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8 Minutes. HIRST & BAILEY.
Gottinchen: Steidl, 2009. First edition. 130 photographs of British 'bad boy' artist Damien Hirst by the great British fashion photographer David Bailey, taken during a single shoot lasting only eight minutes. As new, still in the original shrink wrap.
Book ID: 2179More details Price: £30.00 -
A Century of American Sculpture. Treasures from Brookgreen Gardens.
New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind stamped figure on upper board. Beautiful full colour photos of garden sculptures from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Boards has some sun fading, but the photographic dust jacket is in a very good condition. Neat gift inscription to the inside front. Brookgreen Gardens is in South Carolina, on the site of an old rice plantation. 127 pp.
340 x 290 mm (13½ x 11½ inches).Book ID: 2189More details Price: £35.00 -
A Gun for Hire
Book ID: 4920More details Price: £45.00 -
A L'Est, L'Asie.
Book ID: 4974More details Price: £120.00 -
A Paris sous la botte des nazis - Un an - Victoire des Français en Italie; Huit mois de campagne vus par les correspondant de guerre.
Book ID: 4097More details Price: £150.00 -
A Photo-Album of a World Tour. A German family travel around the world.
Book ID: 3445More details Price: £680.00 -
A private collection of photographs recording the Royal visits to the ideal home exhibition at Olympia in 1954
Book ID: 4031More details Price: £750.00 -
A Vanished World.
London: Allen Lane, 1984. Second printing of this fascinating photo-book. In hardback in brown boards, under original unclipped dust jacket. Foreword by Elie Wiesel, himself a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. This book is illustrated with a comprehensive selection (180) of Vishniac's celebrated photographs of the Jews of Eastern Europe in the lead up to World War Two. Many of the photos are are full-page. The images were taken secretly, under difficult circumstances, between 1934 and 1939, and the negatives smuggled out sewn in to clothing etc. It is not an over statement to say that these photographs remain important to preserve for posterity unforgettable images of pre-war Jewish life. Unpaginated [96 pages]. 315 x 315 mm
Book ID: 3618More details Price: £40.00 -
Abbaye de Maredsous Albumen photographs
Book ID: 4622More details Price: £275.00 -
Airborne - The New Dance photography of Lois Greenfield.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. Softback first edition. Clean and tidy white covers. Internally in excellent condition. Dance photography. 112 pages. 265 by 265mm (10½ by 10½ inches).
Book ID: 3249More details Price: £20.00 -
Album de L'Internat 1937-1938
Book ID: 4898More details Price: £150.00 -
Albumen photograph of young children in North Africa
Book ID: 4698More details Price: £60.00 -
Allure with Christopher Hamphill.
Book ID: 3485More details Price: £90.00 -
Andy Warhol China 1982. The Photographs of Christopher Makos.
Book ID: 4774More details Price: £50.00 -
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: £30.00 -
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: £30.00 -
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 -
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 tit le 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