portraits Photography

Hardcover. Canada, Steidl, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover without dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This book considers the film stills of Ernst Haas (1921-86), one of the most accomplished photographers of the 20th century, transgressing the borders between still photography and the moving image. Haas worked with a variety of eminent directors--from Vittorio de Sica to John Huston, Gene Kelly and Michael Cimino--and depicted cinema genres from suspense (The Third Man, The Train) to the Western (The Oregon Trail, Little Big Man), and from comedy (Miracle in Milan, Love and Death) to musicals (West Side Story, Hello Dolly). Haas inscribed a temporal, filmic dimension into his stills which, when viewed in a sequence, generate movement and narrative. So accomplished was his mastery of color, light and motion that Haas was frequently asked to photograph large group actions--from the battle scenes of The Charge of the Light Brigade and the dances of West Side Story to the ski slopes of Downhill Racer. On Set elucidates a novel perspective on the sets and the stars Haas photographed, and reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of his oeuvre.

Hardcover. Daytona Beach FL, Southeast Museum of Photography, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages with 69 color plates. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The memorable and sometimes aggressive photographic portraits of On The Beach are the result of a six year project by two well-known photographers, Douglas McCulloh and Jacques Garnier. They placed a studio lighting setup directly in the sand, making California and Florida beaches their backdrop. The beach eliminates conceits, concealment, and clothing. People who cross onto the sand become a little naked. To this equation of vulnerability, the two photographers add unforgiving strobe lights and a ruthless high resolution camera.

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. Chicago, LaSalle Bank, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 119 pages. Brought to you by the publishers of Rineke Dijkstra: Beach Portraits and Chicago Photographs, One of a Kind features 48 magnificently reproduced portraits from some of the greatest image-makers in the history of modern photography. Culled from the renowned archives of Chicago's LaSalle Bank, One of a Kind begins inside the studio, with work by such greats as Edward Weston, Richard Avedon and Julia Margaret Cameron. Outside of the studio, there are energetic and sometimes lonely street scenes by William Klein, Rineke Dijkstra and Gordon Parks. Next, there are intimate family photographs by Roy DeCarava, Larry Sultan, Tina Barney and Thomas Struth. Other artists include: August Sander, Walker Evans, Mike Disfarmer, Cindy Sherman, Meridel Rubenstein, David Hilliard, Carrie Mae Weems, Diane Arbus, Stephen Shore, David Hockney, Dawoud Bey, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Edward Steichen, Man Ray and Seydou Keita.

Softcover. Vancouver BC, Arsenal Pulp Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. "One Ring Circus pays homage to the wrestling life: the sound and the fury and the die-hard fans who are often as colorful and outrageous as the wrestlers they clamor for."

Softcover. Vancouver BC, Arsenal Pulp Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. "One Ring Circus pays homage to the wrestling life: the sound and the fury and the die-hard fans who are often as colorful and outrageous as the wrestlers they clamor for."

Softcover. South Africa, Random House Struik, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. English as well as Afrikaans.

Hardcover. Flammarion, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages. The century that spanned from the 1850-1950 witnessed the golden age of travel and the exposure of an increasing number of Westerners to foreign cultures. The Maghreb became a source of exotic fascination and people grew particularly enchanted by the landscapes, peoples, and cultures of countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Orientalist Photographs pays homage to the ultimate travel dream of that era. This collection of over 100 autochrome, sepia, and black and white photographs captures delicate, lost details: the dusty, labyrinthine walls of the casbah; the dappled sunlight on the market stall of a souk; the intricate metal work of traditional jewelry. Each image is accompanied by an informative text that situates the photograph in its historical reality, revealing how, for example, the richness of Algerian embroidery is not the product of hermetic tradition, as once perceived, but rather that of an innovative fusion of Spanish, Turkish, and native cultures. This book's haunting photographs and incisive texts vividly render all the mystery, the beauty, and the naivete of the West's encounter with a culture it found so radically different from its own.

Hardcover. NY, Flammarion, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Hardcover. San Francisco, Straight Arrow Books, 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos. Dj price clipped otherwise VG/VG. "In his widely acclaimed first book, Suburbia, Bill Owens' camera captured the essence of the American Dream as symbolized in the life styles and fantasies of his neighbors and friends. Probing beneath the outer wrappings, he now presents a unique portrait of the myriad clubs and organizations to which these people belong, the symbols of their beliefs and loyalties, their pleasure and their pain." Profusely illustrated with annotated b/w photographs.

Paperback. New York, Welcome Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Holographic photograph on front cover. In 1984, photographer Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every single resident of his town, Oxford, Iowa (pop. 676). He converted an abandoned storefront on Main Street into a makeshift studio and posted fliers inviting people to stop by. At first they trickled in slowly, but in the end, nearly all of Oxford stood before Feldstein's lens. Twenty years later, Feldstein decided to do it again. Only this time he invited writer Stephen G. Bloom to join him, and together they went in search of the same Oxford residents Feldstein had originally shot two decades earlier. Some had moved. Most had stayed. Others had passed away. All were marked by the passage of time.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. In text and photographs, Paris Deluxe traces the history of the Place Vendome, from the square's beginnings as a high-risk property speculation, to its life in the twentieth century as Paris's center of fashion, jewelry, high finance, and art, a playground for international society that converges at the Paris Ritz, undoubtedly still the most elegant, expensive, and comfortable hotel in the world. The cast of extraordinary personalities who have left their marks on the square covers the spectrum from fashion and jewelry-- names like Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Frederic Worth, Cartier, Boucheron-- to financiers J.P. Morgan and John Law, and every prominent name in art and high society-- Edward, Prince of Wales, the Vanderbilts, Baroness Guy de Rothschild, Lillie Langtry, Rene Lalique and the Crozats, whose art collection was bought by Diderot for Catherine the Great.

Hardcover. NY, Hearst Communications, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, oversized, b&w photographs of celebrities throughout: Claude Levi-Strauss, Elizabeth II., Andre Kertesz, Samuel Beckett, Faye Dunaway, Vladimir Horowitz, Yves Saint-Laurent, Andy Warhol, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Johnny Depp, Kate Moss, many others.Very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Insight Editions, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 164 pages. A stunning collection of photographs from Frank Stefanko featuring the Godmother of Punk herself, iconic musician and author Patti Smith."There I was sitting in a booth at the co-op of Glassboro State College, a bucolic school in the farmlands of South Jersey. . . Suddenly, the double doors of the co-op swung open and standing there in the vacuum created was an incredible apparition, a vision in a white leather coat with long, jet-black hair flowing down her back. She moseyed in like the bad guy walking into a saloon in an old western movie. This was the first time I set eyes on Patti Smith, and I was captivated."So begins Frank Stefanko's wonderfully personal photographic tale of his friendship and artistic collaboration with Patti Smith. Stefanko's photographs and his warm, personal recollections show us an amazing young woman, long before she became Patti Smith, the cultural icon. Through images and words, we follow her search for a unique voice--from the early days of the Chelsea Hotel to spoken word at the St. Mark's Poetry Project to the release of her seminal album, Horses, and so much more.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture Foundation and Fundacion Televisa, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover issued without a dust jacket. This publication tells the story of the photographer's journeys through Mexico in the early 1930s. In search of a fresh start, Strand traveled to Mexico City in late 1932 at the invitation of Carlos Chavez, the eminent Mexican composer and conductor. The culmination of Strand's time in Mexico was his collaboration with Emilio Gomez Muriel and Academy Award-winning director Fred Zinnemann on the groundbreaking film, Redes (The Wave) (1936). A remastered DVD version of the film is included in this volume. Illus., 100 color/89 tritone/240 b&w. 356 pages.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY EISENSTAEDT on front fly leaf. Photographs of over 300 well-known people by the Prussia born Life Magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995). Black & white photos. 260 pages. Clean in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, 1st us, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Color photographs. sun fading on spine, otherwise with only minor wear to dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. This book is Leni Riefenstahl's second opus on Sudan's Nuba People (Die Nuba von Kau, 1976, followed her first book The Last of the Nuba / Die Nuba, first German ed.,1973). It is a classic and laandmark in 20th century ethnographic photography. Translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. DUE TO WEIGHT, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Lili Almog's color photos taken at three Carmelite monasteries (of nuns) are revealing of their faith.. The sisters showing their distinctive profession crucifixes (normally worn hidden under their scapulars, and pinned to their beds when they go to sleep) are revealing their personal symbols of "perfect intimacy." And the statues and/or holy cards of our holy mother St. Teresa, our holy father St. John of the Cross, St. Therese, and St. Joseph make Carmelites feel right at home. The monasteries are also significant: they are on Mt. Carmel (Haifa) and in Bethlehem--founded by Sister Miriam, "the little Arab"; and in Port Tobacco, Maryland, whose community is the oldest and first Discalced Carmelite convent founded in the US. The spartan surroundings emphasize the importance of the nuns' relationship with God. The photos of the sisters revealing their profession crucifixes, which they wear near their hearts and pin to their beds when going to sleep, I found especially moving. Almog's photos are neither stilted nor rigid, but reminiscent of the photos that St. Therese's sister Celine took of her! The quotations from Blessed Teresa of the Andes are very apt comments on the photos.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, PhotoPlace Gallery, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of 75 portraits in color and b&w chosen by Frank Goodyear, Associate Curator at the National Portrait Gallery. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Livingston MT, Clark City Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 B&w photographs of Hollywood stars & lifestyles by one of Life magazine's original photographers. "A collection of portraits by one of the original four Life photographers features candid, offscreen shots of such Hollywood stars as Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Alfred Hitchcock, young Elizabeth Taylor, and Orson Welles."

Hardcover. Livingston MT, Clark City Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 B&w photographs of Hollywood stars & lifestyles by one of Life magazine's original photographers. "A collection of portraits by one of the original four Life photographers features candid, offscreen shots of such Hollywood stars as Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Alfred Hitchcock, young Elizabeth Taylor, and Orson Welles."

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 2008-12-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 60 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Close to 30 full-page color portraits of phone sex "operators" in the intimate setting of their own homes with comments from each on their work.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 60 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Close to 30 full-page color portraits of phone sex "operators" in the intimate setting of their own homes with comments from each on their work.

Softcover. New York, Rizzoli , 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. B&w and color photographs throughout. Binding cracked between two pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.