NY: powerHouse Books, 1998. Kobayashi, Hibiki. First edition. Folio, (160) pp., over 100 full- or double-page b&w photographs. Illustrated paper over boards with printed acetate dust jacket. A fine copy. Intense and dramatic portraits of indigenous peoples, reminiscent of Richard Avedon's portraits for IN THE AMERICAN WEST. The tribes include... More about TRIBE.; Introduction by Peter Beard
NY: Aperture, 1988. Koudelka, Josef. First edition. Oblong 4to., (v) pp., 61 full-page b&w plates. Fine in the slightly rubbed photo-illustratred dust jacket. As wrenching a look at the juxtaposition of the "outsider" to the common world as Fukase's "Ravens" is to despair. A major body of images by one... More about EXILES.; Essay by Czeslaw Milosz
NY: Aperture, 1988. Koudelka, Josef. First edition. Oblong 4to., (v) pp., 61 full-page b&w plates. Fine in the photo-illustratred dust jacket. As wrenching a look at the juxtaposition of the "outsider" to the common world as Fukase's "Ravens" is to despair. A major body of images by one of the... More about EXILES.; Essay by Czeslaw Milosz
Buffalo, NY: Humpy Press, [1975]. Krims, Les. First edition. 16mo., (x) pp., plus 39 color photos. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Issued with a dust jacket. Fine. Krims' irreverent altered SX-70 photos. More about FICTCRYPTOKRIMSOGRAPHS: A BOOK-WORK.; With an introduction by Hollis Frampton
Buffalo, NY: Humpy Press, (1975). Krims, Les. First edition. 16mo., (x) pp., plus 39 color photos. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Aside from the neat signature of Alan Winer, photographer and former administrator of the Visual Studies Workshop on the front free endpaper; Fine. This copy is embossed with the corporate seal... More about FICTCRYPTOKRIMSOGRAPHS: A BOOK-WORK.; With an introduction by Hollis Frampton
N.p. Barbara Kruger, 1978. First edition. Oblong 8vo., [44] pp., illustrated from b&w photographs. Glossy blue wrappers, titled in white. Aside from a tiny nick at the lower edge of the front wrapper, and the original price sticker affixed to the blank rear wrapper, this is a fine copy. In..... More about PICTURE / READINGS
Haarlem, The Netherlands: Joh. Enschedé, 1984. First edition. Oblong folio. [108] pp., fully illustrated from b&w photographs. Photo-illustrated printed wrappers, slight rubbing at the spine ends; a fine copy. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. In his introduction, David Travis begins, "Krzyzanowski The Timekeeper...the history of photography is..... More about MICHEL SZULC KRZYZANOWSKI; Introduction by David Travis
Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum & Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1967. Lange, Dorothea. First edition. 8vo., 72 pp., 28 b&w plates with commentary. Illustrated cloth. A fine copy in matching dust jacket, which is lightly rubbed. More about DOROTHEA LANGE LOOKS AT THE AMERICAN COUNTRY WOMAN.; A Photographic Essay by Dorothea Lange with...
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978. Lange, Dorothea. First edition. 8vo., xiii, 399 pp., illustrated with photos. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An authoritative and comprehensive biography of this important photogrpher. More about DOROTHEA LANGE: A PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE
NY: A Studio Book, The Viking Press, 1981. Lartigue, J.H. First U.S. edition. Oblong 4to., (xiii) pp., plus 32 full-page color plates with captions opposite. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. George Herscher's conversation with J.H. Lartigue about his autochromes. Notes on plates by Yves Aubry. More about THE AUTOCHROMES OF J. H. LARTIGUE, 1912-1927
(Lausanne): Ami Guichard, 1966. Lartigue, J.H. First edition. Oblong 4to., 126 pp., numerous tipped-in plates. Decorative binding with halftone photo tipped-in on front. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine, as new copy, housed in the publisher's plain card slipcase. "The most popular of French photographers, the one that America... More about BOYHOOD PHOTOS OF J.H. LARTIGUE:; THE FAMILY ALBUM OF A GILDED AGE
(Lausanne): Ami Guichard, 1966. Lartigue, J.H. First edition. Oblong 4to., 126 pp., numerous tipped-in plates. Decorative binding with halftone photo tipped-in on front. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine, as near new copy. "The most popular of French photographers, the one that America discovered and covered with honors, the... More about BOYHOOD PHOTOS OF J.H. LARTIGUE:; THE FAMILY ALBUM OF A GILDED AGE
NY: The Viking Press, 1970. Lartigue, Jacques Henri. First ed. 4to., numerous b&w photographs interspersed with text. Gift inscription on a blank free endpaper. A near fine copy in the gold foil dust jacket that has a small closed tear and is lightly rubbed. More about DIARY OF A CENTURY.; Edited by Richard Avedon. Designed by Bea Feitler
NY: Viking Press, 1980. Lartique, Jacques-Henri. First American edition. First U.S. ed. 8vo., (viii), 112, (viii) pp., 96 b&w plates. A near fine copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket. Lartigue made these photos in 1927 when the sight of women smoking was considered "funny." The subjects are listed with... More about LES FEMMES AUX CIGARETTES
Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago and The University of Chicago Press, 1987. Le Gray, Gustave. First ed. Oblong 4to., 184 pp., frontis, over 100 photos and illustrations. A near fine copy in a very good illustrated dust jacket. Gustave Le Gray (1820-1882), a French painter and photographer was the... More about THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF GUSTAVE LE GRAY
Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs/Flammarion, 1986. Le Secq, Henri. First edition. 4to., 191 pp., full-page captioned photos, plus a pictorial catalogue of 717 images in reduced format. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper (from Christian Le Secq). A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket, housed in the publisher's plain..... More about HENRI LE SECQ: PHOTOGRAPHE DE 1850 A 1860.; CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ DE LA COLLECTION DE LA...
Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs/Flammarion, 1986. Le Secq, Henri. First edition. 4to., 191 pp., full-page captioned photos, plus a pictorial catalogue of 717 images in reduced format. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket, housed in the publisher's plain cardstock slipcase. Le Secq (1818-1882), a painter, was commissioned in 1851..... More about HENRI LE SECQ: PHOTOGRAPHE DE 1850 A 1860.; CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ DE LA COLLECTION DE LA...
NY: A Pantheon / Rolling Stone Press Book, 1983. First edition. 4to., unpaginated, with full-page and double-page color plates from photographs. A fine, as new copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. Boldly SIGNED and dated by the photographer, with a tracing of her hand. The introduction is by Tom Wolfe... More about ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: PHOTOGRAPHS
Millerton: Aperture, 1982. Levenson. First edition. 4to., 71 pp., 33 full-page b&w photos. Fine in the photo-illustrated dust jacket that has one small closed tear at the top edge of the front and rear panel. Photographs of carnivals, sideshows and the characters who live and work in them. More about IN SEARCH OF THE MONKEY GIRL.; Stories by Spalding Gray
(NY: Photofind Gallery, 1990). Levinstein, Leon. First edition. 4to., (16) pp., 18 b&w photos. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Leon Levinstein studied painting with Stuart Davis at the New School for Social Research; later he studied photography with Sid Grossman at the Photo League. He remained relatively unknown, but was included... More about LEON LEVINSTEIN: MAY 31-JUNE 29, 1990.; Essay by Helen Gee
NY: Aperture, 2000. First edition. Square 4to., unpaginated, chiefly illustrated from b&w photographs. A fine, as new copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket, sealed in the publisher's shrink wrap. More about UPSTREAM: FLY FISHING IN THE AMERICAN WEST
[Paris]: Philippe Sers éditeur, [1990]. Lumiere. First edition. Oblong 4to., 245 pp., over 100 full-page b&w photos, numerous small format b&w images. Slight bruise to one lower board tip. A very good copy in dust jacket. An illustrated history, with an extensive filmography that lists the dates and locations, when..... More about AUGUSTE ET LOUIS LUMIÈRE: LES 1000 PREMIERS FILMS.; Introduction by Philippe Nèagu
[Albuquerque]: Bleak Beauty Books, 2016. First edition. 4to., 53 pp, illustrated from color and b&w photographs. Glossy photo-illustrated wrappers. Fine, as new. Boldly SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Burn Zone is a Cri de Coeur directed at the artist community and our youth asking them to join... More about BURN ZONE
[Albuquerque]: Bleak Beauty Books, 2016. First edition. 12mo., 85 pp., illustrated from color photographs. Printed paper over boards with an inset color plate on the upper board. Issued without a dust jacket. Fine, as new. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the title page. "Danny Lyon's newest work of fiction... More about THE STORY OF SAM
NY: The Macmillan Co., 1968. Lyon, Danny. First edition. 8vo., 94 pp., 48 photographs, 17 essays. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Aside from the neat signature of Alan Winer, photographer and former administrator of the Visual Studies Workshop, this is a fine, near new copy. Photos and text by Danny Lyon. More about THE BIKERIDERS