[NY: WLIB, 1968]. Printed postcard, 6 1/8 x 4 in. [16.6 x 10.1 cm.] With two uncancelled 2 cent Thomas Jefferson stamps affixed to the blank verso. Fine. Founded by Elias Godofsky in 1942, WLIB went through several iterations, including classical music, jazz and gospel, with studios in Harlem. More
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, in cooperation with The International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, 1980. Morgan, Barbara. First edition. Small 4to., unpaged, 50 b&w photos. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. SIGNED by the photographer. Includes introduction by Morgan, selected bibliography and biographical notes. More
NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986. First edition. 4to., xix, 201 pp., b&w photo-illustrations. The printed stiff wrappers have shallow creases and are rubbed at edges; foxing along the lower edge and previous owner neat signature on the half-title page. A good copy. An historical overview, with short biographies of... More
Urbana, Illinois: Inky Press Productions, [1990]. Nettles, Bea. First edition. 4to., unpaginated, 46 b&w photos. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. An innovator in photomechanical printmaking and artist's books, Bea Nettles (b. 1946, Gainesville, Florida) uses photographic imagery with a variety of processes, some of which she introduced to the lexicon. She... More
Reprinted by Permission, from Aperture, No. 1, Copyright 1952 by Minor White, 1952. 8vo., 15 pp., 1 photo illustration. Printed wrappers which are soiled, else a very good copy. A scarce ephemeral off-print from the first issue of Aperture. In this essay, Nancy Newhall establishes the need for a literacy... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books in association with ICP, 1993. Norman, Dorothy. First edition. 8vo., 179 pp., numerous b&w photos. Illustrated paper over stiff wrappers. A fine copy in window-cut printed dust jacket. The first monograph of Norman's photographic work. More
Danbury, NH: Addison House, (1978). Ockenga, Starr. First edition. 4to., 86 pp., over 50 full-page b&w photos. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Near fine. SIGNED by the photographer on the half-title page; laid-in is a note from her on her calling card. The photographer's second book. More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1978. Parker, Olivia. First edition. Oblong 4to., 53 full-page photographic plates, two color. A fine copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket. SIGNED by the photographer on the half-title page. The photographer's first book. Olivia Parker (b. 1941, Boston) received a B.A. in art history at Wellesley... More
NY: Aperture, 1990. Plachy, Sylvia. First edition. 4to., unpaged, numerous full-page b&w photos, 33 rpm recording in pocket on rear pastedown. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket that is slightly light-struck. Sylvia Plachy has been a staff photographer for New York's Village Voice since 1982. Additionally, she has... More
Marcia Resnick, 1975. Resneck, Marcia. First edition. Oblong 8vo., (4) pp., plus 34 full-page b&w photos. Stiff wrappers with photo mounted on front. Moderate toning to the wrappers with a tiny crease to one tip of the front wrapper; a very good copy. Landscapes with a human figure at the... More
Munich / London: Schirmer Art Books, 1991. First English language edition. 4to., 151 pp., fully illustrated from b&w photographs. A near fine copy in the photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Bettina Rheims describes her photographic concern as "I love the flesh. I am a photographer of the skin." Exotic and erotic portraits... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. First edition. 4to., 147 pp., chiefly illustrated with full-page plates from b&w photographs. Fine in the photo-illustrated dust jacket which is slightly rubbed at the edges. SIGNED by Elinor B. Cahn and Joan C. Netherwood, photographers, on the title page. More
San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1989. Roberts, Holly. First edition. Small 4to., 15 pp., plus 37 full-page color photo-images. Illustrated stiff wrappers. A very good copy. Issued as UNTITLED 50. Roberts uses photography as a base for her intriguing paintings. More
NY: Abbeville Press, 1994. First edition. 4to., 356 pp., over 250 b&w photo-plates. A fine copy in dust jacket. This volume explores the work of over 240 women photographers from the mid-1800s to the present; includes an extensive annotated bibliography and detailed individual biographies. More
[Princeton: Naomi Savage, 2002]. Savage, Naomi. First edition. 4to., (19) loose sheets with b&w images, with color printed front and rear covers and colophon sheet; all 8 1/2 x 11 inches. The illustrated covers and internal sheets are all printed by Xerography on glossy stock; the colophon is handwritten. These... More
[New Paltz, New York]: Documentext, 1979. First edition. Oblong 4to., 281, [7] pp., largely illustrated from b&w photographs, drawings and collages. Previous owner's neat signature on the blank front free endpaper. A very good copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket that has a tiny snag on the rear panel near... More
NY: Rizzoli, [1993]. Sherman, Cindy. First edition. 4to., 240 pp., more than 200 images (140 in color). A fine copy in a lightly rubbed illustrated dust jacket. The first complete look at Sherman's body of work in which the artist has assumed various roles, from "B-movie starlet to Old Master model." More
NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, [1987]. Sherman, Cindy. First edition. 4to., 20 pp., plus 129 b&w and color photo-plates. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. Issued as the catalogue for the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, July 9 to October 4, 1987. More
NY: Rizzoli, (1992). Sherman, Cindy. First edition. as such. Small square 4to., (32) pp., 15 color photo-illustrations. A fine copy in dust jacket. Based on a tale by Brothers Grimm. 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
Ft. Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1990. Sipprell, Clara. First edition. 4to., 149 pp., frontis, 4 color and 50 b&w plates and 46 illustrations in text. A fine, as new copy in the illustrated dust jacket. The first comprehensive study of this noted pictorialist photographer. Noteworthy is the extensive exhibition chronology and bibliography. 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
Oberlin, Ohio: The Artist, 1972. Tacha, Athena. First edition. A single sheet, 5.5 x 14.25 inches, folded to make 5 panels. Text printed verso only. Very good in clear acetate sleeve as issued. Printed on pink glossy paper, not blue; which pretty much tells the story. More
Washington, DC: Phillips Collection, 1980. Tenneson, Joyce. First edition. Small 4to., (17 pp.), 10 b&w photos. Illustrated stiff wrapper. Slight crease to the bottom edge; else very good. Joyce Tenneson (b. 1945, Boston) is mainly a self-taught independent fine art photographer. This is the catalog to an exhibition of her... More
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Original silver gelatin photograph, image size 8 1/4 x 11 in. [21 x 28 cm.] dry-mounted to archival board with window over-mat, 16 x 20 in. SIGNED "Dody" in pencil on the mount below the photograph on the right side and dated 1979 below the image on the mount on... More