portraits Photography

NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. For the past decade, photographer Mark Seliger has set up an elaborate pop-up studio inside the annual Vanity Fair after-party on Oscar night, producing exquisite portraits of Hollywood's A-list personalities in the immediate afterglow of cinema's biggest event of the year. This book gathers the best of these portraits, along with a foreword by Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones and an afterword by actor Alan Cumming, who sheds light on what it's like to be in front of Seliger's lens on the night of nights. With some 200 color portraits, featuring Oscar-winning actors, directors, and musicians, Hollywood power couples, and luminaries of all stripes, including Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, Spike Lee, Regina King, Jessica Chastain, Taika Waititi, Timothee Chalamet, Donald Glover, and many more, this over-the-top volume will delight anyone interested in exquisite photography and Hollywood glamour. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N Potter, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 203 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white photographs throughout. Collects vivid photographic portraits of a wide variety of authors, artists, movie stars, politicians, dancers, and other celebrities.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, 100 color, 200 b&w images by the world's best photographers. Essays by Christopher Hichens, others. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Vanity Fair: The Portraits brings together 300 iconic portraits from Vanity Fair's 95-year history in a remarkable book that captures the image of modern fame--the magical thing that happens when individual talent and beauty (and sometimes genius) is caught in the spotlight of popular curiosity and passion. The photographers--from Edward Steichen and Cecil Beaton to Annie Leibovitz and Mario Testino--are a glittering and celebrated group themselves. Their portraits have become the iconic likenesses of the best-known figures from the worlds of art, film, music, sports, business, and politics.

Hardcover. US, 5 Continents Editions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Like new. Color and b/w photographs throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Waterbury VT, Silver Print Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages. !00 beautiful b&w portraits of farm women in Vermont. Autograph copy emblem to cover. SIGNED by the photographer and author Peter Miller on the half title page.

Hardcover. Waterbury VT, Silver Print Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages. !00 beautiful b&w portraits of farm women in Vermont. Autograph sticker on cover. SIGNED by the photographer and author Peter Miller on the half title page.

Hardcover. Waterbury VT, Silver Print Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages. !00 beautiful b&w portraits of farm women in Vermont. Autograph copy emblem to cover. SIGNED by the photographer and author Peter Miller on the half title page.

Hardcover. Waterbury VT, Vermont People Project, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY MILLER on the title page. Photographs and text about native Vermonters discussing their life and the change they have seen in Vermont during the latter part of the 20th Century as the state turns from a rural, agriculture society. They are a disappearing culture. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages. Attractive oversized monograph with 119 illustrations. Introductory essay by Lord David Cecil. Julia Cameron was acknowledged as one of the greatest portrait photographers of her era

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Center for American Places, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Includes CD. The product of several visits to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Views from the Reservation is meant to open our eyes, minds, and hearts to the life, culture, and conditions of the Oglala Lakota people. With his insightful and complex images Willis enlists several other voices to offer a more complete story: writer Kent Nerburn, who contributes an original essay; Lakota elders and Pine Ridge High School students, who offer poems; Emil Her Many Horses, the associate curator of the National Museum of the American Indian, Kevin Gover, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, and Oglala Lakota artist Dwayne Wilcox. Accompanying the book is Heartbeat of the Rez, a compact disc collecting traditional songs compiled by the author, the elders, and KILI, the radio station of the reservation.

Softcover. Martha's Vineyard Historical Society, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, b&w photos by Mark Lennihan. It is the people of Martha's Vineyard who give voice to the Vineyard "sense of place." Here, in their own words excerpted from interviews with oral historian Linsey Lee, are the photographed portraits and stories of seventy-five Vineyarders, chronicling the continuity and the changes of life on the Vineyard over the last one hundred years. We find farmers, fishermen, neighbors, boat builders and summer people. There are stories of shipwrecks, race relations, ice cutting, rum running, one-room schoolhouses, whaling captains and whaling wives, Portuguese customs, Wampanoag heritage and more, chronicling a way of life that has continued for generations and is fast disappearing.

Hardcover. London, Melcher/Virgin, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Features photographs by Atget, Larry Clark, Walker Evans, Larry Fink, Weegee, Susan Meiselas, and more. Essay by Luc Sante. Slip case and covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.

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.

Hardcover. Zurich, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. 130 of Chin's striking fashion and celebrity portraits in color and b&w. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

London, Hardie Grant, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed black boards stamped in white, 250 pages, color photos. Wanting You to Want Me is a collection of anonymous stories from the world of London strip clubs, documented by the women themselves. The stories range from behind-the-scenes conversations in the changing rooms, to dancefloor and private room etiquette, from emotional and intellectual connections between dancer and client, to the often-blurred boundaries that exist in between.Journalist Emily Dinsdale and filmmaker Bronwen Parker-Rhodes have collected images and stories from the women working in the London strip clubs over several years. Having been part of the industry themselves, they have a unique and intimate access to the seldom-heard stories, giving voice to an age-old industry, from the perspective of the traditionally voiceless workers. Supported by original, behind the scenes photography from the authors, these narratives express vulnerability, empowerment, curiosity and the complexity and duplicity of relationships--in short, what it is to be human.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press/Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, 148 color plates. A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by Warhol and Mapplethorpe, presented side by side and in depth for the first time.

Hardcover. New York, Monacelli, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages, Full-page photographs throughout, most b&w, minor edge wear and remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Ron Galella, the photographer who made his name capturing celebrities in unguarded, often private moments, was a favorite of Andy Warhol, who shared his fascination with the great and near-great. Warhol himself recorded his nightly rounds through a seemingly endless parade of parties, openings, and happenings in his diaries. In these photographs Galella presents the definitive visual diary of Warhol's life and times, his entourage, and his haunts.

Softcover. NY, New American Library, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. Over one hundred photos of Warhol, his friends and activities. Name on front fly leaf. otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Seventy full-size plates and seventy-five smaller illustrations, all reproduced in tri-tone plus tinted varnish, convey the subtlety and power of the extraordinary figurative work of Edward Weston (1886-1958). This is the first major publication focusing solely upon his portraiture and nudes, offering new insights into the breadth and quality of Weston's considerable achievement. The book was published on the occasion of a major traveling exhibition of Weston's portraits and nudes organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. All the prints are drawn from the collection of William H. Lane, who acquired them from the heirs of Edward Weston. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st UK, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket.. Introductions by Bob Hope and Charlton Heston. Black & white photos. 220 pages. A selection of publicity photos from Hollywood's Golden Age.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Illustrated with full color photographs of group portraits. Dust jacket with a few small chips along edges - dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Center for American Places, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages. Clambering down slippery rocks to a swimming hole. Ducking the plume of smoke from a barbecue grill. Wishing for a breeze in a too-small dome tent. Scanning the sky for rain from a postage-stamp backyard. It is in these small moments of action--and inaction--that Justin Kimball captures our everyday attempts to relax. Indeed, one might argue that the events depicted are everyday life. Kimball's compelling photographs depict ordinary people--parents and teens, grandparents and kids--in landscapes of leisure. These are not the exclusive resorts and white sand beaches of the affluent; rather, they are the parks, campgrounds, and fishing piers where most Americans vacation. They are natural landscapes--inviting, green, and sometimes beautiful--but at the same time they are imperfect--muddy, crowded, and partially paved. There is nothing idyllic about these vacation spots; indeed, Kimball's photographs make clear that daily life can never be fully left behind. The people in his pictures, though momentarily transformed by cascading water or the shade of towering trees, remain enmeshed in ties of family and obligation, shadowed by thoughts of home.

Hardcover. Chicago, CityFiles Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages. Retrospective collection of snapshot photographs, almost all by anonymous contributors. Some color, mostly b&w images.

Hardcover. Chicago, CityFiles Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages. Retrospective collection of snapshot photographs, almost all by anonymous contributors. Some color, mostly b&w images.