photography
[1939 New York World's Fair / Washington, D.C. Photo Album]
[1939-1940]. Oblong string-tied photo album, 7 x 10 inches approx. Brown textured gilt-stamped boards with minor edgewear. Contains 23 black paper leaves with black and white photos mounted recto only for the first 13 leaves; recto and verso for the last ten. Captions in white ink leave occasional traces on.....
[DAVID BOWIE PHOTO ARCHIVE]
[London, etc.]: [ca. 1963-1991]. 52 original black and white photographs, of which six are 8'' x 6'' and the rest 8'' by 10''. Agency stamps on verso; some photos also include dates and/or photographers' names in ink on verso. Minimal wear; a very few photos show a faint corner crease.....
12 SHOT: A Photopoem
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1975. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled in pink wraps. sunning at spine and along top edge of rear wrap. Interior bright and clean. Very good. Number 172 of 500. Short verse accompanied by photographs of a car.
YOSEMITE AND THE RANGE OF LIGHT
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Red cloth spine over blue-grey cloth boards, in grey dust jacket. Spine sunned. Minor rubbing to corners. Faint toning to pages. Very good plus in like jacket. Includes 116 plates, with Adams' own foreword. Introductory essay by Paul Brooks.....
THE PORTFOLIOS OF ANSEL ADAMS
Boston: New York Graphic Society / Little, Brown and Company, 1977. Hardcover. 4to. Pale grey cloth boards in white dust jacket. Minor edgewear; spine and top edges sunned. INSCRIBED by Adams on title page. Near fine in very good plus jacket. Reproductions of seven portfolios of photographs made from 1936.....
NURNBERG MEMORIES [Cover Title - Photo Album of an African American Soldier Stationed in Germany]
[circa 1950]. Oblong 8vo. string-tied album. Embossed cognac leather over boards. Cover heavily worn along edges, with dry leather chipped and peeling away at corners. 24 leaves with spiderwebbed tissue guards, the first 16 of which have black and white photographs mounted recto and verso. One smaller photograph (2 x......
[Album of Aerial and Cultural Photographs]
(Alaska, various): np, nd [ca. 1947]. Oblong folio commercial hardcover album made by The Burkhardt Company, Detroit, model X 89500, 13.5” x 10.75” x 2.5”. Screw binding, 74 black paper pages with a single black and white gelatin print mounted recto only to each, most measuring approximately 7.5" x 9”.....
THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S IMAGE / SELF = PORTRAYAL
Carmel, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1978. First Edition. Wraps. Small 4to. Printed gold wraps. Minor edgewear, spine crease. Previous owner's address label affixed to inside front cover. No other markings. Very good plus. Unpaginated. 101 black and white photographic self-portraits. With essays by Peter Hunt Thompson, Dana Asbury, and.....
FIVE DECADES OF MEXICAN PHOTOGRAPHY
New York: Throckmorton Fine Art Inc., 1996. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Black and white wraps. Light wear and moderate scuffing to edges of front cover. Small crease to lower edge. Very good. 48pp. Catalog for an exhibition held collaboratively by Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc. and the Mexican Cultural Institutes of.....
Auto Album
Denmark: Hassing, 1969. First edition. Wraps. 4to. Light edgewear. Else clean and sound throughout. Scarce collection of B&W images of early automobiles. In Danish and English.
50 JAAR FOTOGRAFIE GKF 1945-1995
Amsterdam: De Verbeelding, [1995?]. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong small 4to. Photographic wraps. About fine. Sharp and clean overall. Unpaginated. Text in Dutch. Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the professional photography association GKf. With over 150 photographs in B&W and color.
ARAKI BY ARAKI: The Photographer's Personal Selection
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2003. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Marbled metallic wraps in bright pictorial dust jacket. Moderate edgewear. Very good plus to near fine. 408pp. Published in 2003 to coincide with the photographer's 63rd birthday, a beautifully and elaborately produced volume illustrated with 2002 career-spanning photographs, dating from 1962 to.....
Utsushi ky jin nikki: Chiro to utsushi shita, ' 91-nen ( : , '91 ) [Photo Maniac’s Diary: Chiro, '91]
Tokyo: Fusosha, 1992. First Edition. Oblong 24mo. 5.25'' by 8'' approx. Off-white boards in printed dust jacket, both near fine. Switch Library. Photographs in black and white and color. Very little text (in Japanese).
Utsushi ky jin-iro nikki ( ) [Photo Maniac’s Color Diary]
Tokyo: Fusosha, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 24mo. 5.25'' by 7.5'' approx. Red boards in red printed dust jacket. Near fine. Araki's brash color photographs, with very little text (in Japanese). Snapshots rendered full-bleed. Switch Library.
Ore, Nanshin Shite ( ) [I Go Southward]
Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red boards in pictorial dust jacket and original obi. Faint foxing to inside of dust jacket. SIGNED in black marker on FFEP. Near fine. Text in Japanese, heavily illustrated throughout with color photographs, most portraits. Uncommon.
PICTURE MAGAZINE Issue 16
Santa Fe Springs, CA: Picture Magazine, 1980. First Edition. Wraps. 16" x 11" approx. in photographic wraps. Photographs throughout. Mild toning and edgewear to wraps. Interior bright and well-preserved. Very good plus. Issue 16 of this oversized photography magazine, this issue a monograph of 17 photographs by Diane Arbus taken.....
SEX MACHINES: Photographs and Interviews
Carrboro / Los Angeles: Daniel 13 / Process, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Square 4to. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued. Minor edgewear, slight bumping to corners. Near fine. INSCRIBED by author on title page: "It was so great to have you @ the Atomic lecture + then hang out.....
[Photo Album Documenting Construction of Plaza Movie Theater]
Jacksonville, FL: Munn Photography, [ca. 1966-1967]. Hardcover. Oblong folio commercial album measuring approximately 15.5" x 12". Burlap covered boards with matted color photograph mounted to front. 22-ring clasp metal binding. 27 yellow construction paper pages containing 53 approximately 8" x 10" photographs (47 black and white, 6 color) mounted both.....
KENILWORTH, ILLINOIS [Cover Title]. Original Photo Album]
np [Kenilworth?]: nd [ca. 1910]. Oblong 4to. album with pebbled flexible leather boards and gilt titles, 7.25” x 10.75” approx. Seventeen photographs mounted recto only, all 4.5”x 7.5” approx. Remaining leaves blank. Bookplate of George F. Steele to pastedown. Album good only. Hinges cracked, edges worn. Board bowed. Contents however.....
[Original Press Kit from the Ground-Breaking Ceremony for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]
Washington, DC: [Kennedy Center], (1964). First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Two-pocket card folder, gilt title to front. Containing approximately 25 sheets of typed press information, two original site programs, an illustrated informational booklet, and four 8” x 10” black-and-white photographs. Light adhesive staining to photograph versos, overall near fine. An apparently.....
David Armstrong: All Day Every Day
New York: Scalo Publishers, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Red cloth with photographic DJ. Fine in like jacket. Tiny bump to one corner. Else very fine, unread. Bright, tight, clean and sharp. Includes conversation with the artist by Martin Jaeggi and a list of plates. Designed by Wyndham Boulter.....
GIRLS' NIGHT OUT
Newport Beach, CA: Orange County Museum of Art, 2003. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Aqua wraps. Near fine. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Orange County Museum of Art, featuring work from contemporary women photographers. Illustrated with color plates throughout.
ANNIKA VON HAUSSWOLFF / JANE & LOUISE WILSON / WEEGEE
Stockholm: Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, 2000. First Edition. Wraps. Small 4to. Neon-chartreuse wraps. Lightly edgeworn, corners bumped. Very good plus. 52pp. Exhibition catalog. Essay by Sara Arrhenius exploring and establishing thematic links -- a fascination with transgression and crime scenes, loosely designated -- between the otherwise unrelated photographers. In Swedish.....
WATASHI NO KAMERA HATSU TAIKEN / [My First Experience with a Camera] (Asahi Sonorama Contemporary Camera No. 16) / ” (No. 16)
Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1976. Wraps. 16mo. Wraps in pictorial dust jacket. Lightly shelfworn, pages toned, faint foxing to fore-edge. Very good. 188pp. In Japanese. 35 Japanese photographers discuss their first experience with a camera, illustrated with black and white photographs by and of each contributor. Photographers include Daido Moriyama, Noboyushi.....
LIGHTING FOR NUDE PHOTOGRAPHY
Mies, Switzerland: Rotovision SA, 2002. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Wraps. Light edgewear; faint creasing to lower right corner. Very good plus. 160pp. Technical guide to lighting set-ups for nude photography.