Photobooks

  • Calling the shots : Aboriginal photographies

    # 50782

    LYDON, Jane (editor)

    Calling the shots : Aboriginal photographies

    Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xii; 280, illustrated with images of indigenous Australians from across Australia. Edited by Jane Lydon, with contributions from Julie Gough, Sari Braithwaite, Shauna Bostock-Smith, Lawrence Bamblett, Michael Aird, Karen Hughes, Aunty Ellen Trevorrow, Donna Oxenham, Laurie Baymarrwangga and Bentley James.

  • Bill Henson : landscapes

    # 50734

    HENSON, Bill

    Bill Henson : landscapes

    Castlemaine : Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 2016. Oblong quarto, wrappers, pp. [x]; 8 colour plates with text; [6]. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Catalogue for exhibition Bill Herson: Landscapes held at Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum from 30 April to 30 June 2016

  • A book about Australian women

    # 50431

    JERREMS, Carol (1949 - 1980); FRASER, Virginia (1947 - 2021)

    A book about Australian women

    Photographs by Carol Jerrems. Text edited by Virginia Fraser. Melbourne : Outback Press, 1974. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a few light creases and lightly marked), pp. 141; [3], illustrated in black and white, light foxing to preliminaries, contemporary small gift inscription dated 1974, a very good copy. Design and layout of the photographic pages by Carol …

  • Bahrain in original photographs 1880 - 1961

    # 50585

    WHEATCROFT, Andrew

    Bahrain in original photographs 1880 – 1961

    London and New York : Kegan Paul International, 1988. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (light handling wear), pp. xiv; 142, photographically illustrated, a few small marks to endpapers, else internally fine. Loosely enclosed are a lengthy article on Bahrain extracted from the National Geographic Magazine in 1979, and some receipts and postage forms from Bahrain in …

  • No standing, only dancing : photographs by Rennie Ellis. (Deluxe edition with photograph)

    # 49656

    van WYK, Susan; NEGUS, George

    No standing, only dancing : photographs by Rennie Ellis. (Deluxe edition with photograph)

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2008. Quarto, black Brillianta linen with debossed Rennie Ellis signature and clear foil finish, hand crafted slip case, pp. 135, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 110 copies (of which 100 were for sale) with an original Rennie Ellis photograph Dino Ferrari, Toorak Road 1976 (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm) …

  • Williamstown illustrated.

    # 49960

    JOHNSTON, John (editor)

    Williamstown illustrated.

    Williamstown : Printed by Clark & Co., “Advertiser” Office, Nelson Place, 1904. Oblong octavo (150 x 250 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in yellow (lightly marked, sunned along spine and lower edges); pp. [64], illustrated throughout with half-tone photographs; upper margin of first page with a gift inscription dated Christmas Day 1904, and later family …

  • Persian Gulf Command.

    # 49080

    [Compiler unknown].

    Persian Gulf Command.

    [Teheran : Headquarters, Persian Gulf. Command, United States Army, c.1945]. Folio photograph album (320 x 255 mm), original brown textured cloth over boards with embossed silver lettering ‘Persian Gulf Command / Iran’ and embossed insignia of the Persian Gulf Command to upper board, original silk ties; [19] leaves with 268 corner-mounted gelatin silver photographs, most …

  • William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen

    # 50084

    YANG, William et al.

    William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen

    Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Reprinted 2022. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. Queensland-born, Sydney-based photographer William Yang’s significant contribution to Australian photography spans five decades. Known for his reflective and joyous depictions of Australia’s LGBTQI scene in the late 70s and 80s through to the …

  • Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men (deluxe edition with original signed photograph)

    # 49792

    FISCHER, Hal (1950 - )

    Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men (deluxe edition with original signed photograph)

    Los Angeles : Cherry and Martin, 2015. Quarto, lettered boards in matching slipcase (slight crease along upper panel), pp. 56, illustrated. A fine copy. Second edition, the first edition published by NFS Press in San Francisco in 1977. The deluxe edition, limited to 250 copies bound in hardcover with slipcase (this is copy number 54), …

  • Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men (first edition)

    # 49941

    FISCHER, Hal (1950 - )

    Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men (first edition)

    San Francisco : NFS Press, 1977. First edition. Quarto, lettered wrappers (edges very slightly rubbed, erasure of bookseller’s pencilled price on preliminary blank), pp. 56, illustrated. A fine copy. The rare first edition. In 2015 a facsimile was printed (which sold out), this summary is taken from the publisher’s description: ‘Hal Fischer’s Gay Semiotics: A …

  • The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.

    # 49414

    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 (light edge wear, scattered foxing to inside of jacket), stain to lower edge; illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated; contents clean throughout; a good copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet …

  • The night of your life. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (limited edition)

    # 49385

    NORTH, Gerry, et al.

    The night of your life. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (limited edition)

    Sydney : Rural and City Media Services, 1992. Quarto, full leather with pictorial inlay, pp. 176, extensively illustrated. Limited to 4000 numbered copies. The deluxe leather bound edition; a paperback edition was also released.

  • Friends of Dorothy (signed presentation copy)

    # 49336

    YANG, William (1943 - )

    Friends of Dorothy (signed presentation copy)

    Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 168, illustrated. With a signed presentation inscription from William Yang on the title page, as well as a gift inscription. For over fifty years William Yang has photographed gay and lesbian life in Australia, documenting culture and subculture through the lens of …

  • Bill Henson Photographs 1974 - 1984

    # 49320

    HENSON, Bill

    Bill Henson Photographs 1974 – 1984

    Introduction by David Malouf. Sydney: Pan Books, 1988. Folio, boards in dustjacket, light wear to lower edge, light offsetting to endpapers, numerous folding photographic plates. Fine Henson photography from the 70s and 80s.

  • We had such high hopes : student activism and the peace movement 1949-1952 : a photographic memoir

    # 49303

    EVANS, Joyce (1929 - 2019)

    We had such high hopes : student activism and the peace movement 1949-1952 : a photographic memoir

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 183, illustrated. New copy. Some think it all happened in the 1960s but Joyce Evans, acclaimed photographer of Australia’s land and its people, goes back to her youth and memories of her many adventures as a student activist. In 1949, aged 19, she set sail …

  • Sic Transit

    # 49265

    HENSON, Bill (1955 -)

    Sic Transit

    London : Stanley/Barker, 2020. Quarto, 310 x 300 mm, blind lettered silk in illustrated dustjacket, pp. [164]; fully illustrated photobook of Bill Henson images, printed by EBS in Verona, Italy, housed in a lettered slipcase. New copy, acquired directly from the publisher, of this rare edition which sold out within weeks of publication. The title Sic …