THE PHOTOGRAPH: A SOCIAL HISTORY.
NY: McGraw-Hill, 1966. First U.S. edition. 4to., 367 pp., hundreds of illustrations. A very good copy in dust jacket that lacks several large pieces. More
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PAINTING GENDER, CONSTRUCTING THEORY:; THE ALFRED STIEGLITZ CIRCLE AND AMERICAN FORMALIST AESTHETICS.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo., xi, [378] pp.b&w and color plates in text. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket. More
IL VIAGGIO DELL'ICONONAUTA DALLA CAMERA OSCURA DI LEONARDO ALLA LUCE DEI LUMIÈRE
Venezia: Marsilio, 1997. First edition. 8vo., 517 pp., [122] illustration in color and b&w from photographs and drawings. Color illustrated stiff wrappers with printed inner flaps. A very good copy. An exhaustive history of the projected image prior to the advent of cinema and the mechanisms employed. Includes extensive notes... More
J. CRAIG ANNAN: SELECTED TEXTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
NY: G.K. Hall & Co., 1994. Annan, J. Craig. First ed. Small 4to., xx, 192 pp., illustrated. Cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Fine. J. Craig Annan (1864-1946), photographer and son of a photographer, played an important role in the fight for recognition of photography as an art in its own... More
FOX TALBOT AND THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1980. Talbot, Fox. First edition. 4to., 216 pp., hundreds of illustrations. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket that has one tiny closed tear. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A well researched and essential reference for the study of one of... More
SOBRE LA SUPERFICIE BRUÑIDA DE UN ESPEJO: FOTÓGRAFOS DEL SIGLO XIX; Edición Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.
Mexico, D.F. Fonda de Cultura Económica, 1989. First edition. 4to., 111, (1) pp., over 45 full-page color and b&w plates after daguerreotypes. Photo-illustrated glossy stiff wrapper with inner flaps. Light wear to the edges of the wrappers, a very good copy. The title translates to: "On the polished surface of..... More
A GUIDE TO EARLY PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES
(London): Hurtwood Press in association with The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983. First edition. 4to., 112 pp., 37 b&w and color plates, text illustrations. One board tip has a tiny bump, else a very good copy in lightly scuffed dust jacket. A guide to the major photographic processes from 1840... More
CAMERAS: FROM DAGUERREOTYPES TO INSTANT PICTURES.
NY: Crown Publishers, 1978. First edition. Oblong 4to., 232 pp., index, over six hundered illustrations, many in color. . A near fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket. An excellent historical survey by the curator of the Kodak Museum in England. More
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF BEAUMONT NEWHALL.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975. First edition. 4to., x, 180 pp., 110 b&w plates. A fine copy in a near fine pictorial dust jacket. These essays by twenty-one internationally known authorities in the field cover many facets of the history of photography. Essayists include: J. Adhémar, T. Barrow..... More
THE PAINTER AND THE PHOTOGRAPH.
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1972. Revised and enlarged edition. 4to., (xvi), 324 pp., b&w illustrations. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. SIGNED by the author. Greatly expanded from the 1964 first edition of 79 pp., issued in paper wrappers. More
PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN THE WARS: SELECTIONS FROM THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY COLLECTION.
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, [1988]. First edition. 4to., 56 pp., 33 b&w photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. One tip bumped. Very good. Represented: Man Ray, Strand, Hine, Sheeler, Stieglitz, Rodchenko, Weston, Renger-Patzsch, Sander, Tabard, Umbo, Moholy-Nagy, Atget, Bellmer, Model, etc. More
THE STORY OF KODAK.
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. First edition. Thick 4to., 392 pp., profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Silver and black embossed cloth. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. First indepth study to present the history of the Eastman Kodak Company. More
MÉMOIRES ORIGINAUX DES CRÉATEURS DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE: NICÉPHORE NIÉPCE, DAGUERRE, BAYARD, TALBOT, NIÉPCE DE SAINT-VICTOR, POITEVIN
Paris: Georges Carré et C. Naud, 1898. First edition. 8vo., 186 pp., 40 pp. publisher's catalog at end. Publisher's cloth over flexible boards, the lower front tip is lightly bumped, else very good. Letters and papers by these first inventors of photography, with annotations and comments by Colson; includes bibliographical... More
MÉMOIRES ORIGINAUX DES CRÉATEURS DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE: NICÉPHORE NIÉPCE, DAGUERRE, BAYARD, TALBOT, NIÉPCE DE SAINT-VICTOR, POITEVIN
Paris: Georges Carré et C. Naud, 1898. First edition. 8vo., 186 pp., 40 pp. publisher's catalog at end. Cloth over flexible boards. A near fine copy. Letters and papers by these first inventors of photography, with annotations and comments by Colson; includes bibliographical footnotes. Texts in French. An early anthology... More
CALIFORNIA IN DEPTH: A STEREOSCOPIC HISTORY
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994. First edition. Oblong Small 4to., 112 pp., chiefly illustrated with b&w or toned stereo-views. A fine, as new copy in illustrated paper over boards (no jacket, as issued). An excellent survey and historical record. Includes stereopticon in rear pocket; bibliographical references and index. More
PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE OLD WEST.; Photographs selected and printed by William R. Current.
NY: Abrams with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1978. First edition. Oblong 4to., 272 pp., 172 b&w photos. Two-toned cloth with mounted photo. Fine. Issued without a dust jacket. A chronological illustrated history of the photographers who documented the discovery and expansion of the west. They include, Watkins... More
AN HISTORICAL & DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS PROCESSES OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE & THE DIORAMA BY: DAGUERRE.; Illustrated and with introduction by Beaumont Newhall.
NY: Winter House Ltd., 1971. Daguerre. First edition, as such. Small 4to., 282 pp. Cloth, titled in blind on the upper board and spine. A fine copy, housed in a rubbed paper over boards slipcase. Issued without a dust jacket. The original English and French manuals are reproduced in facsimile... More
CARTES DE VISITE: IN NINETEENTH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY.
Gettysburg, PA: W.C. Darrah, Publisher, 1981. First edition. 4to., illustrated. Fine in dust jacket. Still the best single volume on the history and practitioners of this nineteenth century type of photograph. More
THE WORLD OF STEREOGRAPHS.
Gettysburg, PA: W.C. Darrah, Publisher, 1977. First edition. 4to., 246 pp., 301 color and b&w illustrations. A fine copy in dust jacket that is lacking a samll chip on the front panel and has a tiny tear at the spine. Regarded as the best single volume historical survey. More
STEREO VIEWS: A HISTORY OF STEREOGRAPHS IN AMERICA AND THEIR COLLECTION.
(Gettysburg: (William Culp Darrah - Times and News Pub. Co., 1964). First edition. 8vo., xii, 255 pp., illustrations. Gilt-titled cloth. A very light bruise to the lower front board tip, else a near fine copy in gilt-titled blue cloth; issued without a dust jacket. SIGNED by the author. A pioneering... More
PHOTOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF AN ART.
NY: Rizzoli International Publications, 1982. First U.S. ed. Folio, 269 pp., 90 color and 238 b&w illustrations. Near fine in dust jacket. A survey of photography as a medium of artistic expression and achievement from its prehistory in the 1820s to the photo-artists of the 1980s. More
WOMEN'S CAMERA WORK:; SELF/BODY/OTHER IN AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Second printing. Thick 8vo., xii, 494 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs and drawings. Remainder line on bottom edge; else fine in illustrated stiff wrappers. "Women's Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations... More
PRINCELY INDIA: PHOTOGRAPHS BY RAJA DEEN DAYAL, 1884 - 1910.; Edited and with Text by Clark Worswick. Foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980. First UK edition. Oblong 4to., 151 pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w photographs. Residue from removed price sticker on the front pastedown. Fine in the price-clipped photo-illustrated dust jacket. More
REALITY RECORDED: EARLY DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY.
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First American ed. 4to., 128 pp., photos. Fine in pictorial dust jacket. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the title page. Presents documentary photographs made with calotype and wetplate cameras through to the beginning of dry plate (ca. 1884); includes work by Fenton... More
TOEKANG POTRET: 100 JAAR FOTOGRAFIE IN NEDERLANDS INDIË 1839-1939 = 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE DUTCH INDIES 1839-1939.; Introduction by Liane van der Linden.
Amsterdam: Fragment Uitgeverij and Rotterdam: Het Museum, 1989. First ed. Small 4to., 192 pp., numerous b&w photos. Photo mounted to front of stiff paper boards. Moderate soiling to the edges and title page. Very good in pictorial dust jacket. A survey of the commercial photographers and studios in Netherlands East... More