In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

Malibu, California, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A fine and fine-looking reader, bound in illustrated yellow and black wraps, in gate-fold, comprised of black-and-white photographs of holdings of the J. Paul Getty Museum of Los Angeles County, including the work of Dorothea Lange and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and then photographic essay by Alfred Stieglitz, John Walsh, Thomas Barrow, Jeannine Fiedler, Charles Hagen, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Weston Naef, Leland Rice and Katherine Ware. Complete with chronology. Presents over 50 photographs of the master photographer. [3], 4-127 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 347903

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: photography|J. Paul Getty Museum|Dorothea Lange|Laszlo Moholy-Nagy|Alfred Stieglitz|John Walsh|Thomas Barrow|Jeannine Fiedler|Charles Hagen|Hattula Moholy-Nagy|Weston Naef|Leland Rice|Katherine Ware

Recognitions: Images of a Woman Artist

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zoland, 1989. Bound Galley Proof. Softcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Glossy, black-and-white printed wraps, being a Bound Galley Proof exemplar of this fine and provocative exploration by the photographer/artist of her body and her craft. Black-and-white, cyanotype and duotone photographs, some being erotic in nature, and features the text of an interview of Nancy Roberts with anonymous interviewer.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 351545

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: Nancy Roberts women artists photography

Adams, Ansel; Andrea G. Stillman, ed.

Yosemite and the High Sierra

Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. Seventy-five arrestingly beautiful black-and-white photographic plates by Ansel Adams. Edited by Andrea G. Stillman, and with a lengthy Introduction by John Szarkowski, beautifully illustrated copy bound in oblong gray cloth hardcover format, with white lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear including some waffling to laminate of front panel, not price-clipped. List of Plates, an Artist's Statement of sorts by means of the artist/photographer, complete with Acknowledgments and sources for portfolio quotations. [10], 11-135 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 349031

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: Ansel Adams|photography|John Szarkowski

Adams, Ansel

Yosemite and the Range of Light

Boston, Massachusetts, New York Graphic Society, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. An Introduction by Paul Brooks opens and greatly augments this Very Good condition copy. Bound simply in purple cloth over boards, very lightly worn and abraded, burgundy cloth-backed spine, and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, still quite tank-like of binding and heft. Produced in an oblong quarto hardcover format, boards measuring 12 1/4" tall by 15 1/2" tall. Twenty-eight pages of text, and then 116 duotone images of a sacred space, 116 images reproduced by the finest process of double impression offset lithography. List of Plates at book's end. These images cluster in the 1924-1927 time period by which time Adams had co-founded and begun to lead the Sierra Club. Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 - April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West, especially of California, Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks in particular. He was also a proponent of technical virtuosity in photography and its teaching to students which, his Wikipedia page entry says, advocated for the engagement of "pure" photography "which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph." He published plentiful technical books in a series of primers. Ansel Adams was also a life-long advocate for environmental conservation about which he writes passionately in the Foreword. He visited Yosemite National Park first as a 12-year-old in 1914. The fine portrait at frontis opposite title page was taken in 1944.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 355702

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: Ansel Adams Paul Brooks signed photography Yosemite California

Adams, Ansel; Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman

Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984

Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. One of the finest compilations of Adams photographs and writings as you'll find on-line. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound in a short quarto format in black cloth, blind-stamped logo to front cover, silver lettering. Ansel Adams' letters and photographs as edited by Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. Frontispiece, and over 100 black-and-white illustrations. 402 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 352521

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: Ansel Adams Mary Street Alinder Andrea Gray Stillman

Alinder, James

Roy Decarava: Photographs

Carmel, California, The Friends of Photography, 1981. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade, being SIGNED by the master photographer at title page, inscribed, "Aug 10, 1982, To Pat Friedman, best wishes, Roy DeCarava," and there being no other softcover editions signed thus. A major retrospective of the black-and-white artistry of Roy DeCarava of his work from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, moderate wear of covers, mostly to edges, but with neither underlining nor highlighting, bright and clean of interior, a perfectly readable, usable copy. Big, tall, quarto format, nearly pristine of interior. Preface and Epilogue by James Alinder, and a very long Introduction by Sherry DeCarava, both in double-column text.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Very Good

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Book number: 353203

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: The Friends of Photography Roy DeCarava

McAdams, Dona Ann and C. Carr

Caught in the Act: A Look at Contemporary Multimedia Performance

New York, Aperture Foundation, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. An exhilarating look at performance art of the 1990s up-close-and-personal, from a front-row photographer and the art critic for the Village Voice since 1984, C. Carr. Bound in bright-red cloth, blind-stamped title to cover and to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Unpaginated, but roughly 80 pp. of high-gloss photography, paying due homage to the performance art of Ron Brown, Francis Becker, Meredith Monk, Mimi Goese and many others. From the publisher's blurb, "An exhilarating look at multimedia performance with front-row-center photographs . . . Covering performance art since its nascence at the East Village's Pyramid Club, the WOW Cafe, 8BC, and other clubs in the early eighties McAdams became the in-house photo archivist at the infamous performance space, P.S. 122. . . . [This book] celebrates the spirit that links all these artists across their different disciplines and aesthetics.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 345843

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: Performance art|performance artists|C. Carr |photography|Dona Ann McAdams

Adams, Ansel and Nancy Newhall

Yosemite Valley

San Francisco, California, 5 Associates , 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Still good-looking, structurally sound copy in First Edition of a photographic celebration of the Yosemite Valley in the vibrant black-and-whites of the master photographer Ansel Adams. Moderately crimped at upper spine, else clean and unmarked of interior. Unpaginated, but roughly 64 pp. of text and 45 photographs. Foreword by Nancy Newhall, list of all 45 plates. Housed in a stiff plastic sleeve.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 352549

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: Ansel Adams photography California Nancy Newhall Yosemite Valley

Ashton, Rod

Erotique: Masterpieces of Erotic Photography

London, Carlton, 1999. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of the stated first reprint edition, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. 224 pp. of exquisite black-and-white and eventually fine full-color, full-page erotic photographs. Augmented with an index of photographers responsible for the more than 200 erotic photographs from some of the world's most influential photographers some of which are almost transcendent.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 353571

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: Rod Ashton erotica photography Kiki Alice Prin Man Ray photographers erotic photographers

J. Abbott Miller; Patsy Tarr; Nancy Dalva; K.C. Bailey

Dance Ink: Photographs

New York, Chronicle Books, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine and visually bracing collection of photographs of dancers, choreographers, and performance artists taken by leading photographers including Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Trisha Brown, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris, and Elizabeth Streb, among others. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers, in gate-fold. Unpaginated, but roughly 120 pp. printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Like New

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Book number: 348862

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: dance|ballet|performance art|photography|Merce Cunningham|Paul Taylor|Trisha Brown|Twyla Tharp|Mark Morris|Elizabeth Streb

Ballard, Tara

House of the Night Watch

Moorhead, Minnesota, New Rivers Press, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Currently scare, being the only signed copy available on-line. SIGNED by the author at title page, and also inscribed warmly to a friend and fan of this award-winning poet. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. 63 pp. plus notes, acknowledgments and a list of other New Rivers Press titles.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . As New

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Book number: 353336

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: poetry signed poets poems Tara Ballard

Baum, Timothy

Man Ray's Paris Portraits: 1921-39

Washington, D.C., Middendorf Gallery, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Glossy pictorial stiff card wraps measuring 8 1/2" x 11", and stuffed with 74 black-and-white plates, all lovely portraits, and highlighted by the iconic image at front cover. From the Publisher's blurb, "By the end of 1921, Man had become an integral member of the Paris Dada group. He was the only American to fit snugly into its mischievous midst, and nimbly did he become one of its most enterprising participants. Within a few months of his arrival, a one man show of his work was mounted at the Librairie Six gallery-bookshop, owned by a brother Dadaist, Philippe Soupault, and his wife Mick. The exhibition evoked great enthusiasm within the Dada ranks, but not a single work was sold."Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Book number: 352499

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: Timothy Baum Man Ray photographers photography

Michael Baumgarten, ed.

Ansichten Von Alexandra S.

Frankfurt am Main, Fotomuseum, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy illustrated wraps. German-language text throughout, and replete with black-and-white portraits of Alexandra S. by noted German photographers such as Karin Szekessy, Thomas Rusch, Walter ScheelsAlbert Schopflin, Jan Michael, Jim Rakete, Christian Vogt, Thomas Karsten, Werner Pawlok, Steven Delcourt, Peter Knapp, Lilian Birnbaum, Floris Neususs, Peter Maltz, Jean-loup Sieff, Gottfried Helnwien and others. 94 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 352558

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: Alexandra S. erotica photography

Bavastro, Romano, Rosaria Bertolucci, Vittorio Prayer

Luci Di Marmo

Pisa, Italy, Pacini Editore, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in black cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Just a touch of smudging to bottom fore-tip, else gift-quality condition inside and out. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. [6], 7-198 pp. and then a long range of plates in a gorgeous black-and-white depicting the social history and logistics of extracting marble from mountain quarries. A magnificent book about the marble industry in Carrara, Italy mostly in the 19th century and as photographed by the master photographer, Ilario Bessi.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 347025

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: Ilario Bessi|Italian language|Romano Bavastro|Rosaria Bertolucci|Vittorio Prayer|architecture

Newhall, Beaumont and Diana E. Edkins, eds.

William H. Jackson

Fort Worth, Texas, Morgan and Morgan / Amon Carter Museum, , 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. With a critical essay by William L. Broecker, this homage to the work of William H. Jackson (1843-1942!) covers the first century of photography almost organically. Bound handsomely in cloth covers, and with some scuffing along edges and spine head and foot, else tightly bound and virtually pristine of interior. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond sunning to edges, protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped.Complete with a List of Photographs, Preface, Introduction, a long presentation of the photographs of William H. Jackson, Chronology and full Bibliography. 158 pp. and over 100 of Jackson's finest photographs in black-and-white and duotone.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 347918

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: Beaumont Newhall|Diana E. Edkins|William H. Jackson|photography