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..... More
Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1982. First edition. Square 8vo., 195 pp., b&w and color photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Previous owner's neat signature; very good. Prepared for an exhibition of "instant" or Polaroid photographs; includes the following artists: John Baldessari, Chuck Close, Jochen Gerz, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Rebecca Horn, André Kertész, Jürgen..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First edition. 4to., xiii, 364 pp., numerous illustrations. A fine 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 wide circle of..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First edition. 4to., xiii, 364 pp., numerous illustrations. The top edge is foxed; a very good 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..... More
NY: Farrar/Straus/Giroux, 1979. First edition. 8vo., 428 pp. Owners neat signature on the front free endpaper. Near fine in dust jacket. Interviews with: Paul Strand, Man Ray, Imogen Cunningham, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Cecil Beaton, W. Eugene Smith, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, André Kertész, et al. From the collection of photographer..... More
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
Albany: New York State Museum State Education Department, 1986. First edition. Oblong 4to., [iv], 90 pp., b&w and color photos. Printed stiff wrappers. Wrappers slightly rubbed; else a very good copy. The catalogue (in Spanish and English) published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition. Includes photos by: Marga Clark, Benedict..... More
NY: Columbia University Press, 1992. First edition. 4to., xxii, (2) 230 pp., numerous b&w photos. Fine in pictorial dust jacket. More
NY: Abbeville Press, 1987. First edition. Square small 4to., 207 pp., 165 color and b&w photos. Fine in dust jacket. Unconventional photographic work by fifty-eight photographers, including: Joel-Peter Witkin, Eileen Cowin, Cindy Sherman, Lucas Samaras, Barbara Kasten, Nancy Burson, Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger, Jerry Uelsmann, Betty Hahn, Bea Nettles, Robert..... More
Paris: Aux Éditions des Cendres, 2015. First edition. 4to., 407, [7] pp., illustrated with b&w and color plates. Printed stiff wrappers with inner flaps, original glassine dust jacket. Fine, as new. The frontispiece is by Érik Desmazières. The essays are by thirty-nine noted scholars, some in French and English, other..... More
New York: A Studio Book, Viking Press and Washington: National Park Foundation, 1981. Ketchum, Robert Glenn. First edition. 4to., 144 pp., (145-179) pp. catalog. Gilt-titled cloth, issued without a dust jacket, housed in the publisher's slipcase with mounted color illustration. Aside from a small residue stain from a price sticker..... More
Garden City, NY: AMPHOTO, 1979. Laughlin, Clarence John. First edition. 4to., viii, 127 pp., 96 full-page photos. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Clarence John Laughlin on page 88, plate titled, The Enshadowed Pillars (Chretien Point Plantation, between Lafayette and Opelusas) c. 1940. Among the photographers included..... More
Zürich: Pro Helvetia with Swiss Foundation for Photography, 1974. First edition. 4to., 147 photos with text. Stiff wrappers. Very good. Text in French. More
Millerton, NY: An Aperture Book, Publication made possible by United Technologies Corporation, 1981. First edition. 4to., 111 pp., b&w captioned photographs. Small remainder mark on the bottom edge. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Includes photographs by: Bischof, Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Erwitt, Koudelka, Morath, Stock and others. More
New York: Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, 1985. First edition. 4to., 128 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs. Near fine in the illustrated dust jacket. Edited with an Afterword by Gerard Malanga. Foreword by Robert Creeley. Gerard Malanga interviewed 32 artists working with photographs on the interface between photography and voyeurism..... More
Paris: Contrejour/Frac (Fonds régional d'art contemporain) Aquitaine, [1985]. First edition. 4to., 111 pp., 83 b&w and color photographs. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket, sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. An anthology of photographers' work, including brief biographies of the following: Alvarez Bravo, Arbus, Brihat, Callahan, Clark, Deschamps, Dieuzaide..... More
Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1976. First edition. 4to., 155 pp., over 100 full-page b&w photos; errata sheet laid-in. Fine in a illustrated dust jacket. The Monsen Collection was formed with the aim of bringing together works that would illustrate the history of photography in America, presented in the following catagories..... More
NY: MoMA, 1940. Weston, Edward. 8vo., 15 pp., 9 b&w photos. Illustrated stapled self-wrappers. Light creasing, front wrapper lightly soiled; single library stamp on rear wrapper. Near very good. This bulletin served as both an introduction to structure and goals of the new department of photography and as an exhibition..... More
Kassel: Universität Kassel, 1982. First edition. 8vo., 160 pp., numerous b&w photos. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. Prepared for the exhibition, Photo recycling Photo oder Die Fotografie im Zeitalter ihrer technischen Reproduzierbarkeit, held at the Universität Kassel, June, 1982. With images (and occasionally text) by Robert Heinecken, Gérard Minkoff, Gerhard..... More
London: Coo Press, 1974. First edition. 4to., 236 pp., numerous full-page b&w photos. Previous owner's inscription on endpaper; tiny bump to the upper tip of the first 46 pages. Very good; the dust jacket is creased along the top edge of the front panel. Includes articles, illustrated from photographs on..... More
London: Coo Press, 1974. First edition. 4to., 236 pp., numerous full-page b&w photos. A fine copy in a the dust jacket that is slightly wrinkled along the top edge of the front panel. Includes articles, illustrated from photographs on: Robert Frank, Cartier-Bresson, Atget; with additional portfolios by: Ralph Gibson, Chris..... More
London: Coo Press, 1974. First edition. 4to., 236 pp., numerous full-page b&w photos. Slight bump to the lower board corners, not affecting the text block. A very good copy in dust jacket. Includes articles, illustrated from photographs on: Robert Frank, Cartier-Bresson, Atget; with additional portfolios by: Ralph Gibson, Chris Killip..... More
V Olomouci: Nakladatelstvi R. Prombergra, 1930. Padouk, Rudolf. First edition. 4to., 91 pp., plus 32 full-page b&w plates. Printed paper wrappers. A slight bump to the crown and tip, else a very good copy. Anthology of Pictorial photography; contains photographs by the following: Rudolf Padouk, Léonard Misonne, Charles Job, Dr..... More
Rochester: Eastman Kodak Company, 1910. First edition. Oblong 4to., (ii) frontis, 7 - 67 pp., 98 b&w photographs. Cloth over boards with buckram spine. The front board is warped and the cloth faintly stained; the cloth on the rear is more prominently stained; spine is somewhat mottled. Issued without a...... More
[Paris]: Hachette & Cie. 1899. Kuhn. First edition. Folio, 50 pp., (1), plus seven hand-pulled photogravure plates with tissue guards. Text is further illustrated with over 40 additional photo-illustrations. The blank margins of the plates are foxed, not affecting the images. The illustrated wrappers are moderately soiled and rubbed. In..... More