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Photobook - Magnum Photos - Pop Sixties
Hardback Size: 26.7 x 22.5 cm Pages: 192 Published: 2008 Publisher: Abrams Stock number: 017753/0123 Price: £10 + P & P Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust jacket condition: very good. Introduction by Anthony Decurtis -
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Photobook - Mapplethorpe - Essay By Arthur C Danto
Hardback Size: 30.3 x 31.5 cm Pages: 382 Published: 1995 Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London Stock number: 017758/0123 Price: SOLD Hardback. Grey cloth boards in good condition. In a fine photo - illustrated dust jacket which shows signs of wear and use. Tears to top spine and bottom front. Housed in publisher's illustrated slipcase which also shows signs of wear. The pages in the centre section are slightly proud. There are some sexually explicit photographs within this book. Encompassing all aspects of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographic career, this book begins with his earliest unpublished Polaroid pictures, and continues with portraits of friends through to his more well - known works. By the photographer of Lady, Lisa Lyon, Robert Mapplethorpe and Some Women. -
Photobook - Marilyn Monroe And The Camera - Foreword Jane Russell
Softback Size: 32.5 x 23 cm Pages: 248 Illustrations: Profusely illustrated with black & white and colour photographs Published: 2000 Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel, Munich Stock number: 017859/0123 Price: £30 + P & P Softcover. Condition: Good. Foil covers clean and bright with some surface scratches and wear to cover corners. Book is firm in binding contains numerous, black & white and 48 colour photographs from a variety of photographers, including Richard Avedon and Henri Cartier - Bresson, as well as an interview with Marilyn Monroe. A lush and lovely volume. With a foreword by Jane Russell. -
Photobook - Masahisa Fukase - Editions Xavier Barral By Tomo Kosuga and Simon Baker
Hardback Size: 260 x 195 x 45 mm Pages: 416 Price: £68 + P & P -
Photobook - Milton's Marilyn - By Milton H Greene
Hardback Size: 29.8 x 24.5 cm Pages: 220 Illustrations: profusely illustrated with both colour & black and white photographs Published: 2001 Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel, Munich Stock number: 017858/0123 Price: £25 + P & P Hardcover. The photographs of Milton H. Greene in colour and black and white with text by James Kotsilibas - Davis. Directed by Joshua Greene. In good condition, with slight scuff mark to base of spine and bottom corner of back. -
Photobook - Nick Brandt - A Shadow Falls - Signed Limited Edition
A Shadow Falls Text by Vicki Goldberg and Peter Singer Publisher: Abrams, New York. 2009 Size: 31.5 x 39.2 cm Pages: 132 Stock number: 010329/0123 Price: £450 +P & P Nick Brandt – A Shadow Falls – text by Vicki Goldberg and Peter Singer. Beautifully illustrated with 58 oversized tritone reproductions of Brandt’s elegant and elegiac photographs. Small folio, black paper - covered boards; photo - pictorial dust jacket. Deluxe edition, one of 150 signed and numbered copies, this is number 65. New York: Abrams, 2009 Book has good clean dust wrapper. Generally very good clean condition but small dent to bottom of back board and crease to bottom edge of back of dust wrapper. -
Photobook - Nick Danziger - Eleven Women Facing War
Hardback Signed Size: 31.2 x 32.3 cm Pages: 192 Illustrations: 51 black & white, 34 colour Published: 2015 Stock number: 01131/0123 Price: £95 + P & P A signed hardback copy in dust cover with very, very small tear in top left corner of front. Otherwise in excellent condition. What became of the eleven women who Nick Danziger photographed in 2001 to illustrate a study produced by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) about the experiences and specific needs of women during armed conflict? Ten years on, Eleven Women Facing War recounts the passing of a decade through the lives of these women. Eleven destinies, eleven perspectives from Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Bosnia - Herzegovina, Colombia, Israel, Afghanistan and Palestine. -
Photobook - Paris Pictured - Julian Stallabrass
Hardback Size: 30.8 x 25.5 cm Pages: 114 Illustrations: Over 130 black & white photographs Published: 2002 Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts Stock number: 017759/0123 Price: £35 + P & P Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine and is protected by a clear removable sleeve. Orange cloth. This selection of images examines the growth and development of photography through the changing character of Paris in the remarkable period of 1900 - 1968. During these years, photography became a mass medium, with cheap reproductions appearing in the press. Technical advances made it possible to capture rapid movement and street photography flourished; some of the finest images in documentary photography were made on the streets of Paris by Atget, Brassai, Cartier - Bresson, Doisneau and Ronis, among many others. The transience of city life and the histories of Paris are brilliantly evoked in these images: from the elegiac photographs of the early twentieth century which recorded those quartiers later condemned by modernisation projects, through the Occupation, to the upheaval of the May 1968 demonstrations. With over 130 photographs and Julian Stallabrass's authoritative text, this book is an essential purchase for anyone interested in the art of photography and the city of Paris. -
Photobook - Richard Avedon - Performance
Hardback Size: 33 x 26 cm Pages: 304 Published: 2008 Publisher: Abrams Stock number: 017757/0123 Price: £125 + P & P Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket ( as Issued ). First Edition. Self - enfolding black cloth covered boards, each with laid on photographic plate. Dual spines. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners sharp. The pages are clean and bright. The closed page edges are crisp and bright. A lovely copy. Performance sizzles with the electric charge that passes between a great photographer and an incandescent artist when they share a purpose and a passion. The photographer Richard Avedon had, in his own words, 'a passion for high - definition performance and a faith in the religion of perpetual acceleration'. Or, as critic John Lahr says of Avedon, 'He was ravished by the articulate energy of great performers'. The preeminent stars and artists of the performing arts from the second half of the twentieth century offered Avedon their greatest gifts - and, sometimes, their inner lives. More than two hundred of them are portrayed in Performance, many in photographs that have rarely or never been seen before. Of course, the great stars light the way: Hepburn and Chaplin, Monroe and Garland, Brando and Sinatra. But here too are the actors and comedians, pop stars and divas, musicians and dancers, artists in all mediums with public lives that were and are essentially performances. The celebrated author and critic John Lahr offers an elegant assessment of Avedon's achievement. Four supremely talented artists from the performing arts - Mike Nichols, Andre Gregory, MitsUKo Uchida and Twyla Tharp - contribute lively and moving memoirs about their collaborations with Avedon. Finally, Performance is a remarkable achievement in book - making, from its innovative portfolio binding to the superb quality of its printing. Bound into a unique cloth portfolio case and includes facsimile printed on special paper. -
Photobook - Robert Doisneau - Jean Claude Gautrand
Hardback Size: 34.6 x 25.6 cm Pages: 540 Language: English, French, German Published: 2014 First edition Publisher: Taschen Stock number: 017754/0123 Price: £65 + P & P Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book and dust jacket are in very good condition. As sensitive to human suffering as to the simple pleasures of life, Robert Doisneau is one of the most celebrated exponents of the Photographie humaniste that swept through the 1950s. Cherished in particular for his soulful portraits of Paris, Doisneau demonstrated a unique ability to find - and perfectly frame - charismatic characters, entertaining episodes, and fleeting moments of humour and affection. A summation of a spectacular career, this is the most extensive Doisneau collection ever published, including all his best - loved images alongside many lesser - known compositions which equally rejoice in the ordinary gestures of ordinary people in ordinary situations. The many quotations from the photographer throughout the volume immerse the reader in Doisneau's thoughts and give verbal expression to the sensitivity, warmth, and wit which characterize his pictures. Through more than 400 images, we are transported to the grim suburbs of Doisneau's youth; the world of manual labor whose nobility he so admired; and to the studios of the many ground - breaking artists that Doisneau captured in moments of reflection and creativity. A number of colour shots of Palm Springs and the transformed suburbs of Doisneau's childhood reveal a different, more critical eye to the master photographer. For this new monograph on all aspects of the life and oeuvre of Robert Doisneau, his longtime friend and TASCHEN author Jean Claude Gautrand had unlimited access to the extensive photo archive Atelier Robert Doisneau. The preface is by Doisneau's daughters Francine Deroudille and Annette Doisneau. -
Photobook - Stanley Greene - Open Wound
Hardback Size: 24.8 x 27.8 cm Pages: 220 Illustrations: 20 colour and 72 black & white photographs Published: 2003 Publisher: Trolley Ltd Stock number: 017790/0123 Price: £25 + P & P Hardcover, condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: good with small tear and wear to base of spine. Nice clean copy, in sharp dust jacket. Open Wounds Essay by Andre Glucksmann and Christian Caujolle. -
The Essential Marilyn Monroe - Photograph Book - Milton H Greene
Hardback Size: 250 mm x 250 mm Pages: 368 Pages Illustrations: 167 colour, 118 black & white Price: SOLD -
The Photographs of HG Ponting - Photography Book - By Beau Riffenburgh and Liz Cruwys
Hardback Size: 250mm x 250mm Pages: 136 pages Illustrations: 71 black & white photographs and maps. Published 1998 (Used) Price: £15 -
Photobook - The Teds - Chris Steele - Perkins
Softback Size: 28 x 20.4 cm Pages: 120 Illustrations: 72 black & white photographs Published: 1979 First edition Publisher: Travelling Light/Exit Stock number: 017749/0123 Price: £95 + P & P A very nice copy with a hint of wear to bottom edges, corners, and spine, light surface wear to covers - these minor flaws, are all fairly typical with this title because of the vulnerable silver foil papered boards. Inscribed inside. The Teddy Boys were a flashily dressed, rebellious and sometimes violent youth movement that originated in Britain in the '50s. The three - quarter - length Edwardian jacket with velvet collar, drainpipe trousers and quiff became a focus of male fashion which still holds cult status today. The Teds combines image and text to tell their story - - a fascinating tale spanning three decades. -
Photobook - The Unclosed Eye - The Music Photography Of David Redfern
Softback Size: 31.6 x 25.1 cm Pages: 176 Illustrations: Over 400 photographs Published: 1999 Publisher: Sanctuary Publishing Ltd Stock number: 017786/0123 Price: £15 + P & P Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In the ever - evolving music industry, photographer David Redfern remains a constant: always there and guaranteed to get results. From jazz greats like Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Ella Fitzgerald to rock legends like Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and The Rolling Stones, Redfern has taken some of the most memorable and definitive shots in music history, as witnessed on international magazine covers, books, posters, record sleeves, even U.S. postage stamps. Featuring more than 400 photos, each with their own story, The Unclosed Eye is an extraordinary pictorial record of the last five decades of music. -
Photobook - Walker Evans - The Magazine Work - David Campany
Hardback Size: 32.5 x 25.2 cm Pages: 224 Published: 2014 First edition Publisher: Steidl, Germany Stock number: 017752/0123 Price: £45 + P & P Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. A very fine copy in illustrated white paper covered boards, without jacket as issued. Plates, printed in sepia, with long introductory essay by David Campany. Walker Evans was one of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century, producing a body of photographs that continues to shape our understanding of the modern era. He worked in every genre and format, in black and white and in colour, but two passions were constant: literature and the printed page. While his photographic books are among the most significant in the medium’s history, Evans’s more ephemeral pages remain largely unknown. In small avant - garde publications and mainstream titles such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Architectural Forum, Life and Fortune he produced innovative and independent journalism, often setting his own assignments, editing, writing and designing his pages. Presenting many of his photo - essays in their entirety, Walker Evans: The Magazine Work assembles the unwritten history of this work, allowing us to see how he protected his autonomy, earned a living and found audiences far beyond the museum and gallery. -
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. -
Photobook-Annie Leibovitz-American Music Softback Pages: 262 Size: 30.5 x 24.5 cm Published: 2004 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York, NY Stock number: RG2086/0124 Price: £40 + P&P The celebrated photographer offers a photographic chronicle of twentieth-century popular music in a collection of more than one hundred photographs of such musical icons as Ray Charles, the Grateful Dead, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, and many others, accompanied by short essays on the music and musicians. Illustrated with both black and white and colour photographs by Annie Leibovitz; includes essays by Patti Smith, Steve Earle, Rosanne Cash, Mos Def, Ryan Adams and Annie Leibovitz. Good condition with slight wear to the corners of the cover. -
Photobook-Annie Liebovitz-Sumo Hardback with slipcase Pages: 556 Size: 40 x 29.3 cm Published: 2022 Publisher: TASCHEN Stock number: RG1655/0124 Price: £110 + P&P When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued by the challenge. The project took several years to develop and when it was finally published in 2014, it weighed in at 26 kg (57 pounds). This incredible collection is now available in an accessible XXL book format. Leibovitz drew on more than 40 years of work, starting with the photojournalism she did for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s through the conceptual portraits she made for Vanity Fair and Vogue. She selected iconic images―such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono entwined in a last embrace―as well as portraits that had rarely, if ever, been seen before. The Annie Leibovitz SUMO covered political and cultural history, from Queen Elizabeth II and Richard Nixon to Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga. “What I had thought of initially as a simple process of imagining what looked good big, what photographs would work in a large format, became something else,” Leibovitz says. “The book is very personal, but the narrative is told through popular culture. It’s not arranged chronologically and it’s not a retrospective. It’s more like a roller coaster.” Fans of Leibovitz and her many celebrated subjects can now enjoy that same roller coaster ride for themselves with this unlimited edition. -
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-China A Photohistory 1937-1987 Edited by W. J. F. Jenner Introduction by Jonathan D. Spence Hardback Pages: 200 Size: 27 x 25 cm Published: 1988 Publisher: Pantheon Stock number: RG1647/0124 Price: £15 + P&P Photographs from the Magnum archives reveal diverse aspects of China during this fifty year period, including landscapes and peoples, years of war and strife, the turbulent years under Mao, and later new phenomena. Throughtout that period a few photographers did manage to travel in China and record what was happening there. They included Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Rene Burri, Inge Morath and others whose archives are now collected. From this rich source over 150 photographs have been selected and woven together in a sequence. Good condition, inscription inside, slight crease mark and small tear to bottom of dust jacket. -
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-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-David Plummer-7 Years of Camera Shake Hardback Size: 26.4 x 29.6 cm Pages: 256 Published: 2017 Publisher: Unbound Stock number: RG1633/0124 Price: £30 + P & P As humans, we are drawn to predators like no other group of animals. They are the epitome of form and function, and have a level of perfection that we revere. In 2009, wildlife expert, conservationist and photographer David Plummer was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Rather than let it defeat him, he was galvanised to grab life by the horns and achieve the perfect wildlife shot. Over the next seven years, he did much more than that. The result is this breathtaking collection of over 200 of his best and favourite photographs of exotic and wild animals in their natural habitats. To capture them, David travelled to some of the most remote and stunning locations across the world, from Africa to India to the Galápagos Islands and back to his native England. 7 Years of Camera Shake showcases seven years of immersive and illuminating photography: of predators on the prowl, of prey in the clutches of death, of the inexplicable synchronisation of nature, of the beautiful relationship between mother and child, and much, much more. Plummer’s work has been featured in wildlife publications and national and international press, and now the work he has produced since his diagnosis is showcased here, accompanied by his thoughts and anecdotes on how he achieved each perfect shot. Book in very good condition, dust jacket slightly worn top and bottom. -
Photobook-David Yarrow-Encounter Hardback with slipcase Pages: 152 Size: 45.1 x 38.1 cm Published: 2013 Publisher: Clearview Stock number: RG184/0124 Price: £250 + P&P David Yarrow s latest photographs are collected in his new book, Encounter. This volume gathers nearly 90 stunning monochrome images of wildlife and remote peoples, accompanied by David s narrative describing the challenges of photographing in some of the harshest and most inaccessible landscapes on earth. Condition: fine. Magnificent dramatic full-page photographs of nature, animals and people. Oblong folio, white cloth with inlaid photo of elephants on the front cover, pictorial white board slipcase. (London: Clearview, 2013). First Edition. Scarce. -
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-Erich Lessing-Revolution in Hungary, the 1956 Budapest uprising Hardback Pages: 252 Size: 31 x 30.75 cm Published: 2006 Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd Stock number: RG2090/0124 Price: £15 + P&P On 23 October, 1956, what began as a mass rally in Bem Square, Budapest, quickly evolved into the Hungarian Revolution. It lasted until 4 November, when the Soviet tanks rolled in. Up to 50,000 Hungarians and 7,000 Soviets were killed, and thousands were injured. Erich Lessing, who found himself in the thick of the action, documented the cruelly short-lived revolt and its aftermath in a series of world-famous photographs, reproduced here in stunning duotone. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Erich Lessing is a member of Magnum and the winner of numerous awards for his work. Francois Fejto is a political journalist. George Konrad is a renowned Hungarian novelist. Nicolas Bauquet is a distinguished historian. -
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-Jeanloup Sieff-40 years of photography Hardback Pages: 288 Size: 35 x 26.5 cm Published: 2005 Publisher: Taschen Stock number: RG1653/0124 Price: £35 + P&P "I have been searching for time past all my life." —Jeanloup Sieff In this unique monograph, Jeanloup Sieff (1933-2000) retraces in words and images the course of 40 years of photographs, encounters, and memories. Divided into four chapters, from the 50s to the 90s, the book brings together the major photographs of a creator who left his imprint on a generation with prolific work in the fields of fashion, landscape, advertising, and portrait photography. Sieff’s art testifies to his tireless quest to capture the fleeting beauty of "temps perdu," or "time which cannot recur." Text in English, French, and German. -
Photobook-Joel Meyerowitz-Aftermath, World Trade Center Archive Hardback Pages: 350 Size: 29.2 x 39.4 cm Published: 2006 Publisher: Phaidon Press Stock number: RG2093/0124 Price: £35 + P&P After the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11th 2001, the world-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz felt compelled to visit the site, to document and record the aftermath of the largest ever attack on US soil. Although initially turned away by police (on the grounds that the site was a crime scene and could not be photographed), Meyerowitz was determined to gain access to the area. Within days he had established strong links with many of the firefighters, policemen and construction workers contributing to the clean up. With their assistance he became the only photographer to be granted unimpeded access to Ground Zero. Once there he systematically began to document the wreckage followed by the necessary demolition, excavation and removal of tens of thousands of tonnes of debris that would transform the site from one of total devastation to level ground. Soon after the Museum of the City of New York officially engaged Meyerowitz to create an archive of the destruction and recovery at Ground Zero and the immediate neighborhood. The 9/11 Photographic Archive numbers in excess of 5,000 images and will become part of the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York. In good condition and still with its original plastic covering. Small bang on base of spine. -
Photobook-Keegan Allen-life. love. beauty Hardback Pages: 304 Size: 23.5 x 19 cm Published: 2015 Publisher: St Martins Press Stock number: RG1661/0124 Price: £8 + P&P Keegan Allen is the international breakout star of MTV's hit television series, Pretty Little Liars. A gifted photographer and writer-and a dazzling film, television, and stage actor now counting millions of fans across the globe-Keegan Allen brings tremendous talent and energy to his first publishing project. Keegan tells a unique story with his photographs. On one hand, the book is a beautifully candid view into the glamour and timelessness of Hollywood, a mysterious yet wildly alluring place. One the other hand, it is a blissfully unassuming portrait of ordinary life- the unknown young woman gazing dreamily from the balcony of her hotel room, or the old woman who walks the same street every morning in her pink bathrobe, just to stop and talk to a passerby. Through his own stunning photography and captivating prose and poetry, life. love. beauty. chronicles the author's life growing up just off the Sunset Strip, coming into his own as a young aspiring actor, looking for love and understanding, negotiating the seductions and disappointments of Hollywood, landing a plum role in a hit television series, encountering and embracing his fans, travelling the globe to promote his work, and striving to stay connected to his closest friends and loved ones. -
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-Mario Testino- Portraits Softback Size: 36.5 x 27 cm Pages: 127 Published: 2002 Publisher: Bulfinch Press Stock number: 011640/0124 Price: £35 + P&P Sexy, famous, beautifula Testino portrait is as unmistakeable as his subject. MARIO TESTINO: PORTRAITS features the cream of the crop in our celebrity-obsessed age: Naomi Campbell, Jude Law, Kate Moss, Gwyneth Paltrowthose whose names have become the hallmarks, almost the logos, of the fashion world. Testinos relationship with his subjects is simply and succinctly summed up by Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue: People love to be photographed by Mario. His innate sense of fashion, which has made him the most sought-after contemporary photographer today, has transformed many of his portraits into icons. Very good condition with slight wear to the corners. Mario Testino’s touring exhibition Mario Testino: Portraits debuted at The National Portrait Gallery in London in 2002. The first ever museum exhibition of his work, the show featured over 120 portraits personally selected by Testino, many which had never been seen before their first unveiling. I remember going to see this exhibition at the time and this photobook brings back all the memories of seeing these great photographs. -
Photobook-Michael Kenna-Japan: A Love Story (Signed) Hardback Pages: 134 Size: 33 x 25.4 cm Published: 2024 Publisher: NAZRAELI Stock number: RG2298/GNO1 Price: £70 + P&P Published to coincide with a major 2024 traveling exhibition in Tokyo, Los Angeles and London, this gorgeous new monograph presents 100 of Michael Kenna’s most iconic photographs of the Japanese landscape, many published here for the first time. A perfect pairing of artist and subject, these photographs of Japan comprise perhaps Kenna’s best known body of work and have been the subject of countless exhibitions throughout the world. Michael Kenna first visited Japan in 1987 on the event of his inaugural exhibition there, and he has returned dozens of time and made thousands of photographs throughout the country’s vast and incredibly varied landscape. Our earlier monographs Japan and Hokkaido have been out of print for many years, so we are thrilled to announce this important new publication that includes work spanning Kenna’s decades-long love affair with the country. Japan / A Love Story is beautifully printed in duotone on natural coated art paper and quarter bound in linen and silk. It opens with an essay in Japanese and English by the renowned critic and historian Kohtaro Iizawa. “For Michael Kenna’s 2003 publication, Japan, I contributed an essay suggesting that his photographs could be read as visual haikus. Looking at the work in this new book, perhaps the definitive collection of Kenna’s Japan photographs, I feel that these same components are still there. And yet, on viewing his work afresh, I realize that while he does incorporate a Japanese sense of beauty and perspective, he has now fused his own Western aesthetic with a new Eastern sensibility, awakened by his visual experiences in Japan.” — From the Introduction by Kohtaro Iizawa “Japan has a long and rich tradition of reciprocal gift giving. I have been the grateful recipient of so much over so many years in Japan, and I know that I will never be able to give back in equal measure. I hope this work can be seen as a small token of my desire to do so. I also hope this work can be viewed as a homage to Japan and that it will serve to symbolize my immense ongoing appreciation and deep gratitude for this beautiful and mysterious country.” — From the Afterword by Michael Kenna -
Photobook-Norman Mailer-Marilyn, a biography Softback Pages: 271 Size: 26.6 x 23.5 cm Published: 1974 Publisher: Coronet Books Stock number: RG7760/GNO1B Price: £8 + P&P The biography of Marilyn Monroe in large-format book of glamor photographs of Monroe for which Mailer supplied the text. Originally hired to write an introduction by Lawrence Schiller, who put the book package together, Mailer expanded the introduction into a long essay. A good copy. Profusely illustrated with photos by Richard Avedon, John Bryson, Cornell Capa, Ernst Haas, Arnold Newman, Lawrence Schiller, and others. -
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-Ragnar Axelsson-Faces of the North (Small edition) Hardback Pages: 144 Size: 24.6 x 18.7 cm Published: 2019 Publisher: Qerndu Stock number: RG2293/GNO1 Price: £35 + P&P First edition of small format, with 98 images. Publisher's description: Finally available the revised and updated edition of Faces of the North Small edition (2004) features a selection of the iconic images that have established Ragnar Axelsson (RAX) as one of the leading photographers of our time. The result of over 30 years documenting the lives of hunters, fishermen, and farmers in the North, this collection is a rare testament to the people across Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland whose worlds and ways of life have now all but disappeared. With the original foreword by Mary Ellen Mark. Raised on an isolated farm in southern Iceland, Ragnar Axelsson (born 1958) became captivated early on by the brutal beauty of the North Atlantic and the delicate interactions between its inhabitants and their environment. Born of that fascination, Faces of the North, first published in 2004, established Axelsson as one of the leading documentary photographers of our time. Long out of print, Faces of the North is now republished with this small edition. In the 2004 edition of Faces of the North, Axelsson collected the images of farmers, hunters, and fishermen in the Arctic and the Atlantic that he became best known for. -
Photobook-Rankin-Hunger: The book Hardback Pages: 256 Size: 35 x 27.5 cm Published: 2022 Publisher: teNeues Verlag Stock number: RG1623/0124 Price: £30 + P&P Hunger: The Book is a look back over the ten issues and five years of Hunger Magazine, launched by photographer Rankin in 2011. The biannual magazine was born from Rankin's desire to celebrate the most creative and provocative voices in culture and fashion. The book highlights the magazine's finest moments, editorials, and celebrity portraits, as well as taking a behind-the-scenes look that includes never-before-published images, film stills, original sketches and tell-all anecdotes. Very good condition. -
Photobook-Rankin-More Hardback Size: 36.5 x 28 cm Pages: 368 Illustrations: B&W and colour photographs Published: 2013 Publisher: TeNeues Stock number: 011628/0124 Price: £58 + P&P One of the most compelling celebrity photographers of his generation, Rankin brings a charged vitality to all the subjects he portrays. Never afraid to break with convention, he always brings a distinctive artistry to his saucy and irreverent interpretations of sex and glamour. This comprehensive overview combines the best of his work from the worlds of fashion, music and the media. Rankin manages to have us see familiar faces such as Heidi Klum or Beth Ditto in new and challenging ways. Never content with the status quo, he constantly innovates with daring projects such as his current Hunger magazine. Although a master of carefully constructed staging and composition, Rankin's images are always packed to the brim with freshness and spontaneity. Very good condition with very slight wear to the corners. -
Photobook-Robert Frank-story lines Softback Pages: 144 Size: 24.5 x 28.5 cm Published: 2004 Publisher: Steidl Publishers, Germany Stock number: RG2089/0124 Price: £45 + P&P "Robert Frank is one of the most influential of all post-war photographers. Pioneering a revolutionary approach to photography and filmmaking, he combines autobiographical and poetic elements to produce straight black and white images that transcend the specific. Speaking of universal experience, 'I'm trying to forget easy photo, trying to make something from within,' he has said, 'time moves on and never stops or waits.' Often involving a progression through a series of images, his work is structured like a musical sequence, creating storylines that resonate beyond the frozen moment of any single photograph. Storylines accompanied an exhibition highlighting Frank's experimental use of narrative in photography and film. The exhibition included work from films and photographs (including Polaroids, contact sheets and recent digital stills) and several artist's books. The photographs are from locations as distant as Peru, London, Wales, Coney Island and Chicago." This book was produced to accompany the exhibition held at the Tate Modern, 28 October 2004 – 23 January 2005. -
Photobook-Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works by Hardback Pages: 208 Size: 32.7 x 26.2 cm Published: 2014 Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd (Revised and expanded edition) Stock number: RG2275/GNO1 Price: £35 + P&P Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore’s legendary Uncommon Places has influenced a generation of photographers. Among the first artists to take colour beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, Shore’s large-format colour work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic tradition over the past thirty years. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works is the definitive collection of this landmark series. An essay by noted critic and curator Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen and a conversation with Shore by fiction writer Lynne Tillman examine his methodology as they elucidate his roots in the pop and conceptual art movements of the late sixties and early seventies. The texts are illustrated with reproductions from Shore’s earlier series American Surfaces and Amarillo: Tall in Texas. -
Photobook-Still Life, inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton Photography by Jane Ussher Essays by Nigel Watson Hardback Size: 33 x 25 cm Pages: 223 Published: 2010 Publisher: Murdoch Books Stock number: RG1620/0124 Price: £100 + P&P First Edition, bound in hessian cloth with label mimicking sewn-on effect on front cover. A visual treat, wonderful full page photographs showing every detail of the huts. A photographic study of the Antarctic huts that served as expedition bases for Scott and Shackleton. Jane Ussher, a New Zealand photographer, was given the unique opportunity to photograph the huts in intimate detail. Executive Director of the Antarctic Heritage Trust, Nigel Watson, provides a fascinating introduction to the history and atmosphere of each hut. Very good condition. -
Photograph - Jack Field attempting land speed record in Silver Bullet
Circa 1934 Open edition Printed on Xpression Smooth 100% cotton Image size: 16.5 x 23.4 inches / 42 x 59.4 cm Stock number: 01MR/Ed0120 Price: £120 • -
Richard Gardner - Black & white photograph - The Bench
Signed open edition Fotospeed 315gsm 100% cotton paper Print size (including border): 6¼ x 9½ inches / 16 x 24.5 cm Stock number: RG007/QSG Price: £125 -
Richard Gardner - Black & White Photograph - The better half
Signed open edition Giclee print on premium gloss 260gsm Print size (including border): 11.7 x 8.3 inches / 29.7 x 21 cm Stock number: RGSP/QSG Price: £120 -
Sardax - Black & White Etching - Shanghai Bizarre, No 1 - The Travel Agent
Black & white etching Limited edition of 120 (only nine now available) Signed and numbered Print size (including border): 11¾ x 16½ inches / 29.7 x 42 cm Printed on Hahnemühle German Fine Etching paper 300gsm Obsession Art limited edition - London - 2007 Stock number: SA01/QSG Price: £150 • • -
Sardax - Black & White Etching - Shanghai Bizarre, No 2 – The Arrival
Black & white etching Limited edition of 120 (only ten now available) Signed and numbered Print size (including border): 11¾ x 16½ inches / 29.7 x 42 cm Printed on Hahnemühle German Fine Etching paper 300gsm Obsession Art limited edition - London - 2007 Stock number: SA02/QSG Price: £150 •
