EWING, William A.; George Cukor, fwd.The Photographic Art of Hoyningen-Huene
NY: Rizzoli, 1986. First American edition. 248pp; illus; b&w and color plates. 4to. Tan cloth stamped in gilt to spine. Mild sunning to board edges, else near fine in a near fine jacket, lightly toned. Monograph on the work of Russian-born fashion photographer George Hoyningen-Huene...
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HENRI, Florence; Marta Gili, preface; Cristina Zelich, Susan Kismaric, and Giovanni Battista Martini, essaysFlorence Henri: Mirror of the Avant-Garde, 1927-1940
NY: Aperture Foundation, 2015. 221pp; duotone plates. 4to. Illustrated paper boards, lacking a jacket as issued. Mild toning to edges of leaves, else fine. Monograph on the photography of American-born Surrealist artist Florence Henri (1893-1982); an extensive selection of her work, with preface by Marta...
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MILLER, Lee; Mark Haworth-Booth, textThe Art of Lee Miller
London/New Haven: V&A Publications, Yale University Press, 2007. First edition. 224pp; b&w and color plates. 4to. Black papered boards, white spine titles; dust jacket. Mild toning to edges of leaves, else fine in fine jacket. An excellent monograph surveying the "Surrealist-inspired photographs of haunting originality,...
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Carquefou/Montbéliard, France: FRAC des Pays de la Loire/Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain, 2001. 127pp; b&w plates. 4to. Signature-bound in French-fold wraps. About fine. Signed by Gronon to front endpaper. Monograph published to accompany a 2001 exhibit of work by French photographer Philippe Gronon (b. 1964), whose...
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NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. 101pp; b&w plates. Square 8vo. Signature-bound in photo-illustrated wraps. Very good, with light edgewear, mild toning to edges of leaves. A clean, sound copy of the first book by American photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941), including numerous portraits of his...
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Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1998. 36pp; duotone plates. Saddle-stapled in plain wraps; printed jacket. Toning to edges of leaves; light sunning to jacket spine. Very good or better. Catalog for an exhibition of the same name at the Princeton Art Museum, February...
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GHIRRI, Luigi; William Eggleston, preface; Germano Celant, essayIt's beautiful here, isn't it... Photographs and Writings by Luigi Ghirri
NY: Aperture Foundation, 2008. 151pp; color plates. Brown cloth, blind embossed to front board and spine. Toning to edges of leaves, else near fine in a fine jacket, lightly toned to perimeters. A monograph on the photography and writing of Italian artist Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992);...
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NY/Zurich/Berlin: Scalo Publishers, 2000. Reprint ("Fourth Scalo Edition"). 179pp; duotone plates. Oblong 8vo. Black papered boards, white spine titles. Mild toning and rippling along tops of leaves. Very good or better in a fine dust jacket. Reprint of Frank's influential classic, originally published in 1958....
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FLEURET, Bertrand; Lorenzo de Rita, textThe Risk of an Early Spring
Amsterdam: Artimo, 2004. First edition. [200]pp; b&w plates. 8vo. Photo-illustrated boards backed with brown cloth; white spine titles; lacking a jacket as issued. A fine copy, signed and dated by Fleuret in 2007 to title page (near rear of volume). Full-bleed black-and-white photographs exploring the...
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FEININGER, AndreasAndreas Feininger: Experimental Work
NY: AMPHOTO, 1978. 144pp; b&w plates. 4to. Gray textured-paper boards, black spine titles. Light toning to edges of boards and textblock. Near fine in a like jacket, unclipped, with tiny closed tears at spine ends. A nice copy of this collection of experimental and abstract...
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London: Phaidon, 2000. Reprint, following the first edition of 1999. 159pp; b&w plates. Square 8vo. Black textured paper stamped in gilt to front board and spine. Some light bumping to base of spine and boards, else near fine in a near fine jacket, lightly sunned...
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Köln: Schaden Verlag, 1999. Reprint. [112]pp; b&w plates. 4to. Black papered boards, white spine titles. Light toning to edges of leaves, else fine in a fine jacket, lightly rubbed. A facsimile reprint of (the German edition of) Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken's iconic photobook...
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CORPRON, Carlotta; Martha A. Sandweiss, textCarlotta Corpron : Designer With Light
Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1980. 63pp; b&w plates. Signature-bound in photo-illustrated wraps. Very good or better, with light rubbing and wear to covers. Publisher's compliments card laid in. Softcover issue of this monograph on the work of American photographer Carlotta Corpron...
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CHARGESHEIMER [Karl Heinz Hargesheimer]; Heinrich Böll, textUnter Krahnenbäumen
Köln: Schaden Verlag, 2007. Reprint. [104]pp; b&w plates. Square 8vo. Photo-illustrated boards, lacking a jacket apparently as issued. Near fine, with faint toning to edges of leaves, offsetting to gutters (adhesive). Reprint of Chargesheimer's 1958 collection of black-and-white photographs taken on the titular street in...
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NY: Aperture, in association with The Museum of Modern Art, 1976. 201pp; b&w plates. 4to. Black cloth stamped in gilt to front board and spine; dust jacket. Light toning to endpapers and edges of leaves. Else near fine in a like jacket, unclipped, showing light...
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CALLAHAN, Harry; Keith F. Davis, textHarry Callahan : New Color : Photographs 1978-1987
[Albuquerque]: University of New Mexico Press, in cooperation with Hallmark Cards, 1990. Reprint. 131pp; b&w illus; color plates. Oblong 8vo. Dark gray cloth stamped in silver to front board and spine; dust jacket. Light toning to edges of leaves, else near fine in a near...
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BROUWS, Jeff; William L. Fox, essayApproaching Nowhere
NY: W.W. Norton and Company, 2006. First edition. 159pp; 137 color plates. Square 4to. Reddish textured-paper boards, gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Light bumps to top front corner and base of front board. Near fine in a like jacket, unclipped. A collection of engrossing color...
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BRANDT, Bill; Michael Hiley, intro.Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945-1980
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. First American edition. 100pp; b&w plates. 4to. Black cloth, silver spine titles. Toning to edges of endpapers and prelims; light toning to edges of plates. Unclipped jacket, with wear and small chips along top edge (esp to rear panel),...
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[London]: Mack, 2013. [56]pp; plates. 4to. Gray cloth; black spine titles; photo-illustration mounted to front board. Fine. A collection of images described by the publisher's website as adopting a "sombre and darkened palette, as if the light has been stolen from each photograph creating the...
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BIRNS, Jack, photographs; Carolyn Wakeman and Ken Light, eds; Orville Schell, forewordAssignment Shanghai : Photographs on the Eve of Revolution
Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 2003. First edition. 130pp; b&w plates. Tall 4to. Gray cloth, gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Mild toning to edges of leaves, else fine in like jacket. Monograph presenting, for the first, work by American photographer Jack...
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DRTIKOL, František; Vladimir Birgus and Antonin BranyFrantišek Drtikol
Prague: Odeon, 1989. Second printing (per colophon at rear). 155pp; 89 b&w plates. Square 12mo. Signature-bound in plain wraps, dust jacket. Minor toning to edges of leaves, else fine in like jacket. A pretty little monograph on Czech photographer Franktišek Drtikol (1883-1961); 89 black-and-white plates...
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BECHER, Bernd and Hilla; Thierry de Duve, textBasic Forms
NY: te Neues Publishing Company, 1999. 159pp; b&w plates. Black papered boards, blind-embossed to front, with silver spine titles. Light toning to edges of leaves. Near fine in a like jacket, mildly toned. A survey of work by the famed German photographers, with 64 b&w...
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ARBUS, Diane; Jeff L. Rosenheim; Thomas P. Campbell and Karan Rinaldo, textsDiane Arbus : In The Beginning 1956-1962
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016. First edition. 269pp; duotone plates. 4to. White paper boards titled in gray. Mild bumping to top corners; light toning to edges of leaves. Very good, lacking a jacket as issued. Monograph on the early work of legendary American...
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ANDERSON, Dave; Anne Wilkes Tucker, intro.Rough Beauty
Stockport, England: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2006. 118pp; b&w plates. 4to. Photo-illustrated boards in matching dust jacket. Top corners lightly bumped; light toning to edges of leaves. Very good or better in like jacket. Signed and dated by Anderson to title page. A collection of sensitive,...
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NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. First American edition. 249pp. Blue papered boards, silver spine titles. Fine in a fine, unclipped jacket. An as-new copy of the first American printing of the first novel in Cusk's celebrated Outline trilogy.
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