portraits Photography

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. Italy, Charta, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 64 pages, color photos. Michael Itkoff has traveled the world since 2002 taking portraits of everyday people in the street. In the photographs gathered here, a makeshift backdrop is held behind subjects in London, Sydney, Hanoi, Bangkok and New York, allowing the larger urban scene to fill out the frame. Born in 1981 in Philadelphia, Itkoff is a Founding Editor of Daylight magazine.

Softcover. US, Damiani, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 pages, softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Absence of Subject and Two Crowns of the Egg are Somoroff's most intriguing books of photography. In this edition of Two Crowns, the still life art work is as stunning as the female nudes. Of note, the rare combinations of objects (such. books of literature, high polished knives, exquisite dishes) and life matter (such pomegranates, honey, eggs, human skulls) set one's imagination in fire. These strange image compositions are as odd as the pairing of words by Postmodern poet Giannina Braschi who writes love poems to objects, animals, beings. The scholarly introduction by art historian Donald Kuspit is respectable but a bit dry. Regardless the imagery and poetry tower over any essay that one could write about them.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages with photographic images throughout. Text by Francoise Sagan and Federico Fellini. Illustrated in black & white, some color. 12" high X 9" wide. More than seventy-five images from Paine?s first solo exhibition, and they look charmingly innocent by today?s standards. Working with a trio of regular models, the photographer was able to achieve a sense of sweet, playful intimacy and suggest moments of sexual abandon. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Burns Archive Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, measures 6 x 6 3/4". SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY BURNS on the title page. Mirror, Mirror features an extraordinary scope of early photography from one of the most important and comprehensive private collections in the world. Over 250 daguerreotypes presented in full-color reproductions illustrate the depth and beauty of this special medium. Showcasing a wide range of American, British and French images, revealing the clear distinctions in the style and presentation of each country, makes this book an excellent guide for novice collectors as well as a resource for connoisseurs and curators. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Universe, 1st wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Interviews with top models, - Jean Shrimpton, Penelope Tree, Jerry Hall, Iman, Isabella Rossellini, Helena Christensen, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Georgina Cooper, James, Karen Elson, and Alek Wek--as well as their agents, photographers, fashion editors, and designers, Illustrated with color and b&w photos by Bailey. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Damiani , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 124 pages. In 2008, Christopher Niquet, a well-known French stylist, spotted the 1960s supermodel Peggy Moffit in a Beverly Hills restaurant. Never an autograph chaser, he nonetheless felt compelled to ask for hers. This candid moment ignited an obsessive, ongoing quest. Niquet began to reach out to the models he considered quintessential figures in his industry, for their epic beauty and remote auras. Deploying a sleuth's methods to locate these models around the globe, he collected 100 signatures, most of which are framed along with an iconic portrait. "My original purpose was to get beyond the abstract, incorporeal beauty of these icons, and bring back a sense of their physicality. For me, each signature restored a womanly reality to the imaginary being." This book highlights the unique personalities of celebrated or forgotten women from the late 1950s to the 1990s and what they all have in common: the power to awaken creativity in the people who see them. Through generations of cover stories, Models That Matter explores a multi-layered history of feminine beauty, from Jean Shrimpton to Jerry Hall, from Lauren Bacall to Linda Evangelista, from Anita Pallenberg to Naomi Campbell, muses for extraordinary fashion lensmen like Steven Meisel-who wrote the preface-to Irving Penn or Richard Avedon. Clean in shrinkwrap.

Softcover. New York, Independent Curators Inc, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran January 21 through March 6, 1992 and then May 20 through June 30, 1992 at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York. Introduction by Klaus Ottmann. Essay by Leslie Tonkonow. Includes numerous black and white images from these photographers who were in the show: Robert Doisneau, Diane Arbus, Thomas Struth, Neal Slavin, William Klein, Walker Evans and many others.

Hardcover. OH, Kent State University, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages. During the nineteenth century-a time of great technical and cultural change-fashion was a cultivating force in the development of American society, influenced by one's social status, geographic location, and economic standing. My Likeness Taken is a collection of daguerreotype portraits of men, women, and children taken between 1840 and 1860. Selected from the top collections in the United States, each image is analyzed to clarify datable clothing and fashion components. With subjects from among the best-dressed members of society, these portraits-reproduced in full color-reflect the latest fashion developments, trends, and influences. For students of photographic and costume history, this is extraordinary material. Many of these images have never before been published, and Severa's keen analysis adds immeasurably to our understanding of the importance of dress in American society. Photo archivists and collectors, costume curators, social historians, material culturalists, and theater designers will find My Likeness Taken an invaluable resource.

Hardcover. University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, text by Morris, color photos by David Rae Morris. The author's last book, written in his characteristically limpid, lyrical prose, offers a heartfelt appreciation of his home state, a place often dismissed as poor and backward by "outlanders," Morris' term for non-Mississippians. This is not a defensive recitation of Mississippi's virtues nor is it a whitewash of its less-than-attractive features. First, Morris wants the reader to understand the state's beauty--"physically beautiful in the most fundamental and indwelling way, [in that] it never leaves you." Then, with both pride and understanding, he brings into sharp focus Mississippi's peculiar tensions and ambivalence and also its passions--"we are a singular people," he says of his native folk. The second half of the book is an album of full-color photographs taken by Morris' son, a professional photojournalist. These shots informally capture ordinary moments in the lives of Mississippians, from a young couple standing next to their truck with their new baby in their arms to a group of local citizens hanging out in front of the main store in a small town. Together, the text and the photographs showcase Mississippians doing what they do best--being themselves completely without artifice. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 157 pages. A pictorial record of farming families in northwest Illinois where the photographer lived. B7w photos throughout.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 157 pages. A pictorial record of farming families in northwest Illinois where the photographer lived. Extensive b/w photos throughout.

Hardcover. Toronto, Skyline Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 88 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive color photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Munich, Prestel, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Published in time to coincide with an exhibition at the Nouveau Mus From well-known portraits of Monaco's "beautiful people" to rarely seen landscapes, this collection of images documents two decades of Helmut Newton's love affair with the sun-kissed world of the French Riviera. While this volume focuses primarily on the years 1981 to 2004, it also looks at Newton's historic links with the Cote d'Azur and the area around Bordighera, Italy. There are essays by a range of experts in photography, film, and art and three interviews, including one with Paloma Picasso.

Softcover. Carmel CA, Friends of Photography, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 48 pages, 39 b&w plates. Photos taken in various parts of the country with a large format camera within the same year. Subjects are usually groups of people from places like Cambridge, MA, Neon, KY, Winter Haven, FL, Louisville, more Kentucky and so on. Preface by James Alinder, Executive Director of the Friends of Photography, and there is a four-page Introduction by photographer Robert Adams. Corner crease to rear cover, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong format, 123 pages. Monograph published to accompany a show that started at MOMA and traveled to Boston, Detroit, and San Francisco. Introduction by Peter Galassi, Includes 5 text illustrations and 85 tritone plates. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Features photographs of female impersonators who have performed in the gay district of Osaka, Japan, from the '90s to the present, along with an essay discussing the photographer's work and the country's gay culture. Text by Eric Shiner and Simone Fukayuki.

Hardcover. Bellevue WA, Whalesong Collection, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large folio, glazed boards. More than 500 b&w photos of celebrities, includes portraits of Steve Martin, the Judds, Jodie Foster, Jane Fonda, Santana, Timothy Leary, Billy Wilder, Hugh Hefner, Jefferson Starship, Cher and Eugene Ionesco, among many others.

Hardcover. 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. Born in 1902, Manuel Alvarez Bravo is Mexico's most celebrated photographer. His far-reaching body of work includes many of the 20th century's most recognizable and iconic images. Collected here is a seductive, timeless, and entrancing sampling of the maestro's nudes, images taken in 1939 and as recently as the 1990s. Sensitively edited and sequenced by Ariadne Kimberly Huque, and with an impassioned and poetic introduction by Carlos Fuentes, this delicate, elegant volume beautifully reproduces some of Bravo's most favorite work, and provides an intimate window through which to view the career of one of the camera's true masters.

Softcover. Paris, Marval, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 79 pages, text by Francis Hofstein IN FRENCH. wonderful photobook devoted to the blues scene in Oakland during the 1980s. Dozens of full-page black & white photographs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy printed boards housed in a cardboard slipcase. Folio. 1st edition of Avedon's first book, a collaboration with Capote who supplies the text. A striking collection of full-page black and white images. 151 pages. No acetate dust jacket. Slipcase with light edgewear, soil. Book is a solid very good, clean.

Hardcover. Marina del Rey, CA, Graystone Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Printing limited to 5000 copies. 113 pages. B&w and sepia photographs throughout. Sepia photo plate on front of ivory cloth cover. Light soiling and rubbing to back cover. Light edgewear to cover. Else a nice, clean copy. A collection of images by De Meyer of his wife Olga who was rumored to be the daughter of Edward VII.

Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 190 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text in German and English. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Oliver Mark (born 1963) has photographed countless artists, actors, politicians and other celebrities. Subjects included here are Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, George Lucas, Sir Ridley Scott, Jenny Holzer, Mia Farrow, Norbert Tadeusz, Kenny Scharf, Georg Baselitz, David Chipperfield, Luc Tuymans, Cate Blanchett, Balthus and Sir Peter Ustinov. Besides Mark's most successful portraits, this volume also contains some of his most beautiful fashion photographs and other stills, many of which have appeared in several well-known magazines.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 189 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Art icon Jeff Koons lying on a giant plastic ball, Richard Serra disappearing into one of his vast steel sculptures, "king of theater" Claus Peymann sporting a cardboard crown ever since shooting his portrait of painter A.R. Penck in 1994, Oliver Mark (born 1963) has photographed countless artists, actors, politicians and other celebrities. Sometimes concentrating only on the subject against the most minimal setting possible, sometimes placing them in front of an artful background, Mark presents the rich and famous in constantly new and consistently trenchant ways, bringing their less apparent characteristics to light and casting them in disorienting circumstances. Other of Mark's subjects included here are Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, George Lucas, Sir Ridley Scott, Jenny Holzer, Mia Farrow, Norbert Tadeusz, Kenny Scharf, Georg Baselitz, David Chipperfield, Luc Tuymans, Cate Blanchett, Balthus and Sir Peter Ustinov. Besides Mark's most successful portraits, this volume also contains some of his most beautiful fashion photographs and other stills, many of which have appeared in several well-known magazines. Texts by Margit J. Mayer, Christoph Amend, Christian Boros and others round off this entertaining "best-of" collection.