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 - Harry Callahan - By Sarah Greenough

Softback Size: 28.3 x 23.3 cm Pages: 199 Published: 2001 Third edition Publisher: Bulfinch / Little, Brown, New York Stock number: 017746/0123 Price: £75 A collection of photographs by Harry Callahan, whose interest in fine art photography was sparked by Ansel Adam's visit to the Detroit Camera Club in 1941. A celebrated photographer of nature, the city and women, Callahan explores new ways of looking at and presenting the world. Published in conjunction with the 1997 exhibition of Calahan's photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. This is a used copy in very good condition.

Photobook - Henri Cartier - Bresson - About Russia

Hardback Size: 26.7 x 24.6 cm Pages: 141 Illustrations: 141 black & white photographs Published: 1974 Publisher: Thanes and Hudson Ltd, London Stock number: 017746/0123 Price: £85 + P & P Photographs taken during the autumn of 1972 and the spring of 1973. The book shows scenes taken in Leningrad, Moscow, Russian Soviet Socialist Republics, the Baltic countries, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition containing 141 full page or double - page photographs taken by Cartier - Bresson. A wonderfully documented portrait of the Russian people in city and country, during the USSR. Fine in brown cloth boards, and fine dust jacket (price - clipped).

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.  

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 - 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.