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Laura Roscam Abbing
Colour in the Home, Autochromes by Jacob Olie Jr.
2013
Book hardbound
10-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. (267 x 216 mm)
Published by Rijks Museum, Amsterdam, 2013. Vol. 13 - 2013 in Rijks Museum Studies in Photography.
Price: $25 (ref. 14210)
Colour in the Home, Autochromes by Jacob Olie Jr.
2013
Book hardbound
10-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. (267 x 216 mm)
Published by Rijks Museum, Amsterdam, 2013. Vol. 13 - 2013 in Rijks Museum Studies in Photography.
Price: $25 (ref. 14210)
Kenneth Anger
Hollywood Babylon
1975
Book hardbound
10-3/8 x 7-1/2 in. (264 x 191 mm)
Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco, CA, 1975. Fine in Near Fine DJ. First Hardback, 294 pp. Kenneth Anger's legendary Hollywood Babylon was first published in France (as many other controversial American novels) by Jean-Jacques Pauvert in 1959. Running away from the States, Anger arrived in Paris in the late '50s, where he quickly met Jean Cocteau who introduced him to every one. Anger started a movie based on the famous sado-masochistic novel "Histoire d'O" which stopped after only six days shooting. Nevertheless, he had met his publisher, Jean-Jacques Pauvert. Hollywood Babylon has been a great influence to a lot of people, including numerous French writers.
Price: $75 (ref. 9169)
Hollywood Babylon
1975
Book hardbound
10-3/8 x 7-1/2 in. (264 x 191 mm)
Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco, CA, 1975. Fine in Near Fine DJ. First Hardback, 294 pp. Kenneth Anger's legendary Hollywood Babylon was first published in France (as many other controversial American novels) by Jean-Jacques Pauvert in 1959. Running away from the States, Anger arrived in Paris in the late '50s, where he quickly met Jean Cocteau who introduced him to every one. Anger started a movie based on the famous sado-masochistic novel "Histoire d'O" which stopped after only six days shooting. Nevertheless, he had met his publisher, Jean-Jacques Pauvert. Hollywood Babylon has been a great influence to a lot of people, including numerous French writers.
Price: $75 (ref. 9169)
Richard Avedon
Portraits
1976
Book (Signed Copy) hardbound
12 x 9 in. (305 x 229 mm)
[Publisher: New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux] 1976, 1st Edition Hardcover Fine First edition, first printing. Hardcover. White cloth-covered boards with title stamped in gray on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Richard Avedon. Essay by Harold Rosenberg. Designed by Elizabeth Paul. Unpaginated (140 pp., plus three two-page and two three-page gatefolds), with 57 black and white plates printed by Sidney Rapaport. 12 x 9 inches. Out of print. Scarce. CONDITION: Fine in Fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250 (ref. 12452)
Portraits
1976
Book (Signed Copy) hardbound
12 x 9 in. (305 x 229 mm)
[Publisher: New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux] 1976, 1st Edition Hardcover Fine First edition, first printing. Hardcover. White cloth-covered boards with title stamped in gray on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Richard Avedon. Essay by Harold Rosenberg. Designed by Elizabeth Paul. Unpaginated (140 pp., plus three two-page and two three-page gatefolds), with 57 black and white plates printed by Sidney Rapaport. 12 x 9 inches. Out of print. Scarce. CONDITION: Fine in Fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250 (ref. 12452)
Ruth Bernhard
The Eternal Body (Signed Copy)
1986
Book hardbound
0 x 0 in. (0 x 0 mm)
Published by Photography West Graphics, Carmel, CA , 1986. First edition. Large oblong quarto. Hardcover. A beautifully printed collection of some of Bernhard's most iconic black and white nudes. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket and with a miniscule bit of wear. With usual fading to spine and overall cover. Signed by Bernhard on the title page. The 50 plates are arranged chronologically and span the years from 1934 to 1976 (list of plates at rear of book). Includes two essays by Margaretta K. Mitchell, one on photographing the nude and the other a brief biography of Bernhard. In this condition and signed, this is a very rare book.
Price: $450 (ref. 13703)
The Eternal Body (Signed Copy)
1986
Book hardbound
0 x 0 in. (0 x 0 mm)
Published by Photography West Graphics, Carmel, CA , 1986. First edition. Large oblong quarto. Hardcover. A beautifully printed collection of some of Bernhard's most iconic black and white nudes. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket and with a miniscule bit of wear. With usual fading to spine and overall cover. Signed by Bernhard on the title page. The 50 plates are arranged chronologically and span the years from 1934 to 1976 (list of plates at rear of book). Includes two essays by Margaretta K. Mitchell, one on photographing the nude and the other a brief biography of Bernhard. In this condition and signed, this is a very rare book.
Price: $450 (ref. 13703)
Ruth Bernhard
The Eternal Body: A Collection of Fifty Nudes (Signed Copy)
1986
Book hardbound
0 x 0 in. (0 x 0 mm)
Photography West Graphics, Carmel, CA, 1986. Large oblong quarto. Decorated pink cloth. Mint in fine dust jacket, which has sunning (as is typical with this book; the inks faded quickly to the light green) on spine just into front cover and two light rubs, but is otherwise perfect. Warmly and boldly signed. A retrospective collection of Bernhard's work, an erotic photography classic and a magnificently produced and very beautiful book. In her introduction, Bernhard states: "In photographing the nude, it is my aim to transform the complexities of the figure into harmonies of simplified form. I have approached my work with the nude much as I create a still life, with patience and reverence. My quest through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity." The 50 plates are arranged chronologically and span the years from 1934 to 1976 (list of plates at rear of book). Includes two essays by Margaretta K. Mitchell, one on photographing the nude and the other a brief biography of Bernhard. In this condition and signed, this is a very rare book.
Price: $650 (ref. 9142)
The Eternal Body: A Collection of Fifty Nudes (Signed Copy)
1986
Book hardbound
0 x 0 in. (0 x 0 mm)
Photography West Graphics, Carmel, CA, 1986. Large oblong quarto. Decorated pink cloth. Mint in fine dust jacket, which has sunning (as is typical with this book; the inks faded quickly to the light green) on spine just into front cover and two light rubs, but is otherwise perfect. Warmly and boldly signed. A retrospective collection of Bernhard's work, an erotic photography classic and a magnificently produced and very beautiful book. In her introduction, Bernhard states: "In photographing the nude, it is my aim to transform the complexities of the figure into harmonies of simplified form. I have approached my work with the nude much as I create a still life, with patience and reverence. My quest through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity." The 50 plates are arranged chronologically and span the years from 1934 to 1976 (list of plates at rear of book). Includes two essays by Margaretta K. Mitchell, one on photographing the nude and the other a brief biography of Bernhard. In this condition and signed, this is a very rare book.
Price: $650 (ref. 9142)
Vladimir Birgus
Vladimir Birgus--Photographs 1981-2004
2004
Book (Signed Copy) hardbound
8 x 9-1/16 in. (203 x 230 mm)
Prague, Kant 2004. First Edition Soft Cover ISBN No. 80-86217-78-7. Newly released in English. Multilingual text Czech/English/French. Unpaginated, 39 full page color plates. Matt Damsker writes in his review of this book: "Birgus's rigor and vision in co-curating that wonderful survey of Czech photography extends to his own work as well, and this 20-year chronicle of his artistry is filled with striking, consistently edgy photos. As Elzbieta Lubowicz notes in her introduction, Birgus uses large areas of dominant color--often primaries, and often red or yellow--to create an "unrealistic atmosphere [that reminds] us of abstract paintings more than of reality recordings." And yet his images are always in touch with the grit and texture of the modern, urban world. The human figures in his geometrically flattened landscapes of intersecting planes, shadows and sun-struck color are recognizably self-absorbed, often standing or walking in relation to one another, but without narrative or emotional connection. The result is a singular photographic strategy that celebrates random visual fact, the coloristic beauty of everything from industrial materials to blue sky, and the human form as a means of activating and offsetting the inanimate forms that press in on us. Across the beaches, tiles, boardwalks, landing strips, streets, and rooftops of cities from Moscow to Paris, Seattle to New York, Birgus makes haunting, expressive photographs that reward the eye with glancing detail, fragmented narrative and rich natural light. His tendency to capture his own shadow as he takes the picture may echo Lee Friedlander without Friedlander's wit, but in the course of 20 years, Birgus manages to not repeat himself or fall prey to preciousness. His art brings the taut, toughened Czech sensibility into a wider world of big sky, sea, and postmodern architecture--and the result is usually something we have not seen before." With label and signature.
Price: $75 (ref. 10274)
Vladimir Birgus--Photographs 1981-2004
2004
Book (Signed Copy) hardbound
8 x 9-1/16 in. (203 x 230 mm)
Prague, Kant 2004. First Edition Soft Cover ISBN No. 80-86217-78-7. Newly released in English. Multilingual text Czech/English/French. Unpaginated, 39 full page color plates. Matt Damsker writes in his review of this book: "Birgus's rigor and vision in co-curating that wonderful survey of Czech photography extends to his own work as well, and this 20-year chronicle of his artistry is filled with striking, consistently edgy photos. As Elzbieta Lubowicz notes in her introduction, Birgus uses large areas of dominant color--often primaries, and often red or yellow--to create an "unrealistic atmosphere [that reminds] us of abstract paintings more than of reality recordings." And yet his images are always in touch with the grit and texture of the modern, urban world. The human figures in his geometrically flattened landscapes of intersecting planes, shadows and sun-struck color are recognizably self-absorbed, often standing or walking in relation to one another, but without narrative or emotional connection. The result is a singular photographic strategy that celebrates random visual fact, the coloristic beauty of everything from industrial materials to blue sky, and the human form as a means of activating and offsetting the inanimate forms that press in on us. Across the beaches, tiles, boardwalks, landing strips, streets, and rooftops of cities from Moscow to Paris, Seattle to New York, Birgus makes haunting, expressive photographs that reward the eye with glancing detail, fragmented narrative and rich natural light. His tendency to capture his own shadow as he takes the picture may echo Lee Friedlander without Friedlander's wit, but in the course of 20 years, Birgus manages to not repeat himself or fall prey to preciousness. His art brings the taut, toughened Czech sensibility into a wider world of big sky, sea, and postmodern architecture--and the result is usually something we have not seen before." With label and signature.
Price: $75 (ref. 10274)