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Ernst
Haas Color Photography
Ernst Haas
1989, Harry N Abrams
176 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available) |
"This
collection of 153 color photographs, taken between 1952 and Haas's
death in 1986, ranges in style and subject from depictions of the
abstract qualities of flattened cans, torn posters and road markings
to the documentation of a crowded Oktoberfest beer hall. Haas was
a pioneer and major figure in the field of color photography and
one-time president of the famed photo group, Magnum. Here, his blurred,
open-shutter images form action-impressions of bullfights, sporting
events and running horses. There are meticulous close-ups of flowers
and plants, swirls of lichen on a stone, geometric rooftop patterns
of a city, reflections in storefront windows, landscapes of the
American West, an unusual low-angle shot of Venetian gondolas in
front of the Doge's Palace and exotic photos of 1974 coronation
day celebrations in Bhutan. A short biography by Magnum member Bondi
and a selection of Haas's perceptive writings on photography are
a bonus." |
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Ernst
Haas in Black and White,
Ernst Haas
1992, Bulfinch
11.75" x 10.25", 143 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available) |
What most
distinguishes the photographs in this collection is the high regard
for humanity. Whether he was depicting a quiet moment or intense
action, Haas always couched his subjects in a lyrical, often poetic
style. Best known for the color photography that appeared in such
books as The Creation ( LJ 9/15/71), Haas was clearly a brilliant
photographer who relied upon his intuitive abilities to observe
and then capture key moments on film. His kind of photography cannot
be taught and really cannot be learned. He simply had the eye, the
disposition, and the native talent of a great artist. This large-format
book is beautifully printed on quality paper and is well worth the
price. |
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Philippe
Halsman's Jump Book,
Philippe Halsman
1986, Harry N Abrams (reprint edition)
11.13" x 8.74", 96 pgs.
List price: $14.95 |
A portrait
photographer for Life magazine in the 1950s, Halsman asked many
of his subjects to jump for his camera. Here are shots of 191 celebrities
in the air, ranging from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to John
Steinbeck. This edition also includes previously unpublished shots,
of Lucille Ball and Art Carney among others. A delightful exercise. |
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Philippe
Halsman: A Retrospective,
Philippe Halsman
1998, Bulfinch
13.32" x 10.58", 212 pgs.
List price: $75.00 |
"Photographs
of film celebrities try to reveal more than their movies do. Whether
looking surprised or carefully posed, celebrities have the visual
control of themselves and how they look down to a science. This
large, aggressive book of sometimes astonishing, sometimes quiet
photographs shows the generous archive of black-and-white celebrity
shots left to us by Philippe Halsman (1906 - 1979). Halsman brought
originality, respect, and confidence to his work. ..." |
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Dali's
Mustache
Philippe Halsman, Salvador Dali
1994, Flammarion
7" x 5.44", 128 pgs.
List price: $12.95 (Reprint) |
"Warning!
This book is preposterous," says the back cover. This collaboration
between the flamboyant Spanish painter and the Latvian-born portraitist
is also a surrealistic work of art. Halsman understood the extroverted
Dali better than any other photographer; their talents and personalities
were the perfect complement to each other. In the course of this
witty and inventive homage, the artist's celebrated whiskers tie
themselves in a knot, are pressed into service as a paintbrush,
become the hands of a clock and blemish the face of the Mona Lisa. |
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Progreso,
Charles Harbutt
1985, Actuality, Inc.
96 pgs.
List price: $35.00 |
Charles Harbutt
has been a New Photojournalist for some time, as Travelog,
his inner voyage through urban existence, made clear in 1973. Progreso,
about a town in the Yucatan, looks as if he began with a study in
journalistic formalism but was too enamored of life to give it up
for photography. Harbutt balances old means and new, traditional
and more contemporary attitudes; the result ... is solid, quiet,
and thoughtful. -- AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, July 1987 Vicki Goldberg |
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Travelog,
Charles Harbutt
1974, MIT Press
9" x 8", 110 plates
List price: $17.95 |
This is a
wonderful look at America from a very perceptive photographer. Harbutt
presents images of his world that are insightful while at the same
time juxtaposed with the irony of what he sees. |
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Divided
Soul,
David Alan Harvey
2003, Phaidon Press
9" x 13.5", 161 pp.
List price: $49.95 |
"Divided
Soul represents David Alan Harvey's twenty-year journey through
the Spanish and Portuguese diaspora. In this selection of more than
100 colour photographs Harvey explores the exuberance and incongruities
of Hispanic life and culture that hold for him an endless fascination.
Since the 1970s Harvey has photographed in Spain, Portugal and throughout
the New World, including Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Brazil and Chile.
A passionate and divided soul, where tradition and ritual are inherent
in everyday life, is revealed in these photographs of pulsating
carnivals in Trinidad, fervent religious ceremonies in Brazil, and
intense Easter parades in Puerto Rico. Harvey minimizes the distance
between himself and his subjects, producing images that capture
the natural choreography of people within places and that resonate
with magic." |
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Autoportraits,
Torsten Hattenkerl
2007 Fotohof Editions
13½" x 11", 86 pp
List price: $59.95 |
In a world of camera ubiquity and digital overload,
Torsten Hattenkerl’s Autoportraits are a refreshing
step forward for the European photographic tradition. More
about this book » |
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Road
Trips,
Timothy Hearsum
2001, Hearsum Editions
9" x 11.25", 25 color plates |
"There
is a long tradition in the arts of taking to the road to discover
something about one's own country. Writers, photographers and artists
have all set out, only to realize they have found themselves or,
more likely, some fundamental truths about humanity."-the photographer.
This accordion-fold book is an excellent vehicle to view the rich
color panoramic photographs of Timothy Hearsum whose work is at
once reflective and humorous. Santa Barbara, 2001." |
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Robert
Heinecken: A Material History,
Robert Heinecken
2003, Center for Creative Photography
11" x 10", 112 pp.
List price: $30.00 |
Essays by
Mark Alice Durant and Amy Rule.
"Over the last four decades, Robert Heinecken has amused, educated
and often shocked viewers with his pointed, irreverent photographic
works. So provocative are Heinecken's subjects and obsessions--the
Vietnam War, pornography, masculinity and femininity, the media
marketplace--that many critics and other observers rank either as
avid fans or staunch detractors. In recent years, the impact of
Heinecken's career within and beyond the world of photography has
been indisputable. His manipulations and iterations of mass-produced
imagery are echoed by artists as eclectic as Barbara Kruger, Cindy
Sherman, Richard Price and others. In today's media-saturated environment,
Heinecken's work with its wit, know-how, and focus on media materials,
is as relevant now as when he made it. The Robert Heinecken Archive
at the Center for Creative Photography, with its extensive collection
of fine prints, papers, support materials and random objects, provides
the inspiration for this reassessment. Robert Heinecken: A Material
History positions Heinecken less as a fringe element of photographic
practice and sensibility and more as a pioneer of the visual, helping
to integrate alternative methods as part of the canon." - 56
color, 29 duotone illustrations. |
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Robert
Heinecken: Photographist,
Robert Heinecken
1999, Museum of Contemporary Art
11" x 9", 176 pp.
List price: $34.95 |
"A photographic
innovator and conceptual artist, Robert Heinecken played an important
role in the development of contemporary art practice. That role
is critically assessed in this exhibition catalog, which accompanies
a major traveling retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago. This volume, the first comprehensive book on Heinecken
since 1980, illustrates all the major work in his thirty-year career,
and features essays by leading photography critic and historian
A.D. Coleman and exhibition curator Lynne Warren." |
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Roaming,
Todd Hido
2004, Nazraeli Press
14" x 11", 56 pp
List price: $65.00
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The work in Roaming appears arrestingly
different than that in Todd Hido’s previous two monographs.
It is as if, having spent so many nights outside the eerie, brightly
lit suburban tract homes featured in House Hunting and
Outskirts, he has suddenly put his foot on the gas pedal
and driven into the next day. But these landscapes continue Hido’s
mastery in portraying the most mundane scenes with a menacing air
of expectancy. These unpeopled pictures, often taken through a car
windshield, are so effective in creating tension they might almost
have been staged. But in fact they are taken “as seen”;
the telegraph poles, the straggling tree, the road leading nowhere
are all exactly as encountered by Hido as he drove through Eastern
Washington State, the California Central Valley, Indiana, South
Louisiana and beyond. - publisher |
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Florence
Henri: Artist Photographs of the Avant-Garde,
Diane C. DuPont
1992, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
9.5" X 12", 158pp
(used copies available) |
"Florence Henri's training was cutting-edge.
She studied painting in Paris with Fernand Leger and Andre Lhote.
She discovered photography at the Bauhaus, where her instructors
included Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. ..." |
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America
& Lewis Hine,
Lewis Hine
1997, Aperture
9.41" x 11/29", 142 pgs.
List price: $29.95 |
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Men
at Work,
Lewis Hine
1977, Dover Publications
10.74" x 8", 63 pgs.
List price: $9.95 |
Clasic photographs
by Hine. |
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Men
at Work Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines,
Lewis Hine
1990, Peter Smith Publication
11.25" x 8.50"
List price: $26.50 |
One of the
top 100 photography books. Originaly published in 1932 by The Macmillian
Company. |
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The
Empire State Building,
Lewis Hine
2001, Prestel USA
11.78" x 9.5", 104 pgs.
List price: $19.95 |
"Lewis
W. Hine's famous photographs document the construction of the Empire
State Building, the world's tallest building at that time. In the
brilliant black-and-white photographs collected in this volume,
Hine pays tribute to the human spirit by dramatically contrasting
the workers with the mammoth scale of the structure." |
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Women
at Work: 153 Photographs,
Lewis Hine
1982, Peter Smith
(out of print, used copies available) |
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David
Hockney Photographs,
David
Hockney
1985, Rizzoli
96 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available) |
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Cameraworks,
David Hockney
1984, Alfred A. Knopf
(out of print, used copies available) |
One
of the top 100 photography books. |
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GEGENDUM
Josef Hoflehner
2004, Josef Hoflehner
11.5"
x 11.75", 112 pp.
List price: $65.00 (49€)
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Hardcover, cloth binding in a black linen
slip case
(first edition, 1000 copies). |
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Frozen History - The Legacy
of Scott and Shackleton
Josef Hoflehner, Katharina Hoflehner
2003, Josef Hoflehner
9.5"
x 12", 288 pp.
List price: $100.00 (75€)
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At the turn of the twentieth century the
geographical South Pole was the object of one of the last great
races of discovery. This 'heroic age' of exploration is a chronicle
of hardship, courage, endurance and tragedy. It is a record of
men who overcame great odds and often their own fears and foibles
to reach the South Pole. The British names of Robert Falcon Scott
and Ernest Shackleton are writ large in the legend of this frozen
continent.
The 'heroic age' saw a number of British Antarctic
expeditions mounted and dozens of men risked their lives to conquer
the last great frontier on earth. These parties built substantial
wooden huts at locations accessible by ship and from these bases
the sledging parties left for the interior.
About one century after their construction, Josef
and Katharina Hoflehner present this premiere detailed portrayal
of these historic sites. Many of these fine photographs are accompanied
by excerpts from diaries gathered from Antarctic historic site
authority and author David L. Harrowfield. In his foreword he
wrote: “... for the first time a book now captures the true
feeling and uniqueness of the huts and their contents.”
- publisher
182 duo-tone photographs, english text,
printed by Stamperia Valdonega
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Eiko
Hosoe,
Eiko Hosoe
1999, Aperture
8.33" x 8.36", 96 pgs.
List price: $12.50 |
"Eikoh
Hosoe is an integral part of the history of the modern Japanese
photography. He remains a driving force in photography, not only
for his own work, but also as a teacher and as an ambassadorial
figure, fostering artistic exchange between Japan and the outside
world. His influence has been felt not only in his native country,
but throughout the international photographic community." -
Aperture |
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Ba-ra-kei:
Ordeal by Roses,
Yukio Mishimia, Eikoh Hosoe
2002, Aperture
14.72" x 10.24", 100 pgs.
List price: $45.00 |
Ba-ra-kei
is the fierce and lyrical testament of the legendary Japanese writer
Yukio Mishima, who shocked the world when he committed ritual suicide
in 1970. The year marked Japan's new economic confidence, and Mishima
accused the country of being "drunk with prosperity."
Many in Japan regarded the suicide as a sensational act. However,
with the publication of Mishima's final cycle of novels-conceived
eight years prior to his death-it was revealed that his suicide
was a carefully considered act, a gesture of historical implication
in accord with the morbid and esoteric aesthetic that pervades his
writing. Mishima's
elaborate and erotic psyche was captured nine years before his
death by master photographer Eikoh Hosoe. This collaboration resulted
in surreal photographs of Mishima taken in the baroque interior
of his home. The props that surround the writer are the antithesis
of the Japanese sensibility of understatement, alluding to Mishima's
dark, theatrical imagination. The images in Ba-ra-kei grant us
entry into the private world of an extraordinary subject. |
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The
Hyena & Other Men
Pieter Hugo
2008, Prestel
80
pp
List price: $49.95
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Many myths surround the 'Hyena Men' who haunt the
peripheries of Nigeria's cities. Accompanied by hyenas, rock pythons
and baboons, these men earn a living by performing before crowds
and selling traditional medicines. Pieter Hugo's extraordinary portraits
of their liminal existence reveal an uncanny world of complex, codependent
relationships, where familiar distinctions between dominance and
submission, wildness and domesticity, tradition and modernity are
constantly subverted.
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Japon,
Jean-Baptiste Huynh
2004, 5 Continents Editions
12" x 12", 104 pp.
List price: $49.95 |
"This
intimate portrait of the traditions and people of Japan reflects
the singular vision of French photographer Jean-Baptiste Huynh.
Including both portraits and still-lifes, the photographs offer
emotional insight that is revealed in both the faces of Japanese
men and women and in the environmental and symbolic images presented.
The simple, straightforward images, faces, objects, and landscapes
offer a poetic, timeless vision of Japan." |
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Mali,
Jean-Baptiste Huynh
2004, 5 Continents Editions
12" x 12", 104 pp.
List price: $49.95 |
"French
photographer Jean-Baptiste Huynh captures the texture of life in
Mali in this photographic collection. Still-life shots, symbolic
images, and portraits of rural life disclose a highly personal vision
of this Western African nation. Images such as an elderly woman
smiling and a child walking his goat demonstrate the beauty in common
moments." |
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Haas
Halsman
Harbutt
Harvey
Hattenkerl
Hearsum
Heinecken
Henri
Hido
Hine
Hockney
Hoflehner
Hosoe
Hugo
Huynh
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