The Americains   This 1993 edition from cornerhouse is a quality reprint of this iconic edition.     Signed on the inside title page by Robert Frank, Books signed by Robert Frank are as rare as hens teeth, and seldom seen.   With the aid of his major artistic influence, the photographer Walker Evans, Frank secured a grant from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1955 to travel across the United States and photograph its society at all strata. He took his family along with him for part of his series of road trips over the next two years, during which time he took 28,000 shots. Only 83 of those were finally selected by him for publication in The Americans. Frank's journey was not without incident. While driving through Arkansas, Frank was arbitrarily thrown in jail after being stopped by the police; elsewhere in the South, he was told by a sheriff that he had an hour to leave town.        Shortly after returning to New York in 1957, Frank met Beat writer Jack Kerouac on the sidewalk outside a party and showed him the photographs from his travels. Kerouac immediately told Frank 'Sure I can write something about these pictures, and he contributed the introduction to the U.S. edition of The Americans. Frank also became lifelong friends with Allen Ginsberg, and was one of the main visual artists to document the Beat subculture, which felt an affinity with Frank's interest in documenting the tensions between the optimism of the 1950s and the realities of class and racial differences. The irony that Frank found in the gloss of American culture and wealth over this tension gave Frank's photographs a clear contrast to those of most contemporary American photojournalists, as did his use of unusual focus, low lighting and cropping that deviated from accepted photographic techniques.     This divergence from contemporary photographic standards gave Frank difficulty at first in securing an American publisher. Les Americains was first published in 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris, and finally in 1959 in the United States by Grove Press, where it initially received substantial criticism. Popular Photography, for one, derided his images as meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures, drunken horizons and general sloppiness. Though sales were also poor at first, Kerouac's introduction helped it reach a larger audience because of the popularity of the Beat phenomenon. Over time and through its inspiration of later artists, The Americans became considered a seminal work in American photography and art history, and the work with which Frank is most clearly identified. In 1961, Frank received his first individual show, entitled Robert Frank: Photographer, at the Art Institute of Chicago. He also showed at MOMA in New York in 1962.

The Americans

Peter Fraser    Published by the Photographers Gallery, London 2002.   Illustrated hard cover signed by Peter Fraser

Peter Fraser

Switzerland on the Rocks    Nicolas Faure    Published by Scalo 1996   NEW   Hardcover in Publishers Wrapper   Nicolas Faure has been working on the theme of Swiss landscape since the 1990s, concentrating in particular on the blend between the Traditional and the Modern. This was his first book.    ISBN 3-905080-17-6

Switzerland on the Rocks

Fernandez (b. 1936) was raised in Spanish Harlem and entered the world of photography with a prize-winning photo taken at a horse show in New Jersey. He honed his skills while working at the Design Laboratory 'a photography class conducted in the studios of famous photographers' and has worked for Magnum photo agency. His photographs cover the world of minorities within a majority culture: protests against racism, segregation, the Vietnam War, even the bikers' world and the society kept by the wealthy. Some of his photographs are well known, images of Martin Luther King shortly before his death and at his funeral and some have been featured in well-known publications. His latest work focuses on the search for his Puerto Rican roots. While Fernandez has mixed with photographers who are better known, he deserves to be better known internationally himself. The catalog of a traveling exhibition of his work, this collection of well-reproduced images should accomplish that. Though the essays are poorly translated, this is still recommended for photojournalism collections. Kathleen Gail Collins, New York Transit Museum Archives, Brooklyn Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Protest: Photographs 1963-1995

A beautiful collection of sensitive and often abstract nudes by award-winning photographer Robert Farber.  Released in paperback in 2004, this bestselling collection is now available to a wider audience.

Natural Beauty: Farber Nudes

The photographer who produced the lusciously detailed images of blossoms in One Hundred Flowers returns here to find the sensuous beauty of leaves and fruits. From fiddlehead ferns to thorny teasel seeds, motley maple leaves to the flame-like layers of a sliced red onion, Foliage contains 100 large photographs in saturated color on black backgrounds, at times reminiscent of the finest horticultural paintings of centuries ago.  In Foliage, Harold Feinstein returns to the natural forms that he chronicled in One Hundred Flowers. An introduction by popular gardening author Sydney Eddison explores the cultural significance of plants while revealing the subtle ways in which they touch our daily lives. Her introduction, along with text by horticulture expert Greg Piotrowski, makes Foliage as practical and informative, as it is beautiful.     Publisher Bulfinch       Format hardcover      ISBN 0821227394    Pages/Publication Date 140/2001

Foliage

Born in France, the son of renowned artist Lyonel Feininger, Andreas Feininger was educated as an architect in Germany before he became a photographer. After working in Sweden, he came to the United States and in 1943, became a staff photographer at LIFE magazine, where he spent the next twenty years. He is best known for iconographic images of his adopted land, with a focus on powerful cityscapes, which are imbued with the strict sense of form and proportion developed during his architectural studies. Indeed, the city was to be the focus of much of his work:  I see the city as a living organism, dynamic, sometimes violent.  The scale and dynamism of Feininger's work captured the vast scope and raw majesty of an energetic and evolving land. His precise and unorthodox vision magnified the grandeur in the everyday and the mundane. An accomplished technician and acclaimed writer, Feininger is also widely respected for his photographic textbooks.

Stern Portfolio #46 - Andreas Feiniger

Pasha & Baydere  Gordon Baldwin examines this work by Roger Fenton  Roger Fenton's photograph Pasha and Bayadere is a fascinating image in its own right and is an expression of a more general Orientalist craze that grew steadily stronger during the nineteenth century in Europe. In his rich and detailed study, Baldwin explains how this image of a seated man and a dancing woman embodies themes and motifs that can be found in the work of nineteenth-century artists from Eugene Delacroix to John Frederick Lewis to Alfred Lord Tennyson. He has also brought to light significant new information about the life and career of Fenton, the important Victorian photographer best known for his photographs of the Crimean War.   About the Author  Gordon Baldwin is associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is the author of Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms (Getty and OUP, 1991).     Paperback: 122 pages     Publisher: Getty Trust    Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum (September 10, 1996)     Language: English     ISBN-10: 0892363673  ISBN-13: 978-0892363674     Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.3 inches     Shipping Weight:  0.7kg

Pasha & Bayadere

The mountain of Potosí in Bolivia has yielded more silver than any other mountain or region of the world. In the 16th and 17th centuries this wealth flowed through Spain into Europe, while the grueling work of extracting the silver was left to the indigenous population, who were enslaved by the Spanish and died by the thousands. Today, Potosí maintains this unique culture: some 1800 miners work in or around the mountain, scraping for traces of silver and tin and worshiping a devil?represented as a sexually potent Spaniard?in hopes that he won't take their lives. Photojournalist Stephen Ferry documents this stunning realm in 85 large color images.

I Am Rich Potoshi

New York to Nova Scotia was originally published in 1986 to accompany a retrospective exhibition of the same name organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and has long been out of print. The chronology and personal spirit of Frank?s complex career as a photographer and filmmaker are evoked with previously unpublished letters, pictures, reviews and essays as well as 18 photographs by Frank. Some of the letters are by Frank; others were written by photographers and contemporaries, such as W. Eugene Smith, Louis Faurer, Keith Smith, and Gotthard Schuh, and by legendary curators Hugh Edwards and Robert Delpire. Authors of the essays include Walker Evans, Jack Kerouac, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg and Robert Coles, as well as the exhibition curators, Philip Brookman and Anne W. Tucker. Other entries include Frank?s proposal to the Guggenheim Foundation in 1954 that started his legendary journey across America, a letter from an Arkansas State policeman who arrested Frank during his trip to produce the photographs in The Americans, still images from Frank?s films, and pictures of Frank throughout his career

New York to Nova Scotia

Paris - A Short Return   by Robert Frank   Steidl   Paris - A Short Return is the first time that the significant body of photographs which Robert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950s have been brought together in a single book. His visit to Paris in 1951 was his second return to Europe after he had settled in New York City in 1947 and some of the images he made during that visit have become iconic in the history of the medium.   The 80 photographs selected by Robert Frank and Ute Eskildsen suggest that Frank's experience of the 'new world' had sharpened his eye for European urbanism. He saw the city's streets as a stage for human activity and focused particularly on the flower sellers. His work clearly references Atget and invokes the tradition of the flaneur.   160 pages, 80 tritone plates    20 cm x 24.5 cm    Steidl    ISBN: 978-3-86521-524-6    Publication date: May 2008

Paris - a Short Return

"Lee and I have shared a number of unconventionally interesting friends during our five decades together, people who show us an unusual way of living a life. I would put Raoul Hague on that list, maybe at the top. Beginning in the mid 1960s and continuing for more than 25 years, Lee and I and our children visited him at the Woodstock, New York, cabin where he lived and worked. To enter Hague's cabin was entering his universe. It was not simply a dwelling and a studio but a carefully organized way of life, a reflection of an esthetic ideal. All he did, whether work or pleasure, was driven by this ideal, which he created for himself and carried out without compromise. Hague was the quintessential storybook artist". from the text by Maria Friedlander.    Witness Number 6 provides a portrait 'in 157 photographs by Lee Friedlander, and accompanying essay by Maria Friedlander' of the sculptor Raoul Hague. The Friedlanders knew Hague for over two and a half decades, and their deep fondness for, and mutual trust with, the Armenian-born sculptor comes through in every image and word of this gorgeous addition to JGS's Witness series.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-243-3   Hardcover, 9 1/2 x 12,    96 pages, 157 duotone plates.

Witness #6

Signed by the Photographer   Limited to 500 numbered copies with 1 original print tipped in    'To me, neon really figured in the migration movement on Route 66. The farther you go out West, the more neon you'd see, especially as a presence on hotels. You can see towns like Tucumcari, New Mexico, coming from 20 miles away.' Steve Fitch is well-known for his anthropological studies of the American West. For his One Picture Book, Fitch has turned one of his vernacular assemblages of motels into a running series. Widely published and exhibited, Fitch's photographs are included in the permanent collections of such museums as the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Chicago Art Institute.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-325-6   Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4,    16 pages, 11 four-color plates, 1 original print.

(OPB#071) - Motel Signs (OPB)

Known as the 'Jack Kerouac of photography', this is the perfect introduction to the work of American photographer Larry Fink (b.1941)   The first and only book to assess the entirety of Fink's 40-year career as a photographer, during which he celebrated the expressiveness of the human body and its colourful, energetic sensuality    'Fink's genius is shown chronologically through images that meld social commentary with exquisite pictorial composition'   'Picture-by-picture commentary text provides a fresh perspective on Fink's life and work, placing him in the context of his time and within the history of photography'   In The Press   'Liberally illustrated with images of capricious, and occasionally malicious, glee.' (Photography Monthly)   About the author(s)   Laurie Dahlberg is Associate Professor at Bard College (Annandale, New York), where she is jointly appointed to the programmes in Art History and Photography. A former curator and author of numerous publications in the history of photography, including Victor Regnault and The Advance of Photography: The Art of Avoiding Errors (2005), she is currently at work on a cultural study of early domestic photography.     Text: English   Hardback: 245 x 210 mm, 9 5/8 x 8 1/4 in   56 Duotone Images, 128 pp   ISBN-13: 9780714840222   ISBN-10: 071484022X

Larry Fink

A collection of groundbreaking animal portraiture   An insight into how we perceive the natural world and its inhabitants   Award-winning photographer Tim Flach has built an exceptional reputation for creating compelling images of animals that captivate and enthrall photography buffs and animal lovers alike. His commissions include such world-renowned publications as National Geographic and The Sunday Times. He combines artistic originality with an intuitive genius for capturing every creature?s distinctive quirks and traits. As he puts it himself, his work explores ?how we shape nature and how it shapes us.? In doing so, we see how our perceptions affect the reality around us?highlighting the deep bond we share with other members of the animal kingdom.   Hardcover, 6 pp.,   58 colour,  11 b/w photographs   ISBN 9783652001588

Stern Portfolio #74 - Tim Flach - Evolution

Masahisa Fukase    Ravens   This is a beautifully produced copy of this hightly regarded and sought after book, with a blind embossed hardcover comes with a silkscreen printed carton Slipcase   "Ravens is one of the defining bodies of work in the history of photography and a high point in the photo book genre. This accumulation of accolades, and the passing of time, have obscured much of the fascinating detail which explains the artist?s pre-occupation with this motif throughout his work. It was not simply a reflection of the existential angst and anhedonia he suffered throughout his life but manifested in artistic self-identification with the raven and ultimately spiralled into a solitary existence and artistic practice on the edge of madness. And all this before an untimely accident in 1992, a fall down the stairs of his favourite bar, resulted in him spending the final twenty years before his death with his consciousness suspended and in medical isolation. Fukase became the singular raven frozen by his camera and immortalized on the cover of his most famous book."    Tomo Kosuga from his essay Cries of Solitude [2017]   Consistently proclaimed as one of the most important photobooks in the history of the medium, Ravens by Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase was first published in 1986 and the two subsequent editions were both short print runs that sold out immediately. This bilingual facsimile of the first edition contains a new text by founder of the Masahisa Fukase Archives, Tomo Kosuga. His essay locates Ravens in Fukase?s wider work and life, and is illustrated with numerous recently discovered photographs and drawings.    Fukase?s haunting series of work was made between 1975 and 1986 in the aftermath of a divorce and was apparently triggered by a mournful train journey to his hometown. The coastal landscapes of Hokkaido serve as the backdrop for his profoundly dark and impressionistic photographs of ominous flocks of crows. The work has been interpreted as an ominous allegory for postwar Japan.    Masahisa Fukase (b. 1934, Hokkaido; d. 2012) graduated from the Nihon University College of Art?s Photography Department in 1956. He became a freelance photographer in 1968 after working at the Nippon Design Center and Kawade Shobo Publishers. His major books include Yugi [Homo Ludence] (Chuokoron-sha, 1971); Yohko (Asahi Sonorama, 1978), and Karasu [Ravens] (Sokyu-sha, 1986). Countless solo exhibitions have been dedicated to Fukase?s work, and his photographs have been included in group exhibitions at the MoMA, NY; Oxford Museum of Art; Fondation Cartier pour l?Art Contemporain, Paris; V&A, London. Fukase also won numerous prizes, including the 2nd Ina Nobuo Award in 1976 for his exhibition ?Karasu? and the Special Award at the 8th Higashikawa Photography Awards in 1992. Fukase tragically fell down a set of stairs in 1992 and suffered a traumatic brain injury from which he never recovered. He passed away in 2012.   Blind embossed clothbound hardback in a silkscreen printed carton slipcase   Original afterword by Akira Hasegawa [1986] and a new text by Tomo Kosuga [both bilingual]   148 pages   80 tritone plates   20 b/w and colour illustrations   26.3 cm x 26.3 cm   Publication date: May 2017   ISBN 978-1-910164-83-9

Ravens

In Picture Summer on Kodak Film, a poem by two sisters echoes across Fulford?s photographs, comprised of recurring motifs: time, test strips, refracted light, rainbow color, and distortion through shadows. Characters and places are repeated in kaleidoscopic compositions throughout this vivid sequence. Though taken across the world (in Canada, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Thailand, USA and Vietnam), these photographs come together to create a singular visual language: one bright, timeless, fictional place. A place imbued with the unexpected beauty, humor and meaning, that one has come to expect from Jason Fulford.   Buckram hardback   21.5 x 28 cm   ISBN 978-1-912339-74-7

Picture Summer on Kodak Film (Signed)

"The tension implicit in any photograph is the tension between an inert, black-and-white, two-dimensional object, and an event that actually existed in the phenomenal world. A successful photograph mediates, though never completely resolves that tension.?   In 1972, as his career was beginning to take off, Lewis Baltz conducted a revealing interview, his first considered statement about photography. Never published, the interview has recently resurfaced, and is printed here for the first time. In an increasingly sardonic exchange Baltz describes the character of his practice, articulates his position within and against the world of photography, and comments on his intellectual heritage and professional ambition. A penetrating exploration of the character of his medium, Baltz?s artistry and mercurial presence are strikingly laid bare.   Baltz?s interview is fully annotated with an introductory essay by Duncan Forbes.   DISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended illustrated text.        Paperback with flaps    12.5 x 19.5cm, 120 pages   ISBN 978-1-913620-02-8

An Interview with Lewis Baltz (Discourse Bk2)

In 1980, the American photographer Larry Fink received a grant from the Seattle Museum of Art, or as he tells the story, ‘My star was starting to rise. I was called’ and so, already a logger of sorts himself, Fink made a natural transition into photographing the rugged breed of men who selectively pillaged the deep, virgin forest of the Olympic Peninsula, in western Washington.\n\nFink was assigned to ‘a gypo logger’ Davey McCardle, who would prove a significant character in the story of making ‘Opening the Sky’. Fink recalls,’ Back up the mountain with a flash in hand and a bag of forty pounds, a Mamiya C330 and a Leica M2 as my cameras, I was living a tentative life, jumping over logs rolling at me and sidestepping crevices and snakes, at the same time photographing the logging.’\n\n‘Think of the sound from the back of a long tunnel. A whooooosh and slow silent rumble, then the gnawing ra-ta- tat-ta of the saw. Its whine, searing as is lacerates three hundred and fifty years of slow time growth with quick time destruction or production. Finally a great aching arch, a crack, a whir, and a long dark roar. Gravity takes its toll, hallow of time, silence then. A silence without time. The massive tree settled in a bed of mosses, ripped and startled into submission. Looking through a camera is not looking at danger in the same way as straight on.’\n\nThe resulting images, published in a beautiful limited edition hard back cloth covered book, are majestic, poetic and fearless — Fink at his finest.\n\nISBN — 9780956992239\nCover — Cloth-bound hardback, tipped in images on front and back.\nImages — 112pp 48 B&W Duotone illustrations, screen printed text\nSize — 248mm × 292mm landscape

Opening the Sky

Very Limited Hardbound edition, covered in Irish Linen, signed and self published by the photographer\n\nFor the first time ever the UK has a land border with the EU - the border which divides the island of Ireland\n\nOver 100 miles of the Irish Border consists of streams and small rivers. Streams of Consciousness is the story of the Border told through photographs of these streams and contemporary newspaper reports.

Streams of Consiousness

Funny, profound, absurd, and filled with unexpected beauty, this new photobook from American artist Jason Fulford is a collection of twelve stories drawn from a decade of encounters with Italy. Taking the form of a novel-sized paperback, the book includes meetings with ball-breaking bakers, an exploding museum cellar, Aldo Rossi’s notes on happiness, the center of the Earth, and Guido Guidi’s garage.\n\nFulford’s pictures are deceptively simple, imbued with a gift for composition that brings forth metaphors and meaning. Known internationally for his skill as an editor, Fulford uses layered articulation and careful sequencing to suggest ambiguous meaning and invite endless reading.\n\n \nEmbossed paperback with flaps\n13.6 x 20cm, 320 pages\nISBN 978-1-913620-96-7

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