Joan Almond: The Past In The Present
St Anns Pr, February 2002. Hardcover. A very good hardcover copy with no dust jackeet as published.
Photography
Humanity and Inhumanity: The Photographic Journey of George Rodger
Phaidon Press Limited, 1994. Hardcover. 320 pages. 10-1/2 by 12 inches. The book presents the photographs that define Rodger's career and a commentary on his journey. With over 260 images in black-and-white. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with only a few tiny chips to the edges and.....
Polish Cold War Neon
Mark Batty Publisher, 2011. First Edition. Unknown. 224 pages. 9-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. Illustrated in full color. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with only minor shelf wear and no dust jacket as issued. In 1929, the first neon sign in Poland went up in Warsaw. Popular from.....
Photography and Beyond in Japan: Space, Time, and Memory
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 1995. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a near fine dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom, some sagging to the text block but otherwise a very nice copy. This is a survey of the impact of photography on contemporary Japanese art.....
Berenice Abott Changing New York: Photographien aus den 30er Jahren
Schirmer/Mosel, 1999. Trade Paperback. 398 pages. A monograph on photographer Berenice Abbott's time in and impact on New York, written in German. A very good copy with no dust jacket, as issued. Bump to spine head and corners of boards as well as minor shelf wear. Overall a nice copy.....
Food & Drink: Modernist Cuisine Photography
The Cooking Lab, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. 205 pages. 13-3/4 by 10-1/2 inches. First edition (first printing). Small indent to the top of the rear board else a fine copy; no dust jacket. In a nearly fine, lightly scuffed slipcase. A large heavy book. Take a deep dive into Modernist.....
Robert Doisneau
Abbeville Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 384 pages. 9-3/4 by 13 inches. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A large, heavy book. A biography of the French photographer, who spoke only French and never photographed outside France's borders, discussing his work with the Renault.....
Gardens of Sand: Commercial Photography in the Middle East 1859-1905
Turner, 2010. Hardcover. 144 pages. 9-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Binding is tight, boards show very minor shelfwear. Jacket has multiple bumps, chips, and scuffs as well as some loss to the front cover photo from the removal of a sticker.....
Portraits: Photographs
University of Texas Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 104 pages. 10 by 11-1/2 inches. The 'definitive collection of half a century's work'-- from the front flap. Full page reproductions of black-and-white photographs of rare and unpublished images along with Brandt's most famous images. First edition (first printing). Near fine in.....
Likeness and Landscape: Thomas M. Easterly and the Art of the Daguerreotype
Missouri Historical Society Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 234 pages. Many reproductions of Easterly's daguerrotypes, about half in color. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket; mylar jacket cover affixed to the verso at the spine. A large, heavy book. Described by his contemporaries as.....
Mathew Brady and the Image of History
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 232 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Spotting to the top of the page block otherwise a very nice copy. Inscribed by the author to a previous owner on the first blank, dated 1997. Discusses how.....
Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot
Princeton University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 264 pages. 11-1/4 by 13-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A large, heavy book. William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) is best remembered as the scientist who invented photography. Others had tried recording the images projected.....
Oklahoma: A Portrait of America
Billy Books, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 351 pages. 10-1/4 by 11-1/4 inches. A collection of photographs of Oklahoma residents and locations printed in full color on glossy paper. Each photograph has a brief description collected in a 12-page appendix. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Signed.....
Kiosk: a History of Photojournalism 1839 - 1973 / Eine geschichte der fotoreportage
Steidl, 2001. Hardcover. A very good copy. Some shelf wear, with pictorial paper over boards worn at the corners; no dust jacket. Page block is slightly bowed. Pages are clean and undamaged. Life, Look, Picture Post, Quick and Kristall--once upon a time, you could buy them at the kiosk around.....
The Lovers
Stedelijk Museum, 1989. Trade Paperback. 204 pages. Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk. With essays by the authors. Mostly illustrated in color. A paperback copy in very good condition.
Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge
California Historical Society Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Spotting to the top of the page block thus a very good copy in a near fine dust jacket. Publisher's prospectus laid in. The work of eighty-five-year-old photographer Rondal Partridge will be celebrated by the California Historical Society.....
Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West
ABRAMS, July 1996. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Many impressions of the American West as a place of romance and scenic beauty, filled with towering mountains, majestic canyons and unusual wildlife, have been shaped by photographs, many of which were.....
Carleton Watkins
Harry N. Abrams, September 1999. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Carleton Watkins (1829-1916)was perhaps the greatest American landscape photographer of the 19th century. His groundbreaking images of Yosemite, the Columbia River, and other natural wonders captured.....
Dassonville: William E. Dassonville, California Photographer (1879-1957)
Carl Mautz, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. William Dassonville was a leading art photographer in California during the early part of the 20th century. His artistry influenced Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and many other leading exponents of artistic photography.....
Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta
Twin Palms Publishers, 1997. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. A photographic documentary captures the essence of Black life on the Mississippi Delta.
Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression
Yale University Press, November 2004. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parksall then virtually unknownwere.....
Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York
New Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A provocative new illustrated history of the famed early chronicler of New York's immigrant poor, seen here as an opportunistic, camera-toting social reformer whose legacy lives on. I don't remember.....
Frozen In Iron: A Selection of Tintypes from The Peter E. Palmquist Collection
(the author), 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 217 pages. 9-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. Illustrated with more than 200 full-page reproductions of Palmquist's tintype collection, now housed at the Beinecke Library, at Yale. Limited to 300 copies. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in pictorial wrappers (paperback).
Jason Fulford: The Mushroom Collector
Soon Institute, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Binding tight. Text block is slightly warped/wavy at top. Negligible wear to dust jacket. As photographer Jason Fulford recently learned firsthand, mushrooms have a way of growing and spreading wherever.....
Robert Frank: Portfolio: 40 Photos, 1941-1946
Steidl, 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. A near fine paperback copy in original cardboard envelope. Slight wear on top right corner of cover, point still sharp. Clean and well bound. Envelope shows general wear but is solid. When Robert Frank immigrated to New York from Zurich in 1947, having apprenticed.....