Philip Lorca-Dicorcia: Streetwork, 1993-1997 (still in publishers shrink wrap) [£430.00]
Photographs by Philip-Lorca DiCorcia of sidewalk scenes from 10 cities worldwide, from Los Angeles to Odessa (Ukraine), from Barcelona to Tokyo. – – – – – – – – – “DiCorcia photographed the street life in eight big American, European and Asian cities between 1996…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Josef Sudek: Fotografie (1956) [£195.00]
This is a first edition, first printing of Josef Sukek’s remarkable photobook ‘Josef Sudek: Fotografie’ published by Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury, Prague in 1956. Featuring 6 two-page gatefolds and 232 plates printed in beautiful gravure, the book measures 9.5″ x 7″ and is bound in…
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…
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