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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.
Condition: 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. 127 pp.
340 x 290mm (13½ x 11½ inches). Brookgreen Gardens is in South Carolina, on the site of an old rice plantation.Condition: Boards has some sun fading, but the photographic dust jacket is in a very good condition. Neat gift inscription to the inside front.
Book ID: 2189More details Price: £35.00 -
A Travel Photograph Album Of England, Germany, South Tyrol And Austria
Book ID: 2911More details Price: £475.00 -
Ai Weiwei: On The Table.
Barcelona: La Virreina / La Fábrica, 2014. First edition, in its original clothbound format. Unpaginated [280 pages]. 310 x 230 mm (12¼ x 9 inches). This book served as both a retrospective of Weiwei's career, and as a companion publication to the exhibition of the same name. With photographs of many of his best-known items, an essay by the exhibition's curator Rosa Pera, and an artist interview conducted by Llucià Homs. Text in Catalan, English and Spanish. Ai Weiwei is best known for his use of Chinese art forms to display Chinese political and social issues. This book includes photographs from his early years in New York, a selection of his 'altered objects', such as 'Suitcase for Bachelor', and 'One Man-Shoe', plus much more.
Condition: Like new.
Book ID: 2689More details Price: £35.00 -
Albumen Photograph of John Ruskin
Condition: The image is a little faded, but clearly still a portrait of Ruskin! The verso is clean. Overall in excellent condition.
Book ID: 2588More details Price: £240.00 -
Amsterdam + -
Huizen: Tritonpers, 1969. First edition hardback. Full of wonderful b/w photographs. Text in Dutch, English, German and French. Cover images by Robert Jaspen Grootveld and Theo Kley. 128 pages. 285 x 220 mm (11¼ x 8¾ inches).
Condition: Front board has some sun fading. Corners bumped. Otherwise in a good clean condition.
Book ID: 2673More details Price: £20.00 -
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).
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. Unpaginated [48 pages]. 355 x 305 mm (14 x 12 inches). Sir Anish Kapoor CBE, RA is a British Indian sculptor who specialises in installation art, and conceptual art.
Condition: Boards have some light soiling, and light handling. No dust jacket, as issued. Inside, fine condition.
Book ID: 2692More details Price: £25.00 -
Army Gymnastic Display Class. Royal Naval & Military Tournament, Olympia 1913
Book ID: 2833More details Price: £70.00 -
Blackhearted Woman - a text and some pictures.
Utrecht: Self published, 1989. With hand cut and tipped-in original photographs. 320 x 310 mm (12½ x 12¼ inches). Text in English and illustrations by Titi (Tineke) Zaadnoordijk. Titi is a poet, performer and visual artist. Her work is always figurative, and humour is always woven through it.
Condition: Fine. Limited production. This copy is numbered 79 of 100.
Book ID: 2238More details Price: £95.00 -
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.
Condition: Very good
Book ID: 1983More details Price: £35.00 -
Budapest 1988 - Signed and limited photograph.
Condition: Beautiful condition. Held in an archival wallet. No flaws.
Book ID: 1838More details Price: £200.00 -
Buffalo: The Life and Style of Ray Petri.
New York: powerHouse Books, 2000. Black cloth boards with photographic dust wrapper over. Essay and large number of photographs. In as new condition. 184 pages. 340 x 260 mm (13½ x 10¼ inches).
Book ID: 2170More details Price: £150.00 -
Carnaval de Nice - 11 large Silver Gelatin Photographs
Jean Gilletta, 1897. A bound album, entitled Carnaval de Nice. Contains 11 original prints - each 29cm x 23cm (11½ by 9 inches) by the photographer Jean Gilletta. The photographs, mainly from a high vantage point, show the carnival and its fantastic floats. Jean Gilletta (1856-1933) was a French photographer, who popularised the South of France, in much the same way that Frith did for England.
Book ID: 2283More details Price: £550.00 -
Characteristic Japan. Views and Characters in the Land of the Rising Sun.
Kobe: Tamamura, Photographer. First Edition. C.1900. Oblong folio album (19 x 42 cm), 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.
One of several similar albums produced by the studio of Kozaburo Tamamura, who was one of the originators in Japan of photographic albums of this kind for tourists. The subject of these photographs are 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).
Condition: The silk boards have been professionally restored. In a very good condition.
Book ID: 2174More details Price: £1,550.00 -
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. 62 pages. 200 x 165 mm (7¾ x 6½ inches). 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.
Condition: Covers are a little rubbed at the corners. Otherwise in a very good condition.
Book ID: 2169More details Price: £120.00 -
Election Eve.
Condition: In a very good condition - both inside and out.
Book ID: 2534More details Price: £75.00 -
Eye
Gottingen: Steidl. 2009 Edition. FINE - a never opened copy, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. No bumps or wear. The book is bound in a hardcover of printed cloth, designed with a dark blue background, titled in white and with a decorative image of an eye in white, light blue and pink on the front panel. No dust jacket was issued. A selection of Bailey's photographs from 1962 to 2008. Mostly black & white, they feature influential directors, artists, fashion designers and musicians, including Andy Warhol, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Yves Saint Laurent, John Huston and Ellsworth Kelly. 188 pages with 3 color plates, 89 tritone plates. 260 x 340 mm (10¼ x 13½ inches).
Book ID: 2177More details Price: £30.00 -
Fidel Castro - original silver gelatin photograph
Paris: Photo Pic, [1959]. Large borderless b/w photograph of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, taken circa 1959. With the rubber stamp of Parisian photographer Roger Pic to the verso. 205 x 305 mm (8 x 12 inches). Roger Pic (1920 - 2001) was a French photojournalist famed for his portraits and documentaries on anti-colonial struggles. He visited Cuba in the late 50's and 60's; forging personal relationships with both Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. This closeness enabled Pic to achieve images of unusual relaxation and candor.
Condition: Very good condition.
Book ID: 2894More details Price: £200.00 -
Fidel Castro - original silver gelatin photograph
Paris: Photo Pic, [1959]. Large borderless b/w photograph of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, taken circa 1959. With the rubber stamp of Parisian photographer Roger Pic to the verso. 205 x 305 mm (8 x 12 inches). Roger Pic (1920 - 2001) was a French photojournalist famed for his portraits and documentaries on anti-colonial struggles. He visited Cuba in the late 50's and 60's; forging personal relationships with both Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. This closeness enabled Pic to achieve images of unusual relaxation and candor.
Condition: Very good condition
Book ID: 2895More details Price: £200.00