New York: Aperture Foundation, 2000. First edition. hardcover. Retrospective of Salgado's work around the world documenting the mass migration of populations. Published in cojunction with a major traveling exhibition. Salgado's work covered seven years and 35 countries. Neatly signed in ink by Salgado on the half title page. Black and..... More
Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, (1970). Josef Scaylea. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 56 photographs. Laid into this copy is a print, measuring 10 x 11 inches of #31, "In the bronze sunset of a late Summer evening a sailboat glides homeward to its moorage on Shilshole Bay. 1969." Josef Scaylea's photographs..... More
Oblong 8vo. Signed by Josef Schulz. A photo essay about disused military checkpoints and border stations across Europe, catalogued in this series by Polish-born photographer Josef Schulz (+ slideshow). Named Übergang after the German word for crossing, the series of images depicts transnational borders that have become redundant. Each shot has also been..... More
Rochester: George Eastman House, 1965. Aaron Siskind. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. George Eastman House Monograph #5. Siskind (1903-1991) has written: "When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order..." The forty-four magnificent reproductions of his work which..... More
New York: Aperture, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Tall 4to. With an illustrated biography by Ben Maddow, and an afterword by John G. Morris. The definitive book on Smith's life and work. More
New York: Scalo, 1998. First Engllish edition. Hardcover. 4to. Published in conjuction with the Foundation Cartier pour I'art contemporain exhibition of the work of Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) and curated by Herve Chandes. Preface by Chandes and essays by Philippe Sollers, David Levi Strauss, Elizabeth Janus and Sloan Rankin. Includes bibliography..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1977. First edition. hardcover. Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. On Photography is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977..... More
Gottingen: Steidl, (2007). First edition. hardcover. Signed by Alec Soth on the title page. After completing the shooting of 'Sleeping by the Mississippi' in 2002, Alec Soth traveled to Bogota , Colombia to adopt a baby girl. While the courts processed paperwork, he and his wife spent two months in..... More
Paris: Magnum Photos, 2007. First edition. Paperback. 4to. Signed by Alec Soth. In this beautifully produced third issue of the international art/fashion collectible Fashion Magazine, the acclaimed American photographer Alec Soth plays Editor-in-Chief, Advertising Director and sole photographic contributor--to quietly mesmerizing results. Featuring exquisite printing, unexpected gatefolds, special inks, varnishes..... More
Gottingen: Steidl, (2006). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is signed by Alec Soth on the title page. Following on from the hugely succesful, 'Sleeping by the Mississippi' (2004), Soth‘s 'Niagara' came out in 2006 – and saw the photographer making work on both sides of the US-Canada border in the..... More
Gottingen: Steidl, (2004). First edition. Large 4to. Signed by Soth on the title page. Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, "Sleeping by the Mississippi "captures America's iconic yet often neglected "third coast." Soth's richly descriptive, large-format color photographs present an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes..... More
Gottingen: Steidl, 2006. Joel Sternfeld. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Signed by Joel. Sternfeld on the title page. The photographer's intriguing photographic tour of utopian communities across the U. S. Included are the semi-familiar like Oneida and New Harmony, the historic like Nauvoom the mostly unknown Heathcoate and the wannabes..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at MOMA, this is the first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work. The essay by Szarkowski follows a brilliant career, from its art-school beginnings to the provocative still lifes of recent years, photographs..... 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: Museum of Modern Art, (1984). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. This copy is signed by Penn on the half-title page, dated in the year of publication. Text by noted curator John Szarkowski. Includes 156 plates with 21 in color and an additional 35 reference illustrations with 7 more in..... More
Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed by Phillip Toledano. Regarding the art of 'phone sex': "A lot of people think we're all horny women that look like supermodels. They don't know that some of us are skinny ugly women, or fat ugly women, or skinny pretty..... More
Boston: Little Brown, 2001. Arthur Tress. First edition. Hardcover. A retrospective study of the forty-five-year career of acclaimed American art photographer Arthur Tress combines 250 full-color and duotone photographs with an in-depth biographical essay of the artist and an incisive critical analysis of his work and his place in American..... More
Boston: Bulfinch / Little, Brown, (1994). First small format edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Watson, is a Scottish fashion, celebritry, and art photographer. He has shot over 100 covers of Vogue and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s, and has created major advertising campaigns for clients such as Prada..... More
London: Ward Lock & Co, 1959. Weegee. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Here, the great Weegee tells his secrets behind his highly imaginative and startling pictures. A stamp to title page (resembles a return address envelope label) with the distributor's info. 64pp. More
Millerton: Aperture, (1975). First printing. Hardcover. 4to. This book is a testament to Weston's fifty years of evolving vision. It presents the photographer before the infinite play of landscape, objects and forms, vivid, authentic, and uncompromising. 100pp. More
Millerton: Aperture, (1973). First edition thus. Hardcover. Volume 1. Mexico 214 pages with index. Comprises about half of the original manuscript, mainly the years from 1923-1926 when Weston was in residence in Mexico. It illuminates Mexican society and culture in the 1920s, at the height of the Mexican Renaissance in..... More
New York: Aperture, 1969. Minor White. First edition. 4to. Most commentators have pointed out that Minor White's most important aesthetic influences were Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, and Edward Weston, the great trilogy of Modernist American Art Photography. In many ways it's true. From Adams, White learned the Zone System of..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Photographer Laura Wilson worked with Richard Avedon (1923-2004) during the five summers his masterwork "In the American West" was in production. This poignant, well-illustrated, behind the scenes look includes details on shoots and locations, how Avedon worked and how the..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. With an essay on the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show by Ron Tyler. Winogrand's perceptions of people in relation to each other (Texas) and to their show animals are among his finest works. The rodeo shots presented here..... More
Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Witkin's first monograph boldly signed and inscribed by him on the title page. Joel-Peter Witkin is an American artist whose constructed photographs depict macabre often grotesque scenes. Working in the vein of the earlier photographers Henry Peach Robinson and Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Witkin..... More
