San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2002. Carroll, Lewis. First edition. 4to., 172 pp., including 76 photographic plates. Text is further illustrated with 17 additional photographs. Bound in maroon cloth with a photo-illustrated dust jacket. A fine, as new copy, still..... More
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1963. First edition. Tall 8vo., [20] pp., 18 b&w plates from photographs, including the wrapper illustrations. Mild wear; a very good copy. The catalogue for the exhibition of 69 photographs from the Decisive Moment, 5 April to 5 May, 1963. The catalogue, in Dutch, includes excerpts from..... More
Groningen, The Netherlands: Groningen Museum, 1999. First edition. Illustrated wrappers, 7 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches, containing 10 postcards from b&w photographs. Fine, as new in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Reproductions of photographs from the Larry Clark exhibition at the Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, March 31-June 6, 1999. More
Boston: New York Graphic Society Books; Little Brown and Company, In Association with the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. 1985. Clergue, Lucien. First edition. 4to., 151 pp., 104 b&w photos, 8 color. A tiny bruise to the lower front board tip; else a near fine copy in..... More
Bruxelles: Éstablissements Émile Bruylant, 1912. First edition. Small 4to., [iv], 506 pp., b&w illustrations and figures in text. The printed paper wrappers show dust soiling and moderate wear at the edges; one signature loose. A very good, unopened copy. The complete papers and documents presented at the Fifth International Congress..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1901. First edition. Small 4to., [iv], 155 pp., text illustrations. Printed paper wrappers. Fine and unopened. Primarily concerned with the technical advances in the medium, including cinematography and color photography, with contributions by G. Lipmann, L. Vidal, V. Legros, Auguste and Louis Lumière, Louis-Edward Lévy, et al. The..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1890. First edition. 8vo., xviii, 202 pp., 5 unnumbered leaves of plates, other illustrations in text. Printed paper wrappers, which are slightly dust soiled; there is a small chip lacking from the coated spine. Léon Gaumont's neat bookplate and signature on the half-title page, with a...... More
Syracuse: Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Schine Student Center, Syracuse University, 1996. First edition. 4to., [24] pp., 20 full-page plates after platinum photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Includes both a foreword and afterword by Jeffrey Hoone. This exhibition consisted of 20 platinum photographic prints, 16 x 23 inches. Issued as..... More
Washington, D. C. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1976 - 1980. First editions. From 1976 through 1981, the Corcoran Gallery of Art regularly held exhibitions of photography, generally by a single photographer. Offered here is a collection of 14 catalogues, of varying paginations and illustrations, in uniform size of 8..... More
Tucson: Center for Creative Photography/University of Arizona, 1981. Crane, Barbara. First edition. Oblong 8vo., x, 124 pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w and color photographs with Pictorial stiff wrappers. SIGNED by the photographer on the half-title page. A near fine copy. Barbara Crane (born 1928) has worked with the photographic image..... More
Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1986. First edition. 4to., 78 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers in an identical dust jacket. Fine. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Centre national de photographie in Paris [December 18, 1986 - March 2, 1987]. Bilingual texts in English..... More
Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, (1978). Sheeler, Charles. First edition. Oblong 4to., 96 pp., many b&w photos, selected bibliographies. Printed wrappers. Slight soiling to the wrappers, else very good. "This exhibition focuses on how these two artists translated the architecture and machinery at the Rouge into their own unique artistic..... More
Roudnice nad Labem: Galerie výtvarného um ni, 1973. First edition. 8vo., 24 unnumbered pages, largely illustrated from b&w photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. Checklist of photographs laid-in. The catalog is organized into portfolio sections with biographical data and several images by the following artists: Alphonse Mucha, D.J. Ruzicka, Frantisek..... More
Ostfildern: Cantz Verlag, 1995. First edition. 4to., 144 pp., principally illustrated from b&w and color photographs. Color illustrated stiff wrappers with inner flaps. Light wear to the wrappers. Very good. The catalogue for the exhibition of 26 international photographers, curated by Thomas Weski and Ulrich Bischoff, with texts in German..... More
København: Nationale Fotomuseum, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, 2002. First edition. 8vo., 103 pp., illustrated from b&w and color photographs and paintings. Color illustrated stiff wrappers with a photographically illustrated over wrapper. Fine. Published as the catalogue for the exhibition at the Nationale Fotomuseum, Denmark, August 29 - October 26, 2002. The..... More
[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 1973. First edition. Square 8vo., 36 leaves printed recto only. Stapled into printed wrappers. Wrappers show light soiling and toning; pencil notations in text and one leaf creased. Very good. The photographs in the show come from the Social Ethics Collection that..... More
Firenze: Alinari, 1993. First edition. Oblong 4to., 189 pp., fully illustrated with b&w and tinted photographs. Printed paper over boards with a photographically illustrated dust jacket. Fine. An exceptional catalogue of nineteenth century photographs of the American West; with chapters by William F. Stapp and George P. Horse Capture... More
Cologne: Rudolf Kicken Galerie, 1983. Drtikol, Frantisek. First edition. Small 4to., 48 pp., 67 b&w photos. Printed stiff wrappers. Fine. Drtikol's nudes. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies. In English. More
Paris: Cercle de la Librairie, 1881. First edition. Large 4to., 32, 20, xl, [170] pp., chromolithographic frontispiece with tissue guard, title page vignette, including numerous plates, many issued with tissue guards, including chromolithographs, various types of photogravures, engravings on metal and wood, phototypie and photoglyptie, and musical scores. Published in..... More
Washington, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2000. Dutton, Allen. First ed. 4to., 61 pp., 48 b&w photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Prepared in conjunction with an exhibition of Dutton's photographs. Essay by Jane Livingston and introduction by Paul Roth. Using both his own photographs and from those in archives circa..... More
NY: Abbeville Press, 1984. First edition. Oblong small 4to., 276 pp., 164 color photographs. A fine copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by the editor on the blank front free endpaper. William Christenberry, Jim Dow, William Eggleston, Mitch Epstein, William Larson, Joel Meyerowitz, John Pfahl, Stephen Shore, Jo Ann..... More
NY: Aperture, 1975. Emerson, P.H. First edition. Oblong 4to., (vi), 266 pp.,profusely illustrated from b&w photographs. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket. A very thorough study of this noted photographer, often referred to as the "father of Pictorialism." Published as the catalogue for a major exhibition held at..... More
Museum Folkwang: Museum Folkwang, 1961. Erfurth, Hugo. First edition. Small 4to., 17 pp., plus 16 full-page b&w photos. Illustrated self wrappers. Near fine. Erfurth (1874-1948) was especially noted for his portraiture; the sitters here include Max Planck, Heinrich Zille, Walter Gropius, and others. Includes list of ninety portraits with dimensions..... More
NY: Radtke, Lauckner & Co., ca 1890. Single sheet, 10 3/8 x8 inches, with a copper etching of a rustic cabin on a lake with a sail boat in the background. In holograph on the lower margin is " At Brennan & Davis' Monday & Tuesday Apr 20th & 21st."..... More
(Kassel: Gesamthochschule Kassel, Fotoforum, 1977). First edition. Oblong 8vo., 263 pp., numerous b&w photo-illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Bumped corner, dusty wrappers, else very good. Prepared for an exhibition which was made up into two main groups: "Reflection of the Media" and "From Documentation to Fiction." German and English text; includes..... More