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New York: Museum of Modern Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1980. 77 pages, chiefly illustrations; 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Includes: Diane Arbus, Esther Bubley, Eugene Buechel S.J., John G. Bullock, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, Larry Fink, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Arnold Genthe, Mark Goodman, Emmet Gowin, Sid Grossman, John Gutmann, Chauncey Hare, Dave Heath, Ken Heyman, Lewis Hine, Bruce Horowitz, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Ken Josephson, Simpson Kalisher, Gertrude Ka sebier, William Klein, George Krause, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Helen Levitt, Jerome Liebling, Nicholas Nixon, Jacob Riis, Ben Shahn, Rosalind Solomon, Jerry Thompson, Doris Ulmann, Eva Watson Schu tze, Edward Weston, Clarence White, and Don Wight.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Museum of Modern Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1980. 77 pages, chiefly illustrations; 27 cm. Exhibition Catalogue. Wraps fine, clean copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge. Age toning. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Includes: Diane Arbus, Esther Bubley, Eugene Buechel S.J., John G. Bullock, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, Larry Fink, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Arnold Genthe, Mark Goodman, Emmet Gowin, Sid Grossman, John Gutmann, Chauncey Hare, Dave Heath, Ken Heyman, Lewis Hine, Bruce Horowitz, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Ken Josephson, Simpson Kalisher, Gertrude Ka sebier, William Klein, George Krause, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Helen Levitt, Jerome Liebling, Nicholas Nixon, Jacob Riis, Ben Shahn, Rosalind Solomon, Jerry Thompson, Doris Ulmann, Eva Watson Schu tze, Edward Weston, Clarence White, and Don Wight.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. Cloth, xv, 141 pages, illustrations, music; 24 cm. S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. Includes texts of Yiddish songs with English translations by Miriam Hartman Flacks. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Between 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life in the Jewish shtetlekh of Poland, Romania, Russia, and Hungary, communities that even then seemed threatened--not by destruction and extermination, which no one foresaw, but by change. Using a hidden camera and under difficult circumstances, Vishniac was able to take over sixteen thousand photographs; most were left with his father in a village in France for the duration of the war. With the publication of Children of a Vanished World, seventy of… Read More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xi, 164 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Frontier Children combines a wide ranging historical description with a stunning collection of images. The subjects are characters who have been neglected in the standard treatment of the frontier West." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Foreword by Elliott West; An infinite variety: childhood on the frontier; Ebb and flow: frontier children on the move; Homes and habitats: frontier children and their environment; The family circle: frontier children within the home; Blurred boundaries: frontier children at work and play; All the world's a school: the education of frontier children; Passages: coming of age on the frontier.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2002. 155 pages, colour illustrations; 26 x 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The traveling exhibition of Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture was curated by Trudy Wilner Stack and organized by the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona." "Renowned photographer Lauren Greenfield has won acclaim and awards for her studies of youth culture. In Girl Culture, she combines a photojournalist's sense of story with fine-art composition and color to create an astonishing and intelligent exploration of American girls. Her photographs provide a window into the secret worlds of girls' social lives and private rituals, the dressing room and locker room, as well as the iconic subcultures of the popular clique: cheerleaders, showgirls, strippers, debutantes,… Read More

New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, 2015. xiv, 482 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. "The author tells her family's history in photographs and words, after sorting through a box of old papers that revealed scandals, alcohol and domestic abuse, affairs, family land ownership, and racial complications." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, 2015. xiv, 482 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards. A solid copy, lacking the DJ. Another copy available. "The author tells her family's history in photographs and words, after sorting through a box of old papers that revealed scandals, alcohol and domestic abuse, affairs, family land ownership, and racial complications." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. 8vo.

New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company; Back Bay Books, 2016. xiv, 482 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "The author tells her family's history in photographs and words, after sorting through a box of old papers that revealed scandals, alcohol and domestic abuse, affairs, family land ownership, and racial complications." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2007. Pictorial boards, 320 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 33 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "A rare look at the incredible life and work of Anne Geddes, A Labor of Love is the fascinating story of one of the world's most prolific photographers." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2009. Pictorial boards, 144 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Elephant Folio.

Greensboro, NC and Seattle, WA: Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2002. 64 pages, illustrations; 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small sticker remnant/front cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Includes: Lewis Hine, F. Holland Day, Gertrude Kasebier, Clarence H. White, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston. "This collection includes vintage photographs of working class and middle-class children at the turn of the 19th century. Lewis Hine's pioneering documentation of immigration and child labour are compared and contrasted with the pictorialist work by six of his contemporaries." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008. Pictorial boards, 1 volume (unpaged), all illustrations (some colour); 16 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Fine DJ. Please note: Small-format version. "Four years in the making, Anne Geddes' Pure offers breathtaking images that intimately evoke the wonder of the first precious days and weeks of life. With eyes tightly shut, in wrinkly new skin, and unaffected by the world around them, newborns are captured in their purest form as Geddes' explains, 'to emphasize the fact that they are vulnerable, fragile, and very precious human beings.'" - Publisher.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 16mo.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. vii, 191 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal mines, and factories from Vermont and Massachusetts to Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri. Using his camera as a tool of social activism, Hine had a major influence on the development of documentary photography. But many of his pictures transcend their original purpose. Concentrating on these photographs, Alexander Nemerov reveals the special eeriness of Hine's beautiful and disturbing work as never before. Richly illustrated, the book also includes arresting contemporary photographs by Jason Francisco of the places Hine documented.… Read More