Fine Photography Books and Prints

MONOGRAPHS - Sk through Sz

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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	Sandy Skoglund, Linda Muehlig 1998, Harry N. Abrams 9.85" x 9.31", 120 pgs. (used copies available)	This photographer creates surreal environments to photograph that are complex, inventive, and with a sense of humor.

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	Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project, 1955-1958 W. Eugene Smith 2001, W.W. Norton & Company 11.39" x 9.83", 176 pgs. List price: $39.95	"Legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith's epic study of Pittsburgh in the 1950s. In 1955, having just ended his high-profile but stormy career with Life magazine by resigning, W. Eugene Smith was commissioned to spend three weeks in Pittsburgh and produce one hundred photographs for noted journalist and author Stefan Lorant's book commemorating the city's bicentennial. Smith stayed a year, compiling nearly sixteen thousand photographs for what would be the most ambitious photographic essay of his life. But only a fragment of the work was ever seen, despite Smith's lifelong conviction that it was his greatest set of photographs. Now, in an astonishing, first-time assemblage, edited by Sam Stephenson, of the group of core pictures that Smith asserted were the "synthesis of the whole," we see a portrayal not just of Pittsburgh but also of America at mid-century by a master photojournalist. In his accompanying essay, Alan Trachtenberg provides a critical reading of Smith's photographs, assessing Smith's attempt to document visually an American city in the context of the time period." - 175 duotone photographs.
	Let Truth Be the Prejudice : W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs, Ben Maddow 1998, Apeture 13.32" x 10.38", 240 pgs. List price: $50.00	"Photographs by W. Eugene Smith Illustrated biography by Ben Maddow Afterword by John G. Morris Let Truth Be The Prejudice documents the life and work of W. Eugene Smith, a man whose work expanded the range and depth of photography, bringing new aesthetic and moral power to the photo essay. ..."
	W. Eugene Smith W. Eugene Smith 1999, Aperture 8.34" x 8.35", 96 pgs. List price: $12.50	Essay by Jim Hughes "My station in life is to capture the action of life, the life of the world, its humor, its tragedies, in other words, life as it is. A true picture, unposed and real."--W. Eugene Smith W. Eugene Smith is the master of the photographic essay; he created essays which include some of the most dramatic and affecting single images of the twentieth century. Fiercely energetic, he made countless photographs memorable for their formal brilliance and for their compassion. This volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography presents more than seventy of Smith's greatest photographs, selected from work created over the course of forty-five years."
	W Eugene Smith Master of the Photographic Essay W. Eugene Smith 1981, Aperture (out of print, used copies avaialable)

	Tuscanny: Wandering the Back Roads-Vol. II Michael A. Smith 2004, Lodima Press 9.6" x 20", 128 pp List price: $95.00	The land of Tuscany has nurtured and inspired artists for centuries. In Tuscany: Wandering the Back Roads, Volume I, by Paula Chamlee, and Volume II, by Michael A. Smith, the glorious tradition continues and is even enhanced in their deeply personal and beautiful photographs of one of the most alluring and romantic places in the world. - publisher Read more about this book
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	You're Not from Around Here: Photographs of East Tennessee, Mike Smith 2004, Center for American Places 10" x 11.5", 428 pp. List price: $45.00	"In trying to gain entry to the interior, private world of Southern Appalachia virtually forgotten by the rest of America, photographer Mike Smith would often hear, upon knocking at a door, 'You're not from around here.' Despite his 'outsider' status, Smith, through these beautiful photographs, allows us a rare and intimate glimpse of this unique region of America."
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	Public Appearances, 1987-1991: Snowdon Anthony Armstron-Jones Snowden (Lord Snowden) 1991, Diane Publishing 158 pgs. List price: $30.00	"From his innovative theatrical photography of the 1950s through the important reportage photography of the '60s and '70s to the portraits of today, Lord Snowdon's versatility and sensitivity as a portrait photographer remains unmatched. Subjects include dancers, pop stars, actors, writers, politicians, painters, and designers." - 155 illustrations, with 133 in full color. Softbound edition - 1992, Vendome
	Snowdon on Stage: Four Decades of Photographs Lord Snowden 1997, Chrysalis Books 12.52" x 10.11", 157 pgs. (used copies available)	"Encouraged by his uncle to start taking theatre photographs, Snowdon''s style was suited to the new generation of British theatre which emerged in the 1950s, and he soon became popular. This book presents a selection of his work." Softbound edition - 1997, Chrysalis Books
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	4 Pi R Squared, Camille Solyagua 2003, Nazraeli Press 17" x 14", 40 pp. List price: $75.00	"Using the universally binding mathematical equation for the surface area of a sphere—4 pi R2—as a leaping-off point, Solyagua has created and photographed spheres that seem to have a life of their own. Any number of universes are compellingly evoked—from the minutiae of life seen under the gaze of a microscope to the grandiosity of planets traversing the galaxies. But they are neither of these. The straightforward combination of light shone through soap bubbles—the spherical culprits whose silhouettes have been recorded—onto photographic paper creates a visual world both familiar and foreign, imaginary and real, infinitely delicate and monolithically sturdy."
	Cirque Des Fourmis, Camille Solyagua 1999, Naraeli Press (used copies available)
	Benevolent Pleasures of Sight, Camille Solyagua 1997, Nazraeli Press 11" x 9", 56 pp. List price: $45.00 (used copies available) order this book directly	"Camille Solyagua's photographs of natural history function within a tradition of 'Wunderkammers,' cabinets of natural curiosities brought together by visual analogies, leading to an optic-based epistemology. Benevolent Pleasures of Sight presents the first comprehensive selection of Solyagua's photogrpahs, exquisitely printed in duotone, in an edition of 1,000 numbered copies. An introduction by Robert Sobieszek, Curator of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, discusses how Solyagua's work unites an 18th-century notion of 'extraordinary eccentricities' with a Surrealist concept of 'convulsive beauty,' while Ruth Bernhard writes of her own deeply personal response to the photographs of this gifted young artist." - publisher.
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	The Box, Frederick Sommer 1996, Nazraels Press 4.5" x 4.5" List price: $400.00	Frederick Sommer first became renowned for his austere desert landscapes and portraits – a flattened jackrabbit from 1939, a portrait of Max Ernst merged with the side of a weathered building. He later turned his fascination with what he termed “elegance of form” in surprising directions: a series of dramatically lit paper cutouts from the late 1970s, and his photo-collages from the 1990s, meticulous works incorporating anatomical drawings. The Box is a randomly-ordered series of 64 cards which readers can re-compose into a unique sequence/book of their own. A limited number of copies from the first printing of 1,000 hand numbered copies are available. Sixty-four 4 x 4 inch cards, enclosed in a clear lucite box.

	Dog Days Bogata, Alec Soth 2007, Steidl 9" x 9", 96 pp List price: $35.00	After completing the work for his first book, Sleeping by the Mississippi, in 2002, Alec Soth traveled with his wife to Bogotá, Colombia, to adopt a baby girl. The baby's birth mother had given the new parents a book filled with letters, pictures and poems for their daughter. Read more »
	Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth 2004, Steidl 10.75" x 11.25", 120 pp List price: $45.00	Essays by Anne Wilkes Tucker and Patricia Hampl Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected "third coast." Soth's richly descriptive, large-format color photographs present an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, Sleeping by the Mississippi elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing, and reverie. "In the book's 46 ruthlessly edited pictures," writes Anne Wilkes Tucker, "Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime, learning, art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex." Like Robert Frank's classic The Americans, Sleeping by the Mississippi merges a documentary style with a poetic sensibility. The Mississippi is less the subject of the book than its organizing structure. Not bound by a rigid concept or ideology, the series is created out of a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust. - publisher
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	Native Soil Jack Spencer 1999, Louisiana State Inuversity Press 11.83" x 12.39", 168 pgs. List price: $65.00	"A Southerner born and bred, Spencer presents a collection of brooding black-and-white photographs of the South that read as richly as color images. His work--portraits that are clearly stage-directed but pull the viewer in, and landscapes mysteriously shrouded with mist or smoke--are technically proficient and unusual. Some images (like his picture of a headless man holding a glistening fish) are even unforgettable. And most importantly, his out-of-the-ordinary photographic printing technique doesn't overshadow the meaning and power of the images. ..." - Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

	Attracted to Light Doug and Mike Starn 2003. powerHouse Books 120 pgs. List price: $85.00	" ... A sumptuously oversized and exquisitely produced book, Attracted to Light showcases the Starns' extensive conceptual portrait series of the nocturnal moths' mysterious journey and the seeming gravitational force that light has over them, "captured" in photographs and filmic video footage. ..."
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	Edward Steichen Joel Smith 1999, Princeton University 12.32" x 10.18", 168 pgs. (used copies avaialable)	"One of the most influential figures in the history of photography, Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was also one of the most precocious. Born in Luxembourg, raised in Wisconsin, and trained as a lithographer's apprentice, Steichen took up photography in his teens, and by age twenty-three had created brooding tonalist landscapes and brilliant psychological studies that won the praise of Alfred Stieglitz in New York and Auguste Rodin in Paris, among others. Over the next decade, this young man--the preferred portraitist of the elites of two continents--was repeatedly acclaimed as the peerless master of the painterly photograph. This volume, covering the period from the late 1890s to World War I, highlights masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which houses the finest collection of Steichen's early work in the world, and reproduces them in near-facsimile through four-color digital offset lithography. ..."
	Steichen's Legacy Joanna Steichen 2000, Knopf 12.33" x 10", 408 pgs. List price: $100.00	A magnificent book--315 photographs by Edward Steichen, the man Auguste Rodin called "the greatest photographer of his time." "This is the first gathering in thirty years of Steichen's photographs, spanning seven decades: the landscapes, the haunting studies of flowers, the portraits of friends and family, the still lifes and cityscapes. Here are fashion photographs taken during the fifteen years Steichen worked for Vogue. And here too are the breathtaking portraits he made for Vanity Fair: Colette, Noel Coward, Greta Garbo, Willa Cather, Isadora Duncan . . . William Butler Yeats, Henri Matisse, Thomas Mann . . . George Gershwin, Amelia Earhart, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (taken when he was governor of New York--a standard pose, the decisive leader in his chair--but later, when FDR was president, cropped by Steichen to show the sad, serious face of a visionary acquainted with suffering). ..."
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	American Prospects, Joel Sternfeld 2003, Distributed Arts Publishers 140 pp. List price: $75.00	"Originally published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld’s now-classic view of America is here remastered, redesigned, and reprinted at a larger, brighter, truer scale. Finally, photography and offset printing techniques have caught up with Sternfeld’s eye, and this new edition of American Prospects succeeds in presenting Sternfeld’s most seminal work as it has always meant to be shown. A specially-commissioned essay by Kerry Brougher, Chief Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, considers the historical context in which Sternfeld was working and the pivotal role that American Prospects has played in the course of contemporary filmmaking and art photography. In American Prospects, a fireman shops for a pumpkin while a house burns in the background; a group of motorcyclists stop at the side of the road to take in a stunning, placid view of Bear Lake, Utah; the high-tech world headquarters of the Manville Corporation sits in picturesque Colorado, obscured by a defiant boulder; a lone basketball net stands in the desert near Lake Powell in Arizona; and a cookie-cutter suburban housing settlement rests squarely amongst rolling hills in Pendleton, Oregon. Sternfeld's photographic tour of America is a search for the truth of a country not just as it exists in a particular era but as it is in its ever-evolving essence. It is a sad poem, but also a funny and generous one, recognizing endurance, poignant beauty, and determination within its sometimes tense, often ironic juxtapositions of man and nature, technology and ruin. "
	Walking the High Line, Joel Sternfeld 2002, Steidl 8.75" x 10.75", 56 pp. List price: $30.00	"Sometimes like a river of grass, sometimes like the wheat fields of the Canadian prairies, the High Line is a unique ruin that simultaneously permits contemplation of nature and the city. Since March 2000, photographer Joel Sternfeld has been documenting the abandoned elevated railway line which runs for 1.5 miles along the West Side of New York City, from 34th Street down along the edge of the Hudson River, through West Chelsea's tree-lined blocks and art galleries, and into the heart of the Meat Packing District. Walking the path of this real-time landscape, Sternfeld has created a suite of images in which the landscape is read as both a social and cultural indicator."
	Stranger Passing, Joel Sternfeld 2001, Bulfinch 12" x 13.8", 144 pp. List price:$50.00	"The long awaited follow-up to Sternfeld's classic American Prospects, STRANGER PASSING is a fresh view of contemporary society that accompanies a major new exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. With an essay by celebrated novelist and humor writer Ian Frazier and another by Douglas R. Nickel, of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stranger Passing is an in-depth look at the art of Joel Sternfeld."
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	Baghdad. Truth Lies Within, Bruno Stevens 2004, Ludion 11" x 9.5", 240 pp. List price: $39.95	Foreword by Jon Lee Anderson. Truth Lies Within tells the story of the people in the ancient city of Baghdad, before, during, and after the war that took place in Iraq in the spring of 2003. It tells the story of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime and of the chaos which accompanied the arrival of the Americans. But more than anything else, as its title suggests, this book is concerned with telling the truth--and rightly so, becaus few wars of modern times have ever been so lied about. An emotional diary of 200 photographs, Truth Lies Within also includes written contributions from highly esteemed journalists. Jon Lee Anderson, foreign correspondant with The New Yorker, who was embedded in Baghdad as the bombs fell, offers a preface. Observations come from Monica G. Prieto of El Mundo and John Morris, the photo editor of The New York Times during the Vietnam War, closes the book with an afterword. In the end, the only palpable truth to be found in Baghdad before, during and after the war was the one so unforgettably chronicled here by Bruno Stevens. In Truth Lies Within, we see what he saw: the Iraqi people, as they live and die in the midst of a violent upheaval which they could do nothing to prevent. --Jon Lee Anderson Essay by Monica Garcia Prieto. 100 color and 100 duotones
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		see Alfred Stieglitz p The Eloquent Eye DVD Title
	Alfred Stieglitz : Aperture Masters of Photography Alfred Stieglitz 1997, Aperture 8.28" x 8.28", 96 pgs. List price: $12.50	"Alfred Stieglitz was one of the most important cultural forces in twentieth-century America. He described himself in 1921 as "an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession." As a photographer, editor, and gallery director, Stieglitz was a powerful--often domineering--influence on photography and art. As founder of the PhotoSecession movement and editor of the influential Camera Work, he eschewed the prevailing "artiness" of pictorialist photography, preferring a clarity of vision, a "crystallized awareness." In galleries such as "291" and An American Place which he directed, he introduced modern artists from this country and Europe. His own work was a seminal force, inspiring cultt-like devotion; the noted curator and scholar Ananda Coomoraswamy said of Stieglitz, "His art is absolute the way Bach's music is absolute." He is best known for his winter scenes in New York and Paris, his luminous landscapes at Lake George, his portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe and Dorothy Norman, and his elusive Equivalents. His study of the expressiveness of forms and the subtleties of light won him great acclaim. Alfred Stieglitz presents forty-one of the artist's most significant photographs, spanning his career. Photographer Dorothy Norman, Stieglitz's close associate and working partner, has written an intimate and comprehensive text.
	In Focus: Alfred Steiglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum Alfred Steiglitz 1995, J Paul Getty Museum Publications 7.71" x 6", 144 pgs. List price: $17.50	"This latest volume in the acclaimed In Focus series examines the life and work of Alfred Stieglitz, concentrating on the Getty Museum's considerable holdings of the work of this American master. In his studies of his wife, Georgia O'Keefe, in his portraits of the urban scene, and in his pictures of natural form, Stieglitz defined the modern movement on photography. In his periodical Camera Work he championed photography as an art form; in his famous gallery "An American Place," he promoted the work of other American modernists. Fifty reproductions with commentaries by Weston Naef, the Getty's curator of photographs, represent both the range of the Getty's collection and the importance of Stieglitz's contribution. The book also includes an edited colloquium on Stieglitz's life and work. ..."
	Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set the Alfred Stieglitz Vol I&II Collection of Photographs, Sara Greenough 2002, Harry N. Abrams 15.54" x 12. 26", 1100 pgs. List price: $150.00	"Few individuals have exerted as profound an influence on 20th-century American art and culture as Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). This luxurious two-volume boxed set is the definitive catalogue of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the most complete Stieglitz holding in existence, donated to the gallery by his widow, artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Numbering 1,642 photographs, the collection represents the full range of the master photographer's work-from early studies made in Europe, to views of the majestic New York skyline, to incomparable intimate portraits of O'Keeffe. Coinciding with a major traveling exhibition and providing complete scholarly apparatus and a chronology, this sumptuous volume demonstrates how Stieglitz absorbed the most advanced artistic concepts of his time into photography and transformed the medium forever."
	Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings Alfred Stieglitz 1999, Bulfinch 14.35" x 11.2", 248 pgs. (used copies available)	This volume of Stieglitz work is printed on heavy stock lending a sense of originality to these reproductions. The images are a very good overview of this very influential photographer's work.
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	Paul Strand Southwest 2004, Aperture 9.5" x 11.5", 112 pp. List price: $50.00	This book reconstructs, in an intimate, visual way, the emotional and creative swirl around Paul Strand, through beautiful reproductions of his images from the period and a comprehensive collection of notes, illustrations, and ephemera. - publisher - Read more about this book
	Paul Strand: 60 Years of Photographs, Calving Tomkins 1999, Aperture 11.45" x 9.56", 184 pgs. List price: $35.00	"Sixty Years of Photographs, back in print after many years, is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the power and force of a major photographic figure of our time. Before his death in 1976, Strand spent his last days going over his photographic prints and his many books with an eye to the completion of this volume. Because of his insistence on growth and movement toward perfection throughout his career, and to be true to his vision, the editors examined over three thousand photographs, constituting the main body of the work of Strand's lifetime. This volume, includes an insightful biographical profile by Calvin Tomkins and excerpts from Strand's correspondence, interviews, and other documents."
	Paul Strand circa 1916, Maria Morris Hambourg 1997, Yale University Press 11.5" x 12.5", 168 pgs. List price: $29.95	"Strand's large platinum prints of scenes in and around New York City are reproduced here in superb tritone plates. Hambourg, Curator of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, supplies the text with accompanying duotone images. She traces the early development of Strand's ideas, the complex cultural context of his experiments, and the emergence of such masterpieces as and . All but three of the plates are based on the original vintage prints."
	Tir a'Mhurain: Outer Hebrides, Paul Strand 2002, Aperture 11.64" x 9.78", 152 pgs. List price: $40.00	"In 1954 Paul Strand and his wife, Hazel, spent three months traversing the rugged island of South Uist, off the west coast of Scotland. Tir a' Mhurain is a collection of photographs that reflects the impressions they gathered during their stay. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's beautifully sequenced photographs depict the perfect complicity he saw between nature and habitation in this wild terrain. Whether it is a view of rocks and the sea or a grinning shepherd boy, scudding clouds hanging over seaside houses, or the wrinkled face of an old lady framed by a knitted shawl, Strand's images transcend the ephemeral. By alternating portraits with staggeringly beautiful images of the environment, he not only evokes the rich inner life of his subjects but allows people and landscape to complement one another. ..."
	Paul Strand, Masters of Photography, Paul Strand 1997, Aperture 8.31" x 8.31", 96 pgs. List price: $12.50
	LA France De Profil, Paul Strand 2001, Aperture 12.32" x 9.62", 144 pgs. List price: $45.00	"Originally published in French by La Guilde du Livre (Lausanne, Switzerland, 1952) and now reissued by the Aperture Foundation in a first English-language edition, this a profile of life in mid-century rural France by the great American photographer Strand (1890-1976). Following World War II, Strand moved to France and documented its rural areas in photographs. These close-up, seemingly candid images of the people, the countryside, and the architectural structures contain Strand's characteristic style of realism, depth of detail, and innate sensitivity to the environment. To supplement these exquisite pictures, French poet Roy, who knew Strand personally, provides a delightfully lyrical potpourri of poems, commentary, and collages assembled from bits of small-town newspapers. ..."
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	Vol. 4: The Fourth Body, Roy Stuart 2004, Taschen 9.25" x 11.75"208 pp. List price: $39.99	Based in Paris with a reputation as a grandmaster of the erotic camera, Roy Stuart has exhibited his work in numerous galleries throughout the world. He has published three best-sellers with TASCHEN prior to this final follow-up collection of subversive, erotic fantasy narratives. The book also contains a DVD which includes excerpts from his soon to be released feature film "The Lost Door". - publisher
	Roy Stuart Vol. III, Roy Stuart 2000, Taschen 9.25" x 12", 240 pp (used copies available)
	Roy Stuart Vol. II, Roy Stuart 1999 , Taschen 9.25" x 12", 200 pp (used copies available)
	Roy Stuart Vol. I, Roy Stuart 1998 , Taschen 9.25" x 12", 160 pp (used copies available)	" In turns voyeuristic, in turns narrative, Roy Stuart's photographs, with their disarming explicitness, subvert traditional moral codes and force the viewer to reevaluate his or her preconceived notions of sexuality."
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	Jock Sturges-Twenty-Five Years 2004, Paul Cava Publications 9.75" x 11.75", 56 pp List price: $50.00	Jock Sturges—Twenty-Five Years is an unique addition to the family of Jock Sturges publications. It is the first that presents an overview of his classic images made between the years 1978-2003 with personal commentary by the photographer opposite each reproduction. The twenty-five duotone reproductions are beautifully printed by Stinehour Press in an edition of 3000 copies. Read more about this book
	Jock Sturges: Notes, Jock Sturges 2004, Aperture 10" x 9", 96 pp List price: $39.95	Jock Sturges: Notes gives fans of his unforgettable images a glimpse behind the scenes of his working process, opening up his studio and notes to the viewer for the very first time. - publisher Read more about this book
	Jock Sturges: New Work, Jock Sturges 2000, Scalo Verlag 14.5" x 13", 112 pgs. List price: $70.00	"Building on his first monograph, Jock Sturges, presents us with a new body of work that strikes the same chords of beauty and evolution that we find in his earlier images, but with a more intense dramatic and metaphoric intention. His new work often has an almost theatrical effect on the viewer-seeming to emanate directly from the lives of the artist's models. The settings, the subjects, the sumptuous lighting will all be familiar to longtime admirers of Sturges' ongoing body of work. As his experience as a photographer has deepened and his relationships with his growing subjects spans decades of collaboration, both subjects and photographer have found more to say to each other. The new photographs include diptychs of clothed/nude models, pictures of true mutual trust, as well as never-before seen color photographs! This large format book takes direct aim at Jock Sturges' long-standing vision as his large format, 8x10 view-camera always demanded the large exhibition prints that were to follow. Thanks to the brilliant combination of computer-driven advances in modern printing techniques and the old-world attention to detail and craftsmanship, this book sets a new standard for the reproduction of artworks."
	Radiant Identities, Jock Sturges 1994, Aperture 11.7" x 10", 96 pgs. List price: $45.00	Introduction by Elizabeth Beverly, Afterword by A. D. Coleman "In Radiant Identities, photographer Jock Sturges explores issues of youth and the liberation of body and spirit. These unforgettable images are made from his own circle of acquaintances and family; the settings are their homes and stretches of naturist beaches in France and Northern California. In superb reproductions, Sturges evokes the classical spirit of Old Master paintings and late-nineteenth-century photographic tableaux, while probing concepts of emergent sexuality and psychological intimacy. Aperture's 1991 publication of Sturges's first book, The Last Day of Summer, came shortly after the FBI's much-publicized raid on his home in California, the confiscation of thousands of his images-- deemed "pornographic"-- and the subsequent rejection of the case by a federal grand jury. Now in its ninth printing, The Last Days of Summer has outlived and transcended that ordeal, drawing both critical and popular acclaim throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, and bringing Sturges well-deserved artistic recognition. Radiant Identities is the second volume of Sturges's ongoing work. Physically and psychically revealing, these deeply felt images are gloriously natural and wonderfully compelling."
	The Last Day of Summer, Jock Sturges 1998, Aperture 11.64" x 10", 95 pgs. List price $45.00	"Magical in detail, these photographs of the people whom Sturges cherishes most are a collaboration of trust and admiration." - 60 duotone photographs. Soft bound edition - 1993, Aperture, List price: $29.95
	Jock Sturges, Jock Sturges 1996, Scalo Verlag 207 pgs. (used copies available)	"This is the first comprehensive publication on American photographer Jock Sturges (b.1947) compiled by the artist himself. It is nothing less than an ode to beauty. For more than 20 years, he has been taking photographs of girls growing up, both in his native California and at a nudist resort on the Atlantic coast of France. Nudity in Sturges' work has never been a cheap or tawdry gimmick, rather it is shown as human being's natural state. His photographs are an expression of the trust he has established over the years with the girls and their families. ..."
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	Josef Sudek: Poet of Prague, Josef Sudek 1990, Aperture 11.68" x 9.81", 160 pgs. List price: $45.00	"Here is the most comprehensive compilation of Josef Sudek's photographs, providing the rare opportunity to see for the first time the masterworks of one of photography's greatest artists."
	Josef Sudek, Josef Sudek 1999, Gina Keyahoff Publication 13.75" x 10.75", 408 pgs. List price: $125.00	"Little-known in the West, Czech photographer Josef Sudek (1896-1976), who lost an arm in WW I, endured from 1938 onwards the hardships of Nazi and Soviet occupations, but persisted in his art, producing an intensely personal and emotional body of work. That work is classified in this luxurious monograph into three major categories: Prague city panoramas; architectural and street studies comparable to Eugene Atget's Paris portfolios; and evocative "mood" compositions--views of an ancient Greek coin, a Gothic church, an Art Nouveau window, bare winter branches, chestnuts in bloom. In a preface, Kirschner, photography curator of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, recalls how Sudek created from limited settings a "Magic Garden" of photographs--and, in contrast to most of his work, at times embraced surrealism: his often startling use of a glass eye as a prop was a favored device." - Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc
	Praha Panoramatická, Josef Sudek 1959 8.75" x 13.75", 300 pgs. (out of print, copies available upon request)	Sudek photographs the city of Prague using a panoramic camera creating negatives 10 x 30 cm. The reproductions in this book are superb photogravure. The images are of both city life and the surrounding landscape of Prague.
	Prague Panoramique, Josef Sudek 2002, Paris Audiovisuel
	Prague Panoramic, Josef Sudek 1992, Odeon 292 pgs. (used copies available)
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	Sugimoto Architecture Hiroshi Sugimoto 2003, Museum of Contemporary Art 12.3" x 11.32", 168 pgs. List price: $55.00	"Known for his long-exposure photographic series of empty movie theaters and drive-ins, seascapes, museum dioramas, and waxworks, Hiroshi Sugimoto has been turning his camera on international icons of 20th-century architecture since 1997. His deliberately blurred and seemingly timeless photographs depict structures as diverse as the Empire State Building, Le Corbusier's Chapel de Nôtre Dame du Haut, and Tadao Ando's Church of Light in Osaka. The resulting black-and-white photographs, shot distinctly out of focus and from unusual angles, are not attempts at documentation but rather evocation--meant to isolate the buildings from their contexts, allowing them to exist as dreamlike, uninhabited ideals. ..." Essays by Francesco Bonami, John Yau and Marco de Michelis. Foreword by Robert Fitzpatrick. - 68 Tritone illustrations
	Sugimoto: Portraits Hiroshi Sugimoto 2003, Distributed Art Publishers 12.96" x 10.68", 170 pgs. List price: $40.00	"Sugimoto: Portraits is the definitive discussion to date of the thought-provoking contemporary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Following a career that has focused on formal studies of museum dioramas, cinema interiors, and exquisite seascapes, Sugimoto accepted a commission from the Guggenheim to create a series of life-size black-and-white portraits of waxwork figures. His latest method of working enables him to take pictures of people who existed long before the invention of the camera: "I wanted to be the first sixteenth-century photographer," he says of his carefully constructed portraits of Henry VIII and his six wives. He notes that during the 18th century, wax figures played the same role of preserving a likeness as a portrait photograph. Seventy-five of Sugimoto's waxwork portraits are reproduced here in richly textured duotones. ..."
	Sugimoto Hiroshi Sugimoto 1999, Fotofolio 9.25" x 9.75", 72 pgs. (used copies available)
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	Larry Sultan: The Valley, Larry Sultan 2004, Scalo Verlag 14.5" x 11", 176 pp. List price: $75.00	Since 1988, Larry Sultan has returned time and again to photograph on porn sets in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley--the Silicon(e) Valley of the porn industry. But The Valley is by no means a documentary on porn filmmaking. Rather, it is a dense series of pictures of middle-class homes invaded by the porn industry. Sultan's lens focuses on pedestrian details--a piece of half-eaten pie, dirty linens in a heap, "actors" taking a break--that offer clues to a bizarre other-world. The lush and intricate images adroitly play with artifice and reality, adding up to rich, elliptical narratives that circle around the concepts of "home" and "desire." These images of homes and gardens, porn actors and film crews, studio and location shootings are an ambiguous meditation on suburbia and its trappings, family and transgression, loss and desire, the utopias and dystopias of middle-class lifestyle. The Valley and its many-layered photographs outline the complexity of domestic life at the beginning of the 21st century, opening up new perspectives for photography through its innovative combination of staged and documentary photographs. In 1998, an English magazine asked me to go on a porn set. I flew down to Burbank Airport with my wife, and we went to the house they'd given me the address of. It was a dentist's house on Van Alden. That name had all kinds of connotations when I was in high school. Because the Valley is so haunted for me by the ghosts of childhood, all of these street names have Proustian connotations. All I have to do is to say: Havenhurst, Van Alden, Vineta, Dubois, and a flood of associations comes back to me. [...] After the first five minutes of the strangeness of it all, I started to look around, going to the bedrooms, wandering through the house. It felt like a permission to go into a house in L.A. and to imagine how someone would live their life in this house. I made the pictures for the magazine. I left and thought, "This is it, this is what I have to do." --Larry Sultan - 90 color illustrations
	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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	Autograph. New York City's Graffiti Writers, Peter Sutherland 2004, powerHouse Books 10.5" x 7.5", 120 pp. List price: $29.95	A controversial art form and provocative cultural phenomenon, graffiti has inestimably influenced our entire environment - from music and fashion to advertising, architecture, and graphic arts. Yet it is an illegal activity, which makes its practitioners wanted criminals. Motivated by a desire for self-expression and recognition, the act of marking one's territory is done at the risk of severe consequences including fines and jail time. Graffiti writers are outlaws, unknown artists whose faces are known only to their peers. Treated as criminals by the law and dismissed as artists by the establishment, writers are perceived as either alluring anti-heroes or loathsome vandals, and usually remain anonymous to their audience. But not to photographer Peter Sutherland. With an eye for style, Sutherland captures all of the gritty glory and glamour of the graffiti world and its warriors. Collected for the first time in Autograf: New York City's Graffiti Writers, Sutherland presents a never-before-seen chronicle of the people and places that populate New York¹s famed graff scene. Featuring old-school legends FUTURA, STAY HIGH 149, LADY PINK and DOZE, as well as COPE 2, KAWS, CYCLE, CLAW, VFR, KR, EARSNOT, SERF, RATE, SACER, UFO, and DSENSE, among many others, each one of the fifty-three portraits is authentically tagged by the individual writers using the same paint markers that brought them fame. Complemented by over fifty landscape photographs and featuring handwritten text by legendary recluse REVS, Autograf is the only book to showcase New York City's graffiti scene as it was created and defined by some of the most prolific artists of our time.
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	Joseph Szabo: Teenage, Joseph Szabo 2003, Grey Bull 11.2" x 11.25", 168 pp. List price: $45.00	Introduction by Cameron Crowe "Photographer Joseph Szabo's subject is adolescence; his rare gift is capturing the spirit of his students at Malverne High School, caught between puberty and the precipice of adulthood. Taken in the 70s and 80s, the photographs in Teenage represent a remarkable evocation of that period, and yet there is something timeless and endlessly compelling about Szabo's portrait of almost-adulthood. Some kids are painfully self-conscious, others are self-assured beyond their years--all have allowed Szabo the unique trust of seeing them as they are. The fine line between intimacy and exploitation that other photographers approach is not in evidence here--Szabo has no agenda beyond the recording of these moments of extreme loveliness, bravado and confusion."
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