Search Results: PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographer from Books Northwest

175pp, first edition, first printing. Signed by author in black marker on ffep (see photos): "To Brenda and Jeff Bryer, My love to you, Ernest C. Withers." Printed in Japan on thick coated stock. Gorgeous photographs from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, taken primarily in Memphis. Withers photographed the clubs, dance halls, auditoriums, recording studios, churches and streets of Memphis, home to one of the most vibrant music scenes in America. Subjects include W.C. Handy, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, a young Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, James Brown, Charlie Pride, Rufus Thomas, Staples Singers, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Ike and Tina Turner, Isaac Hayes and many more. Incomparable collection of photographic images, beautifully presented. Out of print and rare signed copy. Barely noticeable curling at top of dust jacket necessitates dj rating of Near Fine.

148pp, 11"x11" glossy black cover w/color photos and white lettering, color photos on dust jacket. Fine/fine. Purchased directly from 2.13.61 Publications in 1994 and includes publication catalog, promo card for Henry Rollins' book Get In The Van and original sales receipt. A pristine first printing/first edition of this classic and out-of-print book about the skateboard/punk music scene of the 70s to early '90s. "Fuck You Heroes is photographer Glen E. Friedman's uncompromising look at the radicals of youth culture in the extreme worlds of skateboarding, punk and rap. From day one behind his camera, Friedman has had an unerring ability to be in the right place ahead of everybody else. He was a teenaged photographer for 'Thrasher' and 'Skateboarder' magazines, he created the seminal one-hit punk fanzine 'My Rules', worked with Black Flag and Suicidal Tendencies in their early days, wrote for Maximum Rock & Roll, did street promotion for Def Jam's west coast office and shot sleeve photos… Read More

112pp, Fine/fine. Grey cloth with black and red lettering on cover, black lettering on spine, grey endpapers, glossy thick stock, many photographs. Printed in Germany. Gorgeous, heartbreaking images of a Harlem family. Includes a photo essay published in Life magazine in March 1968. Rare, out-of-print. Parks was a film director best known for "Shaft" and "Shaft's Big Score" and was a well-known photographer. Domestic shipping only.

New York City: The John Day Company. 1st printing. As New/fine. 218pp, black cloth w/gilt lettering on spine, photograph on dj Signed by George Hurrell as "Hurrell '77" and inscribed by author Whitney Stine "For Dietrich and Edward With our best regards --always, Whitney Stine" Text w/black and white photographs. Beautiful book of Hurrell's career as the top Hollywood photographer of his time, explaining his technique and including stories of many portrait sittings Signed on ffep by Hurrell and author of the text, Rare enough without signatures, very rare as first printing with both signatures

New York: Little, Brown & Co (New York Graphic Society). first printing. Fine/fine. 75pp, grey cloth with gilt stamped lettering on cover and spine, 140 color, 22 duotone photographs on glossy stock, color photo on dj cover, slightly crimped corner on upper right of back cover and repaired 1/2"  tear on  upper right of back dj, otherwise as new in unclipped dj with mylar cover, includes postcard from 1992 photo exhibit in Santa Fe, with photo of Eliot and wife</p>

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Press, 1973. First printing. Paperback. Fine +. Unpaginated, pictorial wraps, black and white photos and text on glossy stock, 10x10 inches, Near pristine first printing of this classic photo book of suburbia, fascinating portraits and commentary. No marks or creases, near new.

184pp. frayed cover corners, small horizontal crack in spine paper showing white on black background, otherwise tight, clean and unmarked throughout. 183 full page 5" x7.25" black and white photographs of Los Angeles humanity, capturing the amazing variety of people and settings in Los Angeles. Edgy, singular work reminiscent of Garry Winogrand.

200pp, black endpapers, red ribbon marker. small mark on back cover makes rating Near Fine but otherwise clean and unmarked (see photos). Printed in Germany, thick coated stock, beautiful photos in black and white and color, introduction by Agnes Sire, Sam Stourdze. Eggleston was instrumental in presenting color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. Published in conjunction with his photo exhibit of the same name.