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Santa Cruz, CA: Reese, 1890. Ephemera. Very good. An 1886 boudoir cabinet card albumen photograph of a girl and a woman seating in front of the Santa Cruz Giant, a large redwood tree. The image, 8-1/4 by 5 inches, is mounted on Reese back (10 by 7 inches), with gilt stamping on the front and a "notice… Ler mais sobre este item

Hastings-On-Hudson: Morgan & Morgan, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A signed first edition of this selection of Adams's photographs, reproduced in good-quality halftones. Edited by Liliane De Cock; with a foreword by the photographer Minor White. 117 black and white images. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a ver good dust jacket… Ler mais sobre este item

Yosemite National Park, CA and Boston: Virginia Adams and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A classic collection of Weston's nature photographs, reproduced with great fidelity. The book is spiral-bound in printed boards so that images could be easily removed and framed as prints. The book has an introduction by the photographer… Ler mais sobre este item

Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A monograph reproducing black-and-white photographs, many of explicit male nudes. About 200 pages (not paginated). 9-1/2 by 11 inches. First edition (first printing). This would be a fine copy in a fine dust jacket except it seems to have been dropped, denting the lower outside… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Arnold Genthe, 1920. Ephemera. Near fine. A half-length profile portrait of silent film star Mae Murray (1885-1965) taken in Arnold Genthe's New York studio on March 24, 1920, according to the Library of Congress, which owns the original nitrate negative. Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born photographer who photographed San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 20th century.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: W. W. Norton, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Rogovin, a photographer born in 1909, took portrait photographs in the multi-ethnic lower west side of Buffalo, New York, in 1973. He returned again in the mid-1980s and in 1992 and photographed the same subjects. The three images, showing children growing into adulthood and parents becoming… Ler mais sobre este item

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. This book reproduces 148 tintype portraits by Kendrick of modern cowboys who look like they walked off the range 150 years ago. Essay by Marianne Wiggins. Afterword by photographer Jay Dusard. Published as volume 22 of the M. K. Brown Range Life series. 232… Ler mais sobre este item

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Photographia do Commercio, 1890. A group of six carte-de-visite format albumen prints, likely dating from the 1890s. The subjects are all Afro-Brazilians posed standing with their right arm resting on a piece of furniture (a table, a chair, a pedestal). Five of the six images have printed backs identifying them as originating from Photographia do… Ler mais sobre este item

Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 2000. Later printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Includes a poem by W.S. Merwin and 64 four color plates. Third printing. Cover label irregularly faded, else a fine copy (not issued in a dust jacket). Signed by Robert ParkeHarrison and Shana ParkeHarrison on the title page. Scarce signed.

Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. One of 4000 copies of the first monograph devoted to Witkin's photomontages. Reproduces 44 images in duotone. 12 by 12 inches. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a dust jacket with a few edge tears and some light shelfwear; one old tape repair… Ler mais sobre este item

Santa Fe, NM: Channel Photographics, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black and white images of Angkor Wat. 12-1/4 by 9-3/4 inches (oblong). First edition (stated). A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Izu on the half-title page.

Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Wth 100 black-and-white plates, reproducing Izo's large-format images of (mostly) stone religious buildings. 12-3/8 by 10-5/8 inches. First edition. A fine copy in a jacket that would be fine but for the typical fading at the spine.

Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A monograph of Caffery's work, printed in luxurious tritone. One of 3000 copies. About 80 pages. 10-1/8 by 12-1/8 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Caffery on the colophon.

New York: Random House / Eastman Kodak, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from March 24 to June 26, 1994. Essays by Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik with reproductions by Avedon's photographs. With more than 600 photographs taken over 50 years, including many reproductions… Ler mais sobre este item

(Boston): (A New York Graphic Society Book/ Little, Brown and Company), 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Seventy-three images reproduced in duotone. Foreword By R. B. Kitaj. 11 by 10-3/16 inches. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Friedlander on the half-title page.

Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A monograph of images taken near Niagara Falls, a follow up to his book Sleeping by the Mississippi. With essays by Philip Brookman and Richard Ford. 11 by 12-3/4 inches. 104 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in leatherette boards (not issued in a jacket). Signed by… Ler mais sobre este item

Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 2000 copies of this monograph pairing color photographic portraits of phone sex operators with short autobiographical statements from the subjects. 9-1/4 by 11-3/4 inches. First edition (first printing). Fine in pictorial boards (no jacket, as issued). Signed by the photographer on the half-title page. Uncommon… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Aperture, 2000. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A major survey of the work of one of the great 20th century photographers, published in conjunction with a traveling exhibit. 431 pages. 10 by 13-1/8 inches. 31-page booklet of English-language captions in a pocket at the back. First English-language edition (stated). A fine copy in… Ler mais sobre este item

Bellingham, WA: True North Editions, 2021. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. A monograph devoted to Owens' photographs of cars, mostly black and white, but with a handful of color images. Owens is perhaps best known for his photobook Suburbia. This second edition followed a limited edition of 100 copies published in 2015. 141 pages. 8-3/4 by… Ler mais sobre este item

(New York): HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Portraits and other images by the important twentieth century photographer. Color and black-and-white photo reproductions of her iconic portraits of Andy Warhol, The Rolling Stones, Bette Midler, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Miles Davis, Jodie Foster, Grace Slick and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane, and many others. Leibovitz's… Ler mais sobre este item