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The books in this section are monographs by individual photographers. The books are available through our association with Amazon.com If you are interested in a book that is not available through Amazon.com, we most likely have an alternative source or a copy in our collection that you may inquire about.
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The listing here is alphabetical by the photographer's last name.

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	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."
	Times of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961 - 1965 Bruce Davidson 2002, St. Ann's Press 11.62" x 12", 172 pgs. List price: $65.00	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. ...
	Portraits Bruce Davidson 1999, Aperture 9.84" x 11.48", 80pgs. List price: $35.00	What happens when a photographer known for his empathetic portraiture of the marginalized or downtrodden suddenly focuses his extraordinary eye on the lifestyles of the rich and the famous? In Bruce Davidson's wildly diverse and typically revealing Personalities witness an aggressive Joan Crawford, apparently hell-bent on force-feeding some poor soul; the unwavering intensity of Samuel Beckett during a rehearsal of Waiting for Godot; and Diana Ross and the Supremes in the midst of a snowball fight or relaxing backstage at the Apollo. Seen through Davidson's lens, Newt Gingrich looks as goofy as Bobby Kennedy seems impenetrable.
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	Monument, Lynn Davis 1999, Arena Editions 11.75" x 11", 144 pp List price: $65.00 order this book	"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."

	Dark Days, John Darwell 2008, Dewi Lewis 10" x 9", 192 pp List Price: $45.00	... As a local resident, John Darwell found himself surrounded by the effects of the disease. Over the next twelve months he committed himself to recording what was taking place. ... Read more »

	Roy De Carava: A Retrospective Roy De Carver 1996, Museum of Modern Art 11.8" x 10.2", 280 pgs. (out of print, used copies available)	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.
	The Sound I Saw: Improvisation on a Jazz Theme Roy De Carver 2001, Phaidon Press 13.67" x 10.87", 208 pgs. List price: $39.95 (soft bound) (hard bound out of print, used copies available)	Conceived, designed, written, and made by hand as a prototype by master photographer Roy DeCarava (b. 1919) in the early 1960s yet unpublished for nearly half a century, The Sound I Saw has largely existed, until now, as a legend among the cognoscenti of the photography world. Presented as a stream of 196 soulful images interspersed with DeCarava's own evocative poetry, the book is, in its form and effect, the printed equivalent of jazz.
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	The Gardens of DeCosse, Cy DeCosse 2000, Leo & Wolf Photography 15.3" x 13.65", 169 pgs. (out of print, inquire about availability)	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
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	Robert Demachy: Photographe, Robert Demachy 1980, Contrejour 8.25" x 10.55", 72 pgs. (out of print, used copies available)	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.

	Thomas Demand 2010 SteidlMack, 11½" x 11", 226 pp List price: $85.00	Thomas Demand provokes confrontations between photography’s poles of fact and fiction. True-to-size paper models are photographed and then scaled down, while traces of event and person are systematically removed, leaving phantom images of the proposed “crime scene” that seem at once familiar and dreamlike. Demand’s 2009 Nationalgalerie (Berlin) exhibition and catalogue bring together his work on German history since 1945—a scrutiny of the “Deutschlandbild,” the “German image.” More »
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	Water Rites, Lucinda Devlin 2004, Steidl Publishing 11.5" x 9.75", 112pp. List price: $30.00	Essay by Micahel Mackenzie "German spa facilities are sites at which one can apparently be cured of chronic illnesses. Whether they date from the 19th century, the post-war period, or today, these places are fast becoming leisure-time oases. In a new series, Lucinda Devlin has photographed the deserted interiors of these bathhouses, framing clinically sterile rooms meant for massages, baths, examinations, and relaxation. These empty zones are silent testimonials to a healing industry that is thoughtfully tailored to people, even while its equipment subjugates them completely. Tellingly, they recall the rooms of Devlin's earlier series: the operating theaters, mortuaries, and autopsy rooms in Corporal Arenas and the U.S. execution chambers in The Omega Suites. With her coolly remote photographs, Devlin presents the relationships between people and institutions, and then shows how certain facilities depersonalize those relationships. Water Rites conveys an insightful view into the--typically German?--mentality and source of our institutionalized humanity." - 48 color
	Omega Suite, Lucinda Devlin 2003, Steidl 11" x 9.75", 80 pp. List price: $15.00	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
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	Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Philip-Lorca diCorcia 2003, Distributed Art Publishers 9.8" x 10.8", 79 pp. List price: $24.95	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
	A Story Book Life, Philip-Lorca diCorcia 2003, Twin Palms Publications 11.3" x 14.5", 164 pp. List price: $80.00	"The disparate photographs assembled here were made over the course of twenty years. None of them were originally intended to be used in this book. By ordering and shaping them I tried to investigate the possibilities of narrative both within a single image and especially in relation to the other photographs. A Storybook Life is an attempt to discover the possibilities of meaning in the interaction of seemingly unrelated images in the hope that content can constantly mutate according to both the external and internal condition of the viewer, but remain meaningful because of it’s inherent, but latent content. The conscious and subconscious decisions made in editing the photographs is the real work of A Storybook Life." - Philip-Lorca diCorcia
	Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Heads, Philip-Lorca diCorcia 2001, Steidl 11.9" x 14.96", 40 pp. List price: $35.00	"The photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia is best known for his elaborately staged scenes made to look like real life, in which he meticulously plans every element of a shot-lighting, pose, etc., before taking the photograph, creating the "ur" moment. It is conceptual photography with the veneer of the documentary. As such, his photographs have been integral to contemporary dialogues on street photography, portraiture, and constructed versus spontaneous tableaus. His most recent body of work, entitled "Heads", is a departure from this method. Setting up shop in New York City, diCorcia took unstaged pictures of passers by that follow in the street photography tradition of Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, and Robert Frank. diCorcia's work helps to redefine the genre, bringing street photography into our post-modern world." - 20 color illustrations

	The Ninth Floor Jessica Dimmock 2007, Contrasto 10 ½" x 8", 128 pp List price: $38.00	Over the past two years, Jessica Dimmock has photographed a group of die-hard heroin users living on The Ninth Floor of a Manhattan building in a surprising, powerful, and intimate way. More»
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	This is How I Remember Now, Jim Dine 2008, Steidl Partners 9½" x 10", 100 pp List price: $70.00	Jim Dine may be best known for his prints, paintings and sculptural works—and for being one of the founders of Pop art—but he has also been making photographs since 1996. Most of the photographs are set up in the studio. More »
	This Goofy Life of Constant Mourning, Jim Dine 2004, Steidl 9.75" x 8.5", 296 pp. List price: $80.00	"This Goofy Life of Constant Mourning is the sincere title of a long visual poem by artist Jim Dine. The result of years of photographing poems after he has written them on walls and objects, it presents a symbiotic marriage of three very personal elements: his photographs, his handwriting, and his words. While unique in and of itself, this particular body of work is in keeping with Dine's greater oeuvre, a multi-disciplinary enterprise in which the artist seeks to access his unconscious. Regardless of which media Dine is working in, he maintains a familiar but ever-expanding repertory of images: tools, hearts and a torso of Venus, plus the more recent iconography of crows, skulls, a Pinocchio doll, and an odd-couple ape and cat. As with his paintings, sculptures and graphic work, for which he is better known, Dine seeks to record his physical and emotional presence concretely, not gesturally. The camera is but one of the many tools he has at his disposal for making such pictures. Though he has been making art for over four decades, producing paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, as well as performance works, stage and book designs, poetry and even music, Dine has only been working with photography since 1996." - 181 color.

	Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert, John Divola 2004, Nazraeli Press 11" x 12", 48 pp. List price: $60.00	20 Duotone Plates “From 1995 to 1998 I worked on a series of photographs of isolated houses in the desert at the east-end of the Morongo Valley in Southern California. As I meandered through the desert, a dog would occasionally chase my car. Sometime in 1996 I began to bring along a 35mm camera equipped with a motor drive and loaded with a fast and grainy black-and-white film. The process was simple; when I saw a dog coming toward the car I would pre-focus the camera and set the exposure. With one hand on the steering wheel, I would hold the camera out the window and expose anywhere from a few frames to a complete roll of film. ... "– John Divola, 2004 Read more about this book
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	Robert Doisneau 1912-1994 Jean-Claude Gaufrand 8.02" x 5.76", 192 pgs. 2002, Taschen List price: $9.99
	La Transhumance de Robert Doisneau Robert Doisneau 1999, Actes Sud 196 pgs. (Used copies available)
	Robert Doisneau: Retrospective Robert Doisneau, Peter Hamilton 1993, I.B. Tauris 9.5" x 8", 128 pgs. (used copies available)	Robert Doisneau's photography is known all over the world. This volume encompasses its entire range from 1929 to 1991, placing the work within the context of its time. The reader is offered an introduction to Doisneau's art and an unforgettable selection of his pictures. 107 photographs.
	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 Paris, Robert Doisneau 1998, Gingko Press 7.50" x 5.50" List price: $55.00	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.

	Mother and Child, Nell Dorr 1972, Scrimshaw Press 10" x 8.25", 106 pp. (used copies available)	"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	1981 the North Dakota Museum of Art invited Jim Dow of Boston to photograph the State’s environmental folk art—that is, architecture, signage, sculpture, painting, grave markings, working shops, the stuff made by farmers during idle winter months, and all else that decorates the land. Over the course of a year, Dow captured over a hundred images. Read more »
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	Photographer Frantisek Drtikol, Vladimir Birgus, et al 2000, Kant 11.15" x 9", 206 pgs. List price: $45.00	This is the most complete monograph to date on the influential Czech photographer Frantisek Drtikol (1883 -1961). Outlining many aspects of his life and work and including his often-neglected paintings and drawings, this book's main thrust, however, remains his photographic work. With over one hundred color and duotone reproductions, drawn from various public and private holdings, this collection displays many of his less well-known and unpublished images. Presenting examples from all of his creative periods, from secessionist and symbolist scenes to nudes considered shockingly modern for their time, these photographs are stunningly beautiful in their slightly veiled and grainy texture, and elucidate his considerable impact on pictorial photography.
	Frantisek Drtikol: Photographs from the Period Between 1901-1914 and the Album from Large and Little Courtyards of Old Prague, Frantisek Drtikol 1999, Kant 10.87" x 9.62", 72 pgs. List price: $30.00	Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) is one of the best known Czech photographers. This book collects many never-before published photographs from the years 1901-1914, and includes the album "From Large and Little Courtyards of Old Prague" which Drtikol issued with Ausgustin Skarda in 1911.

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