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The listing here is alphabetical by the photographer's last name.

A B C D E F G H I J K L Ma Mo N O P Q R Sa Sk T U V W X Y Z

   
No Picture
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."
No Picture
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.
   
Jump
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 This edition also includes previously unpublished shots, of Lucille Ball and Art Carney among others.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.
Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective
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. ..."
 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.
 
 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
Travelog
 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.
   
Divided Soul
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."
   
Autoportraits, Hattenkerl
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 »
   
Road Trip
 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."
 
Robert Heinecken: A Material History
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.
Robert Heinecken: Photographist
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."
 
Roaming
Roaming,
Todd Hido
2004, Nazraeli Press
14" x 11", 56 pp
List price: $65.00
 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
   
Florence Henri: Artist Photographs of the Avant-Garde

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. ..."
 
 America & Lewis Hine,
Lewis Hine
1997, Aperture
9.41" x 11/29", 142 pgs.
List price: $29.95
 
Men at Work
Men at Work,
Lewis Hine
1977, Dover Publications
10.74" x 8", 63 pgs.
List price: $9.95
Clasic photographs by Hine.
No Picture
 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. 
Empire State Building
 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."
No Picture
 Women at Work: 153 Photographs,
Lewis Hine
1982, Peter Smith
(out of print, used copies available)
 
 
No Picture
David Hockney Photographs,
David Hockney
1985, Rizzoli
96 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available)
 
No Picture
 Cameraworks,
David Hockney
1984, Alfred A. Knopf
(out of print, used copies available)
 One of the top 100 photography books.
 
GEGENDUM
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).
Frozen History - The Legacy of Scott and Shackleton
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,
 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
 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.

   
Pieter Hugo

The Hyena & Other Men
Pieter Hugo
2008, Prestel
80 pp
List price: $49.95

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
 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."
Mali
 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."
     
   
A B C D E F G H I J K L Ma Mo N O P Q R Sa Sk T U V W X Y Z

 

Haas
Halsman
Harbutt
Harvey
Hattenkerl
Hearsum
Heinecken
Henri
Hido
Hine
Hockney
Hoflehner
Hosoe
Hugo
Huynh

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