Alec Soth: Niagra (signed) [£195.00]
“For Alec Soth, Niagara Falls wasn’t merely a tourist destination but a place whose cultural identity let him explore the human inability to sustain the intense emotional peaks of new love and passion”. “I went to Niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and…
Bruce Weber: Gentle Giants: A Book of Newfoundlands [£180.00]
“Dogs are wiser than men. They do not set great store upon things. They do not waste their days hoarding property. They do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they do not. There…
Tony Ray-Jones: A Day Off – An English Journal [£349.95]
This seminal work by the English photographer Tony Ray-Jones exploring the English at play and leisure. This compilation illustrated with 120 photographs was published three years after his death (The Open Book, The Hasselblad Center, page 202/203. 802 photo books by the M+M. Auer collection,…
Josef Koudelka: Reconnaissance Wales – Limited 1st Edition of 1000 Copies [£395.00]
“An alien landing on earth for the first time wouldn’t have any difficulty deciphering Josef Koudelka’s epic panoramic photographs. His visual language is simple, direct and generally uncluttered with cultural signs and symbols. The stark brooding, exquisitely composed pictures are not simply concerned with describing…
Robert Mapplethorpe: Mapplethorpe – 1992 Limited Edition Red Leather in Satin Slipcase [£445.00]
‘Mapplethorpe’ represents the definitive collection of nearly three hundred duotone photographs chronicles the development of Mapplethorpe’s career, in a collection that includes his society portraits, nudes, floral still lifes, and explicit erotic images. – – – – – – – – – This book is…
Bruce Weber: O Rio De Janeiro – A Photographic Journal by Bruce Weber [£345.00]
Bruce Webers’ “0 Rio De Janeiro” was an influential book set in the famous Brazilian city. Its release was accompanied by an exhibition at Robert Miller Gallery which traveled throughout the United States. As described in the Vince Aletti’s “100 Books,” 0 Rio “brought all…
Christien Meindertsma: Checked Baggage – 3264 Prohibited Items (shrink-wrapped with prohibited item no 2489, nail scissors) [£845.00]
In 2004, Meindertsma purchased a lot of 3264 objects confiscated from travelers at security checkpoints at the Amsterdam airport. This book is a visual catalogue of those objects, which range from souvenir corkscrews to toy guns. Each copy of Checked Baggage comes packaged with one…
Josef Koudelka: The Black Triangle – The Foothills of the Ore Mountains. Photographs 1990-94 [£1095.00]
“The region of Bohemia, situated at the foothills of the ore mountains, represents the Western tip of the black triangle of ill repute, the most devastated territory of the European continent, that stretches right out to Saxony and Poland. Josef Koudelka, indefeasible witness of disappearing…
Sam Haskins: ‘Haskins Posters’ (signed in publishers original folder) [£395.00]
“This is a collection of unrelated images bound together in book form. It is a product of, and is immersed in, the idiom of the late sixties. My studio was near the King’s road in Chelsea, the focal point of Swinging London. Those were informal…
Dolorès Marat and Marie Darrieussecq: Illusion (signed) [£50.00]
French photographer Dolorès Marat blends a sense of the fantastic into her images of people, landscapes and cityscapes. It offers through its images, different worlds, sensitive and sometimes foreign to the human, grabbing instant various everyday moments. Titled Illusion, where Dolores shows us his fascination…
Bruce Weber: ABERCROMBIE & FITCH JOURNAL -“YOUNG”- Special Issue [£65.00]
“Young” Summer 2004 Abercrombie and Fitch Special Issue with photography by Bruce Weber. Distributed to subscribers only and not sold in Abercrombie & Fitch stores. This is first issue of the restyled Quarterly magazine filled with classic semi erotic Bruce Weber photography with no articles…
Joyce Carol Oates: On Boxing (signed) [£75.00]
Joyce Carol Oates explores the world of professional boxing, examining the subject from many angles: boxing as a metaphor, spectacle and history, boxing as seen in literature and film and by women. Illustrated throughout with photographs by John Ranard – – – – – –…
Joel-Peter Witkin: Oeuvres Récentes 1998-1999 (signed) [£75.00]
Photographs and sketches by Joel-Peter Witkin. This catalogue was published in conjunction with a year 2000 Paris based Baudoin Lebon gallery show. Essay by Alain D’Hooghe in English and French. Included with the photographic images are reproductions of numerous preparatory drawings – – – –…
William Klein: Close Up [£75.00]
William Klein’s approach to photography challenges the way people see the world. His photos have been described as being a lyric combination of black humour, acerbic social observation and daring graphic invention. William Klein Close Up punches out at the viewer with double-page jumbo size…
Martin Parr: Common Sense [£75.00]
Martin Parr’s full-page, hyper-intensely coloured close up shots of food, flesh, and fashion. From the publisher: “For several years, Martin Parr has garnered huge, popular attention from the European public for his brilliant abilities as a satirist of contemporary life. His highly influential series of…
Mary Ellen Mark: Twins (signed) [£100.00]
There are few things in life that engage the eye or are more mesmerising than identical twins. Every aspect of their appearance is remarkable from the exact duplication of their features right down to the exact position of their freckles. Each year in August, Twinsburg,…
Joan Fontcuberta; Geoffrey Batchen: Landscapes without Memory (signed) [£120.00]
The first major monograph to be published in the United States by one of Spain’s most prominent and innovative artists. Winner of the 2013 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, Fontcuberta creates what appears to be lush landscapes but they were made by scanning and…
Les Krims: The Little People of American (signed) [£125.00]
In his portfolio – The Little People of America (1971), Krims received permission to photograph people belonging to a national organization founded by the actor Billy Barty, called “The Little People of America.” Many of the pictures were made at national conventions of the L.P.A,…
Andreas Magdan: Oswiecim-Brzezinka (Auschwitz-Birkenau) signed – Limited Polish Edition of 100 [£125.00]
“These calm, summery pictures remove it from the long ago and far away, a symbol of the past that we can safely leave with an unbelieving shudder. They force us to meditate not only on what happened but on the forces of intolerance — still…
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