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An Ambrotype portrait of a Small child
Spain: n/a, 1850. An example of a Spanish ambrotype photograph. The image is a 2 x 1.5 inches (quarter plate) glass plate held in a gold coloured soft metal frame (2.5 inches by 2 inches) Some slight surface scratching to the image glass. The image is quite dark, and not very distinctive. Came from a Spanish collection.
Ambrotype also known as a collodion positive in the UK, is a positive photograph on glass. Each is a unique original that could only be duplicated by using a camera to copy it. Developed circa 1850, by the mid 1860's Tintype and Albumen photographs had superseded the processBook ID: 3886More details Price: £100.00 -
An Ambrotype portrait of a Young Girl
Spain: n/a, 1850. An example of a Spanish ambrotype photograph. The image is a 2 x 1.5 inches (quarter plate) glass plate held in a gold coloured soft metal frame (2 inches by 1.75 inches) with a slightly scuffed leather backing. The image is quite dark, but shows clearly when a light is shone upon it. Came from a Spanish collection.
Ambrotype also known as a collodion positive in the UK, is a positive photograph on glass. Each is a unique original that could only be duplicated by using a camera to copy it. Developed circa 1850, by the mid 1860's Tintype and Albumen photographs had superseded the processBook ID: 3887More details Price: £125.00 -
Andy Warhol.
Bogota: Galeria Fernando Quintana, 1988. First edition. Scarce exhibition catalogue from Colombia. Dark soft covers, with the 'negative' version of one of Warhol's famous Marilyn Monroe silkscreens adorning the front cover. Perfect binding. Unpaginated. High quality reproductions throughout. Covers rubbed, particularly at tail of spine. Slight rubbing to first page. 285 x 240 mm (11¼ x 9½ inches).
Book ID: 2140More details Price: £70.00 -
Andy Warhol's Factory Photos. Factory Foto.
Tokyo: Uplink, 1997. Second edition. Hardback. From the photo exhibition 'Andy Warhol's Factory Silver Years' at Parco Gallery, Tokyo. Many iconic (mostly b/w) full-page images from the years 1964-1968. 270 x 220 mm (10¾ x 8¾ inches). Ex-library copy. Laminated boards. A little bumping, and a few library marks / stamps.
Condition: Ex-library copy. Laminated boards. A little bumping, and a few library marks / stamps.
Book ID: 2778More details Price: £40.00 -
Anish Kapoor.
Kunstverein Hannover, 1991. Large book with red cloth covered boards. Colour catalogue for the exhibition of six large sculptures, which took place in the Orangery Hanover in 1991. Two of the six sculptures were new works, created especially for Hannover. This exhibition presented the artist's work to the German public for the first time. Also included in this book, a selection of images from other Kapoor installments in Venice, Grenoble and Madrid. Text in both German and English. Sir Anish Kapoor CBE, RA is a British Indian sculptor who specialises in installation art, and conceptual art. Boards have some light soiling, and light handling. No dust jacket, as issued. Inside, fine condition. Unpaginated [48 pages]. 355 x 305 mm (14 x 12 inches).
Book ID: 2692More details Price: £25.00 -
Autoportraits photographiques: 1898-1981
brève rencontre (l'autoportrait en photographie).
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou / Herscher, 1981. Softback first edition. Exhibition catalogue. 88 pages. Black and white photographs (and a few colour). A touch of darkening and edgewear to the wrapper - but overall in very good condition. 300 x 210 mm (11¾ x 8¼ inches). Couverture souple de la première édition. Catalogue d'exposition. 88 pages. Photographies en noir et blanc (et quelques couleurs). Une touche d'assombrissement et d'usure des bords de l'emballage - mais dans l'ensemble en très bon état. 300 x 210 mm `
Book ID: 3341More details Price: £25.00 -
Beelden Sculptures - Environmentprojecten met Reinout van den Bergh.
Dordrecht: Gerhard Lentink, 1993. First Edition. Hardback. Essays, photographs and art objects. Text dual English / Dutch. Red cloth with label stuck down. Good clean condition. Very slight darkening to page edges. Illustrations in Black and White.
80 pages. 260 x 215 mm (10¼ x 8½ inches).Book ID: 2941More details Price: £15.00 -
Big and Little Coldstream Guards - photograph.
Keystone Photo Archive, 1968. A black and white photograph of a Coldstream Guardsman at St James' Palace in London, being followed by two children from Miss Betty Vacani's School of Dancing dressed in their own versions of his uniform. This was for a rehearsal of an event being held to support The Invalid Children's Association in London in July 1968. 240 x 120 mm (9½ x 4¾ inches). Keystone data in Dutch to the verso of the print.
Book ID: 2670More details Price: £20.00 -
Bilder zur Zauberflote in der Loggia des K. K. Opernhauses zu Wien.
12 photographien nach den original-cartons.
Munchen / Munich: Friedr. Bruckmann's Verlag, 1890. First edition. A scarce collection of albumen photographs of the Magic Flute in the loggia of the Imperial and Royal Opera House in Vienna. Circa 1890. Held in a folding cover. Cover is ornately decorated to the front and blind embossed to the rear. Clean and tidy with fractional darkening. Inside, the flaps are a pale grey and also blind stamped. Slight marking where a paper clip (now gone) has been holding something. Inside are a title and 12 cards. The title has the the list of photographs to the rear. Albumen photographs are pasted onto the card, printed to recto only. All in excellent condition with just a slight darkening and few minor marks to the title card.
Book ID: 3877More details Price: £280.00 -
Blinde Verrassing.
First edition, with additional original photograph.
Edition: First Edition
Uitgeverij Fragment: Den Haag: 1993. Grey cloth with embossed titles, and a photograph laid onto the front cover. Original photograph loosely inserted. The photo-book Published in collaboration with Tel Design, Koninklijke Drukkerij GJ Thieme Nijmegen and Kadee Delft. 24 black and white photographs printed on glossy photo paper. To the rear of each are the details about the subject, the scene and those who participated. A fascinating concept in photography. A complex scene is set up - and the central subject is blind folded and brought into the scene. The blindfold is then briefly removed - and the photograph taken. They are then apparently blind folded again, and only see what was really there when the photograph is produced. Very good condition.
Book ID: 1983More details Price: £35.00 -
Budapest Chess Game - 1988. Signed and limited photograph.
Book ID: 1838More details Price: £180.00
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Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico.
Campbell, 1907. First published in 1899, this is the revised edition. Hardback book in maroon coloured cloth. Gilt titles to front board and spine. Page edges red. Boards are slightly handled and a little bumped at corners. Lots of interesting photos - including frontis portrait and large colour fold-out map attached at rear. 351 pages plus map. Overall good + 190 x 145 mm (7½ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3990More details Price: £30.00 -
Carnival Strippers.
Book ID: 4329More details Price: £350.00
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Chance Meeting.
Köln: Fotogalerie Wilde, 1973. First Edition. Six b/w photographs by Duane Michals. Documenting - through sequential images - the passing of two men in an alleyway. 16 unnumbered pages. Square softback white covers, now a little darkened and handled. Inside very clean. 215 x 215 mm (8½ x 8½ inches). Première édition. Six photographies en noir et blanc de Duane Michals. Documentant - à travers des images séquentielles - le passage de deux hommes dans une ruelle. 16 pages non numérotées. Couvertures carrées blanches, un peu assombries. Intérieur très propre. 215 x 215 mm
Book ID: 4334More details Price: £35.00 -
Characteristic Japan.
Views and Characters in the Land of the Rising Sun.
Kobe: Tamamura, Photographer. Rare First Edition. Circa 1907. Oblong folio album, original decorated silk padded boards, with silver embroidery and ties. All edges gilt. Title page printed on charcoal paper with decorated borders and text in silver, followed by 24 hand coloured collotype photographic prints on cream paper, with tissue guards. The silk boards have been professionally restored. In a very good condition.
One of several similar albums produced by the studio of Kōzaburō Tamamura, who was one of the originators in Japan of photographic albums of this kind for tourists. The subject of these photographs include Kyoto, Osaka, Shikoku, with scenes of temples, pagodas, rivers, lakes and Fujiyama etc, with captions in English. 420 mm x 190 mm (16½ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 2174More details Price: £1,200.00 -
Codex.
Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo, 2019. First Edition. Hardback green cloth boards, with colour photos pasted to both front and back boards - as issued. Fascinated by nature, the anonymous street artist ROA likes to be inspired by its beauty. His work involves the brutal side of the animal world. With great attention to detail his nomadic lifestyle takes him all over the world, from Moscow to Mexico City, and from Los Angeles to London. This book features amazing photographs of over 300 of his signature colossal monochrome drawings of endangered native species. In a very good / fine condition. 352 pages. 310 x 255 mm (12¼ x 10 inches).
Book ID: 3467More details Price: £50.00 -
Correspondencia.
Chile: AFA Necessaire, 2008. Signed by both authors to the title page. A photobook, with alternate photographs from each photographer. Fold out sheet of text to inside front cover in Spanish. The same in English to the rear fold out cover. Limited to 1000 copies. As well as a transcontinental friendship, the two photographers have struck a dialogue via photographs, resulting in their October 2008 joint exhibition at Galeria AFA and subsequently, this book. Covers are a little rubbed at the corners. Otherwise in a very good condition. 62 pages. 200 x 165 mm (7¾ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 2169More details Price: £120.00 -
CUBA
Book ID: 4108More details Price: £30.00
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Curosities
New York: Tractor Beam Press, 2019. First edition. A self-published limited edition photo book. Signed by the photographer and numbered 124/300. Fabulous black and white images throughout. Kickstarter funded, this is Efram's first book; images of street life. The book comes with a stamped envelope, including 10 postcards of photographs in the book. "Everything about this... project reeks of a love for the cities he lives in and travels to" (Michael Kirchoff review). 61 pages. 195 by 280 mm (7¾ by 11 inches).
Book ID: 3403More details Price: £200.00 -
Dornroschen
Photographie nach dem im Kaisersaal zu Goslar
Book ID: 4282More details Price: £60.00