Search Results: Photography from Division Leap, ABAA

Berkeley: Ecology Action Educational Institute, 1969. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Profusely illustrated. The debut issue, and only issue published under this title of the early ecological journal, which would soon rename itself as Ecology Action and cease shortly thereafter with Vol. 2, No. 2. Stephen Kimmel was the art director, and rthe journal is well-designed and illustrated, with some super photography from Jerry Takigawa, Charles Carter,Jr., and Chris Knowles. It includes poems by Mimi Akers and d. mondenshein, Three essays by Eugene Anderson entitled Notes from the Bio-Sphere, illustrated with photographs, an essay on Pelicans and their struggles with pesticides by Mimi Akers, An Open Letter to Gulf Oil by E. N. Anderson, Catherine Shaw, Clifford C. Humphrey, Otis Dudley Duncan, et al. A couple faint traces of soiling to wraps else fine. OCLC locates only a single holding under this title, and scattered holdings of Ecology Action.

Joinville le Pont: Société B.G.B., 1979. First edition. 8vo,saddle-stapled wraps. Photographically illustrated artists' book featuring a series of four captioned photographs, each separated by a sheet of glassine. The artist's second book. Very good with a light bump to lower tip and some moderate toning.

Neuilly-sur-Seine: Le Phare de Neuilly, 1933. First edition. 8vo, photographically illustrated wraps by Man Ray. Profusely illustrated. The debut issue (of four numbers published, the last a double number) of one of the most beautiful and unusual of all Surrealist periodicals. This is the second state, with the Daumal contribution replaced with "Miss Hazel" by Petrus-Borel. With contributions from Lêon-Paul Fargue, Jacques Baron, Robert Desnos, André de Richaud, Jules Supervielle, René Laforgue, Georgette Camille, Jean Painlevé, Céline Arnaud, Nicole Cazanave, Roger Vitrac, Jean Follain, Alejo Carpentier, and G. Ribemont-Dessaignes. It also includes photographs within by Man Ray, Nadal, and Lee Miller. Wraps rather creased and rubbed, with some tears along the spine, and soiling and some very faint waviness to back cover, a good only example but complete and sound.

Paris: Venti-3, 2004. First edition. Square 12mo, 48 pp, bound in photographically illustrated, flexible boards. Translated into English by Susy Firth. The first English language edition of the work first published in French the year prior. The red earth variant. A superb essay on the origins of photography, published in the same format as many of the other curious and beautiful publications by the French bookseller. Fine.

[Australia]: [SPK], nd. 8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin print. Photograph used as the basis for the industrial project's infamous Dokument 2 zine. Some minor foxing and staining, some age oxidation to image at lower margin. Very good.

np, nd. Approximately 2 1/2 x 2 1/2", roughly trimmed. Worn, with indentings, creasing, and a cellotape remnant to upper margin.

Ithaca, NY: Eagles Cornell University Art Place, c. late 19th century. Silver gelatin print, mounted on a cabinet card with bevelled edges, 4 1/4 x 6 1/2", verso printed with a reproduction f a view of Cornell University. A cabinet card featuring two young women, likely Cornell University Graduates, reading a book held between them. The typography on the card and the view on the back are very reminiscent of the studio of the famous Cornell photographer E.D. Evans. Some oxidization to image, with a couple faint stress creases, and a stain to lower margin of card not affecting image. The verso shows some light staining. Otherwise very good.

np, nd. 5 x 7" vintage silver print, without attribution or stamp to verso. A photograph featuring an intense looking youth in jeans and jacket smoking in front of graffiti on a wall which reads, "Serve the people." A superb image. Photographer unknown. Some minor soiling and creasing, with a faint wash of some residue visible, else very good.