‎Photography‎

‎[Photography – Abolition – Reconstruction] Phillips, Wendell; Sonrel, Antoine‎

‎Carte-de-Visite Portrait of Wendell Phillips c. 1871-1874‎

‎Boston Massachusetts: Antoine Sonrel 121 Washington Street 1874. Albumen photograph on original mount with printed Sonrel studio backstamp. No other examples of this pose located in online institutional collections. Fine condition. A studio portrait of the abolitionist and reform leader Wendell Phillips 1811–1884 shown seated at a table holding a small bundle of papers or pamphlets. Phillips one of the most prominent antislavery orators in the United States continued to play an active role in national reform politics after the war advocating for Black civil rights during Reconstruction and supporting federal enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Phillips argued that emancipation was incomplete without political equality pressing for Black suffrage land redistribution in the South and continued federal protection of freedpeople. During the late 1860s and 1870s he remained a visible public lecturer on Reconstruction policy and also aligned himself with the labor reform movement briefly serving as president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and later supporting the Greenback movement.<br /> <br /> The photograph was produced by Antoine Sonrel 1827–1912 a French-born artist and photographer who worked in Boston from the mid-1850s. Sonrel was originally trained as a lithographer and produced illustrated plates for American scientific and educational publications before establishing a photographic studio. From 1871–1874 according to local directories published during those years he operated at 121 Washington Street in Boston advertising portrait photography alongside lithographic and illustrative work. This example appears to represent an unrecorded studio pose of Phillips by Sonrel distinct from the better-known Brady and Warren studio portraits circulated during the same period. A particularly nice image of Phillips in his later years with fine contrast. Antoine Sonrel, 121 Washington Street unknown‎

Bookseller reference : Cat345

‎ELLIOTT, Joseph EB E B‎

‎Joseph E.B. Elliott: Bethlehem Steel Portfolio 1989-1997‎

‎Bethlehem: Lehigh University Art Galleries 2010. Rare Art Photo Exhibition Catalog of the photography of Elliott. Folded -- it is 7.5" X 12" -- Unfolded as a poster it is 15" x 24". One corner is bumped. Exceedingly rare as a Bethlehem Steel collectible. Inside the Catalog there are 50 miniature photos of the pictures displayed in the exhibition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good /No Jacket - As Published. Illus. by Photo Illustrated. 7 1/2" X 12". Art Booklet. Lehigh University Art Galleries Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 8001989

‎Leibovitz, Annie‎

‎WONDERLAND‎

‎Phaidon Press. 2025. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine in No DJ As Issued dust jacket. 10.25 X 1.5 X 11.75 inches; 440 pages; Author . Signed by Author . 1838661522 . Phaidon Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 69389 ISBN : 1838661522 9781838661526

‎[Photography - Ohio]‎

‎MOTORIZED PRODUCE WAGON IN CINCINNATI OHIO‎

‎An original photograph circa 1915 of the motorized delivery wagon for John Holderfield & Sons a wholesale fruit and vegetable merchant. Hand-painted signage on the wagon shows that Holderfield operated two locations: 226 E. Pearl Street and 132 Sycamore Street in Cincinnati Ohio. According to a newspaper report John W. Holderfield 1866-1923 of Cincinnati founded the business but when his sons entered military service during World War I he consolidated his firm with R.A. Miller & Company.<br/> <br/> The black and white image shows a man driving a motorized delivery truck that is loaded to bear with barrels. A logo is evident confirming that the truck is a Pierce. The first Pierce-Arrow truck was produced in January 1911. Pierce-Arrow's final attempt at the commercial market was in 1935 when they made 9- and 15-passenger sightseeing buses. The first motorized commercial truck was produced by Gottlieb Daimler in Germany in 1896. However it took more than a decade for businesses to transition from horse-drawn wagons and make the investment in motorized vehicles.<br/> <br/> The 13 ½" x 10" black and white photograph is printed on glossy stock and is linen backed with a short caption affixed to the verso which requests to return to Mrs. Janet Ball of Canoga Park California alongside "John William Holderfield" and the date 1915. Additionally the address "3857 Eastern Ave." is written in pencil on the verso. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 73818

‎DIGGIN, MICHAEL; FAILTE, BORD (PHOTOGRAPHY BY).‎

‎Galway Connemara and the Burren‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 0717120708.G ISBN : 0717120708 9780717120703

‎(AFRICA: PHOTOGRAPHY)‎

‎Photograph Album of the African Research Survey.‎

‎N.p.: N.p. ca. 1935-36. Large 13 x 10 1/2 inches album bearing 188 original photographs of place and people in Africa in the 1930s. The album is divided into two section. The first section has 56 original photographs measuring 6 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches. The second part has 132 photographs measuring 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches. Virtually all have captions in white. This count does not reflect the missing photographs i.e. captions without photographs; two in the front part and 1 in the back part. Contemporary album of mottled brown boards. Custom slipcase with printed paper cover label.The photographer who undertook this journey covered vast distances and the original photographs are just as disparate. Locales as exotic as Lome Togo Northern Ghana Mali Algeria Nigeria Dakar and Dahomey. Most show activities and people. Two show the Bidon 5 Weather Station in Algeria surely just put up. Another shows 6 scientists with the man in the middle holding two chimpanzees. It is likely that the album was compiled by medical/environmental researcher Dr. E. B. Worthington of the Freshwater Biological Association in England. In the rear is a manilla envelope addressed to him as well as a loose photograph bearing his copyright on the verso. "In 1930 Worthington married a trained geographer and talented pianist Stella Johnson with whom three years later he published a book on The Inland Waterways of Africa. From 1933 to 1937 he took part in the African Research Survey for which he was awarded the Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. He was secretary to and first full-time director of the Freshwater Biological Association 1937–46. He returned to Africa in the late 1940s as science and development advisor. He was deputy scientific director for the Nature Conservancy 1957–65 and scientific director of the International Biological Programme IBP 1964–74.The conception of the African Survey emerged from a series of conferences held at Oxford University to coincide with the Rhodes Memorial Lectures. The African Survey's emphasis on science and its desire for colonial reform were the common threads that held the project together during its many transformations. The institute's redirection had as much to do with “watertight†compartments of knowledge as it did with institutional and personal politics. The creation of the Scientific Sub-Committee formalized what had already been a two-tiered structure in the African Survey's organization. Generally throughout its execution the African Survey's leadership were bound to their original objective of developing a “permanent scheme of research†that could add to the study and management of Africa's imperial problems. "A decade-long endeavor 1929-38 the African Research Survey was designed to examine the extent to which "modern" knowledge was being applied to African problems. It served as a main authority for consultation on the part of the British colonial policy architects; and gave an impetus to British development schemes until the era of decolonization." H. Tilley N.p. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 74398

‎Fassati, Miroslav (ed); Jenicek, Jiri (Photography),‎

‎Dvacet let ceskoslovenské armády v osvobozeném státê‎

‎Prague: v Praze 1938. First Edition. . Quarter Bound in Slipcase. Very Good/Very Good. 234 10 pages 72 photographic plates. Original leather-backed cloth dust-jacket joints torn at spine foot small amounts of chipping and bumping to extremities presentation card slipcase original publisher's box with paper label. This propaganda photobook published just before the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and World War II is an interesting example of an avant-garde artist's turn towards national themes and Jenicek also made short films for the military. Dedicated to the Czechoslovak army it was published in May 1938 - in the last months of the existence of the First Republic when the threat to national security was clearly felt. Paper label on box reads 'Bookstore and publishing house of the Czechoslovak Officers Union.' Scarce in Hardback 18558/782 Size: 305mm. x 230mm. <br/> <br/> v Praze unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 018558

‎Sommer, Frederick‎

‎All Children are Ambassadors‎

‎Nazraeli Press. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. A clean unmarked book with a tight binding. In Very Good slipcase. 7""w x 5 1/2""h. Dos-a-dos with cardboard covers. A bilingual German and English monograph presenting photographs by the avant-garde American photographer Frederick Sommer including his Arizona desert landscapes surrealist arrangements of found objects and animal parts and abstract photographic experiments. Keywords: Arizona Desert Surrealist Photography Found Objects Chicken Parts Landscape Abstraction Nazraeli Press Bilingual Edition Dadaism Photography Avant Garde Max Ernst Chance Operations Abstract Photographs Nazraeli Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 180360 ISBN : 3923922086 9783923922086

‎Benedetta, Mary‎

‎The Street Markets of London. Photography By L Moholy-Nagy‎

‎London: John Miles Ltd. 1936. First Edition. . Cream Linen. Very Good/No Jacket. xi. 201 pages 164 illustrations. Some bumping soiling to covers spine small bookseller ticket to front pastedown humorous inscription to half title some spotting to text pages otherwise very good. 17100/804 Size: 225mm. x 150mm. <br/> <br/> John Miles Ltd. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 017100

‎(ALASKA HUNTING PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE)‎

‎Alaskan Hunting Photographs From About 1950‎

‎KODIAK ALASKA HUNTING PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE. An archive of nearly 100 black and white photographs emanating from a mens hunting trip to Kodiak Alaska about 1950. There are images of men with fishing rods and rifles and dead bears crabs fish moose and seals. Some photographs show the men inside the cabin relaxing reading sleeping and cooking. There are also photographs of the early planes that brought tourists Alaskan scenery and small Alaskan towns. The images are in three sizes 5 x 7 5 x 3 and 2 x 4 and all are in fine condition with minor faults such as chipped corners. A fine frontier photography archive. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 4499

‎Benjamin, BRW (intro) B R‎

‎Impressionist Camera: pictorial photography in Europe 1888-1918‎

‎Merrell 2006. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. Hard covers dust jacket Scarcely used. Merrell hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 40858 ISBN : 1858943310 9781858943312

‎Fejfer, Jane & Southworth, Edmund; photography by David Flower‎

‎The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture Volume 1 Part 1: Introduction the Female Portraits Concordance‎

‎H.M.S.O. 1991. 1st edition. As new/As new. Hard covers dust jacket "At the end of the eighteenth century Lancastrian Henry Blundell was building a collection of over 400 marble and bronze sculptures from the ancient world. At the end of the twentieth century this unique and important collection is still virtually intact and in the care of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside. A new five-volume scholarly work examines the huge Ince Blundell collection. This first volume introduces the collection and offers a detailed study of the femaile portraits" - blurb. 6 97 pp. Note: three other parts of the series are available: Vol. 1 part 2 the Male Portraits vol. 2 the Ash Chests etc. and vol. 3 the Ideal Sculptures. H.M.S.O. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4311 ISBN : 0112904807 9780112904809

‎Saville, Jenny; Glen Luchford [Photography]; Katherine Dunn [Essay]‎

‎Jenny Saville and Glen Luchford: Closed Contact Gagosian Gallery January 12-February 9 2002‎

‎Beverly Hills CA: Gagosian Gallery 2002. First edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Jenny Saville on the front free endpaper and by Katherine Dunn on the first page of her essay in black ink "For Steve who endured it. From Katherine Dunn." Bound in publisher's flesh toned paper covered boards stamped in black illustrated with actual black and white and color photography. Very Good with light edge wear rubbing and faint soiling to boards; contents crisp. <p>A monograph printed in conjunction with a 2002 exhibition at Gagosian Gallery by the Young British Artist and fashion photographer Glen Luchford for their 1995-1996 collaborative photo series. Saville known for her large-scale viscerally Rubenesque paintings of the female body worked with Luchford to create xeorx-like photographs that depict her body pressed against glass deforming and distorting it to confront viewers with the raw often violent nature of flesh and beauty. With an essay by Geek Love author Katherine Dunn "Here we see Jenny Saville from the other side of the glass. The deceptive familiarity of this distortion is part of Seville's strategy. She commandeers the game and takes it is a long leap farther too far for comfort. Gagosian Gallery unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 140948758

‎Blum, Ron‎

‎George Rose Australia's Master Stereographer Signed by Author‎

‎Adelaide: Published by Author. 2022. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Mint condition - a new copy. Illustrated with over 280 photographs taken on George Rose's photographic journeys around Australia and the world. Signed by author the late Ron Blum. 262 pages. The story of George Rose a great Australian photographer with a catalogue of all his known 3-D views taken from the 1880's to 1920. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . New. 4th Edition. Softcover. Published by Author paperback‎

Bookseller reference : BIB332086 ISBN : 0958957231 9780958957236

‎Stevens, Photography by Ann‎

‎Diplomatic Gardens of Washington‎

‎hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0764339788.G ISBN : 0764339788 9780764339783

‎ROCK & ROLL PHOTOGRAPHY (MARSHALL, JIM & BILLY CRYSTAL)‎

‎Not Fade Away - The Rock & Roll Photography of Jim Marshall. Foreword by Michael Douglas. Edited by David Fahey‎

‎Boston: Little Brown 1997. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author / photographer Jim Marshall to the great comedian and actor Billy Crystal. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “For Billy Crystal - Please enjoy. Jim Marshall 3-9-99.†With two autograph letters signed by Marshall to Mr. Crystal on Marshall’s personal printed stationery. The first is dated 3-9-99 and accompanied this copy of the book. It reads in full: “Dear Billy Your phone call meant so much to me & Kirk - not many people take the time. Please accept my own very humble picture of Joe DiMaggio and the not so humble ‘Not Fade Away’ - my first major book. I look forward to meeting you & showing you the photos in jazz set. Also thanks for all the laughs all these years. Take care Jim Marshall.†The second letter is dated 5-May-01 and reads: “Dear Billy Talk about a home run - 61 was out of the park. Thank you so very much for the way you did it on every level & the love you put into it. Please accept these 3 photographs of Joe DiMaggio that I took after he had retired much after for you and 1 each for the men who played Mickey & Roger. It’s my very humble way to say thank you. Jim Marshall.†61 is the baseball film directed by Billy Crystal about the 1961 season in which Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle competed to break Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record. In it Roger Maris is portrayed by Barry Pepper and Mickey Mantle by Thomas Jane. Fine fresh copy in a fine dust jacket. Little Brown unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 20547E

‎Roy DeCarava [photography]; Langston Hughes [text]‎

‎The Sweet Flypaper of Life‎

‎New York: Simon and Schuster 1955. Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster 1955. First Edition Wrapper Issue. 12mo 18cm.; publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; 98pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear along edges with slightly heavier wear and soiling along spine; general rubbing; a few smudges and scuffs. Binding sound; pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. <br /> <br /> Despite the misleadingly poor print quality "The Sweet Flypaper of Life" has gained canonical status as one of the great photo book collaborations of the 20th century. In the early 1950s DeCarava was the first Black photographer awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship spending the year in his childhood home of Harlem capturing its inhabitants both in the private and public sphere.<br /> <br /> In 1954 he brought a portfolio of examples from this project to the more established poet Langston Hughes who would provide the accompanying text for this collaborative work. Langston's piece adopts the point of view of the fictitious Sister Mary Bradley an elderly Black grandmother of ten living in Harlem in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Her stream-of-consciousness thoughts on her immediate surroundings married with DeCarava's photographs proved an instant commercial and critical success. <br /> <br /> In the earliest review from the "New York Times" Gilbert Millstein argued "It is probably hortatory to say so but the chances are it could accomplish a lot more about race relations than many pounds of committee reports." Orville Prescott's Christmas Eve eve review similarly extolled the publication concluding "I cannot recall any other book in which the two elements of pictures and words were so artfully mixed." Unsurprisingly the commercial success of this small work allowed DeCarava to quit his job for good and devote the rest of his career to photography much to our lasting benefit. <br /> <br /> Reference: Langston Hughes: The Contemporary Reviews 1997 pp. 466 & 472. Simon and Schuster unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 47940

‎Harrison, W Jerome‎

‎The Chemistry of Photography‎

‎New York: Scovill & Adams Company 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 426 pp ads in original cloth binding decorated in gilt and black. Rubbng to extremities front free endpaper loosening; all else very good. Volume 41 in the Scovill Photographic Series. Includes both theoretical and practical information. Described in "The Photo-Miniature" Vol. 4 Issue 2 as "the most comprehensive and satisfactory work on the subject. Scovill & Adams Company hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 22313

‎Mexican Agricultural Workers Photography‎

‎Mexican Agricultural Life Rural Labor and Family Portrait Photography Documenting Post Revolutionary Countryside 1920s to 1940s‎

‎1910. Photographers unknown. Rural Mexican agricultural photographs circa 1920s-1948. This group documents daily labor transport and domestic life among campesino communities in Mexico during the decades following the Mexican Revolution when land redistribution policies reshaped rural economies and agricultural production. The images record men women and children engaged in subsistence and small-scale farming activity including the movement of goods care of livestock and domestic craft production providing visual evidence of how rural populations sustained livelihoods within newly restructured landholding systems. The presence of wagons pack transport and adobe dwellings situates these scenes within regional agricultural practices that persisted alongside modernization efforts in early twentieth-century Mexico.<br /> <br /> Nine photographs including silver gelatin prints and real photo postcards measuring approximately 2.75 x 4.5 inches to 3.5 x 5.5 inches several with manuscript inscriptions on the verso. The images include multiple scenes of men riding wooden wagons pulled by cattle and equine animals; two postcards depict rancheros in wide-brimmed hats seated on wagons one drawn by a mule and another by a team of bulls. Two photographs show individuals carrying heavily loaded baskets and packs of agricultural goods along arid pathways one adjacent to a railroad line indicating proximity to transport infrastructure. A landscape postcard presents a young boy standing beside family cattle in front of an adobe and thatched dwelling with harvested crops stacked behind him. A dated 1948 portrait taken in Tijuana depicts a man and woman holding earthenware pottery and wearing woven straw footwear linking agricultural labor with artisanal production and local material culture.<br /> <br /> These photographs align with broader transformations in rural Mexico during the post-revolutionary period when land redistribution and agrarian reform restructured ownership while leaving everyday labor practices largely dependent on manual work animal power and localized exchange. Visual documentation of campesino life from this period provides primary evidence for the study of agricultural economies regional identity and material culture particularly in relation to transport methods housing forms and dress. The combination of portraiture and working scenes situates individuals within their economic environment offering insight into how rural communities organized labor and family life in the early twentieth century. Light wear minor edge toning and occasional surface marks; images remain sharp with strong contrast and legible inscriptions. Overall very good condition. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 20107

‎Photography - Art of Natural Portraits‎

‎RITRATTI ARTISTICI DI DONNE - Idee Di Fotografia Artistica Femminile - Full Color Paperback Version: 77 Foto D'Arte - Scatti Professionali - Immagini . - Italian Language Edition Italian Edition‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1802530959.G ISBN : 1802530959 9781802530957

‎Ghirri, L; Celant, G et al‎

‎It's Beautiful Here Isn't It.: Photographs and Writings by Luigi Ghirri‎

‎Aperture 2008. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1050grams ISBN:9781597110587 Aperture hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4947978 ISBN : 1597110582 9781597110587

‎Kunhardt, Philip B; Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt (editors) and Matthew Brady (photographer)‎

‎Matthew Brady's Great Americans: Prints from the Original Glass Negatives in the Meserve Collection‎

‎New York: Time Life Books Inc 1976. First edition limited. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to 12"x10.5". Illustrated paper-covered solander box. Includes staple-bound introduction subscription letter fold-out infographic original wrappings tissue vellum seal and green belly-band with ten contact prints.<br /> Ten contact prints: each the exact size of the original negative 2.5"x3.5" and dry-mounted to an 8.75"x10.75" folio mat with blindstamped and hand-numbered seal of authentication. The interior of each folio contains an essay on the subject. A 400x enlargement light horizontal crease to top margin of the Lincoln portrait is included in its folio. Subjects are: Abraham Lincoln Nathaniel Hawthorne Samuel F. B. Morse William Tecumseh Sherman Henry Ward Beecher Phineas Taylor Barnum Edwin Thomas Booth David Glasgow Farragut Mary Todd Lincoln and Oliver Wendell Holmes.<br /> One interior corner of solander box bumped. Light rust to most staples and some staining from these to tissue. All folios fine.<br /> From a limited edition numbered 204 of 2500 copies. Time Life Books Inc hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4398

‎Gary Van Zante‎

‎The Presence of Something Past: Ulrich Wust Photographs‎

‎Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag 2022. hardcover illustrated boards. no flaws or wear. clean. no markings. no bumps tears creases. tight binding. an unused copy.; english text.; 318pp. illustrated throughout in color and b/w. introduction interview catalogue. reference section. comprehensive monograph on late-20th and early 21st century german photographer ulrich wust. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Kerber Verlag Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 25518 ISBN : 3735605842 9783735605849

‎Donaldson, Stephen G (Photographer)‎

‎The Berkshires Revised Second Edition‎

‎Pittsfield MA: Stephen G. Donaldson Photography 2013. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to. Very good copy with minor shelfwear. Dust jakcet has several small tears and chips along edges corners and spine. Stephen G. Donaldson Photography hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 041418 ISBN : 0578129469 9780578129464

‎Wertz, Halfred W; Callender, M Joy‎

‎Penn's Woods 1682-1982: The oldest trees in Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware and Eastern Shore Maryland‎

‎Wayne Pennsylvania: Haverford House/Green Valleys Association 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x0. Well-illustrated. Very good copy with minor shelfwear and mild page foxing. Dust jacket with minor shelfwear and mild chipping to upper corners and head of spine. Haverford House/Green Valleys Association hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 039525 ISBN : 0910702071 9780910702072