San Francisco: Friends of Photography, 1993. First edition. Small 4to., 103 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs. Fine, as new in the publisher's shrinkwrap. A collection of essays on Adams by numerous authors. More
[Helsinki: Suomen valokuvataiteen museo, Forssan kirjap, 1990]. First edition. 8vo., 146 pp., b&w and color photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Contains work by Man Ray, Arnulf Rainer, Luigi Ontani, Eino Mäkinen, Trond Hedström, Timo Kelaranta, Karl Soinio, Petri Virtanen and Vertti Teräsvuori. Texts in Finnish, Swedish and English: "Mad Love"..... More
Leipzig: Fotokinoverlag, 1965. Second printing. Thick 8vo., vii, 703 pp., 313 plates. Lower board tips lightly bumped and endpapers toned. A very good copy. An exceptionally well researched history of the science and art of photography through 1925. Text in German. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo., xi, 236 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs in text. Fine in the illustrated dust jacket. More
Leipzig: Fotokinoverlag, [1977]. First edition. 8vo., 184 pp., 2 diagrams, 44 b&w photos. Printed stiff wrappers. Very good. Essay on the aesthetics of photography. Text in German. More
La Paz, Bolivia / Tegucigalpa, Honduras: CIMCA / COMUNICA, 1992. First edition. Oblong 8vo., 105 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs and drawings. Color illustrated stiff wrappers. Lightly rubbed, near fine. The importance of photography, cinema and visual communication as aides in teaching. Text in Spanish. Limited to 3000 copies. WorldCat..... More
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1990. First edition. Second printing. 4to., xix, (2), 407 pp., b&w photo-illustrations. Previous owner's neat signature on the front blank flyleaf. A very good copy in the illustrated dust jacket. A host of essayists contributed to this volume, which was divided into four parts: What are..... More
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
(Munich): Nazraeli Press, 1995. First edition. 8vo., 179, (3) pp. Pictorial stiff wrappers, with affixed dust jacket as issued. A fine copy. A.D. Coleman discusses such topics as censorship, international photography festivals, public funding for the arts and the works of Mann, Sherman, Boltanski, Bearden, Mapplethorpe, Kruger and Serrano... More
Boston: Photographic Resource Center, 1979. First edition. 8vo., (ii), 40 pp. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Wrappers partially toned, else near fine. This essay proposes what questions the author would ask if he were professionally interviewing the following photographers: Russell Lee, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, Lucas Samaras and Pete Turner... More
NY: Oxford University Press, 1979. First edition. 8vo., xvi, 283 pp., 32 b&w plates. Previous owner's neat initials on the black front endpaper. A near fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket that has two tiny closed tears at the edge. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A.D...... More
Riverside, California: California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, 1983. First edition. Small 4to., 16 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers, with the printed outer wrapper, which served as the mail; this copy addressed to Roger Mertin. Fine. This issue is a lengthy interview with Linda Connor..... More
Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1999. First edition. 8vo., xxi, 282 pp., b&w illustration is text. Black cloth, illustrated dust jacket. Errata slip laid-in. A fine, as new copy in the illustrated dust jacket. More
(Laplume, France: L'Association de Critique Contemporaine en Photographie, 1983. Frank, Robert. First ed. 8vo., 144 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Light toning to the wrapper with a few faint spots on the fore edge. A very good copy. The entire issue of this serial publication is devoted..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. Freund, Gisele. First U.S. edition. 8vo., 231 pp., illustrated with numerous b&w photographs. Aside from a small patch of residue from a price sticker once affixed to the front pastedown, a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Gisèle Freund (1908-2000) fled Germany in 1933 with..... More
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
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
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1991. Silverthorne, Jeffrey. First edition. Small 8vo., [28]n pp., 8 full-page b&w photos. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Silverthorne's photos juxtapose death and life, love and rejection. Photographs from the morgue, are but a few of his confrontational images. No. 30 of the History..... More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1985. First edition. . 8vo., ix, 114 pp. Printed stiff wrappers. Fine. A collection of essays from 1853 - 1878 by: George B. Ayres, Cuthbert Bede, Valentine Blanchard, Sir David Brewster, Robert Hunt, Sir William Newton, Oscar Rejlander, Henry Peach Robinson, Thomas..... More
[Tempe]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1983. Ricca, Barbara Lynn. First edition. Small 8vo., [24] pp., 6 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Ms. Ricca, a native New Yorker and graphic designer, recounts the limitations imposed upon Victorian ladies, which have evolved from being told, how, what and when..... More
[Tempe]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1991. First edition. 8vo., [34] pp. Stiff wrappers. Fine. No. 29 of the History of Photography Monograph Series; limited to 300 copies. More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1985. Ben-Yusuf, Zaida. First edition. Small 8vo., [16] pp., 4 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Most of Zaida's work was accomplished between the years of 1895 to 1907. "Alfred Stieglitz was particularly fond of Ben-Yusuf's work and frequently published her prints..... More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1990. First edition. Small 8vo., [40] pp. Stiff wrappers. Fine. No. 27 of the History of Photography Monograph Series; limited to 200 copies. More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1985. Vishniac, Roman. First edition. Small 8vo., [24] pp., 4 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Not unlike Edward S. Curtis, whose North American Indians stands as a last look at a vanishing group of people, Roman Vishniac walked over 5000 miles..... More
NY: Columbia University Press, 1992. First edition. 4to., xxii, (2) 230 pp., numerous b&w photos. Fine in pictorial dust jacket. More