Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street,
Bruce Davidson
2003, St. Ann's Press
12.42 x 11.22", 172 pgs.
List price: $75.00

For two years in the 1960s, Bruce Davidson photographed one block in East Harlem. He went back day after day, standing on sidewalks, knocking on doors, asking permission to photograph a face, a child, a room, a family. Through his skill, his extraordinary vision, and his deep respect for his subjects, Davidson's portrait of the people of East 100th Street is a powerful statement of the dignity and humanity that is in all people. Long out of print, this volume is a reissue of the classic book of photographs originally published in 1970 and recently included in The Book of 101 Books. This reprint includes over 20 new images not included in the original edition.

Bruce Davidson: Subway
Bruce Davidson
2003, Safari
9.75" x 12", 132 pgs.
102 color plates
List price: $65.00 (re-release)

Originally published in 1986, this dark, democratic environment provided the setting for photographer Bruce Davidson’s first extensive series in color. Subway riders are set against a gritty, graffiti-strewn background, displayed in tones Davidson described as "an iridescence like that I had seen in photographs of deep-sea fish." Never before has the subway been portrayed in such detail, revealing the interplay of its inner landscape and out vistas. The images include lovers, commuters, tourists, families, and the homeless. From weary straphangers to languorous ladies in summer dresses to stalking predators, Davidson’s compassionate vision illuminates the stubborn survival of humanity. From the spring of 1980 to 1985, Davidson explored and shot six hundred miles of subway tracks. In his own words, "I wanted to transform this subway from its dark, degrading, and impersonal reality into images that open up our experience again to the color, sensuality, and vitality of the individual souls that ride it each day."

On May 25, 1961, Bruce Davison joined a group of Freedom Riders traveling by bus from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi. The actions of these youths challenged and disobeyed federal laws allowing for integrated interstate bus travel. These historic episodes, which ended in violence and arrests, marked the beginning of Davidson's exploration into the heart and soul of the civil rights movement in the United States during the years 1961-1965. ... In the 140 photographs collected here, many of which have never before been published, we see intimate and revealing portraits of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and other leaders made by Davidson during those turbulent times. These images describe the mood that prevailed during the civil rights movement with a lyrical imagery that is both poignant and profound. ...

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"This superb book of large-format photographs pays homage to the concept of "monument". Both as natural forms and ancient ruins of human creation. Collected here are ghostly photographs of icebergs sculpted by wind, atmospheric images of geysers, striking portrayals of rock formations, misty images of Niagara Falls, and pictures of the pyramids and the Meenakshi Temple. Each of the photographs is brilliantly executed, both technically and aesthetically, and the breadth of the photoessay is most impressive. The book as a whole is beautifully designed and printed, and the 60 plates are carefully reproduced on matte paper, giving the whole thing a touch of antique character. Gazing at these magnificent structures, now crumbling back into the earth, one is left with a sense of quiet dignity and wonder. A fine book by an outstanding photographer ..."

Lynn Davis’ photographs are accompanied by texts by Patti Smith and Rudolph Wurlitzer that contemplate the sheer beauty of Davis’ photography and the context of travel in which they are produced."

Featuring 200 superb plates spanning half a century, this book is the first retrospective of the work of Roy DeCarava, a great American photographer known for his brilliant photographs of Harlem and of jazz musicians such as Billie Holliday and John Coltrane.

Available in both hard and soft bound editions.

This is from a series put out by 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography, Trade editon: tritone plates, Museum edition: hand-pulled photogravures - 49 plates.
Introduction by John Stevenson, essays by Scott Ely, Morri Creech, Carol Wood, John Wood.

"Cy DeCosse, as dedicated a craftsman as a Bosch or a Manet, a Proust or a Joyce, creates his paradisal gardens of strange and beautiful flora from light and alchemical combinations of platinum and palladium salts, and from the baroque choreography of his own inspiration. And they are unlike anyone else's and unlike anything anyone has seen before. ...Apart from the image itself, the most striking visual features of a DeCosse print are its subtle nuances of tone and texture. There is a luminosity in the lights and velvet depth to the darks that can take your breath and that is simply not present in the work of any other photographic artist. ...DeCosse brings a virtually unheard of level of craftsmanship to his art. ...his prints are absolutely perfect." - John Wood

This edition is a very good representation of Demachy's photographs from 1896 - 1914. Essay by Carole Naggar. Deamachy was a pictorialist, staging many of his photographs of young girls and women. He also did portraits and landscapes.

Robert Demachy (1859-1936) was born into a wealthy Parisian family which in turn allowed him to pursue his love of art and music, without having to worry about how to support himself. He was influenced by the Impressionist painters and spent most of his time making photographs and developing his theories on photography, both technical and aesthetic. He wrote thousands of articles and several books on photography and was a strong proponent of techniques used to manipulate a photograph such as the gum bichromate process, oil transfers and scratching of the gelatine. Inquire for availability of this book.

Essay by Barbara Rose
Steidl Collectors Series~During the early 90s, Lucinda Devlin systematically took photographs of gas chambers, injection rooms, electric chairs and death cells in rural towns and cities of the United States. She entitled the series Omega Suites--alluding to the final letter of the Greek alphabet as a metaphor for the end and for the unusually luxurious accommodations found there. Seemingly an examination of the death penalty, her austere, haunting images are actually metaphors that question the attitude to this issue found throughout America, where, although 70 percent of citizens support the death penalty, a few states are currently reconsidering their laws and imposing moratoriums or stays for the more that 3,000 Americans currently on death row, who will wait an average of 10 years before being executed. Icy and compelling, the photographs present a clearly defined and hermetically sealed concept of the world which is characterized by taking extreme measures against the ominous--instead of attempting integration. And they do so in a precise, exquisite and seductive way, while being intellectually repellent."
Edited by Susanne Breidenbach. - 30 color illustrations

Essay by Peter Galassi
"Philip-Lorca diCorcia's inventively staged and exquisitely crafted color photographs occupy a special place in contemporary art. Operating in the gap between postmodern fiction and documentary fact, between slick convention and fresh perception, they deliver a powerful emotional charge. The 55 color plates in this book, dating from 1978 to 1994, trace the evolution of a compelling and influential body of work. Beginning with enigmatic domestic scenarios whose protagonists are the photographer's family and friends, diCorcia moved on to an ambitious series in which Hollywood drifters and hustlers are pictured as emblematic figures of contemporary America. He proceeded to deploy his probing curiosity amid the energy and turmoil of big-city streets, reinvigorating a rich photographic tradition that had been dormant for nearly a generation". - 55 color illustrations

Robert Doisneau 1912-1994
Jean-Claude Gaufrand
8.02" x 5.76", 192 pgs.
2002, Taschen
List price: $9.99

Parisians: Photographs
Peter Turnley
2000, Abbeville Press, Inc.
9.77" x 11.77", 168 pgs.
List price: $50.00

Forewords by Edouard Boubat and Robert Doisneau
Text by Adam Gopnik and Peter Turnley

Doisneau is the photographer of Paris 'par excellence' and this book will have a lasting appeal for demonstrating the power of Doisneau's images like never before.

"Dorr explores the universality of motherhood in her powerful series of rich gravure photographs and accompanying prose poem. Her photographs of children show their curiosity, love of nature, and sense of awe at the world around them, while her images of mothers have a strong spiritual sense. Dorr herself had three daughters and six grandchildren. She and her husband, the scientist John Van Nostrand Dorr founded The Dorr Foundation, and offered this book "in the spirit of friendship between the women of the United States and the women of other lands." - 92 black-and-white photographs
Note: 1972 2nd edition of the 1954 edition.

Marking the Land
Jim Dow
2008 North Dakota Museum of Art
11¾" x 10¼", 244 pp
List price: $34.95

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Photographer Frantisek Drtikol,
Vladimir Birgus, et al
2000, Kant
11.15" x 9", 206 pgs.
List price: $45.00