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
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
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
[NY]: Thames and Hudon, 1999. First U.S. edition. 8vo., 384 pp., b&w plates from photographs. A tiny bruise to the upper board tips and light toning to the text; else near fine. The autobiography of Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) who was born in Berlin and immigrated to America in 1941. He... 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
London: Photography Workshop, 1979. First edition. 4to., vi, 202 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs. Glossy photographically illustrated stiff wrappers which are slightly age-toned; corners moderately bumped, light foxing to the top edge. Inscribed on the first blnk leaf, "For Irene, Xmas 1979, Douglas (Lowndes)." A near very good copy. A... 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
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
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
Rochester: Light Impressions, 1979. First edition. 8vo., 220 pp., photo illustrations. Aside from a tiny closed tear at the bottom edge of the dust jacket and a price sticker affixed the inside front flap, a fine copy in dust jacket. Interviews with Labrot, Lyons, Gibson, Hosoe, Nettles, Michals, Hyde, Coleman and others. More
Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1999. First edition. 8vo., xxi, 282 pp., b&w illustration is text. Black cloth, illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy. 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