Category: Photography

Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection

By: (International Center of Photography) Handy, Ellen, curator

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company : (c.1999)

Seller ID: 13293

ISBN-13: 9780821226254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book is tight, clean, as-new; jacket shows just a bit of surface handling wear]. (B&W/color photographs) "Published on the occasion of ICP's twenty-fifth anniversary, [this book] provides an innovative look at the diversity of the photographic medium. The selection displays great strength in documentary photography and photojournalism, as well as a marvelous range of fine art, commercial, and vernacular photography. It presents the work of such masters as Richard Avedon, Weegee, Cindy Sherman, Robert Capa, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White, Alfredo Jaar, Ansel Ad...
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Type-Faces: A Photographic Study of Ward Ritchie [SIGNED limited edition; incomplete copy (see notes)]

By: Blanco, Amanda; with a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Northridge CA, Santa Susana Press : 1988

Seller ID: 24850

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

[brown cloth clamshell box has some minor scuffing to the underside; mounted plates are in Fine condition]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the subject, master printer Ward Ritchie, on the title page and also on Plate 12, latterly with an inscription "For old friends from the 1930s -- the Petits"; additionally SIGNED by Lawrence Clark Powell on the limitation page. "Designed, printed and produced by D'Ambrosio, using hand set Della Robbia type and a Vandercook No. 4 proof press . . . under the direction of Norman E. Tanis, Director of Libraries, California State University, Northridge." Content...
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Décor - Jo Ann Callis

By: Callis, Jo Ann; with an essay by Jennifer A. Watts

Price: $25.00

Publisher: South Pasadena CA, Thistle & Weed Press : (c.2013)

Seller ID: 24762

ISBN: Notavalid

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[very nice, as-new book]. Trade PB (color photographs) "Callis has long exploited photographic image to narrative ends. Widely known for her conceptual pictures of men and women in mysterious settings, she has worked with b&w and color photography, sculpture, painting, set design, and digital imagery. While she uses the camera often, she never pursued the medium as an end in itself, instead employing it as a studio tool to capture the sensual tones and textures of domestic life. The resulting pictures and installations can be both seductive and unnerving, tantalizing visions of interio...
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Beaton

By: Danziger, James

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press (A Studio Book) : 1980

Seller ID: 16975

ISBN-13: 9780670152490

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[a bit of shelfwear to bottom edge, with very light deterioration of cloth at a couple of points; jacket has just a couple of tiny closed tears at edges]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED on the title page by actress Jacqueline Bisset, with an inscription (dated "Dec 80") to "Bill" (William Allyn), producer of her film RICH AND FAMOUS. An extensive survey of Cecil Beaton's photographic work; it's unknown (to me, anyway) whether he ever lensed Ms. Bisset.
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Photography, Artistic and Scientific

By: Johnson, Robert, and Arthur Brunel Chatwood

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, George D. Hurst : [ca. 1895]

Seller ID: 7602

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

(no dust jacket) [gilt lettering on spine and front cover still bright; book has absorbed some moisture at some point, as there is dampstaining on the front cover and at the margins of both endpapers and pastedowns, and the book itself is a bit bowed; aside from that, however, this is a good solid copy, internally quite clean; there is a bit of damage (splitting) to part of the internal front hinge, but no separation, and the binding is completely intact]. (B&W photographs, diagrams) Very scarce early photography volume, printed in London (per a statement at the back of the book) despite the N...
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The Photo Essay: Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark

By: Mark, Mary Ellen; edited by Constance Sullivan and Susan Weiley

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Washington/London, Smithsonian Institution Press : (c.1990)

Seller ID: 22461

ISBN-13: 9781560980032

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[very slight bumping to a couple of corners, minor sticker residue on rear cover, otherwise a nice clean book]. (Photographers at Work) Series Trade PB (color and B&W photographs) An interview with the photographer about her philosophies and working methods, prefacing several small groups of associated photos (usually 3-5 in a group) and a brief 2-page biography. The book contains 30 photographs, mostly in color. "I want to be a voice for the unfamous people," says Mark. "Whether it's a guy in Miami Beach who goes to a dance or it's someone who's dying in Ethiopia, they're the unf...
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Out of the Volcano: Portraits of Contemporary Mexican Artists [SIGNED by the photographer]

By: Peden, Margaret Sayers; photographs by Carole Patterson

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Washington DC/London, Smithsonian Institution Press : (c.1991)

Seller ID: 24764

ISBN-13: 9781560980612

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[minor handling wear only, very slight bend to bottom right corner of front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the photographer on the half-title page. "In interviews and photographic portraits, [the author] and [the photographer] bring together forty-nine of Mexico's most acclaimed artists in the performing, visual, and literary arts, displaying the creative energy of a nation. Invited into the artists' studios and work spaces, the author and photographer discuss with them individual conceptions of reality and their expression in media as diverse as paint, clay, stone, wood, pen,...
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What Becomes a Legend Most?: The Blackglama Story

By: Rogers, Peter; photographs by Richard Avedon and Bill King

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : (c.1979)

Seller ID: 27020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [very slight bumping at several corners, no other significant wear to book; the jacket shows a bit of wear at the upper extremities, light surface rubbing (mostly to rear panel), and has a 1/2" tear and associated minor creasing at the bottom front flapfold]. (B&W photographs) The photographic history of one of the most successful advertising campaigns of all time, which consisted of a series of ravishing photos of some of the world's most famous and elegant women -- among them Lauren Bacall, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert, B...
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Mostly Off-Guard!: The Photography of Hal Sloane [SIGNED]

By: Sloane, Hal

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Palm Springs CA, Hall/Sloane Publishing : (c.2006)

Seller ID: 22406

ISBN-13: 9780963868336

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice copy, presents as-new, with just a touch of edge- and surface-wear to the jacket]. (B&W and color photographs) SIGNED by the author/photographer on the title page. "An eclectic personal chronicle of people, places and events of the last half of the 20th Century." Sloane's career as a photo-journalist and musical event producer stretched over four decades, and in addition to a bunch of celebrity photography he also covered such historic events as the neo-Nazi march in Skokie, Illinois, in 1978, and the restul of Ethiopian Jews from refugee camps in Sudan in 1985. It's a bit of...
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Phil Stern: A Life's Work

By: Stern, Phil; with essays by Patricia Bosworth, Nat Hentoff, and Herbert Mitgang

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, powerHouse Books : 2003

Seller ID: 22420

ISBN-13: 9781576871881

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(in slipcase) [a very nice copy, with just a slight bump to the top front corner of the spine and the tiniest bit of external soiling to the slipcase]. (B&W and color photographs) Retrospective survey of the work of the noted photographer, divided into three thematic sections: World War II; Jazz; Hollywood. The latter is by far the largest, comprising more than half the book, and widens its scope a bit to include Las Vegas (as in: The Rat Pack). PLEASE NOTE that additional postage will be requested for this very heavy book if shipping to a destination outside the U.S. (Domestic Media Mail s...
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Made in USA: Photographs 1951-1971

By: Stock, Dennis

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Ostfildern, Germany, Cantz : (c.1995)

Seller ID: 22916

ISBN-13: 9783893226399

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket) [light shelfwear only, slight bumping/minor wear at top of spine, very slight bump to top front corner]. (B&W photographs) A nice sampling of the early "photojournalistic" work of American photographer Stock (1928-2010), divided into these categories: Refugees; Jazz Street; James Dean; Hollywood; Festivals; On the Road; Hippies; California. Prefaced by "Dennis Stock on Dennis Stock," a brief essay on his life and work, and "The Photojournalist: The Black and White Years," by Richard Whelan. Text and photo captions are all in both German and English. **...
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Whisper of the Muse: The Overstone Album & Other Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron [SIGNED]

By: Weaver, Mike (essay)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Malibu CA, The J. Paul Getty Museum : 1986

Seller ID: 23166

ISBN-13: 9780892360888

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[lovely copy, no wear at all to book; jacket shows just a bit of wear along top edge of front panel, small pen-point scratch (no ink) near bottom of rear panel]. (sepia-tone photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Mike Weaver, author of the book's central essay, on the half-title page: "For Dick & Mickey / with love & best wishes / Mike Weaver / 10 September 1986." Issued in connection with an exhibition of Julia Margaret Cameron's photography presented by the then-newly formed photography department at the J. Paul Getty Museum, this lovely book reproduces a couple of dozen photographs from the...
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History of Photography (Summer 1998): Photography and Architecture; Ansel Adams

By: Weaver, Mike, and Anne Hammond, eds.; Daniel Naegele, guest ed.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London/Washington DC, Taylor & Francis Ltd. : 1998

Seller ID: 22637

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, just a tiny bit of edgewear, minor scuffing to rear cover]. (B&W photographs) The bulk of this issue is devoted to two topics. "Photography and Architecture" features a guest editorial and five articles focusing on that topic, including an interview with Ezra Stoller, and discussions of Walter Benjamin, Le Corbusier, and Violett-le-Duc. The section on Ansel Adams features four articles about his work: "Ansel Adams, The Zone System and the California School of Fine Arts"; "Ansel Adams and Louise Arner Boyd: A Camera Tells a Story"; "Ansel Adams and Spanish Colonial Arts"; and...
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Category: Photography