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Yousuf Karsh 2009,
David R. Godine
192 pp
List price: $50.00
Yousuf Karsh's life-long ambition was to search
for a form within a face, one that could become a symbol for a life
that was purposeful, meaningful, and generally virtuous. 'I speak
with some experience when I say that I have rarely left the company
of accomplished men and women without feeling that they had in them
real sincerity, integrity – yes, and sometimes vanity of course
– and always a sense of high purpose.' In his sixty-year career,
he seldom wavered from this goal, even when fame and fortune came
his way. More »
Yousuf Karsh is acknowledged to be the twentieth
century's leading portrait photographer. His iconic images of
Bogart, Hemingway, Churchill, the Kennedys, Auden, Castro, Einstein,
the Clintons, Khrushchev, Casals, and Elizabeth II inhabit the
mind's eye of anyone familiar with photographic history. A refugee
from the ethnic cleansing of Turkish Armenians in 1916, Karsh
made his home in Boston and Ottawa but travelled the globe during
his sixty-year career, photographing political leaders, celebrities,
monarchs, and movie stars. He died in 2002, aged 94. He left a
legacy of 50,000 portraits. Read more »
Foreword
by Malcolm Rogers, 150 duotone plates - soft bound.
Karsh: A Biography In Images is a full revision of the 1996
60-year retrospective of his work and brings that popular catalogue
back into print in an affordable paperback format. This new edition
covers the photographer's career with greater breadth than its
previous incarnation, adding works from his early experiments
and his photojournalism commissions in Canada. Karsh's reputation
as one of the most sought-after portrait photographers of the
20th century is well established. A roll call of his subjects
is a veritable who's who of the modern age--Winston Churchill,
Jacqueline Kennedy, Pablo Picasso, Walt Disney, Elizabeth Taylor
and Albert Einstein, to name just a few--and this book features
many of these figures, in some of the most recognized images of
our time. But added to the portraits are a number of lesser-known
or previously unpublished photographs--early figure studies, atmospheric
views of the Ottawa theatre and scenes of wheat fields, city streets
and factories across Canada. With its long autobiographical essay
and extensive captions for each photo, many of them new to this
edition, Karsh: A Biography In Images is both an elegant
celebration and an indispensable overview of a life lived in photography.
"This
is the first book about the pioneering photographer Gertrude Kasebier
(1852-1934). In middle age, with three grown children, she began
to study painting and photography, set up a portrait studio on
New York's Fifth Avenue, and became one of the finest and best-known
portraitists and photographic artists of her day. 116 illustrations."
"In 1953,
Peter Keetman spent a week at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg.
The result was a series of exceptionally clear, almost abstractly
detailed photographs that document the entire production process
of the VW Beetle. Storage stacks of shiny metal bumpers look like
so many modernist sculptures; car bodies hovering above the assembly
line retrospectively form a surreal Pop Art montage. This oversize
publication reproduces the Volkswagenwerk series in full, in their
original size, together with texts that refer both to this series
and to Keetman's greater oeuvre. Keetman was known throughout his
career as photographer of systemically conceived picture series
on themes that included close-ups of water and oil drops, a style
of working he developed as a member of Fotoform. Fotoform, a German
movement of the 1950s of which Keetman was a primary proponent,
was critical in the development of German photography as it is today:
the group's "subjective photography" combined scientific
objectivity with abstraction." - 90 duotone.
For the lover of Volkswagens, photography, or
both, this elegant little book includes many wonderful photographs
that document aspects of a Volkswagen Beetle factory. The black-and-white
photographs are rich in formal and journalistic integrity.
Essays by Armin Kley, Dirk Nishen, and Rolf
Sachsse
Seydou
Keita, Seydou
Keita
1997, Scalo Verlag
11.75" x 9/75", 288 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available)
"What
began as simple curiosity blossomed into an object of national pride;
when Seydou Keita bought a camera to take pictures of his family,
neighbors assumed his services were for hire and enlisted him to
take portraits of themselves and their homes, turning a carpenter
into a photographer and a hobby into artistic expression. In such
a way did the self-taught Keita become the official photographer
of Mali from 1962 to 1977, based almost solely on his impeccable
reputation for quality and originality that developed by word of
mouth. This stunning collection of 206 black-and white-portraits
illustrates Keita's pride in his country and his gift for capturing
the personalities of his subjects. His aim was to create the most
natural settings and poses for the people in front of the lens,
putting them at ease and gently nudging them into surrendering their
inhibitions. Keita utilized a wide variety of props to further this
goal, including bicycles, telephones, radios, and musical instruments.
He also kept a variety of clothing on hand--both traditional and
European--to help his subjects achieve a desired look or style.
What comes across most clearly in these photos is the beauty of
the people; Keita brilliantly exposes their essence by focusing
on their images."
Ozymandias,
Thomas Kellner
2003, Ffotogallery
10" x 13.75", 64 pp.
List price: $45.50 Order this book
Essay by A.D. Coleman
24 color illustrations Ozymandias, the 64 page, full colour publication is Thomas
Kellner’s second monograph and includes an illuminating text
by A.D. Coleman, one of the most influential and imaginative international
writers on photography. In his essay, Structure Implies and
Movement Possesses, Coleman finds precedents in popular culture
which parallel the comedy of Kellner’s playful works, and
in a much more sinister context, considers the artist’s work
against the backdrop of the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York.
- publisher Read more about this book
Spomeniks
Jan Kempanaers
2010, Roma Publications
List price: $40.00
During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War – called 'Spomeniks' – were built throughout the former Yugoslavia; striking monumental sculptures, with an angular geometry echoing the shapes of flowers, crystals, and macro-views of viruses or DNA. More »
A beautifully designed monograph surveying the works of the highly acclaimed contemporary photographer. Kenna’s photographs captivate viewers through their silent drama and magnetism: rather than being accurate descriptions of a place, the photographer seems interested in capturing the invisible lines which enclose space, and in so doing arousing a viewer’s imagination and reverie. More »
Venezia
Michael Kenna
2010,
Nazraeli Press
12" x 13", 64
pp List price: $75.00
This beautifully produced book brings together
a collection of haunting images quietly made by Michael Kenna over
the last 30 years, many of which are published here for the first
time. Arguably the most influential photographer of his generation,
Michael Kenna is the subject of over 35 monographs. More
»
Retrospective
Michael Kenna
2009, Bibliotheque Nationale de France
10" x 12¼", 231
pp
List price: $85.00
This book, which accompanies a major exhibition
at the Bibliotheque nationale de France, shines new light on the
work of the English photographer Michael Kenna. More
»
Mont
St. Michel Michael Kenna
2007, Nazraeli Press
8"
x 12", 84 pp List price: $75.00
The small tidal island of Mont St Michel is situated
just off the Normandy coast, connected to the mainland by a single
causeway. Its abbey rises like a mirage, high above the sea, on
this craggy, rocky perch. It is a spectacular sight, and one that
Kenna has been drawn to many times over the years. More
about this book »
Published as a companion book to the artist’s
Twenty Year Retrospective, Michael Kenna: Retrospective
Two presents an overview of Kenna’s landscape photographs
made between 1994 and 2004. ... - publisher Read
more about this book
Ratcliffe
Power Station
Michael Kenna
2004, Nazraeli Press
12" x 13", 64 pp.
List price: $65.00
... The Ratcliffe photographs take on
the tonal quality of a partially lit ecosphere unique to the photographer
and his subject. A brilliant manipulator of half-light, Kenna’s
grainy, spatial topography epitomizes the gray skies of Northern
England that were the ubiquitous backdrop to his childhood. Kenna’s
Ratcliffe photographs create the impression of an atmospherically
foggy day, registering the homeostasis of a mood that is a dominant
characteristic of his work. Beautifully printed in duotone on
matt art paper, Ratcliffe Power Station is published
in a first edition of 3,000 copies. - publisher Read
more about this book
Calais
Lace
Michael Kenna
2003, Nazraeli Press
12" x 10", 92 pp.
L ist price: $60.00
"Since
1993 Michael Kenna has visited Calais many times and wandered at
length throughout the town, photographing its urban landscapes and
its proud industrious heart: the lace factories. On his first visit
he met Annette Haudiquet, then head curator of the Musée
des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle. It was during this meeting that
the idea for the book Calais Lace, and the exhibition it
accompanies, was born. Pursuing the memories that still haunt the
old laceworks of Calais, Michael Kenna’s photographs capture
a past deeply ingrained in the life of this town. The artist’s
own childhood in a working-class neighbourhood near Liverpool, together
with his work on the Lancashire and Yorkshire cotton mills, led
him to develop a language specific to a geography of disaster, the
poetics of working-class escapism and the outdoors as a refuge.
In Calais Lace, Kenna capture’s the spirit of this
town and marks out the character-traits of a hardworking people."
- publisher - 52
duotone plates.
Le
Notre's Gardens
Michael Kenna
1999, Ram Publications
11" x 10.25", 80 pgs.
List price: $49.95
"The
gardens of Andre Le Ntre shore up the essential configurations of
seventeenth-century French aesthetics. Michael Kenna approaches
these landscapes with fresh insight that carries the viewer into
an elegant world of pure light, form, and line, while following
the aesthetic discipline of Le Ntre's gardens. From the legendary
Versailles to the newly added Fountainebleu, Kenna explores the
ten most important gardens credited to the brilliance of Andre Le
Ntre."
Nightwork, Michael Kenna
2000, Nazraeli Press
12.5" x 12", 96 pgs.
List price: $100.00
"Kenna
has more than mastered the technical aspects of night photography.
His photographs are well crafted, beautiful images which both engage
and challenge the viewer with their poetic sensuality and psychological
tension. Through his photographs, Kenna shows us locations that
may be familiar by day and transforms them into evocative and mysterious
places."
Taken from the preface by Deborah Klochko
Reprint
of the 1994 edition.
Essay by Peter C. Bunnell, Introduction by Ruth Bernhard
"Looking at Michael Kenna's photographs, one is struck
by how he manages to imbue the familiar, natural world with
a deepend harmony that invites meditation. His photography is
a balanced art, not in the sense that it is stabilized or moderate
in its effects, but that opposed qualities are joined in a scrupulously
controlled performance." Taken from an essay by Peter C.
Bunnell
Note: New
edition now available.
Japan,
Michael
Kenna
2003, Nazraeli Press
12.6" x 11"81", 108 pgs.
List price: $75.00
Introduction
by Kohtaro Iizawa, 96 tritone plates.
"Michael Kenna’s photographs have long inspired words
such as mysterious, elegant, and hauntingly beautiful –
adjectives that likewise describe the Japanese landscape. The
photographs in Kenna’s important new monograph, Japan,
are the result of an ideal pairing of artist and subject. Kenna
has had a large following in Japan ever since his first exhibition
there in 1987. His many subsequent exhibitions and publications
in Japan have provided him with ample opportunities to visit and
photograph. During the past several years, as this project began
to take shape, Kenna’s trips became more frequent and intense.
The resulting images are stunning. Superbly printed in tritone,
Japan is hardbound in red cloth and presented in a Japanese
folding slipcase."
Text in Japanese and English by Kotaro Iizawa. Publication coincides
with a series of exhibitions in the US and Japan. -- Note: 2nd
edition now available.
Easter
Island, Michael Kenna
2002, Nazraeli Press
12.5" x 11.65"
List price: $60.00
Michael
Kenna has photographed Easter Island over a period of two years,
creating a powerful new body of work which pays homage to the
beauty of the island and the continuing mystery of its past. Kenna
selected forty images from this project for publication in Easter
Island.
Still
Robb Kendrick
2008,
University Of Texas Press
7¾ x 9¾",
232 pp
List price: $50.00
The cowboy may well be the quintessential American
icon. Robb Kendrick has been photographing cowboys for twenty-five
years, creating a magnificent artistic record that recalls the work
of earlier photographers such as Edward S. Curtis, whose portraits
of Native Americans have become classics. Kendrick even uses an
early photographic process—tintype—to create one-of-a-kind
photographs whose nineteenth-century appearance underscores how
little twenty-first-century cowboys' ways of working and types of
gear and dress have changed since the first cowboy photographs were
made more than a century ago. Read
more »
Antarctica, Explorer Series
Vol. 1,
Pat and Rosemarie Keough
2003, Nahanni Productions
17.25" x 13.5", 336 pp.
List price: $3,000.00 order this book
"Pat and Rosemarie Keough's Antarctic
photographs comprise one of the most stunning and diverse portfolios
ever assembled about this great white continent. The variety of
their imagery encompasses wildlife, landscapes, abstract patterns
in nature and touches of man from the 'heroic era' through the heyday
of whaling to the present." ... publisher Read more about this book
Fantasies
Lisa Kereszi
2008,
Damiani
11" x 9½",
96 pp
List price: $45.00
When Rudolph Giuliani's administration cracked
down on Times Square strip clubs in the 1990s, a whole new burlesque
movement was born in New York, concentrating less on the strip
and more on the tease. The young New York photographer Lisa Kereszi,
then an assistant to Nan Goldin, was there with her camera to
catch it all happening. She began by shooting Show World, a club
that was in the process of being closed down by the new laws.
... More about this book
»
" Andre
Kertesz (1894-1985), was a highly original artist. Eschewing the
dogma of schools and movements, he was guided only by his intuition,
drawing on his private life for inspiration. His quest for authenticity
led to the invention of an innovative visual language."
Andre
Kertesz Laszlo Pierre, Beke Borhan
2000, Bulfinch
10.72" x 8.47", 368 pgs.
List price: $29.00
"This
important monograph is the first paperback to present a complete
overview of the work of Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz (1894-1985),
one of the undisputed masters of modern photography. Originally
published in hardcover format in 1994, it is now in an affordable
paperback edition. Author Pierre Borhan covers three essential periods
of Kertesz's work: Hungary (1912-1925), France (1925-1936), and
the United States (1936-1985). A full section is devoted to his
famous "distortions" and another to his color works. Each
section is prefaced by a critical text written by an international
specialist. This stunning book is a work of reference and a valuable
source of information, but it is also a dramatic and luxurious tribute
to one of the masters of twentieth-century photography."
Seacoal
Chris Killip
2011, Stedl
List price: $58.00
Chris Killip began photographing the people of Lynemouth seacoal beach in the north east of England in 1982, after nearly seven years of failed efforts to obtain their consent. During 1983 to 1984 he lived in a caravan on the seacoal camp and documented the life, work and the struggle to survive on the beach, using his unflinching style of objective documentation. More »
Here
Comes Everybody
Chris Killip
2009, Thames & Hudson
13" x 9½ ", 96 pp
List price: $65.00
Chris Killip is one of the most influential photographers,
curators, and teachers to come out of the United Kingdom. His images
of the northeast of England in the late 1970s and 1980s powerfully
evoke the human disaster of de-industrialization and Thatcherism.
They formed part of a body of work by a generation of photographers
including Paul Graham and Martin Parr that firmly established documentary
photography within an artistic context. More
»
Paris
+ Klein,
William Klein
2003, Distributed Art Publishers
13.68" x 9.98", 346 pgs.
List price: $75.00
"William
Klein always dreamed of living in Paris, like Henry Miller, Gertrude
Stein, and other like-minded artists and writers. In 1948, stationed
by the United States Army in Paris, he stayed--and fled his family
and America to become a painter. He quickly found another family
and recognition for his talent. Today, one is tempted, like critic
Anthony Lane, to say that he is "the American in Paris."
PARIS + KLEIN gathers together hundreds of photographs shot by
Klein from the time he first picked up a camera in the 1960s until
he put it down, momentarily, to put together this book. In his
signature color and black-and-white compositions, jostled to the
brim with more information than a single camera lens was ever
expected to take in, we find: men in the street, celebrities,
demonstrations, fashion, the police, politics, races, the métro,
soccer, death. . .The whole life of a capital seen through the
lively, acidic, melancholic, humorous, ironical, and moving eyes
of William Klein."
New
York, 1954-1955, William Klein
1996, Distributed Art Publishers
13.5" x 10.25" ,254 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available)
In 1954
Klein returned to the city of his youth after living the life of
a painter in Paris since the end of World War II. Vogue art director
Alexander Liberman had agreed to pay him to photograph the city
for a few months, though he was almost totally lacking in knowledge
of or experience with a camera. The result was a collection of exuberant,
cinematic images of the city's people and neighborhoods-by Klein's
own description "pseudo-ethnography, parody, and Dada"-that
Conde Nast never saw fit to publish. Reminiscent of Weegee in their
grittiness, but with more humor and less sensationalism, and of
Robert Frank in their unity of personal vision but not as bleak,
the photographs are as vibrant today as when they were taken. Klein
did publish a collection of these photos in Paris in 1956 in a book
that is now a much-sought-after collector's item, but the man who
went on to become a successful fashion and documentary photographer
never saw this unique series widely exhibited or published in his
home country-until now. - Eric Bryant, "Library Journal",
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Saguoros,
Mark Klett
2007,
Radius Books
15" x 12" 75pp
List price: $80.00
Mark Klett has been photographing the deserts of
the American West, in particular the beauties of the Sonoran landscape-a
desert that sprawls across southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
Along with coyotes and tumbleweeds, saguaro cacti are one of the
most recognizable (and stereotypical) features of this region. More
»
Third
Views, Second Sights,
Mark Klett
2004, Museum of New Mexico Press
11.5" x 8.75", 256 pp
List price: $60.00
Interactive CD included Third Views, Second Sights presents forty-three pairings
from the third survey, documenting two periods of geologic and
environmental changes while exploring changing human perceptions
of landscape. Read more about
this book
Koudelka
Piedmont,
Josef Koudelka
2010, Contrasto
List price: $49.00
“If humans are largely absent from (Josef
Koudelka's) pictures, it is because the main protagonist is the
land itself. In some of his images, the construction sites appear
as if they had been abandoned after some catastrophic event such
as the one inferred by Cormac McCarthy in his masterpiece The Road.
It is almost as if Koudelka, through his camera lens, had already
seen nature slowly beginning to heal its wounds by reclaiming what
humans have taken away from it.”—Giuseppe Culicchia
More »
Invasion
68, Prague,
Josef Koudelka
2008, Aperture
9½ x 12½", 296
pp
List price: $60.00
In 1968, Josef Koudelka was a thirty-year-old
acclaimed theater photographer who never photographed a news event.
That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks
invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political liberalization
in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as the Prague Spring.
More »
Theatre
du Temps,
Josef Koudelka
2003, ACTES SUD
8.75" x 11.75", 56 pp.
List price: $120.00
(inquire about availability)
"The
legendary Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka has just added another
volume of terrific panoramic photographs to his bibliography. Koudelka,
who was born in Moravia (within the Czech Republic) in 1938, first
won international acclaim for his poignant b&w studies of gypsy
communities in the 1960s. His surreptitious documentation of the
invasion of Prague by Warsaw Pact armies set him apart, and ultimately
got him into the prestigious Magnum Agency. For years now he has
been working with a panoramic camera, slowly putting out stunning
images that often finding their way into books of limited availability.
Theatre du Temps contains a mere 25 images, gorgeously printed,
of work made in Rome over the past three years."
The
Exiles, Josef Koudelka
1997, Thames and Hudson
10.5" x 11.72", 156 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available)
Essay by Robert
Delpire
This collection of pictures by an acknowledged master of photography,
now updated to include 11 new images, forms a document of the spiritual
and physical state of exile. The sense of private mystery that fills
these photographs - mostly taken during Koudelka's many years of
wandering through Europe and the United States since leaving his
native Czechoslovakia - speaks of passion and reserve, of his "rage
to see". The images here interrogate and penetrate, and reflect
the nature of alienation. The accompanying essay by Robert Delpire
invokes the soul of man in search of a spiritual homeland.
Josef
Koudelka,
Josef Koudelka
2002, Torst
7" x 6.44", 188 pgs.
List price: $17.95
Essay by Anna
Farova
"Known for his highly formalized, sensitive images of the vestiges
of gypsy life, Czech photographer Josef Koudelka has been traveling
the world since 1962, living as his subjects do, and documenting
their communities in Eastern Europe, England, Ireland, France, and
Spain. Focusing on the rituals of everyday life, on birth, marriage,
and death, he has produced years of work, including the cycles reproduced
here."—the publisher
Chaos,
Josef Koudelka
1999, Phaidon Press
11.9" x 16.95", 112 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available)
Published
to coincide with an exhibition of Josef Koudelka's work, this volume
presents the photographs he has taken using a panoramic format camera
over a 12 year period.
Gypsies,
Josef Koudelka
1992, Aperture
12.25" x 11.25", 133 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available)
Afterword
by Willy Guy, 60 duotone photographs
"The photographer Josef Koudelka is as nomadic and unpredictable
as the Gypsies whose existence he has brilliantly chronicled."
"A
step-by-step visual guide with Krim's mother as the bare-breasted
cook." - 28
sepia photos
FICTCRYPTOKRIMS-OGRAPHS,
Les Krims
1975, Humpy Press
6.5" x 6", 50 pp.
(inquire for availability)
Introduction
by Hollis Frampton
Krims stages his pictures of nude models in a variety of settings
and situations, photographs them using a SX-70 Polaroid camera.
He then manipulates the images to exaggerate his surreal perceptions.
- 40 color illustrations.
The
Little People of America 1971,
Les Krims
1972, Self Published
6" x 5.5"
(inquire for availability)
Introduction
by A.D. Coleman.
" ... Krims, who is the official photographer for the L.P.A.
(Little Poeple of America), describes its membership as "the
ultimate minority." The organization's choice of Krims, for
the purpose of creating this document, indicates a trust of the
photographer which I do not think has been broken. I find these
images to be basically sympathetic." - from the introduction
by A.D. Coleman - Boxed set of 24 sepia prints.
The
Incredible Case Of The Stack O'Wheats Murders,
Les Krims
1972, Self Published
5.5" x 6" (inquire for availability)
"Krims'
photographs in The Incredible Case of the Stack O'Wheats Murders"
may not approach the quintessence of Clair's or Mortensen's, but
by the addition of humor, their literary tropes and their visual
delicacy are that much richer and more exquisite." - Robert
A. Sobieszek - Boxed
set of 10 sepia prints.
Germain
Krull: Photographer of Modernity
Kim Sichel
1999, MIT Press
12.43" x 9.88", 363 pgs.
List price: $65.00
"Krull
refused to limit herself to one long-term relationship, one geographical
region, or one set of religious and moral beliefs. Contemporary
critics ranked her with Man Ray and André Kertesz. Younger
photographers such as Berenice Abbott looked up to her. Yet until
recently the absence of an archive has made a proper evaluation
of Krull's contribution to photography and to modernism difficult
if not impossible. In this book Sichel examines Krull's autobiographical
texts and photographic oeuvre to present and unravel the rich mythology
that Krull fabricated around her life and work. The chapters follow
the geographical and chronological sequence of Krull's life, moving
from Munich to Moscow to Berlin to Amsterdam to Paris to Brazil
to Africa to Bangkok and other locations. This book, which accompanies
the first major retrospective exhibition on Krull, should secure
Krull's rightful place among the masters of twentieth-century photography."
Native
Mona Kuhn
2009, Steidl Photography International
Hardbound,
11½" x 12¼", 88
pp
List price: $55.00
“This work started as a personal journey.
Metaphorically, I was thinking of a bird that flies back into
the forest, searching for its childhood nest. The images here
are a creation of my abstracted wishes and dreams. As I was searching,
instead of home, I found an empty past, just traces of it. Yet,
my journey was filled with new friendships and discoveries made
along the way,” writes Los Angeles-based photographer Mona
Kuhn about her journey back to her native Brazil after 20 years.
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Mona
Kuhn Photographs,
Mona Kuhn
2004, Steidl Publishing
10.5" x 11.25", 108 pp.
List price: $50.00
The people in Mona Kuhn's photographs are nude
but not naked. Completely relaxed before the camera, they give the
impression that nothing could clothe them better than their own
skin. With a unique style, Kuhn's intimate photographs of both young
and old are sensual compositions of skin and wrinkles, light and
shadow, gestures and gazes. She creates taughtly composed images
and balance sharply rendered portraits against blurred backgrounds
to lure the eye and provoke the imagination.
