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ALINE SMITHSON: SELF & OTHERS - PORTRAIT AS AUTOBIOGRAPHY - SIGNED AND DATED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(SMITHSON, ALINE). Smithson, Aline. Foreword by Karen Sinsheimer. Introduction by Paula Tognarelli. Toronto, CANADA: The Magenta Foundation, 2015. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 216pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w, full edge gilt. "Self & Others - Portrait as Autobiography" is a near-twenty year culmination of portrait photographs captured by award-winning photographer, writer, and educator Aline Smithson. It begins with her earliest black and white silver gelatin prints in which she photographs the world around her considering the poignancy of childhood and the pathos of aging and relationships. The book continues with her hand-painted photographs - including her defining series - "Arrangement in Green and Black: Portrait of the Photographer's Mother" - where she combines humor and family to create a universal expression of motherhood. The book is completed by her most recent color projects that revisit beauty, the essence of childhood, and an examination of created realities. Aline brings a background in painting and fashion to her images, but at the heart of her work is her ability to recognize the inner self of her subjects. The photographer considers all her portraits a reflection of herself and the stories she wants to tell, and in that way, has created a visual language that is her own unique autobiography". A brand new, most handsome example of the 2015 first edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Aline Smithson 2015" in the year of publication in black marker on the title page at Arcana with a packet of postcards by the photographer laid in. 1-926856-06-6 Inventory Number: 025519
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MICHAEL SNOW: COVER TO COVER
(SNOW, MICHAEL). Snow, Michael. Halifax, CANADA & New York: The Portrait Review, 1975. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Artist's Book. Very Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Cover to Cover" is Michael Snow's now-legendary 1975 artist book co-published by The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and New York University Press that documents a short trip by the pioneering Canadian filmmaker/photographer/musician in a continuous sequence of images that unfolds from right-side up to upside down, and from cover - to cover... A most presentable example of the exceedingly uncommon 1975 first hardrbound edition (cited on page 156 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II") showing some light overall lwear and a bit of mild foxing to its pictorial covers. It has been priced accordingly. 0-8147-7770-8 Inventory Number: 025985
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FREDERICK SOMMER AT SEVENTY-FIVE: A RETROSPECTIVE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Glenn, Constance & Jane K. Bledsoe. Long Beach, CA: The Art Museum and Galleries, Cal State University, 1980. First Edition 1/3000. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. 71pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Lilli Cristin. This is the catalogue for the 1980 touring Frederick Sommer retrospective - circulated in conjunction with the renowned photographer's seventy-fifth birthday. It exquisitely reproduces thirty-one of the seventy five works exhibited as well as a portion of the text of the artist's 1972 poem-cum-treatise "The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics". A bright, most handsome example showing virtually none of the typically seen rubbing and handling to its silver covers additionally SIGNED by Frederick Sommer in black ink on the title page at the time of publication. Inventory Number: 019501
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FREDERICK SOMMER AT SEVENTY-FIVE: A RETROSPECTIVE
(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Glenn, Constance & Jane K. Bledsoe. Long Beach, CA: The Art Museum and Galleries, Cal State University, 1980. First Edition 1/3000. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good -.. 71pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Lilli Cristin. This is the catalogue for the 1980 touring Frederick Sommer retrospective - circulated in conjunction with the renowned photographer's seventy-fifth birthday. It exquisitely reproduces thirty-one of the seventy five works exhibited as well as a portion of the text of the artist's 1972 poem-cum-treatise "The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics". A most presentable example showing some typical light rubbing and handling to its silver covers as well as a short lengthwise tear along the spine at the rear cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 017105
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FREDERICK SOMMER AT SEVENTY-FIVE: A RETROSPECTIVE
(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Glenn, Constance & Jane K. Bledsoe. Long Beach, CA: The Art Museum and Galleries, Cal State University, 1980. First Edition 1/3000. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Good.. 71pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Lilli Cristin. This is the catalogue for the 1980 touring Frederick Sommer retrospective - circulated in conjunction with the renowned photographer's seventy-fifth birthday. It exquisitely reproduces thirty-one of the seventy five works exhibited as well as a portion of the text of the artist's 1972 poem-cum-treatise "The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics". A presentable example only showing some typical rubbing and handling to its silver covers as well as a crease across the textblock near the heel of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 017104
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FREDERICK SOMMER
(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Nordland, Gerald. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia College of Art, 1968. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Good -.. 28pp, 14 b&w illustrations. Designed by Richard Hood. With a chronology, bibliography and exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the elegantly designed catalogue for Frederick Sommer's 1968 show of one hundred and twenty-seven photographs held at the Philadelphia College of Art. Printed locally at the renowned Falcon Press, it is the first comprehensive Sommer publication issued in conjunction with an exhibition. An otherwise most presentable example of this exceedingly uncommon item showing some light wear and creasing to its black printed wrappers along with a one inch closed tear into the foredge of the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024918
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FREDERICK SOMMER - AN EXTRAORDINARY ASSOCIATION COPY
(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Nordland, Gerald. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia College of Art, 1968. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. 28pp, 14 b&w illustrations. Designed by Richard Hood. With a chronology, bibliography and exhibition checklist. This is the elegantly designed catalogue for Frederick Sommer's 1968 show of one hundred and twenty-seven photographs held at the Philadelphia College of Art. Printed locally at the renowned Falcon Press, it is the first comprehensive Sommer publication issued in conjunction with an exhibition. A handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item showing some light scuffing and a few tiny spots of insect damage to its black printed wrappers. While neither signed nor inscribed, this example was acquired by us directly from the estate of the noted late Los Angeles artist / educator / collector Emerson Woelffer, and bears his discreet ownership label on the verso of the rear endpaper. Woelffer was close friends with both Sommer and curator Gerald Nordland, and is the subject of the full page image titled "Emerson Woelfer (sic) 1965" reproduced on page twenty-five of the catalogue. Inventory Number: 021636
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FREDERICK SOMMER: THE POETIC LOGIC OF ART AND AESTHETICS + WORDS SPOKEN IN MEMORY OF RICHARD NICKEL AT A GATHERING OF HIS FRIENDS - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Sommer, Frederick, in collaboration with Stephen Aldrich. Stockton, NJ: Designed and Printed at the Carolingian Press, 1972. First Edition. Small Square 8vo. Printed Stapled Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good.. np (40pp), no illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics" is Frederick Sommer's self-published item containing no photographic images that reproduces the text of his 1972 poem-cum-treatise "The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics" along with the eulogy "'Words Spoken in Memory of Richard Nickell at a Gathering of His Friends". A handsome example additionally SIGNED by Frederick Sommer in black ink in a spidery hand on the title page showing some typical light age patination and slight discoloration along the rear of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 020357
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FREDERICK SOMMER: THE CONSTELLATIONS THAT SURROUND US - THE CONJUNCTION OF GENERAL AESTHETICS AND POETIC LOGIC IN AN ARTIST'S LIFE SURVEYED AND EDITED BY MICHAEL TOROSIAN - LIMITED EDITION WITH FOUR GELATIN-SILVER PRINTS
(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Torosian, Michael & Frederick Sommer. Toronto, CANADA: Lumiere Press, 1992. First Edition 1/200. 8vo. 1/4 Linen Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued.. 36pp, 4 tipped-in b&w silver-gelatin prints. Designed by Michael Torosian. With a biography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in 1992 as the sixth installment of Toronto's Lumiere Press "Homage" series, this is an exquisitely produced monograph on the late American Surrealist photographer Frederick Sommer. It was designed and printed by author and publisher Michael Torosian on Mohawk Superfine paper, bound in one-quarter oatmeal linen over grey paper boards with a printed spine label, and contains three small tipped-in gelatin-silver prints of images by Sommer as well as a tipped-in gelatin-silver portrait of the photographer by Edward Weston as the frontispiece. A brand new, pristine example (cited on page 113 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter") of this uncommon gem limited to two hundred copies. 0-921542-06-2 Inventory Number: 015155
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BEYOND THE PORTRAIT: YOUNG AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY - SIGNED BY ALEC SOTH AND JONA FRANK
(SOTH, ALEC). Bordignon, Elena, Alec Soth, Jona Frank, Tanyth Berkeley & Alix Smith. Milano, ITALY: TH INSIDE, 2005. First Edition #333/400. Square 8vo. Debossed Cloth. Exhibition Catalog. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color. Text in Italian and English. With photographers' biographies, exhibition histories, and bibliographies. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2005 Tommy Hilfiger-sponsored exhibition held in Milan of Fashion-inflected color portrait photography by Alec Soth, Jona Frank, Tanyth Berkeley, and Alix Smith. A brand new, pristine example of this exceedingly uncommon item - only a single copy is currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - limited to four hundred NUMBERED (333/400) copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by Alec Soth and Jona Frank in black ink on the title page at our shop with the business card of the director of Minneapolis' Weinstein Gallery - Alec Soth's representatives at the time - laid in. Inventory Number: 025743
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FROM HERE TO THERE: ALEC SOTH'S AMERICA - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(SOTH, ALEC). Engberg, Siri, Geoff Dyer, August Kleinzahler, Bartholomew Ryan, Britt Salvesen, Barry Schwabsky & Alec Soth. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2010. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Cloth. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 224pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Emmet Byrne. Published in conjunction with a massive Walker Art Center retrospective of the work of Alec Soth, this is a beautifully designed and printed hardbound survey of the imagery of the noted Minneapolis-based Magnum photographer. A brand new, pristine example of the 2010 first edition (cited on page 260 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") with the photographer's 48 page artist book entitled "The Loneliest Man in Missouri:" housed in a pocket affixed to the rear inside board, as issued, additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Alec Soth" in black ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 025745
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ALEC SOTH: SONGBOOK - SIGNED AND DATED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(SOTH, ALEC). Soth, Alec. London: MACK, 2015. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Padded Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (144pp), 75 tritone illustrations. Designed by Alec Soth and Gregoire Pujade-Lauraine. "Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Broken Manual", Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country. To aid in his search, Soth assumed the increasingly obsolescent role of community newspaper reporter. From 2012 to 2014, Soth traveled state by state while working on his self-published newspaper, "The LBM Dispatch", as well as on assignment for the "New York Times" and others. From upstate New York to Silicon Valley, Soth attended hundreds of meetings, dances, festivals and communal gatherings in search of human interaction in an era of virtual social networks. With "Songbook", Soth has stripped these pictures of their news context in order to highlight the longing for connection at their root. Fragmentary, funny and sad, "Songbook" is a lyrical depiction of the tension between American individualism and the desire to be united". A brand new, pristine example of the 2015 first MACK printing of this awesome undertaking (cited on page 260 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Alec Soth 2015" in the year of publication in black ink on the title page. 1-910164-02-X Inventory Number: 024756
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ALEC SOTH: GATHERED LEAVES - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(SOTH, ALEC). Soth, Alec, Aaron Schuman & Kate Bush. London: MACK, 2015. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Decorative Box. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jackets - As Issued.. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lewis Chaplin. "Alec Soth's reputation as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice is largely predicated on the books he has published. This unusual catalogue accompanies a 2015 touring exhibition which uses the four major bodies of work which Soth has published as books since 2004 as the structural basis for both a mid-career retrospective and an investigation of Soth's prescient understanding of the various and distinct applications of photography as a tool for storytelling across diverse media. The title of the exhibition comes from Walt Whitman's poem 1855 "Song of Myself" and references both the pages of his books gathered for consideration, and the notion that his work is also a story about Soth himself. This catalogue is a special object, bringing together an essay by Aaron Schuman spread across twenty-nine large format postcards, an additional card printed with an introduction by Kate Bush - curator of the exhibition and the director of Media Space, London, with mini facsimile versions of Soth's "Sleeping by the Mississippi", "Niagara", "Broken Manual", and "Songbook". A brand new, most handsome example of the now unavailable first edition (cited on page 260 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Alec Soth / 2015" in black ink in the year of publication on the inside front cover of its decorative box. 1-910164-36-4 Inventory Number: 025273
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ALEC SOTH: ONE MISSISSIPPI (NAZRAELI PRESS ONE PICTURE BOOK NO. 63) - SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL COLOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT
(SOTH, ALEC). Soth, Alec, Aaron Schuman & Kate Bush. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2010. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 11 color illustrations. "One Mississippi" is the sixty-third installment in Nazraeli Press' estimable series of One Picture Books. Limited to five hundred NUMBERED (125/500) copies, it reproduces eleven images from a 1992 road trip down the Mississippi by a twenty-three year old Alec Soth and contains an original 3 3/8 x 4 ¾" color print of a weathered red sedan tipped in at the rear of the book SIGNED "Alec Soth" in back ink on the verso, as issued. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon, lovely item in the publisher's clear plastic ziploc pouch, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: 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. 1-59005-281-1 Inventory Number: 024818
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ALEC SOTH: LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(SOTH, ALEC). Zanot, Francesco & Alec Soth. Roma, ITALY: Edizioni Punctum, 2011. First Edition 1/500. Oblong Small Folio. Illustrated Cloth. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (54pp), 20 color illustrations. Text in Italian and English. Designed by Nicola Veccia Scavalli. Published in conjunction with the tenth edition of the "Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma" in 2011, this is a lavishly produced collection of twenty of Alec Soth's unabashedly romantic, Keats-inflected large format color images of the Eternal City. A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item (cited on page 260 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") limited to five hundred unnumbered copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Alec Soth" in black ink on the title page. 88-95410-31-9 Inventory Number: 025746
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HOUSE OF COATES - SIGNED BY ALEC SOTH
(SOTH, ALEC). Zellar, Brad & Alec Soth (as Lester B. Morrison). St. Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2012. First Edition 1/1000. 8vo. Spiral Bound Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (118pp), profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Hans Seeger. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "In House of Coates, writer Brad Zellar pieces together the story of legendary recluse Lester B. Morrison. Working from a handful of encounters and contradictory conversations, a sketchy paper trail and often confounding interviews with individuals who may or may not have been "associates" of Morrison (including Morrison's former collaborator Alec Soth), Zellar attempts to reconstruct one episode from Morrison's decidedly episodic life. In the winter of 2011, Zellar finally crossed paths with his evasive subject, and was with Morrison's permission granted access to the results of a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test that Morrison submitted to in August of 2009, along with the administrating psychiatrist's copious notes. Finally, in late December of last year, Zellar received in the mail a duct-taped shoebox marked "PERISHABLE" containing almost two hundred photographs that Morrison termed "disposable documents of the approximate period in question". From these raw materials designer Hans Seeger has assembled a book that Morrison himself has pronounced, "probably close enough to what might or might not have happened, and that’'s as much as I've learned to expect from the so-called real world". A brand new, most handsome example of the 2012 first Little Brown Mushroom edition of this quirky document (cited on page 260 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") in green spiral binding limited to one thousand unnumbered copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Alec Soth" in black ink on the title page. 0-9839990-1-5 Inventory Number: 024714
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DOUG + MIKE STARN: ALLEVERYTHINGTHATISYOU - WITH AN ORIGINAL INK-JET PRINT
(STARN, MIKE AND DOUG). Katz, Vincent. Aspen, CO: Baldwin Gallery, 2006. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Boards in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Fine. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Alleverythingthatisyou" is the beautifully appointed catalogue issued in conjunction with a 2006 Baldwin Gallery exhibition of photographically based works depicting snowflakes by Doug and Mike Starn - aka The Starn Twins. Its elegant rice paper dust jacket is in fact an original graphic also depicting snowflakes. Its colophon states that "each book is finished with a unique ink-jet cover. Printed, taped and numbered at the Starn's studio in Brooklyn, NY. Folds and 'damage' are to be expected, duh". A most handsome example of the first and only edition limited to one thousand copies (439/1000) whose jacket and printed clear acetate wrapper are immaculate bearing the discreet blindstamp of a previous owner on the front pastedown. It has been priced accordingly. 0-9671449-4-9 Inventory Number: 021610
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DARTMOUTH BY A. RALPH STEINER - WITH TWENTY-FOUR PHOTOGRAVURES
(STEINER, RALPH). Steiner, A. Ralph. Foreword By Homer Eaton Keyes. Brooklyn, NY: Printed By The Albertype Co., 1922. First Edition. 4to. 1/4 Linen Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fair/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 24 illustrations in monochrome photogravure. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the beautifully printed 1922 collection of Ralph Steiner's views of the Dartmouth campus and nearby Hanover taken while he was a member of the College Camera Club. The noted American photographer's first book, "Dartmouth exhibits a hazy, Pictorialist style - especially effective in capturing the look of the New Hampshire winter. Each of these lovely images is printed in gravure on the recto only from photo-etched plates. A serviceable copy whose front and rear boards show light wear and soiling, with abrading to the tips. Internally, both hinges have cracks, and there is a previous owner's name in ink on the inside front cover. The textblock has a quarter inch margin of light dampstaining along the bottom edge throughout that in no way affects the images themselves, and the discoloration is barely noticeable once the plates begin. Otherwise, this is a tight, bright and clean example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 003163
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MARK STEINMETZ: SUMMERTIME - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(STEINMETZ, MARK). Steinmetz, Mark. Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2011. First Edition 1/1000. Small Folio. Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
Mark Steinmetz's follow-up monograph to his classic trilogy "South Central / South East / Greater Atlanta", "Summertime" is a series of portraits of kids and teenagers caught in the midst of activity in distinctly American settings. Made between 1984 and 1991 when kids and teenagers were able to roam their neighborhoods with less supervision than today riding bikes without wearing helmets, and hanging out without constant digital interruptions, these black and white photographs capture the light and feel of an endless summer. Beautifully printed on uncoated Japanese stock with the publisher's exclusive "Daido black" ink, this charming, long unavailable tome was printed in a first edition of one thousand copies casebound copies. A brand new, most handsome example SIGNED AND DATED "Mark Steinmetz / 2012" in pencil on the title page. 978-159005-348-6 Inventory Number: E000MSS -
MARK STEINMETZ: FIFTEEN MILES TO K-VILLE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(STEINMETZ, MARK). Steinmetz, Mark. London, UK: Stanley / Barker, 2016. First Edition 1/750. Oblong 4to. Wrappers in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 100pp, 26 duotone illustrations. "Mark Steinmetz' "15 Miles to K-Ville" is a poetic journey around the outskirts of K-Ville: a fictional town somewhere between Knoxville, Tennessee and Athens, Georgia, where graves dot the terrain and a sense of forbidding hangs heavy in the air. This collection of darkly humorous and melancholy portraits and landscapes date from the early 1990s when the American photographer was moving between these two cities. "I love the South for its warmth and chaos. The vegetation down here grows rampant; the light is softened by humid air. The people are for the most part friendly and they are comfortable in their bodies. They tend to be more open to being photographed by a stranger. The unexpected happens here a lot." A brand new, most handsome example of the 2016 first edition limited to seven hundred and fifty copies additionally SIGNED "Mark Steinmetz" on the title page. 0-9955555-0-8 Inventory Number: 027479
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MARK STEINMETZ: ATL
(STEINMETZ, MARK). Steinmetz, Mark & Gregory J. Harris. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press, I00240427. 2024. First Edition 1/1000 Copies. 12 x 10 1/4", Quarto. Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Photography Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 80pp, 63 duotone illustrations + front cover. "American photographer Mark Steinmetz photographed the people and environs of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport between 2012 and 2019 as part of the High Museum of Art’s "Picturing the South" series, a photographic archive that examines a range of themes specific to the American South. The sixty-four duotone images in "ATL" - the fifteenth volume of Steinmetz’s work published by Nazraeli Press - emphasize “the quiet transitional moments in this liminal world,” writes curator Gregory J. Harris in the volume’s introduction. Steinmetz captures “the more introspective moments” of travel in and out of the world’s most heavily trafficked airport and includes travelers of all ages “leaving one chapter of their lives and going to another,” as the artist stated in a 2019 interview at the museum. Airline pilots, ground personnel, flight attendants, and janitors are also pictured, always working, often waiting; they share a space with the travelers but remain apart. Steinmetz also turns his focus to the open spaces around the airport, presenting vast, overgrown, and often unpeopled areas that provide a sharp contrast to the busy workings of the airport and its constantly changing population. A selection of images taken from aircraft windows depict the graphic beauty of clouds, light streaks, and jet trails, echoing the “sense of levity and mystery” felt by those traveling, as well as those viewing the photographs. Though taken over a period of years, this collection of images evokes the distinct timelessness of air travel, “capturing ordinary yet captivating human dramas that play out in the public spaces across the airport.” A brand new, most handsome example of this thought-provoking Nazraeli Press offering limited to one thousand copies still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 978-1-59005-567-0 Inventory Number: I00240427
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THE AGE OF ADOLESCENCE: JOSEPH STERLING PHOTOGRAPHS 1959-1964 - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(STERLING, JOSEPH). Sterling, Joseph. Introduction by David Travis. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2005. First Edition 1/5000. 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 136pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Dmitri Levas. "From 1959 to 1964 Joseph Sterling photographed teenagers - mostly in and around Chicago - hanging out after school, at drive-ins, in fast cars. As Sterling himself defined it, "the world of the adolescent is totally interlaced within itself and incapable of freeing itself . . . It whirls, rolls, and engulfs what it is allowed to engulf." During that bridging period between postwar peace and prewar upheaval, Sterling was a student himself at Moholy-Nagy's Institute of Design in Chicago, where he studied photography under Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer with classmates Yasuhiro Ishimoto and Ray Metzker. Along with an essay by David Travis, Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1972, "The Age of Adolescence" collects more than one hundred images of a time that's both historically important and emotionally resonant, one in which, as Sterling says, "opportunity is revealed and must be exploited". A brand new, most handsome example additionally SIGNED AND DATED "Joseph Sterling / 12-1-05" in the year of publication black ink on the half title page. 0-9727788-5-3 Inventory Number: 025456
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JOEL STERNFELD: WALKING THE HIGH LINE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(STERNFELD, JOEL). Sternfeld, Joel, Adam Gopnik & John Stilgoe. Gottingen, GERMANY & New York: Steidl & Pace/MacGill Gallery, 2001. First Edition. Small 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 56pp, 28 color and 5 b&w illustrations. Designed by Gerhard Steidl. "Sometimes like a river of grass, sometimes like the wheat fields of the Canadian prairies, the High Line is a unique ruin that simultaneously permits contemplation of nature and the city. Since March 2000, photographer Joel Sternfeld has been documenting the abandoned elevated railway line which runs for one and a half miles along the West Side of New York City, from 34th Street down along the edge of the Hudson River, through West Chelsea's tree-lined blocks and art galleries, and into the heart of the Meat Packing District. Walking the path of this real-time landscape, Sternfeld has created a suite of images in which the landscape is read as both a social and cultural indicator". A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon 2001 first printing additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Joel Sternfeld" in black ink across the title page. 3-88243-726-X Inventory Number: 026624
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TWO LIVES: O'KEEFFE BY STIEGLITZ 1917-1923
(STIEGLITZ, ALFRED) (O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA). Naef, Weston. Malibu, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Cardstock Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. One 8 ¾ x 32" cardstock sheet printed recto and verso, neatly folded in fourths as issued to make 8pp, 5 duotone illustrations. This is the slender eight page brochure produced to accompany a 1992 exhibition of vintage prints of images of Georgia O'Keeffe taken by her husband Alfred Stieglitz drawn primarily from the Getty's vast holdings. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 021248
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ALFRED STIEGLITZ: SEEN AND UNSEEN
(STIEGLITZ, ALFRED). Naef, Weston. Malibu, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Cardstock Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good.. One 8 ¾ x 32" cardstock sheet printed recto and verso, neatly folded in fourths as issued to make 8pp, 6 duotone illustrations. This is the slender eight page brochure produced to accompany a 1995 exhibition of vintage prints by Alfred Stieglitz drawn from the J. Paul Getty Museum Department of Photography's vast holdings. A handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 005390
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BAD BUNNY BY STILLZ - 2019 / 2025
(STILLZ). Stillz. Miami, FL: WeOwnTheCity, I00251026. 2025. First Edition. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2”, 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers in a Screenprinted Platic Dust Jacket. Music Photography Monograph. New./New.. 142pp, 84 color illustrations. Designed by Querida. "Bad Bunny 2019 / 2025" by STILLZ is the just published photography collection showcasing six years of close-up Polaroid portraits of the Puerto Rican icon. The volume is the work of Colombian-American filmmaker and photographer STILLZ, a longtime collaborator and trusted confidant of the artist. A brand new example of the first edition of this fantastic, sure-to disappear-quickly collection of intimate portraits perfect for the Bad Bunny completist. 979-8-9988704-1-5 Inventory Number: E00251026
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ROBERT STIVERS: SANCTUM - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(STIVERS, ROBERT). Stivers, Robert & Eugenia Parry. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 2006. First Edition 1/1000. Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (88pp), 41 four-color illustrations + jacket. Designed by Jack Woody and Robert Stivers. Limited to one thousand copies only, this lavishly produced volume is the fourth collection of New Mexican photographer Robert Stivers' beautifully toned, haunting images that evoke cameras and printing processes of a bygone era. A pristine copy of this sumptuous tome BOLDLY SIGNED by the photographer in black felt-tip pen on the title page. 1-931885-57-5 Inventory Number: 012776
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ROBERT STIVERS: PHOTOGRAPHS - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(STIVERS, ROBERT). Stivers, Robert. Introduction by A.D. Coleman. Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (106pp), 44 b&w illustrations. This is the first book of Robert Stivers' dark, ghostly images published by the late, lamented Arena Press. A pristine copy BOLDLY SIGNED in ink by the photographer on the half title page. 0-9657280-0-5 Inventory Number: 011471
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BRICK STOWELL: ALMOST FAMOUS - PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(STOWELL, BRICK). Stowell, Brick. Los Angeles: Self-Published, I00250806. 2025. First Edition. 9 x 6 1/2", 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Music Photography Monograph. New.. np (76pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. "Brick Stowell was the staff photographer and tour manager for Odd Future (OFWGKTA) from 2011 to 2016, capturing the collective's rise to fame. His work highlights a transformative period in the music industry, influencing contemporary music culture. "Almost Famous: Planes, Trains & Automobiles" is the small-format follow up to Stowell's 2024 massive - and now sold out - comprehensive look at Odd Future's history entitled "Almost Famous:2011-2016 - The OFWGKTA Photographs. A brand new example of the first edition of this document of Los Angeles' near past featuring Odd Future members Tyler The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Frank Ocean, Travis Taco Bennett, Syd Tha Kid, Hodgy, and more additionally.BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED by photographer Brick Stowell. Get one while they last! 9799985902585
Inventory Number: I00250806
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BRICK STOWELL: ALMOST FAMOUS 2011-2016 - THE OFWGKTA PHOTOGRAPHS - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(STOWELL, BRICK). Stowell, Brick. Los Angeles: Self-Published, I00250209. 2024. Second Edition. 11 x 8 1/2", Quarto. Printed Boards. Music Photography Monograph. New./No Jacket - As Issued. 396pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Brick Stowell was the staff photographer and tour manager for Odd Future (OFWGKTA) from 2011 to 2016, capturing the collective's rise to fame. His work highlights a transformative period in the music industry, influencing contemporary music culture. "Almost Famous..." is a comprehensive look at Odd Future's history, featuring photos, original merchandise, music video props, outfits, and other memorabilia, documenting the cultural impact of the group." A brand new example of the now unavailable second edition of this vital document of Los Angeles' near past featuring Odd Future members Tyler The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Frank Ocean, Travis Taco Bennett, Syd Tha Kid, Hodgy, and more that sold out immediately upon it's first printing additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED by photographer Brick Stowell. 9799985902585
Inventory Number: E000BSAF1
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THOMAS STRUTH: LANDSCHAFTEN (PHOTOGRAPHIEN 1991-1993)
(STRUTH, THOMAS). Struth, Thomas & Rupert Pfab. Dusseldorf & Berlin, GERMANY: Achenbach Kunsthandel & Galerie Max Hetzler, 1994. First Edition 1/900. Small 4to. Debossed Printed Cloth. Photography Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. 80pp, 31 color illustrations. Text in German. Designed by Lambert & Ott. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in 1994, "Landschaften" features a text by Thomas Struth accompanied by reproductions of thirty-one color photographs of the Swiss countryside taken between 1991 and 1993 that were "originally part of a larger project that I carried out for the sick-rooms of the Hospital on the Lindberg in Winterthur (Switzerland)". An internally bright, most handsome example of an edition limited to nine hundred unnumbered copies showing some mild wear and scuffing to its brown cloth covers with the publisher's English language caption booklet laid in, as issued. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 022583
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THOMAS STRUTH: STRASSEN (STRAßEN), FOTOGRAFIE 1976 BIS 1995
(STRUTH, THOMAS). Struth, Thomas, Stefan Gronert, Rupert Pfab & Christoph Schreier. Koln, GERMANY: Wienand Verlag, 1995. First Edition. Large 4to. Boards in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 152pp, 10 color, 15 b&w and 68 duotone illustrations. Text in German. With an exhibition checklist, biography, exhibition history and bibliography. Published on the occasion of a 1995 Kunstmuseum Bonn retrospective, this is a substantial volume devoted to renowned German photographer Thomas Struth's urban landscapes. A pristine example. 3-87909-441-1 Inventory Number: 015095
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KASHMIR: PARADISE LOST
(SUGARMAN, MARTIN). Sugarman, Martin. Malibu, CA: Sugarman Productions, 1994. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. During the 1990s, Los Angeles-based photojournalist Martin Sugarman spent much time photographing, then self-publishing several moving books dealing with global centers of political unrest and war - many of which are still very much in the news today. No longer in distribution, this title deals with daily life in Kashmir amidst the warfare and strife on the frontlines of the idealogical battle between India and Pakistan, Hinduism and Islam. A most handsome example. 1-883071-01-1 Inventory Number: 001541
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STORM OVER CUBA
(SUGARMAN, MARTIN). Sugarman, Martin. Malibu, CA: Sugarman Productions, 1995. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. During the 1990s, Los Angeles-based photojournalist Martin Sugarman spent much time photographing, then self-publishing several moving books dealing with global centers of political unrest and war - many of which are still very much in the news today. No longer in distribution, this title deals with the aftermath of Castro's revolution, and the daily life of poor and working-class Cubans throughout the island. A most handsome example. 1-883071-02-X Inventory Number: 001539
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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: L'HISTOIRE DE L'HISTOIRE
(SUGIMOTO, HIROSHI). Sugimoto, Hiroshi & Kozo Fujimoto. Tokyo: Rikuyosha Co. Ltd., 2004. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 168pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. Designed by Rie Shimoda. With a biography and exhibition history. This is the exquisite hardbound catalogue produced as the documentation of a 2003 Hiroshi Sugimoto exhibition entitled "L'Histoire de L'Histoire". For it, the renowned photographer selected objects and sites of Japanese cultural and historical importance, photographed them, and then installed these images along with older works (the dioramas, seascapes and portraits) in a Tokyo gallery curated by the luxury goods concern Hermes. The resulting work is unlike any of Sugimoto's previous books, and hauntingly beautiful. A brand new, most handsome example. 4-89737-498-7 Inventory Number: 019731
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THE BEAUTIFUL & THE DAMNED: PUNK PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANN SUMMA
(SUMMA, ANN). Summa, Ann, Kristine McKenna & Exene Cervenka. NP: Foggy Notion Books, 2010. First Edition 1/1500. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Music Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 112pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild at Green Dragon Office. "When photographer Ann Summa arrived in Los Angeles in 1978, the city’s punk scene was still fresh, diverse, smart, utterly original, and fertile territory for a young photographer". Any of you even remotely conversant with Los Angeles punk scene of the late seventies and early eighties should remember Ann Summa’s striking photographs that appeared regularly in the late, great Slash magazine. Now some thirty years later, Foggy Notion Books has just produced "The Beautiful & the Damned: Punk Photographs by Ann Summa" - a lovely hardbound volume filled with these vintage gritty and endearing images; many collected here in book form for the first time! Edited and with an introduction by Kristine McKenna, it features iconic portraits of everyone from local heroes X, Gun Club, The Screamers, The Germs, Johanna Went, and The Kipper Kids to Television, Talking Heads, The Cramps, R.E.M., The Clash, Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Captain Beefheart, and many, many more. A brand new, most handome example. 1-935202-27-8 Inventory Number: 027634
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RISAKU SUZUKI: HYSTERIC EIGHT
(SUZUKI, RISAKU). Suzuki, Risaku. Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 2003. First Edition 1/500. 4to. Cloth in Acetate Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (44pp), 20 color illustrations. Text in English. This is the eighth installment in the estimably hip Japanese fashion/style purveyor Hysteric Glamour's series of beautifully produced limited edition photography monographs. Preceding "Yuki Sakura" by five years, it features Risaku Suzuki's vibrant gatefold images of blossoming Japanese Cherry trees captured against impossibly blue skies. A brand new, pristine NUMBERED (150/500) example of the first and only edition limited to five hundred copies. Inventory Number: 025534
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RISAKU SUZUKI: MONT SAINTE VICTOIRE
(SUZUKI, RISAKU). Suzuki, Risaku & Hideki Maeda. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2004. First Edition 1/1000. Oblong Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (80pp), 43 color illustrations. With a biography and exhibition history. "Featured in over fifty paintings by Cezanne, the Mont Sainte Victoire in Southern France is familiar even to those who have never been there. A century later, photographer Risaku Suzuki has followed in the great artist’s footsteps, using a quite different medium to depict the landscape on the way". A brand new pristine example of this lovely Nazraeli Press title limited to one thousand copies only still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-59005-085-1 Inventory Number: 023317
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ED TEMPLETON: CITY CONFESSIONS #2: LONDON
(TEMPLETON, ED). Templeton, Ed. Tokyo, JAPAN: Super Labo, 2021. First Edition 1/1000. 9 1/2 x8", 4to. 64 pages. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued.
“City Confessions #2 London is a mostly recent study on the city of London. Although some photos in this book go back over 20 years, the majority were taken over the past decade on numerous trips. Since the mid 1990’s, once or twice a year I find myself in London for a few days or weeks at a time and end up on long walks shooting photos with my Leica. The pictures in this book were chosen to highlight a particular shade of London I have always found interesting, Moments of weariness, furtive glances and subtle gestures within a densely populated city center as the swarms of people perform the ceremony of getting through another day.” 978-4908512995 Inventory Number: I00210629 -
ED TEMPLETON: "UNTITLED ("WOMAN SMOKES FROM BEHIND") - A 2015 ORIGINAL DRAWING SIGNED AND FRAMED BY THE ARTIST
(TEMPLETON, ED). Templeton, Ed. Huntington Beach, CA: Ed Templeton, 2015. 15 ¾ x 12 ½", Small Folio. Original Drawing in a Frame. Original Pencil Drawing on Paper. As New.. One 12 x 9 ¼" pencil drawing signed and dated on the verso in a 15 ¾ x 12 ½" wood frame with a glass face. A pioneer and legend of the skateboarding world, Mr. Templeton is not only the force behind Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard Company, but a world renowned photographer and artist with gallery and museum shows the world over. This is an ORIGINAL DRAWING in pencil on Arches paper entitled "Untitled (Woman Smokes From Behind)" SIGNED AND DATED "Ed Templeton / 2015" in pencil on the verso that was exhibited in his 2015 Roberts and Tilton Gallery exhibition entitled "Synthetic Suburbia." This was acquired by Arcana directly from Mr. Temlpeton, and is a near-identical variant of an similarly-titled work on paper reproduced in The Tempster's 2024 Tim Van Laere exhibition catalogue, "The Sprawl." 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. Inventory Number: 027391