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 – – – – – –…
William Klein: Close Up [£75.00]
William Klein’s approach to photography challenges the way people see the world. His photos have been described as being a lyric combination of black humour, acerbic social observation and daring graphic invention. William Klein Close Up punches out at the viewer with double-page jumbo size…
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,…
Les Krims: The Little People of American (signed) [£125.00]
In his portfolio – The Little People of America (1971), Krims received permission to photograph people belonging to a national organization founded by the actor Billy Barty, called “The Little People of America.” Many of the pictures were made at national conventions of the L.P.A,…
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…
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…
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…
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