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  • Robin Williams: A Singular Portrait, 1986-2002 - Deluxe Signed And Numbered Limited Edition With A Signed Photograph

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    ROBIN WILLIAMS: A SINGULAR PORTRAIT, 1986-2002 - DELUXE SIGNED AND NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

    Grace, Arthur. Counterpoint , 2016. Deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies that includes an 11 x 8 1/2" black and white photographic print.

    "I had always thought that when I was around 84 and Robin was 80 we could collaborate on a book about the golden years of his career where he could look at my photographs and reminisce about the events and his feelings at the time. Unfortunately, that book was never to be . . . ."

    Photographer Arthur Grace first met Robin Williams in April 1986, at a comedy club in Pittsburgh where Williams was working to polish what would eventually become his award-winning special “Evening at the Met”. The two hit it off immediately, and thus blossomed a close friendship that carried them through their increasingly successful careers. Told through a series of stunning photographs of Williams taken by Grace over the course of this decades-long partnership, Robin Williams: A Singular Portrait offers a touching and up-close look at the real Robin Williams—the manic and happy, the pensive and weary, the engaged and disengaged, a true portrait of one of America’s greatest comics and most beloved actors.

    For the millions of people around the globe that Robin Williams has touched, these images, more than 150 photographs, a glorious mixture of stunning color and resonating black and white presented in exhibit format, will be something to embrace and cherish, not simply because of their exclusivity, but because of their intimacy and their honesty.

    Arthur Grace began his professional career in 1973 as a staff photographer for United Press International. During his award-winning thirty-year career, his photos have been featured on the cover of Life, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, are in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the High Museum of Art. He has published four critically-acclaimed photographic books: Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race, Comedians, State Fair, and America 101. Inventory Number: E0000AGRWDLX

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    Filed Under: Photography Monographs
  • Robin Williams: A Singular Portrait, 1986-2002 - Signed By Arthur Grace

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    ROBIN WILLIAMS: A SINGULAR PORTRAIT, 1986-2002 - SIGNED BY ARTHUR GRACE

    Grace, Arthur. Counterpoint , 2016. ON SALE: August 9, 2016

    "I had always thought that when I was around 84 and Robin was 80 we could collaborate on a book about the golden years of his career where he could look at my photographs and reminisce about the events and his feelings at the time. Unfortunately, that book was never to be . . . ."

    Photographer Arthur Grace first met Robin Williams in April 1986, at a comedy club in Pittsburgh where Williams was working to polish what would eventually become his award-winning special “Evening at the Met”. The two hit it off immediately, and thus blossomed a close friendship that carried them through their increasingly successful careers. Told through a series of stunning photographs of Williams taken by Grace over the course of this decades-long partnership, Robin Williams: A Singular Portrait offers a touching and up-close look at the real Robin Williams—the manic and happy, the pensive and weary, the engaged and disengaged, a true portrait of one of America’s greatest comics and most beloved actors.

    For the millions of people around the globe that Robin Williams has touched, these images, more than 150 photographs, a glorious mixture of stunning color and resonating black and white presented in exhibit format, will be something to embrace and cherish, not simply because of their exclusivity, but because of their intimacy and their honesty.

    Arthur Grace began his professional career in 1973 as a staff photographer for United Press International. During his award-winning thirty-year career, his photos have been featured on the cover of Life, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, are in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the High Museum of Art. He has published four critically-acclaimed photographic books: Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race, Comedians, State Fair, and America 101. 978-1619027275 Inventory Number: E0000AGRW

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    Filed Under: Cinema, Photography Monographs
  • Todd Hido On Landscapes, Interiors, And The Nude

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    TODD HIDO ON LANDSCAPES, INTERIORS, AND THE NUDE

    Hido, Todd. Introduction by Gregory Halpern. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2014. Third Printing. 8vo. Pictorial Paperback. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued.

    In this book - part of Aperture's Photography Workshop Series - Todd Hido explores the genres of landscape, interior, and nude photography, with an emphasis on creating images from a personal perspective and with a sense of intimacy. Through words and photographs, he reveals insight into his own practice and discusses a wide range of creative issues, including mining one’s own memory and experience as inspiration; using light, texture, and detail for greater impact; exploring the narrative potential activated when sequencing images; and creating powerful stories with emotional weight and beauty. A brand new, most handsome example..

    978-1-59711-297-0 Inventory Number: E000THOL

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    Filed Under: California Artists and Arts, Photography Monographs
  • Fumi Ishino: Rowing A Tetrapod

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    FUMI ISHINO: ROWING A TETRAPOD

    Ishino, Fumi. MACK, 2017. Rowing a Tetrapod brings together a fluctuating array of black and white photographs made in multiple locations in the United States and Japan, between which countries emerging artist Fumi Ishino has resided. The work channels his nomadic experience of moving back and forth between two distinct cultures, with divergent social norms and values. Following an aleatoric structure, the book presents images as diverse as Japanese school children, American astronauts, vernacular architecture, laboratory scenes, local cuisines, animals and studio still-lifes. Blurring distinctions between the local and the foreign, the domestic and the cosmic, Rowing a Tetrapod delights in confusing cultural conceptions, fabricating an imaginary space that is bent towards misinterpretation.

    PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Rowing a Tetrapod" will be signed Sunday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. 978-1-910164-92-1 Inventory Number: E000FIRAT

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    Filed Under: Photography Monographs
  • Randi Malkin Steinberger: No Circus - Signed!

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    RANDI MALKIN STEINBERGER: NO CIRCUS - SIGNED!

    Malkin Steinberger, Randi and D.J. Waldie. Damiani, 2016.
    No Circus brings together photographs by Los Angeles–based Randi Malkin Steinberger of buildings tented for termite fumigation around Los Angeles. After moving to the city in the early ‘90s, she encountered these shrouded structures and began to stop and photograph them, knowing that the tent might be undraped at any given moment.

    Steinberger was intrigued by the way the colors and shapes of the tents showed off the forms below and highlighted the beauty of the poor plants on the outside, still flourishing, unaware that they were slowly being poisoned. Beyond the intended purpose of fumigation, these tents unwittingly allow us to stop and contemplate not only architectural form and the meaning of home, but also the Southern California lifestyle more broadly.

    Books will be signed by Ms. Steinberger and Mr. Waldie on 10/1/16. 9788862084802 Inventory Number: E000RMSNC

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    Filed Under: Photography Monographs
  • Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation On Tibet By Marissa Roth

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    Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation on Tibet by Marissa Roth

    Roth, Marissa. Marquand Books. Cloth in Slipcase. New.


    Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation on Tibet by Marissa Roth with a Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Marquand Books. "A visual poem of seventy-two color photographs of her impressions of Tibet, arranged in a continuous sequence reflecting the colors of Tibetan prayer flags. The photographs were shot with some of the last available Kodachrome film, producing deep saturated color. Limited to an edition of 400, each slipcased book is signed and numbered by the artist. Says Roth, ‘This project is my love letter to Tibet. It is the reflection of my inner and outer journeys to this land and a very personal impressionistic view of what it feels like to be in Tibet. It is also a social and political statement and another cry for awareness about what is being irrevocably lost.’”

     

    Please note, the cost of this book includes $15 for insured domestic shipping.

    Inventory Number: 01975

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    Filed Under: Photography Monographs
  • Clint Woodside: Undercover Cars - Deluxe Boxed Edition With A Signed Photograph Limited To Ten Copies

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    CLINT WOODSIDE: UNDERCOVER CARS - DELUXE BOXED EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH LIMITED TO TEN COPIES

    Woodside, Clint. Um Yeah Arts, 2016. First Edition 1/10 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth with Pastedown, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. First issued in 2013 as a Deadbeat Club zine, Undercover Cars has been substantially enlarged and re-conceived as an elegant hardcover book featuring a new text by photographer Mike Slack. Undercover Cars is the culmination of a series of color photographs – shot on film and printed in the dark room – spanning five years, scores of autos, and thousands of miles from Los Angeles to Bangkok. The book contains 52 images of cars parked in plain sight, but covered from the elements. In his insightful essay, co-publisher Mike Slack (The Ice Plant) observes, “What strikes me now, looking at this fresh new edit, is not the boring ubiquity of the subject matter - the deadpan Christo-like charm of all these tarps attached to all these automobiles - but the man-made environments Woodside is showing us in the photographs, and the sense of walking-and-looking that the series implies. Never mind the covered cars; look at what surrounds them.” Hailing from New York, Clint Woodside currently resides in LA by way of Philadelphia. His work as a photographer has been shown in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, and Philadelphia, and internationally in Europe, Asia, and Australia. Woodside is also known for his extensive work as a curator, graphic designer, and as creator/publisher of Deadbeat Club - a publisher and distributor of more than forty publications whose diverse roster of photographers includes Todd Hido, Tobin Yelland, Ed Templeton, Deanna Templeton, Andrea Sonnenberg, Jerry Hsu, Patrick O’Dell, Woodside, and others.

    Comes in 8.5" X 10.5" box
    With signed, stamped and numbered print and book
    Choice of 5 different prints
    Edition of 10 each set - 50 Total Inventory Number: E000CWUCDLX

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    Filed Under: California Artists and Arts, Limited Editions, Original Art, Graphics + Multiples, Photography Monographs, Signed Books

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