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(WEBER, BRUCE). Weber, Bruce. With brief texts By Zane Grey, S.E. Hinton, Robert Frost & Muhammad Ali.. New York: Little Bear Press & Robert Miller Gallery, 2000. First Edition 1/4000. 4to. Printed Boards in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Sam Shahid. "Shufly" is the exquisite hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2000 Bruce Weber exhibition of the same name held at New York's Robert Miller Gallery. Beautifully designed and printed, it is infused with an air of innocence and nostalgia. A brand new, pristine example of the green cloth variant binding still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 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. 0-9705745-0-9 Inventory Number: 021832

(WEBER, BRUCE). Weber, Bruce. With brief texts By Zane Grey, S.E. Hinton, Robert Frost & Muhammad Ali.. New York: Little Bear Press & Robert Miller Gallery, 2000. First Edition 1/4000. 4to. Printed Boards in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Sam Shahid. "Shufly" is the exquisite hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2000 Bruce Weber exhibition of the same name held at New York's Robert Miller Gallery. Beautifully designed and printed, it is infused with an air of innocence and nostalgia. A brand new, pristine example of the grey cloth variant binding still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 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. 0-9705745-0-9 Inventory Number: 018928

(WEEGEE). Fellig, Arthur, aka Weegee. Los Angeles. (circa 1950).: Weegee. First Edition. Oblong Folio. Silver Gelatin Photograph. Fine.. One 8 x 10" silver gelatin print printed recto only, mounted with archival photo corners in a heavy white 14 x 15 ½" beveled mat. This is a photographic portrait by Weegee "The Great" of noted Hollywood columnist, screenwriter and novelist Jimmy Starr. Starr is pictured on set laughing and enjoying the company of three actresses decked out in howlingly inauthentic outfits comprised of skull caps with wild hair, seashell necklaces, bangles, and sarongs in a culturally misguided attempt at Oceanic exoticism. Images of the actors without Starr photographed at the same sitting appear in both "Weegee's Naked Hollywood (1953)" and "Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles (2011)". Beginning as an office boy at Metro Studios in 1919, Starr graduated to writing intertitles, dialogue, and screenplays for dozens of films in the 1920s and 1930s. His 1944 novel "The Corpse Came C.O.D." became the basis for a 1947 Columbia Pictures feature starring Joan Blondell and George Brent. Starr left studio work to write regular columns for "The Los Angeles Herald-Express", "New York Daily Mirror", and "Sunday Daily Mirror" before leaving town entirely for a successful career in Arizona with Ramada Inns. Weegee, following the success of Jules Dassin's 1948 feature "Naked City" - based on his pioneering 1945 photobook of the same title - moved to Los Angeles with the expectation of trading the late-night Manhattan crime and street photography he'd grown weary of for more lucrative process photography and cinematography jobs with the Hollywood studios. While there was some behind the scenes work along with few bit parts to be had, Weegee was primarily reliant on making distorted trick portraits of the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield to sell to magazines to make ends meet. In late 1951, newly-divorced he returned to New York where he remained active until his passing in 1968. A bright, fine condition vintage silver gelatin print on single weight glossy paper bearing the stamps "Arthur (Weegee) Fellig / 6606 St. Frances Terrace / Hollywood 28, Calif." in red and "FROM THE / JIMMY STARR COLLECTION" in purple ink on the verso. This was most likely a gift from Weegee to Starr, and as there was very little chance of selling this shot from the series for publication, there cannot be many - if any - other prints of this particular image in circulation. Inventory Number: 026241

(WEEGEE). Fellig, Arthur, aka Weegee. New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1961. Second Printing. 8vo. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Very Good. 160pp, 106 b&w illustrations. Did the twentieth century ever bring notoriety to a photographer more steeped in hype and myth than Arthur Fellig - aka "Weegee The Famous"? And while much if not most of that hype and myth was perpetuated by Weegee himself, the ingenuity of his exploits stalking the mean streets of crime-riddled, forties-era New York cannot be denied. Working mostly at night out of his improvised trunk-converted-into-a-darkroom, Weegee parlayed his police radio, trusty Speed Graphic camera, and an uncanny knack for getting to a crime scene quickly into journalistic infamy. His first book, "Naked City" became a bestseller as well as the basis for both Jules Dassin's film and the television series of the same name. He later tried his luck in Hollywood, then plumbed the depths of female figure photography, exploitation filmmaking, and photographic special effects. In this, his 1961 autobiography, Weegee equally illuminates and propagates his mythic stature with no apparent lack of self-confidence. An internally most handsome example of the Ziff-Davis Publishing Company first edition additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION "To Warren Bush / Weegee / 1964 ------" in green ink on the front pastedown whose graphically striking dust jacket designed by Mort Perry shows just a bit of rubbing and a single short closed tear. 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. LC 61-14233 Inventory Number: 024342

(WEGMAN, WILLIAM). Livingston, Jane. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. np (26pp), 23 b&w illustrations. This is the slender catalogue published in conjunction with William Wegman's 1973 one-person exhibition of photographs, drawings and video works held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Lytton Contemporary Galleries curated by Helene Winer. It is the second monographic publication on the artist. An internally bright and clean example of this uncommon item showing some light overall wear, rubbing and soiling to the wrappers. Inventory Number: 023049

(WEGMAN, WILLIAM). Livingston, Jane. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (26pp), 23 b&w illustrations. This is the slender catalogue published in conjunction with William Wegman's 1973 one-person exhibition of photographs, drawings and video works held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Lytton Contemporary Galleries curated by Helene Winer. It is the second monographic publication on the artist. A most handsome example of this uncommon item with a BOLDLY SIGNED DRAWING by William Wegman in black ink across the vellum title page that wittily references the work reproduced on the next leaf. 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: 020848

(WEGMAN, WILLIAM). Solomon Gallery, Holly & Pace/MacGill Gallery. New York: Holly Solomon Gallery & Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1992. First Edition. Small Square 8vo. Stapled Debossed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (22pp), 6 color and 6 b&w illustrations. This is the slender twenty-two page catalogue published in conjunction with two concurrent 1992 William Wegman one-person exhibitions held at New York's Holly Solomon and Pace/MacGill Galleries. One show was devoted to the black and white conceptual photographs of the early seventies, the other recent paintings, drawings and Polaroids. A most handsome example. Inventory Number: 020410

(WEGMAN, WILLIAM). Wegman, William & Helene Winer. Pomona, CA: Pomona College Art Gallery, 1971. First Edition. Small Square 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 32pp, 38 b&w illustrations. With a chronology and exhibition history. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with William Wegman's 1971 one-person exhibition of photographs and video works at the Pomona College Art Gallery curated by Helene Winer. It is the very first monographic publication on the artist. An internally handsome example of this exceedingly scarce, charming little item showing some very light foxing to the wrappers along with a discreet ownership note on the inside front cover. Inventory Number: 024792

(WEIFENBACH, TERRI). Weifenbach, Terri. NP (Tokyo): The Thunderstorm Press, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Debossed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (88pp), profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Green Dragon Office and Terri Weifenbach. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. In "Another Summer" Terri Weifenbach departs from matters of the garden and pollination to intimately document a family summer vacation on a lake. A pristine copy of this exceedingly uncommon sweet little volume limited to five hundred copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED (254/500) in pencil on the rear colophon, as issued. 0-9841944-0-1 Inventory Number: 022447

(WEIFENBACH, TERRI). Weifenbach, Terri. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2001. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (18pp), 9 color illustrations. Terri Weifenbach's "Instruction Manual No. 3: 25. June 1996" is the fourth installment in Nazraeli Press' estimable series of One Picture Books. Limited to five hundred SIGNED AND NUMBERED copies, it contains an original 4 ¼ x 2 ¾" color photographic print of a mysterious clear blue sky whose image is derived from the unique 68 x 39" print owned by Sir Elton John tipped in at the rear of the book, as issued. A brand new, pristine example of this lovely item. 1-59005-005-3 Inventory Number: 015522

(WEIFENBACH, TERRI). Weifenbach, Terri. Introduction by Yayako Uchida. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2000. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Tall 4to. Linen Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (64pp), 32 color illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in 2000 by the estimable Nazraeli Press, "Hunter Green" is the beautifully designed and printed second sampling in book form of Terri Weifenbach's lush, often hazy examinations of mysterious backyard flora. A brand new, most handsome example from the deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies featuring an original 5 ¼ x 3 ½" color photograph mounted on the front cover. 3-923922-88-4 Inventory Number: 016438

(WELLING, JAMES). Loock, Ulrich & James Welling. Luzern, SWITZERLAND: Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Self Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. np, 30 b&w illustrations. Text in English and German. This is the stylish catalogue published in conjunction with a 1998 exhibition of photographic work from the previous three years by James Welling held at the Kunstmuseum Luzern. A most handsome example of this uncommon item additionally SIGNED AND DATED "JW 4.18.98." in the year of publication in blue ink on the rear colophon showing a slight discoloration to the rear cover. 3-267-00121-8 Inventory Number: 021889

(WELLING, JAMES). Welling, James. Gent, BELGIUM: Imschoot, Uitgevers, 1996. First Edition 1/1000. 8vo. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (64pp), 28 b&w illustrations. Text in English. "Light Sources" is the lovely 1996 monograph on the photographs of James Welling published by the late, lamented Imschoot, Uitgevers. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies. 90-72191-80-3 Inventory Number: 022025

(WELLING, JAMES). Welling, James. London & Gottingen, GERMANY: Steidl Mack, 2010. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Cloth Over Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 128pp, 70 duotone illustrations. Text in English. Designed by James Welling and Michael Mack. "James Welling creates work which challenges the technical and conceptual bounds of photography. In his abstract work of the 1980s he usually employed simple materials, like crumpled aluminum foil, draped fabric and pastry dough. Then in 1992 he began the series Light Sources, an open-ended accumulation of diverse portraits, landscapes and interiors. All these photographs indirectly refer to the process of perception and while many of the objects literally transmit light, the series acknowledges that everything we see reflects light and is also a source of light". A brand new, pristine example of the exceptionally beautifully designed and printed 2010 Steidl Mack first edition additionally SIGNED "James Welling" in black ink on the rear colophon. 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. 3-86521-859-8 Inventory Number: 021992

(WELLING, JAMES). Welling, James. Gent, BELGIUM: Imschoot, Uitgevers, 1996. First Edition 1/1000. 8vo. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (64pp), 28 b&w illustrations. Text in English. "Light Sources" is the lovely 1996 monograph on the photographs of James Welling published by the late, lamented Imschoot, Uitgevers. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies additionally SIGNED "James Welling" in black ink on the rear colophon. 90-72191-80-3 Inventory Number: 021955

(WELLING, JAMES). Welling, James. Buffalo, NY: CEPA, 1984. First Edition 1/400. Small Oblong 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. Very Good +.. np (12pp), 12 b&w illustrations. James Welling's first artist's book "Gelatin Photographs 1-12" consists of a dozen sensuous cover to cover, high contrast images of dark Jell-O photographed against a light background - quite the endgame for the inner aesthetician in all of us! A handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item limited to four hundred unnumbered copies showing a bit of overall light handling and soiling to its white covers along with the small ghost from a removed adhesive label on the rear cover. 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. 0-939784-12-2 Inventory Number: 021388

(WELLING, JAMES). Welling, James, Sylvia Lavin & Noam M. Elcott. Bologna, ITALY: Damiani Editore, 2010. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, 45 color illustrations. Text in English. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Victor Hu: Green Dragon Office. "From 2006 to 2009, James Welling photographed the Glass House, the landmark architectural estate that Philip Johnson built in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1949. Welling's photos offer a decided departure from the familiar views of the house and grounds. Using digital cameras set on a tripod and holding a variety of filters in front of the lens, he created tinted veils and distortions that transformed the image at the moment of exposure, endowing it with powerful swells of glowing color. As Welling described it, the use of filters enabled his project to become "a laboratory for ideas about transparency, reflectivity and color". This lovely hardbound monograph also includes an essay by Noam M. Elcott as well as a transcribed interview between the photographer and noted architectural historian Sylvia Lavin about the project. A most handsome example of the 2010 Damiani first edition additionally SIGNED "James Welling" in black ink on the rear colophon. 88-6208-161-8 Inventory Number: 025303

(WELLING, JAMES). Welling, James & Ute Grosenick. Wolfsburg & Ostfildern, GERMANY: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg & Cantz Verlag, 1994. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine./Very Good.. np (88pp), 38 duotone illustrations. Text in English and German. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1994 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg-commissioned exhibition of James Welling's photographs of the architecture of Wolfsburg, and its most prominent buildings - the Volkswagenwerk factory. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item showing just a bit of creasing to the extremities of the dust jacket. 3-89322-655-9 Inventory Number: 022220

(WESTON, EDWARD). Naef, Weston. New York: E. Weyhe, 1932. First Edition 1/550. Folio. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 40 b&w illustrations. Designed by Merle Armitage. With a biography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Compiled in 1932 by the forward thinking Los Angeles-based graphic designer and publisher Merle Armitage, this exquisitely produced book was the very first monograph on the work of pioneering California photographer Edward Weston. It features thirty-nine images by Weston, a frontispiece portrait by his son Brett, and texts by the photographer, Armitage, Lincoln Steffens, Arthur Millier, Jean Charlot, and Charles Sheeler. A presentable example of this typically fragile oversized tome (cited on page 200 of "From Fair to Fine 3: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter") limited to five hundred and fifty copies NUMBERED (143/550) AND SIGNED "Edward Weston" in black ink on the rear colophon lacking the publisher's slipcase whose white cloth spine is soiled and stained, and black boards are worn and scraped along the extremities. The hinges are solid, the textblock is tight but soiled along the edges with the signatures slightly uneven with one another. The book bears the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "To John and Clement / new friends for old. more would be less. / I don't know what all / this means. You guess / Edward Oct. 1936" in black ink on the page facing the colophon. Additionally, laid in is a BOLDLY INSCRIBED hand-written letter "John and Clem ---- / hope you took my dis - / appearance in good spirit - / I was not just sleepy, / but exhausted ------------ / See you soon I hope / yr ------ / Edward" from the photographer in pencil on a 8 ½ x 11" sheet of yellow paper that has been neatly folded in quarters and subsequently flattened. Inventory Number: 025020

(WESTON, EDWARD). Naef, Weston. Malibu, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Cardstock Wrappers. Exhibition Brochure. Fine.. One 8 ¾ x 32" cardstock sheet printed recto and verso, neatly folded in fourths as issued to make 8pp, 6 duotone illustrations. This is the slender eight page brochure produced to accompany two concurrent 1986 exhibitions of vintage prints by Edward Weston drawn from the J. Paul Getty Museum Department of Photography's vast holdings, focusing on images he created while in Los Angeles. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 017811

(WILCO) (SCHMELLING, MICHAEL). Wilco, Michael Schmelling, Fred Tomaselli, Rick Moody, Henry Miller & Bern Porter. Dan Nadel & Peter Buchanan-Smith, Editors. Brooklyn, NY: PictureBox Inc., 2004. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Music Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 164pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by PictureBox. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Published in 2004, "The Wilco Book" is an exploration of the artistic statement presented by the band Wilco. Artwork created by the band, photographer Michael Schmelling, and artist Fred Tomaselli is interspersed with comments excerpted from interviews conducted by PictureBox with the band's members, technicians, and managers, essays by Henry Miller and Rick Moody, and excerpts from Bern Porter's collection "Found Poetry". Packaged with the book is an audio CD containing twelve previously unreleased tracks, which is discussed in the first appendix by Mikael Jorgensen, who produced and played on the sessions before he formally joined Wilco". A brand new, most handsome example of the first PictureBox Inc. edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED for us by all six current band members - Jeff Tweedy, Nels Cline, Mikael Jorgensen, Glenn Kotche, Pat Sansone, and John Stirratt as well as the book's photographer Michael Schmelling in black ink with the publisher's unplayed CD mounted to the inside rear board. 0-9713670-3-5 Inventory Number: 027704

(WILKE, HANNAH). Wilke, Hannah & Joanna Frueh. Thomas H. Kochheiser, Editor. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1989. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 176pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1989 Hannah Wilke retrospective exhibition held at the University of Missouri at St. Louis' Gallery 210, this comprehensive hardbound catalogue was the first major publication on the pioneering late feminist artist. It combines copious photographic documentation with an essay by Joanna Frueh and a selection of previously unpublished writings by the artist. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item additionally SIGNED AND DATED "Hannah Wilke 1989 00" in the year of publication in black ink to the right of her posterior on the frontispiece portrait photograph 0-8262-0703-0 Inventory Number: 027450

(WILKE, HANNAH). Wilke, Hannah & Joanna Frueh. Thomas H. Kochheiser, Editor. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1989. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 176pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1989 Hannah Wilke retrospective exhibition held at the University of Missouri at St. Louis' Gallery 210, this comprehensive hardbound catalogue was the first major publication on the pioneering late feminist artist. It combines copious photographic documentation with an essay by Joanna Frueh and a selection of previously unpublished writings by the artist. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item. 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. 0-8262-0703-0 Inventory Number: 024231

(WILLIAMS, D’ANGELO LOVELL). MACK, I00220716, 2022. 9 x 11 inches, 104 Pages. Hard Cover. New.

Both an artist’s book and comprehensive inquisition of D’Angelo Lovell Williams’s work to date, Contact High offers an expansive engagement with the visualization of desire and depiction of the Black body. Williams’s narrative images reflect the many forms in which Black queer people exist and have existed historically within each other’s lives, picturing them as sitters, lovers, caregivers, or shadows. Williams’s work is guided by their life experience and an interrogation of their own perspective, as well as wider questions around the representation of race, class, sexuality, gender, and intimacy. The title Contact High references the importance of touch and gesture in Williams‘s work, and alludes to heightened senses and intuitive movement.

From self-portraits to collaborations with community, Williams’s photographs visualize the Black body in performative scenes that are theatrical, dance-like, and occasionally mundane, pointing towards collective histories and Black ancestral practices. At the heart of these intimate, dialogic images are notions of kinship and spirituality interweaved with quietly political and radical gestures. Williams’s unfaltering gaze insists on visibility and deference, and creates scenes in which Black and queer voices are the authority. The dynamics that play out between families, cultures, friends, lovers, ancestors and descendants are visualized as a spectrum of care, tenderness, and vulnerability, speaking to the nuances of our complex lives often overlooked by historical depictions. 9781913620622 Inventory Number: I00220716

(WILLOUGHBY, BOB) (HEPBURN, AUDREY). Willoughby, Bob. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2010. First Edition 0313/1000. Folio. Boards in a Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 282pp, profusely illustrated in black & white. Text in English, German and French. "In his distinguished career as a Hollywood photographer, Bob Willoughby took iconic photos of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda, but remains unequivocal about his favorite subject: Audrey Hepburn. Willoughby was called in to shoot the new starlet one morning shortly after she arrived in Hollywood in 1953. It was a humdrum commission for the portraitist often credited with having perfected the photojournalistic movie still, but when he met the Belgian-born beauty, Willoughby was enraptured. "She took my hand like...well a princess, and dazzled me with that smile that God designed to melt mortal men's hearts," he recalls. As Hepburn's career soared following her Oscar-winning US debut in "Roman Holiday", Willoughby became a trusted friend, framing her working and home life. His historic, perfectionist, tender photographs seek out the many facets of Hepburn's beauty and elegance, as she progresses from her debut to her career high of "My Fair Lady" in 1963. Willoughby's studies, showing her on set, preparing for a scene, interacting with actors and directors, and returning to her private life, comprise one of photography's great platonic love affairs and an unrivalled record of one of the 20th century's touchstone beauties". A pristine example of this extraordinary volume - a must-have for the Audrey completeist that sold out upon publication - limited to one thousand copies in a decorative clamshell box SIGNED AND NUMBERED (0313/1000) by the late Bob Willoughby, unopened in the publisher's shrinkwrapped printed shipping carton, as issued. 3-8365-1889-9 Inventory Number: 023815

(WINNINGHAM, GEOFF).. NP: Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., 1978. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Postcard. Fine.. One 4 ¼ x 6" glossy cardstock postcard printed offset recto and verso, 1 color illustration. To mark the 1976 Bicentennial of the United States of America, Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc. commissioned twenty-four photographers to record more than one thousand County Court houses across the country using both color and black and white film. The project, directed by Phyllis Lambert and edited by Richard Pare, created the then-most comprehensive survey of an American building type. The Seagram County Court House Archives collection of photographic negatives and master prints was ultimately presented as a gift, with its copyright ownership, to the Library of Congress. In 1978 Horizon published the lovely Richard Pare-edited book of images from this undertaking entitled "Court House: A Photographic Document". This color postcard featuring Geoff Winningham's color image "Hopkins County Court House, Sulfur Springs, Texas, c1856-58" was issued in conjunction with that release. A brand new, pristine unmailed example of this uncommon ephemeral item perfect for the Geoff Winningham completeist. Inventory Number: 024178

(WINOGRAND, GARRY). Almereyda, Michael & Susan Kismaric, Editors. Los Angeles: Twin Palms Publishers, I00240117. 2023. First Edition. 12 x 12", Large Oblong 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. New/New. 176pp, 150 color illustrations.

"Garry Winogrand is known primarily for his spontaneous and energetic street photography in black-and-white. What is lesser known is that Winogrand also shot more than 45,000 color slides between the early 1950s and late 1960s. These photographs were often taken between assignments, when the photographer, working on his own, developed and refined an approach to his medium that was increasingly open, independent, and radical. He routinely photographed with two cameras strapped around his neck, one loaded with color film, the other with black and white.

"Winogrand Color" presents one hundred and fifty photographs selected from the archives at the Center for Creative Photography by the American film director, Michael Almereyda and former Museum of Modern Art curator, Susan Kismaric. It is the first monograph dedicated to the artist's rarely seen color work. A brand new example additionally SIGNED in ink by author Michael Almereyda. 978-1-936611-18-8 Inventory Number: E000GWC

(WITKIN, JOEL-PETER). Dupuy, Alain & Antonio Saura. Madrid, SPAIN: Ministerio De Cultura, Spain & Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, 1989. First Edition. Square 8vo. Debossed Silk Over Boards. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 120pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. Text in French. With a bibliography and exhibition history. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the beautifully designed hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 1989 traveling European retrospective that presented Joel-Peter Witkin's finished prints alongside the photographer's macabre preparatory drawings. A most handsome example of the first Spanish language edition in black moire silk-covered boards debossed with an elaborate gothic cross additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Joel-Peter Witkin" in black ink across the entire half title page. 84-505-7482-X Inventory Number: 018491

(WITKIN, JOEL-PETER). Janis, Eugenia Parry. Paris: Centre National De La Photographie (Photo Poche Collection), 1991. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. np, 63 duotone illustrations. Text in French. With a biography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This forty-ninth installment of the venerable Photo Poche series of photography monographs is a concise survey of the boundary pushing work of Joel-Peter Witkin. A most handsome example of the 1991 first edition additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "To Robert, Joel" in black ink on the title page to the noted late photography curator and historian Robert Sobieszek from whom we acquired this directly. 2-86754-071-2 Inventory Number: 018676

(WITKIN, JOEL-PETER). Witkin, Joel-Peter. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1995. First Edition #53/100. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (130pp), 52 duotone illustrations. Designed by Jack Woody. With an exhibition history, bibliography and collections listing. Issued in 1985 by the redoubtable Twelvetrees Press, this is the beautifully designed and printed first comprehensive publication on the work of Joel-Peter Witkin. Says the publisher: "Joel-Peter Witkin's photographs are simultaneously loathsome and brilliant, generating endless controversy and sometimes, admiration. This is the artist's first monograph and in his words and pictures a more complete understanding of his work emerges." A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon deluxe edition of the first 1985 Twelvetrees Press printing limited to one hundred copies BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED "Joel-Peter Witkin / 53/100" in black ink on the title page in the publisher's black linen-over-boards slipcase, as issued. 0-942642-15-5 Inventory Number: 026573

(WITKIN, JOEL-PETER). Witkin, Joel-Peter & Galway Kinnell. New York: Kevin Begos Publishing, Inc., 1993. First Edition 1/175. Elephant Folio. 1/4 Leather Over Boards in Box. Livre D'Artiste. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued.. np (52pp), 12 gravure illustrations. Designed by Kevin Begos Jr. and Joel-Peter Witkin. Issued in 1993, this is an exquisitely produced Livre D'Artiste collaboration between publisher Kevin Begos and photographer Joel-Peter Witkin. Limited to one hundred and seventy-five copies, it presents twelve arresting hand-pulled photogravure images accompanied by the letterpress printed poem "Under The Maud Moon" by Galway Kinnell from his "Book of Nightmares". Measuring 23 ½ x 17 ½", the Lana paper pages reproduce the following Witkin photographs: 1) "Head of a Dead Man (Mexico City, 1990)", 2) "Satiro ( Mexico City, 1992)", 3) "Three Kinds of Woman (Mexico City, 1992)", 4) "Un Santo Oscuro (Mexico City, 1987)", 5) "Still Life (New Mexico, 1992)", 6) "Las Meninas (New Mexico, 1987)", 7) "Studio of the Painter (Paris, 1990)", 8) "Feast of Fools (Mexico City, 1990)", 9) "Laokoon (New Mexico, 1992)", 10) "Negre's Fetishist (Paris, 1990)", 11) "Vanity (New Mexico, 1990)", and 12) "Man with a Dog (Mexico City, 1990)". These are bound in elegant one quarter black leather-over-dark grey-boards, and housed in a black linen covered clamshell box with a grey pastedown on the spine. A brand new, most handsome example of this extraordinary object acquired directly from Kevin Begos BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED in pencil by Joel-Peter Witkin at the rear colophon in the publisher's clamshell box, as issued. 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. Inventory Number: 023305

(WOLIN, PENNY) Penny Wolin. Cheyenne, Wyoming. Printed at Trifolio SRL, Italy: Crazy Woman Creek Press, I00221000. 2022. First Edition 1/2000. 14 x 11 inches, 88 pages, 51 tritone plates, tritone and 4-color. Hardcover. Photography Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. “Penny Wolin from Cheyenne, Wyoming flies into Hollywood on the wings of inspiration and intuition and lands at the St. Francis Hotel. There, in three short weeks as a tenant, Penny creates a body of photographs and text comparable to those of the great documentary photographers of the 20th century, only to be hidden in the photographer’s archive for nearly fifty years – until now.”
— Norman Mauskopf, Photographer

When Penny Wolin created Guest Register in 1975, she was twenty-one and a recent transplant to Hollywood from Cheyenne, Wyoming. You can see the residents of the St. Francis Hotel as people who could not fit in elsewhere, or you can see them, as Wolin does, as people whose dreams are bigger than their rooms. She moved into the 1920s hotel, a five-story pay-by-the week building on Hollywood Boulevard and began photographing her neighbors. She could see at once it was a “milieu of dreamers,” both those who “had not yet realized their dreams” and those who “had left them behind.” Wolin suspended judgement. She was not categorizing the residents as she made her rounds, and her project was not intended to fix anything. This generosity of spirit is the defining quality of Guest Register. The book is arranged as a tour, one image per spread, with residents identified by their room number and an insightful caption. The tour begins on the ground floor in room 105, vacated by the death of a former stuntman, and rises to a barbell aficionado in the penthouse, before returning to earth by way of an artisan welder in the basement, who seems to have lit his cigarette with a flaming torch. Guest Register is a both a culmination and a relaunch for an endeavor that is about the possibility of a second chance for all of us.
9780967635743 Inventory Number: I00221000

(WOODSIDE, CLINT). Woodside, Clint & Mike Slack. Los Angeles: Kill Your Idols, 2016. First Edition 1/500. 8vo. Cloth with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 62pp, 52 color illustrations. Designed by Clint Woodside. First issued in 2013 as a Deadbeat Club 'zine, Clint Woodside's "Undercover Cars" has been newly re-conceived and substantially enlarged as an elegant hardcover book. Containing fifty-two images of cars parked in plain sight, but covered from the elements, it is the culmination of a series of color photographs - shot on film and printed in the dark room - spanning five years, scores of autos, and thousands of miles from Los Angeles to Bangkok. In his insightful essay, photographer and The Ice Plant publisher Mike Slack observes: "What strikes me now, looking at this fresh new edit, is not the boring ubiquity of the subject matter - the deadpan Christo-like charm of all these tarps attached to all these automobiles - but the man-made environments Woodside is showing us in the photographs, and the sense of walking-and-looking that the series implies. Never mind the covered cars; look at what surrounds them" . A brand new, pristine example of this lovely publication limited to five hundred unnumbered copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Clint Woodside" in black ink on the title page. 1-58423-637-X Inventory Number: 027210

(WOODSIDE, CLINT). Woodside, Clint & Mike Slack. Los Angeles: Kill Your Idols, 2016. First Edition 1/500. 8vo. Cloth with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 62pp, 52 color illustrations. Designed by Clint Woodside. First issued in 2013 as a Deadbeat Club 'zine, Clint Woodside's "Undercover Cars" has been newly re-conceived and substantially enlarged as an elegant hardcover book. Containing fifty-two images of cars parked in plain sight, but covered from the elements, it is the culmination of a series of color photographs - shot on film and printed in the dark room - spanning five years, scores of autos, and thousands of miles from Los Angeles to Bangkok. In his insightful essay, photographer and The Ice Plant publisher Mike Slack observes: "What strikes me now, looking at this fresh new edit, is not the boring ubiquity of the subject matter - the deadpan Christo-like charm of all these tarps attached to all these automobiles - but the man-made environments Woodside is showing us in the photographs, and the sense of walking-and-looking that the series implies. Never mind the covered cars; look at what surrounds them" . A brand new, pristine example of this lovely publication limited to five hundred unnumbered copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Clint Woodside" in black ink on the title page. 1-58423-637-X Inventory Number: 025184

(WOSINSKA, MAGDALENA). Wosinska, Magdalena. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Homecoming Gallery, I00240406. 2024. First Printing. Quarto. Cloth Over Illustrated Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 304pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Tom & George McQueen. 304pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Tom & George McQueen. "Fulfill the Dream" is a documentary photobook by Polish-born, Los Angeles-based photographer Magdalena Wosinska that captures the American skate culture of the 1990s through color and black-and-white snapshots. The scene’s energy, creativity, and rebellious spirit influenced fashion, music, and artistic expression, shaping a generation of American underground youth. The book features Chad Muska, Austyn Gillette, Jim Greco, Harold Hunter, Ed Templeton, Eric Ellington, Ali Boulala, and numerous other influential skaters. Beyond the book’s broader examination of American skate subculture, Wosinska’s project is a deeply personal journey through her teenage years and an exploration of what it means to be a misfit in a world of misfits. Her visual diary captures the duality that has shaped her life: the joy and exhilaration of skateboarding alongside meaningful human connection and the adrenaline-fueled world of drugs, a first love, prejudice, a deep need to find a place of belonging and struggles with mental health. Shortly after immigrating to the U.S. from communist Poland in 1991, Wosinska’s coping mechanism for culture shock was her camera. It became her passport to a world ruled by boys, and a language for fitting in and forming heartfelt friendships in the skate community. Through raw, visceral portraits and self-portraits created in juxtaposition to the male-dominated scene, she captured the now-famous teen spirit of the ‘90s, reflecting the ever-shifting balance between the highs and lows of belonging and the essence of years of making dreams come true as a skate photographer through perseverance, diligence, and hard work. Alongside the teenage angst of the era, the project explores themes of resilience, female empowerment, and the relentless pursuit of goals." A brand new, most handsome example of the 2024 first edition additionally SIGNED "Magdalena Wosinska" in black ink on the title page.

Inventory Number: E000MWFTD

(YAMAMOTO, MASAO). Yamamoto, Masao. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2002. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 12 tritone and color illustrations. Masao Yamamoto's "The Path of Green Leaves" is the sixteenth installment in Nazraeli Press' estimable series of One Picture Books. Limited to five hundred SIGNED AND NUMBERED copies, it contains an original 2 ¾ x 1 ½" sepia-toned silver gelatin print of a sapling planted along the path to the Green Leaves Day Nursery - where the photographer walked his son to school for daily for nearly five years - tipped in at the rear of the book, as issued. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon, lovely item. 1-59005-048-7 Inventory Number: 016701

(YEMCHUK, YELENA). Yemchuk, Yelena & Ioana Pelehatai. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Edition Patrick Frey, I00240213. 2024. First Edition. 10 x 7 1/2", 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. New.. np (176pp), 121 color illustrations. Text in English, Ukranian, and Romanian. 978-3-907236-67-3

(176pp), 121 color illustrations. Text in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. "Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-based photographer and painter Yelena Yemchuk is most commonly known for her fashion and portrait photographs, which have appeared in Italian and Japanese Vogue, V, the New Yorker and The New York Times. Yemchuk makes images that teeter on the threshold between her Eastern European heritage and her daily life in New York; between fiction and reality; between the grand beauty of 1960s cinema and the social and built environments of post-Soviet realms. As with all of her work, "Malanka" is a personal, feminine, surrealist and magical project. The eponymous tradition is a pre-Christian folklore ritual driving out winter and welcoming spring, an ancient custom reminiscent of Persephone’s return in Greek mythology. It is celebrated on January 14th, the old New Year in the Julian calendar, by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine. In 2019 and 2020, Yemchuk traveled to Crasna (Krasnoilsk in Ukrainian) to document the night-long festival. Accompanying Yemchuk's striking photographic documentation is a poetic essay by Romanian cultural journalist Ioana Pelehatai. A brand new example additionally SIGNED by Yelena Yemchuk on the title page.

Inventory Number: E000YYM

(ZELLEN, JODY). Zellen, Jody. Santa Monica, CA: Self-Published, 1997. First Edition 1/500. 16mo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (40pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Jody Zellen. Published in conjunction with the 1997 exhibition "Blur" at San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, this is the second of Santa Monica-based artist/graphic designer Jody Zellen's self-produced small format artist's books. Uniformly scaled to 4 ½ x 4 ½", these beautiful little editions combine photographic reproduction, text, and a grid format to achieve a sublime narrative. A most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to five hundred unnumbered copies. Inventory Number: 023103

. The Ice Plant, 2018. Where do our minds go when we read books, magazines, and letters? Do we seek an escape, a portal to another world? A secret, a truth, a pleasant distraction? Voyagers, edited by Melissa Catanese (author of Dive Dark Dream Slow), consists almost entirely of anonymous black & white snapshots of people in various postures of reading — in living rooms, on beds, at the beach, eating breakfast. We can’t see what these readers are thinking, but Catanese occasionally breaks the hypnotic typological rhythm to reveal a new photographic element — a pyramid, a starry night, sunlight glowing through a window — giving us brief glimpses of the readers’ potential narrative journeys. A wordless book with the size and feel of a vintage paperback found at a flea market, Voyagers reminds us of the power and intimacy of our relationship to ‘reading devices,’ and evokes an exotic nostalgia for our recent pre-digital culture. As with Catanese’s prior books, the images were judiciously selected from the collection of Peter J. Cohen, a celebrated trove of more than 20,000 vernacular photographs from the early- to mid-twentieth century.

Please note: Ms. Catanese will be signing Voyagers at Arcana on October 13th -- your order will ship on Tuesday, October 16th. Inventory Number: E000MCV

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Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography is a near-twenty year culmination of portrait photographs captured by award-winning photographer, writer, and educator Aline Smithson. Beginning with her earliest black and white silver gelatin prints, 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.

To read more about and see images from Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography, check out The New Yorker's recent "Photo Booth" feature on Aline and her work! And if you are unfamiliar with Aline's influential photography blog Lenscratch.com, by all means click here!

Inventory Number: E000ASS&O