled life as he encountered it on his walks through the city.The book offers 104 striking images of New Yorkers engaged in everyday pursuits, from the Bowery to Riverside Park, juice stands and barbershops to Theatre in the Streets.With an introduction by Julia Dolan, The Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, this is the first book from a photographer who developed his art alongside many of the best-known in his discipline. Brand's photographs capture the energy, odd juxtapositions and intimate moments of life in mid-century New York City. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Osterfildern GR, Cantz, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 184 pages with 140 b&w images by Stock. A monograph surveying Stock's career from the 1950s through the 1970s. Photographs and introduction by Dennis Stock (1928-2010); essay by Richard Whelan. This is dual language German/English book containing the photographic works of Stock. Covers his years as photojournalist, refugees, jazz, James Dean, Hollywood, Hippies, being on the road and California. Biography list of photos and places taken. Dust jacket with several closed tears, interior clean, very good.

Hardcover. Osterfildern GR, Cantz, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages with 140 b&w images by Stock. A monograph surveying Stock's career from the 1950s through the 1970s. Photographs and introduction by Dennis Stock (1928-2010); essay by Richard Whelan. Clean, bright copy with an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY/London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated boards with short wrap-around dust jacket. 400 color photos. This lavishly illustrated book is the history of China, spanning the pre-revolutionary years to China's present day rise as a global power as told through the Magnum photo agency's legendary photographs. Magnum Photos first covered China on assignment in the 1930s, when Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson established what has become a long-standing cultural engagement with the ever-changing country. Magnum's long history with China puts the agency in the unique position of being able to provide an in-depth photographic account of China, its people, and the changes they have witnessed over the last nine decades.Featuring an outstanding selection of photographs, Magnum China is a thorough illustrated history of a vast, enigmatic country, fascinating for China-watchers and novices alike.Chronologically organized into four parts, charting the history of China from 1933 to the present day, Magnum China presents in-depth portfolios by individual photographers, accompanied by introductory commentaries on the featured work and group selections that curate individual photographs to illustrate the diverse state of China. Each part also features an introduction by respected scholar Jonathan Fenby, as well as "key dates" timelines and lists of the photographers' travels, setting the socio-political and historical context for the photography on show. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Since the invention of photography, Ireland has been a magnet for photographers, but this book is unique in bringing together the work done by the unrivaled talents of the members of Magnum. From Ireland's first attempts to forge a modern identity in the 1950s to the confident country of the twenty-first century, here is a stunning survey of a beautiful and complex place and people, through times of peace as well as troub

Hardcover. New York , Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Chris Boot, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 252 pages. In this volume, ten Magnum photographers turn their lenses on contemporary Georgia. Situated on the cusp of Russia and Asia, but with a European culture dating back to the 7th century BC, Georgia was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1922. Its independence was restored in 1991, but it then suffered from civil war and a breakdown of its economic infrastructure. In the last decade, however, despite ongoing tensions in its relations with Russia, Georgia has mounted a spirited comeback. Magnum photographers Antoine d'Agata, Jonas Bendiksen, Thomas Dworzak, Martine Franck, Alex Majoli, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Martin Parr, Paolo Pellegrin, Mark Power and Alec Soth visited the country during spring 2009, each pursuing their own theme (Alec Soth goes in search of the 'most beautiful woman in Georgia', for example). All found themselves enchanted by the Georgian people, something strongly conveyed in their photographs as well as in personal text journals which accompany the images. This well-designed volume also includes a fold-out map, marked with each photographer's journey; a chapter showing the best of Magnum photographers' work over 60 years (including by Magnum's founders Robert Capa from his visit to Georgia with John Steinbeck in 1948 and Henri Cartier-Bresson); and an illuminating introduction by the Paris-based New Yorker writer, and Georgia expert, Wendell Steavenson.

Hardcover. New York , Grove Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1sr, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 306 pages, 190 photographs, 4 maps. Cloth cover. The only book-length study devoted to the photographic aspects of the work of the groundbreaking anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume links a series of photo-essays based on Trobriand institutions--and cultural themes. The photographs, all previously unpublished, were taken between 1915 and 1918.

Hardcover. NY, Studio / Viking Press, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, unclipped dust jacket. Oblong format. A collection of 90 black and white photographs commissioned by IBM "on man's continuing dialogue with machines." DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 116 pages with b&w images by Bresson. Oblong format. A collection of 90 black and white photographs commissioned by IBM "on man's continuing dialogue with machines." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: N, Hardcover, 168 pages. Nelson Mandela, an icon of the international struggle for freedom and equality, whose importance rivals that of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, turns ninety in July 2008. Mandela spent twenty-seven years in prison for his opposition to the apartheid regime of his native South Africa. Released in 1990, he pursued a policy of reconciliation, steering his nation into the ranks of the world's multi-racial democracies. He was elected president of South Africa in 1994. Photographer David Turnley covered Mandela and South Africa for the world's press, beginning in the 1980s. He witnessed the turbulence of the last violent years of apartheid, was there when Mandela was released from prison, campaigned with him during the presidential election, and sought out the significant people and places of his life. In Mandela: Struggle and Triumph, he tells in words and photographs the dramatic and emotional story of the most powerful movement for civil rights since the American civil rights movement, through the eyes of its legendary leader.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages. Nelson Mandela, an icon of the international struggle for freedom and equality, whose importance rivals that of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, turns ninety in July 2008. Mandela spent twenty-seven years in prison for his opposition to the apartheid regime of his native South Africa. Released in 1990, he pursued a policy of reconciliation, steering his nation into the ranks of the world's multi-racial democracies. He was elected president of South Africa in 1994. Photographer David Turnley covered Mandela and South Africa for the world's press, beginning in the 1980s. He witnessed the turbulence of the last violent years of apartheid, was there when Mandela was released from prison, campaigned with him during the presidential election, and sought out the significant people and places of his life. In Mandela: Struggle and Triumph, he tells in words and photographs the dramatic and emotional story of the most powerful movement for civil rights since the American civil rights movement, through the eyes of its legendary leader.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Published simultaneously with a major exhibition of Alvarez Bravo's work at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, this is a nice survey of the photographer's work. Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo; essay by Frederick Kaufman. 80 pages; 62 duo-toned b&w plates + 6 text illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled Many Are Called. This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called is now being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans. Many Are Called came to fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coat--the lens peeking through a buttonhole--he captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evans's subway portraits.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 132 pages, 110 ill. (109 color, including covers). Photographs taken on Guggenheim Foundation and Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 1983 and 1984 in Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand, India, the Philippines, China, Burma, South Borneo, and Vietnam. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. It was a major feat when, in December 1956, Marc Riboud became one of the first Western photographers to enter China after the Communist takeover of 1949. A member of the famed Magnum photo agency, Riboud was permitted to return to China at regular intervals over the next four decades, observing and recording the enormous changes that have taken place. French journalist Jean Daniel provides a thoughtful introduction and Riboud himself comments on each photograph, explaining the time, the place, and the circumstance. This is a book that will intrigue and disturb - through its insights into the soul of the Chinese people, and through its picture of a nation transforming itself with such wrenching speed.