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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 Encompassing all aspects of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographic career, this book begins with his earliest unpublished Polaroid pictures, and continues with portraits of friends through to his more well - known works.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.
