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Mark Haworth-Booth
Photography: An Independent Art, Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1839-1996
1997
Book hardbound
11-1/2 x 10 in. (292 x 254 mm)
Princeton Univ Pr, Princeton, NJ, 1997. US First edition, first printing. In VF condition and fine dust jacket (with one tiny open tear). 208 pp. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Photography: An Independent Art is both a history of photography and a guide to appreciating fine photographs. It is also a remarkable account of photography's changing status as a collectable medium. The V&A Photography Collection is one of the earliest in existence, dating back to the foundation of the Museum in the 1850s. Through 100 of its most important photographs, this book tells the fascinating story of how the new medium of photography was embraced by a new kind of museum, which concerned itself with the arts of everyday life and with a large popular audience. Illustrations and text show how photography was perceived initially as art, then later as a powerful means of communication offering a compelling window on the world and still later --from the 1960s--as a fashionable art medium once again. Its shifting identity is vividly demonstrated by the work of such highly acclaimed and diverse talents as Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen, Eugene Atget, Man Ray, Bill Brandt, David Bailey, Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin.
Price: $60 (ref. 9177)
Photography: An Independent Art, Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1839-1996
1997
Book hardbound
11-1/2 x 10 in. (292 x 254 mm)
Princeton Univ Pr, Princeton, NJ, 1997. US First edition, first printing. In VF condition and fine dust jacket (with one tiny open tear). 208 pp. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Photography: An Independent Art is both a history of photography and a guide to appreciating fine photographs. It is also a remarkable account of photography's changing status as a collectable medium. The V&A Photography Collection is one of the earliest in existence, dating back to the foundation of the Museum in the 1850s. Through 100 of its most important photographs, this book tells the fascinating story of how the new medium of photography was embraced by a new kind of museum, which concerned itself with the arts of everyday life and with a large popular audience. Illustrations and text show how photography was perceived initially as art, then later as a powerful means of communication offering a compelling window on the world and still later --from the 1960s--as a fashionable art medium once again. Its shifting identity is vividly demonstrated by the work of such highly acclaimed and diverse talents as Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen, Eugene Atget, Man Ray, Bill Brandt, David Bailey, Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin.
Price: $60 (ref. 9177)
Petr Helbich
Chvaly: Uvahy a Fotografie
2000>
Silver prints (14) in original album or book format
7 x 5 in. (178 x 127 mm)
A portfolio of 14 contact silver prints. Each is signed and dated in pen on the recto in the margins, and printed by Helbrich. The group is bound into a book with information on the images and on Helbrich. Helbrich is a medical doctor who has been taking photographs since he was 20 years old. He became a close friend of Josef Sudek while he worked at the hospital in Jablunkov in Moravia. He then became Sudek's unofficial apprentice and continued to receive advice and critiques from Sudek. Sudek even gave him the large format camera that he works with. An even earlier influence was Rudolf Janda, who devoted his entire life to photographing the Moravian forests. P. Tausk has written an article, Petr Helbrich--J.Sudek's Pupil, in Ceskoslovenska fotografie, 1986, p.10. Also see: Jaskmanicky. Fotografove--Photographers, for more information on Helbich.
Price: $2,000 (ref. 6847)
Chvaly: Uvahy a Fotografie
2000>
Silver prints (14) in original album or book format
7 x 5 in. (178 x 127 mm)
A portfolio of 14 contact silver prints. Each is signed and dated in pen on the recto in the margins, and printed by Helbrich. The group is bound into a book with information on the images and on Helbrich. Helbrich is a medical doctor who has been taking photographs since he was 20 years old. He became a close friend of Josef Sudek while he worked at the hospital in Jablunkov in Moravia. He then became Sudek's unofficial apprentice and continued to receive advice and critiques from Sudek. Sudek even gave him the large format camera that he works with. An even earlier influence was Rudolf Janda, who devoted his entire life to photographing the Moravian forests. P. Tausk has written an article, Petr Helbrich--J.Sudek's Pupil, in Ceskoslovenska fotografie, 1986, p.10. Also see: Jaskmanicky. Fotografove--Photographers, for more information on Helbich.
Price: $2,000 (ref. 6847)
Lisa Holden
Lisa Holden: Elusive Eye (Signed Copy)
2005
Book/Catalogue (Signed) softbound
11-1/4 x 11-1/4 in. (286 x 286 mm)
Limited edition of 2,000 copies. Signed by the artist. Essay by Liesbeth Grotenhuis. Published by Nederlandse Gasunie en Van Spijk Art Projects. 64 pages in full color including covers. Lisa Holden is a British-born artist based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her earlier visual work explores notions of the self as a series of estranged identities-guises adopted and appropriated, and dependent upon context. She combines digital imagery with hand-painted layers to create 'parallel realities', referring to the exploration of displacement, adoption and the reinvention of identity as a necessity for survival. Holden's large-scale, 'digitally flawed' painting-photographs interpret and react to our super-fast-paced, technologically driven society. The result is the artist's depiction of a psychological spiral into more personal fracturing of identity, multiple transformations, and a more isolated self and society. New works clearly bear the stamp of Holden's recent interest in Victorian painting and literature in which richly colored fantasies and hallucinations were often opiate-engendered. These influences manifest themselves in images of actual dreamscapes she recalls on waking--in other words, instinctual wishes of a body and mind desiring to get out.
Price: $75 (ref. 9256)
Lisa Holden: Elusive Eye (Signed Copy)
2005
Book/Catalogue (Signed) softbound
11-1/4 x 11-1/4 in. (286 x 286 mm)
Limited edition of 2,000 copies. Signed by the artist. Essay by Liesbeth Grotenhuis. Published by Nederlandse Gasunie en Van Spijk Art Projects. 64 pages in full color including covers. Lisa Holden is a British-born artist based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her earlier visual work explores notions of the self as a series of estranged identities-guises adopted and appropriated, and dependent upon context. She combines digital imagery with hand-painted layers to create 'parallel realities', referring to the exploration of displacement, adoption and the reinvention of identity as a necessity for survival. Holden's large-scale, 'digitally flawed' painting-photographs interpret and react to our super-fast-paced, technologically driven society. The result is the artist's depiction of a psychological spiral into more personal fracturing of identity, multiple transformations, and a more isolated self and society. New works clearly bear the stamp of Holden's recent interest in Victorian painting and literature in which richly colored fantasies and hallucinations were often opiate-engendered. These influences manifest themselves in images of actual dreamscapes she recalls on waking--in other words, instinctual wishes of a body and mind desiring to get out.
Price: $75 (ref. 9256)
Lisa Holden
The Bronze Room, An Artist Book
2008
Book with Chromogenic Print in original album or book format
10 x 8 in. (254 x 203 mm)
This is a special deluxe edition of 50 copies with a small, signed and editioned chromogenic color photograph of "The Poets" (Lilith Series), which is illustrated in the book. The size refers to the paper size of the print. There may be some variation in imagery from book to book. Lisa Holden is a British-born artist based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her earlier visual work explores notions of the self as a series of estranged identities-guises adopted and appropriated, and dependent upon context. She combines digital imagery with hand-painted layers to create 'parallel realities', referring to the exploration of displacement, adoption and the reinvention of identity as a necessity for survival. Holden's large-scale, 'digitally flawed' painting-photographs interpret and react to our super-fast-paced, technologically driven society. The result is the artist's depiction of a psychological spiral into more personal fracturing of identity, multiple transformations, and a more isolated self and society. New works clearly bear the stamp of Holden's recent interest in Victorian painting and literature in which richly colored fantasies and hallucinations were often opiate-engendered. These influences manifest themselves in images of actual dreamscapes she recalls on waking--in other words, instinctual wishes of a body and mind desiring to get out.
Price: $250 (ref. 11226)
The Bronze Room, An Artist Book
2008
Book with Chromogenic Print in original album or book format
10 x 8 in. (254 x 203 mm)
This is a special deluxe edition of 50 copies with a small, signed and editioned chromogenic color photograph of "The Poets" (Lilith Series), which is illustrated in the book. The size refers to the paper size of the print. There may be some variation in imagery from book to book. Lisa Holden is a British-born artist based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her earlier visual work explores notions of the self as a series of estranged identities-guises adopted and appropriated, and dependent upon context. She combines digital imagery with hand-painted layers to create 'parallel realities', referring to the exploration of displacement, adoption and the reinvention of identity as a necessity for survival. Holden's large-scale, 'digitally flawed' painting-photographs interpret and react to our super-fast-paced, technologically driven society. The result is the artist's depiction of a psychological spiral into more personal fracturing of identity, multiple transformations, and a more isolated self and society. New works clearly bear the stamp of Holden's recent interest in Victorian painting and literature in which richly colored fantasies and hallucinations were often opiate-engendered. These influences manifest themselves in images of actual dreamscapes she recalls on waking--in other words, instinctual wishes of a body and mind desiring to get out.
Price: $250 (ref. 11226)
Lisa Holden
The Bronze Room, An Artist Book
2008
Book (Signed/Editioned) in original album or book format
0 x 0 in. (0 x 0 mm)
This artist book is a special signed edition limited to 100 copies. There may be some variation in imagery from book to book. Lisa Holden is a British-born artist based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her earlier visual work explores notions of the self as a series of estranged identities-guises adopted and appropriated, and dependent upon context. She combines digital imagery with hand-painted layers to create 'parallel realities', referring to the exploration of displacement, adoption and the reinvention of identity as a necessity for survival. Holden's large-scale, 'digitally flawed' painting-photographs interpret and react to our super-fast-paced, technologically driven society. The result is the artist's depiction of a psychological spiral into more personal fracturing of identity, multiple transformations, and a more isolated self and society. New works clearly bear the stamp of Holden's recent interest in Victorian painting and literature in which richly colored fantasies and hallucinations were often opiate-engendered. These influences manifest themselves in images of actual dreamscapes she recalls on waking--in other words, instinctual wishes of a body and mind desiring to get out.
Price: $85 (ref. 11225)
The Bronze Room, An Artist Book
2008
Book (Signed/Editioned) in original album or book format
0 x 0 in. (0 x 0 mm)
This artist book is a special signed edition limited to 100 copies. There may be some variation in imagery from book to book. Lisa Holden is a British-born artist based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her earlier visual work explores notions of the self as a series of estranged identities-guises adopted and appropriated, and dependent upon context. She combines digital imagery with hand-painted layers to create 'parallel realities', referring to the exploration of displacement, adoption and the reinvention of identity as a necessity for survival. Holden's large-scale, 'digitally flawed' painting-photographs interpret and react to our super-fast-paced, technologically driven society. The result is the artist's depiction of a psychological spiral into more personal fracturing of identity, multiple transformations, and a more isolated self and society. New works clearly bear the stamp of Holden's recent interest in Victorian painting and literature in which richly colored fantasies and hallucinations were often opiate-engendered. These influences manifest themselves in images of actual dreamscapes she recalls on waking--in other words, instinctual wishes of a body and mind desiring to get out.
Price: $85 (ref. 11225)
Eikoh Hosoe
Eikoh Hosoe: Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal)
2006>
Platinum prints in original album or book format
14 x 12 in. (356 x 305 mm)
Ten signed and bound and one freestanding platinum print. The unbound print is also signed. The bound book is signed and editioned. Edition of 65 numbered and 5 lettered copies. Photographs by Eikoh Hosoe, poems by Charles Baudelaire, translated from the French by John Wood, edited and with an introduction by John Wood, and hand-coated platinum prints by Stan Klimek. Published by 21st Century Editions. Eikoh Hosoe's iconic, graphically charged platinum prints of strikingly rendered forms and sensuous embraces resonate with extremely potent emotional power. Combined with the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, a major influence on Hosoe, and presented in a highly refined hand crafted binding, this rare collection of classic images by Japan's most revered photographer offers collectors a vast array of truly unique sensual and intellectual experiences.
Price: $12,500 (ref. 9055)
Eikoh Hosoe: Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal)
2006>
Platinum prints in original album or book format
14 x 12 in. (356 x 305 mm)
Ten signed and bound and one freestanding platinum print. The unbound print is also signed. The bound book is signed and editioned. Edition of 65 numbered and 5 lettered copies. Photographs by Eikoh Hosoe, poems by Charles Baudelaire, translated from the French by John Wood, edited and with an introduction by John Wood, and hand-coated platinum prints by Stan Klimek. Published by 21st Century Editions. Eikoh Hosoe's iconic, graphically charged platinum prints of strikingly rendered forms and sensuous embraces resonate with extremely potent emotional power. Combined with the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, a major influence on Hosoe, and presented in a highly refined hand crafted binding, this rare collection of classic images by Japan's most revered photographer offers collectors a vast array of truly unique sensual and intellectual experiences.
Price: $12,500 (ref. 9055)