documentary Photography

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six bound editions from the first 6 months of 1913. Nice folding map of Central America/ Caribbean (pg. 166), fold-out b&w photo of Machu Picchu (pg. 434), poster-size fold-out of Titkana Peak (pg. 600, Color porfolio of 50 birds of Farm and Orchard (pgs. 669-697) with paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Interior pages and fold-outs pristine, rear upper spine label rubbed, faded. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages. b&w photos throughout. During his 50-year association with the Village Voice, Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) covered the city's downtown scenes, producing an unmatched and encyclopedic visual record of people, movements, and events. McDarrah frequented the bars, cafes, and galleries where writers, artists, and musicians gathered, and he was welcome in the apartments and lofts of the city's avant-garde cultural aristocracy. He captured every vital moment, from Jack Kerouac reading poetry, to Bob Dylan hanging out in Sheridan Square, to Andy Warhol filming in the Factory, to the Stonewall Riots. Through his lens, we see the legendary birth of ideas and attitudes that continue to shape the character and allure of New York today.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2nd Pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 320 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs from the pages of The New York Daily News. Remainder mark in black across bottom edge at spine. Light wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Dover, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. "Compelling photographs offer a vivid and varied tableau of daily life: shoppers, subways, Central Park, Coney Island, dozens of other revealing views of the city. 159 photographs by Lehnartz." Text by Allan Talbot. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. An insightful and unbiased account of a much-maligned and rapidly growing culture around the world, taken in perhaps the one place in the world where all manifestations of religious adherents live and work: New York City. The book features photographs, essays, and interviews documenting the mosques that New York's Muslim communities have built at their center, revealing the ways these buildings reflect and create identities for Muslims within a dense and diverse urban fabric. "... Mr. Grazda's penetrating black-and-white photographs and Ms. Dodd's insightful commentaries reveal the range of the city's Islamic houses of worship and their ethnic congregations...."--The New York Times

Hardcover. NY, Parkstone Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 256 pages. Never opened, still in original shrink wrap. Spotless copy. A collection of black and white images from New York's disco era. In the late 1970s, with only her Hasselblad and a telephoto lens, Veretta visited many of New York City's infamous nightclubs and captured the erotic energy of the peak disco era. Culled from over one thousand images, this collection of black and white photos is an entertaining, often breathtaking documentary of a unique moment in our history.

Hardcover. NY, Distributed by E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Large format hardcover, 423 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear, rubbing and sun-fade to price clipped dust jacket. Light staining to end papers from red flaps, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 107 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Introduction by Rebecca Solnit. Afterword by John McPhee. INSCRIBED BY PHOTOGRAPHER VIRGINIA BEAHAN on half title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 107 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Each of Beahan and McPhee's extraordinary images captures a point of collision between natural and constructed worlds. Introduction by Rebecca Solnit. Afterword by John McPhee. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Stockport UK, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. Benge's absurd and disquieting take on contemporary urban life. Color images throughout. New Zealand born Benge has published four books. Introduction by photographer Pete Turner. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Toronto, Between the Lines, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 134 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY PIETROPAOLO on the title page and also INSCRIBED on the front fly leaf. This collection of stunning photographs and inspired commentary documents the lives of Italian immigrants to Toronto. Award-winning photographer and cultural historian Vincenzo Pietropaolo has spent much of his life taking pictures inside the tightly knit Italian-Canadian community. While the images in this book are part of the fabric of life in Toronto, they transcend the specificity of place to evoke the lives of immigrants in cities around the world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. A collection of highlights from the Maresca collection of snapshot photographs housed at the Newark Musuem, featuring images from the 1920s through the 1960s. Essays by Marvin Heiferman, Geoffrey Batchen, and Nancy Martha West; interview with Frank Maresca conducted by Heiferman; foreword by Mary Sue Sweeney Price. 192 pages; profusely illustrated in duo-toned b&w and color.

Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. A collection of highlights from the Maresca collection of snapshot photographs housed at the Newark Musuem, featuring images from the 1920s through the 1960s. Essays by Marvin Heiferman, Geoffrey Batchen, and Nancy Martha West; interview with Frank Maresca conducted by Heiferman; foreword by Mary Sue Sweeney Price. 192 pages; profusely illustrated in duo-toned b&w and color.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, color photos. Terry Falke's wry, lyrical photographs center on the terrain of the American Southwest and the ubiquity of humanity s imprint on it. The images in Observations in an Occupied Wilderness both honor and subvert the grand tradition of western landscape photography, conveying the bleak splendor of the land and Falke's sheer love of looking. Gorgeous, sardonic, and playful, Falke's work emphasizes beauty and incongruity, and is as much about human nature as it is about the land. Shot with a large-format camera, the resultant images are personal and provocative, raising as many questions than they answer. This remarkable debut monograph is a shrewd exploration of our last wild places.

Hardcover. Focal Point, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Spanning almost a century of global upheaval and riveting human drama, this magnificent book follows the careers of Maynard Owen Williams, Volkmar Wentzel, Luis Marden, and Tom Abercrombie--a stellar quartet of National Geographic photographers who used their cameras to record a truly remarkable era. While the lensmen were all supported and nurtured both technically and creatively by the Geographic, each had his own interests and his own distinctive style--and each made his own unique contribution to world culture, science, and history. Following a thoughtful introduction that sets the scene, the book is divided into four parts, each devoted to one man's life and work. Chapters open with an essay and then display up to 50 pages of breathtaking historic images, many of which lay hidden in National Geographic archives for decades. Close associates and loved ones authored each photographer's intimate story, calling on journals, anecdotes, and behind-the-scenes correspondence to portray the real person behind the lens. Our four subjects, taken together, represent the entire and quite glamorous progression of National Geographic photography--a chronicle that will be eagerly embraced by all who love world history, biography, and great pictures.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. "Vacationers of today," writes C. John Sullivan, "can only dream of what this seaside resort was like for those who visited in the early 1900s." With Old Ocean City, Sullivan brings back those long-ago summers through the words and photographs of the Walker family of Washington, D.C. Avid photographers as well as sports enthusiasts, the Walkers preserved their Ocean City summers in hundreds of snapshots. And the Walkers' son, Robert, kept a detailed record of those days in a small leather-bound journal, titled My Vacation, in which he wrote almost daily from 1912 to 1916. In Old Ocean City, Sullivan mixes his own commentary and explanatory captions with excerpts from Robert Walker's journal and more than one hundred family photographs (discovered in 1994, Sullivan notes, in a sweltering attic in Berlin, Maryland). Views of handsome beach architecture and grass-covered dunes suggest an Ocean City almost unimaginable today. Rare photographs and accounts of shorebird hunting (banned in 1918 to protect sandpipers, plover, herons, and other species) are an arresting contrast to more familiar scenes of boating, fishing, and beachcombing. We see the Walker children growing up-and Ocean City growing up around them. The result is a surprising look at a place "far different than our memories would recall." Sullivan includes a time line of Ocean City history and Walker family visits, starting with the formation of the Atlantic Hotel Company in 1868 (the company's stockholders chose the name Ocean City at their 1875 meeting in Salisbury) and ending with the Walkers' sale of their beloved cottage in 1950.

Hardcover. Daytona Beach FL, Southeast Museum of Photography, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 152 pages, color photographs. A catalog of beach photos exhibited at the Southeast Museum of Photography in November 2006 thropugh January 2007. Two photographers present a portfolio of random close-up color portraits they made to show beachgoers at various beaches in Southern California and Florida. Locations and subjects' names are omitted. Essay about the project by Tyler Stallings, curator of the Laguna Art Museum.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white photos. 127 pages.

Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 1st thus, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. This edition of On the Mines is a re-designed and expanded version of David Goldblatts influential book published in 1973. Goldblatt grew up in the South African town of Randfontein. which was shaped by the social culture and financial success of the gold mines surrounding it. When these mines started to fail in the mid-sixties Goldblatt began taking photos of them. The book features an essay on the human and political dimensions of mining in South Africa by Nadine Gordimer.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color photos. Introduction by Kathleen Norris. 130 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This is an excellent collection of 77 photos taken 1985-1995 across the high plains states from Montana to Texas. All are in richly captured color, and all manage to bring the panorama of this wide open country within the viewfinder of the still camera. Brown's achievement is to show the suggestive and telling details that transform these "empty" landscapes into spaces that are filled with drama and atmosphere.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson Potter Publishers, 3rd printing, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 381 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Clean, Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 381 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color and b&w photos throughout. Bill Cunningham's photography captured the evolution of style, of trends, and of the everyday, both in New York City and in Paris. But his work also shows that street style is not only about fashion; it's about the people and the changing culture. These photographs (many never before seen, others having originally appeared in The New York Times and elsewhere) move from decade to decade, beginning in the 1970s and continuing until Cunningham's death in 2016. Here you'll find Cunningham's distinctive chronicling of the 1980s transit strike, the rise of 1990s casual Fridays, the sadness that fell over the city following 9/11, Inauguration Day 2009, the onset of selfies, and many other significant moments. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. B&w vintage photos throughout. The Midwest's one-room schools were, Fuller observes, the most democratic in the nation. Located in small, independent school districts, these schools virtually wiped out illiteracy, promoted democratic values, and opened up new vistas beyond the borders of their students' lives.Entire communities, Fuller shows, revolved around these schools. At various times they were used as churches, polling places, sites of political caucuses, and meeting halls for local organizations. But as America urbanized and the movement to consolidate took hold in rural counties, these little centers of learning were left at the margins of the educational system. Some were torn down, some left to weather away, some sold at auction, and still others transformed into museums.

Softcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, color photos. The end of the twentieth century represents an unsettled time, and the contemporary Southwest, as seen by Virgil Hancock III in these fifty-two exquisite color photographs, is a strange place full of omens and signs. His images peer beyond the scenery, beyond the tourism-council view of this region as a storied land of golf courses and climate-controlled shopping centers. He gets at the soul of the Southwest, of the nation, and, in his best photographs, at the human condition itself, seizing on the accidental symbols that speak to our yearnings and shortfalls: skyward-pointing arrows and crosses and dreams just beyond reach at Indian casinos, failed department stores, retirement cities. He photographs signs of the violence that has been endemic to the region and shows us ruins, not of the Anasazi or Spanish missions, but of commercialization, scarcely twenty years old, already gone belly-up.