DRESSED FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHER:; ORDINARY AMERICANS AND FASHION, 1840 - 1900
1995: Kent Staste University Press.
New Arrivals
BELOW THE LINE: LIVING POOR IN AMERICA.
Mount Vernon, NY: Consumers Union, 1987. Richards, Eugene. First edition. 4to., (vi), 218 pp., numerous b&w photo-illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A fine copy. The author/photographer recorded his visits to the poor in: South Dakota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Tennessee, Illinois, Wyoming, New York City, Arkansas, Boston, California.
RAWA, RUIEI / RIVER, ITS SHADOW OF SHADOWS, 1960-63.; Introduction by W. Eugene Smith. Additional texts by Miyabi Ichikawa, Koichi Tanigawa, Seigow Matsuoka, and Jun Morinaga.
(Tokyo: Yugensha, 1978). Morinaga, Jun. First edition. 4to., (8) pp., plus 89 b&w photos, many of which are folding plates, 35 pp. text. Cloth. A fine, as new copy housed in a illustrated paper over boards slipcase, with the plain cardboard shipping carton. Morinaga was assistant to W. Eugene Smith...
THE BURDEN OF REPRESENTATION:; ESSAYS ON PHOTOGRAPHIES AND HISTORIES.
Amherst, Massachusetts: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. First edition. 8vo., xii, 242 pp., 40 plates from b&w photographs. First and last free endpaper are toned; else fine in stiff wrappers.
THE OTHER BODY:; CULTURAL DEBATE IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY. AUGUST 13 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 27, 1987.
Boston: Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, 1987. First edition. 4to., [15] pp., b&w plates from photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Published as the catalogue for an exhibition and symposium on the work of; Victor Burgin, John Hillard, Jo Spence and Mitra Tabrizian.
SPLENDID DAGUERREOTYPIST MINIATURES, TAKEN IN EVERY STYLE, BY E.S. HAYDEN, WHO WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM THE INHABITANTS OF [blank space] THAT HE HAS TAKEN ROOMS IN [blank space] AND IS NOW PREPARED TO TAKE LIKENESSES...
Waterbury, CT. American Office Print, [ca. 1850]. Hayden. Broadside, 12 x 10 inches, text with decorative border. Fine. A fine example of an itinerant daguerreotypist's broadside. Purposefully, spaces for the town and building location have been left blank to accommodate the changing locales.
JOSEF SUDEK.
Prague: Torst, 1995. Sudek, Josef. First edition. Folio, 407 pp., b&w, over 200 sepia-toned and color illustrations from photographs. The staple bound 30 pp. pamphlet of the abridged and translated text is laid-in. A fine copy in dust jacket, in the publisher's worn and broken plain card slipcase. A major...
BA RA KEI: ORDEAL BY ROSES.; Preface by Yukio Mishima. Afterword by Mark Holborn.
NY: Aperture, 1985. Hosoe, Eikoh. First edition thus. Folio, color illustrations, b&w photographs. A fine copy in the color illustrated dust jacket, with the publisher's printed silver wraparound band, which is lightly rubbed and creased. SIGNED in silver in by Hosoe in Japanese on the front free endpaper. The third.....
PICTURE PALACE
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First edition. 8vo., 359 pp. Fine in the price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. A fictional account of Maude Pratt "a character larger than life, coarse, sensitive, unforgiving, strangely admirable, a genius of the photograph" - from the dust jacket blurb.
ILLUSION: JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY
Stockholm: Riksutställningar, 2001. First edition. 4to., 74 pp., illustrated from color and b&w photographs. French fold sheets bound in color illustrated stiff wrappers with inner flaps. Small stain on the bottom edge; a very good copy. Prepared as the catalogue for an exhibition and dedicated to Shoji Ueda (1913 -.....
RECHERCHES PHOTOGRAPHIQUES: PHOTOGRAPHIE SUR VERRE. HÉLIOCHROMIE. GRAVURE HÉLIOGRAPHIQUE. - NOTES ET PROCÉDÉS DIVERS.; SUIVIES DE CONSIDÉRATIONS PAR M. E. CHEVREUL; AVEC UNE PRÉFACE BIOGRAPHIE ET DES NOTES PAR M. ERNEST LACAN.
Paris: Alexis Gaudin et Frères, 1855. First edition. 8vo., xxiv, 140 pp. Lacking the engraved portrait frontispiece. Quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, gilt-title within gilt rules on spine, which is moderately rubbed. [bound with] Blanquart-Évrard, M. [Louis Désiré] TRAITÉ DE PHOTOGRAPHIE SUR PAPIER; AVEC UNE INTRODUCTION PAR M......
THE PAGEANT OF HISTORY AND THE PANORAMA OF TODAY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.; Text by Nancy Newhall.
San Francisco: American Trust Co., 1954. Adams, Ansel. First edition. Folio, (72) pp., 56 illustrations from b&w photographs. Spiral comb bound photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. A light bump at the upper corner at the spine and slight wear to the front wrapper at the bottom corner at the spine. Housed in...
QUIET LIGHT.; With essays by Colin Fletcher and James Alinder.
Boston / Toronto / London: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. Sexton, John. First edition. Folio, (vi), 121 pp., 51 single page plates from b&w photographs. Fine, as new in pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED by the photographer on the half-title page. Focusing on our natural environment, Sexton prefers the "quiet light"...
A. AUBREY BODINE: BALTIMORE PICTORIALIST, 1906-1970.; With a remembrance by Harold A. Williams.
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Bodine, A. Aubrey. First edition. 4to., vii, 102 pp., numerous full-page b&w photos. Fine in pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED on half-title page, "With best regards / Kathleen Ewing / December 1985."
THE PHOTOBOOK: A HISTORY, VOLUMES I & II
London / New York: Phaidon Press, 2004 / 2006. First editions. 4tos., 320 / 336 pp., fully illustrated from color photographs. Fine, near new in color illustrated dust jackets. Volume I is SIGNED by Martin Parr on the half-title page. To this cataloguer's mind, the best of the compendiums that...
Chimie photographique:; contenant les éléments de chimie expliqués par Des EXEMPLES EMPRUNTÉS A LA PHOTOGRAPHIE; Les procédés de photographie sur GLACE (COLLODION SEC OU HUMIDE ET ALBUMINÉ) sur papiers, SUR PLAQUES; La manière de préparer soi-même, D'ESSAYER ET d'employer touS les réactifs et d'utiliser les résidus, ETC.
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, [1858]. Second edition. 8vo., xx, 412 pp., charts and tables. A fine and bright copy in contemporary gilt titled and decorated quarter morroco and paper over boards. Charles Louis Barreswil, 1817 - 1870, studied chemistry under Jules Pelouze, and later directed his laboratory, working with Claude Bernard. After...
JEANLOUP SIEFF, 1950 - 1990: TIME WILL PASS LIKE RAIN
Paris: Contrejour, 1990. First edition. Folio, 252 pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w photographs. A fine copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket, housed in a card slipcase with illustrated label on the upper board. A massive retrospective view of this noted photographer. Of the 8000 copies printed, this is one of...
ROBERT CORNELIUS: PORTRAITS FROM THE DAWN OF PHOTOGRAPHY.; Contributing Authors: Marian S. Carson, M. Susan Burger.
Washington: Published for the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. Cornelius, Robert. First edition. 4to., 152 pp., text illustrations, 32 full-page plates. The rear wrapper is somewhat warped. A very good copy, published only in illustrated stiff wrappers. Though his career was short, his studio was only...
LA DÉCOUVERTE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE EN 1839:; DESCRIPTION DU PROCÉDÉ FAITE AUX CHAMBRES LÉGISLATIVES PAR DAGUERRE INVENTEUR.
Paris: Imprimerie Paul Dupont, 1892. First edition. 8vo., x, 162 pp., 6 plates. New paper wrappers with the original printed wrapper mounted to covers. A few leaves have short closed tears; several leaves not completely opened. Includes statements by Niépce and Daguerre; the presentation of Daguerre's discovery at the Chamber...
PHOTOGRAPHIE RATIONNELLE: TRAITÉ COMPLET THÉORIQUE ET PRATIQUE, APPLICATIONS DIVERSES.; PRÉCÉDÉ DE L'HISTOIRE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE ET SUIVI D'ÉLÉMENTS DE CHIMIE APPLIQUÉE À CET ART.
Paris: Chez Dentu, et chez l'auteur, 1862. First edition. 8vo., [ii], 413, [blank 414], 419 - 420 pp. [i.e. 416 pages]. Quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards. Moderate foxing to the first and last few leaves. Light rubbing at the edges; a very good copy. Joseph Auguste Belloc, 1789...
COMPENDIUM DES QUATRE BRANCHES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE:; TRAITÉ COMPLET, THÉORIQUE ET PRATIQUE DES PROCÉDÉS DE DAGUERRE, TALBOT, NIEPCE DE SAINT-VICTOR, ET ARCHER. APPLICATIONS DIVERSES. PRÉCÉDÉ DES ANNALES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE ET SUIVI D'ÉLÉMENTS ET CHIMIE ET D'OPTIQUE, APPLIQUEÉS À CET ART.
Paris: The Author, 1858. First edition. 8vo., [iv], 447 pp. Contemporary quarter roan and marbled paper over boards. Mild rubbing at edges; shelf numbers and deaccession stamps of the Société Francaise de Photographie on the blank margin of the half-title and title page, a few blank lower tips are creased.....
LUMINATIONS: TWENTY OFFSET LITHOGRAPHS
[Philadelphia: Michael Becotte], 1977. Becotte, Michael. First edition. Oblong elephant folio, 17 x 22.5 inches, which consist of a title sheet, colophon and 20 offset lithographs from photographs, loose as issued, all contained in a cloth box of tray and lid with a mounted illustrated offset photographic plate. Two corners...
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE:; Photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin: Edited and with an introduction by John Wood.
Brewster, Mass. Steven Albahari / 21st, 2004. Joel-Peter Witkin. First edition. Folio, 171 pp., illustrated with both color and b&w photographs. Red cloth with a debossed photograph affixed to the front cover. Housed in the publisher's white cloth clamshell box, titled along the spine. All housed in the publisher's card...
GESCHICHTE DER PHOTOGRAPHIE.
Halle: Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp, 1905. Third edition. 8vo., xvi, 484 [1] pp., 12 plates - including one folding panoramic plate, photogravures, photogalvanographs, and one color plate, with numerous text illustrations. Newly bound in half calf and marbled paper over boards. Original wrappers bound in. Slight bump to the blank...
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THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S FRIEND [SECOND EDITION.] A CONPENDIUM OF VALUABLE FORMULAE AND GENERAL INFORMATION, RELATING TO THE ART, WITH A REVISED PRICED CATALOGUE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS AND STEREOSCOPIC GOODS, PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE TRADE, MAGIC LANTERNS AND SLIDES, &C., &C. ISSUED BY RICHARD WALZL
Baltimore: Richard Walzl; John Cox, Book, Job and Poster Printer, 1872. Second edition. 12mo., original mounted albumen frontispiece with tissue guard, 179, [1] pp., illustrations, map. The printed and illustrated wrappers are also illustrated on the reverse. The wrappers are chipped at corners; a closed tear at the spine base...