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(SAVILLE, JENNY) (LUCHFORD, GLEN). Saville, Jenny, Glen Luchford & Katherine Dunn. Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. First Edition. Folio. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 48pp, 15 b&w and 14 color illustrations. Designed by David James Associates. With biographies, exhibition histories and bibliographies. This is the opulently printed hardbound catalogue produced in conjunction with the 2002 Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills exhibition of collaborative photographs by Jenny Saville and Glen Luchford. Each of the images shown was produced by Saville distorting and/or flattening her naked body against a sheet of glass, with Luchford capturing the result on camera. Originally intended as studies for the artist's large format figurative paintings, they became a body of work unto themselves. "Closed Contact" reproduces these photographs on heavy, ultra-glossy paper, and they are accompanied by an essay by Katherine Dunn. A most presentable example of this uncommon item (cited on pages 398-399 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book") whose contents and textblock are immaculate, but whose covers show some noticeable wear, soiling and scuffing along with some abrading to the bottom edge of the front board. It has been priced accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-880154-65-X Inventory Number: 020897

(SAWATARI, HAJIME). Sawatari, Hajime. Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 2004. First Edition 1/600. 4to. Cloth in Acetate Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (88pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Koichi Hara. This is the tenth installment in the estimably hip Japanese fashion/style purveyor Hysteric Glamour's series of beautifully produced limited edition photography monographs. It is an erotic tale of a gorgeous lass and her love for a certain octopus - sucker marks and all - captured by the creator of the truly twisted 1974 photographically illustrated retelling of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", Hajime Sawatari. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to six hundred numbered copies (348/600) additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Sawatari" in pencil on the title page in the publisher's unprinted clear acetate dustwrapper, as issued. Inventory Number: 023000

(SAWATARI, HAJIME). Sawatari, Hajime. Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 2000. First Edition. Folio. Printed Metallic Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Good +.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Hajime Sawatari's "A Girl" is another of the estimably hip Japanese fashion/style purveyor Hysteric Glamour's series of beautifully produced limited edition photography monographs. It is an oversized, erotically obsessive compendium of hundreds of full page black and white images, many nude, of a single Japanese lass taken by the creator of the truly twisted 1974 photographically illustrated retelling of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland". A shiny, most presentable example of this uncommon item BOLDLY SIGNED "SAWATARI" in black marker on the title page showing a dent through the textblock at the heel of the spine as well as a soft crease to the front cover and a slight curl to the pages at the lower foredge corner. It has been priced accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 020807

(SAWATARI, HAJIME). Sawatari, Hajime. Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 2000. First Edition. Folio. Printed Metallic Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Good.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Hajime Sawatari's "A Girl" is another of the estimably hip Japanese fashion/style purveyor Hysteric Glamour's series of beautifully produced limited edition photography monographs. It is an oversized, erotically obsessive compendium of hundreds of full page black and white images, many nude, of a single Japanese lass taken by the creator of the truly twisted 1974 photographically illustrated retelling of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland". A shiny, presentable example only of this uncommon item BOLDLY SIGNED by Hajime Sawatari in kanji in black marker on the title page showing dents and soft creases at each of the four corners of the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 020806

(SCEMAMA, MARION AND DAVID WOJNAROWICZ). Is-land Editions, I00210810, 2021. 6 x 9 inches, 156 Pages. Hardbound. New/No Jacket - As Issued.

While working as a reporter photographer in the mid-1980s, Marion Scemama was sent to New York. There she met David Wojnarowicz at the Christopher Street Pier, where he was painting his first frescoes. He introduced her to his friends, gave her access to the New York underground scene she wanted to document. From that moment on, until David's death in 1992, they maintained a passionate friendship that took the form of artistic collaborations on several occasions, with Marion taking pictures or making films that David Wojnarowicz used in his work.

In 1991, David was invited to San Francisco for the launch of his book, Close to the Knives. He wanted to get there by land, traveling through the desert, which he had already done alone several times. He loved those landscapes, the extreme loneliness they made him feel, the physical enjoyment and excitement he felt on the road, feeling weighed down by the sun.

When David wrote his long-time friend and asked her to join him that trip, he had known for several years that he was HIV-positive and sensed that this trip may very well be the last one he would ever have the strength to take. The photographs show what this trip meant to the two friends. Like a silent farewell, but in a moment when the knowledge of his impending death, no matter how clear and profound, never suppressed the heightened life force that grew within David in the midst of these desert landscapes.

During this weeks-long journey, Marion took about one hundred photographs that have been kept hidden until now. The book follows the two friends on the roads, from shabby motels to deserted villages, against the backdrop of the Death Valley's shadowless landscapes, amidst the white rocks of Zabriskie Point, where the old emblems of American mythology live on.

To accompany the account of this journey and tie it to David Wojnarowicz's life and oeuvre, two texts, one written by Thibault Boulvain and Elisabeth Lebovici, will close the collection. The contribution of these researchers, who are in France two important figures in the current research in queer studies, will make it possible to introduce David Wojnarowicz's work in France, where there has only been a translation of Close to the Knives —albeit out of print now—and where no major exhibition of his work is yet to be announced. 9791097544027 Inventory Number: I00210810

(SCHLES, KEN). Schles, Ken. Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS: Stichting Fotografie Aurora Borealis & Fotografie Noorderlicht, 2011. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. 1/2 Linen Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (96pp), 35 color illustrations. Text in English. "Oculus" is Ken Schles' exceptionally lovely fourth book published in conjunction with his participation as part of the 2011 Noorderlicht Photography Festival in Groningen. Of it the photographer states "We infuse the world we encounter with meaning, with social and symbolic significance based on the value we place upon representations we share. This, perhaps, is the irony of our conceptualizations: We make and share images so that we may know the world. "Oculus" takes you on a philosophic journey that points beyond the shadow-play of images. It is a meditation on the nature of perception and existence in the gray light of this world. A photographic book about images, memory, and the metaphor of light". A pristine example of the first edition limited to one thousand copies SIGNED AND DATED "Ken Schles NYC 11/11" in the year of its publication in black ink on the title page. 90-76703-45-0 Inventory Number: 021920

(SCHLES, KEN). Schles, Ken. With brief texts by Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka & Jean Baudrillard. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. First Edition 1/2000. 8vo. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Facsimile Dust Jacket. np (80pp), 62 b&w gravure illustrations. "Invisible City" is Ken Schles' exceptionally lovely first book published in luscious gravure by Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press. It is a compendium of urban images of indistinct people and places caught in a moment - often fraught with an air of danger or eroticism - seemingly in the dead of night. A most handsome example of 1988 first edition (cited on page 166 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III) limited to two thousand unnumbered copies LACKING the publisher's dust jacket but with a facsimile jacket supplied. It has been priced accordingly. 0-942642-35-X Inventory Number: 024206

(SCHLES, KEN). Schles, Ken. With brief texts by Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka & Jean Baudrillard. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. First Edition 1/2000. 8vo. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (80pp), 62 b&w gravure illustrations. "Invisible City" is Ken Schles' exceptionally lovely first book published in luscious gravure by Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press. It is a compendium of urban images of indistinct people and places caught in a moment - often fraught with an air of danger or eroticism - seemingly in the dead of night. A brand new, pristine example of 1988 first edition (cited on page 166 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III) limited to two thousand unnumbered copies. 0-942642-35-X Inventory Number: 023353

(SEKULA, ALLAN). Sekula, Allan, Gary Dufour & John O' Brian. Vancouver, CANADA & Cambridge, MA: Vancouver Art Gallery & MIT Press, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Allan Sekula and Reinhard Derreth Graphics. With a bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1997 exhibition held at the Vancouver Art Gallery, "Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes" is a body of work by the noted late socially-conscious photographer and educator Allan Sekula examining the Canadian mining industry and the executives, workers, and labor activists that depend on it for their livelihoods. A brand new, most handsome example additionally bearing the SIGNED INSCRIPTION "For ..., With Thanks, Allan Sekula / Atlanta 10/10/98" to an institutional curator in black ink on the title page. 0-262-69200-7 Inventory Number: 024339

(SHAUGHNESSY, R.J.). Shaughnessy, R.J.. Los Angeles: R.J. Shaughnessy LLC, 2007. First Edition 1/300. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. 152pp, 100 illustrations in color and b&w. Designed by Todd Tourso. Limited to three hundred copies only, "Deathcamp" is R.J. Shaughnessy's must-have first book - a gritty, engaging essay capturing the transgressive youthful comings and goings in the Atwater house the photographer lived in from late 2002 through early 2006. If you are an Ed Templeton or Ryan McGinley fan, this self-published gem is right up your alley! A brand new, pristine example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "R.J. Shaughnessy" in black marker on the title page. 0-9792748-1-8 Inventory Number: 023021

(SHAUGHNESSY, R.J.). Shaughnessy, R.J.. Los Angeles: R.J. Shaughnessy, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp), 37 illustrations in duotone. Designed by Christian Cervantes. "Your Golden Opportunity is Comeing Very Soon" is Los Angeles-based photographer R.J. Shaughnessy's follow up to his must-have first book - "Deathcamp". Shot in stark black and white, it captures the flawed details of his decaying metropolis illuminated with a flash in the dead of night. No wasted partygoers here, just riveting images of bent poles, torn chain-link fences, crumbling cinderblock barriers and the like. A most handsome example of this intriguing, already unavailable work limited to five hundred copies BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by R.J. Shaughnessy in black marker on the rear colophon, as issued. 0-9792748-4-2 Inventory Number: 019547

(SHAUGHNESSY, R.J.). Shaughnessy, R.J.. Los Angeles: R.J. Shaughnessy, 2009. First Edition 1/200. Oblong Folio. Debossed Linen Over Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (64pp), 29 duotone illustrations. Designed by Christian Cervantes. "These Photographs Will Heal Your Soul" is Los Angeles-based photographer R.J. Shaughnessy's exquisite third self-published book of photographs. Shot in sumptuous black and white, it surveys flurries of snowflakes against the inky night sky. A brand new, pristine example of this elegant volume limited to two hundred copies NUMBERED AND BOLDLY SIGNED "R.J. Shaughnessy" in black marker on the rear colophon still in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its size - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9792748-2-6 Inventory Number: 019106

(SHAYLOR, ANDREW). Shaylor, Andrew. Foreword by Sonny Barger. London: Merrell Publishers Limited, 2005. First Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. 4to. Full-Leather in Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 240pp, 200 duotone and 100 color illustrations. Designed by Maggi Smith. "Photographer Andrew Shaylor has been given unique and long-term access to the secret world of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Over three hundred stunning photographs reveal the rich diversity of the HAMC, including events, members' motorcycles (always Harley Davidsons), clubhouses, portraits, and a multitude of details that uniquely define their culture. It contains a specially commissioned foreword by American legend Sonny Barger". Limited to one thousand copies only, this deluxe edition is hardbound in full black leather that shows a debossed Hells Angels insignia, and is SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Andrew Shaylor. It is housed in a debossed oversized black leather clamshell box that contains a SIGNED AND NUMBERED 12 x 9 ½" black and white silver print of the image "Kenny, HAMC, Tyne and Wear" - the cover image of the trade edition of this book. A brand new, pristine example in the publisher's unopened printed cardboard shipping carton, as issued. 1858943167 Inventory Number: 019813

(SHERMAN, CINDY) (KLAUKE, JURGEN). Goetz, Ingvild, Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Hans Kickel, Peter Weibel, Jan Avgikos, Matthew Weinstein & Noemi Smolik. Munich, GERMANY & Humlebaek, DENMARK: Sammlung Goetz, 1994. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 78pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and German. With biographies and an index of illustrations. This is a handsome catalogue published in conjunction with a 1994 European exhibition of photographically-based works by Cindy Sherman and Jurgen Klauke from the estimable contemporary art collection of Ingvild Goetz. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-89322-674-5 Inventory Number: 010316

(SHORE, STEPHEN). With essays by Noah Chasin and Richard B. Woodward. MACK , I00221214, 2022. 30.5 x 25.2 cm, 204 pages. Hardcover. New.

Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape presents the latest body of work from Stephen Shore: a series of photographs shot by drone from 2020 onwards, which reveal in arresting detail the interplay of natural and man-made landscapes in Montana, North Carolina, New York, and beyond.

In this new body of work, Shore revisits the original ambitions of the renowned 1975 exhibition ‘New Topographics’, using a new aerial viewpoint to consider afresh the concerns of the movement – the objective, the commonplace, and the relationship of the natural and man-made in the American landscape – reflecting on how these might be applied in the twenty-first century.

As much as exploring the formal possibilities of the aerial photograph, Topographies displays a glorious dedication to detail and surprise, in which the slightest bend of a river or turn of a shadow uncovers the textures and colours of America’s urban and suburban landscapes, all investigated with Shore’s signature rigour.

9781913620899 Inventory Number: I00230204

(SHUBUCK, SIMONE). Shubuck, Simone, Janine Foeller, Jim Dempsey & Alex Wagner. New York, NY: Self-published. Printed in Poland by Szaransky, 2018. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Cloth. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.


"In the summer of 2017, Simone Shubuck launched WIFEY, a Brooklyn pop up that fused art, food, ceramics, flowers, and bit of retail in an elevated DIY way. During the process, Shubuck realized that so much of what she was doing directly connected to a show she staged as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute in the early 1990s. Wanting to formalize that multi-decade connection, she decided to make a book.


While at the Art institute, Shubuck studied painting, but probably spent more time tagging on the streets in the middle of the night than in her studio. When it came time to produce her student show, she constructed ten very unusual fake cakes festooned with pink ham hocks, a school of fresh sardines, a tent of chicken feet, and live crickets within a hat box within a cake. It was these images that attracted chefs Ignacio Mattos and Natasha Pickowicz of Estela, Flora Bar, and Cafe Altro Paradiso to the project. They became partners and began experimenting with dreamy layers cakes, which were served at WIFEY and were met with great acclaim.


As described by Ella Riley-Adams on Vogue.com: "She had made a paged project before; a short run of 'zines for Natasha Pickowicz’s bake sale benefit at Altro Paradiso. “It had more of a punk vibe,” Shubuck says—150 copies, printed in Chinatown. The new book feels more like a collector’s item: a retrospective of off-kilter cakes, blossoming drawings, and character-filled ceramics that charts Shubuck’s creative course that would make the ideal gift for the cool girl in your life. As Alex Wagner writes, next to a bright yellow page in the book: “Simone’s work - on paper, in clay, in life! - retains a glorious sense of mess and possibility and freedom.”


Includes texts by Janine Foeller, Jim Dempsey, and Alex Wagner.








0-692-07877-0 Inventory Number: E000SS

(SIGHICELLI, ELISA). Alemani, Cecilia. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2010. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (52pp), profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Goto Design. With an exhibition checklist. This is the striking hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2010 Gagosian Gallery New York exhibition of eleven recent Duratrans photographic images by the Italian born, London based artist Elisa Sighicelli. A most handsome copy. 1-935263-02-1 Inventory Number: 020452

(SILVY, CAMILLE). Haworth-Booth, Mark. Malibu, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1993. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Cardstock Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. One 8 ¾ x 32" cardstock sheet printed recto and verso, neatly folded in fourths as issued to make 8pp, 5 duotone illustrations. This is the slender eight page brochure produced to accompany "Silvy's River Scene, France: The Story of a Photograph"; a 1993 exhibition of variant vintage prints of the same 1858 image by the noted 19th Century French photographer Camille Silvy. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 021433

(SISKIND, AARON). Siskind, Aaron. Foreword by Gordon Parks. Charles Traub & Ann Banks, Editors. Providence, RI: Matrix Publications, Inc., 1981. First Edition #100/100 Deluxe. Oblong Small 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 80pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Malcolm Grear. This is the historically significant compendium of the esteemed late Chicago-based photographer Aaron Siskind's photographs from the 1930s of Harlem and its denizens. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1981 Matrix Publications deluxe first hardbound edition in dust jacket limited to one hundred copies NUMBERED (100/100) AND SIGNED "Aaron Siskind" in black ink on the vellum limitation page at front, as issued, showing some mild wear and sunning to the publisher's printed slipcase. 0-936554-06-1 Inventory Number: 026401

(SISKIND, AARON). Siskind, Aaron. Introduction by Harold Rosenberg. New York: Horizon Press, 1959. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Very Good/Good. np (112pp), 50 b&w illustrations. Designed by Ivan Chermayeff. Spectacularly designed and beautifully printed, this 1959 hardbound publication was the very first comprehensive monograph on the esteemed late Chicago-based photographer Aaron Siskind. An internally bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item whose striking silver-gilt front cover and spine lettering are still fresh showing some sunning along with abrading to the tip of the bottom edge of the rear cover. The book's brittle dust jacket is present, though noticeably creased, chipped, and torn - with some minor paper loss - primarily along the extremities. It has been priced accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. LC 59-13545 Inventory Number: 025032

(SISKIND, AARON). Siskind, Aaron. Introduction by Thomas B. Hess. New York: Light Gallery Books & Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First Edition 1/7500. 4to. Wrappers in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Very Good./Very Good.. 112pp, 94 duotone illustrations. Designed by Malcolm Grear. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the beautifully printed catalogue published in conjunction with a comprehensive 1976 retrospective exhibition of the work of the esteemed late Chicago-based photographer Aaron Siskind held at New York's Light Gallery. An internally handsome example of the paperbound edition in dust jacket additionally SIGNED "Aaron Siskind" in blue ink on the half title page showing some mild wear and soiling to the wrappers and edges of the textblock. 0-374-23205-9 Inventory Number: 025770

(SLACK, MIKE). Slack, Mike. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2017. First Edition. 4to. Decorative Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/ No Jacket - As Issued. np (100pp), 50 color illustrations. "Clouds, electronics, fog, bugs, glass, cellophane, rust, weeds, waves, particles… Mike Slack delves into an overheated terrestrial ecosystem in "The Transverse Path, surveying a luminous topography of monumental details and mundane vistas with cosmic curiosity. Transcendental in mood, Slack’s vaguely sci-fi photographs envision a sun-blasted wilderness of synthetic and organic stuff, all tangled together, flourishing and disintegrating on its own terms, as if engaged in an ageless negotiation (or flirtation?) just beyond our grasp. Where does nature end and its opposite begin? And where do people figure into this balance? Made primarily around the American southwest from 2011 to 2017, these vivid compositions — like a series of thought-bubbles in search of a narrative — are concise and direct, yet driven by an emotional ambivalence that hovers between stark environmental dread and calm intimate reverie". A brand new, pristine example of the first The Ice Plant edition limited to nine hundred unnumbered copies additionally SIGNED "Mike Slack" in ink.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "The Transverse Path" will be signed Saturday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. 978-0-9992655-0-5 Inventory Number: E000MSTTP

(SLACK, MIKE). Slack, Mike. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2012. Second Edition (First Thus) 1/500. 8vo. Wrappers in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New./As New.. np (96pp), 45 color illustrations + color cover. "High Tide" is Mike Slack's collection of beautifully reproduced Polaroids taken from a monitor screen in which each of its slightly-distorted subjects fills the frame, eyes closed, in a seeming state of meditative bliss. Originally published in conjunction with a 2006 exhibition of the work at Marfa's Galleri Urbane, it includes images of such iconic actors and actresses as Jack Nicholson, Nancy Allen, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty, Sean Young, Barry Newman, and many more. A pristine copy in the publisher's plastic pouch of the first printing of the revised and expanded 2012 edition of this cult favorite limited to five hundred copies SIGNED "Mike Slack" in black ink on the rear colophon. 0-9823653-8-1 Inventory Number: 021902

(SMALLWOOD, DONAVON). Trespasser, I00220722, 2022. 14 x 12 inches, 56 Pages. Softcover. New/No Jacket - As Issued.

Languor is an ode to NYC’s Central Park. With the pandemic at hand and the history of Seneca Village in mind, Smallwood created photographs of tentative comfort and appreciation as an examination of nature, home, tranquility, and escape. 9780578907598 Inventory Number: I00220722

(SMITH, JACK). Jordan, Mary, Director. New York: Arthouse Films, 2007. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 8vo. NTSC DVD in Plastic Case. Documentary Film. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 95 minutes + extras, in color. "Perhaps America's most important artist from the last fifty years, Jack Smith is simultaneously hailed as the godfather of performance art, a groundbreaking photographer, and the 'William Blake of film'. His utopian ideals, artistic processes and bejeweled artworks left no generation untouched since, and became essential influences to contemporary art superstars like Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini, and Matthew Barney. In her feature-length film debut, director Mary Jordan combines Smith's rare and unseen films and photographs with rare audio recordings, acting appearances, and other relics squeezed from Smith's vaulted archives. Commentaries from art luminaries, critics and Smith's friends and enemies such as George Kuchar, Ken Jacobs, Tony Conrad, Sylvere Lotringer, Judith Malina, Jonas Mekas, Mario Montez, Ronald Tavel, John Waters, John Zorn, Agosto Machado, Andrew Sarris, Ari Roussimoff, Billy Name, Ela Troyano, Gary Indiana, George Kuchar, Helen Gee, Henry Hills, Maria Montez, Andrew Sarris, Holly Woodlawn, Ira Cohen, Ivan Galietti, Jerry Tartaglia, John Matturri, John Vaccaro, Lawrence Rinder, Mary Woronov, Mike Kelley, Nayland Blake, Nick Zedd, Richard Foreman, Robert Heide, Robert Wilson, Taylor Mead, Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt, Uzi Parnes, and William Niederkorn intercut Smith himself proffering condemnations of capitalism, critics, and institutional-art "gatekeepers". Jordan also delves into Smith's tenuous relationship with Andy Warhol - who adopted Smith's ideas and actors in his own work (including Smith's "Superstars" concept), his vilification of New American cinema pioneer Jonas Mekas, and other previously undocumented biographical topics. From the Whitney to the Louvre, Smith is acknowledged as one of America's most influential artists, yet his legacy remains at the edges of obscurity. Pure in his artistic pursuits, Smith smashed head-on into the politics intersecting creativity, capitalism, and meaning in contemporary art. Since his 1989 death, Smith's work has been rarely publicly displayed. Still his influence pervades contemporary art and pop-culture today. This documentary portrait pays homage to New York's ultimate anti-hero and the original King of the Underground". A brand new, pristine unplayed example of this DVD in letterbox format still in the manufacturer's shrinkwrapped plastic case. Inventory Number: 018984

(SMITHSON, ALINE). Smithson, Aline. Foreword by Karen Sinsheimer. Introduction by Paula Tognarelli. Toronto, CANADA: The Magenta Foundation, 2015. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 216pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w, full edge gilt. "Self & Others - Portrait as Autobiography" is a near-twenty year culmination of portrait photographs captured by award-winning photographer, writer, and educator Aline Smithson. It begins with her earliest black and white silver gelatin prints in which she photographs the world around her considering the poignancy of childhood and the pathos of aging and relationships. The book continues with her hand-painted photographs - including her defining series - "Arrangement in Green and Black: Portrait of the Photographer's Mother" - where she combines humor and family to create a universal expression of motherhood. The book is completed by her most recent color projects that revisit beauty, the essence of childhood, and an examination of created realities. Aline brings a background in painting and fashion to her images, but at the heart of her work is her ability to recognize the inner self of her subjects. The photographer considers all her portraits a reflection of herself and the stories she wants to tell, and in that way, has created a visual language that is her own unique autobiography". A brand new, most handsome example of the 2015 first edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Aline Smithson 2015" in the year of publication in black marker on the title page at Arcana with a packet of postcards by the photographer laid in. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-926856-06-6 Inventory Number: 025519

(SNOW, MICHAEL). Snow, Michael. Halifax, CANADA & New York: The Portrait Review, 1975. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Artist's Book. Very Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Cover to Cover" is Michael Snow's now-legendary 1975 artist book co-published by The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and New York University Press that documents a short trip by the pioneering Canadian filmmaker/photographer/musician in a continuous sequence of images that unfolds from right-side up to upside down, and from cover - to cover... A most presentable example of the exceedingly uncommon 1975 first hardrbound edition (cited on page 156 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II") showing some light overall lwear and a bit of mild foxing to its pictorial covers. It has been priced accordingly. 0-8147-7770-8 Inventory Number: 025985

(SOKOLSKY, MELVIN). Sokolsky, Melvin & Raphaelle Stopin. Afterword by Ali McGraw. Beverly Hills, CA: Leafcar Editions, 2011. First Edition 1/800. 4to. Cloth in Plexiglas Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 80 + 80pp, profusely illustrated in duotone and color. Designed by Melvin Sokolsky. This beautiful volume is the definitive collection of all seventy-four printed images from of Melvin Sokolsky's wildly innovative "Bubble" and "Fly" series shot in Paris for "Harper's Bazaar" in the sixties. It includes for the first time more than a dozen previously unreleased and alternate visions of his iconic series, behind the scenes documentary photos, outtakes, and an intimate insight into the legendary fashion photographer's process and inspiration. Limited to eight hundred copies only featuring a unique back-to-back "zig-zag" binding, the "Signature Edition" is housed in an etched grey Lucite slipcase designed by Sokolsky himself. A brand new, pristine example from the 2011 first edition limited to eight hundred copies BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED (519/800) by the late, great photographer in pencil on the front colophon in the publisher's printed shipping carton, as issued. 0-9822266-7-5 Inventory Number: 027462

(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Glenn, Constance & Jane K. Bledsoe. Long Beach, CA: The Art Museum and Galleries, Cal State University, 1980. First Edition 1/3000. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. 71pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Lilli Cristin. This is the catalogue for the 1980 touring Frederick Sommer retrospective - circulated in conjunction with the renowned photographer's seventy-fifth birthday. It exquisitely reproduces thirty-one of the seventy five works exhibited as well as a portion of the text of the artist's 1972 poem-cum-treatise "The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics". A bright, most handsome example showing virtually none of the typically seen rubbing and handling to its silver covers additionally SIGNED by Frederick Sommer in black ink on the title page at the time of publication. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 019501

(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Glenn, Constance & Jane K. Bledsoe. Long Beach, CA: The Art Museum and Galleries, Cal State University, 1980. First Edition 1/3000. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good -.. 71pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Lilli Cristin. This is the catalogue for the 1980 touring Frederick Sommer retrospective - circulated in conjunction with the renowned photographer's seventy-fifth birthday. It exquisitely reproduces thirty-one of the seventy five works exhibited as well as a portion of the text of the artist's 1972 poem-cum-treatise "The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics". A most presentable example showing some typical light rubbing and handling to its silver covers as well as a short lengthwise tear along the spine at the rear cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 017105

(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Glenn, Constance & Jane K. Bledsoe. Long Beach, CA: The Art Museum and Galleries, Cal State University, 1980. First Edition 1/3000. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Good.. 71pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Lilli Cristin. This is the catalogue for the 1980 touring Frederick Sommer retrospective - circulated in conjunction with the renowned photographer's seventy-fifth birthday. It exquisitely reproduces thirty-one of the seventy five works exhibited as well as a portion of the text of the artist's 1972 poem-cum-treatise "The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics". A presentable example only showing some typical rubbing and handling to its silver covers as well as a crease across the textblock near the heel of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 017104

(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Nordland, Gerald. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia College of Art, 1968. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Good -.. 28pp, 14 b&w illustrations. Designed by Richard Hood. With a chronology, bibliography and exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the elegantly designed catalogue for Frederick Sommer's 1968 show of one hundred and twenty-seven photographs held at the Philadelphia College of Art. Printed locally at the renowned Falcon Press, it is the first comprehensive Sommer publication issued in conjunction with an exhibition. An otherwise most presentable example of this exceedingly uncommon item showing some light wear and creasing to its black printed wrappers along with a one inch closed tear into the foredge of the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024918

(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Nordland, Gerald. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia College of Art, 1968. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. 28pp, 14 b&w illustrations. Designed by Richard Hood. With a chronology, bibliography and exhibition checklist. This is the elegantly designed catalogue for Frederick Sommer's 1968 show of one hundred and twenty-seven photographs held at the Philadelphia College of Art. Printed locally at the renowned Falcon Press, it is the first comprehensive Sommer publication issued in conjunction with an exhibition. A handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item showing some light scuffing and a few tiny spots of insect damage to its black printed wrappers. While neither signed nor inscribed, this example was acquired by us directly from the estate of the noted late Los Angeles artist / educator / collector Emerson Woelffer, and bears his discreet ownership label on the verso of the rear endpaper. Woelffer was close friends with both Sommer and curator Gerald Nordland, and is the subject of the full page image titled "Emerson Woelfer (sic) 1965" reproduced on page twenty-five of the catalogue. Inventory Number: 021636

(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Sommer, Frederick, in collaboration with Stephen Aldrich. Stockton, NJ: Designed and Printed at the Carolingian Press, 1972. First Edition. Small Square 8vo. Printed Stapled Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good.. np (40pp), no illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics" is Frederick Sommer's self-published item containing no photographic images that reproduces the text of his 1972 poem-cum-treatise "The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics" along with the eulogy "'Words Spoken in Memory of Richard Nickell at a Gathering of His Friends". A handsome example additionally SIGNED by Frederick Sommer in black ink in a spidery hand on the title page showing some typical light age patination and slight discoloration along the rear of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 020357

(SOMMER, FREDERICK). Torosian, Michael & Frederick Sommer. Toronto, CANADA: Lumiere Press, 1992. First Edition 1/200. 8vo. 1/4 Linen Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued.. 36pp, 4 tipped-in b&w silver-gelatin prints. Designed by Michael Torosian. With a biography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in 1992 as the sixth installment of Toronto's Lumiere Press "Homage" series, this is an exquisitely produced monograph on the late American Surrealist photographer Frederick Sommer. It was designed and printed by author and publisher Michael Torosian on Mohawk Superfine paper, bound in one-quarter oatmeal linen over grey paper boards with a printed spine label, and contains three small tipped-in gelatin-silver prints of images by Sommer as well as a tipped-in gelatin-silver portrait of the photographer by Edward Weston as the frontispiece. A brand new, pristine example (cited on page 113 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter") of this uncommon gem limited to two hundred copies. 0-921542-06-2 Inventory Number: 015155

(SOTH, ALEC). Bordignon, Elena, Alec Soth, Jona Frank, Tanyth Berkeley & Alix Smith. Milano, ITALY: TH INSIDE, 2005. First Edition #333/400. Square 8vo. Debossed Cloth. Exhibition Catalog. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color. Text in Italian and English. With photographers' biographies, exhibition histories, and bibliographies. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2005 Tommy Hilfiger-sponsored exhibition held in Milan of Fashion-inflected color portrait photography by Alec Soth, Jona Frank, Tanyth Berkeley, and Alix Smith. A brand new, pristine example of this exceedingly uncommon item - only a single copy is currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - limited to four hundred NUMBERED (333/400) copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by Alec Soth and Jona Frank in black ink on the title page at our shop with the business card of the director of Minneapolis' Weinstein Gallery - Alec Soth's representatives at the time - laid in. Inventory Number: 025743

(SOTH, ALEC). Engberg, Siri, Geoff Dyer, August Kleinzahler, Bartholomew Ryan, Britt Salvesen, Barry Schwabsky & Alec Soth. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2010. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Cloth. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 224pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Emmet Byrne. Published in conjunction with a massive Walker Art Center retrospective of the work of Alec Soth, this is a beautifully designed and printed hardbound survey of the imagery of the noted Minneapolis-based Magnum photographer. A brand new, pristine example of the 2010 first edition (cited on page 260 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") with the photographer's 48 page artist book entitled "The Loneliest Man in Missouri:" housed in a pocket affixed to the rear inside board, as issued, additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Alec Soth" in black ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 025745

(SOTH, ALEC). Soth, Alec. London: MACK, 2015. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Padded Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (144pp), 75 tritone illustrations. Designed by Alec Soth and Gregoire Pujade-Lauraine. "Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Broken Manual", Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country. To aid in his search, Soth assumed the increasingly obsolescent role of community newspaper reporter. From 2012 to 2014, Soth traveled state by state while working on his self-published newspaper, "The LBM Dispatch", as well as on assignment for the "New York Times" and others. From upstate New York to Silicon Valley, Soth attended hundreds of meetings, dances, festivals and communal gatherings in search of human interaction in an era of virtual social networks. With "Songbook", Soth has stripped these pictures of their news context in order to highlight the longing for connection at their root. Fragmentary, funny and sad, "Songbook" is a lyrical depiction of the tension between American individualism and the desire to be united". A brand new, pristine example of the 2015 first MACK printing of this awesome undertaking (cited on page 260 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Alec Soth 2015" in the year of publication in black ink on the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-910164-02-X Inventory Number: 024756

(SOTH, ALEC). Soth, Alec, Aaron Schuman & Kate Bush. London: MACK, 2015. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Decorative Box. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jackets - As Issued.. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lewis Chaplin. "Alec Soth's reputation as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice is largely predicated on the books he has published. This unusual catalogue accompanies a 2015 touring exhibition which uses the four major bodies of work which Soth has published as books since 2004 as the structural basis for both a mid-career retrospective and an investigation of Soth's prescient understanding of the various and distinct applications of photography as a tool for storytelling across diverse media. The title of the exhibition comes from Walt Whitman's poem 1855 "Song of Myself" and references both the pages of his books gathered for consideration, and the notion that his work is also a story about Soth himself. This catalogue is a special object, bringing together an essay by Aaron Schuman spread across twenty-nine large format postcards, an additional card printed with an introduction by Kate Bush - curator of the exhibition and the director of Media Space, London, with mini facsimile versions of Soth's "Sleeping by the Mississippi", "Niagara", "Broken Manual", and "Songbook". A brand new, most handsome example of the now unavailable first edition (cited on page 260 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Alec Soth / 2015" in black ink in the year of publication on the inside front cover of its decorative box. 1-910164-36-4 Inventory Number: 025273

(SOTH, ALEC). Soth, Alec, Aaron Schuman & Kate Bush. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2010. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 11 color illustrations. "One Mississippi" is the sixty-third installment in Nazraeli Press' estimable series of One Picture Books. Limited to five hundred NUMBERED (125/500) copies, it reproduces eleven images from a 1992 road trip down the Mississippi by a twenty-three year old Alec Soth and contains an original 3 3/8 x 4 ¾" color print of a weathered red sedan tipped in at the rear of the book SIGNED "Alec Soth" in back ink on the verso, as issued. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon, lovely item in the publisher's clear plastic ziploc pouch, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-59005-281-1 Inventory Number: 024818