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(ADAMS, BRYAN). Adams, Bryan. Foreword by Margaret Atwood. Toronto, CANADA: Key Porter Books, 1999. First Edition (Second Printing). 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. "In some ways, this book started when Flare magazine published my photograph of model Linda Evangelista in 1998, promoting a concert she and I were co-sponsoring to raise money for a breast cancer screening clinic in St. Catharine's, Ontario. Previously, I had recorded some music for a CD and performed at a concert in Los Angeles both for breast cancer research, so the idea of continuing to raise awareness was forefront in my mind. I approached Flare with the idea of continuing to promote awareness, hence this book. I am extremely grateful to all those who gave both time and money to help make each photo happen and especially to all the women photographed here who were Made in Canada". This book of musician and photographer Bryan Adams' images of inspiring Canadian women includes portraits of Margaret Atwood - who contributed the foreword, Shalom Harlow, Kim Cattrall, Catherine O'Hara, Margaret Trudeau, Sarah McLachlan, Joni Mitchell, Silken Laumann, Natalie and Nicole Appleton, Alison Sydor, Shannon Tweed, Carolyn Waldo, Jane Sibbery, Eve Salvail, Floria Sigismondi, Dayle Haddon, K.D. Lang, Genevieve Bujold, Celine Dion, Natasha Henstridge, Margo Timmins, Pamela Anderson Lee, Anne Murray and Dawn Langstroth, Sarah Polley, Jill Hennessy, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Tricia Helfer, Stacey MacKenzie, Linda Evangelista, Margot Kidder, Alanis Moris7sette, Angela Featherstone, Neve Campbell, Carrie-Anne Moss, Shania Twain, Diana Krall, Estella Warren, and many, many more. A brand new, pristine example of the 1999 Key Porter Books second printing additionally BOLDLY SIGNED WITH A SMILEY-FACE DRAWING by Bryan Adams in black marker on the title page. 1-55263-071-4 Inventory Number: 020358

(AFANADOR, RUVEN). Afanador, Ruven. Introduction by Hector Abad Faciolince. Poems by Gloria Maria Pardo Vargas. Thalwil, SWITZERLAND: Edition Stemmle, 2001. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Very Good/Near Fine. np, profusely illustrated in duotone. "Torero" is the exquisitely produced first book by noted Colombian-born, New York-based fashion photographer Ruven Afanador. It consists of highly stylized black and white portraits of Spanish and Latin American matadors in the studio, dressing room, and in the ring. Afanador shows an always keen eye for their masculine beauty, capturing some awfully tight talleguillas here. A most handsome example of this uncommon item additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Ruven Afanador" in black ink across the half title page showing some typical slight pulling to the textblock along with some light sunning to the lettering along the spine of the dust jacket. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-908163-48-X Inventory Number: 025309

(AGENT PROVOCATEUR) (MOSS, KATE). Saxton, Salima, Mike Figgis & Rowan Pelling. London. ND (2006).: Agent Provocateur. First Edition. Folio. Stapled Tabloid Wrappers. Fashion Trade Catalog. Fine.. 20pp, 19 color illustrations + color cover. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "This astounding collaboration between Agent Provocateur and Kate Moss breaks new ground. Genius innovators in haute couture, Agent Provocateur have commissioned renowned film director Mike Figgis to portray Moss in her first acting role, resulting in four unique films: "Shadows", "Scale", "Exhibitionist", and "Narcissus" - the Four Dreams of Miss X. Shot in night vision, these films are intensely intimate: a beautiful woman's private dream experiences". A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon object of desire. Inventory Number: 025134

(AKIYAMA, MAHOKO). Akiyama, Mahoko. Tokyo: Pan-Exotica & Treville Co. Ltd., 2004. First Edition. 12mo. Wrappers in Die Cut Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New.. np, profusely illustrated in duotone plates. Text in English and Japanese. "I have always created dolls in accordance with the dictates of my heart at the time. Then I spend long hours in my room with the dolls I have finished creating or those that are unfinished, and photograph the various doll stories that float up in my imagination... In this manner, for several years, I have shot and collected one photo after another". From renowned Japanese doll maker/photographer Mahoko Akiyama comes this creepy little gem of a book that documents and reveals his very sexually charged creations. The follow-up to his 1991 title "Ange", these shadowy images provide a mysterious and brooding atmosphere that strongly evokes Hans Bellmer (especially in the hand-colored pastel images that pay homage to "La Poupee"), Bernard Faucon, David Hamilton, The Brothers Quay, and Katan Amano. A brand new, pristine example of this gorgeously designed and printed book housed in the publisher's printed, die-cut slipcase, bound with a baby blue ribbon, as issued. 4-309-90568-4 Inventory Number: 016121

(ALEXANDRE, CLAUDE). Iizawa, Kohtaro & Claude Alexandre. Tokyo: Treville Co. Ltd., 1992. First Edition. Folio. Pictorial Boards in Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Very Good. np, profusely illustrated in duotone. Text in Japanese and English. Designed by Hideyuki Taguchi. Claude Alexandre's intense fetish and bondage images are well-known in the realm of photographic erotica. Published only in Japan, this beautifully designed and printed volume remains the most comprehensive compendium of her work. A most handsome example of this uncommon item showing just a bit of overall wear and handling. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 4-8457-0700-4 Inventory Number: 008721

(ALTOON, JOHN). Barton, Brigid S. Introduction by Gerald Nordland. Santa Clara, CA: De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, 1980. First Edition 1/3000. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 44pp, 15 b&w and 7 color illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist, biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1980 De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara retrospective of eighty-eight paintings and works on paper by John Altoon - the influential Ferus Gallery affiliated artist who died in 1969. An internally bright, most handsome example showing some typical slight rubbing to the covers. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 021514

(ALTOON, JOHN). Belloli, Jay. New York, Santa Monica, CA & San Francisco: Edward Thorp, Tortue & Braunstein Galleries, 1984. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (16pp), 11 b&w and 2 color illustrations + color cover. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the slender sixteen page catalogue published in conjunction with a posthumous 1984 exhibition of twelve paintings by the quirky Los Angeles-based, Ferus Gallery-affiliated artist John Altoon held at New York's Edward Thorp Gallery that subsequently traveled to Santa Monica's Tortue and San Francisco's Braunstein Galleries. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 021694

(ALTOON, JOHN). Hales, Andrea, Milton Wexler, Peter Selz & Robert Creeley. Foreword by Hugh M. Davies. San Diego, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 56pp, 23 color and 18 b&w illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1997 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego retrospective of seventy-three paintings, works on paper, and prints by John Altoon. The exhibition and the catalogue are the most comprehensive surveys to date of the quirky, erotically charged work of the influential Los Angeles-based, Ferus Gallery-affiliated artist who died in 1969. A most handsome example. 0-934418-51-9 Inventory Number: 023309

(ALTOON, JOHN). Hopps, Walter & Elke M. Solomon. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (24pp), 19 b&w and 2 color illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a posthumous 1971 Walter Hopps-curated Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective of fifty drawings and lithographs by the quirky Los Angeles-based, Ferus Gallery-affiliated artist John Altoon. A handsome example of this uncommon item. LC 71-181853 Inventory Number: 023366

(ALTOON, JOHN). Kienholz, Ed. Hope, ID: The Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. np (16pp), 19 b&w illustrations + color cover. Designed by Nancy Reddin Kienholz and Russell Rosander. This is the slender sixteen page catalogue published in conjunction with the posthumous 1982 exhibition of drawings by noted Venice artist John Altoon held at Ed and Nancy Kienholz' Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery. Its sole text is a heartfelt reminiscence of Altoon and Ferus Gallery days by Kienholz. A handsome example of this uncommon item showing some light overall soiling and creasing. Inventory Number: 023363

(ALTOON, JOHN). Nordland, Gerald. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1967. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 32pp, 11 b&w and 2 color illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1967 San Francisco Museum of Art retrospective of sixty-six paintings and works on paper by John Altoon. The exhibition (which traveled to the Pasadena Art Museum and UC San Diego's Museum of Art) was only the second Museum survey of the quirky Los Angeles based, Ferus Gallery affiliated artist's erotically charged work prior to his untimely death in 1969. A handsome example of this uncommon item showing just a bit of light spotting to its white covers. Inventory Number: 024782

(ALTOON, JOHN). Nordland, Gerald R.. Chicago, IL: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1984. First Edition. Small 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 16pp, 8 b&w illustrations + color cover. With a biography, exhibition history and exhibition checklist. This is the slender sixteen page catalogue published in conjunction with a posthumous 1984 Arts Club of Chicago retrospective of twenty-nine works on paper by the quirky Los Angeles-based, Ferus Gallery-affiliated artist John Altoon. A most handsome example. Inventory Number: 023717

(ALTOON, JOHN). Nye, Tim, Robert Creeley, Walter Hopps, Klaus Kertess & Dr. Milton Wexler. New York: Nyehaus Gallery and the Monacelli Press, 2013. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 224pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Kyle Lamar. With a biography, exhibition history and collections listing. Published to coincide with a 2014 retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "The Astonishing Works of John Altoon" surveys the colorful paintings and virtuosic drawings of this larger-than-life personality exhibited at New York's Nyehaus in 2013. Altoon's art is intimate, haunting, and erotic - capturing a magical moment in California art between the Beat Generation and the sexual and psychedelic revolutions. The work is put in context through essays and remembrances from those who knew him best: the poet Robert Creeley; psychiatrist and fan Dr. Milton Wexler; pioneering West Coast curator Walter Hopps; and curator, gallerist, and critic Klaus Kertess. This lavishly produced original collection also features a juxtaposition of Altoon's lithographs with a selection of Creeley's poems that the longtime friends originally published as "About Women" in 1965, a facsimile of his Ed Kienholz-published memorial exhibition catalog, and posthumously addressed letters from friends. A brand new, pristine example of this exquisite document. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-58093-386-6 Inventory Number: 025206

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi, Ettore Sottsass, Tetsuo Ishida, Junichi Shioda, Jakucho Setouchi, Ua & Issey Miyake. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo & Asahi Shimbun, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. 152pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. Designed by Seichi Suzuki Design Office. With a biography, exhibition history, and bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1999 Tokyo Museum exhibition, this excellent survey of Nobuyoshi Araki's eroticized lifestyle includes an interview with the photographer as well as texts by the likes of Ettore Sottsass, Tetsuo Ishida, Junichi Shioda, Jakucho Setouchi, and Issey Miyake. A most handsome example (entry number 254 of the Complete List of Nobuyoshi Araki Publications, 1979-2012 in the Izu Photo Museum's "Ararchy Photobook Mania"). Inventory Number: 022754

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi & Jerome Sans. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2002. First Edition 1/2500 Deluxe. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 636pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. Text in English, German and French. With a biography and bibliography. "Known best for his intimate, snapshot-style images of women often tied up with ropes and of colorful, sensual flowers, Araki is an artist who reacts strongly to his emotions and uses photography to experience them more fully. Obsessed with women, Araki seeks to come closer to them through photography, using ropes like an embrace and the click of the shutter like a kiss. His work is at once shocking and mysteriously tender". Limited to two-thousand, five hundred copies worldwide, this massive volume (the first of Taschen's XXXL series) pares down decades of Nobuyoshi Araki's oeuvre into a thousand or so images that tell the story of the renowned Japanese photographer and comprise the ultimate retrospective collection of his work. A brand new, pristine example NUMBERED AND BOLDLY SIGNED by Araki in black ink on the title page housed in a clamshell box still sealed in the publisher's printed shipping box, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-1292-7 Inventory Number: 014522

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi, Seiko Tanabe & Akihito Yasumi. Tokyo: Heibonsha Co., 1996. Later Printing. 4to. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 200pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in Japanese. Designed by Seiichi Suzuki Design Office. This third volume (of twenty) of "The Works of Nobuyoshi Araki" is subtitled "Yoko", and focuses on the iconic Japanese photographer's images of his late wife. A brand new, most handsome example of the 1996 printing of this uncommon item (entry number 163 of the Complete List of Nobuyoshi Araki Publications, 1979-2012 in the Izu Photo Museum's "Ararchy Photobook Mania") issued less than a month after the original. 4-582-66403-2 Inventory Number: 024450

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi, Seiko Tanabe & Akihito Yasumi. Tokyo: Heibonsha Co., 1996. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 190pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in Japanese. Designed by Seiichi Suzuki Design Office. This fifth volume (of twenty) of "The Works of Nobuyoshi Araki" is subtitled "Chrysalis", and focuses on the iconic Japanese photographer's provocative portraits of pre-pubescent Japanese models in varying poses, and states of dress. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1996 first printing (entry number 167 of the Complete List of Nobuyoshi Araki Publications, 1979-2012 in the Izu Photo Museum's "Ararchy Photobook Mania"). PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 4-582-66405-9 Inventory Number: 023202

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi, Seiko Tanabe & Akihito Yasumi. Tokyo. 1996 (2001).: Heibonsha Co.. Later Printing. 4to. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 190pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in Japanese. Designed by Seiichi Suzuki Design Office. This fifth volume (of twenty) of "The Works of Nobuyoshi Araki" is subtitled "Chrysalis", and focuses on the iconic Japanese photographer's provocative portraits of pre-pubescent Japanese models in varying poses, and states of dress. A brand new, most handsome example of a 2001 later printing of this uncommon item (entry number 167 of the Complete List of Nobuyoshi Araki Publications, 1979-2012 in the Izu Photo Museum's "Ararchy Photobook Mania"). PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. 4-582-66405-9 Inventory Number: 022899

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi, Taeko Tomioka & Akihito Yasumi. Tokyo: Heibonsha Co., 1996. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine./Near Fine.. 192pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in Japanese. Designed by Seiichi Suzuki Design Office. This second volume (of twenty) of "The Works of Nobuyoshi Araki" is subtitled "Bodyscapes", and focuses on the iconic Japanese photographer's provocative portraits of the female nude - many of whom are bound or wet. A most handsome example of the uncommon 1996 first printing (entry number 160 of the Complete List of Nobuyoshi Araki Publications, 1979-2012 in the Izu Photo Museum's "Ararchy Photobook Mania"). PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. 4-582-66402-4 Inventory Number: 022158

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Bauret, Gabriel, Kohtaro Iizawa & Nobuyoshi Araki. Paris: Contrejour (Photographes Contemporains) & Fondation Cartier Pour L'art Contemporaine, 1995. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good -.. 64pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in French. With a bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1995 Fondation Cartier Pour L'art Contemporaine exhibition, this catalogue reproduces Nobuyoshi Araki's eroticized black and white "Journal Intime" series of 1994 along with an a brief essay by Gabriel Bauret and an interview with the photographer by Kohtaro Iizawa. An otherwise most handsome example (entry number 142 of the Complete List of Nobuyoshi Araki Publications, 1979-2012 in the Izu Photo Museum's "Ararchy Photobook Mania") showing a slight diagonal soft crease through the textblock at the heel of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. 2-85949-181-3 Inventory Number: 020813

(ARGENTINI, GUIDO). Argentini, Guido. NP: Self-Published, 2011. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Square 4to. Padded Boards in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 128pp, 104 color and 78 duotone illustrations. Text in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The sculpture of Michelangelo, Rodin, and Brancusi, serve as the inspiration for Guido Argentini's masterly images of the female nude. Published by the Italian-born, Los Angeles-based photographer himself, "Shades of a Woman" is a sumptuously produced collection of nearly twenty years of work including his striking "Silvereye" series of statuesque models completely covered in metallic pigment a la Shirley Eaton in "Goldfinger". A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies BOLDLY NUMBERED (42/100), SIGNED AND DATED "Guido Argentini '11" in ink on the front pastedown accompanied by a NUMBERED, SIGNED AND DATED 10 ¾ x 10 ¾" silver gelatin photographic print housed in the publisher's gilt-embossed blue silk-over-boards slipcase, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-615-41928-3 Inventory Number: 020789

(BALLEN, ROGER). Ballen, Roger. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1979. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Very Good. 96pp, 79 b&w illustrations. Art Direction by Susan Lusk. Designed by Joyce C. Weston. "Boyhood is a powerful and perceptive statement. In photographs and stories, Roger Ballen leads us across the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America in search of boyhood. Here, with keen insight and masterly skill, he succeeds in capturing the essence of boyhood in a series of timeless images that transcend social and cultural particularities". If you are knowingly searching for this title, could we add any more insight than the jacket description for "Boyhood"? While Ballen has subsequently become renowned for his sobering portrait images of the denizens of his adopted South Africa, this, his first book from 1979 is where it all began. The back cover features laudatory quotes from Andre Kertesz, Bruce Davidson, and Elliot Erwitt. A bright, most handsome example of the book itself whose neatly price-clipped dust jacket shows some very light wear and rubbing. 0-87754-091-8 Inventory Number: 018231

(BATAILLE, GEORGES). Bataille, Georges. Denis Hollier, Editor. Bruce Boone, Translator. Venice, CA: The Lapis Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Fine/Fine. 161pp, no illustrations. This is the first complete English language translation of noted French philosopher/theoretician Georges Bataille's 1961 work "Le Coupable", which "combines the genres of fiction, memoir and meditation in a philosophical interrogation of man's entrapment within desire". A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition. 0-932499-55-4 Inventory Number: 017290

(BELLMER, HANS). Iwaya, Kuniyo. Tokyo: Treville Co. Ltd., 1995. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Japanese. Designed by Jun Takechi. "The Doll" is a beautiful little book published only in Japan that reproduces all of the known photographic images of "La Poupee" - Hans Bellmer's articulated, anatomically amorphous Surrealist doll that was the not so obscure object of his desire. A brand new, most handsome example of the 1995 Treville first edition. 4-8457-1019-6 Inventory Number: 019747

(BERMAN, WALLACE) (HEINECKEN, ROBERT). Bohn-Spector, Claudia, Sam Mellon, Wallace Berman & Robert Heinecken. Pasadena, CA: The Armory Center for the Arts, 2011. First Edition. Large Square 4to. Loose Contents in a Box. Artists Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild at Green Dragon Office. "This landmark exhibition brings two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation for the very first time. Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are explored within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern California, as it fueled and amplified their highly original creative approaches. This lovely catalog in the form of a treasure box is packed with images, reproductions, ephemera, a DVD and essays that capture the random spirit of innovation that permeated this important era". A brand new, pristine example of this innovative catalogue published in conjunction with a 2011 "Pacific Standard Time" exhibition held at Pasadena's Armory Center for the Arts still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-893900-17-7 Inventory Number: 024933

(BERMAN, WALLACE) (PRINCE, RICHARD). McKenna, Kristine & Richard Prince. Introduction by Michael Kohn. Los Angeles: Michael Kohn Gallery, 2009. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 112pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Xiaoqing Wang, Green Dragon Office. With an exhibition checklist. "The use of heterosexual pornography or soft erotica in collage and assemblage is often all too uncritical, but for a few of the California artists who came of age in the early 1950s, Wallace Berman for example, its applications were much more nuanced. This approach to "girlie magazine" imagery and its polar opposite - the impulse to decommodify sexuality - can both be found in the photographs, paintings and books of Richard Prince, an artist whose fondness for the era of Berman is well-known. "She" traces these overlaps and sympathies with reproductions of previously unseen works by Berman and new images from Prince's "Girlfriends" and "de Kooning" series. Also included is an interview with Prince and editor Kristine McKenna, whose ongoing work on Wallace Berman and his contemporaries continues to yield exciting discoveries". A brand new, pristine example (catalogue entry 59 in "Bibliotheque d'un Amateur: Richard Prince's Publications 1981-2012") of this beautiful hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2009 Los Angeles gallery exhibition still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-880086-20-4 Inventory Number: 021100

(BERNHARD, RUTH). Mitchell, Margaretta K. Foreword By Ruth Bernhard. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 160pp, profusely illustrated in duotone. "Hailed by Ansel Adams as "the greatest photographer of the nude," Ruth Bernhard has lived a life that spans almost a century of passionate, ceaseless exploration of the magic of light to create form. "Between Art & Life" is the first biography of this charismatic woman who kept her personal promise to infuse her art with life, and live her life though art". Centered around a series of detailed interviews between Ruth Bernhard and author Margaretta Mitchell, this is a superbly illustrated survey of the photographer's seminal modernist work (including many of the famous female nudes) , personal life, correspondence, and quotations from the photographer regarding her inspirations, technique, and creative process. A brand new, pristine example (cited on page 202 of "From Fair to Fine 3") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED in Ruth Bernhard's unmistakable calligraphic hand in black fountain pen on the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-8118-2191-9 Inventory Number: 015275

(BERNHARD, RUTH). Williams, Ginny. Santa Fe, NM: Tallgrass Press, 1993. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (95pp), 43 tritone illustrations. This is the lavish catalogue published in conjunction with the 1993 exhibition "Ruth Bernhard: A Retrospective from the Ginny Williams Collection" at the Denver Art Museum and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. A superbly printed selection of Bernhard's seminal modernist work (including many of the famous female nudes) is represented here, interspersed with quotations from the photographer about her inspirations and her creative process. A brand new, pristine example of the uncommon hardbound edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Ruth Bernhard" in her unmistakable calligraphic hand in black fountain pen on the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-881138-04-6 Inventory Number: 023786

(BERQUET, GILLES). Berquet, Gilles. Paris: Jean-Pierre Faur Editeur, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (32pp), 33 b&w illustrations + color covers. Text in French. This is a slender, strikingly designed and printed volume of renowned French erotic photographer Gilles Berquet's explicit fetish and bondage images. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item. 2-909882-30-6 Inventory Number: 015576

(BERQUET, GILLES). Berquet, Gilles. Preface By Alina Reyes. Paris. 1992 (1995).: Jean-Pierre Faur Editeur. Second Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color. Text in French. This is a beautifully designed and printed volume of renowned French erotic photographer Gilles Berquet's explicit fetish and bondage images. While the prints themselves are mostly sepia-toned, the book has been printed in a full color process to capture the subtle nuance of the originals. And while the work shows predecessors Hans Bellmer and Pierre Molinier as inspiration, has anyone ever made pissing on a bare wood floor look so elegant as Berquet does here? A handsome example of the 2005 second edition. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. 2-909882-15-2 Inventory Number: 013855

(BIANCHI, TOM). Bianchi, Tom. Bologna, ITALY: Damiani Editore, 2013. Second Printing. Small 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Erotic Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 211pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Tom Bianchi and Ben Smales. "In 1970, fresh out of law school, Tom Bianchi was invited to spend a weekend at Fire Island Pines, where he encountered a community of gay men. Using an SX-70 Polaroid camera, Bianchi documented his friends' lives in the Pines, amassing an image archive of people, parties and private moments. These images, published here for the first time, and accompanied by Bianchi's moving memoir of the era, record the birth and development of a new culture. Soaked in sun, sex, camaraderie and reverie, "Fire Island Pines Polaroids 1975-1983" depicts eight summers of gay life on the Long Island sandbar, and conjures a magical bygone era. "In taking the photos, my first mission was to show that boys like me knew they had a place to go, and the second was to let the world know there was nothing threatening about us". The book's subjects - shown frolicking at the beach, lazing in bed, dancing, holding each other, and hanging out in modernist beach houses - are palpably exhilarating. The sense of joy is so immersive that it's easy to forget, if just for a few minutes, the waiting epilogue that struck the gay community soon after. "The book has for me a profound emotional resonance," says the sixty-seven year-old photographer who lives in Palm Springs, but still spends several weeks every summer on Fire Island. "I'm looking at myself and many other young men who were vividly alive and celebrating their freedom for the first time. I tried to give a sense of the world we lived in. I found very strong connections between us, our style and the place - you would never attempt a community anywhere but in a place that beautiful". A brand new, pristine example of the now unavailable 2013 second Damiani printing that beautifully reproduces the Polaroids in facsimile. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 88-6208-270-3 Inventory Number: 024637

(BIDGOOD, JAMES). Benderson, Bruce. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1999. First Edition. Tall 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 176pp, profusely illustrated in color. Full edge gilt. Text in English, German and French. The director of the cult erotic gay fantasy "Pink Narcissus", James Bidgood remained the all-but-unknown, astonishing precursor to Pierre et Gilles and so many other baroque photographers of the male physique until this amazing, well researched monograph by Bruce Benderson appeared nearly a decade ago. Evoking Kenneth Anger, "Querelle", and George Platt Lynes, these images by the former drag performer/window dresser/costume designer are a revelation in Technicolor! A brand new, most handsome example. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-7427-2 Inventory Number: 021941

(BLACK NYLONS AND HIGH HEELS: THE MAGAZINE FOR ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS). Black Nylons and High Heels Staff. NP (New York). ND.: Dawson Publishing Co.. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Erotic Photography Periodical. Very Good.. np (64pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. True to its title, this expanded, "Semi-Annual" installment of "Black Nylons and High Heels: The Magazine for Artists and Photographers" is a cavalcade of Elmer Batters-like black and white semi-nude fetish photographs of anonymous fifties-era women posing for the camera wearing nothing but stockings, garters, and heels. A handsome example of this uncommon item showing some light wear and creasing along the spine. Inventory Number: 024422

(BLACK NYLONS AND HIGH HEELS: THE MAGAZINE FOR ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS). Black Nylons and High Heels Staff. NP (New York). ND.: Dawson Publishing Co.. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Erotic Photography Periodical. Fine.. np (36pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. True to its title, this fourteenth installment of "Black Nylons and High Heels: The Magazine for Artists and Photographers" is a cavalcade of Elmer Batters-like black and white semi-nude fetish photographs of anonymous fifties-era women posing for the camera wearing nothing but stockings, garters, and heels. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 024421

(BLACK NYLONS AND HIGH HEELS: THE MAGAZINE FOR ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS). Black Nylons and High Heels Staff. NP (New York). ND.: Dawson Publishing Co.. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Erotic Photography Periodical. Fine.. np (36pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. True to its title, this eleventh installment of "Black Nylons and High Heels: The Magazine for Artists and Photographers" is a cavalcade of Elmer Batters-like black and white semi-nude fetish photographs of anonymous fifties-era women posing for the camera wearing nothing but stockings, garters, and heels. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 024420

(BRISKI, ZANA). Briski, Zana. New York: Mantis Editions, 2007. First Edition 1/1000. Oblong 4to. Silk Over Boards, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (130pp), 54 tritone illustrations. Designed by Zana Briski with Nashima Gokani and Jeff Magness. Limited to one thousand copies only, "Brothel" is the exquisitely designed and printed volume of Zana Briski's original photographs of the Calcutta house of prostitution that led to her 2005 Academy Award winning feature documentary film (and accompanying book) "Born into Brothels". Noirish and dark, it presents the photographer/director's arresting images of the girls and women at work there, and the squalid conditions they endure. Printed in tritone throughout, it incorporates two tipped-in plates as well as hand-made and colored papers + inks in a beautiful debossed black raw silk-over-boards binding with full black edges. It is housed in a hand made clamshell box covered in scarlet raw silk from India. One of the most sumptuously produced books we've carried in recent years, Zana Briski's "Brothel" is a compelling companion volume to Mary Ellen Mark's classic "Falkland Road". A brand new, pristine example SIGNED "Zana Briski" in gold ink on the title page still sealed in the publisher's shipping box, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9788754-1-9 Inventory Number: 015351

(BROWN, TREVOR). Brown, Trevor. Tokyo: Editions Treville & Pan Exotica, 2004. First Edition. Small 4to. Fuzzy Boards in Acetate Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. np, 32 color illustrations + cover. Text in English. This is a stylishly packaged, beautifully printed offering from British born Japanophile Trevor Brown. The artist pushes - as usual - the boundaries of good taste here with these skewed, faux children's book fetish illustrations of his pigtailed, black-eyed schoolgirl creation "Li'l Miss Sticky Kiss". The dust jacket of this unique object is a thick clear acetate that protects the debossed fuzzy pink boards and cover pastedown. A brand new, most handsome example. 4-309-90565-X Inventory Number: 022764

(BROWN, TREVOR) (GOTHIC & LOLITA BIBLE). Gothic & Lolita Staff, Editors. Tokyo: Index Communications, 2007. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Fashion Periodical. Very Good -.. 126pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Japanese. This twenty-fourth installment of "Gothic & Lolita Bible" from Tokyo is as usual a cornucopia of the latest fashions for the Harajuku babydoll set along with Goth guys and gals the world over. In addition to spotlighting frocks from Vivienne Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garcons, Junya Watanabe, Black Peace Now, Baby the Stars Shine Bright, and many other specialty labels, it features a cover by, and article on the Japanese erotica and fetish-inflected visual stylings of Trevor Brown along with a set of thirteen glossy, adhesive-backed stickers the artist created exclusively for this issue. A most presentable example with the Trevor Brown stickers and Elements dress pattern complete and bound in, as issued, showing a bit of light overall wear and handling. 4-7573-3362-5 Inventory Number: 023613

(CARLSEN, ASGER). Carlsen, Asger. London: Morel Books, 2011. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Debossed Cloth Over Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. "If the traditional nude occasionally intends to bare and reveal a final and ideal form through ad hoc stance or sculptural immortality, Asger Carlsen's "Hester" - his honest take on the classic theme of the female nude - revises the study of the female form to ultimately reveal the evolving terrain of photography and its standards of aesthetics and morality". A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-907071-31-8 Inventory Number: 024913

(CHAPPELL, WALTER) (TATE, SHARON). Howard, Richard. Los Angeles: Roth Horowitz Anderson, 2001. First Edition 1/1000. Small 4to. Gilt-Debossed Boards. Photography Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 4 color and 2 duotone illustrations. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue printed at the Grenfell Press to document the 2001 inaugural exhibition of the short-lived Roth Horowitz Anderson bookstore in Los Angeles. Bound in Tiffany blue gilt-decorated boards, it reproduces six photographs of a luminous twenty-one year old Sharon Tate taken by Walter Chappell in Big Sur in 1964 accompanied by an essay by Richard Howard. An internally most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies showing some light wear, soiling, and few surface abrasions to its covers. It has been priced accordingly. 0-9670774-7-8 Inventory Number: 025203