Oblong 8vo. Signed by Josef Schulz. A photo essay about disused military checkpoints and border stations across Europe, catalogued in this series by Polish-born photographer Josef Schulz (+ slideshow). Named Übergang after the German word for crossing, the series of images depicts transnational borders that have become redundant. Each shot has also been..... More
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. Over the past twenty-five years, the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places where industrial activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His surveys of the man-made terrain of quarrying, mining, railcutting, recycling, oil..... More
Santa Fe: Arena, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Misrach has redefined contemporary landscape photography with his images of the splendor and destruction of the American West. Each of his "cantos" considers another chapter in the epic story of humankind and the land. Far from portraying the edenic, pristine landscapes of early..... More
Santa Fe: Arena, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Essay by Clark Worswick. This work springs from the artist's careful scrutiny of the genre of great nineteenth-century "exotic" photographs of Asia, the work that flourished from the banks of the Nile and Cairo to the quayside of Yokohama between 1859 and 1879..... More
Prague: Kant, 2000. Second revived and enlarged edition. Hardcover. Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) together with those of Jaromir Funke, Jaroslav Rossler and Josef Sudek, constitute the most significant Czech contributions to world photography in the first half of the 20th Century. Drtikol's photographs remain exceptionally impressive today for their originality, depth..... More
Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed by Phillip Toledano. Regarding the art of 'phone sex': "A lot of people think we're all horny women that look like supermodels. They don't know that some of us are skinny ugly women, or fat ugly women, or skinny pretty..... More
Pasadena: Twelve Trees, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Limited to 5000 copies. "'This book is my album of the faces of the people I have encountered along the way in the last thirty years, somehow held in the suspension of time, like particles in the air made visible by sunlight..... More
New York: Aperture, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Signed by William Christenberry. Foreword by Elizabeth Broun. Essays by Walter Hopps, Andy Grundberg, and Howard N. Fox. Since the early 1960s, William Christenberry has plumbed the regional identity of the American South, focusing his attention on Hale County, Alabama, from..... More
Los Angeles: St. Ann's Press, 2003. Reprint. Hardcover. Originally published in 1986. Signed by Bruce Davidson. "During my year in the subway 1980-1981, I carried two Canon T-90 cameras, generally using a 17 mm f/4.0, 24 mm f/1.4, 50mm f/2.0 and 100 mm f/20. Attached to the camera was a...... More
Tucson: Nazraeli Press, (2001). First edition. Hardcover. #34 of 1000 slipcased copies signed by Michael Kenna. More
Boston: Bulfich Press/Little Brown & Co, (1990). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 50 color illustrations. A breathtaking collection of flower photographs by Mapplethorpe. All in color, some of his final work. Though his best known flower images were in black and white, this book reveals his genius in color. The photographs..... More
Munchen: Schirmer/Mosel, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by both Bernd and Hilla, their third book. Text in German. 240 pages with 223 duotone black and white plates. Bernd and Hilla Becher are best known for their austere, elegiac, and widely influential photographs of industrial architecture in their native Germany. The..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Eggleston on the title page. This volume provides a sequence of images (150) which form an almost autobiographical narrative, beginning with pictures of Eggleston's home territory in the Mississippi Delta and radiating out across the USA. More
Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Witkin's first monograph boldly signed and inscribed by him on the title page. Joel-Peter Witkin is an American artist whose constructed photographs depict macabre often grotesque scenes. Working in the vein of the earlier photographers Henry Peach Robinson and Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Witkin..... More
New York: Powerhouse Books, 1996. Signed limited edition with print laid in. Hardcover. #137 of 300 numbered copies with a signed print laid in. Photojournalist Sylvia Plachy and Investigative Reporter James Ridgeway produced this look at people involved in the sex industry over three years in the 1990s while working..... More
Santa Fe: Channel Photographics, (2003). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Of all the sacred sites that Kenro Izu has photographed since 1979, Angkor Wat is undoubtedly his spiritual and psychological base camp. While he has so often succeded in representing the sacred and ancient landscape, Angkor Wat is the creative..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, (1979). Third edition. Hardcover. Signed on the front free endpaper by Karsh dated in the year of publication. 48 gravure illustrations. He is the classic portrait artist of the camera, photographer of the world's great. To be photographed by Karsh has been a sign of..... More
Brooklyn: Powerhouse Books, (2009). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. If Harry Benson's photos are surgical in their incisive precision, they are at the same time compassionate, poetic, moving, and frequently downright beautiful in their balanced, compositional perfection, possible Felliniesque in their empathetic embrace of the diversities, and even the grotesqueries..... More
Jackson/London: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Second cloth edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed by Birney Imes on the title page. Originally published in 1990. Here, Imes reveals a previously unexplored domain, the black juke joints of the Mississippi Delta country, and transforms this familiar phenomenon of Delta cultural life into something..... More
London: Aurum Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed by David Hamilton on the half-title page and dated in the year of publication. Each person's idea of a place in the sun, our personal Utopia, is quite different: it may be east of the sun or west of the moon..... More
Sante Fe: Arena Editions, 2000. First edition. 4to. The iconic American actor caught in the 1960s at the peak of his talent and power. Photographed in public and private by his friend William Claxton. Over 100 black-and-white and color images appear in this unique book design commemorating one of the..... More
Gottingen: Steidl, (2006). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed by Alec Soth on the title page. Following on from the hugely succesful, 'Sleeping by the Mississippi' (2004), Soth‘s 'Niagara' came out in 2006 – and saw the photographer making work on both sides of the US-Canada border in the..... More
New York: Aperture, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. The fierce and lyrical testament of the legendary Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. His elaborate and erotic psyche is captured by the master Japanesee photographer Eikoh Hosoe. BA RA KEI is an extraordinary collaboration between two great creative personalities of modern Japan. Its..... More
New York: Aperture, (2006). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. This copy signed by Stephen Shames and Bobby Seale. "This book has taken almost forty years to emerge. In 1970, a major American publisher agreed to publish my photographs of the Black Panther Party. That year, my wife Phyllis and I drove..... More
Paris: Magnum Photos, 2007. First edition. Paperback. 4to. Signed by Alec Soth. In this beautifully produced third issue of the international art/fashion collectible Fashion Magazine, the acclaimed American photographer Alec Soth plays Editor-in-Chief, Advertising Director and sole photographic contributor--to quietly mesmerizing results. Featuring exquisite printing, unexpected gatefolds, special inks, varnishes..... More
