documentary Photography

Hardcover. NY, Atria Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 368 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life. Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the world with her masterful images and mysterious life. Before posthumously skyrocketing to global fame, she had so deeply buried her past that even the families she lived with knew little about her. No one could relay where she was born or raised, if she had parents or siblings, if she enjoyed personal relationships, why she took photographs and why she didn't share them with others. Now, in this definitive biography, Ann Marks uses her complete access to Vivian's personal records and archive of 140,000 photographs to reveal the full story of her extraordinary life. Based on meticulous investigative research, Vivian Maier Developed reveals the story of a woman who fled from a family with a hidden history of illegitimacy, bigamy, parental rejection, substance abuse, violence, and mental illness to live life on her own terms. Left with a limited ability to disclose feelings and form relationships, she expressed herself through photography, creating a secret portfolio of pictures teeming with emotion, authenticity, and humanity. With limitless resilience she knocked down every obstacle in her way, determined to improve her lot in life and that of others by tirelessly advocating for the rights of workers, women, African Americans, and Native Americans. No one knew that behind the detached veneer was a profoundly intelligent, empathetic, and inspired woman--a woman so creatively gifted that her body of work would become one of the greatest photographic discoveries of the century.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 362 pages, 16 pages of b&w illustrations. Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century American street photography. Not long after, the news broke that Maier had recently died and had no surviving relatives. Soon the whole world knew about her preternatural work, shooting her to stardom almost overnight. But, as Pamela Bannos reveals in this meticulous and passionate biography, this story of the nanny savant has blinded us to Maier's true achievements, as well as her intentions. Most important, Bannos argues, Maier was not a nanny who moonlighted as a photographer; she was a photographer who supported herself as a nanny. In Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife, Bannos contrasts Maier's life with the mythology that strangers-mostly the men who have profited from her work-have created around her absence. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, Thames & Hudson , 1st, 2022, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, 256 pages. A full-career retrospective on the work of Vivian Maier, bringing together a selection of key works from throughout her life and career. When Vivian Maier's archive was discovered in Chicago in 2007, the photography community gained an immense and singular talent. Maier lived in relative obscurity until her death in 2009, but is now the subject of films and books, and recognized as one of the great American photographers of the 20th century. Cover bumped, remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. London/NY, Thames & Hudson , 1st, 2022, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, 256 pages. A full-career retrospective on the work of Vivian Maier, bringing together a selection of key works from throughout her life and career. When Vivian Maier's archive was discovered in Chicago in 2007, the photography community gained an immense and singular talent. Maier lived in relative obscurity until her death in 2009, but is now the subject of films and books, and recognized as one of the great American photographers of the 20th century. Cover bumped, remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. France Loisirs , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Bastienne Schmidt's photographs are images of both life and death. Mercilessly direct, these pictures from Latin America - the fruits of intensive work over the past few years - bring to an existential fact of our lives, a truth we in western societies are only too happy to hide behind a facade of casual diversions and consumable "beauty"; the immediate presence of death. It takes courage to look at these pictures, for in the faces of these people from another culture we are confronted, violently and with an authenticity we cannot ignore, with the very destiny we refuse to accept. Moreover, Bastienne Schmidt shows us the naked truth that underlies not only our inability to look our own death in the face, but also our tendency to disregard the violent deaths of others, failing to recognize the value of "mere" life as we do, so long as they die far enough away from our own doorsteps.

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 352 pages. A balanced assessment of this talented and troubled figure. The 350 photographs are richly reproduced and reflect the scope of Smith's work.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 96 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket that has scuffing to rear panel along with light water damage. Interior is clean, very good. This volume reproduces over 1800 prints selected from over 10,000 in the photographer's archive at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. Most of them have never before been published. Step by step, image by image, the book reveals how Smith worked - how he researched, shot and edited his photographs to create a sequence of narrative continuity, dramatic pacing and emotional appeal. Photos are reproduced in a small format., 223 pages. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. New York , Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages, color photography. Portraits of survivalists and their bomb shelters. Clean, bright copy. Ross has documented not only the bomb shelters of the United States, but also examples from Russia; England; China; Vietnam; and Switzerland, where every citizen is required by law to have a shelter.

Softcover. Munich/NY, Schirmer/Mosel, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, a collection of 123 b&w duotone photographs taken by Evans from 1927 to 1948. Essay by Michael Brix. Clean copy.

Hardcover. GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Illustrated in b&w. Walker Evans (1903-1975) is, without doubt, one of the most influential American photographers ever, and many of his images have become fixed in the collective memory. But while Evans' uncompromising depiction of poverty during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the subject of a series commissioned by the Farm Security Administration, has become a key chapter in the history of photography, his equally innovative images from later decades have generally commanded less attention. Back in print, this bilingual monograph attempts to redress the balance by examining Evans' complete body of work, and features many rarely seen photographs, including his final works, a sequence of Polaroids shot in the early 1970s (a sequence made possible by an unlimited supply of film from its manufacturer). Evans' re-ascendancy in the 1970s and his relationship with legendary Museum of Modern Art curator John Szarkowski are also closely examined, in this essential and definitive volume on a great photographer who certainly achieved his aim to produce pictures that were "literate, authoritative, transcendent."

Softcover. London, Afterall Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Illustrated with b&w and color plates. Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama shows a painstakingly clean-swept corner in the house of an Alabama sharecropper. Taken in 1936 by Walker Evans as part of his work for the Farm Security Administration, Kitchen Corner was not published until 1960, when it was included in a new edition of Walker Evans and James Agee's classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The 1960 reissue of Evans and Agee's book had an enormous impact on Americans' perceptions of the Depression, creating a memory-image retrospectively through Walker's iconic photographs and Agee's text. In this latest addition to the Afterall One Work series, photographer Olivier Richon examines Kitchen Corner. The photograph is particularly significant, he argues, because it uses a documentary form that privileges detachment, calling attention to overlooked objects and to the architecture of the dispossessed.

Softcover. London, Afterall Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Illustrated with b&w and color plates. Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama shows a painstakingly clean-swept corner in the house of an Alabama sharecropper. Taken in 1936 by Walker Evans as part of his work for the Farm Security Administration, Kitchen Corner was not published until 1960, when it was included in a new edition of Walker Evans and James Agee's classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The 1960 reissue of Evans and Agee's book had an enormous impact on Americans' perceptions of the Depression, creating a memory-image retrospectively through Walker's iconic photographs and Agee's text. In this latest addition to the Afterall One Work series, photographer Olivier Richon examines Kitchen Corner. The photograph is particularly significant, he argues, because it uses a documentary form that privileges detachment, calling attention to overlooked objects and to the architecture of the dispossessed.

Softcover. New York, Abrams, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages, b&w plates. A reduced format softcover edition of the monumental 1993 edition by the same publisher. 300 duotone photographs that survey every significant aspect of his life and work, from his self-education and early specialization of street-life observations to his three-year involvement with the Farm Security Administration and his breakthrough exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

Hardcover. NY, Prestel , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 320 pages. Some of Walker Evans' most iconic images of 20th-century American culture are showcased in this book celebrating his 50-year career. Walker Evans was one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century. His focus on everyday life in America, in both urban and rural settings, makes him also one of the most relatable. This retrospective volume traces Evans' career through more than 300 images--from his first photographs of the late 1920s to his Polaroids of the 1970s. Organized thematically, the book examines topics such as Evans' relationship with the impresario Lincoln Kirstein, his work in postcards and magazines, and his lifelong exploration of the American vernacular. In addition, this volume features items from the photographer's own collection, including personal writings, signage, postcards, and other ephemera. Through these ancillary objects and a thorough overview of Evans' career, readers will come away with a better understanding of a photographer whose iconic photographs remain timeless.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages, 106 illustrations. Clean, tight copy. A reprint of the classic 1971 monograph. Introduction by John Szarkowski.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, 106 illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 318 pages. B+W and color photographs throughout. Clean and tight copy. Large exhibition catalog. Although his work has received many awards, been enshrined in the best museums, and been exhibited on several continents, Evans's total corpus is only now being fully examined. This important book revises our appreciation of Evans by presenting previously unknown material in an accessible context. Essays by Maria Morris Hambourg, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Doug Eklund, and Mia Fineman offer novel insights into the sources and legacy of Evans's work. The result is a superb exploration of what was achieved by one of our finest, mostly deeply American artists.

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated with 106 b&w photos by Evans. Dust jacket with light edgewear and soil, price-clipped.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Three Hills/Cornell University, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 290 pages, b&w photos throughout. Drawing on the experiences of and photographs by a generation of young Jewish photographers who belonged to the New York Photo League, Deborah Dash Moore offers a new perspective on New York as seen through their eyes-a cityscape of working-class people and democratizing public transit. With their cameras, they pictured Gotham's abrasive social milieu and its evanescent textures and light, creating an archive of vernacular images of city life and a distinctive tradition of street photography that would be widely imitated.Walkers in the City documents how these roving, imaginative New Yorkers, entranced by the medium of photography, transformed everyday sights into rousing, joyous, and poignant moments of time, creating visual poetry out of the fabric of social life.

Hardcover. Dresden, Verlag der Kunst, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 211 pages. Illustrated with 140 black & white photographs by Walter Rosenblum. Red remainder stamp on bottom edge. Text in English and German. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Dresden GR, Verlag der Kunst/Weingarten, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 211 pages. Text in German and English. Survey of the works of the noted American photojournalist, from 1938 to 1980; notable for the documentary photos of Haiti (1958/59) and of the South Bronx (1980). Essays by Rice and Naomi Rosenblum; biographical chronology and selected bibliography. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Imperial War Museum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. War time photos from noted photographer. Light fading and edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Foxing to top edge of text block. Unmarked.