Art - Photography
Annie Leibovitz at Work
Random House, November 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a...... More
Down Home: Camden, Alabama (A Prairie House Book)
McGraw-Hill, 1972. First Edition. Cloth. Square quarto -- {11 & 1/4' x 11 & 1/4'} -- in chipped & torn and dark stained jacket. Flap is clipped. Heavy dark spots/damp staining of DJ verso & front panel across top. Light tan cloth (embedded with fibers) covered boards with brown lettering..... More
The West Behind Us Lisa Wells; Bobby Abrahamson Published by Bobby Abrahamson
Bobby Abrahamson, 2014. Limited. Trade Paperback. 2nd printing. #52/100. Initialed by Bobby Abrahamson on limitation page. {6' x 8 & 1/2'}. Clean, sound, all around. 44 full page black/white photos and 70 pages of text. [114 pages]. More
Arthur Grace: America 101
Fall Line Press, September 2013. Oversized Hardcover. An award-winning photojournalist and social documentarian, Arthur Grace (born 1947) has traveled globally and to every region of America on assignment for major news organizations as well as for his own personal projects since the early 1970s. In America 101, Grace draws 101..... More
Caught in the ACT: Actors Acting
Glitterati, October 2013. Oversized Hardcover. Actors fascinate us in part because they live out the truths we cannot - or do not - want to live out ourselves. In his latest book, acclaimed photographer Howard Schatz develops upon his well-received monthly feature for Vanity Fair,"In Character." Schatz' mastery of his..... More
A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography (The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas)
Duke University Press Books, September 2023. Paper Back. While James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive reach of his work has been overlooked. From the major role his studio played for decades photographing..... More
Freeze Frame: 5 Decades 400 Photographs
Glitterati, September 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. This title showcases a unique insider's heretofore unpublished 'look' into the film industry and features some of the most famous actors and cultural moments of our time. Grouped by decade from the 1960's through today, Freeze Frame offers us dynamic on-set images of the..... More
Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History
University of Pennsylvania Press, May 2010. First Edition. Cloth. Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was one of America's foremost painters and a highly respected sculptor, photographer, and fine arts teacher. He is often celebrated for his realist depictions of contemporary life in late nineteenth-century Philadelphia. Yet, in addition to his iconic paintings..... More
An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital
Hallmark Cards Inc, January 1995. Oversize Softcover. Oversize soft cover with jacket. Very good all round. More
Photomontage
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1986. Trade Paperback. Manipulation of the photograph is as old as photography itself: it has been used in political propaganda, and has also embodied or enlivened satire, publicity and commercial art; it has created evocations of the "brave new world" of the future..... More
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Phaidon Press, October 1997. Oversized Hardcover. With this collection of photographs, interspersed with an anthology of evocative quotations about sleep and dreaming, Scianna takes us and himself on a fascinating journey inside a dimension of life that is natural and mysterious, necessary and disturbing, everyday and universal. Often the camera..... More
Imogen Cunningham Photographs
University of Washington Press, December 1970. Oversize Softcover. Second paperback edition. White covers just a bit soiled and some light foxing, but still, an excellent copy. More
Steppenwolf at 25: A Photographic Celebration of an Actor's Theater
Sourcebooks, September 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. To celebrate 25 years of extraordinary achievement by the legendary Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago, acclaimed photographer Victor Skrebneski has created an impressive photography book featuring historical production highlights and exclusive portraits of America's most gifted ensemble of artists. Steppenwolf at 25 also contains..... More
The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case
Schilt Publishing, March 2022. Hardcover. Jan Banning's latest book is a multi-layered case study of the US Criminal Justice system and mass incarceration. In it he delves into a three decades old murder case in Georgia. On April 14, 1992, 22-year-old Christina Boyer was arrested for the murder of her..... More
ALFRED STIEGLITZ: PHOTOGRAPHER.
Museum of Fine Arts, January 1965. Reprint. Oversize Softcover. {10 & 1/2' x 11'} Tan cardstock cover with tanned spine edge and darkening of margins. Third printing. Heavy foxing of textblock top edge. {[30 pages + 62 full-page b&w plates}. More
Darkroom2
Lustrum Press, January 1979. Cloth. {9 & 3/4' x 11'} In heavily chipped, edgeworn & torn jacket. Tanned along spine and at margins and verso. Flaps not clipped. Grey cloth covered boards with blind stamped title upon front panel. Darkened along spine and at margins & edges. Dust stains and..... More
Paul Strand. National Gallery of Art, Washington: December 2, 1990-February 3. 1991 [Exhibition Catalog]
National Gallery of Art, January 1991. Paper Back. Folded pamphlet. 3 folds of:{6 & 1/4 x 8 & 1/2' double sided panels. [8 pages]. More
On the transmission of photography
Images Press, January 1972. Limited. Paper Back. {8' x 10'} Quarto. Mild shelfwear. One-inch closed tear along spine fold at spine base. Limited edition of 4000. [56 pages]. More
Charles Rumph, Chambers -- Exhibition the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., July 26 - September 7, 1980 ; the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Tex., November 8 - December 19, 1980 1980
The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, 1980. First Edition. Stapled Pamphlet. {8 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} Stapled pamphlet (with two staples). [35 pages]. More
Clarence John Laughin : An Aperture Monograph
Aperture, 1973. Oversize Softcover. Quarto. {9' x 10 & 1/2'} Soiling & stains to front and rear cover. One-inch closed tear along front fold at base of spine. [132 pages]. More
Ansel Adams: An American Place, 1936
Center for Creative Photography / University of Arizona, December 1983. Paper Back. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Mild soiling & darkening of margins. Mild shelf wear. Two moderate large tan damp stains on rear cover, that bleed through to verso. {38 pages / 45 photographic plates with descriptions opposite}. More
Alfred Stieglitz -- Exhibition Catalogue
National Gallery Of Art, January 1983. Pamphlet. {8' x 9'} Stapled pamphlet (two staples) Lightened along stapled side. [24 pages]. More
Helen Levitt: Mexico City
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1997. First Edition. Cloth. In 1941, the American photographer Helen Levitt spent several months in Mexico, photographing the capital city and its inhabitants. With neither sentimentalism nor romanticism and working almost exclusively in urban and semiurban areas of the city, she confronted the conflicts..... More