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Small folio. This copy bears Leibovitz's presentation inscription on the front endpaper: "For Lena / with great admiration / Annie Leibovitz / New York 1999." From the estate of Lena Horne. A one-of-a-kind copy.
WOMEN by Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag.
(Horne, Lena)
New York: Random House, 1999.
Price: $2,250.00
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POLAROID 35-mm Photo Album. 3 Volumes.
Ueda, Shoji
Tokyo: Self-Published, 1986.
Price: $1,850.00
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BATAVIA: Photographs by Joel Gardner / Essay by Raymond Carver
Carver, Raymond
Lunenburg (VT): Meriden-Stinehour Press, (1986).
Price: $1,750.00
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MOMENTS PRESERVED. Eight Essays in Photographs and Words.
Penn, Irving
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1960).
Price: $1,250.00
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One of only 25 copies signed by Mahurin with an original signed print, "Belfast" laid into a special envelope. The book is bound in brown cloth and laid into the publisher's clamshell black cloth case. A nice production.
MATT MAHURIN
Mahurin, Matt
Sante Fe: Twin Palms, 1999.
Price: $950.00
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Large 4to. This copy is inscribed by Irving Penn to his close friend, and assistant, the artist Mary Faulconer on the half-title page: "For dear dear Mary, with Love / P." Underneath his inscription Penn has drawn a circle then signed his name inside, adding "NY. 1984," the year of publication. This is the first comprehensive retrospective on Penn's work, and was published in conjunction with an exhibition at MOMA. 216 p, with 156 plates (21 in color) with 35 reference illustrations (7 in color).
IRVING PENN.
Szarkowski, John
New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1984).
Price: $950.00
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4to. First edition. Illustrated with 56 duotone plates, 40 full color plates, and over 500 halftones (102 of the images are full size, 432 are small, 1 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches). A 5 X 7 color print, "Woman With Claws", is mounted in a mat on the front cover. Original prospectus laid in. In the original printed acetate dust jacket (lightly scuffed), as issued. One of 1500 copies (though only about 400 were actually produced). Included is a catalog for an exhibition of the photographer's work, titled simply "Outerbridge." which was produced by the Los Angeles Center For Photographic Studies in 1976. It is one of 3000 numbered copies and includes a number of black and white prints (with tissue guards) together with a carbro-color photograph on the front cover.
A SINGULAR AESTHETIC: Photographs & Drawings 1921-1941
Outerbridge, Paul
Santa Barbara: Arabesque Books, 1981.
Price: $850.00
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PORTRAITS by Bill Burke.
Carver, Raymond
New York: Ecco Press, 1987.
Price: $750.00
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Folio Illustrated with photographs by Richard Avedon and text by Truman Capote. 152 pp., numerous black-and-white illustrations, 11x14º". Mostly portraits of famous people of the twentieth century, including Picasso, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Mae West. With the original glassine and publisher's slipcase (very good with some wear), as issued.
OBSERVATIONS. With Comments by Truman Capote.
Avedon, Richard
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959.
Price: $750.00
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This copy is boldly signed by Avedon on the title page. Folio. 162 images. In 1946, Avedon had set up his own studio and began providing images for magazines including Vogue and Life. He soon became the chief photographer for Harper's Bazaar. Avedon did not conform to the standard technique of taking fashion photographs (showing no emotion), instead he showed models full of emotion, smiling, laughing and many times in action. In 1966 he left Harper's to work as a staff photographer for Vogue, he then proceeded to become the lead photographer there and shot most of the covers from 1973 (until 1988). Notable among his fashion advertisement photograph series are the recurring assignments for Gianni Versace (starting in 1980). He then started branching out, photographing mental patients, the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War protestors, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and, of course, his two famous shoots of The Beatles. Then the cowboys and miners. In short, Avedon was always interested in how portraiture captures the personality and soul of its subjects. Then he was being distinguished by the use of his large prints. He became a staff photographer for The New Yorker in 1992 and has won many awards for his work. He died in 2004, at 81.
PHOTOGRAPHS: 1947-1977
Avedon, Richard
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1978.
Price: $750.00
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IRVING PENN.
Szarkowski, John
New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1984).
Price: $450.00
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SUBURBIA. New & Improved
Owens, Bill
New York: Fotofolio, 1999.
Price: $400.00
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4to's. Both perfect bound in the original wrappers, housed in the original folder. the Penn book on Miyake has 14-color illustrations and a poem by Shuntaro Tanikawa. The Miyake book is 40pp, with both black and white and color illustrations. This exhibition of both Penn and Miyake ran from September 1-20, 1990. Books designed by Ikko Tanaka. Sharp set in the original printed folder.
PLEATS PLEASE by Issey Miyake, and ISSEY MIYAKE by Irving Penn. Two-Volume Exhibition Catalog.
Penn, Irving & Issey Miyake
Tokyo: Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990.
Price: $375.00
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BETWEEN TIME AND TIMBUKTU Or Prometheus-5, A Space Fantasy. Selected Photographs by Jill Krementz And From the Production of the Net Playhouse Special.
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.
New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1972.
Price: $350.00
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Folio. 1/100 numbered copies signed by Duane Michals. Housed in the original publisher's cloth slipcase.
THE PORTRAITS OF DUANE MICHALS 1958-1988
Michals, Duane
Pasadena: Twelvetrees, 1988.
Price: $350.00
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Edited by James Aliner with an introduction by Sherry Turner. 82 illustrations after De«arava's images of Harlem. Still in the original shrink wrap.
PHOTOGRAPHS.
DeCarava, Roy
Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1981.
Price: $300.00
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Folio. A collaboration. Having met in New York in 1943, Baldwin and Avedon were friends and collaborators for more than 30 years. Here is a large photo book about the United States. Avedon's second book with gravure photographs in varying sizes up to double page spreads. White glazed boards with titled silver inset, with original publisher's slipcase.
NOTHING PERSONAL. Text by James Baldwin & Photographs by Avedon.
Avedon, Richard & James Baldwin
New York: Atheneum, 1964.
Price: $300.00
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IN THE AMERICAN WEST.
Avedon, Richard
New York: Abrams, 1985.
Price: $300.00
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Folio. With 162 Avedon photographs.
PHOTOGRAPHS: 1947-1977
Avedon, Richard
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978.
Price: $300.00
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EVIDENCE 1944-1994.
Avedon, Richard
New York/Rochester: Random House/Eastman House, 1994.
Price: $300.00
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