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A Time Before Crack (Jamel Shabazz)
Following the blockbuster success of "Back in the Days," Shabazz captures the style and spirit of an era long gone. Documenting the streets of New York City from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, his photographs reveal the families, the poses, and the players who made this age extraordinary.
All American (Burk Uzzle)
First printing, Text by Burk Uzzle en Martha Chadroudi, design Katie Homans
See for reference: 802 Photobook from the M. + M. Auer collection, pag.656
Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds (Alex Webb)
Alex Webb has made a name for himself with lushly colored images, a "decisive moment" sense of composition, and a photojournalist's sense of story. These images tracing the course of the Amazon, and those who reside alongside it, are filled with the tension of content and beauty that has made Webb's work so influential.
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS (Walker Evans)
First edition with original dustjacket, large part of original belly band, and errata slip! (Very scarce in this condition). 87 full-page halftone plates from photographs taken between 1929 and 1936, organized in two parts, with titles listed on separate pages. Has publisher's printed paper label on spine. Evans's masterpiece, and one of the most influential photography books of the twentieth century. A must for any ambitious photobook-collector! Included in Andrew Roth (ed.) ”The Book of 101 Books”, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger in “The Photobook: A History, Vol I” and "The Open Book".
Amsterdam? (Ed van der Elsken)
A large collection of exceptional people in a small photo book.
Amsterdams straatleven rond 1900, foto s van een schilder (G.H. Breitner / Paul Hefting)
Streetlife by G.H. Breitner
Arrivals and Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry (Garry Winogrand)
The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand assembles 86 of the photographer's most compelling, never-before published images of travelers, flight attendants, airport waiting rooms, airplanes on runways, and all the people and places in between.
Bad weather (Martin Parr)
First edition Bad Weather by Martin Parr, text by Michael Fishen Peter Turner, design by Chrissie Charlton
Beaufort West (Mikhael Subotzky)
Exquisitely designed and produced on a large portfolio scale, "Beaufort West "features thirty-six plates and an introduction by leading South African writer Jonny Steinberg. The book is both an important social document and the visual manifesto of the best of the new wave of South African art.
Berlin (Pierre Mac Orlan)
Original pictorial wrappers. Scarce and fascinating work of th e Berlin of the early years of the Third Reich by one of the most famous French novelists and journalists. Pierre Mac Orlan exposes his thoughts on each one of the 66 photogravures compiled in this book. This scarce work is a part of a collection intitled "Tour du Monde" which only got 2 titles (London and Berlin). The publisher of this book seems to have retrieved or destroyed the majority of its copies, due to the too openly anti-Nazi critics stated by Mac Orlan, which would explain its scarcity.
Boris Mikhailov: The Hasselblad Award 2000 (Gunilla Knape / Boris Groys / Boris Mikhailov)
Boris Mikhailov, Hasselblad Award winner 2000, foreword by Gunilla Knape, essay by Boris Groys. Includes an interview with Mikhailov and a biography. 88 pages; 65 tritone plates.
The photographs reproduced here are all from the 1978 series "Dance"
Brassai (Brassai / Henry Miller)
Photographic illustration laid down on front cover. First edition hardcover, edited by Robert Delpire and Pierre Faucheux. Brassaï’s friend the novelist Henry Miller contributed an essay ‘Oeil de Paris’
China 85/07 (Koen Wessing)
Dutch photographer Koen Wessing has visited China on four different occasions, firstly in 1985, and more recently in 2007 when he visited Chongqing, Tibet and Kashgar. During these visits the photographer turned his camera primarily on the less affluent parts of the population and on rural migrants. His expressive and emphatic black and white photography, that has been gathered in this monograph, offers an intriguing look at the reality of China as it was then, and now. The publication is introduced by an informative essay by Catherine Vuylsteke and includes an up-to-date biography of Wessing.
Cost of living (Martin Parr)
Parr's third outing in colour sets his sights on the middle classes of 1980s Britain. Very hard to find mint condition.
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