landscapes Photography

Hardcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 224 pages illustrated in color. A century's worth of the most breathtaking and significant landscape designs around the globe. Beginning with Filoli, the century-old, forward-looking estate situated just south of San Francisco, and closing with The Park, the first public garden ever created in Las Vegas, John Hill takes readers on a worldwide tour, one per year, of beautiful, inspiring, creatively designed, and historically significant landscapes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Monacelli Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. An artful photographic voyage documenting the impact of modern industry and consumerism on our planet, A Common Destiny presents a hauntingly beautiful vision of a world perched on the edge of an abyss. Juxtaposing images of pristine wilderness with photos of mines, abandoned nuclear reactors, large industrial farms, and spaces that exemplify artificiality and our increasing distance from nature--such as indoor ski slopes in Dubai, large-scale suburban housing development sites, and lavish casinos--Cedric Delsaux creates a powerful meditation on our ruthless hunger for mass production and energy.

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear, 158 pages. SIGNED BY PLOWDEN on the half title page. Midwestern rural America is captured in photographs of the farmhouses, furnishings, barns, and grain elevators, as well as the men and women who live and work in the region. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Reno ; Las Vegas, University of Nevada Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages, 69 BW and color plates, 36 figures. Essays by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Dave Hickey, and Thomas W. Southall. Includes work by John Pfhal, Terry Evans, Mark Klett and many others, with brief photographer biographies.Clean, unmarked copy with only minor shelf-wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. NY/London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, oblong format. Amandes Ameres (Bitter Almonds) is a portfolio of vivid color photographs that are characteristic of photographer and sculptor Jean-Marc Bustamante's photographic tableaux: intense yet contemplative cityscape images of the capital cities from around the globe, from Buenos Aires to Miami to Tel Aviv. A work of art in its own right, Amandes Ameres was launched in June 1997 at the international art event Documenta X in Kassel, Germany. The volume signifies a highly original distillation of Bustamante's subtle outlook, both in its presentation and in the selection of images designed to illustrate the strikingly sculptural, painterly and symphonic aspects of his innovative and sensitive use of the camera. The compilation is cutting-edge in the context of contemporary visual art and how it is presented, displaying a style that is carefully suited to the atmosphere evoked by Bustamante. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Kehrer, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. All across the world a uniform, homogeneous model of development, inspired by Los Angeles style urban sprawl--consisting of massive freeways, parking lots, shopping malls, and large-scale master-planned communities with golf courses--is being stamped onto the earth's topography. This globalized model of architecture does not respect or adapt itself to the natural or cultural environment onto which it is implanted. German American photographer Robert Harding Pittman began working on this project in Los Angeles ten years ago. Since then he has been photographing the spread of "L.A. style development" in Las Vegas, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Dubai, and South Korea.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor wear. 104 pages with 55 beautiful, luminous black & white plates, accompanied by selected texts from Adams, Emerson, and other poets and naturalists, chosen by the Editor, Janet Swan Bush. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, N.Y. Graphic Society, 2nd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 117 duotone photos. 1st pub. in 1972. This is the second printing. Edited by Liliane DeCock. Foreward by Minor White. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Photographers:Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Virginia Beahan, H. H. Bennett, Marilyn Bridges, Wynn Bullock, Evelyn Cameron, Paul Caponigro, Tseng Kwong Chi, John Cliett, William Clift, Lois Conner, Lynn Davis, Robert Dawson, Peter Gasser, David Gibson, Laura Gilpin, Frank Gohlke, Nancy Goldring, Wanda Hammerbeck, F. J. Haynes, William Henry Jackson, Barbara Kasten, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Stuart Klipper, Koichiro Kurita, Steve Lawson, Sally Mann, Laura McPhee, Richard Misrach, Eadweard Muybridge, Joan Myers, Herman Nielson, Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Stephen Shore, Art Sinsabaugh, Paul Strand, Jerry N. Uelsmann, Carleton E. Watkins, Brett Weston, Minor White

Hardcover. NY, Fraenkel Gallery/Hasselblad Foundation, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 1stpages. The master photographer best known for his extensive, insightful documentation of "the American social landscape"--from jazz musicians to factory hands to New York pedestrians and office workers zoning out at their keyboards--has recently been spending more time looking at the literal, natural landscape. His monumental 2005 MoMA retrospective showed, for the first time, a new series of landscapes made in the American West, while for Olives and Apples, he has looked back over the last decade's work and culled a forest, tree by tree. His docile subjects, apple trees photographed in New York State and olive trees photographed in France, Italy and Spain from 1997-2004, are presented in circumstances ranging from sunny, leafy summer health to glittering winter ice-storm glory. Some of the most striking compositions are shot from just inside the reach of a tree's furthest twigs, so that expanding branching limbs fill the frame, stretching out around the viewer.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Like many who grew up during the spread of sprawl--with its predictable landscape of housing developments, shopping malls, interstate highways, and big-box construction--acclaimed photographer Jeff Brouws is drawn to places that still embody the vernacular past as well as to those that starkly portray the soulless, franchised American landscape. What began as cultural geography of Main Streets became a visual critique of the myth of upward mobility that created this car-centered, paved-over universe. Some images look outward to the edges of suburbia where sprawl is encroaching upon nature. Others turn inward, documenting the devastated inner cities. All the stunning color photographs reflect the complex beauty and desolation of visual life in our time. 100 color photographs.

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2006, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Like many who grew up during the spread of sprawl--with its predictable landscape of housing developments, shopping malls, interstate highways, and big-box construction--acclaimed photographer Jeff Brouws is drawn to places that still embody the vernacular past as well as to those that starkly portray the soulless, franchised American landscape. What began as cultural geography of Main Streets became a visual critique of the myth of upward mobility that created this car-centered, paved-over universe. Some images look outward to the edges of suburbia where sprawl is encroaching upon nature. Others turn inward, documenting the devastated inner cities. All the stunning color photographs reflect the complex beauty and desolation of visual life in our time. 100 color photographs.

Hardcover. Woodbury, NY, Barron's, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 81 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color photographs throughout.

Hardcover. US, Center for American Places, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. From 2000 to 2007, Jay Wolke photographed in the south of Italy to capture the complexity of a region that is colloquially known as Il mezzogiorno. What he found in this historic and often troubled landscape was an elaborate set of physical, social, and political forces manifested in an extraordinary tapestry of visual information. Both referential and suggestive, Wolke's pictures reveal the marks of a long line of invaders, conquerors, and occupiers from the Greeks to the Spanish to the Camorra. Architectural and structural adaptations and "resignations" are evident in every scene and serve as the photographer's focus. Although the landscape is marred by layers of dysfunction and greed, we can't help but view it through the lens of the timeless belief in the bel paese--the beautiful country.

Hardcover. London, Carpet Bombing Culture, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy. Full page color photographs throughout. Tight copy. A look deep inside the crumbling apocalyptic landscape of America through the eyes of Photojournalist Seph Lawless.

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st UK, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 92 pages, 50 color photos by Boyd Norton. Forward by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. The 1990 journey of Matthiessen, Paul Winter and a group of Russian environmentalists who traveled around Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake, containing one-fifth of the planet's fresh water, is chronicled in diary form. Norton's 50 color photos enhance the text. Map.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated, illustrated throughout with 46 photographs in full color. Foreword by Norman Mailer. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Gray Malin is the artist of the moment for the Hollywood and fashion elite. His awe-inspiring aerial photographs of beaches around the world are shot from doorless helicopters, creating playful and stunning celebrations of light, shape, and perspective, as well as summer bliss. Beaches features more than twenty cities across six continents: Australia: Sydney/North America: Santa Monica, Miami, San Francisco, Kaua'i, Chicago, the Hamptons, and Cancun / South America: Rio de Janeiro / Europe: Capri, Rimini, Forte dei Marmi, Viareggio, Amalfi Coast, Barcelona, Lisbon, and Saint-Tropez / Africa: Cape Town / Asia: Dubai. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Studio, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 120 pages, color plates throughout. A collection of photographs from the burial grounds of Europe explores the beauty of cemeteries and the emotions the survivors of the dead placed into the making of the tombs, accompanied by a meditation on the death of his own parents by Dean Koontz. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 2010-02-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Text in German. English language booklet included. Text by Kurt Forster. Color photos of Berlin's unseen corners.

Hardcover. Museum of American Art and University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 176 pages. Numerous color and black and white plates. Essays by Merry A. Foresta, Stephen Jay Gould and Karal Ann Marling. Published on the occasion of the traveling exhibition, 1992-1993. Bar code sticker on rear of dust jacket, otherwise clean, bright copy. Uncommon in hardcover.

Hardcover. New York, Damiani, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 170 b&w and color photographs. A comprehensive monograph, this volume consists of several sections of work from 1969 to the present, opening at the height of flower power, with images of the Beat generation, Woodstock and the protests against Vietnam.

Hardcover. New York, Damiani, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 170 b&w and color photographs. A comprehensive monograph, this volume consists of several sections of work from 1969 to the present, opening at the height of flower power, with images of the Beat generation, Woodstock and the protests against Vietnam.

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st pbk, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 133 pages. For eighteen months in the mid-eighties, photographer Richard Misrach roamed through the natural beauty and man-made devastation of Bravo 20 [bombing range], while Myriam Weisang Misrach researched the history of military expansionism-and local protest- in the West. The result is a book that not only documents the ongoing battle for Bravo 20, but offers a suggestion on what best to do with the burst shells, bombed-out buses, automobile hulls, and other naval detritus: leave it right where it is. New. In shrink wrap.