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…
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 – – – – – –…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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