JUDY COLEMAN. Photographs
Altadena: Twin Palms, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Folio size. 54 full page images. More
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DESPERATE PLEASURES.
Austin: Dorsoduro Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Sm 4to. Introduction by Paul Theroux (excerpt from Discovering Dingle). A monograph with images of Chicago motorcycle gangs, KKK, Nazis, Georgia Holy-roller church services with snakes, musicians, weirdos, and all around interesting photographs. With an afterword by April Rapier. More
SUBSISTENCE U.S.A.
New York: New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1973, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Light spotting to page edges, a sticker removed from ffep. Text by Carol Hill. Uncommon Davidson title. More
PHOTOGRAPHS.
Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Edited by James Aliner with an introduction by Sherry Turner. 82 illustrations after DeCarava's images of Harlem. 192pp with 82 full-page black and white plates. Still in the original shrink wrap. More
OF NIGHT AND DAY. A Photographic Essay
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, (1968). Nell Dorr. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. This copy is inscribed by Nell Dorr and dated 1969 opposite the copyright page. A photo essay on man's quest for the meaning of life. 98pp. More
EISENSTAEDT'S GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHY.
New York: Viking Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. There are 101 different ways in which the quality of a photograph can be transformed from amateur to professional status, and "Eisie," as he is affectionately known, discusses them all. He deals with subject matter, composition, lighting, special effects, and numerous common... More
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1962). Second edition being a reprint of the original 1938 first edition. Hardcover. Evans, was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. This book is Walker Evans' pictorial record... More
MANY ARE CALLED. Photographs by Walker Evans. With an Introduction by James Agee
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. These are Walker Evans' photographs of people in New York City, with James Agee's eloquent and restrained introduction. These images were made available for the first time in this book. Stark images, yet powerful and beautiful, all at the same time. 178pp. Erratum... More
SIGHTINGS.
New York: Chelsea House, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. A painter for more than ten years, Feldstein turns his eye to photography. His "Sightings" show is involved with composition as well as the play of light and shadow. More
THE POET EXPOSED.
New York: Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Portraits by Felver of some of the famous poets. Prologue by Gary Snyder, Foreword by Robert Creeley, afterword by William E. Parker. 144 pages. More
COUNTDOWN TO ETERNITY. An Exhibition of Photographs. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pittsburgh: Manchester Graftsmen's Guild, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the photographer and dated 1994. One of 1250 copies bound in red and grey cloth stamped in gold, tissue printed dust jacket. The catalog of this touring exhibition, of photographs of Dr. King, has been funded by the Ford Foundation... More
DESERT REALTY.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2007. First edition. Paperback. 4to. Instead of focusing on the desert itself, Freeman has trained his lens on the structures we build there, from toolsheds to houses. An arresting collection of work that glorifies ordinary structures and subverts the conventions of landscape photography by reworking and... More
LIKE A ONE-EYED CAT. Photographs 1956-1987
New York: Abrams, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Text by Rod Slemmons. The first publication to survey the 30-year career of Lee Friedlander, one of America's great masters of photography. 4to. 153 plates in tritone.119 pages with a selected bibliography and selected exhibitions and awards. More
PRIMATIVES. Tribal Body Art and the Left-Hand Path.
San Francisco: Sun in Scorpio, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. One of 2000 numbered copies signed by Charles Gatewood. 4to. 63pp. Full page black and white photographs of body piercings, tattoo's and the like. Gatewood has an eye for this type thing. More
DEJA-VU.
New York: Lustrum Press, 1973. First edition. Paperback. As new copy still in the original shrinkwrap. This is Gibson's second monograph. Approx 50 black and white plates with no text. 4to size bound in the original perfect bound wrappers, as issued. Gibson, one of the leading figures in modern photography... More
FRA ANGELICO. The Light of the Soul
Paris / New York: Guillaud Editions, (1986). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Painting panels and Frescoes from the Convent of San Marco, Florence. All of the photographs taken by Nicolo Orsi Battaglini. The authors/photographers undertood their "Angelican" pilgrimage, each time they visited Italy. They had no idea that their search for... More
FRITZ HENLE'S GUILD TO ROLLEI PHOTOGRAPHY.
New York: Studio/Crowell, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Henle, a master using the Rollei cameras, tells how to take better pictures outdoors in the daytime and at night, how to work indoors, with available lights or flash or floods, how to set up a darkroom, and how to do your own... 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
GOOD FOLKS, GOOD COUNTRY
Washington: Craftsbury, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Inscribed by Hubbard to fellow photographer Bill Owens (with Owen's ink ownership signature), dated in 1981. Laid in is a TLS from Hubbard to Bill Owens. Hubbard, in 1977, inspired by the Farm Security Administration photographs of the 1930's, traveled the country in a.... More
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE.
New York: Barricade Books, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 4to size. A collection of provocative photographs of cross-dressers, drag artists, and transsexuals by London photographer Jeanette Jones. A look into a world far removed from ordinary life. It is a world where some of the most beautiful women are men, and... More
WHO WON SECOND PLACE AT OMAHA [A Journey] Written by Diane Kagan, Photographed by Meryl Joseph
New York: Random House, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. With vivid photographs and a compelling text, we enter a world of creatures who are less than human and more than animate. Dolls. It tells of their talent, their love affairs, and death. And describes the doll who won 2nd prize at Omaha. More
MAN + CAMERA. A Photographic Autobiography.
New York: Amphoto, 1970. Victor Keppler. First edition. Hardcover. Keppler was one of the most famous of the photographic illustrators, and this book documents in remarkable detail the complex nature of what he calls the "pressure cooker" of advertising photography. Illustrated with photographs, both black and white and color. 218... 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