HALLOWEEN IN BUCKTOWN.
Chicago: Man Mountain Publishing, (1987). First edition. Paperback. Introduction by David G. Currie. Features 40 black-and-white photographs, 5 1/2 X 5 1/2 inches. More
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PORTRAITS Of Friends and Acquaintances
Chicago: Man Mountain Publishing, (1987). First edition. Spiral bound in the original wrappers as issued, with stiff photo illustrated dust jacket. Introduction by David Currie 'Variations on a Theme'. An essay titled 'Learning to See' also by David Currie. The Darkroom (essay)", and lastly the essay 'The Second Beginning'. While..... More
ROAMING. Landscape Photographs 1994-2004.
Tucson: Nazraeli Press, (2005). First edition. hardcover. This copy signed by Todd Hido on the half-title page. The work in Roaming appears arrestingly different than that in Todd Hido's previous two monographs. It is as if, having spent so many nights outside the eerie, brightly lit suburban tract homes featured..... More
HOCKNEY ON PHOTOGRAPHY. Conversations With Paul Joyce.
New York: Harmony Books, 1998. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. 4to. 192pp. Hockney, talking frankly with filmmaker and friend Paul Joyce, sheds light on his journey into photography and the effect the medium has had on his paintings, graphic designs, and stage sets. Profusely illustrated from paintings, photographs..... More
BA RA KEI. ORDEAL BY ROSES.
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
PASSAGE TO ANGKOR. Introduction and Poems by Helen Ibbitson Jessup
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
SACRED PLACES.
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
EASTER ISLAND. Signed Limited Edition
Tucson: Nazraeli Press, (2001). First edition. Hardcover. #34 of 1000 slipcased copies signed by Michael Kenna. More
KERTESZ ON KERTESZ. A Self-Portrait. Introduction by Peter Adam.
New York: Abbeville Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. With photographs and text by Kertesz. This combination of revealing, often charming text and sparkling duotone reproductions forms a unique, 120-page self-portrait of the man and artist-of his years in his native Hungary, in Paris in the 20s and 30s, and..... More
A LIFETIME OF PERCEPTION
New York: Abrams, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. This retrospective volume celebrates the seventy years of Kertesz' photographic career, from his youth in his native Hungary, through an exciting and fruitful decade in Paris, to his American period in Greenwich Village. It presents 150 insightful and penetrating images, including 60 photographs..... More
A LIFETIME OF PERCEPTION
New York: Abrams, (1982). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Features 150 duotone illustrations, with text by Ben Lifson. Grey cloth with silver stamping, crisp copy. More
THE JEWISH WRITER.
New York: Henry Holt, (1998). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. The Jews have been called "The People of the Book" for their love of reading and writing. This collectio, spanning three decades, brings together in photographs and text the man and varied Jewish voices; novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, and scholars, that..... More
PHOTOGRAPHS. Introduction by Tom Wolfe
New York: Pantheon/Rolling Stone Press Book, (1983). First edition. Hardcover. This copy signed by Leibovitz on the half-title page, at the top she writes the date: "February 18, 1983." Underneath she has executed her 'handprint' in black ink (full size), then signs her name at bottom. She also did a...... More
I LIKE TO EAT RIGHT ON THE DIRT. A Child's Journey Back in Space and Time.
Clintonville: Bleak House Books, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Oblong small 4to. An appealing and warm "family album," of and by Danny Lyon. Boldly signed by Lyon on the title page. "I like to eat right on the dirt / and let the food fall on my shirt / and wipe..... More
MERCI GONAIVES. A Photographer's Account of Haiti and the February Revolution
Clintondale: Bleak Beauty Books, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Signed by Danny Lyon. Bound in illustrated wrappers, as issued. More
THE PAPER NEGATIVE
Bernalillo: Bleak Beauty, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Signed by the photographer. Bound in illustrated wrappers with a minor bump to the front corner. More
PICTURES FROM THE NEW WORLD.
Millerton: Aperture, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Photographs & Text by Danny Lyon. Oblong 4to. The jacket is price-clipped. More
FLOWERS. Foreword by Patti Smith
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
AMERICAN ODYSSEY. 1963-1999 With a Poem by Maya Angelou
New York: Aperture, 1999. Mary Ellen Mark. First edition. Hardcover. The unspoken poetry of our nation revealed by an American master. The first collection of the extensive and superlative work realized by Mary Ellen Mark in the United States, Mary Ellen Mark is composed of many previously unpublished images, as..... More
CLIN D'OEIL: A Collection of Portraits. Volume 1
Jack McKain. Hardcover. 4to. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To JP- / Glad we / Finally Got to / Work Together / Much Love! / JM" (?). Specializing in intimate portraiture, Jack McKain is known for his cinematic yet candid photographs of musicians. Whether shooting icons like Common, John Mayer, and..... More
THE FAMILY ALBUM OF LUCYBELLE CRATER
N.P. The Jargon Society, 1974. First paperback edition. With texts by Jonathan Greene, Ronald Johnson, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Guy Mendes, Thomas Meyer, and Jonathan Williams. Ralph Eugene Meatyard was an American photographer who lived in Lexington, Kentucky. His most famous works involved masks, worn by posing people, or ordinary objects..... More
ALBUM. The Portraits of Duane Michals 1958-1988
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
ALBUM. The Portraits of Duane Michals 1958-1988
Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. One of 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..... More
REAL DREAMS. Photo Stories
Danbury: Addison House, (1976). Duane Michals. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. This book begins with spare moments and encounters of short duration. A hallway, a vacant street, a living room serve as stage sets for ephemeral dramas. Immediately, we are drawn into a haunting construct where poetic and mysterious resonances abound..... More
MILKY.
Seattle: Decode Books, (2009). SIgned limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. #119/500 copies signed by Miller on the colophon page. Also signed by Miller on the title page. Illustrated from black and white photographs (including one to the front cover). The camera documented the immediate emotional reactions of 60 individuals being doused..... More