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
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: 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
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
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Photographer Marlene Wallace captures the essence of Beatrice Wood, a remarkable woman, in a series of black and white portraits that spans a period of nearly twenty years. Accompanied by Ms. Wood's delightfully clever insights on everything from politics to the mysteries..... More
