(SHUBUCK, SIMONE). Shubuck, Simone, Janine Foeller, Jim Dempsey & Alex Wagner. New York, NY: Self-published. Printed in Poland by Szaransky, 2018. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Cloth. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.


"In the summer of 2017, Simone Shubuck launched WIFEY, a Brooklyn pop up that fused art, food, ceramics, flowers, and bit of retail in an elevated DIY way. During the process, Shubuck realized that so much of what she was doing directly connected to a show she staged as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute in the early 1990s. Wanting to formalize that multi-decade connection, she decided to make a book.


While at the Art institute, Shubuck studied painting, but probably spent more time tagging on the streets in the middle of the night than in her studio. When it came time to produce her student show, she constructed ten very unusual fake cakes festooned with pink ham hocks, a school of fresh sardines, a tent of chicken feet, and live crickets within a hat box within a cake. It was these images that attracted chefs Ignacio Mattos and Natasha Pickowicz of Estela, Flora Bar, and Cafe Altro Paradiso to the project. They became partners and began experimenting with dreamy layers cakes, which were served at WIFEY and were met with great acclaim.


As described by Ella Riley-Adams on Vogue.com: "She had made a paged project before; a short run of 'zines for Natasha Pickowicz’s bake sale benefit at Altro Paradiso. “It had more of a punk vibe,” Shubuck says—150 copies, printed in Chinatown. The new book feels more like a collector’s item: a retrospective of off-kilter cakes, blossoming drawings, and character-filled ceramics that charts Shubuck’s creative course that would make the ideal gift for the cool girl in your life. As Alex Wagner writes, next to a bright yellow page in the book: “Simone’s work - on paper, in clay, in life! - retains a glorious sense of mess and possibility and freedom.”


Includes texts by Janine Foeller, Jim Dempsey, and Alex Wagner.








0-692-07877-0 Inventory Number: E000SS

(SIGHICELLI, ELISA). Alemani, Cecilia. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2010. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (52pp), profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Goto Design. With an exhibition checklist. This is the striking hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2010 Gagosian Gallery New York exhibition of eleven recent Duratrans photographic images by the Italian born, London based artist Elisa Sighicelli. A most handsome copy. 1-935263-02-1 Inventory Number: 020452

(SILVY, CAMILLE). Haworth-Booth, Mark. Malibu, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1993. 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 "Silvy's River Scene, France: The Story of a Photograph"; a 1993 exhibition of variant vintage prints of the same 1858 image by the noted 19th Century French photographer Camille Silvy. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 021433

(SISKIND, AARON). Siskind, Aaron. Foreword by Gordon Parks. Charles Traub & Ann Banks, Editors. Providence, RI: Matrix Publications, Inc., 1981. First Edition #100/100 Deluxe. Oblong Small 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 80pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Malcolm Grear. This is the historically significant compendium of the esteemed late Chicago-based photographer Aaron Siskind's photographs from the 1930s of Harlem and its denizens. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1981 Matrix Publications deluxe first hardbound edition in dust jacket limited to one hundred copies NUMBERED (100/100) AND SIGNED "Aaron Siskind" in black ink on the vellum limitation page at front, as issued, showing some mild wear and sunning to the publisher's printed slipcase. 0-936554-06-1 Inventory Number: 026401

(SISKIND, AARON). Siskind, Aaron. Introduction by Harold Rosenberg. New York: Horizon Press, 1959. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Very Good/Good. np (112pp), 50 b&w illustrations. Designed by Ivan Chermayeff. Spectacularly designed and beautifully printed, this 1959 hardbound publication was the very first comprehensive monograph on the esteemed late Chicago-based photographer Aaron Siskind. An internally bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item whose striking silver-gilt front cover and spine lettering are still fresh showing some sunning along with abrading to the tip of the bottom edge of the rear cover. The book's brittle dust jacket is present, though noticeably creased, chipped, and torn - with some minor paper loss - primarily along the extremities. It has been priced accordingly. LC 59-13545 Inventory Number: 025032

(SISKIND, AARON). Siskind, Aaron. Introduction by Thomas B. Hess. New York: Light Gallery Books & Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First Edition 1/7500. 4to. Wrappers in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Very Good./Very Good.. 112pp, 94 duotone illustrations. Designed by Malcolm Grear. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the beautifully printed catalogue published in conjunction with a comprehensive 1976 retrospective exhibition of the work of the esteemed late Chicago-based photographer Aaron Siskind held at New York's Light Gallery. An internally handsome example of the paperbound edition in dust jacket additionally SIGNED "Aaron Siskind" in blue ink on the half title page showing some mild wear and soiling to the wrappers and edges of the textblock. 0-374-23205-9 Inventory Number: 025770

(SLACK, MIKE). Slack, Mike. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2017. First Edition. 4to. Decorative Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/ No Jacket - As Issued. np (100pp), 50 color illustrations. "Clouds, electronics, fog, bugs, glass, cellophane, rust, weeds, waves, particles… Mike Slack delves into an overheated terrestrial ecosystem in "The Transverse Path, surveying a luminous topography of monumental details and mundane vistas with cosmic curiosity. Transcendental in mood, Slack’s vaguely sci-fi photographs envision a sun-blasted wilderness of synthetic and organic stuff, all tangled together, flourishing and disintegrating on its own terms, as if engaged in an ageless negotiation (or flirtation?) just beyond our grasp. Where does nature end and its opposite begin? And where do people figure into this balance? Made primarily around the American southwest from 2011 to 2017, these vivid compositions — like a series of thought-bubbles in search of a narrative — are concise and direct, yet driven by an emotional ambivalence that hovers between stark environmental dread and calm intimate reverie". A brand new, pristine example of the first The Ice Plant edition limited to nine hundred unnumbered copies additionally SIGNED "Mike Slack" in ink.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "The Transverse Path" will be signed Saturday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. 978-0-9992655-0-5 Inventory Number: E000MSTTP

(SLACK, MIKE). Slack, Mike. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2012. Second Edition (First Thus) 1/500. 8vo. Wrappers in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New./As New.. np (96pp), 45 color illustrations + color cover. "High Tide" is Mike Slack's collection of beautifully reproduced Polaroids taken from a monitor screen in which each of its slightly-distorted subjects fills the frame, eyes closed, in a seeming state of meditative bliss. Originally published in conjunction with a 2006 exhibition of the work at Marfa's Galleri Urbane, it includes images of such iconic actors and actresses as Jack Nicholson, Nancy Allen, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty, Sean Young, Barry Newman, and many more. A pristine copy in the publisher's plastic pouch of the first printing of the revised and expanded 2012 edition of this cult favorite limited to five hundred copies SIGNED "Mike Slack" in black ink on the rear colophon. 0-9823653-8-1 Inventory Number: 021902

(SMALLWOOD, DONAVON). Trespasser, I00220722, 2022. 14 x 12 inches, 56 Pages. Softcover. New/No Jacket - As Issued.

Languor is an ode to NYC’s Central Park. With the pandemic at hand and the history of Seneca Village in mind, Smallwood created photographs of tentative comfort and appreciation as an examination of nature, home, tranquility, and escape. 9780578907598 Inventory Number: I00220722

(SMITH, JACK). Jordan, Mary, Director. New York: Arthouse Films, 2007. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 8vo. NTSC DVD in Plastic Case. Documentary Film. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 95 minutes + extras, in color. "Perhaps America's most important artist from the last fifty years, Jack Smith is simultaneously hailed as the godfather of performance art, a groundbreaking photographer, and the 'William Blake of film'. His utopian ideals, artistic processes and bejeweled artworks left no generation untouched since, and became essential influences to contemporary art superstars like Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini, and Matthew Barney. In her feature-length film debut, director Mary Jordan combines Smith's rare and unseen films and photographs with rare audio recordings, acting appearances, and other relics squeezed from Smith's vaulted archives. Commentaries from art luminaries, critics and Smith's friends and enemies such as George Kuchar, Ken Jacobs, Tony Conrad, Sylvere Lotringer, Judith Malina, Jonas Mekas, Mario Montez, Ronald Tavel, John Waters, John Zorn, Agosto Machado, Andrew Sarris, Ari Roussimoff, Billy Name, Ela Troyano, Gary Indiana, George Kuchar, Helen Gee, Henry Hills, Maria Montez, Andrew Sarris, Holly Woodlawn, Ira Cohen, Ivan Galietti, Jerry Tartaglia, John Matturri, John Vaccaro, Lawrence Rinder, Mary Woronov, Mike Kelley, Nayland Blake, Nick Zedd, Richard Foreman, Robert Heide, Robert Wilson, Taylor Mead, Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt, Uzi Parnes, and William Niederkorn intercut Smith himself proffering condemnations of capitalism, critics, and institutional-art "gatekeepers". Jordan also delves into Smith's tenuous relationship with Andy Warhol - who adopted Smith's ideas and actors in his own work (including Smith's "Superstars" concept), his vilification of New American cinema pioneer Jonas Mekas, and other previously undocumented biographical topics. From the Whitney to the Louvre, Smith is acknowledged as one of America's most influential artists, yet his legacy remains at the edges of obscurity. Pure in his artistic pursuits, Smith smashed head-on into the politics intersecting creativity, capitalism, and meaning in contemporary art. Since his 1989 death, Smith's work has been rarely publicly displayed. Still his influence pervades contemporary art and pop-culture today. This documentary portrait pays homage to New York's ultimate anti-hero and the original King of the Underground". A brand new, pristine unplayed example of this DVD in letterbox format still in the manufacturer's shrinkwrapped plastic case. Inventory Number: 018984

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(SOTH, ALEC). Soth, Alec, Aaron Schuman & Kate Bush. London, UK: MACK, 2015. Later Edition. 4to. Printed Cloth. 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, most handsome example of a later printing additionally SIGNED by Alec Soth at the rear colophon. 1-910164-02-X

Inventory Number: E000ASS

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(STEIN, HARVEY). Zatara Press, I00201226, 2020. 7 x 9 in., 88 pages. Hardbound. New/No Jacket - As Issued.

In Then and There, the well-known photographer Harvey Stein documents a crucial aspect of public behavior at the 1979 New Orleans Mardi Gras. Shooting with an instant SX-70 Polaroid camera, the process allowed Stein to directly interact with his subjects, who perform, observe, and even share in the photographic process. The 47 portraits are made just feet away from each person, mostly at dusk, sharply revealed by the light of the camera’s flash bar. His subjects creatively present themselves in diverse colorful masks, makeup, and revelry. Each portrait is a glimpse into a layered and hidden personal identity made possible by the collaborative choices of the photographer and the subjects acting in front of the camera. The raw excitement of Mardi Gras flows through each portrait with the people physically filling the entire frame of the Polaroid as if the print itself were a stage just for them. Mardi Gras allows both the subject and the photographer a moment of freedom to observe a transformation into another reality of being. Stein investigates these many themes throughout the book, and captures those flamboyant moments of lightning in a bottle with each Polaroid. 9781733840613 Inventory Number: I00201226

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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