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…
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,…
Marc Riboud, Christine Arnothy: Women of Japan [£350.00]
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….
Karel Hajek (photography) Vladimir Rypar (text): Norimberk: Zlocin A Soud (Nuremberg: Crime and Court) [£385.00]
Norimberk : Zlocin A Soud (Nuremberg: Crime and Court) with photographs by Karel Hajek and text by Vladimir Rypar (text in Czech). A striking and vital pictorial documentation of the 1945/46 Nuremberg trial in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Numerous images from the International Military…
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…
Les Krims: Making Chicken Soup – Signed 1972 1st Edition [£445.00]
An exceptional copy of Les Krim’s quirky book that makes comment on the state of photojournalism through the medium of photographing his mother ‘making chicken soups’ – ‘making chicken soup is dedicated to my mother and also all concerned photographers – both make chicken soup’…
Shinzo Fukuhara: Musashino Fubutsu [£350.00]
Shinzo Fukuhara was a photographic pioneer who’s considered the father of Japanese modern art photography. Publishing seven books and over 100 articles in his lifetime. In 1943 he published ‘Musashino Fubutsu’ which was published during World War II when art photography books were a rarity…
Ken Domon: Chikuho no Kodomotachi (Children of Chikuho) and Rumie-chan wa Otosan ga Shinda (Rumie’s Father is Dead) [£550.00]
‘Ken Domon is widely regarded as Japan’s leading photographer of the immediate post-war years: He worked in the classic photojournalistic mode, seeking to document Japanese life in the troubled aftermath of the war. During the 1950s, at a time when the rest of the Japanese…
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…
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