Book of the Day Posted Dec 21, 2020

Book of the Day > Teenage Styles and Trends 1967–71: A Retrospect

● Purchase ● Privately printed in a limited edition of 300 copies in Switzerland, the photo book “Teenage Styles and Trends 1967–71: A Retrospect” by American diplomat and art collector Burton Yost Berry (1901-1985) drew little attention back in 1972. Close to 50 years later, though, it is a sought-after icon of early street photography, rare and expensive, not at last due to its being featured in Parr’s & Badger’s “The Photobook: A History, Volume III.” A new reprint makes this gem of a photobook available again. Grafisches Centrum Cuno in Calbe/Germany digitized the original book, retouched it with an eye for detail, and printed it using latest Ultra HD technology – achieving brilliant images thanks to intelligent dot positioning and modulation. In terms of printing quality, the reprint may easily surpass the original of 1972. The English text remains untouched except for corrections of some smaller typos. Printed on Profisilk paper, coated, 170 g/qm, which slightly stronger grammage prevents images from showing through. The reprint’s dust jacket has a poster printed on the inside and the book has been printed in a limited edition of 500 copies.
Book of the Day Posted Dec 09, 2020

Holiday Staff Picks!

The picks are in! Each one of our fabulous, eccentric, and totally individual staff have picked their top books for holiday giving, getting, and recommending. You can see them here. Check back in again as new books arrive and the list is added to! Please note: quantities are limited and our orders and deliveries from publishers continue to be greatly impacted and delayed by the Covid crisis. We are doing our best to re-stock our favorites and have them available for you in time for your holiday celebrations.

These books on this list are fantastic and as varied , but keep in mind we have over 100,000 in store, including treasures such as posters, artwork, and ephemera and we are here to help with you shopping - and your own wish lists We are open Tuesday through Sunday, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm. If you're not comfortable coming in during business hours, we'll try to accomodate you during off-hours or by phone or video chat. We wrap and we ship around the world and can arrange for same day local delivery if you need it. Let us know what we can do for you!

And most of all, we wish you glad tidings of peace, joy, and good health for the Holidays and the New Year to come.

Love, Lee, Whitney, Russell, Emilia, Isabelle, Kevin

Image from staff favorite, re-printed and available at long last, Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph

Book of the Day Posted Dec 08, 2020

Book of the Day > Barbara Kasten: Works

● Purchase ● Over the past five decades, the American artist Barbara Kasten has created an impressive multimedia oeuvre, centred around her compelling photographs. Her works can be found in some of the most important museum collections worldwide (including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, and Centre Pompidou, Paris).
 
This bilingual publication produced in close collaboration with the artist, presents a comprehensive overview of her oeuvre on more than 250 pages with numerous large-format illustrations – from early sculptures and photograms to her usually colourful, concrete photographs and the most recent video installations.
Book of the Day Posted Dec 03, 2020

Book of the Day > Flower Art: Makoto Azuma

● Purchase ● The art of Makoto Azuma uses flowers and plants as its starting point, but juxtaposes their timeless yet transient beauty with an incredibly diverse range of striking settings. In a series of sculptures, installations and interactive events, he delights in blurring the boundaries between nature and artifice.
 
Azuma founded the floral atelier Jardins des Fleurs in 2002, taking commissions from private clients as well as brands and corporations, both in Japan and all over the world. His parallel career as an artist began in 2005 and involves creating and exhibiting artworks that turn flowers and plants into a medium for self-expression. In 2008, Azuma founded AMKK (Azuma Makoto Kaju Kenkyujo), a group specializing in experimental floral creation, with the aim of seeking new forms of botanical beauty and new ways to exhibit them. His works have travelled the globe, from barren deserts to frozen expanses, from thousands of feet below the sea to the very edge of space. Featuring more than sixty projects captured in breathtaking photography, this beautiful book is the most comprehensive showcase of Azuma’s art ever published.
Book of the Day Posted Dec 01, 2020

Book of the Day > California Love: A Visual Mixtape

● Purchase ● Curated by Michael Rababy this book features the work of 110 photographers from all over California – celebrating what makes our diverse, inclusive, forward-thinking state so great. This is Rababy’s visual mixtape, featuring the greatest hits of friends’ and colleagues’ work that I’ve enjoyed through my years as a curator. I hope to share the excitement I have for great images the way I’ve shared my favorite rare grooves, B-sides, and bootleg recordings over my lifetime. All proceeds from sales of this book benefit the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP)
Miscellany Posted Nov 25, 2020

THANK YOU

From the bottoms of our hearts to the tops of our souls, thank you for your purchases, your visits, your support, your eyeballs, your shares, your kindness, and your enthusiasm. We are here to bring you delight and we thank you for your eager embrace. Thank you, too, for supporting the newly re-invigorated movement to “shop small” for all that you buy and to thereby support the communities that you love. Now more than ever, this thoughtfulness has meant the world to all of us small business owners. Thank you. (image from Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight: The John Hinde Butlin's Photographs)

 

Book of the Day Posted Nov 20, 2020

Book of the Day > Interior Space: A Visual Exploration of the International Space Station

● Purchase ● Unseen images of the International Space Station, untenanted and eerie: the legacy of humanity's fragile foothold in space
 
On November 2 2020, NASA celebrated the 20th anniversary of continuous human habitation in space of the International Space Station. In Interior Space, American photographer Roland Miller and Italian astronaut and photographer Paolo Nespoli offer an in-depth portrait of the ISS, creating amazing unpeopled images of the interior of the ISS for the first time. As internationally acclaimed scholars of space archaeology Alice Gorman and Justin St. P. Walsh write in their essays, the ISS speaks not only of who we are and will be, but also of who we were. In 2024 the ISS will be abandoned; in 2028 it will be destroyed. This book provides us with an eerie account of what will remain in the space after our passing.
Book of the Day Posted Nov 19, 2020

Book of the Day > Magic Papers

● Purchase ● Magic is largely a solitary endeavour, but the channels of its tips and tricks had a little ‐ known heyday around a hundred years ago. That golden era circulated secrets in printed matter packed with flamboyant custom lettering, sensational language and mystifying illustrations — largely made by and for its own community, compiled and consumed by dedicated practitioners and hobbyists. Often unregulated and infrequently archived beyond private collections, these magic papers collided with cults of personality, unshakable passion, and a thirst for notoriety.
 
The book features a huge assembly of printed material from the collection of Philip David Treece, a magic expert dedicated to preserving a golden era of magic publishing. This collection celebrates journals, periodicals, books and other ephemera created for the magic community between 1890 and 1960. Each book includes a 16 page gloss insert featuring a collection of magical apparatus.
Book of the Day Posted Nov 18, 2020

Book of the Day > Gas and Glamour: Roadside Architecture in Los Angeles

● Purchase ● “I love cars and I love Los Angeles for being a city of cars. Over the last decade or so, I have been intrigued by L. A.’s love affair with the automobile, tracing back to a time when cars themselves were objects of beauty. Those cars are no longer on the streets today but the buildings from that era remain. As an architectural photographer, I wanted to capture L. A.’s car-culture-induced optimism and ambition reflected in polychromatic, starspangled coffee shops, gas stations, and car washes, that once lured the gaze of passing motorists.” – Ashok Sinha
 
Ashok Sinha is an architectural and fine art photographer whose large-scale photographs capture a sense of place tied to both natural landscapes and built environments. His photographs have been published by editorial outlets such as The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Interior Design, and exhibited at The Museum of the City of New York, the International Center of Photography, and The Royal Photographic Society.
Book of the Day Posted Nov 13, 2020

Book of the Day > Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks

● Purchase ● An illustrated mid-career monograph exploring the 30-year creative journey of the 8-time Academy Award–nominated writer and director
 
Paul Thomas Anderson has been described as "one of American film's modern masters" and "the foremost filmmaking talent of his generation." Anderson's films have received 25 Academy Award nominations, and he has worked closely with many of the most accomplished actors of our time, including Lesley Ann Manville, Julianne Moore, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks, Anderson’s entire career—from Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Punch Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), The Master (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), and Phantom Thread (2017) to his music videos for Radiohead to his early short films—is examined in illustrated detail for the first time.
 
Anderson’s influences, his style, and the recurring themes of alienation, reinvention, ambition, and destiny that course through his movies are analyzed and supplemented by firsthand interviews with Anderson’s closest collaborators—including producer JoAnne Sellar, actor Vicky Krieps, and composer Jonny Greenwood—and illuminated by film stills, archival photos, original illustrations, and an appropriately psychedelic design aesthetic. Masterworks is a tribute to the dreamers, drifters, and evil dentists who populate his world.
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