Photobooks
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# 51171
MAPPLETHORPE Robert
Robert Mapplethorpe 1970 – 1983
London : Institute of Contemporary Art, 1983. Second printing. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated.
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# 51167
HEYWARD, Michael
Bill Henson.
Melbourne : Pinacotheca Gallery, 1986. Folio, illustrated wrappers, 8 pp., large reproductions of Henson’s photographic work, essay by Michael Heyward. A scarce publication which accompanied Henson’s exhibition at the Pinacotheca Gallery in 1986.
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# 50895
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen (deluxe edition with signed archival print)
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. Fine copy. The rare deluxe edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by the artist. Mounted inside the upper board is a mylar sleeve housing a limited edition archival inkjet print Golden Summer 1987 / 2016 …
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# 51062
DUPAIN, Max
Max Dupain’s Australians
Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2003. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked), pp. [28], illustrated with Dupain’s portraits including Norman Lindsay, Jean Bellette, Leon Gellert, and others.
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# 50958
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., a good copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne 14 June – 7 July 1989. Scarce.
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# 50899
HERINGTON, David
Stage Right
Bexhill [N.S.W.]: the artist, 2020. Small quarto, illustrated wrappers, edge stain and rubbing to lower panel and adjacent pages, pp. 48, photographically illustrated. Limited to 100 numbered copies. Very scarce. ‘Stage Right is a 50 page, 8×8 inch perfect bound book featuring 36 photographs of both colour and black and white as well as four …
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# 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.
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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) …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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), …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …