Photography
CELEBRITIES MONTHLY ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Vol. I - May, 1895
New York: Automatic Photograph Co., 1895. Wraps. Features 10 tipped in black and white photographs, accompanied by biographies of those pictured. Includes an essay about how the photographs were made using a new patent-protected process..... More
THE PRINT: Contact Printing and Enlarging
New York: Morgan & Lester, 1951. Hardcover. Second printing. Signed by Ansel Adams on the title page. The third volume in Adams' celebrated series of books on photographic techniques, exploring the artistic possibilities of printmaking..... More
THE ETERNAL BODY: A Collection of Fifty Nudes
Carmel, California: Photography West Graphics, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "...presents for the first time a collection of Bernhard's finest nudes in a single elegantly bound monograph. Many of the photographs in this volume have never..... More
TATTOO'D WITH ATTITUDE
London: Virgin, 1995. First Edition. Wraps. Inscribed by Steve Bonge to Howie Pyro opposite the half-title, with a program from the 1st Annual NYC Tattoo Convention (1998) laid in. Dubbed the "Patron Saint of the..... More
THE BABIES: Essay by Susan Sontag, Introduction by Mark Holborn
New York: powerHouse Books, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Polly Borland to Howie Pyro (1960-2022), bassist, DJ, and longtime veteran of the New York punk and underground scenes, on the title page..... More
FOOTPRINTS OF THE GODS: The Point Lobos Saga
Boca Raton, Florida: Iris Publications, Inc., 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Lucien Clergue on the half-title. Fifty-five color plates depict the human and animal forms that manifest themselves in the rocky landscape of Point..... More
A TIME IN EDEN
Los Angeles: Rho-Delta Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Roy Dean on the half-title. A photographic reimagining of the first days of Man, set against the pristine background of the Caribbean sea and sky..... More
CAMERA UNDERWATER: A Practical Guide to Underwater Photography
New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., Inc., 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 187 p. 32 pp. photographs, with numerous textual figures. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1962. First American edition. An early and important work in the..... More
IN A DESERT LAND: Photographs of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan
New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Neil Folberg on the half-title. "In this large, heavy, and luxurious book of color photographs of the Near East, Folberg's focus is the natural beauty..... More
HIGHLIGHTS AND SHADOWS
New York: Greenberg, Publisher, 1947. First Edition. Spiral bound. Striking presentation of nudes by leading camera club photographers, including Lionel Heyman, Lazlo Willinger, Riccardo Bettini, and Helene Deutch. The images are accompanied by a description..... More
STREETWISE: Masters of 60s Photography
San Francisco: Modernbook Editions, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Andy Grundberg on the title page. Additionally inscribed by Jerry Berndt within the text. "...brings together the work of nine photographers who turned their cameras..... More
MUYBRIDGE: Man in Motion
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Important biographical study of the English-born photographer renowned for his pioneering work in studies of motion, and early work in motion picture projection. Among other things..... More
YUCATAN PASSAGES: A Photographer's Pilgrimage Through Southern Mexico
Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Wilderness Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Robert A. Hansen on the title page. A photographer's ten-year journey to the hidden wonders of the Yucatan Peninsula including ruin sites, haciendas..... More
DESERT HEART: Chronicles of the Sonoran Desert
Tucson, Arizona: Fisher Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by William K. Hartmann on the title page. An exploration of the human and geological history of the forbidding central core of the Sonoran..... More
EYES OF AN ISLAND: Japanese Photography 1945-2007
London: Guiding Light and Studio Equis, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Original pictorial boards; issued without a dust jacket. The spine is lightly sun faded; else fine. More
STAKING CLAIM: A California Invitational
San Diego, California: Museum of Photographic Arts, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap. More
PARIS: Eugene Atget
Koln: Taschen, 2008. Hardcover. "Eugene Atget roamed the streets with his bulky large format camera, systematically cataloguing turn-of-the-century Old Paris down to the very smallest details. His skilled, wonderfully atmospheric photos of Paris's parks, buildings..... More
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: Photographs, 1970-1990
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Annie Leibovitz on the title page. With more than 200 color and black-and-white photographs, this stunning collection spans the first 20 years of work by the..... More
EXPANSIONS: Essay by Charles Bowden
Tokyo: Treville Co., 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by William Lesch on the title page. Striking images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken at twilight or after dark and employing Lesch's..... More
REVOLUTION IN HUNGARY: The 1956 Budapest Uprising
New York: Thames & Hudson, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Lessing (1923-2018) was the first photographer to arrive in Hungary, and he documented the short-lived uprising and its aftermath in a series of world-famous photographs, reproduced..... More
DUNE: Edward and Brett Weston
Kalispell, Montana: Wild Horse Island Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. This volume collects, for the first time, the sand dune photographs of both Edward and Brett Weston, two giant names in modern photography. Adding depth..... More
TOYO MIYATAKE Behind The Camera 1923-1979
Tokyo: Bungeishunju, 1984. First Edition. Wraps. Major retrospective of the photographer best known for his images documenting the Japanese Americans imprisoned at Manzanar during World War II. Miyatake (1895-1979) was also a leading figure in..... More
MUYBRIDGE'S COMPLETE HUMAN AND ANIMAL LOCOMOTION, Volume I containing original volumes 1 & 2: Males (Nude), 3 & 4: Females (Nude)
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1979. Hardcover. The present volume comprises the first four volumes of the original eleven-volume edition (1887) and contains 311 photographic plates of male and female nudes engaged in various activities..... More
MRS. NEWTON
Koln: Taschen, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated in the year of publication by June Newton on the half-title. June Newton (1923-2021), renowned under her professional pseudonym Alice Springs, takes the reader on an..... More