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Gary Schneider
Gary Schneider: Nudes
2005
Book hardbound
18-1/4 x 9-1/4 in. (464 x 235 mm)
Aperture Foundation, New York City, NY, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 80pp., 35 four-color illustrations. As New in partial shrink wrap. Debut collection of male and female full-frontal nudes. One of the most unusual and most fascinating erotic and portrait photography books of the year 2005. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. A stunningly beautiful production by Gary Schneider, Francesca Richer, and Aperture Foundation: Oversize-volume format. The book is 18-1/4 inches long. Handsome black silk cloth boards with glossy photographic reproduction of a female nude pasted on cover and metallic-silver titles printed on spine, as issued. Photographs and brief afterword by Gary Schneider. Printed on 200 gsm Garda thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the very highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents the American artist/photographer"s very first, full-fledged collection of nudes. Gary Schneider began experimenting with his unusual lighting technique in 1989, but he did not take these photographs until 2002 through 2004. The book is dedicated to Peter Hujar, who was his best friend, and John Erdman, his lifelong partner. Like all great photographic nudes, Gary Schneider's nudes delicately tread the line between the nude-as-study and the nude-as-erotic-object. They are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, they are mutually inclusive. Schneider used a small flash light to photograph each subject. What we see is not digitally altered in any way; the pitch-dark surrounding is real; and most crucial of all, the dark areas of the bodies that make many of the subjects look unusually hairy (or "rubbed over with charcoal", as one critic observed) are intentional on Schneider's part. The results are unlike anything anyone has seen or expects, and are therefore disorienting and even unsettling. You can't help looking, looking away, and looking back again, this time to linger, appreciate, and enjoy. Very few nudes afford us such an experience and reward repeated viewings so richly. Schneider is, in effect, applying and extending what he learned from a lifetime of portraiture to leave his indelible mark on the nude. His nudes can only be described as original and moving portraits of the human body in all of its particularity and beauty. "Schneider illuminates contemporary art and science, conceptual art and performance, portraiture and identity, and privacy within the public sphere", according to Deborah Martin Kao. Schneider's achievement was finally recognized in a major retrospective exhibition simply called "Portraits" at The Harvard University Art Museum in 2004. His new collection presents the nude-as-portrait.
Price: $75 (ref. 9171)
Gary Schneider: Nudes
2005
Book hardbound
18-1/4 x 9-1/4 in. (464 x 235 mm)
Aperture Foundation, New York City, NY, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 80pp., 35 four-color illustrations. As New in partial shrink wrap. Debut collection of male and female full-frontal nudes. One of the most unusual and most fascinating erotic and portrait photography books of the year 2005. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. A stunningly beautiful production by Gary Schneider, Francesca Richer, and Aperture Foundation: Oversize-volume format. The book is 18-1/4 inches long. Handsome black silk cloth boards with glossy photographic reproduction of a female nude pasted on cover and metallic-silver titles printed on spine, as issued. Photographs and brief afterword by Gary Schneider. Printed on 200 gsm Garda thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the very highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents the American artist/photographer"s very first, full-fledged collection of nudes. Gary Schneider began experimenting with his unusual lighting technique in 1989, but he did not take these photographs until 2002 through 2004. The book is dedicated to Peter Hujar, who was his best friend, and John Erdman, his lifelong partner. Like all great photographic nudes, Gary Schneider's nudes delicately tread the line between the nude-as-study and the nude-as-erotic-object. They are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, they are mutually inclusive. Schneider used a small flash light to photograph each subject. What we see is not digitally altered in any way; the pitch-dark surrounding is real; and most crucial of all, the dark areas of the bodies that make many of the subjects look unusually hairy (or "rubbed over with charcoal", as one critic observed) are intentional on Schneider's part. The results are unlike anything anyone has seen or expects, and are therefore disorienting and even unsettling. You can't help looking, looking away, and looking back again, this time to linger, appreciate, and enjoy. Very few nudes afford us such an experience and reward repeated viewings so richly. Schneider is, in effect, applying and extending what he learned from a lifetime of portraiture to leave his indelible mark on the nude. His nudes can only be described as original and moving portraits of the human body in all of its particularity and beauty. "Schneider illuminates contemporary art and science, conceptual art and performance, portraiture and identity, and privacy within the public sphere", according to Deborah Martin Kao. Schneider's achievement was finally recognized in a major retrospective exhibition simply called "Portraits" at The Harvard University Art Museum in 2004. His new collection presents the nude-as-portrait.
Price: $75 (ref. 9171)
Toshio Shibata
Dam (Signed Limited Edition)
2004
Book with silver print hardbound
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Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Arizona, 2004. Hardcover. First edition, first and only printing. Special limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies, with an 9-5/8 by 7-5/8 inch original gelatin silver print tipped in debossed front cover. The book is hand-numbered and signed in black ink on the colophon page by Shibata, and enclosed in a gray cloth slipcase. Fine dark green linen cloth with title stamped in gray on front cover and spine. Photographs by Toshio Shibata. 36 pp. (including one 2-page gatefold), with 18 duotone plates beautifully printed on heavy paper by Oceanic Graphic Productions, China. 16 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches. Out of print (sold out shortly after publication). Scarce. CONDITION: As New in publisher"s shrink-wrap (slit open for signature). From the publisher: "Toshio Shibata is well known for his large-format landscape photographs, particularly those made in Japan. Shibata's photographs of mountain sides overlaid by concrete netting and other engineering devices to prevent erosion and landslides are marked by their abstract beauty and sense of immense scale. Our first book on this work, Landscape, was published to wide critical acclaim, and the first printing sold out upon publication. The artist"s follow-up book, Dam, is perhaps more beautiful yet. Printed in a large 14 x 17 inch format, and hardbound in Japanese cloth, Dam is limited to an edition of 500 numbered and signed copies. Each copy of the book features an original print on the front cover, protected by a matching slipcase. Shibata's work has been widely exhibited and published throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. It has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris. Toshio Shibata's photographs are included in major public and private collections throughout the world."
Price: $600 (ref. 9137)
Dam (Signed Limited Edition)
2004
Book with silver print hardbound
0 x 0 in. (0 x 0 mm)
Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Arizona, 2004. Hardcover. First edition, first and only printing. Special limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies, with an 9-5/8 by 7-5/8 inch original gelatin silver print tipped in debossed front cover. The book is hand-numbered and signed in black ink on the colophon page by Shibata, and enclosed in a gray cloth slipcase. Fine dark green linen cloth with title stamped in gray on front cover and spine. Photographs by Toshio Shibata. 36 pp. (including one 2-page gatefold), with 18 duotone plates beautifully printed on heavy paper by Oceanic Graphic Productions, China. 16 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches. Out of print (sold out shortly after publication). Scarce. CONDITION: As New in publisher"s shrink-wrap (slit open for signature). From the publisher: "Toshio Shibata is well known for his large-format landscape photographs, particularly those made in Japan. Shibata's photographs of mountain sides overlaid by concrete netting and other engineering devices to prevent erosion and landslides are marked by their abstract beauty and sense of immense scale. Our first book on this work, Landscape, was published to wide critical acclaim, and the first printing sold out upon publication. The artist"s follow-up book, Dam, is perhaps more beautiful yet. Printed in a large 14 x 17 inch format, and hardbound in Japanese cloth, Dam is limited to an edition of 500 numbered and signed copies. Each copy of the book features an original print on the front cover, protected by a matching slipcase. Shibata's work has been widely exhibited and published throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. It has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris. Toshio Shibata's photographs are included in major public and private collections throughout the world."
Price: $600 (ref. 9137)
Aaron Siskind
Bucks County: Photographs of Early Architecture
1974
Book hardbound
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Horizon Press, NY, 1974. Hardcover quarto. First edition. 112 pages. Handsome brown cloth boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. Essay by William Morgan. In pictorial dust jacket with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents an unusual document in Aaron Siskind's seminal oeuvre. It is instructive of Siskind's growth and development as one of the most influential American photographers. Drawn to both the rural and artistic reputation of Bucks County, Siskind arrived in 1935 to photograph its architecture. Very fine.
Price: $125 (ref. 9022)
Bucks County: Photographs of Early Architecture
1974
Book hardbound
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Horizon Press, NY, 1974. Hardcover quarto. First edition. 112 pages. Handsome brown cloth boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. Essay by William Morgan. In pictorial dust jacket with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents an unusual document in Aaron Siskind's seminal oeuvre. It is instructive of Siskind's growth and development as one of the most influential American photographers. Drawn to both the rural and artistic reputation of Bucks County, Siskind arrived in 1935 to photograph its architecture. Very fine.
Price: $125 (ref. 9022)
Jerry Spagnoli
Jerry Spagnoli: Daguerreotypes 1995-2004
2006
Book softbound
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Published by Steidl; 2006. ISBN No. 3-86521-200-X; also ISBN 13: 978-3-86521-200-9. 120 pages. To quote Matt Damsker's review of this book: "This collection of a decade's worth of daguerreotypes by Jerry Spagnoli reflects the artist's metaphysical passion for depicting light--not merely as an element of composition, but as the essence of reality. Indeed, in his introduction, Spagnoli offers an eloquent and somewhat mystical rationale for utilizing the prototypical medium of daguerreotype: "The image…is not in a steady state like other photographs. It is elusive, fugitive…it remains a potential image until it is presented under the correct optical/spatial conditions…and the light from a scene in the past strikes your eye like new." But in the end these images must speak for themselves, and so they do, powerfully and beautifully, as Spagnoli's meticulous scans for this handsome book superbly capture the metallic glint of the daguerreotype's unique silver-plate process. At their most dramatic, as in shots of New York City sky and sun above skyscrapers, Central Park, or the East River, the azure and cobalt blues that result from intentional overexposure convey a dreamlike beauty seeping through the austere sepia of the daguerreotype. This effect, at its best in subtle yet startling slivers of blue light that activate the stolid architecture and solid geometry of the subject matter, makes a seamless connection between photography's beginnings and its postmodernist project. This is especially true in Spagnoli's shots of desert rock formations, in which his alchemical auras take on an otherwordly grace. At the same time, his many close-up studies of the human body--hands, shoulders, faces in profile, folds of skin pressed and stretched--are textural tours de force in which the metallic charge of the medium blends with the living warmth of skin tone, hair, and human gesture. The result is a freshly invigorated way of seeing, struck like a flint-spark from photography's oldest form. In every way, Spagnoli's "Daguerreotypes" is a triumph."
Price: $40 (ref. 9443)
Jerry Spagnoli: Daguerreotypes 1995-2004
2006
Book softbound
0 x 0 in. (0 x 0 mm)
Published by Steidl; 2006. ISBN No. 3-86521-200-X; also ISBN 13: 978-3-86521-200-9. 120 pages. To quote Matt Damsker's review of this book: "This collection of a decade's worth of daguerreotypes by Jerry Spagnoli reflects the artist's metaphysical passion for depicting light--not merely as an element of composition, but as the essence of reality. Indeed, in his introduction, Spagnoli offers an eloquent and somewhat mystical rationale for utilizing the prototypical medium of daguerreotype: "The image…is not in a steady state like other photographs. It is elusive, fugitive…it remains a potential image until it is presented under the correct optical/spatial conditions…and the light from a scene in the past strikes your eye like new." But in the end these images must speak for themselves, and so they do, powerfully and beautifully, as Spagnoli's meticulous scans for this handsome book superbly capture the metallic glint of the daguerreotype's unique silver-plate process. At their most dramatic, as in shots of New York City sky and sun above skyscrapers, Central Park, or the East River, the azure and cobalt blues that result from intentional overexposure convey a dreamlike beauty seeping through the austere sepia of the daguerreotype. This effect, at its best in subtle yet startling slivers of blue light that activate the stolid architecture and solid geometry of the subject matter, makes a seamless connection between photography's beginnings and its postmodernist project. This is especially true in Spagnoli's shots of desert rock formations, in which his alchemical auras take on an otherwordly grace. At the same time, his many close-up studies of the human body--hands, shoulders, faces in profile, folds of skin pressed and stretched--are textural tours de force in which the metallic charge of the medium blends with the living warmth of skin tone, hair, and human gesture. The result is a freshly invigorated way of seeing, struck like a flint-spark from photography's oldest form. In every way, Spagnoli's "Daguerreotypes" is a triumph."
Price: $40 (ref. 9443)
Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia O'Keefe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz
1978
Book hardbound
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1978. Hardcover, large folio, housed in light biege paper covered cardboard slipcase, which has some sunning marks. Pages are not numbered. Illustrated with photographic portraits. 14 1//4 X 10 3/4. Beige paper-covered boards backed with off-white cloth spine with gold leaf title on front cover and spine. Introduction by Georgia O'Keeffe. First edition (stated). Book is mint and without dust jacket.
Price: $100 (ref. 9069)
Georgia O'Keefe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz
1978
Book hardbound
0 x 0 in. (0 x 0 mm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1978. Hardcover, large folio, housed in light biege paper covered cardboard slipcase, which has some sunning marks. Pages are not numbered. Illustrated with photographic portraits. 14 1//4 X 10 3/4. Beige paper-covered boards backed with off-white cloth spine with gold leaf title on front cover and spine. Introduction by Georgia O'Keeffe. First edition (stated). Book is mint and without dust jacket.
Price: $100 (ref. 9069)
Josef Sudek
Vitezslav Nezval: Prazsky Chodec
1981
Book hardbound
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Praha/Slunovrat: Ceskoslovensky Spisovatel, 1981. Cloth. Dark, moody, b&w photographs in gravure. Text in Czech. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Epilog by Rezac, photographs by Sudek. 92 pages of text, 32 pages of photography.
Price: $125 (ref. 9072)
Vitezslav Nezval: Prazsky Chodec
1981
Book hardbound
0 x 0 in. (0 x 0 mm)
Praha/Slunovrat: Ceskoslovensky Spisovatel, 1981. Cloth. Dark, moody, b&w photographs in gravure. Text in Czech. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Epilog by Rezac, photographs by Sudek. 92 pages of text, 32 pages of photography.
Price: $125 (ref. 9072)