Les Krims: The Deerslayers (signed) [£185.00]
In his portfolio The Deerslayers, Krims took pictures of deer hunters who had voluntarily stopped at “deer check stations” so that NYS conservationists could examine the general health of the deer. Pictured posing with their kills, Krims suggested the hunters had much in common with…
Paul Graham / Jerry Saltz: Paul Graham [£155.00]
Publisher’s Description ‘The photographs taken by British photographer Paul Graham have a marked social status providing a powerful discourse between the boundaries of art and politics. This publication chronicles the troubled landscapes of North Ireland, New Europe and America, capturing at the same time the…
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…
Michael Kenna: Shinan (rare signed) [£145.00]
‘Shinan, an archipelago of 1,004 exquisite and unspoiled islands situated in the South West of Korea, is also known as ‘The Island of Angels’. Michael Kenna photographed there over a period of two years. The resulting monograph, ‘Shinan’, is comprised of sixty-two black and white…
Mary Ellen Mark: American Odyssey, 1963-1999 (signed) [£195.00]
Mary Ellen Mark’s poetic and at times disquieting photographs form a fascinating portrait of a complex, amusing, and occasionally unsettling country and its people. Recently voted by the readers of American Photo as the most influential woman photographer of all time, Mary Ellen Mark has…
Marc Riboud, Christine Arnothy: Women of Japan (Vrouwen Van Japan) Dutch Edition [£275.00]
An amazingly well preserved and rare because of its small paperback format book investigating the lives of women in Japanese society – a travelogue with interviews and a section of photographs by Marc Riboud of street-shots, women at work and leisure printed in beautiful gravure…
Kishin Shinoyama: Olele Olala – Signed First Edition [£245.00]
Shinoyama’s inimitable look at the decadence of Rio de Janeiro at Carnival time. It was published as a special edition of Japanese Playboy in 1971, funny ads of Hitachi razor throughout the book. The publisher’s text -.”Kishin Shinoyama & his mad crew challenged Brazil, the…
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…
Mary Ellen Mark: Falkland Road: [prostitutes of Bombay] – Signed 1981 1st Edition [£345.00]
“Falkland Road is a notorious street of prostitutes in Bombay. It is like any busy lower-class street in Bombay, densely populated by vendors, merchants and shops, but also overcrowded with girls, from 11-year-olds to 65-year-old ex-madams. Mary Ellen Mark’s extraordinary portrait of Falkland Road was…
Bill Brandt: The Assemblages – First Edition 1993 [£180.00]
In the Sixties and Seventies, Bill Brandt made a series of ‘assemblages’ of found objects. This is beach combing work: pictorial collages of feathers, fish-bones, shells, sticks, pebbles and sundry other pickings, stuck onto painted boards, collected during his time in the Provence region of…
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