Garden City, NY: AMPHOTO, 1976. Moholy-Nagy. First U.S. edition. 4to., 92 pp., 83 photos. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A very good copy. The excellent text examines the experimental work of Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Paul Citroën, Hannah Höch, and others, and compares and contrasts them with their predecessors, Talbot, Cameron..... More
San Francisco: San Franciso Museum of Modern Art, 1994. First edition. 4to., 187 pp., 130 color and duotoner illustrations from photographs. Color illustrated stiff wrapper. Fine. "PUBLIC INFORMATION: DESIRE, DISASTER, DOCUMENT confronts one of the most complex issues of our times: how how photographic and technologically produced images mediate and..... More
Linköping: Universitetet i Linköping, Tema Kommunikation. First edition. 8vo., 255 pp., illustrated with b&w photographs. Printed stiff wrappers in a slightly rubbed photographically illustrated dust jacket. Very good. A symposium on the history and modern artistic photography in Scandinavia. Articles by Lena Johannesson, Tove Hansen, Sven Hirn, Pirjo Porrka, Rolf..... More
Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1997. First edition. 4to., 118 pp., chiefly illustrated from color and b&w photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. SIGNED and dated by the photographer; additionally, with a signed presentation by Jan Howard. Published as the catalogue upon the occasion of the exhibition held May 28..... More
Poughkeepsie, NY: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2000. First edition. 4to., 31 pp., Color and tinted plates from photographs. Illustrated stiff wrapper. Near fine. Published as the catalogue for an exhibition held April 6 - June 11, 2000. Includes works by Duane Michaels, Larry Sultan and Mike..... More
Toronto: Lumiere Press, 1992. Sommer, Frederick. First edition. 8vo., 31 pp., 4 mounted silver prints. Cloth-backed printed boards. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine, as new copy. The four silver gelatin photographs include a frontispiece portrait of Sommer by Edward Weston; a collage from the series The Birth of..... More
Stockton, NJ: Designed and printed at the Carolingian Press, 1972. Sommer, Frederick. First edition. Square 12mo., 20 leaves, printed recto only. Printed stiff wrappers. Wrappers slightly dusty, else fine. A collection of aphorisms, with: WORDS SPOKEN IN MEMORY OF RICHARD NICKEL AT A GATHERING OF HIS FRIENDS. More
(Stockton, NJ: DeSIGNED and printed at the Carolingian Press, 1972). Sommer, Frederick. First edition. Square 12mo., 20 leaves, printed recto only. Printed stiff wrappers. Fine. SIGNED. A collection of aphorisms, with: WORDS SPOKEN IN MEMORY OF RICHARD NICKEL AT A GATHERING OF HIS FRIENDS. This copy is SIGNED by Frederick..... More
London and NY: Routledge, 1995. Spence, Jo. First edition. 8vo., 249 pp., illustrated from b&w and color photographs. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A fine copy. "Jo Spence was one of Britain's pioneering photographers. Born into a working-class London family, she worked for many years as a studio photographer. Her political concerns..... More
Graz: Fotogralerie im Forum Städtpark, 1979. Heinecken. First edition. 4to., 150 pp., numerous text illustrations, b&w and color photo-plates. Printed stiff wrappers. Previous owner's neat signature on the first blank leaf. Very good. With (bilingual) text by participants in the Symposion including: Lee Friedlander, Robert Heinecken, Klaus Honnef, Joseph Kosuth..... More
[Tegucigalpa, Honduras]: Centro de Comunicacíon para el Desarrollo COMUNICA, 1991. First edition. Oblong 8vo., 71 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs. Color illustrated stiff wrappers. Lightly rubbed; near fine. The importance of photography and visual communication as aids in teaching largely uneducated adults in Honduras. Limited to 2000 copies. WorldCat locates only..... More
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. More
London: Printed for Robert Horsfield, 1761. First English edition. 16mo., [Part I] 130 pp.[ dated 1761]; [Part II] 126 pp. [dated 1760], 1 p. advert. Contemporary full calf, with the spine expertly repaired; board edges are rubbed. Previous owner's name on endpaper, few light pencil notations, light foxing and offsetting..... More
Babylone [Paris]: n. p., 1760. First edition. 16mo., [Part I] [2], 176 pp; [Part II] [2], 174 pp. Contemporary full mottled calf, with the spine in six gilt-decorated compartments; hinges partially cracked but firm; rubbing at the edges and chipping at the corners. Moderate foxing or soiling. A near very..... More
Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, 1971. Uelsmann, Jerry N. Second printing. 8vo., vii, 78 pp., 17 b&w plates. Small dent to the edge of the front wrapper and a few slight scuff, and slight cockling to the title page. Very good. SIGNED and dated 1993 by Jerry Uelsmann on the..... More
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Millerton: Aperture, 1973. Weston, Edward. Re-issue of 1961 / 1966 First editions. 4tos., xiv, 214 pp., 32 b&w photos; xi, 290 pp., 40 b&w photos. Cloth. Top and foredge are moderately foxed; otherwise, a bright and near fine in dust jackets. More
Andover, MA: The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 1981. First edition. Tall 8vo., 44 pp. Printed stiff wrappers. A fine copy. Related material laid in. A series of questions and quotes were posed to eighteen photographers for their responses/opinions. The questions include; breaking tradition, curatorial influence, the photograph..... More