Photography
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“Photographs 1941-1995”. INSCRIBED by KELD HELMER-PETERSEN. A deluxe retrospective on five decades of work by Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen famous for ‘122 Farvefotografier’ (1948). With preface by Gerry Badger, introductory essay by Finn Thrane, interview by Martin Parr, and with a short introduction to every chapter by the photographer himself.…
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“In December 1968, the American artist Robert Smithson embarked on a field trip to the huge industrial complex in the Ruhr district of Germany. His local guides were the Düsseldorf-based artist duo of Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Konrad Fischer, in whose Dsseldorf gallery Smithson was scheduled to exhibit. The Bechers had begun their own project of photographing the vernacular industrial architecture of Northern Europe in the early 1960s, and had already spent several months photographing at Oberhausen as well as at adjacent industrial sites. The different series of photographs made by Smithson and the Bechers of the same site foreground their respective preoccupations with the industrial landscape and the process of production and entropy, with systems and their inevitable dissolution. Their contrasting bodies of work embody alternate perspectives on time: the Bechers’ sense of historical time and Smithson’s of the geological. Though formally divergent, each artist’s work comprises a radical rethinking of classical notions of beauty and landscape.”
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London: Studio Vista, 1974. Small quarto hardcover with slightly worn but complete and now protected dustjacket. 127 pages with 101 photographies in héliogravure and offset, illustrated throughout. Very good above average copy First edition thus. Finely printed selection of Lartique’s photos of women, in bw and color
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Large 4° in original magazine wrappers. Around 125 pages. Complete, well preserved 1969 issue of ” Du ” dedicated to Bruce Davidson’s classic photo essay documenting East 100th Street in New York City. This was the first published appearance of the essay and predates the book by at least one…
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“Fragments of a City. Chicago Photographs”.Copenhagen: Hans Reitzel, 1960. Original photoillustrated wrappers. (42) pp. A small mark to front cover (see photo) that looks to be a mistake from the printer / publisher, else clean and very fine copy with the spine title label preserved Inscribed by Helmer-Petersen to inner…
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BZ: BZ’ere: Åh ralle – ikke mere pålægschokolade. København, eget tryk BZ-Brigaden Ungdomshusets Infocafe, 1983. 8vo. 144 sider. Rigt illustreret. En del brugsspor men ikke slemt og alt i alt et godt eksemplar. Extremely rare Danish anti-establishment / riot book with photos, drawings, poetry etc.
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From 1979 to 1985, Avedon traveled extensively through the American West on a commission from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, ultimately producing an exhibition at the museum and the present book. Included are compelling portraits of people: ranch hands, drifters, slaughter house workers, miners, oil field workers, salesgirls, factory workers, farmers, and children
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“PICTURES. Erstes internationales Festival des erotischen Films 1971 / First Internation Erotica Film Festival 1971” Germany: Olympia Press, 1972. Oblong 8vo in wraps as issued. Unpaginated with around 130 pages, short intro text in German else illustrated with film stills throughout. Cool book design by Adolf Heinzlmeier With 4 stills…
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“After completing The Americans in 1958, Robert Frank put aside the single image and concentrated throughout the 1960s on film-making. He only returned to still-photographs in the 1970s, using a Polaroid camera with black-and-white positive/negative film. He frequently layered the images with text, which he inscribed by hand onto the Polaroid negative. Frank found that these works allowed him more freedom to “destroy that image, that perfect image”. In recent years Robert Frank has worked almost exclusively with Polaroids, exploring the collage and assemblage possibilities of the instant photograph. Seven Stories brings together sequences of single images Frank has been compiling to create books of new work. As always the photographs and stories relate to Frank’s life and milieu, his homes in Mabou and New York, or a trip to China or Spain. This collection of small books is a new stage in the practice of this remarkable artist who continually challenges the limits of photography and film and strives to avoid repeating himself”
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New York: Dell Books, 1965 (1964). Small 8vo. Original softcover. (94) pp. Ilustrated throughout with well printed photographs in black and white by Richard Avedon. Attractive, clean copy of the first paperback edition Avedon classic: sharply cut, intense black and white minimalistic portraits of people looking directly in the camera,…
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“To You, the People of New York.”: Weegee’s photobook masterpiece illustrated with 239 powerful, gritty black-and-white photos. “one of the great documentary photobooks… ‘Naked City’ is essentially a nocturnal book, to be put alongside Brassaï and Brandt… Beneath its Rabelaisian tough-guy exterior, this is a book with heart” (Parr & Badger I:145)
