Photography
Mother and Child
New York, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954. First. Hardcover. Black cloth at spine, bw pictorial cloth over boards; BW pictorial dj. with red lettering; BW pictorial endpapers; Unpaginated, approx. 90 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw photos. A collection of Dorr's photos capturing children and motherhood, accompanied by prose (also..... More
Wilhelm von Gloeden - Auch ich in Arkadien: die Sammlung Heinz Peter Barandun, Zurich: Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, Guglielmo Pluschow, Gaetano d'Agata, Giovanni Crupi, Vincenzo Galdi
Koln: Böhlau Verlag, 2007. Paperback. Orange and sepia-photo illustrated wraps with yellow and white lettering; 208 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in German. More
Camera Work. A Photographic Quarterly Edited and Published by Alfred Stieglitz.Special Number MDCCCCXIII.
New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1913, June. Softcover. Grey wraps with lettering on covers, blank spine. Bound sheets are uncut, 8 bw photographic reproductions of artworks. Famous special issue of this avant-garde magazine published in June 1913 and reporting on the art exhibition known as The Armory Show. The illustrations includes..... More
Paul Strand: A Retrospective Monograph the Years 1915-1968 (Signed)
New York: Aperture, Inc., 1971. Hardbound. Greenish-gray boards with duotone illustration, black lettering. 380 + (2) pp. Numerous BW illustrations and reproductions. Cover flyleaf has a square, white sticker with a handwritten 'Free Copy With Compliments Of Paul Strand.' There is a letter written and signed by Paul Strand's last..... More
MSS: Can A Photograph Have The Significance of Art... (Manuscripts Number 4)
New York: MSS, 1922, December. Folded sheets loose. 20 pp. no illustrations. Includes responses, or shorter or greater length, by: Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Pennel (two responses), Alfred Russell (for Charles Chaplin), Carl Zigrosser, Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Davidson, Waldo Frank, Leo Ornstein, Leo Stein, Gilbert Cannan, Stephan..... More
Shades of a Woman
Unidentified: Guido Argentini, 2010. Hardcover. Color and BW-photographic padded boards with white and purple lettering. 200 pp. Color and BW photographic illustrations. Text in English, Italian, French, Spanish, and German. Inscribed and dated on ffep by the artist! More
Paul Graham: Beyond Caring
London: Grey Editions, 1986. Paperback. Black glossy wraps with color illustration and white lettering. Unpaginated. 32 color photographs. "In late 1983 I was commissionied by The Photographer's Gallery, London, to photograph my personal view of 'Britain in 1984', for a thematic exhibition in the coming year. As part of my..... More
MSS: Can A photograph Have The Significance of Art... (Manuscripts Number 4)
New York: MSS, 1922, December. Paperback. Folded sheets loose. 20 pp. no illustrations. Includes responses, or shorter or greater length, by: Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Pennel (two responses), Alfred Russell (for Charles Chaplin), Carl Zigrosser, Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Davidson, Waldo Frank, Leo Ornstein, Leo Stein, Gilbert Cannan..... More
Pass the Bitch Chicken
Berlin: Holzworth Publications, 2002. Paperback. Tan paper wraps, French flaps, 256 pp., many BW illus. The result of a collaboration between the filmmaker Harmony Korine and the painter Christopher Wool, this series of experimental images tests the limits of the pictorial and the abstract, pushing the boundaries of visual and..... More
La Comtesse de Castiglione par elle-meme
Paris, France: Musee d'Orsay, 1999. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by Pierre Apraxine, director of the exhibition. Paperback. Sepia ill. wraps; inscription from exhibition director, Pierre Apraxine on half-title; 190 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Text in French. Survey of controversial and mysterious 19th century artistocrat and photographer..... More
I Want to Take Picture
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1987. Hardcover. Glossy pictoral covers. Richly illustrated throughout in both B&W and color. Unpaginated. One of 1000 unnumbered copies. Combination travelogue and artist book featuring the artist's photographs of Southeast Asia in the wake of the Vietnam War and amidst the Pol Pot regime. Often cited as..... More
Sun Gardens: Victorian Photograms by Anna Atkins
New York: Aperture, 1985. First. Hardbound. Dark blue cloth boards with blue and white pictorial DJ, 104pp, 60 plates, numerous color and BW figures. This is a beautiful volume of the cyanotypes by Anna Atkins, a contemporary and colleague of Sir John Herschel. Atkins is recognized as the first female..... More
Camera Work. A Photographic Quarterly Edited and Published by Alfred Stieglitz. Special Number MDCCCCXII.
New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1912, August. Softcover. Grey wraps with lettering on covers, blank spine. Bound sheets are uncut, 30, [6] ad pp. + 14 photograph plates of artwork (2 photographs by Stieglitz). This issue includes the first published writings by Gertrude Stein, wherein she pens two essays discussing the..... More
Catalogue of Photographic Reproductions of Works of Art
Boston, MA: Soule Photographic Company (Successors to John P. Soule 338 Washington Street, Boston, Mass), 1887. This bound volume in thin crumbly leather with loose covers contains the following catalogues all bound together: 1.) Catalogue of Photographic Reproductions of Works of Art, January 1887 45th Thousandth, Ninth edition. 205 pp..... More
Horst : Photographs of a Decade
New York: J. J. Augustin, 1944. Original Edition; Presumed First; Inscribed/Signed. Hardcover. Terracotta cloth/boards; gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Missing dust jacket. 133 pp. full of bw portraits. Preface by Dr. M. Agha. Stunning bw photos of actors, military personnel, French couture, and more. Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann..... More
Dr. Ameisenhaufen's Fauna
Göttingen, Germany: European Photography, 1988. Softcover. Brown wraps; 83 pp.; 53 bw photos; 33 bw illustrations. Text in English, except for introduction, which is included in English and German; Accompanied a traveling exhibition; An account of little-known German scientist Dr. Ameisenhaufen's strange wildlife findings--actually an elaborate hoax by artist Fontcuberta..... More
Plays for Merry Andrews
New York: The Sunwise Turn, 1920. Hardcover. Beige paper covered and half beige buckram boards with black lettering and illustration, and white spine label with red lettering. 177 pp. This book is from the personal library of Alfred Stieglitzs, featuring an inscription to him, as well as a play "Uneasy..... More
Un mundo flotante : fotografías Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894 - 1986)
Barcelona: Fundación La Caixa, 2010. Paperback. Bw-photographic wraps with black lettering on white spine. Color-striped parchment dust jacket; black lettering on bw spine. 255 pp. with bw photographs throughout, including some thumbnail images. Text in Spanish. Catalogue from the exhibition held in Barcelona, May 2010. "Un mundo flotante. Fotografias de..... More
Lucien CLERGUE: Photographe (signed)
Zurich: Verlag der Arche, 1964. Hardbound. Black cloth with gilt embossed design, and bw illustrated dustjacket. 96 pp., many bw plates. Text is in French and German. This copy includes a lengthy and dated January 26, 1964 in Bale signed inscription by the photographer on the ffep, and signed drawings..... More
Haunter of Ruins: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin
Boston: Little, Brown, 1997. First edition, Signed. Hardcover. Black paper boards, yellow cloth spine with black lettering; bw illustrated dust jacket with white and yellow lettering, 105 pp, profusely illustrated with 69 duotone photographs. Signed on title page by John Lawrence, Patricia Brady, and Jon Kukla. Called "Edgar Allan Poe..... More
Paris vu par Andre Kertesz
Paris: Editions d'Histoire et d'Art; Librairie Plon, 1934. Paperback. Cream wraps with BW illustration and glassine cover. Approx 45 pp. 48 BW plates and illustrations. Many fine BW photos of life in Paris with short texts (in French). This book shows the beauty and degradation of 1930s Paris, with photographs..... More
Memory Traces
Amsterdam: Ideas on Paper, 2009. One of 800 copies; First Edition. Hardcover. Brown box with black lettering; black cloth over boards with green and grey lettering; two booklets in green and blue; 201, 63, unpaginated; richly illustrated. Titles of booklets are: "Hoffding Step" and Dark Star." More
The Naylor Collection. The Complete History of Photography
Arlington, Massachusetts: Naylor Collection, 2005 c. Hardcover. Issued in a wood slipcase. Screw-fastened aluminum binding for text and back cover. Brown paper front cover, rigid brushed aluminum back cover, [36] pp., profusely illustrated in color and bw. DVD-ROM included, with highlights from the collection and commentary by the collector. Astounding..... More