(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
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 locates..... 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
[Saskatoon: Association of Canadian Archivists], 1978. First edition. 8vo., 256 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers, which are lightly rubbed; very good. Articles include: The Photographic Record of Pre-Confederation British Columbia by Joan M. Schwartz; Alexander Henderson: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photographer by Stanley G. Triggs; Photographic Documentation and Buildings..... 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
[Tempe, AZ: School of Art, Arizona State University], 1985. First edition. History of Photography Monograph Series Special Edition No. 1. 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..... 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
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
NY: Harmony Books, 1988. Hockney, David. First U.S. edition. Square 4to., 192 pp., fully illustrated with color and b&w photos, drawings and paintings. Fine, as new in color illustrated dust jacket and sealed in the publisher's shrink-wrap. From the jacket blurb "In these witty and erudite conversations with filmmaker and..... More
NY: Columbia University Press, 1992. First ed. 4to., xxii, (2) 230 pp., numerous b&w photos. Fine in pictorial dust jacket. More
Rochester: University Educational Services, International Museum of Photography at Georhe Eastman House, 1990. First edition. 8vo., 54 pp., b&w illustrations. Stiff printed wrappers. Near fine. Issued in the series : OCCASIONAL PAPERS NO. 4, Rochester Film & Photo Consortium. Contains the following articles: The Representation of Women in 19th and..... More
Paris: Bureaux de l'Artiste, 1839. First edition. 4to., 4 pp. Faint foxing, archival paper repair along the fold; with a toned area, 1 x 1/2 inch at the top blank margin where tape has been removed. Very good. Laid-in a paper and boards folder with a printed paper label on..... More
Portland, Oregon: April/May 2002 - June 2017. First edition. 8vo. A long run of 76 issues, beginning with issue Number 40 and concluding with issue Number 130; lacking only Numbers 63, 65, 77, 96, 105 - 110, 114 - 115, 117, 125 - 126. WITH: LensWork Extended: Audio/ Video Extended..... More
München: Schirmer-Mosel, 1980. First edition. Small 4to., 268 pp. Fine in dust jacket. This is the second volume of three that draws together theoretical writings on photography. Authors include; Marius de Zayas, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Laszlo Moholoy-Nagy, Alexander Rodtschenko, Man Ray, et al. Text in German..... More
Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1979. First edition. 4to., 211 pp., b&w photographs interspersed in text. Blind-embossed cloth. A near fine copy in a lightly rubbed illustrated dust jacket. Wide ranging essays by an astute critic. More