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The books in this section are monographs by individual photographers. The books are available through our association with Amazon.com If you are interested in a book that is not available through Amazon.com, we most likely have an alternative source or a copy in our collection that you may inquire about.
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The listing here is alphabetical by the photographer's last name.

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	The Lewis & Clark Trail, Richard Mack 2005, Quiet Light Publishing 13" x 11", 256 pp	Photographer Richard Mack has brought the vistas and majesty of the Lewis & Clark Trail to life in a magnificent set of 248 color photographs. Richard spent two years visiting key locations along the Lewis & Clark Trail – by plane, auto, and on foot – shooting specific locations at the same time of year as was originally experienced. The result is an extraordinary set of images capturing the incredible diversity of the American landscape in different seasons. 248 color illustrations Read more about this book

	Chema Madoz: Objectos 1990-1999 Chema Madoz 2001, Actar Editorial 11" x 9.75", 306 pp. List price: $45.00	Essays by Catherine Coleman, Maria Lluïsa Borràs, and Steve Yates. Since 1985, Spanish photographer Chema Madzo has been rendering the everyday object strange and unfamiliar with his photographic manipulations and photographs of models that he constructs in his studio. This is a wonderful monograph of Madoz's work with superior reproductions. - Ed
	Chema Madoz, Chema Madoz 1999, Editions Assouline 8.75" x 6.45", 80 pp. (inquire about availability)	Essay by Christian Caujolle This is edition of Chema Madoz's photography contains a collection of the artist's studio work, challenging our understanding of everyday objects. This book of duotone reproductions are of very high quality.

	Oblivion, David Maisel 2006, Nazraeli, 12" x 12", 48 pp List price: $60.00	A palpable sense of dread runs through David Maisel's aerial photographs of Los Angeles in Oblivion, the sprawling geography of that megalopolis rendered as an impersonal circuit board, a coldly calculating machine. Following on the heels of his work with polluted lake beds in The Lake Project - some of which were created by Los Angeles' insatiable thirst for water - these images reinforce the social concerns of Maisel's work, with the physical features of the land standing as both literal maps and symbolic constructs. 15 black-and white illustrations poem by Mark Strand and essay by William Fox.
	The Lake Project, David Maisel 2004, Nazraeli Press 14" x 14", 60 pp. List price: $75.00	Introduction by Robert Sobieszek For more than two decades, David Maisel has photographed civilisation’s aggressive advance across the American landscape. The sites he has pursued, the subjects he has discovered, and the abstract beauty he has confronted are all the more unfamiliar and disarming because of their aerial perspectives. Looking down from low-flying aircraft banking steeply over the terrain, Maisel constructs skewed landscapes that seem at times to have no horizons, no up or down, no near or far. Read more about this book.
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	Making Good Time Mike Mandel 1992, University of Mexico Press 10.8" x 10.8", 72 pgs. List price: $27.50	Preface by Edward W. Earle Making Good Time, includes Scientific Management, The Gilbreths, Photography and Motion, and Futurism. Here Mandel's photographic study time, time management, and issues relating to the study of time. This book includes images both 'found' and created by the artist.
	Evidence, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel 2003, Distributed Art Publishers 9.25" x 10", 108 pp. List price: $50.00 (reprint - inquire for 1977 edition)	"In 1977 photographers Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel sifted through thousands of photographs in the files of the Bechtel Corporation, the Beverly Hills Police Department, the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Stanford Research Institute and a hundred other corporations, American government agencies, and educational, medical and technical institutions. They were looking for photographs that were made and used as transparent documents and purely objective instruments--as evidence, in short. Selecting 50 of the best, they printed these images with the care you would expect to find in a high-quality art photography book, publishing them in a simple, limited-edition volume titled Evidence. The concept for the book was clear: select photographs intended to be used as objective evidence and show that it is never that simple.~Now an undisputed classic in the photo world, considered a seminal harbinger of conceptual photography, Evidence is nearly impossible to find. This new edition is being published in recognition of the project's continued relevance, and will contain a facsimile copy of the original book plus a newly commissioned scholarly essay by Sandra Phillips of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Additionally, this edition will include a new spread of images and a group of black-and-white illustrations selected by the artists from an archive of photographs that were not included in the original book. ...a small and simple book that reveals the vast gulf separating what we actually see from what we think we see."
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	Proud Flesh Sally Mann 2009, Aperture 12" x 14", 64 pp List price: $80.00	Children, landscape, lovers—these subjects are almost as common to the photographic lexicon as light itself. But Sally Mann’s take on these iconic themes, rendered through both traditional and esoteric processes, is anything but common. Astonishingly original both in image and technique, Mann’s work consistently challenges the viewer: in her hands, experiences drawn from daily life are rendered both disquieting and sublime. More »
	What Remains Sally Mann 2003, Bullfinch 11.76" x 12.82", 132pgs. List price: $50.00	"Renowned for her candid portrayal of family life (Immediate Family), her revealing study of girlhood (At Twelve), and landscapes from the American South (Mother Land and Deep South), internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann has produced a powerful new body of work on the one subject that affects us all. In WHAT REMAINS, a five-part meditation on mortality, Mann focuses her lens on the ineffable divide between body and soul, the means by which life takes leave of this earth, and the manner in which it rejoins it. Mann's new photographs are by turns shocking and sublime. ... .... Made with the collodion process, using glass plates, the resulting images are at once painterly, sculptural, and photographic."
	At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, Sally Mann 1988, Aperture 11.16" x 9.68" List price: $40.00	Introduction by Ann Beattie "At Twelve is Sally Mann's revealing, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a trying time as well, caught between childhood and adulthood, when the difference is not entirely understood. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction, "These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose-- what adults make of that pose may be the issue." The consequences of this misunderstanding can be real: destitution, abuse, unwanted pregnancy. Mann does not deny this reality, but records it, both in the faces of her subjects and in written stories that accompany thirteen of the portraits, adding another dimension to our understanding of "childhood." The young women in Mann's unflinching, large-format photographs, however, are not victims. They return the viewer's gaze with a disturbing equanimity. Poet Jonathan Williams writes, "Sally Mann's girls are the ones who do the hard looking in At Twelve-- be up to it!" Partly this is a result of the remarkable rapport that Mann is able to establish with her subjects. ..."
	Immediate Family, Sally Mann 1992, Aperture 9.8" x 11.37" (used copies available)	"These are photographs of my children....Many of these pictures are intimate, some are fictions and some are fantastic, but most are of ordinary things every mother has seen. I take pictures when they are bloodied or sick or naked or angry. They dress up, they pout and posture, they paint their bodies, they dive like otters in the dark river."--Sally Mann, from the Introduction
	Still Time, Sally Mann 1994, Aperture 11.28" x 9.52", 79 pgs. List price: $29.95	Compiled to accompany her traveling exhibition of the same name, this collection by one of the strongest forces in contemporary photography revels, finesses, and sometimes even transforms our sense of time and place into something magical and sensual through her acute perception of our preconceptions. 60 color and duotone photographs.
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	Man Ray Photographs Man Ray 2001, Thames & Hudson 12" x 8.45", 256 pgs. (used copies available)	"I paint what cannot be photographed, I photograph the things I don't want to paint....I would photograph an idea rather than an object, and a dream rather than an idea." Man Ray's own words suggest the essence of his brilliant, original, and deeply influential photographic oeuvre. Taking up photography in 1915 for the purpose of reproducing his paintings, he earned money doing the same thing for others when he went to live and work in Paris in 1921. This led to one of the most versatile careers in the history of photography, ranging from portraits of celebrated artists, musicians, and writers such as André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie, Arnold Schönberg, T. S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein, to the pictures using light effects outside the camera for which he is famous (cliché-verres, rayographs, and solarizations). These photographs are among the most exciting and revealing manifestations of the profusely fertile artistic impulse that made Man Ray equally celebrated as a painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker. Besides many classic images, the book includes a number of photographs that had never been seen before, including portraits of Virginia Woolf and of Antonin Artaud and a large selection of erotic pictures. They add up to a truly revealing look at Man Ray, Jean Cocteau's "great poet of the darkroom." 347 duotone photographs. See Man Ray, American Masters series Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde DVD Title
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	Man Ray, Photography and its Double Emmanuelle De I'Ecotais 1998, Ginko Press 12.45" x 9.85", 264 pgs. List price: $65.00 (soft bound edition available)	" ... With his photographs, Rayographs, solarizations, and various experimentation with Surrealist doctrines in the darkroom, his photographic contribution to art and especially surrealism is matchless. Thanks to his famous portraits of contemporaries - artists, writers and celebrities - he also became the most notable chronicler of the inter-national Avant-garde movement of the 1920s and 1930s. This remarkable monograph published to coincide with the historic exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, is entirely dedicated to Man Ray's photographic oeuvre. The Centre Pompidou is the recipient of the Man Ray archives - some 13,000 negatives and 5,000 prints - which reveal for the very first time never before published photographs (a great amount consisting of erotic compositions). One-third of these photographs have never been seen. Not only the finished photos, but also the process - crops, background manipulation and other methods. The book with its new images presents for the very first time a true picture of the artist, and a vital addition to the many publications about Man Ray that appeared throughout this century, many of which are long out of print. This monograph is a must for Man Ray experts, for those interested in photography, and a wonderful introduction to students and others not yet sufficiently familiar with Man Ray's work."
	Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934 Man Ray 1980, Dover Publications 12.2" x 9.36", 128 pgs. List price: $14.95
	Man Ray, Paris Photographs, 1920-1934, Man Ray 2001, Delano Greenidge Editions 12.22" x 9.5", 120 pp. List price: $16.95
	Man Ray Man Ray 1997, Aperture 8.35" x 8.35", 96 pp. List price: $12.50	Man Ray presents forty-three of the greatest images from throughout the artist's career. The essay by Jed Perl describes the influences behind Man Ray's abundant career and his enduring contribution to photography.
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	Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition, 2004, Gugenheim Museum 10" x 11", 208 pp List price: $50.00	Essays by Arkady Ippolitov, Germano Celant, and Jennifer Blessing ...This groundbreaking exhibition and its accompanying catalogue explore the relationship between the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe and Classical art, in particular through Mannerist engravings and sculpture. - publisher -168 four-color illustrations, Read more about this book
	Black Book, Robert Mapplethorpe 1986, St. Martins Press 11.75" x 11.75", 112 pp. List price: $50.00	Forward by Ntozake Shange In Black Book, Robert Mapplethorpe presents an astonishing photographic study of black men today. In their diversity, impact, subtlety, technical virtuosity, erotic appeal, and deep humanity, these photographs constitute a stunning celebration of the contemporary black male. -- Soft bound edition available, list price - $29.95, 1988 Griffin Trade Paperbacks
	Flowers Robert Mapplethorpe 1990, Bulfinch (used copies available)	The theme of flowers recurs throughout Robert Mapplethorpe's work, coming to signify some of his deepest concerns as an artist. While his flower images have until now been best known in black-and-white, Flowers reveals his genius in color. 52 full-color illustrations. Softbound editions available. List price: $40.00, Amazon price: $28.00
	Lady Lisa Lyon, Robert Mapplethorpe 1983, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag (used copies available)	"A cult classic first published in 1983, Lady: Lisa Lyon is a groundbreaking collaboration between Mapplethorpe and bodybuilder-performance artist Lisa Lyon that is startlingly up-to-date in its questioning of gender, stereotype, and role-playing. 115 duotone photos."
	Pictures: Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe 1999, Arena Editions 11.25" x 9.75", 220 pp. (used copies available)	"Mapplethorpe, whose name is now synonymous with controversy, was renowned for his refined aesthetic and his willingness to confront taboos. In contrast to his classical portraits, nudes, and still lifes, his sex photographs and the reactions they engendered have been much discussed but less frequently seen. Edited and designed by Levas, this compilation of images (made between 1976 and 1980) showcases 103 beautifully reproduced duotone plates and demonstrates Mapplethorpe's intimate, personal vision of homosexuality and fetishism. Interview editor Ingrid Sischy provides a brief introductory essay that concisely contextualizes the work, explaining that while they may be shocking the photos are not pornographic. "Explicit pictures of homosexual sex don't make up a huge proportion of his work, but they are its underbelly." This handsome book is a welcome addition to the 100 books and articles listed in its bibliography, offering valuable documentation of an important artist." - Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
	Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe 2004, Sterm Portfolio 14" x 10", 96 pp. List price: $22.95	"Robert Mapplethorpe. Collected in this portfolio are images from one of the late twentieth century's master photographers. During the 1970's and 1980's, Robert Mapplethorpe created an elegant and provocative body of work - homoerotic images, floral still lives, pictures of children and commissioned portraits - that managed to combine often-outrageous content with an intensely controlled presentation. Whatever the subject of his photographs the aesthetic was always classical, composed; even chaste. Mapplethorpe's work strove for balance and perfection and established him in the top rank of twentieth century artists."

	Within Arm's Reach Ari Marcopoulos 2010, JRP\|RINGIER 8½" x 11",136 pp List price: $39.95	Born in Amsterdam in 1957, Ari Marcopoulos came to New York in 1979 and quickly became part of the downtown art scene that included up-and-coming artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Since then, Marcopoulos has become recognized as a key documentarian of contemporary culture as it unfolds: recording the emerging hip-hop scene, shooting snowboarders hurtling down a vertical mountain face, or chronicling the vicissitudes of his own family life, Marcopoulos' works unerringly capture the zeitgeist. More »
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	Seen Behind the Scene Mary Ellen Mark 2008, Phaidon 11¼" x 8¼", 264 pp List price: $59.95	Seen Behind the Scene includes beautiful and engaging portraits, documentary pictures that reveal the way a film is made, dramatic moments in direction, and amusing photos that reveal the camaraderie on set - such as Henry Fonda making faces behind Katharine Hepburn, well-known prankster Jack Nicholson turning Stockard Channing upside down, and Dustin Hoffman causing a lot of amusement in his female costume between scenes on the set of Tootsie. More »
	Twins Mary Ellen Mark 2003, Aperture 13" x 10.74", 96 pgs. List price: $50.00	"Mary Ellen Mark, voted by the readers of American Photo as the most influential woman photographer of all time, has made some of America's most iconic images in a career spanning more than three decades. In Twins, Mark turns her eye and her heart to the extraordinary bond that exists between these very special siblings. For two years in a row, she set up a studio on the site of America's premier twins festival and invited participants to be photographed. Using a twenty-by-twenty-four-inch Polaroid camera, Mark created an extraordinary body of work-a collection of sometimes beautiful, often unsettling images-that reveals subtle nuances in the relationships of the twins she observed. Gorgeously printed in tritone, the book replicates the stellar quality of her large-format photographs in a fitting tribute to one of America's preeminent photographers."
	Mary Ellen Mark: American Odyssey, 1963-1999 Mary Ellen Mark 1999, Aperture 12.65" x 11", 152 pgs. List price: $50.00	"The first collection of the extensive and superlative work realized by Mary Ellen Mark in the United States, Mary Ellen Mark is composed of many previously unpublished images, as well as photographs from several of her best-known projects. From "Streetwise" to "The Damm Family," Mary Ellen Mark includes the most iconic images from these groundbreaking stories, as well as powerful, never-before-seen photographs Mark accomplished in subsequent years. She makes a deeply felt commitment to her subjects, and her empathy and humanity come through in every image. ..."
	Streetwise, Mary Ellen Mark 1988, University of Pennsylvania Press (out of print, inquire for availability)	A collection of photographs of Seattle's street children that captures their lives on the streets--and the effects of that life. Meet Tina, a 13-year-old prostitute with dreams of diamonds and furs; Rat and Mike, 16-year-olds who eat from dumpsters; and Dewayne, a 16-year-old boy who hanged himself in a juvenile facility when faced with the prospect of returning to the streets. 57 duotone photographs.
	A Cry for Help: Stories of Homelessness and Hope Mary Ellen Mark 1996, Touchstone Books 9.5" x 9.5", 103 pgs. (used copies available)
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	Images, Didier Massard 2002, Le Passage 9.75" x 12", 64 pp. List price: $39.95	"Didier Massard's color photographs are breathtaking in their light, subject, and composition. When one understands that these exquisitely detailed images are actually miniature tabletop landscapes constructed by Massard, they become even more extraordinary. The resulting photograph evokes a fantastical world reminiscent of a magical realism painting."

	Anne Arden McDonald:Installations and Self Portaits, Anne Arden 2004, Autonomy and Alchemy Press 13" x 12", 100 pp. List price: $60.00	Essays by Leslie Findlen and Wanda Strukus 40 duotone illustrations Ms. McDonald's book of very stylized self portraits are taken throughout the world in diverse settings ranging from abandon warehouses to abandon green houses. Read more about this book. Read book review
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	A Fourfold Vision, Ralph Eugene Meatyard 2004, Nazraeli Press 11" x 12", 48 pp List price: $50.00	32 duotone plates Introduction by Emmet Gowin A Fourfold Vision is published in association with the Fraenkel Gallery on the occasion of an exhibition at the ICP, New York. Read more about this book
	The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater and Other Figurative Photographs Ralph Eugene Meatyard 2002, Distributed Art Publishers 9.65" x 10.5", 128 pgs. (list price: $45.00	Originally published in 1974 by the Jargon Society and long out of print, "The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater" is the best-known body of Ralph Eugene Meatyard's work. At once comic and tragic, grotesque and beautiful, the series of 64 images features his wife, Madelyn, in a hag's Halloween mask together in each with a different friend or relative in a transparent mask. Original copies of this small but seminal work now sell for upwards of $500.00. Critic and scholar James Rhem has worked closely with the archives in the photographer's estate, as well as directly with his surviving family members to reconstruct Meatyard's original, and unrealized, intentions for the publication of this project. As a result, the revised edition will feature the correct sequencing of images and, most importantly, the missing captions, which, in accordance with Meatyard's instructions, will be reproduced in his own handwriting as white type knocked out of a black background. In addition, each surviving participant in the Lucybelle Crater project has been interviewed by Rhem, and the book will include a critical essay and extensive background information. Accompanying the "Album" will be 40 more figurative works establishing a context for it and exploring important themes in Meatyard's work. This is an important rediscovery in the history of American photography. - 100 duotones.
	The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater and Other Figurative Photographs 1974, Jargon Society 84 pgs. (out of print, inquire for availability)	see comments above. This is the original edition. Used copies of the softbound edition is available from Amazon.com
	Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Ralph Eugene Meatyard 1974, Aperture 10.75" x 9.25",136 pp. (used copies availability)	Essay by James Baker Hall and Guy Davenport "This monographs reveals that the current view of Ralph Eugene Meatyard as a regional genius, a maker of brilliant eccentric images, is totally inadequate. As powerful as many of his images are, the whole of his work, it seems clear now, is far greater than the sum of its parts. Behind the surface strangeness lies a much deeper strangeness, a fully realized vision of the world, resonant with delight and awe and fear. Unlike most photographers, even the best we have, he didn't work along the circumference of the circle, trying to define the center by implication; but, rather, looked directly inward, at the still point of the turning world, at the fascinating and frightening fire at the heart of the matter. What we ordinarily take to be real, his pictures often show to be mere shadows of reality...." - from the book jacket by James Baker Hall
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	Four Days in LA. The Versace Collection, Steve Meisel 2001, 14.5" x 10.75", 56 pp. order this book	"In the first ever European gallery presentation of work by Steven Meisel, the photographer presented a number of large-format photographs that form the core of the acclaimed advertising campaign that he recently shot for Versace. At a time when the teenager continues to be the cultural staple catered for in both the fashion and music world with Teen Vogue, boy bands and singers like Britney Spears, Meisel's Versace Pictures reintroduce the notion of the grown-up woman. The pictures, shot in just four days in palatial Los Angeles residences, feature leading fashion supermodels Amber Valetta and Georgina Grenville as virtually identical women with their elegant frocks, dressed platinum hairstyles, full make-up, and huge rock-like jewels. Posing demurely in their anonymous interior-decorated homes, like their pampered pets, they appear perfectly tamed, preened and manicured. If the images present a kind of over-the-top extravagance, it is a frozen opulence; languorous and rarefied - a throwback to the fifties, a pre-teen era, evoking the styles and subjects of Pasolini and Fellini by way of Beverly Hills. These women, like their interiors, are perfectly arranged, tranquillised and in control. Often placed high in the picture plane they recall the Mannerist portraits of Bronzino and Pontormo where the sumptuously adorned female subjects are both hieratic and untouchable. Now, as then, it is wealth that signifies. Bruce Hainley suggests that what Meisel is doing with these images is giving us an 'opulent fantasy structure' about the power of the female adult 'at a time when what many desire is forgoing adult responsibility (a Californian stereotype).' We want to be told what to do and these women know how to tell us." - 21 color illustrations
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	Carnival Strippers, Susan Meiselas 2003, Distributed Art Publications 9.42" x 11", 163 pgs. List price: $45.00	'From 1972 to 1975, Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. As she followed the girl shows from town to town, she portrayed the dancers on stage and off, photographing their public performances as well as their private lives. She also taped interviews with the dancers, their boyfriends, the show managers, and paying customers. Meiselas’ frank description of the lives of these women brought a hidden world to public attention. Produced during the early years of the women’s movement Carnival Strippers reflects the struggle for identity and self-esteem that characterized a complex era of change. Originally published in 1976, this book is considered a pioneering publication for it’s frank and honest look at women on the margins of society. Original editions of the book now sell for up to $900.00 on the rare book market. This revised edition contains a new selection of Meiselas’ black-and-white photographs together with the original excerpts from the interviews. Additionally an Audio-CD with a collage of voices from many participants and a 1977 interview with the photographer is included. Essays by Sylvia Wolf and Deirdre English reflect on the importance of this body of work within both the history of photography and feminism." Texts by Sylvia Wolf and Deirdre English. Clothbound with dust jacket and an Audio-CD enclosed in the back - 78 tritone images.
	Encounters with the Dani Susan Meiselas 2003, Steidi 11" x 8", 176 pgs. List price: $40.00	"In her most recent body of work, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas pieces together verbal and visual traces of encounters with the Dani--an indigenous people of the West Papuan highlands--from the nearly six decades since their "discovery" by the West. In this subjective, fragmentary history, Meiselas draws from the experiences of missionaries, colonists, anthropologists and modern-day ecotourists, all of whom have come to the Dani's Baliem Valley and transformed the conditions under which they live. The ambiguous relations between power and representation--whether in the form of Dutch colonial patrol notes from the 1930s, the sensationalized media accounts of the survivors of a downed U.S. army plane in "Shangri-La" from the 1940s or a tourist's snapshots from the 1990s--become visible in Meiselas's book, through both the contradictions and unexpected continuities of the gathered materials. - 300 color images
	Pandora's Box, Susan Meiselas 2002, Trebruk Publishing 8" x 12", 92 pgs. List price: $140.00	Mistress Raven heads a staff of 14 at Pandora's Box, a 4000-square-foot, high-class Manhattan sex club that bills itself as the "Disneyland of Domination." Interspersed with pages made of latex, rubber, colored gels, and other erotic materials, Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas's documentary photographs of the club's highly formalised rules and rituals, its role-playing "vacations from reality," reveal both the customers who frequent the club and the women who command them. First commissioned to accompany the Nick Broomfield documentary "Fetishes", Meiselas's "Pandora's Box" is a darkly captivating journey into a high-class sex club that specializes in sado-masochism. Essays by Mistress Raven, Richard August and Mistress Delilah. 63 color illustrations
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	In Situ, Douglas Mellor 2004, D.W. Mellor Editions 9.5" x 11.5", 56 pp. List price: $75.00	Introduction bu Paul Capinigro Essay by Rick Webster 31 Tritone illustrations Read more about this book

	Secrets du Pays d'Oche, Olivier Mériel 2004, Nazraeli Press 12" x 11", 56 pp List price: $50.00	Introduction in English and French by Candace Perich. Olivier Mériel is passionate about Normandy, with its turbulent climate, its ancient towns and fishing ports, and its farmland dotted with cows and sheep. The son of a chemist, he lives and works in the small seaside town of Saint Aubin-sur-Mer – just as his ancestors did before him – making photographs that perfectly capture the feeling of history this region is steeped in. - 33 duotone plates Read more about this book

	No Title Here, Jeff Mermelstein 2003, powerHouse Books 8.5" " x 12.25", 96 pp. List price: $45.00	"In 1981, Jeff Mermelstein began taking trips to Asbury Park, New Jersey, where he gravitated toward the abundant supply of bizarre characters populating this town made famous by Bruce Springsteen. Drawn to the seedy atmosphere and entranced by the taffy-rich colors, Mermelstein was mesmerized by the sights: a pink lady at a baby parade, a startled bag lady dressed in red, a cat-show judge named Mr. Friend. ... ... Inspired by these encounters with the odd and unusual, Mermelstein began to vigorously prowl the streets of New York City during the mid-'80s with some Kodachrome and a flash, snapping up scenes of vivid color, glitz, and plastic artifice. Attracted to the surreal, Mermelstein continued to document outlandish scenes, whether on magazine assignments or on adventures of his own devising - to dog shows, promotional events, and grand openings of malls across this colorful, far-too-colorful-for-words land. No Title Here catalogues the results of the past twenty years Mermelstein has spent photographing the wacky, the quirky, the off, and the oddly lyrical he has encountered across America." - 73 full color photographs.
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	City Stills Ray K. Metzker 1999, Prestel USA 12.25" x 9.75", 108 pgs. ( out of print, used copies available)	Introduction by Laurence Miller. "Ray K. Metzker's stunning streetscapes are captured in this celebration of the photographer's work. These black-and-white photographs, taken over a quarter century and presented here by visual themes, show Metzker pushing the technical bounderies of photography into an undefined formal realm well beyond expected. Admirers have called Metzker "an innovator who knows no rules." City Stills confirms this ..." - from the book jacket
	Ray K. Metzker: Landscapes, Ray K. Metzker 2000, Aperture 12.55" x 12.13", 168 pgs. List price: $60.00	Essay by Evan H. Turner One of the most inventive American photographers of the postwar era, Ray K. Metzker has startled and delighted viewers with his images. Ray K. Metzker: Landscapes is a journey through the images that he has made in the last fifteen years. During this period Metzker made many innovations and stretched the meaning and importance of the term "landscape," using photographic styles ranging from the traditional to the surreal. Ray K. Metzker: Landscapes incorporates twelve series of photographs, including "Feste di Foglie," made in Tuscany; "Earthly Delights," made in the eastern United States; work produced in Turkey and southern France; and an extensive body of work from Moab, Utah-many of these photographs previously unpublished.
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	Truths and Fictions, Pedro Meyer 1995, Aperture 9.79" x 11.5", 133 pp. (used copies available)	Introduction by Joan Fontcuberta Truth and Fiction. A Journey from Documentary to Digital Photography "Pedro Meyer blends the magical realism of Latin American storytelling with the wizardry of computer-altered photography to create a magical and illuminating photographic exploration of Mexico and the United States."
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	The Legacy Box Set Joel Meyerowitz 2010, Aperture Two books and print List price: $400.00	In this stunning collection of images, master photographer Joel Meyerowitz invites us to discover the hidden pockets of wildnerss that still exist within the urban environs of New York City. Meyerowitz honed in on the 8,700 acres within the five boroughs of New York City that still exist in their pristine state, as well as areas within various parks that have reverted to wilderness. More »
	Cape Light Joel Meyerowitz 2002, Bulfinch 9" x 10.36", 112 pgs. List price: $24.95	Originally published in 1979, Cape Light became an instant classic and one of the most influential photography books published in the latter part of the 20th century. Common scenes—tiny figures on a beach, a porch railing against a storm-darkened sky, a blue raft against a summer cottage—all are transformed by the poignant light of the Cape and the photographer's subtle and luminous vision. This exquisitely printed book captures every nuance of color and light in that unique juncture of sky, sea, and land that is Cape Cod. Reprint of the original 1979 edition. - Color and B & W
	Bay/Sky Joel Meyerowitz 1993, Bulfinch 14" x 12" (out of print, used copies available)	Since 1976, Meyerowitz has been photographing the same view of Cape Cod Bay in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This collection presents 40 of these magnificent color photographs of the sea's horizon--the culmination of 16 years of photographic exploration and observation. 40 color plates.
	Tuscany: Inside the Light Joel Meyerowitz 2003, Sterling Publishing 11" x 12.6", 160 pgs. List price: $30.00	"Joel Meyrowitz is one of the world's best-known and best-selling photographers; his Cape Light has become a color photography classic with 100,000 copies sold. The Tuscan countryside is among the most well-loved on earth, for its beauty, its natural bounty, its magnificent light. Award-winning photographer Joel Meyerowitz and novelist/playwright Maggie Barrett have combined talents to create a loving and personal portrait of Tuscany through the seasons. Meyerowitz provides the breathtaking images; Maggie Barrett offers poetic, evocative commentary that pays loving tribute to this alluring rural world. They take you inside everyday Tuscan life and landscape, and also capture the warmth of the people who live there and their profound connection to the land. ... "
	Redheads Joel Meyerowitz 1991, Rizzoli 11.5" x 9.75" (out of print, used copies available)	Redheads available as softbound editions - List price: $25.00
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	Essential Duane Michals Duane Michals 1997, Bulfinch 11.39" x 10.25", 224 pgs. List price: $50.00	"Since taking his first pictures four decades ago, Duane Michals has established himself as an artist who has reinvented the medium of photography from an instrument for recording the visible world to an agent of thought and emotion. Michals has made use of all the tricks of the camera and darkroom - including double-exposure, blurred movement and photomontage - in order to construct images that provide his visions with the veracity of a witnessed event. From the 1960s he began to supplement photographs with texts and to create narrative sequences of images. Highly influential among photographers, these innovations have led to other inventive strategies: texts without photographs, or photographs paired with drawings or obscured in paint. But formal and technical considerations have never become an end in themselves; rather they have served Michals's need to communicate themes of growing subtlety and to express his ideas on such matters as the spirit, mortality, desire, human relationships, politics, time and memory. The works brought together in this book - whether commissioned or made for himself, and whether previously unpublished or already familiar to his admirers - demonstrate the rare ability of an artist to be freed of all restraints and preconceptions while remaining always true to himself."
	Questions Without Answers Duane Michals 2001, Twin Palms Publication 13.38" x 8.94" , 96 pgs. List price: $60.00	"In my sixty-eighth year I have become the lucid dreamer, who has awakened in his sleep of life and knows that he is dreaming. I am a phantom in a phantom landscape. I assume nothing and find the familiar to be a curiosity. The inherited bedrock of definitions which described reality for me is now porous and insubstantial. Has it been sand all along and had I failed to notice? As my consciousness spirals to its pre- destined disappearance, age has forced me to pay attention. Now I begin to see the silhouette of the mystery. I think about thinking and am beyond the comfort of conformity. I must ask questions that I never thought to ask before. The most profound questions seem to be transparent in their ordinariness and deceptive in their significance. A child would understand. I know that this modest enquiry must fail. But what else am I to do?" - Duane Michals
	The House I Once Called Home Duane Michals 2003, Enitharmon Editions 56 pgs. List price: $29.95
	Eros and Thanatos Duane Michals 1993, Twin Palms Publication 15.33" x 11.27", 64 pgs. List price: $60.00	In our fourth book of Duane Michals’s work, the artist explores classic themes of love and death through photographs and words. The evocative images and poems collected in Eros & Thanatos conjure memories of love and loss, lust and longing, in what is perhaps the most revealing and overtly sensual of Michals's works to date. The full richness of Michals's imagery emerges from these exquisite, large-format sheet-fed gravures. - publisher
	Take One and See Mt. Fujiyama Duane Michals 1976, distributed by Light Impressions Corp. 6" x 8" (out of print, used copies available)	An early work of Michals where he explores the photographic narative.
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	Boris Mikhailov: A Retrospective, Boris Mikhailov 2003, Scalo Verlag 10.84" x 8.14", 176 pp. List price: $45.00	"Boris Mikhailov has enjoyed ever-increasing recognition in the West over the past 10 years, but until recently went virtually unknown in his Russian/Ukrainian homeland. With the opening of the East in 1990, exhibition opportunities presented themselves, beginning with a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv that same year. Mikhailov has shown his extremely diverse bodies of work at the Rotterdam Biennale, the Kunsthalle Zurich, and most recently, he was awarded the first "General Satellite Corporation Art Prize for a contribution to the development of contemporary Russian art," a prestigious new Russian art prize. This retrospective covers the diverse landscape of Mikhailov's experimental, documentary based work methodically, but not tediously."
	Salt Lake, Boris Mikhailov 2002, Steidl 12" x 15.5", 80 pp. List price: $65.00	"In the southern Ukrainian town where Boris Mikhailov's father was born, a factory spills untreated water directly out into the open sea. Believing these waters to have healing powers, the local people enjoy swimming in it. All year round, families gather on the shore; on-lookers might be reminded of a Russian Baden-Baden. Mikhailov shot the filmic, black and white sequence of Salt Lake in 1986, capturing a Russian bohemia of uncanny, eery proportions and muted light. Scene upon strangely timeless scene sees rough, stocky men and thick, bikini-clad women, their hair tied up in scarves, all bathing naturally on a sea shore crowded with smokestacks, brick warehouses, and industrial-size pipes that lead right out into the water, like a dock. The book itself was designed by the artist using Russian paper and binding materials, and is printed in a limited edition." - Limited Edition of 3,000 copies
	Case History, Boris Mikhailov 1999, Scalo Verlag 9.5" x 7", 256 pp. List price: $49.95	"... Case History, a heart-wrenching monument to the forgotten losers of system change, documented the plight of the homeless in the Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. ..."
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	On the Beach, Richard Misrach 2007, Aperture 20" x 16", 80 pp List Price: $85.00	Richard Misrach, one of today's most prolific contemporary masters, is internationally renowned for his carefully considered, beautifully rendered epic works. In On the Beach, a lavishly produced, oversized monograph that features the long-awaited publication of this spectacular series, Misrach hones in on our delicate relationship to the sea. More »
	Golden Gate Richard Misrach 2001, Arena Editions 11" x 13.5", 132 pgs. (used copies available)	"Richard Misrach has spent much of his career photographing the intersection of man and nature. He has redefined contemporary landscape photography with images of the splendor and destruction of the American West. Each of his "cantos" considers another chapter in the epic story of humankind and the land. Golden Gate offers yet another dimension to Misrach's artistic output. Three years ago, he and his family moved into a house in the Berkeley Hills of Northern California. Since then, Misrach has been obsessively photographing the magisterial view of the Golden Gate Bridge from his front porch, each photograph taken from the exact same viewpoint at different times of day. The sixty photographs reproduced here, from a series of over seven hundred, capture the opening between bay and ocean, and the famous bridge, in every light and weather condition. But Misrach's Golden Gate photographs also offer a commentary on the politics of the view -- the relationship of wealth, power, and privilege at the beginning of the twenty-first century."
	Pictures of Paintings, Richard Misrach 2003, powerHouse Books 11.62" x 13.18", 138 pgs. List price: $85.00	What do paintings signify in an age of photographs? How do photographs modify the visual language of paintings? Richard Misrach's Pictures Of Paintings showcases photographs of select museum masterpieces. Working primarily in the art museums of the American West, along with The Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, he photographed details of paintings to reexamine the details, not so much as a guide to the artist's style or technique, but as a means of understanding a lexicon of cultural values, among them race, gender, religion, and power. ..."
	The Sky Book, Richard Misrach 2000, Arena Editions 12.5" x 10", 144 pgs. (used copies available)	"... The photographs in The Sky Book comprise Richard Misrach's most recent, most ambitious series, which transposes his narrative from the land to the sky. The images mediate between document and abstraction, reality and metaphor. Drawing on photography's documentary tradition, Misrach contextualizes each photograph with respect to time and place, rooting the celestial realm firmly in the earthly and political one. In this way, his images are reminiscent of the efforts of nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers to record the natural resources of the frontier. At the same time, Misrach's sky pictures also evoke a tradition of abstraction in art and photography that includes Alfred Steiglitz's "Equivalents" and the paintings of Mark Rothko."
	Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Photographs of Richard Misrach Richard Misrach 1996, Fine Arts Houston 12" x 11", 192 pgs. (used copies available)
	Desert Cantos Richard Misrach 1987, University of New Mexico Press 9" x 12", 108 pgs. (used copies available)	Essay by Reyner Banham "The desert that Richard Misrach presents here is the other desert. Not the pure unsullied wilderness "where god is and Man is not," the deserts of Christian purification and American longing, but the real desert that we mortals can actually visit - stained and trampled, franchised and fenced, burned, flooded, grazed, mined, exploited, and laid waste. It is the desert is truly ours, for we have made it so and must live with the consequences. ..." - from the introduction by Reyner Banham
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