![Item #31542 Eikoh Hosoe [Untitled 42]. James Alinder, ed., Ronald J. Hill](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31542.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684786984)
Carmel, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1986. Eikoh Hosoe. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 31 plates and 3 small photos. The photos, from 1959 on, are grouped by theme: Man and Woman, Barakei, Kamaitachi, Embrace, Shifukei (Simon: A Private Landscape), Portraits and Workshops, and Architecture by Antonio Gaudi. Published as..... More
![Item #30484 Northampton Street, Easton, Pa. [windowed souvenir mail card]. Anonymous Photographer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30484.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973598)
New York: Rotograph Co., 1905. No stated edition. Postcard. Souvenir mail card featuring a windowed set of smaller views. Here the metal clasp holds an accordion-folded strip with 12 photos of sites in and around Easton--The Circle, Delaware River Bridge, Court House, Library, and Lafayette College (several). The main scene..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Advocate, 2008. Ashbery, John. First edition. Soft cover. 72p, many ills. and photos. Laid in: DVD with animation, claymation, and other films by 5 artists (6 tracks total). This issue of The Harvard Advocate was published in anticipation of Ashbery's reciving the Harvard Arts Medal in Spring..... More
Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press for Harvard University Library, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 178p, 88 ill., almost all in color (some published here for the first time). Essays on the histories and personalities behind selected American daguerreotypes in Harvard collections. The college began collecting daguerreotypes early on, recognizing their..... More
London / Liverpool: Barraud Studio, n.d. [ca. 1890]. No stated edition. Mounted photograph. Image is ca. 7 x 10 inches on damaged cardboard mount (ca. 10 x 14 inches). On the mat are printed Barraud's name and addresses plus "W & S Ltd" and "Permanent." Image has trivial wrinkles (from..... More
Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1986. Cortright, Steven. First edition. Soft cover (die-cut window on front). 20p, several ills., most in color. The fifth and final exhibition in the museum's series to showcase contemporary Southern California artists. Checklist of Cortright's altered bookworks, photo setups and fabricated books, and..... More
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1975. Uelsmann, Jerry. First edition. Hardcover. N.p., 146 large photos. Lightly rippled throughout; slight foxing to last few bottom margins; else clean. Comprehensive selection of Uelsmann's work, chiefly his multiple images of the natural world that "possess an often eerie vision of the extra-sensory..... More
New York: Baker & Taylor, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 280p + 33 plates, 22 in color. Withdrawn ex-lib., with usual marks. One 4-page gathering of the preface is detached. No jacket, if issued. Very thorough account of color printing in books and prints from the 15th century through photomechanical reproduction--chiaroscuro..... More
Geneva: Christian Braillard (printer), 1983. First edition. Soft cover. [48]p, many color ills. Poetic text by Butor and an explanation of the series and its production by Pretre. One of 1500 trade copies. In French. Catalogue for two exhibitions of Jean-Claude Pretre's Offenbach series held in Basel, 1983 (including..... More
New York: Filmhaus, 1974. Caponigro, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. N.p., over 50 plates. Jacket is lightly shelf rubbed. Jacket flap text by Peter C. Bunnell. Short text by Caponigro; no captions or descriptions of the photos, which speak for themselves and "the beauty of the sunflower . . . its..... More
![Item #30459 The Photograph and the Book V [Catalogue 105]; 19th Century Photographically...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30459.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973593)
Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [2000]. First edition. Soft cover. 79p, many ills. Bookseller catalogue, continuing Wood's pioneering catalogues of books about and containing photographs. 203 entries, all scrupulously described. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Cambridge, MA: Charles Wood, n.d. [2003]. First edition. Soft cover. 83p, many photos. Offers 221 illustrated books, albums, catalogues, and technical manuals, all described in scrupulous detail. More
Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1998. Cratsley, Bruce. First edition. Hardcover. 170p, 143 duotone photos. Back of jacket rubbed, chipped; bottom of back of jacket torn. Definitive monograph of Cratsley's moving body of work, published in the same year that he died of HIV/AIDS. Sculpture and other objects, street scenes..... More
Compiled in Rockland, MA: Unpublished album, 1920-28. Album. The album is 11 x 12 ½ inches. 143 pages, filled with about 450 journal entries and souvenirs. The items are all glued to the pages or tipped into the binding. Several postcards(?) have been removed. The gutter of the album is..... More
Paris (printed in Vannes): Vogue, January 1945. First edition. Soft cover. 162p, hundreds of photos, drawings, and ads, many in full or two colors. Covers scrappy and detached, as shown. Light marginal dampstaining to opening pages, else internally overall good and complete. Haute couture, perfumes, and jewelry swirl confidently and..... More
Sausalito, CA: Windgate Press, 1985. Moulin, Gabriel. First edition. Hardcover. 208p, 171 large photos. Cover edges sunned, outer pages slightly foxed; bottom fore-edges stained. Moulin (1872-1945) was a prominent society and architectural photographer, who documented the lavish private estates and gardens of wealthy San Francisco Bay Area families--first with glass-plate..... More
![Item #30265 The Paintings of Eduard Steichen [with 2 menus]. Anne Cohen DePietro, Mary Steichen...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30265.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973540)
Huntington, NY: Heckscher Museum, 1985. Steichen. First edition. Stapled paperbound. 48p, many ills., some in color. Laid in: erratum sheet; also 2 copies of the menu for The Lenders Dinner, June 28, 1985, catered by Frank Allison, Northport, NY. The menus are tried with lavender ribbon. Text by DePietro, and..... More
Milwaukee: Kalmbach Pub. Co., 1947. Fox, Charles Philip. First edition. Cardboard covers, plastic comb-bound. [36]p, many photos by Fox; one foldout page. How the circus "moves about from one city to another in a single night, and how in only a few hours it explodes from tightly packed wagons on..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Societats-Verlag, 1930. Furhmann, Ernst. First edition. Hardcover. [8]p + 200 photos. Lacks dust jacket. Owner's old acquisition date of "Sep. 1931" in pencil on front endpaper. Introduction and captions by Fuhrmann. The close-up photos, which recall those of Karl Blossfeldt, illustrate the structure and life cycle of..... More
Munich; Cologne: Galerie Klihm; Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, 1972. Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo. First edition. Soft cover. [24]p, 8 pls. of photograms. Checklist of 24 photograms that were part of an exhibition of Moholy-Nagy's photographic work, which was shown at the Galerie Klihm, the Bauhaus-Archiv, and another site. With a short excerpt from..... More
London / New York: Studio Vista / Dutton, 1971. First edition. Soft cover. 160p, many photos. Index of 500 films, including their production companies, directors, and any variant titles. One in the publishers' pioneering (and now collectible) Pictureback series of inexpensive illustrated surveys of almost everything. SF films from a...... More
New York: Henry Street Playhouse, 1963. Swope, Martha. First edition. Soft cover. [20]p, many photos by Martha Swope and others. Inside front cover browned from old clipping. Overview of Nikolais and his company--the decor, properties, costumes, light, and music; his biography and short biographies of the principal dancers; and a...... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams for Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. Avedon, Richard. First edition. Hardcover (accordion folded boards). N.p., many large photos by Avedon of more than 30 subjects. Without the slipcase. Exhibition catalogue of Avedon's portraits of artists, writers, performers, fashion designers, and others, from the 1950s into..... More
El Cajon, CA: Grossmont College Gallery, 1980. Levitt, Helen. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 25 color plates. Levitt's photos of New York street life, without identifying captions. The short text relates her photos to the work of Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans. Can be sent outside the US for less than..... More
Santa Cruz, CA: Hobos from Hell, n.d. [ca. 1996]. First edition. Soft cover. 99p, many ills. (photos, cartoons, drawings, etc.). Dated from internal evidence. Zine anthology of accounts by various hobo writers on hobo lifestyle, travels, encounters, etc. Sometimes raunchy and violent. Includes a few ads for similar publications. Scarce..... More
