Photobooks
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# 47006
HURLEY, Frank
Hurley’s Australia : myth, dream, reality
Selected and introduced by John Thompson. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1999. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. ix, 85, illustrated.
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# 47005
[COTTON]. ENNIS, Helen
Olive Cotton Photographer
Photographs and captions by Olive Cotton, with an introduction by Helen Ennis and a personal memoir by Sally McInerney. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2005 (reprint). Folio, illustrated wrappers, 72pp. illustrated by Cotton’s superb black and white photography.
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# 47003
ENNIS, Helen; ADAMS, Phillip
Cazneaux : the quiet observer
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated boards, 80pp. Monograph that explores the life and work of Harold Cazneaux, one of Australia’s most prominent photographers of the 20th century. Introduced by Helen Ennis with a personal commentary by Phillip Adams.
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# 46930
PHILLIPS, Emma
Send me a lullaby
Melbourne : Photo Australia x Perimeter Editions (Melbourne), 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 48, photographically illustrated. Send me a lullaby is a love letter to a city undergoing immense change, created during a period of both urban transformation and global upheaval. Emma Phillips was commissioned by Photo Australia to make a photographic portrait of Melbourne …
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# 46826
CANNING, Criss
Criss Canning : Instagram moments (from the library of Criss Canning)
Unpublished : the artist, 2020. Oblong quarto, illustrated boards, approximately 160 pages, illustrated with photographs taken from the artist’s Instagram account, documenting her painting, home, garden and travels. Printed in an edition of 10 copies for family. A self-published book of reminiscences and inspiration created by Criss Canning during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia in …
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# 46828
HENSON, Bill (1955 - ); GREGG, Simon
Bill Henson : dark desire
Sale : Gippsland Art Gallery, 2014. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 76, fully illustrated with Henson’s photographs. Essay by Simon Gregg. Limited to 500 copies. An as new copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, 29 November 2014 to 1 February 2015. “‘Dark Desire’ explores Henson’s enduring fascination with darkness …
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# 46730
ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)
Life’s a beer
Melbourne : Ross Books, 1984. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling marks) pp. 96, a very good copy. Ellis’ candid photographs of Australians with tinnies, stubbies, pots and schooners, middies, pints and slabs. Think Hawkie, Hoges and Sir Les Patterson.
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# 46699
MACKAY, Elina
The Great Aussie Fashion. Australian fashion designers 1984 – 1985
Sydney : Kevin Weldon, 1984. Folio, illustrated wrappers (light edge wear, lightly creased), pp. 288, some fold-out illustrations, extensively illustrated with fashion photographs, else a very good copy. A super hot look at contemporary designers creating garments for a modern, stylish Australia still riding the wave of our American Cup win. Jenny Lee, Prue Acton, …
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# 46023
HENSON, Bill (1955 -)
Principio erat (Artist’s edition B)
Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, pictorial laminated boards, pp. [70], several double fold-out pages, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. As new. Principio erat is published in a standard and deluxe edition – described as the ‘Artist’s edition’ by the publisher. The standard edition is published in two variations, each limited to 500 …
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# 46490
GATEWOOD, Charles and William S. Burroughs
Sidetripping
New York : Strawberry Hill Publishing Co., 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, small crease to edge of wrappers, pp. [80], photographically illustrated, text excerpted from various works by Burroughs. Scarce photobook of American subculture, including queer groups, religious groups, fetishists and exhibitionists.
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# 46366
MADDISON, Ruth
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
Melbourne : Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2021. Octavo, illustrated gatefold wrappers, unpaginated, approx. 200 pp., illustrated. A fine copy, as new. Scarce. ‘Spanning close to 200 pages, this landmark publication sits alongside Maddison’s exhibition as a key survey of her social documentary practice from 1976 to the current day. Covering key periods within Maddison’s extensive …
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# 46296
DAVIES, Alan; STANBURY, Peter
The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985. First printing. Quarto (290 x 220 mm), publisher’s black cloth in dust jacket (scattered foxing to inside of jacket); illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated; contents clean throughout; a very good copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet published, now very scarce.
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# 46284
HENSON, Bill (1955 -)
Bill Henson Photographs 1974 – 1984
With contributions by David Malouf, Peter Schjeldahl. Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1989. Quarto, pictorial wrappers (slight handling marks), 103 pp., previous owner’s name to half-title, a good copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne 14 June – 7 July 1989. Scarce.
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# 45684
HENSON, Bill (1955 -)
Bill Henson
Salamanca : Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2003. First edition. Oblong folio, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 92, illustrated. Scarce Spanish book on Henson’s photography. “Este libro ha sido publicado con motivo de la exposición de Bill Henson organizada por el Centro de Fotografía de la Universidad de Salamanca en colaboración con la galería roslyn …
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# 45848
GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan
Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963
Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …
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# 45971
HENSON, Bill
Principio erat (standard edition B)
Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, pictorial laminated boards, pp. [70], several double fold-out pages, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. As new copy. Principio erat is published in a standard and deluxe edition – described as the ‘Artist’s edition’ by the publisher. The standard edition is published in two variations, each limited to …