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.
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.
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.