WEIZENBAUM, JosephComputer Power and Human Reason : From Judgment to Calculation
San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1976. First edition (full number line on copyright page). xii, 300pp; index. Gray cloth stamped in silver to front board and spine; dust jacket. Bottom corners mildly bumped; former owner's name stamped to front endpaper; musty odor. Very...
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BALDESSARI, John; Jessica Morgan and Leslie JonesJohn Baldessari : Pure Beauty
Los Angeles/Munich: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009. 329pp; illus; color plates; printed on various(ly sized) paper stocks. 4to. Signature-bound in French-fold wraps. A handful of crimped upper page corners, toning to the leaves in the text sections. Very good or better. A lavishly...
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GUTKIND, E. A.; G. P. Gooch, foreword; Lewis Mumford, intro.Our World From the Air : An International Survey of Man and his Environment
NY: Doubleday & Company, 1952. First edition. [252]pp; b&w plates. 4to. Blue and black cloth boards, silver spine titles; dust jacket. Boards worn, with splitting to cloth at bottom tips, tattering to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with chip to head of the dulled spine, and...
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BRANDT, Bill; Lawrence Durrell, preface; Chapman Mortimer, intro.Perspective of Nudes
NY: Amphoto, 1961. 90pp; b&w plates. 4to. Patterned paper titled in red to front board and spine; dust jacket. Light foxing to endpapers; one small spot of damp-soiling to textblock fore-edge. Very good in a good to very good jacket, complete and unclipped but with...
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London: Granta, 2004. 110pp; color plates; two gatefold leaves. Oblong 4to. Gray paper boards stamped in black to spine. Fine in like jacket. Photographs documenting the grounds and interiors of the HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland, notorious for housing political prisoners during the Troubles,...
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WITKIN, Joel-Peter; John Yau, poem; Gus Blaisdel, essayGods of Earth and Heaven
Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1989. First edition, one of 5,000 copies. [120]pp; 48 duotone & color plates. Large 4to. Black cloth stamped in gilt to boards and spine; dust jacket. Light bump to bottom rear corner, toning to leaves. Very good or better in like...
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WINOGRAND, Garry; Tod Papageorge, intro.Public Relations
NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004. Reprint. 110pp; b&w plates. Oblong 4to. Gray cloth, blind-embossed to front board; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Mild toning to edges of leaves, else fine in a fine jacket. Reprint of this 1977 collection by American street photographer...
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[Rotterdam]: Episode Publishers, 2008. 120pp; color plates. Sewn binding in photo-illustrated French-fold wraps. Fine. Full-bleed color photographs by Dutch photographer Marieken Verheyen, interspersed with her texts (in English translation) on differently colored paper stocks. Epilogue by Nina Schulze. Per rear flap: "Elsewhere illustrates contemporary experiences...
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Foundation Tichý Oceán/Taka Ischii Gallery, 2007. 178pp; b&w and color plates. Quarter-cloth boards titled in blue to front board and spine; publisher's obi. Near fine, with toning to edges of leaves. Monograph on the work of Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý (1926-2011), best known for the...
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SUDEK, Josef; Markku Lahi, ed. & fwd.; Vojtěch Lahoda, textsJosef Sudek : The commercial photography for Družstevní práce
Jyväskylä, Finland: The Alvar Aalto Museum, 2003. 93pp; b&w plates. 4to. Signature-bound in photo-illustrated French flap covers. Near fine, with light toning to edges of leaves. Monograph on the 1920s-30s commercial photography produced by Czech photographer Josef Sudek for design firm Družstevní práce. Published in...
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STRUTH, Thomas; Guy Tosatto, Hripsimé Visser, Régis Durand, and James Lingwood, textsStill
NY: The Monacelli Press, 2001. 143pp; color plates. Green cloth stamped in blue and black to front board and spine. Toning to edges of leaves, else near fine in a like jacket with toning to flaps. Monograph on the work of German photographer Thomas Struth...
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STRAND, Paul; Cesare Zavattini, textUn Paese : Portrait of an Italian Village
NY: Aperture Foundation, 1997. 104pp; b&w plates. 4to. Green cloth; silver spine titles. Light bumping to spine ends; some toning to edges of leaves. Very good or better in a like jacket, a little worn and crumpled at tips. The first English-language edition of this...
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PEARSON, Anthony; Tim Griffin, essay; John Rasmussen, interviewAnthony Pearson : Solarizations
Minneapolis: Midway Contemporary Art, 2008. 66pp; illus; duotone plates. Brown cloth stamped in black to front board and spine, lacking a jacket as issued. A hint of toning to edges of leaves, else fine. Signed, dated, and inscribed by Pearson to front endpaper. Catalog on...
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[PARR, Martin and John Gossage, as] Obvious and OrdinaryObvious & Ordinary : America 2006
[London/Chicago]: [Rocket Gallery/Stephen Daiter Gallery], [2007]. From a total edition of 1500 copies. [72]pp; b&w and color plates. 4to. Saddle-stapled in printed wraps. Near fine, with light wear at spine ends. A pseudonymous, collaborative book featuring photographs taken by John Gossage and Martin Parr during...
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Stockport, England: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1999. Oblong 4to. [156]pp; color plates. Light shelfwear, else near fine in photo-illustrated boards, lacking a jacket as issued. Full-bleed color photographs by the venerable Parr, notable both for his photographs and for his essential reference series, The Photobook.
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NY: Aperture Foundation, 2006. First American edition. [88]pp; color plates. Oblong 4to. Printed reflective boards, lacking a jacketed as issued. Light bump to top corners, echoing through textblock. Very good or better. Vibrant color photographs of Mexican scenes, with frequent attention paid to the ubiquity...
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MORATH, IngeInge Morath : My Life as a Photographer
Munich: Gina Kehayoff Verlag, 1999. 183pp; b&w plates. Blue textured paper stamped in light blue to front board and spine. Near fine, with light shelfwear, mild toning to leaves. In a fine jacket. Monograph on the work of Austrian photographer Inge Morath (1923-2002), published in...
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Stromness, Orkney, Scotland: Stromness Books and Prints, 1981. Reprint by same publisher of title first issued in 1979. 18 b&w plates printed rectos only, with facing explanatory texts. Oblong 8vo. Signature-bound in photo-illustrated wraps. Bump and softening to bottom fore-corner, light foxing interior covers. About...
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LUXEMBURG, Rut Blees, photo.; Alexander García Düttmann, textLiebeslied / My Suicides
[London]: Black Dog Publishing, 2000. [64]pp; 14 color plates. Oblong 4to. Signature-bound in photo-illustrated wraps. About fine. Signed by Luxemburg to front endpaper. A work pairing color photographs of wet nighttime cityscapes by German-born British photographer Luxemburg with corresponding prose texts by Spanish-born deconstructionist scholar...
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LEITNER, Paul AlbertCities, Episodes : Photographs
Salzburg: Fotohof, 2005. 257pp; color plates. 4to. Orange cloth stamped in white to front board and spine; dust jacket. Mild toning to edges of leaves, 1/2" slice to base of jacket spine & underlying cloth. Else fine in a fine jacket. With original folded promotional...
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KEETMAN, Peter; Rolf Sachsse; Manfred Heiting, ed.; Holger Tiedemann, essayPeter Keetman : Bewegung und Struktur
Los Angeles: Cinubia Production, 1996. 160pp; duotone plates. 4to. Signature-bound in photo-illustrated French-fold wraps. Near fine, with light toning to edges of leaves. Monograph on the work of German photographer Peter Keetman (1919-2005), a founding member of avant-garde photography collective fotoform, and a key participant...
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LEITER, Saul; Paul Auster, storyIt Don't Mean A Thing
NY, Paris and Tokyo: The Gould Collection, 2017. First edition, one of 500 copies. [96]pp; b&w and color plates. Signature-bound in plain Swiss wraps; gray jacket with mounted wrap-around photo-illustration; obi. A fine copy. A nice selection of color and black-and-white images by American photographer...
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München: Verlag Knorr & Hirth München, 1938. First edition (presumed). 40pp, followed by 132 b&w plates. Large 8vo. Off-white cloth stamped in black to front board and spine; dust jacket. Light toning to endpapers and text leaves. Else near fine in a good to very...
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JOSEPHSON, Kenneth; Sylvia Wolf, Andy Grundberg, and Stephanie Libscomb, contributorsKenneth Josephson: A Retrospective
Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1999. 200pp; 157 duotone, 17 color plates. 4to. Signature-bound in photo-illustrated French flap covers. Light bump to bottom front corner and underlying leaves; a hint of toning to textblock. Near fine. Signed by Josephson to the title page. A...
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JONES, Ed, and Timothy Prus, eds.Nein, Onkel : Snapshots From Another Front 1938-1945
[London]: Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007. 226pp; b&w and color plates. Oblong 8vo. Tan cloth with blue titles to front board and spine, lacking a jacket as issued. Near fine, with light toning to edges of leaves. A collection reproducing 347 snapshots taken by German...
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