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(EGGLESTON, WILLIAM). Morris, Willie & William Eggleston. Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 159pp, profusely illustrated in color. "In Faulkner's Mississippi, William Faulkner's life and work are revisited through the poetic mastery of Willie Morris, who brings to the subject a rare perspective - as both an aficionado of Faulkner's work and a native son of Mississippi. Of the many great biographies of Faulkner, Faulkner's Mississippi is the only portrait of the writer by another writer, touching on the fears, the frailties, and the courage of a man who chose to live in a land that loved and reviled him all in the same breath". A most handsome example of what is also one of the photographer's most haunting books additionally SIGNED "William Eggleston" 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 and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-8487-1052-5 Inventory Number: 021838

(EGGLESTON, WILLIAM). Wagner, Bruce & William Eggleston. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1999. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. Square 4to. Cloth in Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 101pp, 45 color illustrations. Published in 1999, "2 1/4" is a beautifully designed and printed survey of Southern gentleman with a camera William Eggleston's color work with the 2 ¼ x 2 ¼ inch negative format. A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe signed edition of fifty SIGNED AND NUMBERED copies accompanied by a signed 11 x 11" matted color dye-transfer print SIGNED AND NUMBERED inside a debossed cloth-over-boards clamshell box. 0-944092-70-5 Inventory Number: 026446

(GETTY MUSEUM DEPARTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY, THE J. PAUL). Naef, Weston J., Gordon Baldwin, Virginia Dodier, Thomas Weston Fels, Mikka Gee, Michael Hargraves, Eugenia Parry Janis, Judith Keller, Ben Lifson, Katherine Ware, Brett Abbott, Anne Lacoste, et al.. Malibu & Los Angeles, CA. 1986-2008.: The J. Paul Getty Museum. First Editions. 8vo. Pictorial Cardstock Wrappers. Exhibition Brochures. Very Good - or Better.. This is a collection of sixty-one of the informative brochures issued by the J. Paul Getty Museum between 1986 and 2008 to accompany exhibitions curated by its Department of Photographs. These are beautifully printed keepsakes - typically duotone on coated, heavy stock - that were never made commercially available for sale, with most representing the only published documentation for each show. The format of this series is for the most part one cardstock sheet printed recto and verso, neatly folded in fourths as issued to make 8 pages - typically with five illustrations. The monographic publications are on Eugene Atget (2 different), Brassai, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Julia Margaret Cameron (3 different), Edgar Degas, William Eggleston, P.H. Emerson, Walker Evans (2 different), Roger Fenton, Lady Clementina Hawarden, Hill and Adamson, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Gustave Le Gray, Man Ray, Lisette Model, Eliot Porter, Alexander Rodchenko, August Sander (2 different), Frederick Sommer, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edmund Teske (2 different), Carleton Watkins (2 different), Weegee, and Edward Weston (2 different). The survey exhibitions are "After the Manner of Women: Photographs by Kasebier, Cunningham, and Ullman", "Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites", The Art of The Daguerreotype", "Capturing Time: A Celebration of Photography:, "Experimental Photography: Discovery & Invention", "Experimental Photography: The First Golden Age 1851-1889", "Experimental Photography: The Machine Age", "Experimental Photography: The New Subjectivity", "Experimental Photography: The Painter-Photographer", "The Eye of Sam Wagstaff", "The Flowering of Early French Photography", "Grave Testimony: Photographs of the Civil War", "...Images that yet / Fresh images beget... Photographing Art", "Little Pictures", "Nadar + Warhol: Paris + New York", "Neither Speech Nor Language: Photography and the Written Word", "Palette of Light: Handcrafted Photographs, 1898-1914", "Photographers of Genius at the Getty", "Procession to the Fallen Gods: Photography in Nineteenth Century Egypt", "Public Spaces / Private Spaces", "Rare States and Unusual Subjects: Photographs by Paul Strand, Andre Kertesz, and Man Ray", "Strange Days: Photographs From The Sixties by Winogrand, Eggleston, and Arbus:", "Walls of Algiers", "Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection", and "Women on the Edge: Twenty Photographers in Europe, 1919-1939". A most handsome set of these ephemeral items - all in at least Very Good minus condition, with most being Near Fine or Fine. Inventory Number: 027076

(PARR, MARTIN) (GOSSAGE, JOHN). Obvious & Ordinary aka Martin Parr & John Gossage. NP (Chicago & London). ND (2007).: NP (Stephen Daiter Gallery & Rocket Gallery). First Edition 1/1500. 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (72pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Limited to one thousand, five hundred copies only, this playful tome attempted to anonymously document noted photographers Martin Parr (British, color, obvious) and John Gossage's (American, black and white, ordinary) 2006 road trip to Memphis to visit William Eggleston. Charming, cheerful and revealing, it resides comfortably alongside such revered American travelogues as Robert Frank's "The Americans", Steven Shore's "Uncommon Places", and Jeffrey Brouws' "Highway". A brand new, pristine example additionally bearing Parr and Gossage's "Obvious" and "Ordinary" rubber stamps (due to the nature of the project they have decided to "stamp" rather than actually sign any of the copies) in black ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 015990

Parker, Fred R.. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1979. First Edition #617/1000. 4to. Spiral Bound Wrappers. Near Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w with 20 color slides bound in. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Attitudes: Photography in the 1970's" is the quirky, uniquely designed catalogue for a major Santa Barbara Museum of Art survey of contemporary photography from the decade. Nearly five hundred images were exhibited, and the participants included Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Thomas Barrow, Michael Bishop, Ellen Brooks, Jerry Burchard, Marsha Burns, Harry Callahan, Jo Ann Callis, Paul Caponigro, Joyce Tenneson Cohen, Steven Cortright, Eileen Cowin, Robert Cumming, Barbara Crane, Judy Dater, Joe Deal, John Divola, William Eggleston, Chris Enos, Mitch Epstein, Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, Lee Friedlander, Phillip Galgiani, Nancy Gass, Ralph Gibson, Frank Gohlke, Jim Goldberg, John Gossage, Emmet Gowin, Jan Groover, Robert Heinecken, Anthony Hernandez, Douglas Huebler, Kenneth Josephson, Barbara Kasten, Les Krims, Robert Mapplethorpe, Duane Michals, Richard Misrach, Nicholas Nixon, Bill Owens, John Pfahl, Marcia Resnick, Nancy Rexroth, Leland Rice, Richard Ross, Steven Shore, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Neil Slavin, Eve Sonneman, Calvin Sparks, Charles Stainback, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel ("Evidence"), Alex Sweetman, Lew Thomas, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Arthur Tress, Jerry Uelsmann, Burk Uzzle, William Wegman, Jack Welpott, Henry Wessel, Brett Weston, Larry Williams, Garry Winogrand, and many, many more. It contains original contributions for the printed catalogue by Dan Worth (with a blindstamped printer's chop), Karen Truax, Keith Smith (signed), Todd Walker (signed), Alex Sweetman, Robert Heinecken's unique screenprinted multiple along with a bound-in heavy vinyl sheet protector containing twenty slides. A most handsome example of this uncommon, extraordinary document limited to one thousand copies NUMBERED (617/1000) AND SIGNED by curator Fred Parker in black ink on the acknowledgements page as issued, showing some light soiling and age patination to the white wrappers as well as a small nick and crease to the top edge of the front cover. 0-89951-032-9 Inventory Number: 020502