NY: The Photo League, 1949. Model, Lisette. First edition. Small 4to., 24 pp., with illustrated wrappers which contain advertisements on the versos and the recto of the rear wrapper. Light wear and toning, else very good. The articles include: "This is the Photo League" by Leo Hurvitz, Some Thoughts on... More
Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire-Éditeur, 1861. First edition. 8vo., 47 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Light soiling to the wrappers, with scattered light foxing in the text. A very good copy. Menut Alexander Alophe, 1812 - 1883, studied under Paul Delaroche and Camille Roqueplan. As Pierre-Lin Renié wrote, "Alophe epitomizes the mediocre painter... 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
Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1990. First edition. 8vo., xii, 180 pp., b&w photo-illustrations. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Price label affixed to rear wrapper. Very good. Provides students of photography with a framework for critically considering photos through describing, interpreting, evaluating and theorizing. More
NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winson, 1965. Beaton, Cecil. First edition. 8vo., 352 pp., illustrated with b&w photos. Two-toned illustrated cloth. Near fine in a very good 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
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
NY: Oxford University Press, 1979. First edition. 8vo., xvi, 283 pp., 32 b&w plates. Illustrated stiff wrappers which are mildly rubbed. Very good. SIGNED by the author. More
Paris: Georges Carré et C. Naud, 1898. First edition. 8vo., 186 pp., 40 pp. publisher's catalog at end. Cloth over flexible boards. A near fine copy. Letters and papers by these first inventors of photography, with annotations and comments by Colson; includes bibliographical footnotes. Texts in French. An early anthology... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. Freund, Gisele. First U.S. edition. 8vo., 231 pp., illustrated with numerous b&w photographs. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Gisèle Freund (1908-2000) fled Germany in 1933 with her camera and some negatives. She arrived in Paris and began doctoral work in sociology. Exposed to... 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
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (1998). First edition. 4to., x, 222 pp., more than 250 b&w and color illustrations. A very good copy in dust jacket. Presents a thorough look at photo-humor as found in cartoons, satire, photographs, fashion, literature, advertising, from the beginning of photography to... 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
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
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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
NY: Lustrum, 1979. Callahan, Harry. First edition. 4to., 175 pp., numerous b&w photos. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. Photos and essays by: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Harry Callahan, Lucien Clergue, Ralph Gibson, Kenneth Josephson, André Kertész, Duane Michals and Helmut Newton. More
München: Schirmer-Mosel, 1980. First edition. Small 4to., 279 pp. In near fine condition with small tear at upper tip of the dust jacket. This is the first volume of three that draws together theoretical writings on photography. Authors include Henry Fox Talbot, John Ruskin, Alfred Stieglitz and Sadakichi Hartmann. Text... 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, Edust jacketard Weston, Laszlo Moholoy-Nagy, Alexander Rodtschenko, Man Ray, et al. Text in... More