Photography
Certain Slant of Light
New York Graphic Society, September 1980. Hardcover.
The Tri-X Chronicles
Tea Lautrec Litho, 1972. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Glossy paperbound, profusely illustrated with photographs. Viet-Nam War era and political movements in the Bay Area B/W photographs. Oblong format, 11 x 8.5 inches. First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Small chips to front cover where price sticker may have been.....
Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past
Thames & Hudson, September 2011. Hardcover. In a media-saturated world, are we in fact becoming immune to the impact of photography that captures cataclysmic moments of devastation and suffering? Have we increasingly stopped looking and thinking, or is it that we react more to photographs taken after an event where.....
Ira David Sankey (CDV photograph)
ca. 1890s. Trade Paperback. CDV photograph reproduction, ca. 1890s. Sankey was an American gospel singer and composer, known for his long association with Dwight L. Moody in revivalist campaigns in Britain and America in the closing decades of the 19th century. He pioneered a musical style that influenced church services.....
Outside of Time
Beaux-Arts Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 60 B/W photographs. Limited to 500 hardcover copies. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in gray cloth covers with lettering in white. In very good dust jacket with edge and corner scuffs and wear, and short closed tears at fold edges.
Eisenstaedt--Germany
Harry N. Abrams, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 96 pages. B/W photographs. After 50 years Eisenstaedt returns to Germany photographing 'places and people - sometimes the same people - I photographed fifty years ago.' - from the foreword. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.....
Richard Estes: The Urban Landscape
Museum of Fine Arts and New York Graphic Society, May 1979. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 69 pages. Exhibition catalogue. Illustrations in color and B/W. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in color illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Pi'ter [Second Edition]
Carnet de Rinoceros Jr., 2009. Hardcover. 48 pages. 5 by 5-3/4 inches. *** Described on the title page as 'seconde edition corrigee et competee [second edition corrected and completed]', but in fact, it is an entirely new monograph on this Russian underground photographer. There a few, if any, repeated images.....
Chinese Encounters (prospectus)
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979. Trade Paperback. 16 folded sheets, loose, 9.5 x 7.75 inches when folded. Pages 1-16, 113-136, 217-236. First edition (first printing of prospectus. A near fine copy. With typed letter from publisher, addressed 'Dear Reviewer. I am pleased to enclose folded and gathered sheets of CHINESE ENCOUNTERS.....
Harmony of Reflected Light: The Photographs of Arthur Wesley Dow
Museum of New Mexico Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 166 pages. Illustrations in color and B/W. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in black cloth with yellow lettering in a near fine dust jacket. The author weaves 135 reproductions of Dow's images with essays about the artist's personal and.....
The Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative
Macmillian Publishing Co., Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 10 by 9-1/2 inches. 90 black-and-white photographic reproductions of bullfighting, including the Spanish bullfighters Luis Miguel Dominguin and Antonio Ordonez, plus text by Mailer. Originally issued with a 33-1/2 r.p.m record of Mailer reading from the text and a poem by Garcia.....
Full Moon Rising, White Sands Small Missile Range, New Mexico (poster)
San Francisco Art institute, 1981. First Edition. Poster. Poster, 24 x 18 inches, photographic image of missiles printed on pink stock. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy previously folded twice for mailing with address label on reverse.
Jan Splichal
Foto Mida, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 13 pages of text in Czech. Separate 12 page pamphlet with text in English. 60 B/W full-page photographs. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in white cloth covers. Very good dust jacket with small hole and scratch marks on front panel.
The Photographic Art of Lynn Fayman
La Jolla Museum of Art, 1969. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 20 pages. Exhibition catalogue for exhibit January 17-February 23, 1969. 15 B/W images of Fayman's photographs. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in color illustrated wrappers (paperback). Includes photographic negative with title of exhibit in outline, cut to.....
A Bibliography of Writings by and about Women in Photography 1850-1950
Peter Palmquist, 1990. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 64 pages. Limited to 300 copies. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated white wrappers (paperback), stapled.
Revisions: Zeitgenossische Fotografie Aus Schottland (German Edition)
Nazraeli Press, 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 95 pages. Photographers include: Calum Colvin, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Gavin Evans, Owen Logan, Calum Angus Mackay, Wendy McMurdo, Ron O'Donnell, Leslie Punton, and Maud Sulter. Text in German and English. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Aggie Weston's No. 16 Winter 1979
Coracle Press, 1979. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Text: 'A Straight Northward Walk Across Dartmoor' and 'A 2 1/2 Day Circular Walk in the Scottish Highlands. 2 full-page and 1, 2-page B/W photographs. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated white wrappers (paperback).
Denise Levertov (silver print photograph)
Chris Felver, 1996. First Edition. Photograph. Photograph, oblong format, 14 x 11 inches; image size, 9 x 8 inches. Felver is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker, recognized for his photographs of those in the literary world. Signed by Felver on rear of photograph with copyright date, 1996. A near fine.....
History of Photography: An International Quarterly. Vol. I: No. 1-4 (1977); Vol. II, No. 1-4 (1978); Vol. 3, No. 1 (january, 1979)
Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1977-9. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Approximately 90-100 pp. per issue. 11.75 x 8.25 inches. First edition (first printing). Very good in white illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Exposure: 15:3, 4, 5; 16:1, 2, 3, 4. (7 issues)
Society for Photographic Education, 1977-8. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 48-60 pages per issue. Oblong format, 11 x 8.5 inches. First editions (first printings). Very good copies in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Photogravure
H. Walter Barnett, ca. 1904. First Edition. Pamphlet. Photogravure, 10.25 x 8 inches; plate margins, 6.5 x 4.75 inches; image size, 5.6 x 4 inches. H. Walter Barnett was an Australian photographer and filmmaker who moved to London in 1897 and, in 1904, published a collection of photographs as 'A.....
Of Women and Their Elegance [Press kit]
Simon & Schuster, 1980. Novelty. Press kit for Mailer's imaginary memoir of Marilyn Monroe. Loose sheets in a box with 5 high-quality captioned photos from the book. With a photo copied note on publisher's letterhead noting 'this press kit is being sent to you in lieu of galleys.' With a......
Original Photograph, 9.5 x 7 inches, of Mick Jagger, Lyon, June, 1976, Palais des Sports
Francois Legrande, 1976. Photograph. Dramatic B/W photograph of Jagger on stage, holding microphone. Legrande is a French photographer who specializes in photographs of artists, writers and performers. Original photograph, oblong format. Some silvering at edges. Surface wrinkles. Stamp on rear: 'Please credit photographie Francois Legrande Geneve.' Written in ink on.....
Crack Cocaine (2 photographs)
Miami Herald, 1985-86. Trade Paperback. Michel du Cille (1956-2014) was a Jamaican-born photojournalist who won 3 Pulitzer Prizes. In 1988 he was awarded the Feature Photography Pulitzer Prize 'for photographs portraying the decay and subsequent rehabilitation of a housing project overrun by the drug crack.' These photographs are from that.....