documentary Photography

NY, Abrams, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, 93 b&w plates. This volume is a retrospective of the work of famed French photographer Marc Riboud. Photographs from Paris, China, Vietnam, and the Middle East are included. Printed in rich duotone, spanning the years from the early 1950s to the late 1980s. Clean, in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Before Margaret Bourke-White became America's first well-known photojournalist, she was photographing the beginnings of Americas machine age, focusing on factories, machinery and the objects this technology produced. These striking images, which transformed prosaic objects into modernist masterpieces-were the foundation for work she later did for Fortune, Life, and other important national magazines. Organized by the Phillips Collection, an exhibition and this accompanying catalogue feature many photographs which have never before been published, and presents new research on the images. An extensive chronology of her career is also provided.

Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Zenith Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The Battle for Hue became one of the most important of the Vietnam War, a month of grueling house-to-house fighting through buildings and around civilians. Marines in Hue City documents the intense urban combat in Hue with many never-before-published photographs. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Softcover. Carmel CA, Friends of Photography, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. Black & white photography from the U.S. South during the Great Depression. 33 plates. Chronology. Introduction by Sally Stein. The first comprehensive group of Wolcott's photographs outside of the Library of Congress

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In 1918, August Sander meticulously photographed the defeated citizenry of Germany who needed photo identification cards for the occupying forces. By 1929 he had photographed all classes and types of people. During this time, Sander came under the influence of modern art and its intellectual practitioners whom he befriended in Cologne. Through his discussions with them he came to understand the importance of his portrait work and was encouraged to continue. He produced the first volume of an extended series he hoped would provide an exhaustive catalogue, but in the 1930s his work fell into disfavor and was banned by the Nazis. The photography of August Sander comprises an extraordinary human document. This volume of the Masters of Photography series, which includes 43 portraits of a cross section of German society, from pastry chefs to industrialists, is a provocative glance at the Weimar Republic. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Hachette, 1st, 1980-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 98 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In French language. Includes white cardboard mailer sleeve

Softcover. New York, National Museum of American Art, 1st wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. B&W photos by Arndt. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 160 pages, with profuse full-page illustrations of black & white photographs of World War II soldiers and sailors during breaks from combat.

Hardcover. Berlin, Museum fur Verkehr und Technik, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards with paste-down label, 40 pages. Wonderful duotone photos, mostly portraits of Berliners in 1948. GERMAN TEXT. Introduction by Alfred Gottwaldt. Clean copy.

Softcover. Clintondale NY, Bleak Beauty, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, b&w images by Lyon, softcover. Cover with minor wear, clean. Lyon's account of the fall of the Duvalier regime in Haiti produced an extraordinary visual and textual record of this historic series of events.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 220 pages, 155 b&w photographs by Casasola. Edited by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, essay by Pete Hamill. Agustin Victor Casasola photographed everyone of consequence in Mexico at the time of the revolution, from Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Emiliano Zapata and the exiled Russian leader Leon Trotsky to artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. For this splendid collection of Casasola's work, the noted American author Pete Hamill has written a rich essay on the photographer and the Mexico he pictured so well.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Peabody Press Museum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages, a collection of b&w photos Rockefeller took on a five month excursion to record the tribes of New Guinea in 1961. INSCRIBED BY BUBRISKI on title page. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 190 pages. A smaller edition of the book published in 2019. Rewind back to the midcentury, before the age of Instagram and Snapchat, where people were using 35mm cameras loaded with color film to document both monumental and mundane moments in their lives. They took pictures of their loved ones, their vacations, their celebrations. They memorialized the births of babies; a child in a cowboy outfit; a new color television set; sightseeing in National Parks; fishing trips; lazing on the beach; weddings; office parties; family reunions; holding hands, kissing and dancing. Imagining these lives and the possible stories that lie behind the images is what makes The Anonymous Project such a compelling journey into our past. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Migrations, Sebastiao Salgado turns his attention to the staggering phenomenon of mass migration. Photographs taken over seven years across more than 35 countries document the epic displacement of the world's people at the close of the twentieth century. Wars, natural disasters, environmental degradation, explosive population growth and the widening gap between rich and poor have resulted in over one hundred million international migrants, a number that has doubled in a decade. This demographic change, unparalleled in human history, presents profound challenges to the notions of nation, community, and citizenship. The first extensive pictorial survey of the current global flux of humanity, Migrations follows Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Africans traveling into Europe, Kosovars fleeing into Albania and many others. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. In Migrations, Sebastiao Salgado turns his attention to the staggering phenomenon of mass migration. Photographs taken over seven years across more than 35 countries document the epic displacement of the world's people at the close of the twentieth century. Wars, natural disasters, environmental degradation, explosive population growth and the widening gap between rich and poor have resulted in over one hundred million international migrants, a number that has doubled in a decade. This demographic change, unparalleled in human history, presents profound challenges to the notions of nation, community, and citizenship. The first extensive pictorial survey of the current global flux of humanity, Migrations follows Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Africans traveling into Europe, Kosovars fleeing into Albania and many others. The images address suffering while revealing the dignity and courage of the subjects. With his unique vision and empathy, Salgado gives us a picture of the enormous social and political transformations now occurring in a world divided between excess and need. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing. 

Softcover. Seattle WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A biography of the celebrated documentary photographer, Milton Rogovin, and catalogue that accompanied an exhibition at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, in 2006. Rogovin (1909-2011) was an optometrist in Buffalo, NY, who turned to photography as a means of expression when he was discredited -- and thereafter lost his business -- by the HUAC committee in 1952. For the rest of his life he documented the lives of the working class around the world. Photographs by Milton Rogovin; text by Melanie Anne Herzog; foreword by Douglas R. Nickel; afterword by Catherine Linder Spencer. 176 pages; 126 duo-toned b&w plates + 21 text illustrations; 9 x 11 inches. Bibliography.

Hardcover. New York, Alskog/Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, b&w photographs by Gene Smith. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise very good. This is a seminal photography book by the wonderful documentary photographer W. Eugene Smith and his wife Aileen M. Smith, showing incredible bravery in which the Smith's risk their own life after W. Eugene Smith is physically beaten. Also, this is the first photography book to examine the toxic affect on human beings of toxics in the water system.

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, 136 photos, 126 in color. Tim Page's photographs of the Vietnam War brought its horrific reality before the eyes of the world. Since then, his images of the conflicts in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos have been published, broadcast, and exhibited to universal praise. In the years following the war Page has returned to Indochina some thirty times. Now he has carefully selected and arranged the finest photographs from his journeys across this ancient and intensely spiritual land.

Hardcover. Liberty Street, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. A stirring visual tribute to the Civil Rights Movement and the long and difficult battle for racial equality captures in more than 150 extraordinary photographs the leaders and events of the era, with portraits of Sidney Poitier, James Baldwin, Miles Davis, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many other activists, both famous and unknown, who took part in the struggle.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Nexus Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 118 pages. Glossy color illustrated boards, color illustrated end-papers, color and black-and-white illustrations from photographs throughout, accompanying 16 page facsimile journal laid in (no publishing info) with reproductions of polaroids of Burke's. 'Mine Fields' (a sequel to Bill Burke's justly famous I Want To Take Picture), is Burke's scrapbook of his life and his pursuit of the history and daily life of Cambodia. Part adventure story, part personal confession, part travelogue, and always fascinating, Burke's negotiation of the mine fields of divorce and war is a compelling collage of photographs, found objects, stories, and the contrast between glorious ancient temples and the horrors of war and genocide.

Softcover. NY/Boston, MOMA/New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages. Text by the brilliant curator John Szarkowski accompanies a wide ranging collection of B&W and Colour photographs by the articts such as Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Paul Caponegro, Danny Lyon, Bruce Davidson and numerous others. A tight, clean copy.

Softcover. Paris, Editions Du Chene, 1st wraps, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Stiff paper wraps with dust jacket. 1st 20 pages have scuff, fraying to bottom pages, dog eared. Photograph section is VG condition. FRENCH TEXT. Dust jacket taped together as flaps had separated.

Softcover. New York , Ruth Orkin Photo Archive, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 46 pages, softcover. Interview of Engel by Julia Van Haaften. Includes numerous black and white images. Like the other great photographers who made so-called "street photography" the most important genre of the medium, Morris Engel's snapshots of life on the streets have endured and outlasted all hyped-up, media-culture fads. Morris Engel was a prominent member of The Photo League, and was Navy photographer during the Second World War.

Hardcover. US, Borealis Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In his popular Strange Days, Dangerous Nights, Larry Millett delivered Weegee-style images of midwestern noir from the photo files of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He returns in this new volume with a focus on the "dangerous"murder cases from the forties and fifties, memorialized in intimate and telling photographs. There is Arthur DeZeler, accused of bludgeoning his wife, Grace, and sinking her body in a northern lake. Laura Miller, single and pregnant, ran for help after gunshots killed her married lover. Arnold Axilrod, a mild-mannered dentist with a penchant for over-sedating his female patients, was arrested when the lifeless body of one of those patients was discovered in a Minneapolis alley. And, finally, there is Arnold Larson, the personable salesman with a winning smile and a bad temper.Millett traces these four sensational crimes from the moment the victim was found, through the search for the killer, to the court trial and resulting imprisonment or acquittal--there are two of each. All are copiously illustrated with shots from the bulky Speed Graphic camera, which yielded rich, textured views in an era when photographers enjoyed unrestricted access to police matters ranging from found bodies to jail cells. The images dramatically evoke these crimes of passion now more than a half-century old, offering a thrilling immersion into Minnesota noir.