Bilingual edition

Introduction by Álvaro Siza
330 photographs
"Cityscapes is a continuous journey from one place to another. Not only does the flow of images extend from one city to another, but from their outer reaches to their inner core and vice versa: from the outskirts to city centres, from commercial centres to places symbolizing economic poser, from university districts to residential and even working class neighborhoods. All this takes place is over three hundred images that do not relate to any one place, but in fact, are all alike." - from Filippo Maggie's dialogue with Gabriele Basilico

This is an extraordinary book with superior reproduced images that are printed to the edge of the pages without borders (bleed). - Ed.

Typologies of Industrial Building,
Bernd and Hilla Becher
2004, MIT Press
11.7" x 11.7", 228 pp.
List price: $75.00

The first of in a series that the Bechers have produced.

"Since 1959 Bernd and Hilla Becher have been photographing imperiled industrial structures such as pit-head frames, water towers, blast furnaces, cooling towers, gas tanks, and silos. As documenters of the industrial era in Europe and the United States - an era now drawing to a close - they are not only photographers, but "industrial archaeologists," salvaging testimonies of past developments in the form of "readable" documents for posterity."

Water Towers,
Bernd and Hiller Becher
1998, MIT Press
11.73" x 9.48", 223 pgs
List price: $75.00 (out of print, used copies available)

 
99 duotone plates

This book is the catalog of the Fall 2003 exhibition at Castello di Rivoli in Turin and is the most complete publication of the artist's work to date and includes critical text as well as a detailed biography and bibliography. This major retrospective of the artist will present an original interpretation of her work, and will feature a new large-scale performance along with photographic and video works."

VB 08-36, Vanessa Beecroft Performances
Vanessa Beecroft
2000, Hatje Cantz Publishers
11.25" x 8.74", 200 pgs.
List price: $39.95

E. J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits
E.J. Bellocq
original publication: 1970, Museum of Modern Art (Little Brown & Company)
reprint: 1996, Random House Inc.
9.75" x 11", 33 plates, 88 pgs.

Photographs from the New Orleans Red Light District, Circa 1912. Preface by Lee Freedlander, Edited by John Szarkowski.

These reproductions were made by Lee Freedlander from the original glass plates. The reproductions in the book are outstanding.

Bernhard's seminal work of nude photographs beginning in the 1930's. Superb reproductions.

(out of print, used copies available)

Introduction by Peter C. Bunnell. A collection of both her still lifes and nude works. Superb reproductions.

(softbound, used copies available in hardcover.)

Waitng for Walk
Florian Bohm
2007, Hatje Cantz
Hardbound, 12 ¼" x 9 ¾", 128 pp
List price: $55.00

Boubat, Préférées,
Edouard Boubat
1983, Contrejour
10.5" x 8.25", 175 pgs.
(out of print, price available upon request)

Margaret Bourke White
Susan Goldman Rubin
1999, Harry N. Abrams
10.30" x 10.16", 96 pgs.
Lisat price: $19.95

Margaret Bourke-White Photographer,
Margaret Bourke-White
1998, Bullfinch
9.86" x 12", 160 pgs.
(used copies available)

It's Complicated
The American teenager
Robin Bowman
2007, Umbrage Editions, 160 pp
List price: $40.00

The deep, succulent color of Miguel Rio Branco's images reflects the richness and complexities of contemporary Latin America; Rio Branco has received wide acclaim for his projects on boxers, Brazilian children, and Cuba. Through his mastery of layering with both color and light, Rio Branco reveals hidden and forbidden segments of his surroundings, illuminating the unspoken and the instinctual. By focusing on the textures of fur and feathers, the flesh of slaughtered animals, or languid human bodies, he captures the cultural layers around him and provides a provocative vision of Latin America.

Drawn from thirty years of work, these photographs display the talent for visual construction that Rio Branco utilized in his direction of more than twenty films. His remarkable conception of installation is a skill attributed to his formal training as a painter. The author, poet, and art commentator David Levi Strauss notes that "Rio Branco's colors seep out of their borders like bodily fluids, staining and contaminating everything around them. Bodies, bindings, wounds, and walls are wet with color. Even his mirrors bleed. Rio Branco's is an art of contamination, contagion, and corrosion, but also of resistance and transcendence."

"England's most interesting, most British photographer was German-born Bill Brandt. Widely traveled as a young man, Brandt resided in England after 1931, and the character of that country became his most constant theme. He pursued it through documentary work published first in magazines, then in such books as The English at Home (1936), A Night in London (1938), Camera in London (1948), and Literary Britain (1951). His nudes, produced later and published in Perspective of Nudes (1961), along with a group of landscapes of England, round out a body of work so dazzling and yet so puzzling that most interpreters fail to take it all into account. They emphasize either matters of social class and documentary photography or Brandt's powerful formal inventions (e.g., the starkness of contrast in his prints, using an antique wide-angle lens for the highly abstract nudes). Jeffrey suggests unifying artistic and psychoanalytic themes emerging from Brandt's childhood as subtexts in Brandt's documentary work." Ian Jeffrey, Editor - Softbound edition (used copies available).1994, Thames & Hudson

Alverez Bravo,
Alverez Bravo
2004, Twin Palms Twelvetrees Press
9" x 12", 164 pp.
List price: $60.00

Alvarez Bravo won his first award in 1931 and decided to pursue photography as a career. He met Breton in 1939 and his work was subsequently included in Surrealist exhibitions in Paris. In 1942, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired their first Alvarez Bravo works; in 1955, his photographs were included in Edward Steichen's Family of Man exhibition at MoMA. In 1959 he co-founded the Fondo Editorial de la Plástica Mexicana to publish books on Mexican art, and from 1980 to 1986 devoted his time to founding and developing the collection of the first Mexican Museum of Photography. Alvarez Bravo’s various awards include the National Art Prize ( Mexico, 1975), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1975), and the International Center of Photography's Master of Photography Award (1987).

This volume is an intimate portrait of Mexico's revered photographer and includes a selection of little-known work chosen with the photographer for this monograph.

Edited by Ariadne Kimberly Huque
Introduction by Carlos Fuentes
Manuel Alvarez Bravo portrays and presents these women's bodies not to tell us to be content with what the world gives us, not to limit our desire, and not to ask us merely to conform, but to make us a gift of the body in person, a body here and now that does not sacrifice any of its potentialities, none of its cans and none of its nevers. Here they are for anyone who knows how to look: the idea of the feminine body and its negation; the harmony of the body and the soul but also a possible disharmony; the presence of the body but also its inevitable absence; its pleasure but also its pain. --Carlos Fuentes

Born in 1902, Manuel Alvarez Bravo is Mexico's most celebrated living photographer. His far-reaching body of work includes many of the 20th century's most recognizable and iconic images. Collected here is a seductive, timeless, and entrancing sampling of the maestro's nudes, images taken in 1939 and as recently as the 1990s. Sensitively edited and sequenced by Ariadne Kimberly Huque, and with an impassioned and poetic introduction by Carlos Fuentes, this delicate, elegant volume beautifully reproduces some of Bravo's most favorite work, and provides an intimate window through which to view the career of one of the camera's true masters. - publisher

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World: A Retrospective
by Philippe Arbaizar, et al
2003, Thames & Hudson; Reissue edition
10.52" x 11.38", 432 pgs.
List price: $75.00

80 black-and-white images 108 Pages
Essay by William Least Heat-Moon
``For her, the face of the earth is one glyph after another shrouded in shadows to be exposed and interpreted.'' - William Least Heat-Moon

This is a stunning volume of images with the usual superb Aperture reproductions. - ed.

Marilyn Bridges is an aerial photographer who has explored ancient cultures around the world for more than a decade. In This Land Is Your Land Bridges focuses her attention on the grandeur of the American landscape, taking us on an inspiring journey over the landmarks and signatures etched into the continent.

This is a very personal and lyrical book of photographs.

The hardcover book may be available used. We have a softbound edition, inquire for pricing.

Text by Marjorie B. Young
The subtitle of this book is "A celebration of the human spirit." This statement describes the photographs well. Bujak photographs both the passion and the devotion of people across America. Many of the photographs have religious and spiritual overtones.
Our copy is softbound and the reproductions are good.

The Enchanted Landscape,
Wynn Bullock
1999, Aperture
12.05" x 10.07", 120 pgs.
List price: $29.95 (soft bound)

This retrospective monograph confirms Wynn Bullock as one of the twentieth century's preeminent photographers. The volume includes Bullock's best known photographs, rarely seen images, and excerpts from private papers in which the photographer expounds his mature views of art, nature, and human existence.

This is a reprint of the original 1993 Aperture edition.
Note: Hardcover edition available upon request.

"Photographer Bill Burke has taken annual trips to Indochina ever since he first traveled to Asia in 1982. Although he usually photographed the people, Burke became aware of how the architecture absorbed as much as reflected the region's history. Transfixed by buildings like the municipal offices built by the French in the 1860s, the vaulted railroad stations and post offices of the 1930s, and the art-deco fantasy cinemas of the 1960s, Burke saw the region as an architectural museum, rotting in the humidity and untouched by economic ambition, and began to trace the cultural changes in the area through its architecture.

In Autrefois, Maison Privée—the title means “once a private house,” and refers to the prevalent reappropriation of once private houses for municipal and government use—Burke captures the dramatic history of the area, from the influence of French colonialism through the rise of communism and the devastating effects of the Vietnam War, to the repopulation of Cambodia after the fall of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge and the opening of the area to capitalism. Burke’s first entrée into Indochina occurred during the period of Soviet control, a period of recovery that allowed for the current explosion of capitalism, which has already begun to devastate an architectural heritage that was well preserved in the deep freeze of socialism. What the B-52s and tanks didn’t destroy during decades of war, developers from neighboring countries are busily replacing and defacing with their shrines of commerce.

Autrefois, Maison Privée is the only book to delineate this transformation; featuring Burke’s signature gritty layout and design, Autrefois, Maison Privée is a marvel livre deluxe of history, architecture, and photography.
- 98 quadratone photographs

Forward by Jorge Luis Borges, text by José Luis Lanuza. 60 duotone photographs.

The photographs in this volume are about the horsemen of Argentina. The images have both energy and beauty. Burri's eye captures the authentic gaucho. "His images of a dying tradition are lyrical and incisive."

The Other Place,
Jeff Burton
2004, Twin Palms Publishing Twelvetrees Press
14" x 12", 112 p.
List price: $75.00

Dreamland,
Jeff Burton
2001, powerHouse Books
7.5" x 12", 160 pp.
List price: $50.00

Yangtze Remembered: The River Beneath the Lake,
Linda Butler
2004, Stanford University Press
11.5" x 13", 204 pp.
List price: $65.00

Forward by Naomi Rosenblum
"This beautifully printed collection captures the timeless spirit of Italy with haunting images of its architecture, antique objects, and evocative landscapes. Linda Butler strayed from the standard tourist path to create these subtly toned black-and-white photographs, each one a quiet meditation on Italy's past. The richly textured images are reproduced in the large-format tradition, preserving their delicate gradations in tone. This cloth-bound volume includes a text by the photographer that describes her immersion in Italy's mesmerizing history."

Rural Japan: Radiance of the Ordinary,
Linda Butler
1992, Smithsonian Institution Press
11.25" x 9.25", 144 pp.
(out of print, used copies available)

Once again, Yale University Press has given the photography community a book of magnificent work. Using large-format color negatives, Burtynsky brings the rigor and grandiosity of architectural photography to his subject matter, an in-depth exploration of those vistas where the human touch-the human will and desire to produce goods-has had an undeniable impact.
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China, The New Industrial Revolution
Edward Burtynsky
2006, Steidl
15" x 12", 180 pp
List price $85.00

Edward Burtynsky’s imagery explores the intricate link between industry and nature, combining the raw elements of mining, quarrying, shipping, oil production, and recycling into eloquent, highly expressive visions that find beauty and humanity in the most unlikely places. These images are metaphors for the dilemma of our modern existence: we are drawn by desire-the desire to live well and in comfort-yet we all know that the world is suffering to meet those demands.
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After some 25 years of exploring the impact of industry on our planet, the celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has accumulated a substantial body of work documenting the world's major quarries-in Canada, Italy, China, Spain, Portugal, India and America.
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