MONOGRAPHS
- Mo through Mu
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in this section are monographs by individual photographers. The books
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here is alphabetical by the photographer's last name.
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Lisette
Model ,
Elisabeth Sussman
2001, Phaidon Press
6.18" x 5.44", 128 pgs.
List price: $7.95 |
"Lisette
Model (1906-83) began her photographic career in Europe. She moved
to New York in 1938, where she embarked on a lifelong project 'to
photograph America's self-portrait a million times'. From the 1950s
she was an influential teacher, her most famous students being Diane
Arbus and Robert Mapplethorpe." |
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Lisette
Model
Lisette Model
2002, Twin Palms Publications
360 pgs.
List price: $85.00
(inquire for availability) |
Lisette Model's
(1901-1982) career spanned the twentieth century. The legacy of
her art and teachings influenced generations of photographers. She
died nearly penniless in 1982, and the dozens of photographs she
left behind remained stored away until now. Model's
work, when published, is usually a selection of her signature
images. Though many of these are included in this book, hundreds
of other photographs have remained unpublished or seldom seen.
Visually, this is the definitive book of her work. - publisher |
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Tina
Modotti Photographs,
Tina Modotti
1995, Harry N. Abrams
12" x 9.25", 160 pgs.
(used copies available) |
140 duotone
plates
Introduction by Sara M. Lowe
" In the last decade, the powerful work and dramatic life of
Italian-born photographer and Marxist revolutionary Tina Modotti
(1896-1942) have become subjects of intense interest. This richly
illustrated book, the first comprehensive study of Modotti's photographs,
is also the catalogue for the first retrospective exhibition of
her work."
Available is softbound
edition - List price: $19.95 |
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Tina
Modotti,
Tina Modotti
1999, Aperture
8.33" x 8.39", 96 pgs.
List price: $12.50 |
"It was
such a thrill for me to write the essay for this volume which would
include Tina Modotti in Aperture's "Masters of Photograhy"
series. She is one of only four women included in this series. When
I began my research on Modotti's life in 1985, she was usually referred
to as the lover and pupil of Edward Weston in works on photography.
That is if she was mentioned at all! Even very recently in Phaidon's,
"The
Photography Book", her most famous photograph "Roses"was
printed as a vertical rather than a horizontal image. ... With the
publication of this Aperture book with over 40 beautiful reproductions
of Tina's best known, and some unknown, images her work is finally
in the category it belongs." - from the author Margaret Hooks
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In
Focus: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty
Museum
Laszlo
Moholy-Nagy
1995, J Paul Getty Museum Publications
7.66" x 6", 128 pgs.
List price: $17.50 |
"Hungarian
born Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was influential not only as a photographer
but also as a filmmaker, teacher, and painter. He taught at the
Bauhaus in Germany and, after fleeing the Nazi regime, settled in
Chicago, where he founded the Institute of Design. He pioneered
the photomontage and created the camera-less medium of the "photogram."
This book, the second in the Getty's In Focus series, features sixty
reproductions from the Getty's outstanding collection of this important
photographer's work--each described by Katherine Ware of the Museum's
department of photographs. The book also includes the edited transcript
of a recent colloquium that provides the historical and critical
perspective necessary for understanding Moholy-Nagy's vital contribution
to twentieth-century art. The colloquium participants were Charles
Hagan, Thomas Barrow, Jeannine Fiedler, Leland Rice, Hattula Moholy-Nagy,
and Weston Naef and Katherine Ware." |
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Laszlo
Moholy-Nagy
Jean Fiedler
2001, Phaidon Press
6.18" x 5.44", 128 pgs.
List price: $7.95 |
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Little
Red Riding Hood,
Sarah Moon
2002, Creative Editions
11.3" x 8", 32 pp.
List price: $17.95 |
"The
cautionary tale "Little Red Riding Hood" is intrepreted
by internationally-known photographer Sarah Moon. This title includes
the original text by Perrault and features brilliantly stark imagery." |
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Coincidences,
Sarah Moon
2001, Arena Editons
11.5" x 12", 288 pp.
(used copies available) |
"A fashion
and commercial photographer since 1968, and also a filmmaker, Sarah
Moon is known for her dreamlike images and her representation of
femininity as free from time and context, as living in a fairy world.
Although Moon has been a major participant in the world of fashion
for more than three decades, she has carefully carved out her own
niche -- a signature style that dispenses with the erotically suggestive
poses favored by many of her male counterparts in favor of the emblems
of luxury and nostalgia. Mystery and sensuality are at the core
of Moon's work, whether she's photographing haute couture, still
life, or portraiture. In this book, Moon's first major retrospective,
viewers will be treated to a visual tour-de-force, showing all the
genres she has explored in her rich and diverse career." |
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Camera
Obscura,
Abelardo Morell
2004, Bulfinch
12" x 11", 112pp
List price: $60.00 |
Abelardo Morell makes enchanting camera obscura
images in darkened interiors. The deceptively simple process—he
blacks out the windows, leaving just a pinhole opening in one of
them—produces photographs of astonishing, complex beauty.
Due to the nature of refracted light, the world outside his darkened
room is projected, upside down, onto the interior space within which
he works, converting the room, in effect, into the interior of a
camera. Morell then photographs the results with a large-format
view camera, often requiring exposures of eight hours or more....
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A
Book of Books
Abelardo Morell
2002, Bulfinch
11.96" x 12", 108 pp.
List price: $60.00 |
"In a
superb display of talent, renowned photographer Morell provides
a magical experience for the bibliophile and soothing engagement
for photography enthusiasts. Morell transforms everyday objects-book
spines, pages, illustrations, typeface, and shelves-into memorable
conduits of our long connection with reading and the book. This
invigorating work reaffirms the importance of books and serves as
a reminder of their fragile but enduring presence in our history
and psyche. Nicholson Baker, author of the controversial Double
Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, contributes a fitting
preface; an engaging and beautifully written piece, it reveals the
writer's sincere love for books. However, the stars of the volume
are, undeniably, the books on which Morell focuses his camera. If
they could talk, those books would thank him for rediscovering them
and adding, through his genius, such grace and sentiment to the
essence of their existence on the pages of yet another book."
- Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. |
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Daido
Moriyama,
Daido Moriyama
2007, Editorial RM
7 ½" x 10 ¼", 216 pp
List price: $75.00 |
Based on the retrospective exhibition organized
by the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art in Seville in March
of 2007, this stunning book offers a new look at the work of Japanese
photographer Daido Moriyama. An implacable visionary of our fragmented
postmodern world, Moriyama is famous not only for his stark images
of urban life but also for his transformation of everyday ordinariness,
the stream of perceptions that our restless sense of sight registers
at every moment of our waking hours.
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Daido
Moriyama,
Nobuyoshi Araki
2004, Thames & Hudson
11" x 9", 160 pp.
List price: $39.95 |
Born outside of Osaka in 1938, Daido Moriyama witnessed
the dramatic changes that swept over Japan in the decades following
World War II. The visual and existential turmoil brought on by this
transformation was to become one of the core subjects in his work.
His gritty photographs of Japanese streets and highways express
the conflicting realities of modern Japan: the unexpected survival
of age-old tradition within contemporary practice, the paradox of
a culture disturbed yet fascinated by the changes it is undergoing.
This book brings together more than 200
photographs dating from the 1960s to the present and includes
some of his most significant series of images. Profoundly influenced
by Japanese photographers Hosoe and Tomatsu, Moriyama's vision
was also enriched by his acquaintance with the work of two American
photographers, William Klein and Robert Frank. Like them he practiced
a new, more action-oriented street photography. Often out of focus,
vertiginously tilted, or invasively cropped, Moriyama's images
convey a sense of the disordered human condition. Distributed
on behalf of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. -
130 photographs. |
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Stray
Dog,
Daido Moriyama
1999, San Francisco Museum
10.5" x 9.35", 160 pp
List price: $40.00 |
Text by Sandra S. Phillips
Somewhere between Araki and Hosoe, Daido Moriyama is one of the
most distinctive Japanese photographers of his generation. This
monograph, accompanying a major SFMoMA retrospective, introduces
Moriyama and his dark, humorous, bizarre, and aggressive photography
to the U.S. |
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Wright
Morris: Photographs & Works
Wright Morris,
1991, Friends of Photography Bookstore
12.25" x 9.75", 120 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available) |
"In
Photographs & Words the two principal concerns of
Wright Morris' career are found in a new collaboration. Each,
as is customary, speaks for itself, the words in a mood of appraisal
and reminiscence, the photographs with unexampled fidelity. Morris
writes at length, for the first time, of the experiences and ideas
that shaped his photo-text volumes, The Inhabitants,
The Home Place, God's Country and People, and
are equally manifest in his novels. The write who began, almost
fifty years ago, to visualize the picture he would put into words,
has always been the write who has put into words what cries to
be visualized. The photographs and words are of one compact, whether
found in books or facing pages. ..." - from the book jacket.
This is a
magnificent book with 61 plates of superior reproductions. Ed. |
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Karat,
Wolfgang Müller
2004, Nazraeli Press
9.5" x 10.25", 140 pp
List price: $50.00 |
After years of change and decline, St. Petersburg
celebrated its 300th anniversary by renovating its historical center
to display its stunning churches, museums and palaces. But the image
thus presented is in stark contrast to the poverty found not far
away in the backyards of the Nevskij Prospect (the main shopping
street) and behind the huge advertising boards that conceal empty
lots. Here, littered with syringes, is the entrance to a different
world. Wolfgang Müller’s photographs tell the stories
of children and youths who live above the city’s streets,
in the roofs and attics of disused buildings. Here they can sleep,
take drugs and make money from prostitution without being apprehended.
Many have escaped from apathetic parents or decaying orphanages,
but the desolation of their situation is tempered with the warmth
of the small family units they have formed. Müller spent nine
months in St. Petersburg, photographing and talking to the young
people living on the streets. “Karat” is the brand name
of a shoe polish, containing solvents, that many of them inhale.
- publisher - Text in English and German. - 96 four-color plates. |
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Reflex: A Vic Muniz Primer,
Vic Muniz
2004, Aperture
8.25" x 10", 144 pp
List price: $39.95 |
... Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer is
a privileged, guided tour of the contents of Muniz's pyrotechnic
imagination. The collection of essays Muniz contributes walks us
through each of his major series, and unveils the thinking and historical
influences behind each image. ... - publisher
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Muybridge's
Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: New Volume 1
Edweard
Muybridge
1979, Dover Publications
12.58" x 9.7", 629 pgs.
List price: $75.00 |
"Of all
the great turning points in scientific, technological and artistic
thought, undoubtedly the least known (because it has effectively,
never been published) is Muybridge's eleven-volume pictorial treatise
of human and animal life in motion." "100
years after completion, this rarest of all photographic series
(only 37 sets still extant, most of them incomplete) is finally
published complete and accessible to a wide public, in three volumes
of 20,000 photographs. Twenty years of devotion and invention,
patience and insight, plus $50,000 and 100,000 negatives, culminated
in the quintessential study of the moving figure. Muybridge had
created an encylopedic anatomy of motion, unique in its day and
unsurpassed in ours."
"The
photographs consist of a series of movements shown in stop-motion
sequence: 781 plates (each plate is a two-page spread) of nearly
300 separate actions split into as many as 50 individual shots
per action. 532 of the plates show clothed and unclothed men,
women and children engaging in a wide variety of typical actions
and activities." |
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Muybridge's
Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: New Volume 3
Edweard
Muybridge
1979, Dover Publications
12.59" x 9.77", 456 pgs.
List price: $75.00 |
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Animals
in Motion,
Edweard Muybridge
Dover Publications
11" x 8.27", 416 pgs.
List price: $34.95 |
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The
Human Figure in Motion,
Edweard Muybridge
1989, Dover Publications
11" x 8.2", 390 pgs.
List price: $32.95 |
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The
Male and Female Figure in Motion: 60 Clasic Photographic Sequences
Edweard Muybridge
1984, Dover Publications
12" x 9", 121 pgs.
List price: $12.95 |
"Sixty
classic photographic sequences of the male and female figures in
motion, selected from Eadweard Muybridge's original collection of
781, have been painstakingly reproduced on fine coated stock. Here
are men running, walking leaping, playing sports; women turning,
bending, dancing, dressing; even children in various typical activities.
This volume brings a superb selection of classic action photographs
within reach of everyone." |
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