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London: The Pictorial Group of the Royal Photographic Society, 1947. Book. Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth with titles in gilt on front cover. Condition: Good, with light sunning to top left corner of front cover, and a couple of small faint marks to bottom of front cover. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 23pp. plus 48 b/w plates. Alexander Keighley was a founder member of the Linked Ring, a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society from 1911, and driving force behind the formation of the Yorkshire Photographic Union. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Quartet Books, 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Black hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear. Unpaginated. 120 b/w photographic illustrations. This book was the first retrospective of the Welsh photographer, Angus McBean (1904-1990), who revolutionised portraiture in the 1930s, and left his mark on British theatre as well as the Surrealist movement..

London: Museum Press Ltd., 1957. Book. Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Red buckram with title in silver on front cover and spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Light foxing to endpapers. Small newspaper clipping relating to Annigoni pasted onto front endpaper. Binding sound. Dustjacket condition: Poor, generally shelfworn with some tears and missing chunks (see image). Loosely inserted with the book is a handwritten and signed postcard dated 1964 sent from Annigoni in Florence to the previous owner of the book, an art gallery owner named Olaf Barnett based in London. This book records the journey through Spain taken by Peitro Annigoni (1910-1988) and the photographer Alex Stirling where each recorded in his own particular medium the landscapes and the people..

Gillingham, Dorset: Flung Publishing, 2011. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Black hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. No inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with just a hint of shelfwear. 136pp. This book consists of 65 distinctive black & white and colour images taken by the photographer Charlie Waite (b.1949) of landscapes around the world, including the British Isles..

Gillingham, Dorset: Flung Publishing, 2019. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed By Photographer. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Black hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear. Inscribed to the previous owner by Charlie Waite on the front endpaper. 136pp. Many colour photographic illustrations. This book contains a collection of the favourite photographs of the British landscape photographer Charlie Waite (b.1949). Each full page image is accompanied by a description of the location and Waite's reminiscences of capturing the shot. Locations from Britain, Europe and further afield are included..

New York: Abrams, 2008. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Blue hardcover with title in white on spine. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very goo, with light shelfwear. Gregory Crewdson (b.1962) is best known for his elaborately choreographed, large-scale photographs. The images in the "Beneath the Roses" series illustrated in this book take place in the homes, streets, and forest of unnamed small towns and portray emotionally charged moments of seemingly ordinary individuals caught in ambiguous and often disquieting situations. A heavy book, will require extra shipping charges if to be sent outside UK..

London: Jonathan Cape (Random House), 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dark grey hardcover with title in white on spine. Condition: Very good, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear. 335pp. Many b/w photographic illustrations. This book gives a thorough overview of the life and work of the German born photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983), who spent the majority of his career in Britain..

London: The Photographers' Gallery, 1986. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Card-covered stapled catalogue. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers, and some light general soiling to rear cover. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Unpaginated. Many b/w photographic illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by Ian MacDonald held at the Photographer's Gallery, London from October 17 to November 22, 1986. The exhibition consisted of photographs made in an around the site of the No.1 Blast Furnace neard Redcar in Cleveland between 1981-1986..

London: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 1982. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Buff colour cloth hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Foxing to endpapers, including some quite heavy foxing to half-title. No inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear. 224pp. 133 b/w plates.. In this book, Brassai shares photographs of many of the artists who he befriended during the 1930s and beyond, including Dali, Braque, Kokoschka and Lipchitz. The images are accompanied by his impressions of the artists and their art, and their private lives..

London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1977. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1977 reprint of the 1976 first UK edition. Black hardcover with titles in silver on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Light sunning to edges of text. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. Unpaginated. 150 b/w photographic illustrations. The Secret Paris of the 30's is one of the most remarkable photographic memoirs ever published. His photographs reveal a milieu previously known only through books such as the novels of Henry Miller (a frequent companion on Brassai's nocturnal rambles). His images depict the hidden Paris of the 1930's, its brothels, its whores, its pimps, its opium dens - the sordid yet fascinating bas-monde where high society mingled with the underworld..

London and Bradford: The Photographers' Gallery, London and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, 1984. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Card covered stapled catalogue. Condition: Good, essentially very good with light shelfwear to covers and the residue of the original small price sticker to rear of catalogue. Unpaginated. Many b/w photographic illustrations. This slim catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of photographs held at The Photographers' Gallery, London from 25 May to 23 June 1984 which then toured to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television from 14 August to 23 September the same year. The catalogue includes images by Ian Berry, Paul Graham, Karen Knorr, and Don McCullin. .

London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dark green cloth with title in silver on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear. 430pp. 261 illustrations, 8 in colour. Street photography is spontaneous, a moment of action captured by the camera. This book traces the history of this tradition, and looks at the common ground of street photographers since 1839, including Brassai, Lartigue, Walker Evans, and many others..

Totnes, Devon: Dartington Arts, 1994. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Card-covered stapled catalogue. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 50 b/w photographic portraits together with accompanying paragraphs about the sitters. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of photographs by Ski Harrison (b.1945) held at Dartington Arts Gallery, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon from May 20th to June 11th, 1994. The exhibition was the culmination of 15 years of photographing the older generation in the South West of England..

London: The Photographers' Gallery, 1985. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Dual catalogue for two exhibitions held in different rooms at the Photographers Gallery, London with slightly different dates (Funke and Rossler from 17 May to 15 June, 1985) and the 27 Contemporary Czechoslovakian photographers from 24 May to 22 June, 1985. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers, no inscriptions. The Funke and Rossler section is 31 pages long and the 27 contemporary Czechoslovakian photographers section is 61 pages long. Many b/w photographic illustrations..

Oslo: National Institute for Historical Photography, 1995. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 159pp. Pforsuely illustrated with b/w photographs. This book is a collection of nineteen papers by some of todays' foremost historians of photography, drawn from the "Oslo Symposium 1994" arranged by the National Institute for Historical Photography and the Norwegian Scoeity for the History of Photography in association with the European Society for the History of Photography. The main subject covered is landscape photography, but other topics include Munch and photography and Bauhaus masters, as well as innovations in photographic conservation. Scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Quartet Books Ltd., 1991. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Scarlet cloth with titles in silver on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean. Signed by author in pencil on fep. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light soiling and shelfwear. 108 beautiful b/w images of Spanish culture. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Aperture, 1984. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. 176pp. Many b/w photographic illustrations. The book is a collective portrait of 1960's style and culture. It was published to accompany the exhibition entitled "Diane Arbus: Magazine Work, 1960-1971", an exhibition of 75 photographs which toured various museums in America from 1984 to 1986. The book also includes an essay by Thomas W Southall on the importance of Arbus's magazine work to her vision. .

Magnum Photos, 2005. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed By Photographer. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Softcover. Condition: Fine. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by Martin Parr with the date 19th May 2005 on the rear cover. 212pp. Many colour photographic illustrations. This magazine, published by Magnum Photos in association with the British photographer Martin Parr (b.1952) is a parody on the traditional fashion magazine, with all the photographs being taken by Parr himself. It was published to coincide with the eponymous exhibition held at Le Bon Marche department store in Paris and Rocket Gallery, London.

London: Lund Humphries/Scribners, 1941. Book. Fair. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. NB: No dustjacket. Card covers. Condition: Fair, covers are generally shelfworn with more shelfwear around spine. Spine has a few water splashmarks (not affecting the rest of the book in any way) Paper around the bottom inch of spine is not present. Rear cover is quite grubby.Internally, the binding is cracked in one place, otherwise the contents are in good condition. No inscriptions. Appears to be a first edition as no mention of any other impressions. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 109 b/w photographic images, several of which were taken by Lee Miller..

Paris: Les Editions Textuel, 2003. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. NB: Text is in French throughout. Paper covered boards with title in white on red cloth spine. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. Faint hint of sunning to very edges of pages. 102pp. 90 colour images. A collection of images of shorelines and beaches by the Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert (b.1941, Belgium). Scarce..