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 about HARRY CALLAHAN
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 about MINOR WHITE. A Living Remembrance
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 about CLOSE TO HOME. Seven Documentary Photographers
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 about FLOOR OF THE SKY. The Great Plains
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 about THE HAND OF MAN ON AMERICA
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 about THE GARDEN AND THE WILDERNESS. Edited by William Maxwell. Introduction by Lisette Model
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 about JAMES DEAN
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 about JAMES DEAN
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 about JAMES DEAN
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 about METRO PLOTS
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 about PHOTOGRAPHS 1980-1990
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 about PARIS Photographs 1935-1981. Magnum. Text by Irwin Shaw. With An Introduction by Inge Morath
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 about AARON SISKIND. George Eastman House Monograph Number 5
Millerton: Aperture, 1986. Neal Slavin. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Folio. Shot with a 20 x 24 Polaroid camera. Images of British associations and groups. Still in the original shrink wrap. More about BRITONS
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 about LET THE TRUTH BE THE PREJUDICE. W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs
Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. The second book of photography published by the Getty Museum. Typed letter laid in from W. Naef, Curator, to another well known curator, and reads in part: "..Brewster's circle in the 1840's included John and Robert Adamson, among many others. Their... More about DISCIPLES OF LIGHT. Photographs in The Brewster Album
New York: Aperture, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Proof. The occasion for this book is the centennial of Paul Strand's birth (1990). A fitting time to gather the considerable body of scholarly research, critical analysis and general appreciation that surrounds this seminal figure in modern American art and photography. Essays by... More about PAUL STRAND. Essays on his Life and Work
Allentown/New York/Los Angeles: ICP, Allentown Art Museum, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Photographs and text (captions) by Lou Stoumen. Introduction by William A. Ewing. 102pp, illustrated from sixty-nine of Stoumen's photographs reproduced here in black and gray duotone from plates made by laser scanner. "I..... More about ORDINARY MIRACLES. The Photography of Lou Stoumen. Introduction by William A. Ewing
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 about IRVING PENN
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982. First American edition. Hardcover. Picasso declared that every photographer wanted to be a painter. But what is certainly true is that many artists, painters, sculptors, and others, have been committed photographers. Here the author traces this special aspect of the interrelationship between art... More about THE ARTIST AS PHOTOGRAPHER
Baton Rogue/London: Louisiana University Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated from photographs. The author explores Brassai's striking, atmospheric images of cafes, dance halls, brothels, and streets where workers on the night shift mingle with tourists, nightclubbers, vagabonds, street toughs, performers, and prostitutes. Focusing on his photographs, but drawing also on... More about BRASSAI. Images of Culture and the Surrealist Observer
New York: Clarkson Potter, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 74 remarkable portraits of actresses, from Mary Astor to Loretta Young, the stars who haunted our dreams, then and now, from the beginning of this century through the mid-1980s. 168pp with index. More about RETURN ENGAGEMENT. Faces to Remember-Then & Now. With New Photographs by Horst
New York: Knopf, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. A compilation of the great photographer's best work taken between 1930 and 1965. Introduction, edited and biographical information by Louis Stettner. 112 photographs. Here are the flower vendors, the sallow victims of Murder, Inc., the sweltering Coney Island crowds, the night club... More about WEEGEE THE FAMOUS
New York: Hanover House, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Here, the great Weegee tells his secrets behind his highly imaginative and startling pictures. 128pp. More about WEEGEE'S CREATIVE CAMERA
London/Melbourne: Ward Lock & Co, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. A touch of old dampstain to bottom spine. Clean copy. More about WEEGEE'S CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
