Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 1980. Hardcover. Brown cloth with cream-colored lettering at spine; BW pictorial dj.; 188 pp.; 234 bw photos. Text in Italian; Fascinating photos, many full page, of daily life in Rome between the years of 1888 and 1898; A rare volume. More
San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2012. Softcover. Black illustrated covers with grey lettering; unpaginated with approx. 80 pp. and color/bw images throughout. Catalogue to accompany the exhibition of May 15, 2012 to February 28, 2013. Only bits of text (quotes, mostly) here and there, to complement the images. Includes works..... More
New York: Random House, 1992. First. Hardcover. Dove gray cloth boards with stamped lettering. 382 pp. Mainly illustrations. "Robert Mapplethorpe began taking photographs in 1970 with a Polaroid camera given to him by a friend. Nearly twenty years later, when Mapplethorpe died at the age of forty-two, he was considered..... More
Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2004. First. Hardcover. Reddish-brown cloth over boards; Color pictorial dj.; 207 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. Includes essays by Arthur C. Danto and Mia Fineman, as well as interview with Scully by Edward Lucie-Smith. Gorgeous plates. More
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
Paris/Cologne: Galerie Karsten Greve, 2005. Softcover. BW-photographic softcover with brown, grey, and white lettering. 43 pp. BW photographs. Catalogue of an exhibition of Lynn Davis's photos of modern day Iran from December 15- February 15, 2006. More
Grasset, 1957. Hardbound. Oatmeal cloth with red lettering; green and black lettering with white lettering; 42 pp. text with 36 single-sided bw images. Text in French; a tour of the bizarre monuments and statues found in Bomarzo at the Villa of Wonders, built in 1552, in the Viterbe region of..... More
Santa Barbara, California: Arabasque Books, 1981. Hardcover. Beige gabardine cloth with cream hinged mat holding color photo on front cover and with matting strip on spine; acetate dw with teal and orange lettering. 238 pp. with 56 bw photographs, 6 bw drawings, and 40 color plates (one the same as..... More
NY: Garland Publishing, 1983. Hardbound. Blue cloth with silver lettering and decoration No dust jacket. xx, 265 pp. 12 bw plates. Includes biographies and individual bibliographic information on13 photographers (in part 1) followed by part 2, general works and references. An indispensible reference for the photography buff or researcher. Garland..... More
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1966. Hardbound. Yellow cloth with dj. 96 pp., profusely illustrated in bw. A very nice copy of the book in a fair dustjacket. Scarce. More
Philadelphia, Penna. Courage Books / Running Press Book Publishers, 2008. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt letters on spine, black & color illus. dust jacket, 96 pp., many color illus. A collection of sunset photographs from sites around the world, taken by American photographer and gallery owner Lora Drasner. Relevant quotes from..... More
Prague: KANT, 2006. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, photographic dust jacket with cream and beige lettering. 127 pages. BW photographic illustrations. Text in Czech and English. Exhibition for the 110th Anniversary of Birth and 30th Anniversary of the Death of the Author, Exhibition Hall of the Museum of Art Museum of..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. Hardcover. Flesh-colored paper boards, unpaginated, actual BW and color photographs on glossy paper. Issued in conjunction with a 2002 exhibition combining the creativity of British contemporary painter Jenny Saville (b. 1970) with the skillful eye of British fashion photographer Glen Luchford (b. 1968). Saville..... More
New York, New York: Amphoto, 1961. Hardcover. Color illus. paper over boards; BW pictorial dj. with red and black lettering; 14 pp. plus plates; 90 bw plates. Preface by Lawrence Durrell; Introduction by Chapman Mortimer; A collection of nudes by Bill Brandt, most well known for his photos of London..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. Softcover. Black & photo illus. wraps, French flaps, 248 pp., 214 BW illus., 11 color plates. Considers well the life and work of Russian-born photographer George Hoyningen-Huene (1900-1968). "Shows how Hoyningen-Huene's style and techniques were shaped by his aristocratic upbringing, by his collaboration with Man..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972, circa. Folio. Large cardstock portfolio with button ties and printed cover. Large, folded preliminary, containing the foreword; and 24 tissue-guarded, large photographic reproductions with inspirational quotes placed over an illustrated sculptural work. Photographer David Finn took the photographs used in this portfolio. Each poster..... More
Cordoba: Junta de Andalucia, 1989. Softcover. Heathered tan card wraps with dark chocolate lettering. 111 pp. with bw photographs throughout. In tan card slipcase. Text in Spanish. A highly-regarded book in photography circles, listed in The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the 20th Century, (PPP Editions, 2001)..... More
New York: Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2002. Hardbound. Sprital wire binding with thick boards. 174 pp. 170+ bw reproductions of this photographers work, spanning 30+ years. This is the catalogue for an exhibition held at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in NYC from June 27 to August 2, 2002. Many famous celebrities..... More
Boston: International Publishers, 1920. Hardcover. Brown cloth, gilt letters and decoration on front cover, 228 pp., BW & color illus. German-born American photographer Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) shares here photographs he has taken of dancers. "My object was not to make a book of personalities," he says. "I merely wanted to..... More
New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1986. Softcover. White stapled wraps, orange paper dust jacket with BW photograph laid on front cover; [40 pp.], 14 duotone illus. Text on cover: Petra, Emmet Gowin. Issued in conjunction with a 1986 exhibition of photographs rendered by American photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941), during several..... More
Scarsdale, NY: Committee for the Visual Arts, Inc., 1973. Slipcased. In ochre slipcase. Intro statement on bi-fold sheet, followed by 50 bw plates on cardstock, loose as issued. A nice set. Exhibit portfolio of photographs of 52 artists (two portraits feature a pair), including Pollock, Calder, Albers, Rothko, Johns, Kline..... More
San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2000. Hardcover. Oatmeal cloth boards, bw-photographic dust jacket with yellow and black lettering. Unpaginated. Illustrations. "Since the 1960's, Robert Adams has used his camera lens to document the changing landscape of the United States. Covering the turbulent period from 1978 to 1983, Robert Adams' photographs of..... More
Berlin: Neuer Deutscher Verlag, 1929. Softcover. Yellow pictorial wraps; 236 pp. with bw images throughout. Text in German. Poetry, text, and all kinds of photographs; some playful, some disturbing, some of buildings, etc. More
Granollers: RM, 2013. First Edition / Spanish Edition. Hardcover. White boards with color photo laid on. Black/white lettering. [14] pp. followed by 114 color photos, one to a page. Frida by Ishiuchi is the first photographic documentation ever published of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's personal attire and belongings, as portrayed..... More
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 1998. Hardbound. Illus. cover; approx. 100 pp. b/w photos with some text (in German and English). More
