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.
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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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
PHOTOGRAPHS.
London/New York: Petersburg Press, (1982). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. The first book of photographs by one of the world's formost visual artists. Selected from more than 20,000 images, these pictures record the artist's intense involvement with photography. 80 color plates and six black and white illustrations. 96pp.
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....
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...
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...
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...
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.
ON READING.
New York: Grossman, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Andre Kertesz, 1894-1985, was one of the most inventive, influential, and prolific photographers in the medium's history. This small volume, first published in 1971, became one of his signature works. Taken between 1920 and 1970, these photographs capture people reading in many parts...
SWEET PEA. A Black Girl Growing Up in the Rural South
New York: Harcourt Brace World, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Margaret Mead. A photo essay of a young black girl growing up in the rural south.
THE BOYHOOD PHOTOS OF J. H. LARTIGUE. The Family Album of a Gilded Age.
Lausanne: Ami Guichard, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Tipped in black and white photographs with captions. Jacques Lartigue first began to take pictures with a camera given to him by his father in 1901. He was 7, and Paris was still the romantic center of the world. Lartigue's pictures, along with...
FOTOREPORTAGEN.
Hamburg: Edition Cantz, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Text in German. 140pp illustrated from black and white and color photographs. Includes editorial images of Churchill, LBJ at his ranch, bullfights in Valencia, Franco and many others.
PHOTOGRAPHS. 1970-1990. Includes A Conversation with Ingrid Sischy.
New York: Harper Collins, (1991). First edition. Small folio. This book collects the most famous images as well as many unpublished pictures, and a generous sampling of early black-and-white work, including family photographs that are to Leibovitz touchstones for everything else she has done. Her subjects; from Patti Smith and...
WOMEN. With An Essay By Susan Sontag. Signed by both Leibovitz & Sontag
New York: Random House, (1999). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed by both Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag on the half-title page. With full page color, and black and white photographs encompassing a broad spectrum of subjects; a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars...