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A collection of various photo book titles by the American photographer Berenice ABBOTT (1898-1991). The titles listed in this set are already out of stock. This complete offer can include various editions of the same title.

This 5 volume project that present hundreds of outstanding ABBOTT images for the first time. These previously unknown images further clarified the range of her photographic activity beyond her 'Paris Portraits', 'Changing New York' & 'Documenting Science'

'Subway', the new edition of 1986s original. In 1980 Bruce DAVIDSON began photographing the New York subway system. At first in black and white, but he soon realized that color film was necessary to depict the intensity of this graffiti-covered landscape.

The out-of-print photo book, 'Harlem Family 1967' features approximately eighty b/w photographs of the Fontenelle family, whose lives Gordon PARKS documented as part of a 1968 'Life' magazine photo essay. A searing portrait of poverty in the United States

Facsimile. pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), ca. 20 x 25 x 1 cm., 32 pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to 250 copies with 2 different silk-screened covers (= 500 copies in total!)

The photographs in out-of-print, large-formated 'New York Arbor' by Mitch EPSTEIN document the importance of trees to urban life in NYC, as well as their complex relationship with the residents. The superb printing makes viewing a breathtaking experience.

'The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957' by Gordon PARKS includes an expansive selection of never-before-published photographs from reportages he did for 'Life' on a six-week journey that took him to the streets of New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

'The Making of an Argument' contains the 1st project by Gordon PARKS for the 'Life' magazine. Featuring contact sheets, proof prints and the published article, it traces the editorial process and parses out the motives behind the production of the essay.

Limited edition photo book 'Bike Kill' shows life in a Brooklyn bike club. The French Julie GLASSBERG spent three years documenting the world of the Black Label Bike Club. The title refers to an annual celebration of bike chopping, friendship and anarchy.

The color images in out-of-print volume, 'Red Eye to New York' by American photographer Janet DELANEY, brim with joie de vivre and reveal a precious blend of private life in public and the fleeting moments of connection between photographer and subject.

'Washington Square' by Dave HEATH shows deeply expressive, candid portraits of the young people who populated the square, as well as venturing into the 7 Arts Coffee Gallery with the infamous Beat poets. Ginsberg's poem Howl is included as an introduction

In out-of-print 'East Broadway Breakdown', the photos taken in 1994/95 in downtown New York remain like paintings in the limbo between abstraction and concrete representation. In this way, Christopher WOOL conveys an alternative idea of what a picture is.

This volume, 'Brett Weston: Master Photographer', is the most comprehensive overview of the life and photography of Brett WESTON. It covers the six decades of his work (1925-1986), each introduced by an essay by renowned authors such as Beaumont Newhall.

Singer Sewn & foil stamped Pb., 21 x 27 cm., o.pp., 22 duotone b/w ills., English, Ltd. to 750 copies

Out-of-print 'The Whiteness of the Whale' brings together the American series by Paul GRAHAM which reflect on the social fabric of contemporary USA while attempting to find something closer to the experience of being and seeing in the contemporary world.

“While haute couture is closely linked with an idea of perfection and the mastery of every last detail, I wanted to transport DIOR creations to an unexpected place. The streets of NYC embody the most contrasting background to reveal unforeseen emotions.”

Photo volume 'Private Views. A Highrise Panorama of Manhattan' by Andi SCHMIED provides views from the tallest buildings in Manhattan, for example over Central Park, or from the bathroom in Calacatta Tucci marble with a view of the Empire State Building.

'Snaps' by Elliott ERWITT, offers a comprehensive overview. It is divided into nine chapters, the basic actions of life - things that people do. The photos are not meant to illustrate the words, but to organize & connect them, even with puns & ambiguities

The large catalog volume 'Helen Levitt. Fotografien' combines both color photographs with black and white images from 70 years of her photographic activity. The impressive selection ranges from early works from the 1930s to color photos from the 1990s.

In 'Invisible City', Ken SCHLES documents New York's East Village neighborhood during its heyday in the 1980s. Using scans of original negatives and the five-plate technique, this reprint surpasses the original and brings the classic into the 21st century

Out-of-print photo book 'Amerikabilder by Gerry JOHANSSON' contains photographs from 1962 and 1963. His black-and-white shots of New York and Chicago breathe the aura of famous American photographers such as Robert FRANK, Lee FRIEDLANDER and Walker EVANS.

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Passé Imparfait: La Route de devenir photographe,' by Ralph GIBSON, surveys the beginnings of the American photographer's career in San Francisco (1960 to 1963), Los Angeles (1963 to 1966), and New York in 1967 - 1970).

von Horacio Fernández, ed. With titles by ABBOTT, ARAKI, BEATON, BISCHOF, CARTIER-BRESSON, DAVIDSON, DEPARDON, EVANS, A.FISCHER, GILDEN, HAAS, HOFER, KERTÉSZ, KITAJIMA, W.KLEIN, LEVITT, LÖRINCZY, LYON, MORIYAMA, NAAR, PERESS, SCHLES, SISKIND, WEEGEE, a.o.

In this out-of-print photo volume, 'Sequentially Yours', Elliott ERWITT presents a series of diverse character sketches. Each of them consists of a quick succession of single shots. The subjects vary from lively street scenes to lovers in casual embrace.

'We Have No Place to Be: 1980-1982' (Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, West Berlin, New York and Tokyo) - here in a newly edited and expanded edition - by Joji HASHIGUCHI remains widely regarded as one of his seminal early works alongside his debut 'Shisen'.

Out-of-print book 'The Camera as Conscience' is based on the archive of William Eugene SMITH and contains famous as well as previously unpublished images from the 1930s to the 1970s, mostly essays for 'Life', such as 'Country Doctor' and 'Spanish Village'

In his black-and-white photo volume 'Night Walk' US-American photographer and New Yorker Ken SCHLES tells of his lost youth in Brooklyn. Twenty-five years after this groundbreaking volume of photographs 'Invisible City' the series were newly published.

The images in the book 'CARS. New York City. 1974-1976' by Langdon CLAY feature a distinct array of makes and models set against the gritty details of their surrounding urban and architectural environments, and occasionally the ghostly presence of people.

The new out-of-print edition of 'A Way of Seeing' by Helen LEVITT impresses with high-quality reproductions. Since its first publication in 1965, this volume of b/w photographs from New York in the 1940s has been revered as a classic of street photography

Out-of-print photography book 'Father Figure. Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood' by US photographer Zun LEE explores issues of identity and representation, particularly how African-American men and fathers are represented in popular culture.

Out-of-print volume 'Beach Pictures. 1969-70' by Anthony HERNANDEZ includes 22 images taken at various beaches in Southern California & New York. Printed in tritone on uncoated paper, itfeatures cloth end sheets and printed chipboard front and back covers

In the volume 'Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape', Stephen SHORE revisits the ambitions of the 1975 'New Topographics' by taking a new bird's eye view of the relationship between the natural and the man-made in the American landscape.

'Mouvement' about René BURRI gives an overview about his work which has written history. Removed from sensationalism yet no less striking are his images of the theater of war, of people suffering in poverty & with equal intensity to the spheres of beauty.

The photo book '42nd Street, 1979' by Langdon CLAY contains photos of a typical strip of 42nd Street near New York's Times Square, showing its gloomy neon charm. The US photographer recalls the gloomy & dusty atmosphere of New York City in the late 1970s.

The most comprehensive publication so far of Helen LEVITT's photographs from the New York Subway contains many works that are being published here for the first time. These pictures began alongside Walker EVANS in 1938, in 1978 she to the underground.

'Silver + Chrome' contains earliest works by Mitch EPSTEIN, taken in N.Y., L.A. as well as New Orleans. With the OK of his teacher Garry WINOGRAND he documented from 1973 until 1976 the urban chaos of that complicated time alternately in color and in b/w.

The catalog 'Saul Leiter. Die Große Retrospective' sheds new light on one of photography's most enigmatic figures. It shows New York street scenes, fashion & nude photographs and makes archive material, contact prints & notebooks accessible to the public.

The images by Helen LEVITT in out-of-print 'One, Two, Three, More' are a unique & irreplaceable look at New York street life from mid-1930s to late 1940s: children play, lovers, husbands and wives flirt, young mothers with their babies, and lonely old men

In this long out-of-print photo volume 'New York / New York', the famous war photographer David Douglas DUNCAN presents the black-and-white photographs of the 'flying salesman' George FORSS along with his story on the streets of the American metropolis.

English ed., Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 296 pp., 23,5 x 25,5 x 3 cm., b/w ills., 1.400 gr., text language: English

'The Way Back' presents works by Bruce DAVIDSON taken between 1957 and 1992 - from his earliest such as 'Brooklyn Gang' (1959), 'Time of Change' (1961-1965) 'East 100th Street' (1966-1968) to late works such as 'Subway' (1980) and 'Central Park' (1992).

'Landscape as Longing' comes from a commission for Frank GOHLKE and Joel STERNFELD to document an ethnic diversity in the borough of Queens, New York. With an essay, it is a powerful tool for understanding a landscape that seems to defy interpretation.

In 'Rocks and Clouds', Mitch EPSTEIN investigates the meaning of time by photographing rocks. It examine ssociety’s complex relationship to nature, a theme he has explored in previous work, including his acclaimed tree pictures in 'New York Arbor' (2013).

The book 'Hommage' for the retrospective on the work of Inge MORATH shows the whole spectrum and the - perhaps feminine? - subtlety of her work. An autobiographical speech she gave in Berlin is the main text of the German-English accompanying publication.

'Vivian Maier. Das Meisterwerk der unbekannten Photographin. 1926-2009', provides an overview of her oeuvre and is the first comprehensive biography of this extraordinary woman. This 4th edition contains 238 photographs on 288 pages, some in color.

For this out-of-print book 'Blumenfeld Studio. Color, New York, 1941-1960' the original slides were recovered from the archive and the colors meticulously reconstructed. Thus, for the first time, his compositions can be seen in their original form & color

'White Shoes' by Nona FAUSTINE is a collection of self-portraits taken in locations around New York. She depicts herself at the sites of slave auctions & coastal locations where slave ships docked, posing nude apart from a pair of white high-heeled shoes.

The book 'Encounters' by Evelyn HOFER explores the multifaceted idea of the 'portrait' in her oeuvre in series on New York, Dublin & Washington, images of artists & their ateliers, selected magazine essays for and New York photos of Andy Warhol’s Factory.

The limited edition catalog 'Faces and Places. 1980-2023' contains reproductions of several pages from the albums of US-American photographer Jamel SHABAZZ (b.1960), focusing on his extensive portrait work in New York City parks over the last forty years.