ALVIN LANGDON COBURN, PHOTOGRAPHER:; AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
NY: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. Coburn, Alvin Langdon. First American edition. 4to., 144 pp., 64 full-page gravure plates. A near fine copy in a moderately worn dust jacket. More
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WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON: PIONEER PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE WEST.; Drawings by Douglas Gorsline.
NY: Viking, 1964. Jackson, William Henry. First ed. 8vo., 205 pp., 23 b&w photos. A very good copy in dust jacket. More
LET TRUTH BE THE PREJUDICE. W. EUGENE SMITH: HIS LIFE AND PHOTOGRAPHS.; Afterword by John G. Morris.
NY: Aperture, 1985. Smith, W. Eugene. First edition. Folio, 240 pp., numerous text and full-page b&w photo-illustrations. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition. Laid-in is a typed note on The New New York Review of Books letterhead, signed by Barbara Epstein..... More
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE, 1839-1914: IMAGES AND ATTITUDES.
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. First edition. Thick 4to., x, 462 pp., profusely illustrated in color and b&w. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. Examines all aspects of photography from its beginnings to World War I. In many ways, it approaches the history of the..... More
NEW AMERICAN PEOPLE.; Introduction by Hugh Edwards.
Hastings-on-Hudson: Morgan & Morgan, 1972. Natali, Enrico. First edition. 4to., 69 photo plates. Fine in a near fine dw. A collection of documentary photos in and around Detroit. Natali taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as exhibited there and the George Eastman House. More
THE WORLD OF WILLIAM NOTMAN: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THROUGH A MASTER LENS.; Foreword by Robert MacNeil.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1993. Notman, William. First edition. 4to., (viii), 226 (5) pp., numerous full-page b&w photos. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. A comprehensive view of the work of the giant of nineteenth-century Canadian photography. With his sons and protégés, Notman had studios in Boston and Albany, Montreal, Toronto..... More
PORTRAIT OF A PERIOD: A COLLECTION OF NOTMAN PHOTOGRAPHS, 1856 TO 1915.
Montreal: McGill University Press, 1967. Notman, William. First ed. Folio, (12) pp., plus 174 full-page plates, (24) pp. of History and notes on plates, folding plates. Fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. William Notman was the premier photographer working in Canada during from the mid nineteenth century through the..... More
HILL AND ADAMSON PHOTOGRAPHS.
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1973. Hill. First American edition. 4to., 4 pp., 95 pp. of b&w plates. A fine copy in dust jacket. More
BURMA: SOMETHING WENT WRONG. THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CHAN CHAO.; Afterword by Amitav Ghosh.
Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2000. Chao, Chan. First edition. 4to., 127 pp. chiefly illustrated with color portraits. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine, as new in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Chan Chao was born in Kalemyo, Burma in 1966; he left with his family for the U.S. in 1978. Chao studied photography under John..... More
A VICTORIAN ALBUM: JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AND HER CIRCLE.; Introduction by Lord David Cecil.
NY: Da Capo Press, 1975. Cameron, Julia Margaret. First American edition. Folio, vii, 252 pp., 119 photographic plates with captions opposite. A fine copy in the pictorial dust jacket. More
THE CAMERA I: PHOTOGRAPHIC SELF-PORTRAITS FROM THE AUDREY AND SYDNEY IRMAS COLLECTION.
NY: Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, 1994. First edition. 4to., 240 pp., 148 b&w and color photo-illustrations. A fine as new copy in dust jacket, sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Audrey and Sydney Irmas began their collection more than fifteen years ago, specializing in self-portraiture;..... More
M ALVAREZ BRAVO.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1978. Bravo. First ed. 4to., xxiii pp., plus 82 b&w photo-plates, xv-xlv pp. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Near fine. One of 2000 softbound copies. Includes catalogue of exhibition, biographical notes, exhibitions/catalogues/reviews, general bibliography. More
EDOUARD BOUBAT, PHOTOGRAPHY: MEN AND MOVEMENTS.
NY: Collier Books, 1973. Boubat, Edouard. First American edition. 4to., [94] pp., 59 b&w photos interspersed with captions and text. Illustrated stiff wrappers. A near fine copy. More
LEWIS CARROLL: PHOTOS AND LETTERS TO HIS CHILD FRIENDS.; NOTES BY BRASSAI AND HELMUT GERNSHEIM.
Milan: Franco Maria Ricci, 1975. Carroll, Lewis. First edition. Folio, 213 pp., 41 tipped-in sepia toned photo-reproductions of varying sizes, either oval or with arched tops, plus one mounted photo on the upper cover of the gilt-decorated silk binding. Printed on handmade paper by Fabriano. A fine copy. Issued without..... More
MICHAEL BISHOP.; Essay by Charles Hagen.
Chicago: Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, 1979. Bishop, M. First edition. Oblong 8vo., (10) pp., 24 b&w photos, 12 color photos. Printed stiff wrappers. Near fine. Catalogue for traveling exhibition. More
JERRY BURCHARD.; April 21-June 4,1978.
Washington: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1978. Burchard, Jerry. First edition. Square 8vo., unpaginated, b&w photos. Pictorial stiff wrappers slightly rubbed, with a tiny crease to a tip, else a very good copy. Limited edition of 1500 copies printed. This exhibition "Individual Photography" is one of a series. With exhibition..... More
PRAZSKY CHODEC; Photography by Josef Sudek. Epilogue Jan Rezac.
Praha: Ceskoslovensky spisovatel, 1981. Sudek, Josef. First edition thus. 4to., 89 pp., 32 b&w photo-plates. A very good copy in dust jacket. Born, 1900 in Moravia, Vitezslav Nezval was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the..... More
AN EARLY VICTORIAN ALBUM:; THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MASTERPIECES (1843-1847) OF DAVID OCTAVIUS HILL AND ROBERT ADAMSON.
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Hill, David Octavius. First American edition. Square 4to., 363, viii pp., plates. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. Essay by Roy Strong. Over 330 reproductions of photograqphs and drawings. More
INVENTORIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS:; THE PHOTOS OF THOMAS BARROW.
Los Angeles and Albuquerque: Published for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by the University of New Mexico Press, 1986. Barrow, Thomas. First edition. Oblong 4to., 208 pp., b&w and color photos. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. A retrospective of over twenty years of the photographic artist's work. More
PARIS/MAGNUM: PHOTOGRAPHS 1935-1981.
Millerton, NY: An Aperture Book, Publication made possible by United Technologies Corporation, 1981. First edition. 4to., 111 pp., b&w captioned photographs. A near fine copy in a lightly wornl dust jacket. Includes photographs by: Bischof, Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Erwitt, Koudelka, Morath, Stock and others. More
WILLIAM H. FOX TALBOT: INVENTOR OF THE NEGATIVE-POSITIVE PROCESS.
New York: Macmillan, 1973. Talbot. First American edition. 4to., 96 pp., 69 plates. Pictorial stiff wrappers.. Very good. Translated by Maureen Oberli-Turner. More
AN AMERICAN VISION: JOHN G. BULLOCK AND THE PHOTO-SECESSION.; Foreword by William Innes Homer.
Baltimore: Aperture in Association with University of Maryland, 1989. Bullock, John. First edition. 4to., 160 pp., b&w photos. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Member of the Photo-Secession. More
WILLIAM H. FOX TALBOT: INVENTOR OF THE NEGATIVE-POSITIVE PROCESS.; Translated by Maureen Oberli-Turner.
NY: Macmillan, 1973. Talbot, William Henry Fox. First American edition. First American ed. 4to., 96 pp., 69 plates. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. More
FULLCOLOR
Paris: Contrejour, 1983. First edition. 4to., 103 pp., chiefly illustrated with full-page color plates from photographs. Price sticker affixed to the front endpaper. Near fine in the color illustrated dust jacket that is chipped and torn at the top of the spine. Text by Guy Mandery in French... More
ALICE
[Tokyo]: [Kawade Shobo Shinsha], 1980 [1973]. Second edition. Oblong 4to., [2], 30 color plates from photographs, [23] pp. Green cloth, decorated in blind and titled in gilt. Housed in the publisher's photo-illustrated slipcase with obi. Issued without a dust jacket. Fine. Text in Japanese. More