Photobooks
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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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# 49519
THOMSON, John (1837 - 1921)
Through China with a camera
With nearly 100 illustrations. Westminster : A. Constable, 1898. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (corners a little bumped), pp. xiv; 284, photographic plates, a fine copy. Scottish-born photographer John Thomson moved to Hong Kong in 1868, after spending three years as a professional photographer with a studio in Singapore and another year in Bangkok. From his base in …
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# 48287
WHITE, Herbert C.
Peking the beautiful
Comprising seventy photographic studies of the celebrated monuments of China’s northern capital and its environs complete with descriptive and historical notes. By Herbert C. White, Art Director, Signs of the Times Publishing House, Shanghai. Introduction by Dr. Hu Shih, Celebrated Chinese scholar, philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Renaissance. Shanghai : The Commercial Press, 1927. …
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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 …
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# 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.
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# 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 …
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# 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.
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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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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# 47367
M. F. (Mabel Fitzgerald) & J. (Jean) B. S. (BARR SMITH); SWEET, Samuel White (photographer)
An Australian birthday book / compiled by M.F. and J.B.S. Printed for private circulation only. (Presented by Mabel Fairfax Barr Smith and Jean Balfour St Clare Barr Smith to their younger sister, Joanna Fitzgerald Barr Smith)
Adelaide : George Robertson, 1883. Octavo (185 x 130 mm), original brown calf, upper board ruled and lettered in gilt (re-backed, boards scuffed and lightly marked); all edges gilt; original floral endpapers; title-page with presentation inscription by the compilers ‘With Mabel & Jean Barr Smith’s Kind regards / March 2nd 1884’; dedication with ownership signature …