Edited by Davide Faccioli.
In David LaChapelle land, Pee-Wee Herman is a Martian crash landed into a pastel suburb; L'il Kim becomes the ultimate status symbol, tattooed in the Louis Vuitton pattern; an elegant half-dressed woman wakes up in the untouched remains of an otherwise completely obliterated building; Madonna rises from pink waters as a mystical dragon princess; two women stand in a monochromatic red bathroom, one about to dig into the tub in which the other lies amidst pools of spaghetti; a woman and a horse carcass share a bed; Pamela Anderson hatches out of an egg; and Alexander McQueen burns down the castle dressed as the Queen of Hearts. It's all so much hyper-reality and fun park America gone surrealistically wrong--but in such an attractive way. - 36 color and 1 b & w

Dorothea Lange: Photographs os a Lifetime
Dorothea Lange
1998, Aperture
11.83" x 9.43", 184 pgs.
List price: $35.00

This collection of 100 stark pieces of Lange's work captures the lives of the hard-pressed from dustbowl farmers right out of The Grapes of Wrath to photos of Ireland and Egypt. The text also incorporates an essay by Harvard psychiatrist and social investigator Coles. Many of the photos are accompanied by excerpts from Lange's writings. - Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc

An American Exoduc: A Record of Human Erosion,
Dorothea Lange
1999, Jean Michel Place
10.02 x 7.3, 196 pgs.
List price: $35.00

First published in 1939, An American Exodus is one of the masterpieces of the documentary genre. Produced by incomparable documentary photographer Dorothea Lange with text by her husband, Paul Taylor, An American Exodus was taken in the early 1930s while the couple were working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) The book documents the rural poverty of the depression-era exodus that brought over 300,000 migrants to California in search of farm work, a westward mass migration driven by economic deprivation as opposed to the Manifest Destiny of 19th century pioneers. This facsimile edition of the original volume reintroduces this sought-after work of art-a pioneering book that was among the first to combine photographs with oral testimony-to a contemporary audience, providing an insight into the struggles of the Depression as well as offering a profound and timeless look at the human condition.

Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange,
Elizabeth Partridge, Dorethea Lange
1998, Viking Childrens Books
10.59" x 8.66", 128 pgs.
List price: $22.99

Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange includes over sixty of Lange's extraordinary photographs printed in high quality duotones, and chronicles Lange's life from her childhood on the Lower East Side of New York, through her early years as a portrait photographer in San Francisco, to her famous work for the government photographing starving migrant workers in California. Also included are her heart-breaking photographs of Japanese Americans interned on the West Coast during World War II. Author Elizabeth Partridge has woven Lange's own words into her book, creating not just another biography, but an intimate portrait of the artist who put faces on some of the darkest episodes in America's history. Restless Spirit presents a magnificent showcase of work that will not soon be forgotten. Dorothea Lange was Elizabeth Partridge's godmother and her father was Lange's photographic assistant in the 1930s.

 Hidden Depths—a collection of the finest stereo photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue
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1913. Jacques Henri Lartigue was only nineteen years old when he spent his first winter vacation in the Alps. Immediately captivated, he became a frequent visitor to the increasingly fashionable resorts of Chamonix, Megève, and Saint Moritz. The photographs that he took there are full of the adolescent wonderment that he was to maintain all his life. The exhilaration at being in the mountains and the awe inspired by the ethereal scenery of snowcapped summits are difficult to contain. Lartigue was overcome by the "dazzle of colorless light" that surrounded him: "I am in the negative of night!" he wrote in his journal at the time. ...
Beautifully reproduced in duo-tone, this collection of winter photographs, the majority of which are published here for the first time, reiterate Lartigue's positon as one of the great masters of twentieth-century photography.

Lartigue's Riviera,
Jazques-Henri Lartigue
1997, Flammarion
11.38" x 9.46", 144 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available)

Jacques Henri Lartigue, Photographer
Vicki Goldberg
1998, Bulfinch
11.25" x 12", 288 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available)

The Personal Eye,
Clarence John Laughlin
1973, Aperture
(out of print, used copies available)

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AMERICAN MUSIC includes a commentary about the American Music project by Leibovitz, short essays by musicians Patti Smith, Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, Mos Def, Ryan Adams, and Beck as well as biographical sketches of all the musicians.

Preface by Larisa Dryansky
Exhibition catalogue - color illustrations
Language: French / English

Dancers (Photograpgers at Work)
Annie Leibovitz
1992, Smithsonia Institution Press
9.75" x 8.25", 60 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available)

From sports to politics and from celebrities to celebrations, Neil Leifer has traversed the world since 1960, capturing major events for Sports Illustrated, Time, Life, Newsweek, and other leading publications. His artistry, composition, and unerring instinct for photographing just the right moment are evident in the memorable pictures included here. Among his best-known images are a triumphant Muhammed Ali defeating Sonny Liston, thought to be the best sports picture of all time; a dazzling Kristi Yamaguchi in midair on her way to Olympic gold; Michael "air" Jordan slam-dunking; and countless other sports superstars. For decades Leifer has attended premier sports events, and the photographs he has taken at them allow us to have ringside seats at many of the most exciting competitions of the last half of the 20th century.

But as this collection amply displays, Leifer also offers awesome views of many non-sporting subjects, including popes, presidents, prisoners, African wildlife, aircraft carriers, and Hollywood celebrities. Accompanying the images are Leifer's lively, anecdotal accounts of the events and personalities he has photographed, as well as an insightful introduction by George Plimpton. Filled with familiar faces, extraordinary events, and evocative scenes, this mesmerizing book will be a prized gift for anyone interested in sports or great photography." - 173 illustrations, 139 in full color.

'If ever anyone was born to be a photographer, Helen Levitt was. Looking at these pictures triggers that tingling feeling you get from photographs by artists like Lartigue, Kertész and Cartier-Bresson: a feeling that the camera is less an expertly operated tool than the seamless extension of mind and body that are preternaturally alert to the world.' - The New York Times

In the Street, Chalk Drawings and Messages, New York, 1938-1948
Helen Levitt
1987, Duke University Press
11" x 9", 105 pgs.
List price: $29.95

The evidence of these photographs is terrifying in its implication while at same time profoundly disconcerting as a spectacle. The visual grandeur of such imagery is balanced by the chilling facts provided at the end of the book in the detailed captions, a chronology of the development of nuclear weaponry and an extensive bibliography. A dramatic sequel to Michael Light’s Full Moon, 100 Suns forms an unprecedented historical document.

Transient is the first glimpse of an idea Linke has pursued for the last decade: a project he calls "flights," for which he has produced thousands of images. This volume presents the first look at what may be a photographic masterpiece, a significant selection of 200 "local" photographs that taken together are a full 360-degree interpretation of the profound, accelerating alteration our world is undergoing."

Herbert List: Junge Manner
Herbert List
1989, Twin Palms Publication
14.25" x 11.25", 112pgs.
List price: $60.00

During 1929, Herbert List began to photograph the young men he knew and traveled with throughout Greece, Italy, and Germany. He captured the innocence of their beauty and physical prowess before Hitler’s politics commandeered those qualities for his own bleak purposes. The relationship, in List’s mind, of these young men to Greek statues is emphasized by the occasional juxtaposition of nude or semi-nude figures with fragments of Greek statues.

"Every day, thousands of young Asian women go to work in the sex industry, a marketplace where any desire can be satisfied for a price - despite the fact that many Asian countries are repressive to the point of banning certain standard sexual practices. For six years, Asian-American photographer Reagan Louie journeyed through this sexual underworld, visiting nearly a dozen countries including Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Vietnam, Tibet, Thailand, and Japan, among others, photographing the day-to-day lives of women who, either by choice or by necessity, exchange their bodies for money. Orientalia: Sex In Asia reveals the concealed, yet readily available industry that thrives by fulfilling fantasy. From Thai sex emporiums and Japanese images clubs to Philippine dance halls and Taiwanese betel nut stands, Louie's travels through this undergroung subculture expose a world where the mythical archetypes of female Asian sexuality - from the submissive Madame Butterfly to the dominating Dragon Lady - are maintained. The women depicted here are at times seductive and playful, entertaining their clients with sex, massages, or simple companionship; but they can also be desperately sad or indifferent as they finish with one client and pass hours before their next encounter. At once alluring and unsettling, intimate and acute, Orientalia also features Louie's narrative of his journeys, revealing the context in which these photographs were shot, and providing further insight into this exotic, sometimes erotic, and far from quixotic industry." publisher - 126 full color photographs.

Catalogue of the exhibition presented in the gallery Kamel Mennour during the summer 2003. Here are presented the following works: The Bikeriders 1962-1966 and Indian Nations 1997-2002. - 40 black-and-white illustrations