Photography

(American Bolex Company, New York, 1947). 54 pp, 8vo, stapled in color wraps + one folded sheet (price list). B&w illus. Includes a short history, technical information/specifications for Camera models H-16, H-8, L-8 and projector model G-816, covers accessories (screens, winders, lenses,. etc.), professional effects and repairs. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior has light edgewear/rubbing, two small corner creases - wonderful photos of a fashionable lady of the 40's using Bolex cameras. P. r i c e l ist has small light brown spot in margin, erased pencil notes on blank back cover. VG. more information

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Edita Lausanne / Bibliotheque des Arts, Paris, 1963, one of an edition of two thousand copies.. 213 pp, 4to (12" H), hard cover (deep red cloth with gold lettering on spine) - in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of Atget's evocative photographs of Paris, accompanied by excerpts from Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu. '. FRENCH TEXT ONLY. Very light browning to edges of textblock - faint foxing mark on fore-edge, light shelf soiling on bottom of textblock, very light wear at corners, very light rubbing at top/bottom of spine and on bottom edge of boards. Dus. t jacket has moderate browning - mainly at edges and on spine, a few light brown stains, a 1 1/2" closed tear at top of front hinge - archivally taped, several tiny chips and tears - archivally taped at top of spine, small chip and tear at bottom o. f f ront flap-fold, several rub/soiling marks, light general soiling, very light edge wrinkling. Very Good/Good. more information

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Morgan & Morgan, Dobbs Ferry, New York, (1980).. 221 pp, + blank 'Notes' pages at rear, large 8vo, hard cover, no dust jacket. B&w photographs, drawings, diagrams, charts. "The creative possibilities are endless when you develop and print your own photographs....This is the essential darkroom ma. nual: It's straightforward, easy to understand, and packed with information and step-by-step instruction. A How-To book with everything you need to know to combine technical expertise with creativity. A sampling of Topics: Choosing the equipm. e n t that's right for you; Planning your darkroom effectively; Negative and print materials...which to choose and how to get the most out of them; Step-by-step processing of the negative; Printing, from basic contact proof to projection print; Pri. nt m ou nting and storage; Special techniques; Fine tuning your negative and prints; Archival processing..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light rubbing, very light edge wear, wrinkles at top/bottom of sp. ine . VG. more information

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J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1998.. 144 pp, 7 5/8" H, soft cover with self-flaps. ISBN 0892365110 4 b&w post cards laid in. "Man Ray (American, 1890-1976), the prolific photographer, painter, assemblagist, draftsman, sculptor, and filmmaker, is the subject of this installment in th. e In Focus series, which is devoted to photographers whose pictures are well represented in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Musuem. Approximately fifty of the three hundred Man Ray prints owned by the Museum are discussed in this volume by Kat. h erine Ware, Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs. Also featured (here) is an edited transcript of a colloquium on the artist's life and works. Participants in the discussion include Ms. Ware as well as Jo Ann Callis, David Feathers. to ne, Merry Foresta, Weston Naef, Francis Naumann, and Dickran Tashjian. Following this conversation is a chronological overview of significant events in Man Ray's multi-faceted career." Small soft crease/bump at bottom corner of pages 120 to 144. , s mall soft bump at bottom corner of rear cover, minor soiling on rear cover, small soft crease on front cover. Very Good. more information

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(Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto, [1965].). 15 pp, 8 5/8" H, stapled in wraps. Color photos. Introduces Kodak's "revolutionary new 8mm movie system" and the new Instamatic movie camera. Gives tips on filming camping vacations and weddings. Interior - clean and tight with no previous own. ership marks. Exterior - previous owners mailing label on rear cover, minor edge wrinkling. VG. more information

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(Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto, [1964].). 7 pp, 8 5/8" H, stapled in wraps. Color photos. Gives tips on filming at the New York World's Fair, filming fireworks, shooting backyard picnics, lens setting at the beach, shooting silhouettes, planning animated shots. Interior - clean and tigh. t with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - previous owners mailing label on rear cover, minor rubbing, very light edge wear/wrinkling. VG-. more information

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(Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto, [1963].). 15 pp, 8 7/8" H, stapled in wraps. Color photos. Gives tips on movie-making techniques and shows a range of Kodak products for gift-giving. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - previous owners mailing label o. n rear cover, very light wrinkling at edges, faint dampness mark along bottom edge of all pages and covers. Good sound copy.. more information

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(Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto, [1967].). 11 pp, 8 7/8" H, stapled in wraps. Color photos. Gives tips on shooting your Centennial movie and provides titles. Also: filming your fishing trip and choosing a Super 8 movie projector. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership mar. ks. Exterior - previous owners mailing label on rear cover, minor soft crease to top corner. VG. more information

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(Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto, [1966].). 15 pp, 8 5/8" H, stapled in wraps. Color photos. Gives tips on making Christmas movies, filming indoors and out, editing, and introduces the 'New super 8 power zoom camera'. Includes ideas for Christmas giving. Picture on back shows Jean Belive. au of the 1966 Stanley Cup-winning Montreal Canadiens accepting a Kodak Instamatic M6 camera from J. David Molson. Interior - small corner crease on last page, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - previous owne. r s mailing label on rear cover. VG. more information

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(Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto, [1965].). 15 pp, 8 5/8" H, stapled in wraps. Color photos. Gives tips on filming Christmas and New Year's festivities, and filming outdoors. Includes Kodak Gift Guide for 1965.Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - previo. us owners mailing label on rear cover, small closed tear (now archivally taped) on front cover with minor wrinkles. VG. more information

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(Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto, [1967].). 15 pp, 8 5/8" H, stapled in wraps. Color photos. Gives tips on filming Christmas festivities and family holidays, plus trying your hand at animation and close-ups. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - previous. owners mailing label on rear cover, very minor edge wear. VG. more information

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(Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto, [1964].). 15 pp, 8 5/8" H, stapled in wraps. Color photos. Gives tips on close-ups in movies, correct exposure, filming Christmas and Kodak gift ideas. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - previous owners mailing label . on rear cover, minor soiling and wrinkling. VG. more information

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(Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto, [1968].). 7 pp, 8 5/8" H, stapled in wraps. Color photos. Gives tips on filming spring gardening activities and shooting at night. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - previous owners mailing label on rear cover, soft s. mall crease to top/bottom corners. VG. more information

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(Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto, [1964].). 7 pp, 8 7/8" H, stapled in wraps. Color photos. Gives tips on close-ups in movies, filming weddings and using your camera to help improve your golf game. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - previous owners m. ailing label on rear cover, slight waviness to top edge of pages and covers. VG-. more information

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Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown, Boston, 1992, first edition.. 216 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0821217771 Profusely illustrated in b&w. "Cornell Capa, world famous for his photojournalism as well as for his founding of New York's International Center of Photography, has had a long an. d productive working life. His career has spanned several key decades of the twentieth century, and his work has taken him around the globe to cover political events and chronic social problems, to photograph the famous and the unsung....As a se. l f - described concerned photographer, Cornell Capa has always been led by his instincts to photograph people - all kinds of people - with a humanitarian commitment. This book reflects that commitment in unforgettable pictures of missionaries in C. en tr al and South America; religious and tribal rituals; the presidental campaigns of Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy; political upheavals, refugees, and wars; the historic and the marginal. Here, too, are moments of whimsy and joy, from Harl. em to Lon don to Peru, and memorable images of celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Alec Guiness, Grandma Moses, Billy Graham, and Boris Pasternak. Despite the wide recognition of Cornell Capa's achievements, and the fact that he has . spe nt his lifetime furthering the art of photography, this book is the first retrospective collection of his work to be published in the United States. All these photographs transmit crucial aspects of the political, social, cultural, and religiou. s hi sto ry o f our times." Light waviness to edges of textblock. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, a few tiny dints on rear panel, minor rubbing. NF/VG+. more information

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Ziff-Davis, Chicago, 1939.. 94 pp, 16mo (6 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. One of the Ziff-Davis "Little Technical Library" series. "An introduction to color photography could not be written by a more capable man than Ivan Dmitri, for his masterful color pictures have ap. peared regularly in many great magazines. In this volume, he tells you what you need to know to make good pictures on natural color film. There are very complete chapters on solving the typical problems of landscapes, family pictures, travel sce. n e s, action and sports pictures, beach and snow scenes, home interiors, theater and night street scenes. Final chapters explain in simple fashion how color prints can be made at home." Minor browning to endpapers, slight browning to spine and ed. ge s of boards, foxing marks on top of textblock. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, sveral small closed tears and tiny chips, light to moderate soiling, slight darkening to spine, flap-folds and edges; light browning on inside surface. Ve. ry Go od-/Good. more information

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Thames and Hudson, London, (1964).. 52 pp of text + 172 pp of photographs, 4to (over 12" H), hard cover - no dust jacket. 150 b&w and 20 color photographs. "Here, culled from the thousands of pictures taken by Feininger (a Life magazine photographer) during the past quarter century,. are a score of photographs in glowing color and 150 black-and-whites, the finest achievements of his career. His subjects range from the most minute of nature's deceptively simple marvels to the most awesome of man's complicated fabrications, f. r o m the precise image to the abstraction, from the small and near to the distant and gargantuan, from people and places to natural forces and forms...For the photographer there is an added bonus: the technical data related to the shooting of the . ph ot og raphs. Further, the author shares with the reader his ideas and reflections, his methods and the philosophy that photography is truly a language in itself..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very m. ino r e dge wear and rubbing. VG+. more information

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Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, 1995.. 14 pp, 8 3/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Contents: Photographic Archives - The Order Begins; Photographic Archives - A Paradigm for the Modernist Museum; Photographic Archives - Apart from the Museum; Photography - Entry into the Modernist . Museum; Photography - The Modernist Museum Perverted; Grauerholz - Intervention with the Museum: Documenta; Grauerholz - Intervention with the Museum: Domaine de Kerguehennec; Grauerholz - Photographic Archive - Back into the Museum. Interior - sma. ll bump to top/bottom corner of pages. otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - small bump to top/bottom corner of covers. Very Good. more information

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Taschen, Koln, 1998.. 199 pp, 4to (12" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 3822874299 ***Erotic content*** Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs. Trilingual text (English/German/French). "Jan Saudek's life has always been a maverick existence. Ostra. cised in his Czech homeland, Saudek created fantastic worlds of the imagination, mysterious places inbued with magical reality. His portraits in the tradition of the 'tableau vivant' and the 'pose plastique' have brought him international renown. . As, of course, have his nudes, if it is possble to classify them as nude photography at all. Saudek shows nakedness and reveals beauty even in decay and deformity. The props he uses conjure up a 'fin de siecle' decadence and elegance, while the im. pression of irreality is heightened by the strange colouring he began using in the 70s. Other aspects of his work are also highlighted in this publication which, for the first time, presents a complete retrospective of his oeuvre from its beginnin. g s in the 50s to his latest and most controversial work today. An introductory essay maps Saudek's artistic development, his techniques and major influences." Small bump at top of rear hinge. Dust jacket has small dint on front hinge and small b. um p to top of rear hinge. Very Good+/Very Good+. more information

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TAB, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1981, first edition.. 176 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover (gray boards with gold lettering on spine and front board, gold decoration on front board) - no dust jacket. ISBN 0830699244 B&w drawings and photographs, color photographs. Contents: Preface; Photographic Equipm. ent; Composition and Lighting; The Layout; Scenery; Choosing Scenes to Photograph; Color Interiors, Lights, Smoke and Fire; Using the Real World; The Effect of Motion; Using Photos to Create Scenery; Photos for Record; Photography as a Means of C. r i t ique; Color Photography; Let's Make Movies. Faint cigarette odor, light waviness to edges of textblock. VG. more information

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Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, 1995.. Unpaginated, 8vo (8 1/2" H), soft cover in opaque printed mylar dust jacket. ISBN 0921027559 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "This bookwork, produced by Oakville Galleries, represents the third and final version of a photographic work. begun two years ago at the Domaine de Kerguehennec in Brittany, France, where it took the form of a work in situ: a 'fonds photographic' that was placed in the drawers of the castle's library to become a permanent installation. The work represen. t s a monument to a fictional woman photographer who lived in the castle sometime in the late 19th century, and who wandered the park - especially the area around the lake - obsessively taking pictures of the landscape. Her mental health slowly de. te ri oriated and eventually she killed herself. Her decline is illustrated in the photographs placed in the drawers in porfolio folders or boxes...." Book is cocked, minor soiling marks on bottom of textblock. Dust jacket has a few small chips a. nd cre ases, 2" tears at top of flap-folds, small soiling mark at top corner of front panel. Very Good/Good. more information

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Coach House Press, Toronto, 1979.. [183] pp, oblong 8vo (9" H x 10 5/8" D), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w photograph. ISBN 0889101345 "....a history of photography from 'The New Art of Sun Painting' to the first two decades of this century. From contem. porary books, journals and manuscripts, the authors have compiled a fascinating account of the early processes and of the Canadian pioneers of photography." Waviness to edges of textblock, minor edge wear, tiny soiling mark on bottom of textbloc. k . Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling, three closed tears archivally taped, moderate rubbing/scuffing - mainly on rear panel and spine. VG/G. more information

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Octopus, London, 1987.. 192 pp, 4to (12" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0706428595 Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. "(A) unique collection of the most striking beauty images which first appeared in the world's most influential fashion and beauty magazine. T. his outstanding array of photographs, spanning half a century of 'Vogue', charts the development of an unacknowledged photographic subject, and reveals both the ever-changing ideal of beauty and the many advances in modern photography. Many of the . century's most talented photographers have worked for 'Vogue', investing its beauty pages with style, humour and elegance. From the classical elegance of Hoyningen-Huene to the quirky wit of Guy Bourdin, from the moody nostalgia of Sarah Moon to t. he aggressive eroticism of Helmut Newton, from the cool sophistication of Penn to the breezy naturalism of Bruce Weber, this remarkable collection provides a rare opportunity to appreciate the development of beauty photography and its principal sub. j ect - the many images of women. For the first time, beauty is seen from a photographic viewpoint: the nude, the close-up, hair, make-up, indoor and outdoor shots - all reveal the remarkable perception and breadth of 'Vogue' photographers. In his. i ntroduction, Martin Harrison gives an intriguing insight into beauty sittings, establishing that beauty photography is not just a branch of fashion photography, but a challenging, highly idiosyncratic category, offering its practitioners possibil. iti es not available in mainstream fashion photography. An invaluable appendix to the text and photographs contains short biographies of these famous and lesser-known 'Vogue' photographers, making (this book) a comprehensive and well-balanced contr. ibut ion to photographic history." Light edge wear to boards and top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has moderate edge wear/wrinkling, a few edge creases, light rubbing, two edge tears, two small closed tears on hinges - all archivally taped. Very G. ood/G ood. more information

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Kalart, Plainsville, Conn., 1958.. 32 pp, 8 3/4" H, stapled in wraps. B&w photos. Tips on editing films, travelogues, newsreels, plus information on equipment (Craig Projecto-Editor, Kalart Custom 8 Splicer-Rewinder, Victor projectors, etc. Interior - small light foxing mark at in. side hinges, clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor browning on spine. VG. more information

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Penguin, (Harmondsworth, 1970).. 288 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H), soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. A look back at some of the stories covered and illustrated in photographs in the 'Picture Post' - ranging from World War II, fashion, politics, entertainment, Butlin's hol. iday camps, the Royal family, race relations in Britain, Lester Pigott, Elizabeth Taylor, etc., etc. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, spine has one faint crease and is sligh. t l y cocked at top half. VG. more information

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Nelson, (London, 1967).. 203 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. 48 b&w photo portraits. "Here in one volume are forty-eight memorable portraits from the Karsh portfolio. They form an imposing cross-section of the figures who have shaped our public life and t. he private world of the mind: John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, Jawaharlal Nehru...Queen Elizabeth II in a special portrait for the Centennial of Canadian Confederation...the Pope and th. e A rchbishop of Canterbury...Picasso, Chagall, Miro, Casals, Hemingway, Einstein, Schweitzer...and others...To reproduce these velvety blacks and brilliant highlights with fidelity demands the ultimate in printing craftsmaship...This portfolio has. b e en produced with the same special inks, by the same process of sheet-fed gravure, at the same world-famous printing house in the Netherlands (as Karsh's 'Portraits of Greatness')." A few foxing marks on top edges of boards. Dust jacket has . lig ht ed ge wear - a little heavier on spine and flap-fold edges, two very small closed tears with creases, tiny chips at bottom of spine, light rubbing, a few tiny scuffs, 3" curved scratch on rear panel, small dint/closed perforation on front hi. nge. V G/VG -. more information

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University of Toronto Press, (Toronto, 1979), reprint.. 203 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Here in one volume are forty-eight memorable photographic portraits from the Karsh portfolio. They form an imposing cross-section of the figures who have shaped our public life and the private w. orld of the mind. Some of the faces are familiar: the qualities of greatness that make a Churchill, a Shaw, a Hemingway, an Einstein, a Casals, a Sibelius, or a Schweitzer, are not so common that they can be eclipsed even within a full generatio. n . Together with these classics are views of Henry Moore, Marshall McLuhan, and Pablo Picasso and recent portraits of other figures, never before published together in a book by Karsh. The new portraits reflect the rapidly changing world of the . Se ve n ties - Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro, Prince Charles, Jacques Cousteau, Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov - and Karsh's continuing interest in the advance of medical science - Hans Selye and Helen Taussig. Each has been captured in the rare inst. ant wh en the everyday mask drops to reveal the inner power of the personality, the secret of greatness. To reproduce with fidelity the velvety blacks and brilliant highlights of Karsh's original mat-finish prints the finest in printing craftsman. ship and sh eet-fed gravure have been used." Minor edge rubbing. Dust jacket has very light browning to edges of flaps. NF/VG+. more information

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Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954.. 272 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. INSCRIBED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER "TO ELIZABETH 'LIZ', FROM WALLACE KIRKLAND 'KIRK', KEEP FOLLOWING THE GINGERBREAD - THE HELL WITH THE PENNIES". B&w photographs. "Wallace Kirkland has been a phot. ographer for 'Life Magazine' since it began. One of the editors of that magazine is said to have remarked upon hearing of the book, 'I always said you were the world's worst photographer, and the world's best writer'. This book consists of the . s t o ries behind Kirkland's photographic assignments - some of the ones which became famous: The Fox Hunt, The Birth of the Dragonfly, and Jamaican Boyhood: A Memory, and Man of Letters: Arthur Birnstengle, who wrote his congressman for a wife with. e xt ra ordinary results, and some of the ones which were never run, such as the Portrait of Gandhi when he got Gandhi's autograph on the tail end of a goat. The range of writing in this book is as wide as the Missouri. Mr. Kirkland goes from som. e e xce pti onally beautiful nature writing in the chapter on Turtles to moving remembrances of things and people in Jamaican Boyhood; to rowdy vignettes in the Life of a Wandering Photographer. Through all his adventures we see A Hero of our Time,. a D on Q uixo te with a camera who is doing the work which he likes best." Very light browning to endpapers, three tiny corner bumps, very light browning to edges of textblock, wrinkling at top of spine and rear hinge area, light edge wear. Dust . jacke t has seve ral tears, small chips, edge wear/creases, light edge browning, two small watermarks on inside of spine, light rubbing. VG-/Fair. more information

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New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1988, enlarged edition.. 320 pp, small 4to (10 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 081217054 Profusely illustrated in b&w and color. "....Man Ray's extremely frank autobiography, long unavailable in English. Now, for the first time, it is fully illustrated with 240. stunning pictures....Many of them have never before been published; others have become part of popular culture, such as 'The Gift', an iron studded with tacks, and 'The Lovers', a huge painting of lips floating in the Paris sky. In 'Self Portra. i t ' , Man Ray shows himself to be a brilliant and entertaining writer. An uninhibited bon vivant on two continents, he recalls with candor the heyday of the great Parisian couture houses, the extravagant costume balls of the French aristocracy, g. ra nd h olidays with maharajas in Cannes, and summers with Henry Miller in Big Sur. Man Ray portrays in depth his iconoclastic close circle - describing his friendships with Marcel Duchamp, Picasso, Dali, and Brancusi, his days in Montparnasse wit. h E rne st Hemingway and James Joyce at the start of their careers, his uneasy association with Gertrude Stein. This is also the story of the many women in his life, including Kiki de Montparnasse of cafe society fame, photographer Lee Miller, and . Man Ray' s w ife Juliet, who was personally involved in the preparation of this volume. For this new edition, Juliet Man Ray opened the entire Man Ray Studio and Archive in Paris....She also made available seldom-shown paintings and drawings from h. er p rivat e co llection. Madame Man Ray completes her husband's autobiography with a personal afterword to cover the years between the book's first publication in 1963 and Man Ray's death in 1976." Slight yellowing to edges of pages, light wavine. ss to edges of t extblock, tiny faint scuff on front board. Dust jacket is price clipped, has light edge wrinkling - mainly at top of spine and flap-folds, minor edge wear, minor rubbing at bottom of front panel. VG+/VG. more information

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Fifth House, (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1993), Ist edition.. 117 pp, small 4to, HC in dust jacket. INSCRIBED (BUT NOT PERSONALIZED) BY AUTHOR ON FFEP. "...one hundred and twenty colour photographs celebrate the beauty, power, and grandeur of prairie skies revealing their undeniable vitality and their contri. bution to the vibrancy of the prairie world." Small light stain at bottom of rear hinge. Dust jacket has very minor edgewar. VG+/VG+. more information

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Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1939, Ist ed.. 182 pp, PB. The story of photography from its invention until the time of printing. 35 b&w photos. Minor edgewear, slightly cocked, pages browned, foxing spots to top edge of text block. Spine slightly browned, but overall cover is clean and bri. ght. Former owner's bookplate on half-title page. VG-. more information

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Macfarlane Walter & Ross, Toronto, 1989, first edition.. Unpaginated, 4to (11 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0921912013 51 b&w and colour photographs with text on opposing page. "(A) collection of remarkable images, drawn from over one hundred and fifty years of photographic history, that hav. e shaped our perceptions of the world, even influenced the course of history. Unforgettable images such as Robert Capa's 'Death of a Loyalist Soldier', Eddie Adams's Saigon street execution, the shootings at Kent State recorded by student Joe Fil. o , and 'Buzz' Aldrin on the moon, snapped by fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong are included here, along with classics of the art by acknowledged masters such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-While,. a nd Eugene Smith. There are portraits that forever fix a public figure in memory: Yousuf Karsh's arresting photograph of Winston Churchill; the ubiquitous official portrait of Mao Tse-tung; William Notman's commanding picture of Chief Sitting Bu. ll; th e publicity photograph of Garbo that created the legend; and the movie still of Charlie Chaplin as the Little Tramp. There are the achievements of photographic pioneers that amazed and delighted earlier generations: Daguerre's Boulevard du . Temp le, catching the first image of a human being on film; Nadar's view of Paris from a balloon, the first aerial photograph; Eadweard Muybridge's landmark study of a galloping horse; and Harold Edgerton's drop of milk, one of the first high-speed,. stop -act ion photographs. Each photograph is accompanied by an illuminating essay, describing the events surrounding the moment when the shutter clicked, offering details on the life and career of the photographer, and inviting the reader on a jo. urney of di scovery." Slight waviness to edges of textblock. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, minor rubbing. Very Good/Very Good+. more information

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Dover, New York, reprint.. 72 pp text & b&w illustrations, followed by 182 double-page b&w plates, each with multiple images. ISBN 0486202028 "Here is the largest, most comprehensive selection of Muybridge's famous animals photos - more than 4000 high-speed shots of 34 diff. erent animals and birds, in 123 different types of action....Animals are shown walking, running, leaping, flying - in typical action. The horse alone is shown in more than 40 different ways: galloping with nude rider, trotting, pacing with sulky, . c antering, jumping hurdles, carrying, rolling on barrels, and 36 other actions. All photos (are) taken against ruled backgrounds; most actions (are) taken from 3 angles at once: 90 degrees, 60 degrees, rear. Foreshortened views are included. The. se are true action photos, stopped in series, taken at speeds up to 1/2000th of a second. Actions are illustrated in series, with as many as 50 shots per action. Muybridge worked with the U. of Pa. for 3 years, made more than 100,000 exposures, a. nd spent more than $50,000. His work has never been superseded as a lifetime reference for animators, illustrators, artists, art directors." Minor wrinkle at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light wrinkle at bottom of spine, one tiny tear at top . of front flap-fold. Near Fine/Very Good+. more information

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RotoVision, Geneva, 1980.. 398 pp, 4to (12 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 2880460182 Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. "As the world of the photograph increases and spreads so must the authoritative book. This volume of European photography contains the w. ork of some 260 top professional photographers throughout the continent and is printed by Roto-Sadag in Geneva, Switzerland, to the high standards demanded by the quality of their work...." Trilingual text (English/French/German). Countries cove. r e d: Austria, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Slight waviness to top/bottom edges of textblock, minor soiling mark on top of textblock. Dust jacket has minor. e dg e wrinkling. Very Good+/Very Good+. more information

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Canadian Kodak, Toronto, Ontario, [1931].. 48 pp, 7 3/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated in silver, black, white and colour. Covers cameras, projectors, film, lenses, screens, lighting, filters, etc. Interior - a few small minor wrinkles on pages, light rubbing on. title page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, edge creases on front cover, one very small edge tear with creases (archivally taped) on front cover, very light rubbing and minor wrinkles mainly o. n rear cover. Very Good-. more information

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(Toronto Camera Club, Toronto, 1988).. 128 pp, 4to, HC in pictorial boards - no dust jacket. Profusely illus with b&w and color photos. A history of the first one hundred years of the Toronto Camera Club derived largely from papers preserved in the national Archives of Canada. Minor r. ubbing to boards. VG+. more information

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Graphis, (New York, 1998).. 256 pp, 4to, HC in dust jacket. More than 200 full-color images. "...a breathtaking journey through photos which dare to take the imagination farther. This debut addition to the Graphis international collection embraces the year's best work and r. eflects the ways technology allows photographers more freedom and choices than ever before. In addition to extraordinary contributions from emerging artists, the book includes the work of industry visionaries such as Matt Mahurin, Gerald Bybee. , a n d David Gaz. A commentary by Bybee offers an insider's view to someof the processes and artistic choices behind digital photography...complete indices of creative personnel, (makes this book) an inspiring and essential resource for professi. on a ls a nd clients worldwide." Very minor wrinkling to top/bottom of dust jacket spine. This is a new, unread book still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. NF/NF. more information

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New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1975.. 208 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0316544892 Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photographs and reproductions. "Roland Penrose has been a close friend of the artist for almost fifty years. This is the first m. ajor monograph ever published on Man Ray, and for it Penrose has created an absorbing narrative about the life of his friend, about his work and about his steady presence at the flash point of twentieth-century contemporary art...." Very minor br. o w ning to pages, light browning to edges of textblock, very light edge wear to boards. Dust jacket has some areas of moderate edge wrinkling, moderate browning at edges, light browning on spine. Very Good/Very Good-. more information

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(Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois, 1989, Ist edition.). 266 pp, 4to, hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of b&w and color photographs. "...a celebration of a love affair between a nation and a medium that has both documented and helped its growth. Photographs, text, and. captions chronicle the development of our nation and reveal the essence of the American experience through anecdotes from contemporaries, including the imagemakers...Alongside pictures by celebrated photographers are wonderful images by unknown. a m a teurs, master documentarians, and the country's earliest photojournalists..." Contents include: The Civil War; Moving West; The American Indian; Life on the Frontier; The Machine Age; Immigrants; Small-Town America; World War I; The Roaring . T we nt ie s; The Great Depression; World War II; The Postwar Years, etc. Small bump to bottom corner of boards. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling and is price-clipped. VG/VG+. more information

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Lincolns-Prager, London, (1947).. 242 pp, sm 4to, HC. 113 beautiful plates in photogravure of Bohemian architectural subjects by Josef Sudek. Book is edgeworn, with light foxing to top of text block, corners bumped. Smudges on fore edge and bottom of text block, front and rear pa. stedowns have wrinkles running from top to bottom. Very slight musty odor. Dj soiled and chipped, with large dark blue stain on back panel. G+/Fair. more information

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Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989.. 343 pp, small 4to (10 3/4" H), soft cover. ISBN 0870705741 Profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Before Photography; The Inventors; The Daguerreotype and the Calotype; Paper Versus Glass; George Eastman and Alf. red Stieglitz; Photographs in Ink; After the Magazines; Notes to the Text. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light rubbing - mainly on rear cover, small crease at top edge of rear cover - migrates into last. f e w pages and a soft crease on bottom half. VG. more information

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Aperture Monograph, New York, 1986.. 80 pp, 4to (11 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0893812404 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions. "Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966) is remembered today as one of photography's early masters and great innovators. This . Aperture monograph investigates the unconventional nature of his personal and artistic achievements. Coburn's landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, and Vortographs reflect his unprecedented steps towards the creation of a photography of symbol and abs. traction....In the accompanying critical essay by Mike Weaver, Coburn's life and work is seen as a quest. Freemason, Rosicrucian, and Druid, Coburn embraced the occult tradition in a serach for spiritual values. Photography served as a medium f. o r the expression of this quest, combining philosophical and aesthetic elements with the rigorous development of technique and craft. Coburn's enigmatic contribution lies in his search for tradition combined with his boundless desire to break new. g ro u nd....His achievement reaches beyond the concerns of his time, echoing the contemporary response to a world of synthesis." Tiny crease at bottom of page 27/28, waviness to edges of textblock. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling at top/bot. tom of s pine and flap-folds, light rubbing and tiny dint on rear panel. VG/VG. more information

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