(Milan): Giancarlo Politi Editore, (1989). First edition. Large 8vo., 197 pp., adverts, b&w and color plates. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Includes work and texts by John Baldessari, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Victor Burgin, Gilbert and George, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, et al. Post-modernism... 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. 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
New Haven: Jonathan Edwards College, 2005. First edition. Small 4to., unpaginated, with 56 b&w and color plates from photographs, with explanatory texts printed on opposite leaf. Spiral wire binding with printed stiff over-wrappers. Issued without a dust jacket. Fine, as new. This publication accompanies an exhibition at Jonathan Edwards College..... 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
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975. First edition. 4to., x, 180 pp., 110 b&w plates. A fine copy in a near fine pictorial dust jacket. These essays by twenty-one internationally known authorities in the field cover many facets of the history of photography. Essayists include: J. Adhémar, T. Barrow..... 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
NY: Summit Books, 1977. First edition. 4to., 208 pp., hundreds of b&w photos. Remainder stamp on the bottom edge of the text block, else a fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket. From 19th century postmortems to Les Krims, inclusive. More
Boston: Photographic Resource Center, 1979. First ed. 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
Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Second printing. Thick 8vo., xii, 494 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs and drawings. Remainder line on bottom edge; else fine in illustrated stiff wrappers. "Women's Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations..... More
Rizzoli: Travelling Light, [1982]. First UK edition. Small 4to., 191 pp., b&w photos. Printed stiff wrappers. There are a few light, small creases to the wrappers. Very good. This volume is based on a series of edited interviews conducted by Diamonstein at the New School for Social Research/Parsons School of..... 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
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
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
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
[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, 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, 1989. Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin-Armand. First edition. Small 8vo., [20] pp., 4 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Duchenne produced the first medical text to be illustrated with photographs from life. No. 25 of the History of Photography Monograph Series; limited to 200..... More