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…
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…
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…
Miles Aldridge: Acid Candy – 2008 Signed Limited Edition of 1000 [£325.00]
In his acid-coloured images of lascivious lips, impossibly glossed models and hallucinogenic still lifes, photographer Miles Aldridge is plainly heir to some of the twentieth century’s enduring pop culture visionaries. Aldridge is especially known for his colour-saturated fashion photography editorials for magazines such as American…
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’…
John Green: Birds of Britain (Very rare signed) [£495.00]
The quintessential coffee table book of the swinging 60s featuring photos of Britain’s top models and actresses. Britain ruled the world again for a brief time in the mid- to late-60s, when it dominated the worlds of music, fashion, film and, of course, soccer. The…
George Dureau: New Orleans – 50 Photographs (very rare limited signed edition of 100 in slip case) [£695.00]
George Dureau presents a collection of 50 black and white images that will cause you to rethink how you look at the human form. Edward Lucie-Smith in his Introduction to this collection says that we are asked to see these models, some of them deformed,…
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…
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