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
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
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
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
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
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
Tucson: Nazraeli Press, (2001). First edition. Hardcover. #34 of 1000 slipcased copies signed by Michael Kenna. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
Clintondale: Bleak Beauty Books, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Signed by Danny Lyon. Bound in illustrated wrappers, as issued. 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
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
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
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
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
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
