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Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A monograph reproducing black-and-white photographs, many of explicit male nudes. About 200 pages (not paginated). 9-1/2 by 11 inches. First edition (first printing). This would be a fine copy in a fine dust jacket except it seems to have been dropped, denting the lower outside… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Rogovin, a photographer born in 1909, took portrait photographs in the multi-ethnic lower west side of Buffalo, New York, in 1973. He returned again in the mid-1980s and in 1992 and photographed the same subjects. The three images, showing children growing into adulthood and parents becoming… Read more about this item

Manila, Philippines: Centro Artístico Fotográfico, [late 19th century]. Very good. This is a cabinet card portrait of eight US army soldiers probably taken about the turn of the 20th century during the Spanish American war (the US occupied Manila in 1898). The well-composed albumen print is on a card mount with the Centro Artístico Fotográfico logo and "Manila"… Read more about this item

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. This book reproduces 148 tintype portraits by Kendrick of modern cowboys who look like they walked off the range 150 years ago. Essay by Marianne Wiggins. Afterword by photographer Jay Dusard. Published as volume 22 of the M. K. Brown Range Life series. 232… Read more about this item

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Photographia do Commercio, 1890. A group of six carte-de-visite format albumen prints, likely dating from the 1890s. The subjects are all Afro-Brazilians posed standing with their right arm resting on a piece of furniture (a table, a chair, a pedestal). Five of the six images have printed backs identifying them as originating from Photographia do… Read more about this item

Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 2000. Later printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Includes a poem by W.S. Merwin and 64 four color plates. Third printing. Cover label irregularly faded, else a fine copy (not issued in a dust jacket). Signed by Robert ParkeHarrison and Shana ParkeHarrison on the title page. Scarce signed.

Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. One of 4000 copies of the first monograph devoted to Witkin's photomontages. Reproduces 44 images in duotone. 12 by 12 inches. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a dust jacket with a few edge tears and some light shelfwear; one old tape repair… Read more about this item

Santa Fe, NM: Channel Photographics, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black and white images of Angkor Wat. 12-1/4 by 9-3/4 inches (oblong). First edition (stated). A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Izu on the half-title page.

Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Wth 100 black-and-white plates, reproducing Izo's large-format images of (mostly) stone religious buildings. 12-3/8 by 10-5/8 inches. First edition. A fine copy in a jacket that would be fine but for the typical fading at the spine.

Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A monograph of Caffery's work, printed in luxurious tritone. One of 3000 copies. About 80 pages. 10-1/8 by 12-1/8 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Caffery on the colophon.

New York: Random House / Eastman Kodak, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from March 24 to June 26, 1994. Essays by Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik with reproductions by Avedon's photographs. With more than 600 photographs taken over 50 years, including many reproductions… Read more about this item

(Boston): (A New York Graphic Society Book/ Little, Brown and Company), 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Seventy-three images reproduced in duotone. Foreword By R. B. Kitaj. 11 by 10-3/16 inches. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Friedlander on the half-title page.

Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A monograph of images taken near Niagara Falls, a follow up to his book Sleeping by the Mississippi. With essays by Philip Brookman and Richard Ford. 11 by 12-3/4 inches. 104 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in leatherette boards (not issued in a jacket). Signed by… Read more about this item

Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 2000 copies of this monograph pairing color photographic portraits of phone sex operators with short autobiographical statements from the subjects. 9-1/4 by 11-3/4 inches. First edition (first printing). Fine in pictorial boards (no jacket, as issued). Signed by the photographer on the half-title page. Uncommon… Read more about this item

New York: Aperture, 2000. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A major survey of the work of one of the great 20th century photographers, published in conjunction with a traveling exhibit. 431 pages. 10 by 13-1/8 inches. 31-page booklet of English-language captions in a pocket at the back. First English-language edition (stated). A fine copy in… Read more about this item

Bellingham, WA: True North Editions, 2021. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. A monograph devoted to Owens' photographs of cars, mostly black and white, but with a handful of color images. Owens is perhaps best known for his photobook Suburbia. This second edition followed a limited edition of 100 copies published in 2015. 141 pages. 8-3/4 by… Read more about this item

(New York): HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Portraits and other images by the important twentieth century photographer. Color and black-and-white photo reproductions of her iconic portraits of Andy Warhol, The Rolling Stones, Bette Midler, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Miles Davis, Jodie Foster, Grace Slick and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane, and many others. Leibovitz's… Read more about this item

Göttingen: Steidl, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. The photographer's first monograph, a collection of color images taken near the Mississippi River. Essays by Patricia Hampl and Anne Wilkes Tucker. Short afterword by the photographer. 11-1/2 by 11 inches. First edition (first printing, with yellow cover). Bottom of spine somewhat bumped, else a fine copy. No dust… Read more about this item

Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Black and white gravure photographs of youth culture in Brooklyn in the late 1950's. One of four thousand casebound copies. 100 pages. 10 by 11-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing stated). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Bottom edge dented; there… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A monograph of reproductions of color images. 176 pages. 11-3/8 by 10-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Eggleston on the title page.