BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHY: PAINTING AND THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
NY: MOMA, 1981. First edition. Oblong 8vo., 152 pp., 82 plates (9 in color), 38 reference illustrations. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. INSCRIBED by the author. More
HISTORY
AVANT GARDE PHOTOGRAPHY IN GERMANY, 1919-1939.
NY: Pantheon, 1982. First American ed., expanded from the catalogue published by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 4to., 59 pp., plus 108 b&w photographic illustrations. A fine, as new copy in illustrated stiff wrappers. More
THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: FROM THE CAMERA OBSCURA TO THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN ERA.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. First edition. 4to., 599 pp., 390 photos and engravings. One lower board tip damaged, still a good copy in a worn and torn dust jacket. An essential, and best one volume reference available. More
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: FROM THE CAMERA OBSCURA TO THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN ERA.
NY/St. Louis/San Francisco: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1969. First edition. 4to., 599 pp., 390 photos and engravings. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket that has a closed tear repaired with clear tape and is mildly rubbed. SIGNED by the author. An essential and best one volume reference available. More
CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY: AESTHETIC TRENDS, 1839-1960.
Boston: Boston Book & Art Shop, 1962. First American edition. 4to., 258 pp., 244 full-page b&w plates. Previous owner's neat signature on the blank front free flyleaf, else very good in dust jacket. More
LA FOTOGRAFIA EN LA ARGENTINA:; SU HISTORIA Y EVOLUTIÓN EN EL SIGLO XIX, 1840 - 1899.
Buenos Aires: Abadía Editora, 1986. First edition. Oblong 4to., 180 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs and facsimiles. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers, which are lightly rubbed; internally fine. An excellent historical survey which includes an extensive biographical listing of practitioners and bibliography. Text in Spanish. More
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY: A CRITICAL HISTORY 1945 TO THE PRESENT.
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1984. First edition. 4to., 247 pp., over 330 color and b&w photo-illustrations. Silver-titled black cloth. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. A comprehensive survey, one of the first to cover this important field; the author identifies the dominant forces and the leading figures in each decade. More
ON THE ART OF FIXING A SHADOW: ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
Washington, D. C. National Gallery of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989. First edition. Oblong folio, xviii, 510 pp., hundreds of photos in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Very good. A massive exhibition catalog, with text and bibliography by Sarah Greenough, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck. More
PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART: INTERACTIONS SINCE 1946.
Fort Lauderdale: Museum of Art; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; NY: Abbeville Press, 1987. First edition. 4to., 272 pp., frontis, profusely illustrated with b&w and color photos. A fine copy in dust jacket. An extensive survey based on a major exhibition of the same title; includes essays... More
THROUGH INDIAN EYES: 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM INDIA.
NY: Oxford University Press / International Center of Photography, 1982. First edition. 4to., xii, 198 pp., fully illustrated from color and b&w photos and other illustrations. Illustrated stiff wrappers which are slightly rubbed. A very good copy. An incomparable historical survey. This is the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition which... More
PHOTOGRAPHIE UND BAUHAUS.
Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1986. Umbo. First edition. Square 8vo., 234 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. An examination of Bauhaus photography; with catalogue of artists including: Gertrude Arndt, Herbert Bayer, Andréas Feininger, Lucia Moholy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Walter Peterhans, Umbo, and many others. With text by Gerhard... More
DADA PHOTOGRAPHIE UND PHOTOCOLLAGE.
Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1979. First edition. Square 8vo., 328 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Slight rubbing to the edges of the wrappers. Near fine. A thorough examination of Dada photography and montage; with catalogue of artists including: Hans (Jean) Arp, Johannes Baader, Erwin Blumenfeld, André Breton, Paul... More
THE VALIANT KNIGHTS OF DAGUERRE: SELECTED CRITICAL ESSAYS ON PHOTOGRAPHY AND PROFILES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PIONEERS.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First edition. 4to., xiii, 364 pp., numerous illustrations. A very good or better copy in a spine-faded pictorial dust jacket. Forty-six critical essays on the Pictorialist by a well known contemporary of the movement. An essential addition to the study of Alfred Stieglitz, his... 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
POSITIVE PLEASURES: EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY AND HUMOR.
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (1998). First edition. 4to., x, 222 pp., more than 250 b&w and color illustrations. A very good copy in dust jacket. Presents a thorough look at photo-humor as found in cartoons, satire, photographs, fashion, literature, advertising, from the beginning of photography to... More
HERMANN KRONE: HISTORISCHES LEHRMUSEUM FÜR PHOTOGRAPHIE. EXPERIMENT, KUNST, MASSENMEDIUM.
Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1998. First edition. 4to., 365 pp., profusely illustrated in b&w and color. A near fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. Krone (1827-1916), known for his portraiture, landscape interest in science and astronomy; in 1847 he fixed an image of a shooting star on a daguerreian plate;... More
DAVID OCTAVIUS HILL AND ROBERT ADAMSON:; CATALOGUE OF THEIR CALOTYPES TAKEN BETWEEN 1843 AND 1847 IN THE COLLECTION OF THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.
Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 1981. Hill, David Octavius. First edition. 4to., 220 pp., numerous illustrations in text, plus a profuse catalog of hundreds of small format reproductions of their calotypes. Pictorial stiff wrappers. One tiny scrape to the front wrapper foredge; a near fine copy. David Octavius Hill and... More
THE HILL / ADAMSON ALBUMS: A SELECTION FROM THE EARLY VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS ACQUIRED BY THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY IN JANUARY 1973.
London: Times Newspapers Limited, 1973. Hill, David Octavius. First edition. 8vo., unpaged, plus 64 full-page plates with captions. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Previous owner's name monogram stamped in ink on the half-title page. Wrappers lightly soiled, else a good copy. More
CATALOGUE OF PHOTOGRAPHY: THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART.; Foreword by Evan H. Turner.
Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. First edition. Large 4to., xv, 490 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Fine, as new in dust jacket and shrinkwrap. Catalogues each of the some 1,850 works in The Cleveland Museum of Art collection and illustrates about 1,100 of them. More
A POPULAR TREATISE ON THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY, INCLUDING DAGUERREOTYPE, AND ALL THE NEW METHODS OF PRODUCING PICTURES BY THE CHEMICAL AGENCY OF LIGHT.
Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Co., 1841. First edition. 8vo., viii, 96 pp., lithographic frontispiece showing an image in positive and negative, with 29 illustrations in text. The frontispiece shows staining and foxing at the edges; a few leaves have creased corners and modest foxing. The top and bottom of the... More
RESEARCHES ON LIGHT: AN EXAMINATION OF ALL THE PHENOMENA CONNECTED WITH THE CHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR CHANGES PRODUCED BY THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOLAR RAYS; EMBRACING ALL THE KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, AND NEW DISCOVERIES IN THE ART.
London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. Second edition. 8vo., xx, 396 pp., hand-colored engraved folding plate, text diagrams. Newly bound in half calf and cloth, gilt title on spine. Owner's signature on title page, and small stain on the blank margin of p. xx. A very good... More
RESEARCHES ON LIGHT: AN EXAMINATION OF ALL THE PHENOMENA CONNECTED WITH THE CHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR CHANGES PRODUCED BY THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOLAR RAYS; EMBRACING ALL THE KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, AND NEW DISCOVERIES IN THE ART.
London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. First edition. 8vo., vii, 303 pp., 32 pp. adverts, hand-colored engraved folding frontispiece, text diagrams. Recased in the decoratively blind-stamped publisher's original cloth. The lower edge of the binding is rubbed, with moderate wear at the tips. A very good copy... More
THE ART OF FRENCH CALOTYPE.; WITH A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS, 1845-1870
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1983. First edition. 4to., xxiv, 284 pp., 131 photos. A near fine copy in an illustrated dust jacket. An essential reference for the study of the early years of the art of photography. More
A CENTURY OF JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY.; Introduction by John W. Dower.
NY: Pantheon Books, 1980. First American edition. Oblong 4to., (vii), 385 pp., 514 b&w and color phorographs. A near fine copy housed in publisher's illustrated slipcase, which is slightly worn at the corners. Issued without a dust jacket. A comprehensive survey from the introduction of photography in Japan through the... More
IMAGES AND ENTERPRISE: TECHNOLOGY AND THE AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC INDUSTRY, 1839 TO 1925.
Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. First edition. Small 4to., xviii, 371 pp., illustrated. A very good to near fine copy in dust jacket. More