Fine Photography Books and Prints

MONOGRAPHS - Sa through Si

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. NOTE: The prices of the books listed on this web site are the publishers list prices. Most books are available significantly less than the posted list price.

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

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	SAHEL: The End of the Road, Sebastião Salgado 2004, University of Chicago Press 11.25" x 11.25", 160pp List price: $45.00	This earliest complete work became a template for his future photographic projects about other afflicted people around the world. Since then, Salgado has again and again sought to give visual voice to those millions of human beings who, because of military conflict, poverty, famine, overpopulation, pestilence, environmental degradation, and other forms of catastrophe, teeter on the edge of survival. Beautifully produced, with thoughtful supporting narratives by Orville Schell, Fred Ritchin, and Eduardo Galeano, this first U.S. edition brings some of Salgado's earliest and most important work to an American audience for the first time. Twenty years after the photographs were taken, 'Sahel: The End of the Road ' is still painfully relevant. Read more about this book
	Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age Sebastião Salgado 1993, Aperture 13.25" x 10.11", 400 pgs. List price: $100.00	"More then those of any other living photographer, Sebastião Salgado's images of the world's poor stand in tribute to the human condition. Salgado defines his work as "militant photography" dedicated to "the best comprehension of man"; over the decades he has bestowed great dignity on the most isolated and neglected among us-- from famine-stricken refugees in the Sahel to the indigenous peoples of South America. With Workers, Salgado brings us a global epic that transcends mere image making to become an affirmation of the enduring spirit of working men and women. In this volume, three hundred fifty duotone photographs form an archaeological perspective of the activities that have defined hard work from the Stone Age through the Industrial Revolution to the present. With images of the infernal landscape of an Indonesian sulfur mine, the drama of traditional Sicilian tuna fishing, and the staggering endurance of Brazilian gold miners, Salgado unearths layers of visual information to reveal the ceaseless human activity at the core of modern civilization. ..."
	Migrations: Humanity in Transition Sebastião Salgado 2000, Aperture 13.19" x 9.96", 432 pgs. List price: $100.00 Used copies available	"First published in April 2000, Migrations and its companion volume, The Children, have been garnering tremendous international attention ever since. Exhibited across the globe, from Brazil to Paris and Germany to New York, Sebastião Salgado's photographs continue to tour and to transform the perceptions of those who view them. As a testament to both their power and their relevance, a major exhibition of photographs from The Children was mounted as part of the United Nations Millennium Assembly in 2000."
	The Children: Refugees and Migrants, Sebastião Salgado 2000, Aperture 13.12" x 9.78", 112 pgs. List price: $29.95	"First published in April 2000, The Children and its companion volume, Migrations, have been garnering tremendous international attention ever since. Exhibited across the globe, from Brazil to Paris and Germany to New York, Sebastião Salgado's photographs continue to tour and to transform the perceptions of those who view them. As a testament to both their power and their relevance, a major exhibition of photographs from The Children was mounted as part of the United Nations Millennium Assembly in 2000."
	An Uncertain Grace Sebastião Salgado 1995, Aperture 13.25" x 11.5" List price: $60.00	Essays by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin "From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastiao Salgado explores the live of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart." Softbound available
	The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Disease Sebastião Salgado 2003, Bulfinch 10.3" x 8.42", 160 pgs. List price: $40.00	"In a world convulsed by war and hatred, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, begun in 1988, stands as a rare and inspiring example of what can be done when the world works together against a common enemy. Sebastião Salgado, known for his dedication to the plight of the world's dispossessed in Workers (1994) and Migrations (2000), traveled to five polio endemic countries--Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Pakistan, Somalia, and Sudan--to photograph the campaign to eradicate polio by 2005. He shares those photographs here. The book also includes a substantial essay by UNICEF writer Siddharth Dube, a comprehensive history of the disease presented in the form of an illustrated timeline; and information on how to help. THE END OF POLIO is an inspiring testament to the possibility for successful cooperation between nations and communities on levels ranging from local to global, as well as an important volume for those whose lives have been touched by polio."
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	Unrepentant Ego: Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras, Marla Prather 2003, Whitney Museum of Art 272 pgs. List price: $65.00	"Throughout his remarkably prolific career of more than 40 years, Lucas Samaras has built a diverse and highly textured body of work, largely with his own image. Self-depiction is arguably the driving force of his life's work. This book, the catalogue for a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is the first to focus on his self-portraiture. Marla Prather surveys Samaras's career from the late 1950s to the present, tracing his self-portraits in various mediums, including drawings, photography, boxes, mirrored environments, and film. There will also be an extensive, illustrated biography of the artist, making the catalogue an essential source for scholars. Including some 300 illustrations, Unrepentant Ego demonstrates Samaras's critical place in art history, which he has earned by creating provocative, multifaceted work outside the dominant trends of his time."
	Samaras: Photographs by Lucas Samaras Lucas Samaras 1988, Aperture 9.75" x 12.5", 184 pgs. List price: $50.00	Essay by Ben Lifson "Photographer, painter, sculptor, Lucas Samaras is one of the most influential and provocative artists of our time. Once again available to readers, this long out-of-print volume presents a thorough compilation of Samaras' photographic work, beginning with his earliest "Auto-Polaroids." This exhaustive body of work paved the way for a generation of contemporary photo-artists, expanding the expressive possibilities of the medium. Using Polaroid materials, large--sometimes life-sized--formats, manipulated imagery, and composites, Samaras helped forge a vocabulary employed by artists and photographers throughout the eighties. In his most profound achievement, he adopted one of photography's basic genres--portraiture--and used it as a basis for an inquiry into the self, which remains unmatched in its intensity and boundless in its ramifications. ..."
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	Sammallahti Pentti Sammallahti 2002, Nazraeli Press 17" x 10", 48 pp. List price: $75.00	30 duotone plates. This is an extraordinary volume of photographs by Finish photographer Sammallahti. Each plate is presented as an individual experience of the quite, soft light found in the far northern hemisphere. The photographs are wide views produced with an aesthetic and patience unique to this photographer. Second printing. Hard cover, slipcased.
	Pentti Sammallahti, Pentti Sammallahti 1998, Distributed Art Publishers 11.25" x 8.5", 108 pgs. (out of print, inquire for availability)
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	August Sanders: People of the 20th Century, Susanne Lange, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl 2002, Harry N. Abrams 11.86" x 9.2", 1400 pgs. List price: $195.00	"Revered as a father of modern photography, August Sander (1876– 1964) so refined the art of portraiture that his moving images of his fellow countrymen have been heralded both as an important sociological document and a photographic masterpiece. But those images make up only a portion of this deluxe seven-volume set, which will stand as the definitive collection of Sander's considerable achievement. The books include some 150 never-before-seen images and essays by leading experts on the German photographer's work. Praising Sander's "vision . . . his knowledge, and his immense photographic talent," the writer Alfred Döblin said: "Those who know how to look will learn from his clear and powerful photographs, and will discover more about themselves and more about others."
	August Sander: Citizens of the 20th Century: Portrait Photographs 1892-1952 1986, MIT Press 11.67" x 9.54", 512 pgs. List price: $75.00	"An unobtrusive portrait photographer who knew what he wanted from his subjects at the onset of his career, August Sander is the photographer of the soul and the chronicler of an age. ... The photography of August Sander, resounding with clarity and expressiveness, comprises an extraordinary human document. This volume of the Masters of Photography series includes forty-three of his portraits that reveal a vast cross section of German society, from pastry chefs to industrialists, and provide a provocative glance at the Weimar Republic."
	August Sander: 1876-1964 August Sander 1999, Taschen America, 13.75" x 10.75", 252 pgs. (used copies available)	168 plates.
	August Sander: Aperture Masters of Photography August Sander Aperture, 1997 8.32" x 8.32", 96 pgs. List price: $12.50	"The photography of August Sander, resounding with clarity and expressiveness, comprises an extraordinary human document. This volume of the Masters of Photography series includes forty-three of his portraits that reveal a vast cross section of German society, from pastry chefs to industrialists, and provide a provocative glance at the Weimar Republic."
	In Focus: August Sander, Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum August Sander 2000, J Paul Getty Museum Publications 7.64" x 6", 144 pgs. List price: $16.95	"The long life of German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) spanned one of the most turbulent eras in his country's history. The Great War of 1914-1918, the Weimar Republic, the reign of National Socialism, and the horrors of World War II all left an indelible imprint on both the man and his work. Sander, a conventional studio portraitist who transformed himself into an avant-gardist, exemplified the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of his time. He was at once innovative and deeply wedded to the past, blending a progressive vision with a traditional view of society and his craft. The approximately fifty plates featured in In Focus: August Sander are some of the most striking from the Getty Museum's more than twelve hundred pictures by the artist. They include images of rural dwellers such as those found in Young Farmers and Farm Girls, and other portraits including Wife of the Cologne Painter Peter Abelen, Parliamentarianand the poignant Blind Children, Duren. A chronological overview of Sander's life provides a factual framework for this discussion."
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	Jan Saudek, Jan Saudek 1998, Taschen America 12.5" x 9.25", 200 pgs. (used copies available)
	Realities, Jan Saudek 2002, Arena Editions 9.75" x 12.25", 196 pgs. (used copies available)	"Drawing on classical paintings, historical portraiture, and 19th-century pornographic studio photographs, the erotic images of Jan Saudek reveal a world of fantasy where artistic play and expression are given free range. Using elaborate backdrops and magical costumes, Saudek is both voyeur and participant, photographer and model, shifting back and forth in a style that lends the term autoportraiture new meaning. These 146 color photographs, featuring new and previously unpublished images with Saudek's commentaries, are as much about the artist as about the characters he creates. As Saudek states, "I don’t have the capacity to portray other people’s lives. I am portraying my own." "Spending time with Saudek’s images is an unsettling experience, a roller-coaster ride of attraction and repulsion, confirmation and confrontation."
	Jan Saudek: Jubilations Jan Saudek 1995, Rosbeek 142 pgs. (used copies available)	"This second major book dedicated to Saudek's work contains photographs that have not been published previously. With a short introduction by Pierre Borhan, this rich production is 100% Saudek."

	Schapiro's Hereos, Steve Schapiro's 2007, powerHouse Books 9¾ x 11½, 151 pp List price: $50.00	Muhammad Ali, Robert Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Martin Luther King Jr., Samuel Beckett, Ray Charles, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Barbra Streisand, James Baldwin, and Truman Capote. Schapiro’s Heroes brings together an extraordinary collection of stories in the photo-journalistic tradition of people who have shaped our lives, our politics, and our tastes by the celebrated documentarian Steve Schapiro. More about this book »
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	Rare Creatures: Portraits of Models, Howard Schatz 2002 Wonderland Press 106 pp. List price: $50.00	"Rare Creatures is a series of photographs by Howard Schatz of New York fashion models. The book contains 76 color photographs. Hundreds of models come to castings at our studio in New York as a necessary step in advance of a beauty or fashion shoot. They come from all over the world and they embody an enormous range of human expression, physical beauty, complexion, sexiness, personality and hope. This work was inspired by these "rare" creatures."
	Athlete, Howard Schatz 2002, Harper Collins 12" x 10", 256 pp. List price: $59.95	"In such uniquely visionary books as Water Dance, Pool Light, Passion & Line, and Nude Body Nude, Howard Schatz has established himself as one of the great photographers of the human form. Working primarily with dancers, Schatz has been particularly attracted to form shaped by function. Now, in Athlete, he reaches the zenith of his photographic paean to the human body, creating an astonishing record of the specialized forms both adapted to the wide spectrum of sport and shaped by fiercely focused effort. His subjects, as varied and meticulously documented as Audubon's birds, literally embody the astonishing array of physical perfection required for their particular sports. With a seamless blend of art and precision, Schatz shows us the awesome upper-body power of Olympic wrestling champion Rulon Gardner discus thrower Adam Setliff, and football player Joe Johnson; the lissome graces of high jumper Charles Austin and rhythmic gymnast Jessica Howard; the shock-absorbing legs of downhill skier Daron Rahlves; the sculptural perfection of NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens and sprinter Sean Crawford; the compact muscularity of gymnasts Tasha Schwikert and Sean Townsend; the Giacometti-like slenderness of marathoners Tegla Loroupe and American marathon champion Deena Drossin; as well as 125 other athletes at the top of their games, In serene portraits and intricately dissected motion photographs, Schatz gives us an unprecedented celebration of the body as divine machine, and manages at the same time to present a collective view of the human spirit at its most intense. ..."
	Pool Light, Howard Schatz 1999, Graphis Press 14" x 10.75", 250 pp. (used copies available)
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	Gary Schneider: Portraits, Gary Schneider 2004, Yale University Press 10" x 8.5", 136 pp. List price: $24.95	"Considered one of the most thought-provoking photographers practicing today, South African-born Gary Schneider creates unique luminescent portraits that transform their specific subject matter and probe the enigmatic character of identity. This remarkable book is the first to examine Schneider's innovative portrait work. Deborah Martin Kao discusses Schneider's re-presentation of nineteenth-century studio portraits, his handprint photograms, and his fragmented face portraits-all of which reveal as much about the language of photography as they do about the subjects being depicted. She shows how Schneider portrays the collaboration between artist and subject, seen in his use of a light pen to sculpt or trace his subjects over long exposures, and in his prints that display traces of movement in time. Kao also discusses Schneider's work with scientists to create negatives from which he makes strikingly beautiful images of blood, DNA, and strands of hair, and how these represent a fascinating evolution in traditional thinking about the nature of photographic portraiture. Gary Schneider: Portraits also features an interview with Schneider that provides insight into the life and working methods of an extraordinary contemporary photographer."
	Genetic Self-Portrait, Gary Schneider 1999, Light Work 10" x 8.25", 64 pp. List price: $35.00	"This first edition clothbound book includes 64 four-color and 55 halftone reproductions. To produce most of the images in Genetic Self-Portrait Schneider worked with internationally acclaimed scientists and utilized advanced imaging systems to present an intimate look at himself from dramatic handprints to individual chromosomes. The New York Times Magazine has recognized the ground breaking significance of Genetic Self-Portrait and featured a large selection of the work in their important Millennium series. The work also has been exhibited around the world and is scheduled to tour to major international institution in 2000 and beyond. The book is a ground breaking exploration of the infinite possibilities that define who we are and celebrates the art and science of fine printing. Printed on a rich uncoated paper at The Stinehour Press the book captures all the subtleties, grace and texture of Schneider's original prints. Genetic self-portrait also includes insightful and informative essays by Lori Pauli, Ann Thomas and Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles."
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	The Last Sideshow, Hanspeter Schneider 2004, Dazed Books 12.5" x 9.5", 160 pp. List price: $29.95	"The Last Sideshow is a wonderful chronicle of an American community of traveling circus performers. As a contributor to Vogue, GQ and Elle, Hanspeter Schneider's professional life has focused on the artifice of beauty. In his new book he challenges popular assumptions and captures beauty with charm and understanding, in perhaps the most unusual of places. The portraits have humor, dignity and vivacity but above all they are a fascinating account of a disappearing community."

	On Fire Larry Schwarm 2003, Duke University Press 10" x 10", 128 pp. List price: $39.95	"A startling, mesmerizing series of photographs of prairie fires, On Fire transports us from moments of almost apocalyptic splendor to the stillness of near abstraction. For over a decade Kansas-based photographer Larry Schwarm has been making extraordinary color photographs of the dramatic prairie fires that sweep across the vast grasslands of his native state each spring. Based on this stunning and extensive body of work, Schwarm was chosen from over 500 submission as the inaugural winner of the CDS/Honickman Foundation First Book Prize in Photography. With publication of On Fire, Duke University Press, in association with the Center for Documentary Studies and The Honickman Foundation, launches this major biennial book prize for American photographers. ..."

	The Color of Time, Sean Scully 2004, Steidl Publishing 9" x 13.25", 208 pp. List price: $60.00	"Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands, as close to home as his own studio. His photographs sometimes consist of close-up shots of his own paintings, wherein he zooms in on the material reality of his richly painted surfaces and transforms their colors and shapes into a different abstract configuration. More often, Scully goes from recognizable objects in the larger world to subjective impressions of them. Snapshots of façades, windows, and doors are never straightforward recordings of architectural elements. By depicting fading walls, cracked surfaces, rough edges, and the deep shadows created by them, these images capture beauty in decay, and evoke the basic contradiction of nature and life: solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. As metaphors of physical and mental conditions, the photographs capture the memories, feelings, and thoughts connected to the experience of that reality. It is precisely this continuing interchange of the recognizable and abstract worlds, the visible and the invisible, that empowers Scully's works in all media." Essays by Arthur C. Danto and Mia Fineman. ~Interview by Edward Lucie-Smith. - 190 color illustrations.
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	Under the Same Sky, Cario, Randa Shaath 2004, Witte de With/Fundació Antoni Tàpies 9.25" x 6.75", 128 pp. List price: $25.00	"In three series of black-and-white pictures, Randa Shaath meets and photographs the people who live in Cairo, Egypt's capital city. Under the Same Sky--Rooftops of Cairo documents the lives of people who inhabit the rooftops of the city's apartments. Profiles portrays a variety of local citizens, including painters and writers, poets and dancers, film directors and parking lot attendants. And In the Heart of the Nile captures the lives of the farmers and fishermen who live on the island Qursaya in the Nile, where the river runs through the center of Cairo. This monograph by Randa Shaath is part of the publications series being developed parallel to the project Contemporary Arab Representations." - 90 duotone illustrations Essay by Nadia Kamel. Introduction by Randa Shaath. Afterword by Catherine David and Nuria Enguita Mayo.
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	Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times, Deborah Martin Kao, et al. 2000 Yale University Press 10.31" x 9.37", 320 pgs. List price: $60.00	"Ben Shahn (1898-1964) was at once a painter and photographer who claimed himself not to make a distinction between the two, though the critics and scholars have always given privilege to the paintings. Shahn preferred the hand-held 35mm Leica and an anglefinder (a device like a periscope that allowed him to photograph people without pointing his camera at them) to the cumbersome large-format cameras. He shot what he called the "living theatre"-the unconscious expression of working class and immigrant populations on NYC streets-and left a poignant record of the worst years of the Great Depression. The point this really good book makes is that, paintings aside, Shahn's photographs have strong impact and intrinsic value. Shahn's view of NYC ignores the skyscrapers and bridges that many of his contemporaries fixed on and gives us NYC at street level, eye level."
	Ben Shahn, Photographer: An Album from the Thirties, Ben Shahn 1973, DaCapo Press (used copies avaialable)

	Meetings, Paul Shambroom 2004, Consortium 12" X 9.5", 11pp List price: $49.95	Dramatic and revealing large-format panoramic tableaux of American democracy in action. - publisher Read more about this book
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	The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. 2002, Bulfinch 12.54" x 9.76", 224 pgs. List price: $75.00	"Considered one of the most significant American painters of the period between the two world wars, and founder of the precisionist school, Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) was also one of the pivotal photographers of the modernist movement in this country. His direct style can be likened to that of contemporaries Paul Strand, and Edward Weston. Sheeler is perhaps best-known for documenting the transformation of the American industrial landscape (in both painting and photography), and for an early series of photographs of his Doylestown, PA, house."
	Charles Sheeler: The Photographs, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. 1987, New York Graphic Society (out of print, used copies available)
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	Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman 2003 11" x 9.25", 104 pp. List price: $42.50 Order this book	"A Serpentine retrospective of Sherman's many 'characters' and 'portraits' from the last three decades. From the black and white 'Actress' series, to her late 70's film stills, and her most recent 'Clowns.' Each is centred in the page surrounded by a generous white border. Rochelle Steiner introduces the catalogue with an essay about those who have influenced Sherman, and those she has in turn influenced." - publisher - softbound, 52 duotone plates
	Cindy Sherman: Film Stills, Cindy Sherman 2003, Museum of Modern Art 10.82" x 9.74", 164 pgs. List price: $39.95	"Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, a series of 69 black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980, is widely seen as one of the most original and influential achievements in recent art. Witty, provocative and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies crystallizes widespread concerns in our culture, examining the ways we shape our personal identities and the role of the mass media in our lives. ... In 1995, The Museum of Modern Art purchased the series from the artist, preserving the work in its entirety. This book marks the first time that the complete series will be published as a unified work, with Sherman herself arranging the pictures in sequence." - 69 duotone plates
	Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, Cindy Sherman, Amanda Cruz, et al. 2000, Thames & Hudson 12.09" x 9.19", 220 pgs. List price: $34.95	"This comprehensive book traces the career of Cindy Sherman, examining her achievements as one of the leading American artists of our time. Provocative and engaging, the vivid physicality of Sherman's photographs is the key to their dramatic power. By exploring the myriad constructions of female identity and the body in our culture, Sherman imitates and confronts assorted representational stereotypes, becoming for many an icon of the contemporary concerns of feminism and postmodernism. Essayists Amanda Cruz, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Amelia Jones offer keen insight and observations from several distinct vantage points, demonstrating that Sherman's work is a lens through which to view contemporary art and its ongoing concern with the profound issues of the structures of the self. More than 200 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centerfolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales, and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets, and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process. Cindy Sherman: Retrospective was first published to accompany an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 279 photographs, 145 in color
	Cindy Sherman: Photographic Works 1975-1995 Elisabeth Bronfen, et al. 2002, Schirmer/Mosel 11.5" x 9.74", 184 pgs. List price: $35.00
	Cindy Sherman: Centerfolds, Cindy Sherman 2004, Skarstedt Fine Arts 44 pgs. List price: $25.00	"One of Sherman’s most popular series - the Centerfolds were created in 1981 as a special project for Artforum at the invitation of Ingrid Sischy who was then the Editor. Composed by Sherman to utilize the "centerfold" format of the magazine, the 12 images feature self-portraits, which fill the frame. In the end Artforum chose not to run them, but they have since become both an integral point in the oeuvre of Sherman and a part of our contemporary visual iconography. The 12 images are featured in this handsome hardcover catalogue. Lisa Phillips, Director of The New Museum of Contemporary Art contributes the text. Issued in a relatively small print run this book should only increase in value over time."

	Stephen Shore 2007, Phaidon 160 pp List price: $49.95	Stephen Shore (b. 1947) is a true artistic innovator whose work has opened up new frontiers for contemporary photography. His photographs of everyday American scenes unveiled the exceptional beauty to be found in banality, at the same time laying the groundwork for contemporary photographic genres such as the diaristic snapshot and the monumentalized landscape. More about this book »
	Uncommon Places The Complete Works, Stephen Shore 2004, Aperture 10.25" x 11.75", 180 pp. List price: $50.00	Published by Aperture in 1982 and long unavailable, Stephen Shore’s legendary Uncommon Places has influenced a generation of photographers. Among the first artists to take color beyond advertising and fashion photography, Shore’s large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic tradition. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works presents a definitive collection of the original series, much of it never before published or exhibited. - 140 four-color images
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	Malick Sidibé: Photographs, Malick Sidibé 2004, Steidl Publishing 11.75" x 11.5", 108 pp. List price: $60.00	"Malick Sidibé documented an important period of West African history with great commitment, enthusiasm, and insight, focusing on Malian youth in the 1950s and 60s. His portraits and documentary photography captured the unique atmosphere and vitality of an African capital in a period of great euphoria. From the earliest days of the postcolonial period, Sidibé was a privileged witness to a period of tremendous, euphoric cultural change. As a young but well thought-of photographer, he captured a time of paradigm shift and youthful insouciance with a healthy curiosity about the rest of the world, and a valiant sense of pride and confidence in the future. Sidibé learned the basic skills of studio photography as an apprentice before he began making reportage photographs. Since then, he has been devoted to photography. His portraits and documentary photographs, from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, now bear witness to the cultural and social development of post-colonial Mali. We see joy, hope, beauty, and power in these psychologically captivating images. Sidibé's work, originally intended for an African audience, is a unique memoir and testimony for a world audience." - 100 Tritones

	American Horizons. The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh, Art Sinsabaugh 2004, Hudson Hills Press 11.25" x 14.5", 168 pp. List price: $50.00	Text by Nanette Esseck Brewer This revealing monograph explores how Sinsabaugh's wide format photographs expose the bond between humankind and the earth as suggested by his images of wide horizons, interspersed by skyscrapers, bridges, silos and highways. - publisher
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	Jeanloup Sieff: 40 Years of Photography Jeanloup Sieff 1996 Taschen America 14.25" x 10.25", 288 pgs. (used copies available)
	Dance Jeanloup Sieff 1999, Smithsonian Institution Press 9 " x 9", 60 pgs. List price: $25.95	"Seif's career photographing haute couture and the nude combine to present an intriguing, sensual account of the world of dance."
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	Laurie Simmons: Interior and Big Figures, Laurie Simmons 2003, Skarstedt Fine Art 9.5" x 8", 44 pp. List price: $30.00	Essay by Collier Schorr. "In a 1992 interview, Laurie Simmons stated that, in her first body of color works, she was "trying to recreate a feeling, a mood from the time I was growing up: a sense of the 50s that I knew was both beautiful and lethal at the same time." Reproduced here, her early series Interiors and Big Figures depict a post-World War II, 50s suburbia through plastic housewife and cowboy dolls placed in constructed interiors and manipulated exteriors. While the dolls provide a sense of play, the reality of the images they model is unavoidable. The female is pictured in the home, but she is alone, isolated, and vulnerable. The cowboy exudes the confidence and independence of a life of adventure, but he cannot escape the implied violence, racism, and paternalism that also characterize his ideal." - 47 color illustrations
	In and Around the House: Photographs 1976 - 78, Laurie Simmons 2003, Distributed Art Publishers 9.5" x 11.5", 104 pp. List price: $39.95	Essays by Carol Squiers and Laurie Simmons "Laurie Simmons has been dealing with issues from In and Around the House since the mid-1970s. Her seminal early work was some of the first to use set-up photography to create images with intensely psychological subtexts and forcefully feminist content. The 1950s-style constructed interiors used dolls, dollhouse furnishings, miniature props, postcards, interior decoration books, pamphlets and magazines to create images that questioned female stereotypes and American clichés with humor and charm. Though they were shot both in color and black, the latter have remained woefully under-published and are presented here, for the first time, in full, along with a critical essay by Carol Squiers, curator at the International Center of Photography in New York, and a personal account by Simmons herself." - 60 black-and-white illustrations
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	Aaron Siskind 100, Aaron Siskind 2003 powerHouse 13.18" x 10", 176 pgs. List price: $65.00	"One of the most important and influential artists working in photography during the twentieth century, Aaron Siskind is being celebrated on the occasion of his 100th birthday with the publication of this sumptuous and comprehensive monograph bringing together both well-known and never-before-published images. Siskind's prolific career spanned six decades and has left its mark on both photography and art history. In 1932, at age twenty-nine, Siskind began his career as a photographer and spent the next nine years, under the auspices of the New York Photo League, working on social documentary photography. Around 1940, Siskind made a shift towards abstraction and suddenly entered an art world populated by painters and sculptors. During the course of the decade, Siskind began to explore a vision that depended on the shallow plane, and utilized delicate, minimal designs. "For the first time in my life subject matter, as such, had ceased to be of primary importance," Siskind explained. "Instead I found myself involved in the relationships of these objects, so much so that the pictures turned out to be deeply moving and personal experiences." The photograph had become the object. Siskind's style of gesture and nuance, a new form of visual calligraphy, dominated his work for the next forty years, and ran parallel to the developments of his colleagues, the abstract expressionists. ..."
	Bucks County: Photographs of Early Architecture Aaron Siskind 1974, Horizon Press (used copies available)
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