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New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. 80 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Body art/tattooing. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Durfee, Dale (Photography by). 8vo.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. xii, 494 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean text. Top edge lightly soiled. First paperback edition. "Women' s Camera Work explores the way in which photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. In the process, Judith Fryer Davidov focuses on the lives and work of a particular network of artists linked by time, interaction, influence, and friendship -- one that included Gertrude Kasebier, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Laura Gilpin.Women's Camera Work ranges from American women's photographic practices during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to a study of landscape photography. Using contemporary cultural studies discourse to critique influential male-centered historiography and the male-dominated art world, Davidov exhibits the work of these women; tells their absorbing stories; and discusses… Read More

New York: Bulfinch Press, 2008. 159 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge, near spine. Stated First Edition: April 2008. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "Joyce Tenneson is one of the leading photographers of her generation. Her work is published regularly in magazines worldwide, including Time, LIFE, Esquire, Newsweek, and The New York Times Magazine. She is the author of ten books, including the bestselling Wise Women. Through her workshops and lectures, Tenneson has made a tremendous impact on thousands of professional and amateur photographers. This is the first retrospective overview of Tenneson's thirty years in photography, showcasing her best work from the series Flower Portraits, Light Warriors, Illuminations, Wise Women, Amazing Men, and Intimacy, as well as unknown early photographs, self-portraits, and writings.… Read More

New York: Aperture, 1989. 76 pages, illustrations. (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Armed only with a camera: An interview with Dmitri Baltermants; No more heroic tractors: Subverting the legacy of Socialist realism, by Rosalinde Sartori; Boris Savelev's "photocartochi"; Many nations, many voices, by Daniela Mrazkova; Lyalya Kuznetsova's scenes of gypsy life, by Inge Morath; The perestroika of memory, by Olga Andreyev Carlisle; The nude unbound; Dark light, by Peeter Linnap; Up from Underground, by Hannu Eerikainen; People & ideas. Soviet filmmakers: an interview with Leonid Gurevich, Hertz Frank, Sergei Muratov, and Nadezhda Khvorova, by Nan Richardson; Stopping time: Vanishing Presence, at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, by Reviewed by Nancy Roth; Between two worlds: Photems: Gerlovina/Berghash/Gerlovin, at the Art Institute of Chicago, by Reviewed by James Yood;… Read More

Hove: Rotovision, 2000. 160 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 27 cm. Pro-lighting Series. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Cover subtitle: a guide to professional lighting techniques.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1974. 338 pages, all illustrations; 29 x 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Marseile: Musees de Marseile, 1989. 63 pages, illustrations; 34 cm. Text in French/Texte en francais. Exhibition held at the Centre de la Vieille Charite, Marseille, 30 June to 3 September, 1989. BON+ ETAT. Good+. Firm binding, clean text. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, with some wear to the spine. Previous owner's ink stamp/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Good. Folio.

Unabridged.
136 p.

Playboy Enterprises, December 2006, Vol. 53, No.12. 210pp. illus. perfect-bound magazine format small 4to: near Very Good [top right corners are curled; else nrVG] Cindy Margolis cover.

Playboy Enterprises, April 2006, Vol. 53, No. 4. 156pp. illus. perfect-bound magazine format small 4to: near Very Good [some creases on back cover; last several pp. are slightly creased; small notched tear @ top edge of back cover; else nVG] Candice Michelle cover.

Garden City, NY: American Photographic Book Publishing; Watson-Guptill Publications, 1979. Cloth, [112] pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Sensuous nudes. Erotic art.. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1981. 109 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, with rubbing & wear to extremities. Age toning.. Paperback. Good. 4to.

Zurich, Switzerland: Graphische Sammlung Albertina, 1995. 224 pages, illustrations (some colour); 35 cm. Text in English, French and German. Publisher and creative director, B. Martin Pedersen; editors, Annette Crandall, Heinke Jenssen, Michael O'Connor; art directors, B. Martin Pedersen, Randell Pearson. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Paperback. Fine. Folio.

New York: Random House; Ridge Press, 1971. Cloth, 1 volume (unpaged), chiefly illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Previous owner's bookplate/paste-down endpaper (inside front cover). One corner bumped, age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Erotica.. 5th. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art; Rizzoli, 1999. 120 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. An exhibition organized by Marcia Tucker with Anne Ellegood, on the theme of aging/growing old. Paintings, sculpture, photography, performance documentation, video & film, with interesting works by Marina Abramovicz, Nancy Burson, Rachel Lachowicz, Suzanne Lacy, Yvonne Rainer and Cindy Sherman. Subthemes include aging in art, anti-ageism, feminism. Includes some jarring photographs of nude elderly models by Jacqueline Hayden, Harriet Casdin-Silver, Jeff Wall, and Manabu Yamanaka. "This catalogue critically addresses the ways in which aging has traditionally been portrayed as a narrative of decline in Western society. By focusing on visual representations that subvert the prevailing ideologies of age and ageism, The Time of Our Lives looks at these issues from varied perspectives and offers creative alternatives to the… Read More

Cologne: Taschen, 1997. 95 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Subtitle on wraps: Erotic Photos of the Twenties. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Subtitle on cover: Erotic photography of the twenties. "Photographic material used in this volume stems from Uwe Scheid Collection, U berhernn"--Title page verso. Includes quotations from Wili Warstat's The beauty of the nude (1929), Erotic photography (1931), Illustrated cyclopaedia of art history (Germany, 1928), Eduard Fuch's Illustrated history of customs and manners (1912), and Carl Heinrich Stratz's The beauty of the female anatomy (1898-1922). Aspectual history of photography: p. 94-95.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Grange Books, 1992. Pictorial boards, 176 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

New York: Random House, 1995. xvi, 461 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light dust spotting/edges. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear/slight crease on front cover, protected in a mylar book cover. Another copy available. "With Robert Mapplethorpe's full endorsement and encouragement, Morrisroe interviewed more than 300 friends, lovers, family members and critics to form this definitive biography of America's most censored and celebrated photographer. 32 pages of photos." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 1998. 207 pages, chiefly illustrations; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Random House, 1995. xvi, 461 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. Another copy available. "With Robert Mapplethorpe's full endorsement and encouragement, Morrisroe interviewed more than 300 friends, lovers, family members and critics to form this definitive biography of America's most censored and celebrated photographer. 32 pages of photos." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.