Photobook-David Bradford-Drive-By Shootings Photographs by a New York taxi driver Hardback Pages: 480 Size: 22 x 15.5 cm Published: 2000 First edition Language: English, French, German Publisher: Konemann Stock number: RG1663/0124 Price: £8 + P&P This book has got to have one of the best concepts I've seen in a while. The idea of a taxi driver while driving around New York taking pictures of the city from downtown to uptown is one of most original ideas. The pictures in the book give you a true feel for New York City. It catches the glitzy, fancy parts of the life, while also showing you the real people in the city. The actual photo quality is fairly impressive and some of the shots are particularly impressive. There isn't a part of the city that isn't captured. The text is interesting, and in 3 languages.  Definitely a great book for any photo-documentary / photo-journalism fan, or New York lover.

Photobook-Bruce Weber-Blood Sweat and Tears or how I stopped worrying and learned to love fashion Hardback Pages: 448 Size: 29.2 x 38.1 cm Published: 2005 Publisher: teNeues Publishing (UK) Ltd Stock number: RG1843/0124 Price: £145 + P&P by Bruce Weber: At first I thought strictly about a book of photographs on fashion. As I worked on it, I thought more and more about something my friend the late, great fashion designer Gianni Versace once said, in giving me advice before an assignment, Call me des mode, but give me beauty. And with these inspired words I wanted to make a record of how I journeyed out into the world and recorded what most people call fashion. These photographs were not just about the shape of clothes, but also how one sees fashion in nature, architecture, and in the human spirit. When I began photographing, I was at Life Magazine borrowing some equipment. I ran into a bunch of other photographers in the camera department. One photographer asked, what kind of photos are you doing for the magazine? I replied, I am going to do some pictures of girls in bathing suits. They all burst out laughing at me, and said, that doesn t sound too serious. That s when I knew that as a photographer I didn t want people to stop laughing with me. That laughter can be found in a picture of a girl wearing a dress by Yohji Yamamoto that s so big she can t even walk in it or a boy wearing twigs as a tunic at Karl Lagerfeld s chateau in Brittany or the Duchess of Devonshire feeding her pet chickens in a Jean Patou couture evening dress from the 1940s. In this crazy world of ours, most things don t make sense any more, but the wonderful thing about taking pictures of people wearing or not wearing clothes is that maybe you won t solve all the world s problems but you ll at least be giving back a seed of imagination to our garden of lost innocence. And it s fashion that can create a big fantasy life for all those who enter. Condition: Very good+ to fine condition. First edition. Original red cloth with black lettering on cover and spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with white lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Three b/w frontispieces. Title page printed in red and black. Introduction by Bruce Weber and additional text, letters and poems by Brook Astor, Truman Capote, Emily Dickinson, Ogden Nash, Edna O'Brian, Francoise Sagan, Elizabeth Taylor, Dylan Thomas and Tennessee Williams.

Photobook-Édouard Boubat-A Gentle Eye Hardback Pages: 368 Size: 29.5 x 31.5 cm Published: 2004 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Stock number: RG1651/0124 Price: £225 + P&P In a career that spanned more than fifty years, photographer Edouard Boubat (1923-1999) captured the magic of fleeting moments with tenderness and warmth. A contemporary of Robert Doisneau and one of the most influential French photographers of the 20th century, Boubat made elegant, poetic pictures, beginning with images of everyday life in his native city of Paris and moving on to striking pictures taken on his travels to Kenya, India, Spain, Portugal, Brazil and China. His photographs were the subject of a major exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1976, the same year he published the first major book on his work. Now, five years after his death, this luxurious volume presents the entire range of Boubat's work in 300 beautiful tritone reproductions. All of his most famous photographs are here - including those of his muse, Lella - along with texts on the artist by writers Michel Tournier, Jacques Prevert and Marguerite Duras, and Boubat's own writings and notebook excerpts. Developed in close collaboration with Boubat's son, Bernard, this authoritative collection is the only existing monograph on this enduringly popular, but until now strangely unsung, photographer. The photobook is in good condition but the dust jacket shows some wear and plastic covering is starting to peel in the bottom right of the front cover.

Photobook-Linda McCartney-Light from within Hardback Pages: 183 Size: 27.5 x 21.5 cm Published: 2001 Publisher: Little, Brown & Company Stock number: RG1636/0124 Price: £30 + P&P Although in a sense a retrospective of Linda McCartney's photographic work, this book is not a compilation made in retrospect but a book she intended to make and worked toward over a long period of time. The photographs featured form a document of 30 years of Linda's life. They range from intimate but expressive observations of her close family to her own brand of spontaneous surrealism; perceptive portraits mingle with witty juxtapositions of compositional elements. An over-riding factor binds together the rich variety of her imagery - it was consistently mediated through the sensibility of a photographer with a special human warmth. The book includes four haikus, published here for the first time, which Linda completed just days before she passed away. She had intended to write three further haikus, but apart from the title, taken from the lyrics of one of her own songs, the contents, both pictures and words were finalized in her lifetime. Good condition throughout. Signed by owner on inside page.

Photobook-David Bailey-The Lady is a Tramp Portraits of Catherine Bailey Text by Fay Weldon Hardback Pages: 176 Size: 25 x 33 cm Published: 1995 Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd Stock number: RG1642/0124 Price: £30 + P&P From the legendary David Bailey comes this collection of photographs - a tribute to his wife, the model Catherine Bailey. Divided into five sections - nudes, fashion, pregnancy, children and beauty - these images capture her in different incarnations, as wife, mother, lover, seductress...and as tramp. The text is provided by Fay Weldon, a close friend of both David and Catherine Bailey. She explores the relationship between the photographer and his wife, and wider themes such as the interaction of commerce and art, the status of photography as a "real" art-form and the different ways men and women see the world. Good condition, small stain on spine and front cover. Signed on inside page by owner.

Photobook-Photo By Sammy Davis, Jr Text by Burt Boyar Hardback Pages: 352 Size: 30.5 x 24 cm Published: 2007 Publisher: ReganBooks Stock number: RG1644/0124 Price: £40 + P&P A previously unpublished collection of personal and celebrity photographs taken by the pioneering Rat Pack entertainer shares his intimate perspectives on everyday life and classic Hollywood, from a group of children laughing to a baseball game at the Washington Monument. Excellent condition.

Photobook-Gabriele Basilico: Workbook 1968-2006 Text by Achille Bonito Oliva Hardback Size: 28.7 x 24.6 cm Pages: 240 Published: 2006 Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing Stock number: RG1631/0124 Price: £30 + P & P A first retrospective monograph by the major international photographer. Gabriele Basilico’s landscapes explore the complex interrelationships between the built environment and the natural one. With more than three hundred photographs—from Glasgow to Tel Aviv, from Milan to Beirut—this is a comprehensive overview of a major figure whose career has spanned almost forty years.

Photobook-A Maverick Eye: the Street Photography of John Deakin Hardback Pages: 208 Size: 30.5 x 25 cm Published: 2002 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Stock number: RG1616/0124 Price: £55 + P&P John Deakin's extraordinary documentary photographs are haunting evocations of life on the streets of London, Paris and Rome in the 1950s and 1960s. His eye is a profoundly generous one and his chief focus is on ordinary life. His pictures of dog walkers, priests, nuns and shopkeepers reveal and empathy to tival that of Doisneau and Brassai. Equally intriguing are his depictions of human activity with the participants gone: a vanished vernacular of chalked-up children's games, of graffitied messages of love or anger to the world, street signs, peeling wills, window shutters and shop-front banners - signals from another age. Revealed here is a far broader range of photography than that on which Deakin's reputation has rested so far. But the creative souls and maverick talents that frequented the streets of Soho in its heyday - Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud among them - make their appearance along with anonymous figures and strong faces from Paris and Rome. Both friends and stars appear in Robin Muir's introduction, which describes both Deakin the man and Deakin the artist. Following his death in 1972 his work lay neglected for a number of years and his reputation dwindled. A Maverick Eye restores him to his proper place and one of the great photographers of the postwar period.