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Bernalillo: Bleak Beauty, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Signed by the photographer. Bound in illustrated wrappers with a minor bump to the front corner. More
Bernalillo: Bleak Beauty, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Signed by the photographer. Bound in illustrated wrappers with a minor bump to the front corner. More
Millerton: Aperture, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Photographs & Text by Danny Lyon. Oblong 4to. The jacket is price-clipped. 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
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and superlative work realized by Mary Ellen Mark in the United States, Mary Ellen Mark is composed of many previously unpublished images, as.....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
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
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
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
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Reyner Banham. The desert provides the thematic focus in this book, but with the "cantos" organized around the four elements, Misrach offers an apocalyptic version of our complex relationship to it. Misrach's photographs are spectacular landscape views..... 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
Los Angeles: Nash Publications, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Photographer Bill Owen's copy, with his ownership signature. A 71 page catalog, self-published by rock & roll singer Graham Nash that highlights his collection of photographs, his first such catalog. In the original illustrated, perfect bound wrappers. One indentation to back cover..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1964. First thus. Hardcover. 4to. 116 pages with 210 illustrations. This copy inscribed by Newhall "For Libby / with all best / Braumont Newhall." Bookplate of Libby Atkins she dates 8/69 to front endpaper. Atkins was a former student of Beaumont Newhall and friend of Nancy Newhall..... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. A biography of Ansel Adams, that starts when he was a teenager, and a summer custodian, of sorts, of a small building provided by The Sierra Club. His hikes in the Nevada mountains taught a young Adams a respect for the..... More
New York: Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2005. Ruth Orkin. First edition thus. Paperback. Small 4to. In 1951, Life magazine sent Ruth Orkin on assignment to Israel. "From there she went to Italy, and it was in Florence that she met Jinx Allen (now known as Ninalee Craig), a painter and fellow..... More
Bologna: Damiani, (2007). First edition. Hardcover. 4ro. Inscribed by Bill Owens and dated 2014. A catalog raisonne bound in pictorial cloth. 223 pages. In 9 sections, spanning 40 years. Includes: RIOTS, San Francisco University (1967-68), Altamont (1968), Shots From the Taxi Cab (1967-68), Suburbia (1970-1972), Our Kind of People (1969-1975)..... More
San Francisco & New York: Straight Arrow & Simon Schuster, 1973, 1975, 1977. paperback. 3 volumes, all in wrappers, each volume signed by Bill Owens and dated 1978. All housed in a black cloth slipcase. Each volume measures 10 x 10 inches. Bill Owens is an American photographer, photojournalist, brewer..... More
New York: Fotofolio, (1999). First edition thus. Hardcover. 4to. A Revised edition of the 70's classic Suburbia signed by Bill Owens on the title page. Limited to 150 numbered signed copies with a signed 7 x 5 inch print in a special holder to rear pastedown, this being copy #38..... More
Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 2000. Third Printing. hardcover. Small folio. This copy signed by both on the title page. Third printing, limited to 2500 copies. Fantastical images beautifully reproduced in this, their first book. Robert and Shana Parke-Harrison creates constructed photographs which tell stories of loss, struggle, and personal exploration..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. This copy is inscribed by Irving Penn, "For old Pete / with all good thoughts / (signed) I.P." From the library of Peter Schub who had a long and distinguished career as a revered photo agent. Penn and Miyake, a...... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. This copy is inscribed by Issey Miyake: "Mr. Peter Schub / with gratitude / A / UN / (signed by Miyake) and dated 1988.9.1." From the library of Peter Schub who had a long and distinguished career as a revered..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Small folio. This copy is inscribed by Penn (1917-2009) to his long-time agent Peter Schub: "For Peter" (signed) "P." From the library of Peter Schub (1926-2021) who had a long and distinguised career as a revered agent of photography. Among his..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984. First edition. hardcover. Large 4to. Inscribed by Irving Penn "For old friend Bob / with warmest / greetings" (signed) "P". Below the inscription Penn has drawn a circle which he signed in the middle. At the bottom of the circle he has written..... More
New York: The Lisa Fonssagrives Penn Trust, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. With the trust's notecard of Lisa Fonssagrives Penn inscribed "with love from Lisa (via her husband)" with a small heart drawn after her name. From the library of Irving Penn's agent Peter Schub. This book was produced by..... More
Millerton: Aperture, (1984). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Minor White's achievement and significance extend further than the influence of his roles as photographer, teacher, and editor, to the creative source he nurtured in the work of his many students. This book is a remembrance from those who influenced Minor White (1908-1976)..... More
Riverside: The Chatham Press, 1971. First edition. Paperback. Stark black and white images in five sections: Space, The Land Possessed, Habitat, A Rage Upon the Land, Neglect and Solitude. Also a reference section. 75 pp. A personal coherent statement about our man-made America. Plowden works in the best documentary tradition..... More
Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 2006. Eliot Porter & Robert Glenn Ketchum. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. The work of two great American landscape photographers presented together for the first time-revealing an artistic progression from one generation to the next. 88 color and duotone reproductions of works from a major exhibition..... More