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 - 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 - 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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Bedu - Humberto Da Silveira

Hardback in slipcase Size: 14½ x 11¾ inches / 36.8 x 29.8 cm Pages: 255 Published: 1994 Stock number: CW120/0123 Price: £350 + P & P Hardcover folio in a slipcase in very good condition. In publisher's navy cloth slipcase. Slipcase in very good condition with minor signs of wear. Dust jacket in very good condition. 255 pages profusely illustrated in black and white. Humberto da Silveira is a professional photographer with extensive experience and knowledge of the Middle East.

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