San Francisco: Camera Craft, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Mortensen was the most famous "How-To" photographer/author, other titles include; Print Finishing, Pictorial Lighting, The Command to Look, The Model, Projection Control, Monsters & Madonnas. 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
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: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. First edition. Flexible boards. 4to. 124pp with index, illustrated with portraits by Arnold Newman, famous portraits. Waxing poetic, Newman relates: "Inevitably there is a great deal of the photographer in his finished product. If there isn't much of him, then there isn't much of... More
Chihuahua: Grupo Editorial, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Perfect bound in stiff photo illustrated wrappers. 81pp Photography book, with text in Spanish. Wrinkle to first blank page. 4to. 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
Danbury: Addison House, 1978. First edition. Paperback. An Addison House photographic survival kit. Softcover, in perfect bound wrappers, measuring approx 8 x 10 inches, illustrated with black and white photographs. A kind of how-to of documentary photography. 64pp. Everything you need to know for a career in photojournalism, how to... More
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Signed by Bill Owens and dated 1977. His follow up book to Suburbia. "For the past six years my daily routine as a newspaper photographer has brought me into contact with every type of civic, social, and fraternal organization in the... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 84pp, 61 illustrations surveying the major aspects of Callahan's work and dramatizing the variety of his style. Introductory essay by Sherman Paul. Clean copy. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 46 color illustrations. The first volume of Miyake's work to be released in the United States, and the first time that Irving Penn has accepted a commission to create a book-length suite of photographs on the work of a fellow... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1960). First edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. With an introduction by Alexander Liberman. Rosemary Blackmon collaborated on captions and text. This copy inscribed by Penn in 1964 on the front endpaper; "For Howard D. Stevenson / Irving Penn / New York 1964." Numerous gravure and color... More
San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Shelby Lee Adams, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Doug Dubois, Roland L. Freeman, Birney Imes, Stephen Marc and Marilyn Nance. These documentarians focus on the people and environment in the regions where they were raised, Brooklyn, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and other locales... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Edited and with an introduction by John G. Mitchell, designed by Charles Curtis. Black and white images, with some color shots of the Great Plains. Two stickers from a photographic business. 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
New York: Horizon Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. First edition. Pratt not only shines here for the great photographs, but also his prose. Together he achieves an astonishing unity, a distillation of the work and the life of a great American photographer. "What he worked for in the... More
Munchen: Bahia Verlag, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 115-pp of black and white photographs of James Dean, both on and off film sets. Roth was a film studio photographer. Text in German. Bound in red cloth. Agency sticker to dust jacket and first blank page. More
Munchen: Bahia Verlag, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Text in German. Black and white photos of the great James Dean by film studio photographer Sanford Roth with text by his wife Beulah. These shots of this famous actor and 'pretty boy' would be hard to beat. More
Corte Madera: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1983. First edition. No Binding. Folio. Large fold out (4 panels, double-sided) advertising piece for the U.S. edition of this book on James Dean. Measures 9.5 x 16.75 inches printed on slick white stock, featuring photographs of James Dean. Very uncommon, as this piece preceded the... More
Beverly Hills/New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Includes an article by Dave Hickey titled Mean Streets. This black, hardbound, embossed book was produced as the catalogue for the 1998 show of recent paintings and drawings by the artist. 20 illustrations, in color, including 8 folding plates... More
New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1991. David Salle. First edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Henry Geldzahler, edited and designed by John Cheim. Best known as a painter, Salle is quite accomplished as a photographer. Printed by the Stinehour Press. 54 images. Bound in illustrated boards in the original acetate dust wrapper (one tear). More
Millerton: An Aperture Book, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Only a city as generous, mysterious, and captivating as Paris could spawn the remarkable creative institution known the world over as Magnum Photos. Founded in 1947 by the great photographer Robert Capa, Magnum was intended as more than a mere photo agency;... More
Rochester: George Eastman House, (1965). First edition. Hardcover. Prepared on the occasion of a comprehensive exhibition of Aaron Siskind's photographs which opened at the George Eastman House in March of 1965. The exhibition contained 200 photographs made between 1933 and 1963. Edited with an introduction by Nathan Lyons. Essays by... More
New York: Horizon Press, (1959). First edition. Hardcover. Tall 4to. The photographer's first book. The dedication reads, "Homage to Charles Egan who first exhibited many of these photographs at his New York gallery during the years 1947-1954". Blank sheet tipped-in opposite the stark, bold title page (so no offsetting). "These... More
