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	Trackside Maryland. From Railyard to Main Line, James P. Gallagher 2004, John Hopkins University Press 12.25" x 9.25", 224 pp List price: $29.95.	In the 1950s, as railroads underwent major changes, some marginal lines stood on the brink of extinction. Steam locomotives grew scarcer by the month, as did rail passenger connections. With a keen eye for location and composition, James Gallagher in Trackside Maryland captures the drama and majesty of steam transportation in Maryland in its waning days, when passing trains left clouds of cinders and smoke behind them and the sound of steam whistles still echoed across the landscape-all these sights and sounds giving way to modern diesel locomotives. Here Jacques Kelly's evocative prose accompanies Gallagher's ever vigilant lens. We are transported back to the last years of steam railroading. 'Each of Jim's photographs tells a story and conveys mood, spirit, atmosphere, and character. The ground in his photographs rumbles. Some of the antique trains he photographed look as if they might rust and crumble before the end of their trip. Other photos impart a feeling of majesty and romance. and you don't have to be a train buff to appreciate them. Just step aboard and savor the results of Jim Gallagher's skill, luck, and persistence.' - Jacques Kelly, from the Introduction
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	Consuming the American Landscape, John Ganis 2003, Dewi Lewis Publishing 10" x 13", 160 pp. List price: $50.00	Introduction by Robert Sobieszek "Using highly detailed color photographs, John Ganis has chronicled the effects of development and extraction industries in every region of the Continental United States over a period of seventeen years. The subjects of Ganis’s images are for the most part flagrantly clear—abandoned wrecks, desolate strip mines, clear-cut forests, industrial parks, landfill sites, and the flattening of terrain for housing -developments—and just as flagrantly disturbing. This is a thesaurus of our "civilized" incursions into the wildness of nature, a charting of our debris-strewn topographies, and a cogent report on our abdication of any reverence -towards the land. In an introductory essay, Robert -Sobieszek, from Los Angeles County Museum, gives an insightful overview of the historical responses to the American landscape and places the work of John Ganis within the context of "the new American pastoral." In 1989, Ganis entered into a collaborative exchange with the noted anthropologist Dr. Stanley Diamond, who wrote the poetry for this book in response to John Ganis’s photographs. They represent some of his last and previously unpublished poetic work."

	Gardenscapes, Lynn Geesaman 2003, Aperture 10.26" x 9.32", 80 pgs. List price: $40.00	"In this, the first publication of her color work, Lynn Geesaman continues to evoke the human dreams of artifice and industry that have imposed their will upon the natural landscape. For almost twenty years, Geesaman has photographed fertile orchards and fields as well as elaborately cultivated gardens and manicured walkways of parks, estates, and châteaus in Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, and across the United States. ..."
	Poetics of Place, Lynn Geesaman 1999, Aperture 13" x 10.5", 78 pgs. (used copies available)	"Geesaman's Poetics of Place contains some of the finest formal-garden photography ever published--in monochrome, no less, which she developed into vibrant, velvety visions of the ideal garden."
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	Mario Giacomelli, Mario Giacomelli 2001, Phaidon Press 12" x 10.5", 428 pp. List price: $69.95	"With the recent death of Mario Giacomelli, Europe has lost one of its most talented photographers. Giacomelli trained initially as a typographer and this early interest in graphic effect became a central part of his later photographic work. Winner of numerous medals and prizes, he achieved international status with exhibitions in Europe, America and Japan. This is the most comprehensive survey of Giacomelli's work ever published. Arranged in themes, each section is a testament to his highly personal, striking and artistically atmospheric visual style, demonstrating his life-long preoccupation with landscapes (emphasizing their linear and abstract patterns), rural townscapes, street scenes, still lifes, and portraits of everyday Italian life. With over 600 beautiful and poetic duotone photographs this extraordinary and inspiring collection displays a profound understanding of the photographer's country and its people, and a mastery of form and effect that make his photographs imaginative works of art in their own right."

	Ex Libris, Ralph Gibson 2001, Powerhouse Books 11.35" x 9", 144 pgs. List price: $40.00	"In this, Ralph Gibson’s 30th monograph, books themselves have become objects of fascination, examination, and veneration. From the early days of ancient Roman stone carvings to the revolutionary printing of the Gutenberg Bible through today’s explosion of information on the Internet, Ex Libris chronicles the written record, offering a new interpretation of the signs, letter forms, shapes, and images used to document human history. Features images from the world’s greatest book collections and libraries, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris; the British Museum; the New York Public Library; the Pierpont Morgan Library; and the Cairo Museum."
	Deus Ex Machina, Ralph Gibson 1999, Taschen America 7.8" x 5.73", 768 pgs. List price: $29.99
	Light Years, Ralph Gibson 1996, Edition Stemmle 12.5" x 9.75", 200 pp. (used copies available)
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	Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace, Martha A. Sandweiss 1986, Amon Carter Museum, 386 pgs. (out of print, used copies available)	"Laura Gilpin was a perfectionistic photographer. She would make several trips to capture a particular quality of sunlight on a mesa or a Navaho woman's face. Though she did not set out to document the Navahos' and Pueblos' endangered way of life, her sometimes romantic pictures of the American Southwest, its peoples and landscapes, form an enduring record of Indian culture, reflecting Native Americans' strong family ties and spiritual oneness with the land. Her photographs' formal perfection and deeply moving impact come through in 167 superb full-page reproductions in tritone, color and duotone. ..."

	Anthony Goicolea, Anthony Goicolea 2003, Twinn Palms Publication 9.25" x 13", 160 pp. List price: $60.00	"This fantastic new book from Twin Palms Publishers, with accompanying DVD of video-shorts, brings to a much broader audience the work of Brooklyn-based multi-media artist Goicolea. His work is entirely self-portraiture, presented in very carefully staged cinematic tableaux's in which he plays a host of characters. "Through digital manipulation, I am able to clone myself and create scenarios in which I act out childhood incidents such as fight scenes, first kisses, and deranged play dates. These works are simultaneously rooted in nostalgia and science fiction. While hinting at the past and early Freudian developmental stages of youth, they also refer to new medical and technological breakthroughs in fertility drugs and gene cloning with biting cynicism and humor."-Anthony Goicolea. The book itself is magnificent, as are all Twins Palms projects. The work is psychological and metaphorical at one and the same time, seamlessly presented."
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	The Devil's Playground, Nan Goldin 2003, Phaidon Press 12.2" x 9.24", 504 pgs. List price: $95.00	"This is a major collection of photographs by Nan Goldin, representing over 35 years' work. This significant body of work begins in the early 1970s with her "Dazzle Bag" portraits and her series of photographs on themes of maternity, family and landscapes. The book contains Goldin's new and recent photographs in narrative and thematic sequences such as "Landscapes", "Self-portraits", "Maternity, Heartbeat" (2001), "My French Family" (1999-2001) and "57 days" (2000), many of which are previously unpublished. It also contains some of the "drag queen" photos of the mid-1990s, the "Cookie Mueller" portfolio of 1989 and the "Ballad of Sexual Dependency" images from the 1980s. Goldin's early black-and-white photographs from the Boston years in the 1970s also form part of this substantial collection. Nan Goldin's photographs are intimate and compelling - they tell personal stories of relationships, friendships and identity, but at the same time chronicle different eras and the passage of time. Their subject matter ranges from drag queens and AIDS to the family, maternity and most recently, nature and landscapes. Laid out in chronological sequences by the artist, like a diary, the material is both candid and affirmative. In addition, a number of short essays are interspersed throughout the photographic sequences. Individually, these texts discuss different aspects or themes in Nan Goldin's work such as the narrative, love and gender politics, while also referencing particular works such as the "Ballad of Sexual Dependency" (1981-96). A conversation between the artist and Catherine Lampert, freelance curator, former director of the Whitechapel and close friend of Goldin, touches on the sources of her inspiration and her life as a prominent artist."
	I'll Be Your Mirror Nan Goldin 2002, Scalo Verlag 10.92" x 8.31", 492 pgs. List price: $55.00	" Based on an exhibition of the same title at the Whitney Museum of American Art this collection of more than 300 pictures documents the alternative culture of Nan Goldin's friends and acquaintances in the arty bohemian substrata of Manhattan. Goldin turns her camera outward to record transvestites carousing in downtown clubs and the social impact of AIDS and drugs; and inward to look with unblinking intimacy at her friends, her lovers of both sexes, and herself. She records her boyfriend masturbating. She shows him on the toilet. She shows her own battered face in a mirror after he beats her up. She traces the decline and death of her friend Cookie Mueller. Goldin has created a stark record of her urban demi-monde."
	The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Nan Goldin 2001, Aperture 9" x 10", 144 pgs. List price: $27.50	"The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is Nan Goldin's visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between fris and lovers collectively described as her "tribe." Goldin's work describes a world that is visceral, charged, and seething with desire. It charts the loss of innocence through the barrooms and parties at the social periphery of New York's East Village and through the harrowing worlds of drugs and prostitution."

	Goldbeck Eugene O. Goldbeck 1999 , Actar Editorial 7.44" x 10.56", 136 pgs. List price: $33.00 (reprint of the original 1986 edition)	Goldbeck died in 1986 after a long career producing commercial photographs from his San Antonio-based business, The National Photo Service. He documented some groups in their working or social environments; others he organized into formal patterns that he photographed from specially built towers. While studying the visual details, one can also reflect on the cultural aspects of time and place: for example, the captivating 1922 "Bathing Girl Revue," the disturbingly juxtaposed "Fred Beebe Rodeo riders and Ku Klux Klan drum and bugle corps," and the "living insignias" composed of thousands of military personnel. ...

	Hasselblad Award 2006, David Goldblatt 2007, Hatje Cantz 12" x 10¾" List price: $50.00	When David Goldblatt received the world-renowned Hasselblad Award in 2006, he had been making photographs of the South African landscape and culture for more than 50 years. More »
	Particulars, David Goldblatt 2004, Goodman Gallery Editions 14" x 15" List price: $350.00 order this book	The Goodman Gallery is proud to announce that the photographer David Goldblatt has just recently received the prestigious ‘Rencontres d’Arles Book Award’ for his book ‘Particulars’ which was published in 2003 by Goodman Gallery Editions and printed by the Scan Shop in Cape Town. The book award is one of five categories for the competition that was established in 2002. It has become the focal point of the annual Rencontres d’Arles festival. It is sponsored entirely by the Dakota Group. David is even more proud of this award as it was judged by an international panel comprising of world renowned photographers who have affirmed and celebrate his international status. - publisher Read more about this book.
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	Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth, Jock Reynolds, et al. 2002, Yale University Press 12.9" x 11", 164 pp. List price: $45.00	"Emmet Gowin has been taking aerial photographs of the landscape in the United States, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Asia, and the Middle East for over twenty years. In his most compelling photographs, one witnesses how man's footprint has visually scarred and continually altered the earth's surface. This extraordinary book, published in conjunction with the first major touring exhibition of Gowin's photographs in over ten years, focuses on images created after 1986. That was the year Gowin began to extend his aerial photography explorations in America by recording images of military test sites, missile silos, ammunition storage and disposal facilities, coal mining, pivot irrigation, offroad motor traffic, and more. The book also surveys his more recent works, which focus on other regions of the world, including the battlefields of Kuwait, new golf courses in Japan, and the chemo-petrol industries of the Czech Republic. Gowin's richly toned black-and-white images have been characterized as "immorally gorgeous," since at a distance even his most disturbing images can appear to be beautiful. In this exquisitely produced volume, Jock Reynolds provides an overview of Gowin's aerial photography and places it in the context of his earlier work and that of such photographers as Carleton Watkins, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, and Frederick Sommer. Philip Brookman illuminates Gowin's recent work in the Czech Republic, while Terry Tempest Williams discusses Gowin's images from the American West, especially his Nevada Test Site series."
	Emmet Gowin Photographs, Emmet Gowin 1991, Bulfinch 12.5" x 11.5", 127 pp. (used copies available)	"Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this handsome volume provides a retrospective look at the first 25 years of Emmet Gowin's artistic career. From his early (and continuing) series of intimate photographs of his wife, children, and extended family, on through his later landscape work-- including images of Mt. St. Helens, Ireland, and the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, as well as several stunning aerial photographs-- this mid-career monograph provides an exciting sampling of Gowin's work. The reproductions are excellent: each plate might easily be mistaken for an original print."
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	A Shimmer of Possibility, Paul Graham 2007, Steidl Mack 13" x 10", 360 pp List price: $250.00	Inspired by Chekhov's short stories-and by his own contagious joy in the book form-photographer Paul Graham has created A Shimmer of Possibility, comprised of 10 individual books, each a photographic short story of everyday life. More »
	New Europe, Paul Graham 2004, Cornerhouse /Photomuseum Winterthur 12.25" x 7.5", 111 pp. List price: $35.00	"This is the first U.S. release of this widely praised book. New Europe seeks to dig beneath the utopian dream of a united continent arising to face the dawn of the 21st century. Paul Graham's photographs reflect on the inescapable shadow of history that falls over each nation's conscience, from the dictatorships of Franco and Hitler, to the Holocaust and the Irish conflict. Thus burden is interwoven with a questioning of the banality of modern day consumption-led culture. Neither a narrative nor a conventional documentary, this body of photographs builds into a visual poem that resonates across the social and psychological landscape of Europe today." - 45 color illustartions Essay by Urs Stahel.
	American Night, Paul Graham 2003, Steidl 15" x 11.5", 128 pp. List price: 65.00	"Paul Graham's photographs touch upon the social fracture of America--the great divide between the included and excluded, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots. Taking on a simple topic, of late dealt with only through cliché photojournalism, American Night embraces neglected territory in a series of shocking images that sit on the fence between art and document. Graham's images blind and overwhelm the viewer with a feeling akin to stepping out of a sheltered place and into the sunlight. Drained of color, shadow and form, they resonate with the lives of those they portray...and then the sequence snaps, either to a vibrant full-color image of a freshly minted dream house, complete with a blue sky and green grass of unattainable perfection, or to an intensely dark street portrait...before returning to the endless blinding whiteness of everyday life. Beyond their paucity or wealth of color these images contrast one another in their content: These perfect homes are unobtainable to those walking in the burnt landscape; they are a mirage, a dream or promise that can almost never be reached. Here is the chasm between promise and actuality, hope and reality, dream and truth. Shot between 1998 and 2002 in locations across America, including Los Angeles, Memphis, Detroit, New York City and Atlanta." - 60 color illustrations Edited by Michael Mack.
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	Broken Spirits Eberhard Grames 1995, Edition Stemmele 12.25" x 10", 127 pgs. (out of print, used copies available order this book)	"Broken Spirits is the second volume of still lives by Eberhard Grames. Following the success of his fascinating color photographs in Muschelberz und Finkenschalg, this new book examines the world of things in classic black-and-white. In a decade in which only the big seems important, Eberhard Grames finds an incredible wealth in form and beauty in nature's smaller things. He observes these objects with the precision of a natural scientist through the lens of his 8 x 10 inch camera, bonding together things never before united and thus inventing stories we have never heard them tell before. Or does he only reveal the mysterious magic of things that is ordinarily kept hidden? ..." - from the book jacket A remarkable work by an ingenious photographer. This book is a stunning volume of Grames' creations. Superior reproductions. - Ed.
	Muschelberz und Finkenschalg, Eberhard Grames 1991, Stemmele 112 pgs.	This book is very rare and hard to find. Inquire for availability.
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	Open Wound. Chechnya 1994-2003, Stanley Green 2003, Trolley 9.7" x 11", 220 pp. List price: $59.95	"Chechnya re-iterated its largely Muslim claim to independence from Russia, one they had first made 150 years before. Then, of course, they had no knowledge of the importance of oil; they were peasants hurling clods against the cavalry of Imperialist Russia. They do now. A blitzkrieg was launched against the Chechens in 1994, so devastating as to reduce Grozny, the capital, to a city of rubble and rats, the Dresden of the Caucasus. There followed the systematic rape and murder of the people – men, women and children – by the Spetznatz, the Russian special forces. But the Chechens would not die. What is left in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, is a vision of hell in the eyes of the survivors - pictured by Stanley Greene - that seems impossible to contemplate. The horrific politics of Yeltsin and Putin are reasonably comprehensible, given their roles. But what do the mothers of the Russian soldiers who have done this to Chechnya feel now about their sons? Stanley Greene’s photographs in Open Wound are so powerful as to make these our responsibilities. He is unashamed to use guilt, with his painter’s eye, to relate the deeds of men in Chechnya to our own conduct." - from publisher
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	Breaking Bounds, The Dance Photography of Lois Greenfield Lois Greenfield 1992, Chronicle Books 11.25" x 10.75", 120 pgs. (used copies available)	Introduction by William A. Ewing Softbound editons available, list price: $24.95 "In this collection of photographs, made between 1982 and 1991, Lois Greenfield's revolutionary work captures the explosive energy and beauty of dancers' bodies in motion, as they present a powerful and elegant depiction of the human body in midair. 87 duotone photographs. 7 halftones."
	Airborne: The New Dance Photography of Lois Greenfield, Lois Greenfield 1998, Thames & Hudson 112 pgs. (used copies available)	Softbound editons available, list price: $22.95 1998, Chronicle Books. 10.41" x 10.47", 112 pgs. "All of the nearly 100 black-and-white photos in the book were shot in a studio with vacant backdrops so that the images sail forth unimpeded by background distractions. Greenfield offers short notes on many of the pictures that include information about the dancer as well as fascinating notes on how she achieved the image. Of one shot of three dancers seemingly pinned over each other and stuck like magnets to the same wall, she writes: "The dancers are running sequentially headlong into the wall. The first person is held up by the pressure of the second body. The third guy has to grab the top of the wall across the width of the two bodies. The moment I shot is when the outside man, Ned, just lets go from the wall."
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	Agent Orange: Collateral Damage in Vietnam, Philip Jone Griffiths 2003, Trolley 11.7" x 9", 174 pp. List price: $39.95	"Philip Jones Griffiths, for a record five years the President of Magnum Photos, created in Vietnam, Inc. a record of the war there of almost Biblical proportions. No one who has seen it will forget its haunting images. In Agent Orange he has added a postscript that is equally memorable. In 1960 the United States war machine concluded that an efficient deterrent to the enemy troops and civilians would be the devastation of the crops and forestry that afforded them both succour and cover for their operations. Initial descriptions of the scheme included "Food Denial Program", later adapted to "depriving cover for enemy troops". They gave the idea the name "Operation Hades", but were advised that "Operation Ranch Hand" was a more suitable cognomen for PR purposes. The US had developed herbicides for the task. The most infamous became known as Agent Orange after the coloured stripe on the canisters used to distribute it. The planes that carried the canisters had 'only we can prevent forests!' as a logo on their fuselages. They were right. It was very effective. Unfortunately the herbicide also contained Dioxin, probably the world's deadliest poison. In Agent Orange Philip Jones Griffiths has photographed the children and grandchildren of the farmers whose faces were lifted to the gentle rain of the poison cloud. Some maintain that the connection between the maimed subjects of Griffiths' photographs and the exposure to Agent Orange is not scientifically established. However, the compensation payments made by the herbicide manufactures to those Americans sprayed in Viet Nam refute this assertion. Historians will find it sufficient to say that there will always be collateral damage, that useful PR phrase, in war and that Philip Jones Griffiths should understand the consequences of martial endeavours. He most certainly does. He has catalogued here a pitiless series of photographs, and there can be no doubt that they should and will be recognized."

	Shaolin, Temple of Zen Justin Guariglia 2007, Aperture 9 ¾" x 10¾", 144 pp List price: $40.00	For the first time in history, the notoriously guarded warrior monks of the 1500-year-old Shaolin Temple-a Chinese Buddhist sect dedicated to preserving a form of kung fu known as the 'vehicle of Zen'-have allowed their secretive society to be documented. More about this book »
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	Andres Gursky 2008, Hatje Cantz 128 pp List price: $55.00	This publication surveys the artist's most recent creations, on display at the renowned Kunstmuseum Basel throughout the winter of 2007/2008. Two new groups of works in particular, one on Formula One races and the other on the famous Arirang Festival (a closely-choreographed mass spectacle in North Korea's capital of Pyongyang), are gathered here. More about this book »
	Andreas Gursky: Photographs from 1984 - the Present, Andreas Gursky 2001, te Neues Publishing Compnay 12.10" x 13.73", 132 pgs. List price: $75.00	"The first substantial monograph of Andreas Gursky’s work since 1984 this series of large-format color photographs depicts vast panoramic scenes: entire cityscapes, endless horizons, multi-floored office buildings, huge factory corridors and crowded public spaces. Taken from a distance, often with a bird’s eye view, they represent more than a set of photographs of various locations—rather Gursky’s work reflects both the art forms and the everyday aesthetics of 20th-century society. Many photographs are allegories, offering a cultural critique of man’s role in nature, technology, art and society. Other resemble abstract paintings, in which Gursky applies a number of formal elements, such as light, composition and form, to convey a mood or subtle message. In their size and scope, in their reflective mood and social commentary, and in their many layers of meaning and interpretation, these exquisitely reproduced portraits of interior and exterior spaces display the qua! lities that have made Andreas Gursky one of the most respected landscape photographers of his generation."
	Andreas Gursky, Andreas Gursky 2002, Museum of Modern Art 12.20" x 13.54", 196 pgs. List price: $65.00	Essay by Peter Galassi, Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry "The big, bold, seductive, and surprising color photographs of German photographer Andreas Gursky set forth a stunning image of our contemporary world of high-tech industry, international markets, big-time sports, fast-paced tourism, and slick commerce. Tracking the zeitgeist from his native Germany to such far-flung places as Hong Kong, Brasilia, Cairo, New York, Shanghai, Stockholm, Tokyo, Paris, Singapore, and Los Angeles, Gursky has earned acclaim at the leading edge of contemporary art with a polished signature style that draws upon a great diversity of ideas, precedents, and techniques. Created in collaboration with the artist, this oversize book surveys the fullness of his work to date with gorgeous colorplates, generous two-page details, and a wealth of supporting illustrations. The first in-depth study in English of Gursky's art, this book was published in conjunction with a major retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York."

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