Search Results: PHOTOGRAPHY - Individual Photographer Books

NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992. Paperback. VERY GOOD. 8 page handout from Whitney Museum of American Art Exhibit 13 March - 17 May, 1992. 10 of Strand's photos as illustrations.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. 7.5 x 9.5 inches; 168 p. Illustrated with Color and Black & White photographs. Book is in very good condition with edge wear and bumping. There is a red remainder line (1.5 inches) on upper page block. Pages clean and bright. The dust jacket is fair with considerable edge wear, especially at the corners and the spine.

Novata, California, U.S.A.: New World Library, 2001. First Printing. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. 139pgs, ill, very nice copy

Good Condition

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2014 1st ed. 328pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good [text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A humorous memoir by a former L.A. paparazza.

New York: HarperResource, 2000. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Book and jacket are fine with slight edge wear.

New York: Aperture, 1990. 240 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Blank flyleaf removed. Age toning. "Norman draws upon her own close association with Stieglitz (1864-1946) and upon his own words (many of which she herself recorded) to present a warm portrait of the great photographer who was a focal figure of the modern art movement in America. Includes many of the master's photographs." - Publisher.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. liv, 471 pages, [61] pages of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps. Another copy available. Depression-era classic on sharecroppers, with stunning photographs by Walker Evans. Born in Tennessee, James Agee (1909-1955) spent the summer of 1936 with photographer Walker Evans among the sharecroppers of Alabama, which resulted in the famous collaborative book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote poetry, screenwriting, and film criticism.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008. Pictorial boards, 1 vol. (unpaged), all illustrations (some colour); 16 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Fine DJ. Please note: Small-format version. "Four years in the making, Anne Geddes' Pure offers breathtaking images that intimately evoke the wonder of the first precious days and weeks of life. With eyes tightly shut, in wrinkly new skin, and unaffected by the world around them, newborns are captured in their purest form as Geddes' explains, 'to emphasize the fact that they are vulnerable, fragile, and very precious human beings.'" - Publisher.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 16mo.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Mariner Books, 2013. 370 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning. Another copy available. "Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan, it took tremendous perseverance--six years alone to convince the Hopi to allow him into their Snake Dance ceremony. The undertaking… Read More

London: Phoenix Press, 2002. xxix, 656 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Good+. Firm binding, with one slight spine crease. Clean inside copy. Browning. First paperback edition. "Hugo Vickers became Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer at Beaton's own request, and was given access to voluminous unpublished material. Here he explores the contradictions of a man addicted to fame, yet riddled with self-doubt." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989. 376 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Corner crease/back cover. Another copy available. CONTENTS: The background and the early reviews; The woman in the photographs; Georgia O'Keeffe, American; A period of adjustment; Matters of fact and matters of opinion; Across the final surface; Conclusion; O'Keeffe and her work: selected commentary, 1916-1929; Contributors to the criticism.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992. x, 546 pages, [40] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Good+. Firm binding, with one slight spine crease. Clean inside copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. Another copy available. "Almost 24 years his junior, Georgia O'Keeffe became for Alfred Stieglitz a near icon of American art--as well as his wife. In a marvelous, multileveled biography, Benita Eisler traces the epic and stormy relationship of these incomparable artists, from their consuming ambition to their sexual experimentation." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Vendome Press, 1985. 128 pages, portraits; 25 cm. With period photographs by Paul Nadar. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. "Grouped together after the part-title 'Swann's Way' are the portraits of the family members, diplomats, doctors, school friends, salonistes, and servants who made up the Right Bank bourgeois milieu into which Proust was born. Part-title 'The Guermantes Way' includes the aristocratic, Faubourg Saint-Germain world to which Proust aspired. With part-title 'The Artists' and Writers' Way' come the Bergotte of Anatole France and actresses with whom he became romatically involved. The closing section is the self-portrait of Paul Nadar, son fo Felix Nadar, the legendary avant-gardist in whose studio the Impressionists had held their first exhibition." - Publisher.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. 143 pages, illustrations; 20 cm. In Focus Series. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly sunned. Another copy available. "The career of the American photographer Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) spanned more than fifty years. It is his giant photographs of Yosemite, from the "best general view," that most effectively articulate his artistic vision. The J. Paul Getty Museum holds more than fourteen hundred pictures by Watkins, making him the best-represented nineteenth-century photographer in the collection. In Focus: Carleton Watkins features approximately fifty of these works, including mammoth plates, stereographs, albumen prints, and cabinet and boudoir cards. The plates are accompanied by commentaries written by Peter E. Palmquist, an independent scholar of the history of photography. Mr. Palmquist, along with David Featherstone, Tom Fels, Weston Naef, David Robertson, and Amy Rule, were participants in a 1996 colloquium on Watkins… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co./New York Graphic Society, 1986. First edition. hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Introductory essay by John Szarkowski, and Adams Chronology by James Alinder. Sm 4to. Black cloth with silver spine titles. 111 pages, with 70 duotone illustrations. Dust-jacket is worn at corners.

NY: ABBEVILLE PRESS. CLOSED TEAR TO DJ. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1999.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. x, 339 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Another copy available. Ansel Adams (1902-1984), the Californian photographer famous for his black-and-white photographs of Yosemite and the Western landscape, was an official photographer for the Sierra Club and a co-founder (with Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham) of f/64, a group of photographers who advocated purist "straight" photography from life, producing flawless prints with little or no manipulation in the darkroom. He opened the Ansel Adams Gallery in San Francisco in 1933, became a famous teacher, and published several books on the technical aspects of photography.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989. 376 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small corner crease/back cover. CONTENTS: The background and the early reviews; The woman in the photographs; Georgia O'Keeffe, American; A period of adjustment; Matters of fact and matters of opinion; Across the final surface; Conclusion; O'Keeffe and her work: selected commentary, 1916-1929; Contributors to the criticism.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2001. 1 volume (unpaged), illustrations, portraits; 16 cm. Tight, clean copy. Sunned spine.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo.