Photobooks
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# 48250
THOMSON, John (1837 - 1921)
Illustrations of China and its people.
A series of two hundred photographs with letterpress descriptions of the places and people represented. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873-74. First edition. Four volumes, folio, gilt-illustrated pictorial cloth over bevelled boards (corners bumped, edges rubbed and scuffed), the first volume rebacked with original spine laid down; containing a total of 200 …
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# 48143
FISCHER, Hal
18th Near Castro St. x 24
San Francisco : NFS Press, 1978. Oblong octavo, lettered wrappers (edges a little rubbed), pp. [56], photographically illustrated. The rare original printing of Hal Fischer’s seminal photobook documenting 24 hours at a bus stop in the Castro from 9 am Saturday morning to 9 am Sunday morning. The 24 photographs, taken every hour, show the …
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# 47739
HENSON, Bill
Paris Opera (Artist Edition, Second Series, with original signed photograph)
London : Stanley/Barker, 2022. Quarto, 310 x 310 mm, gilt-lettered papered boards in illustrated dustjacket, all edges gilt, pp. 52, illustrated with Henson’s exquisite photographs from his 1992 series staged at the opera houses of Paris. New copy, acquired directly from the publisher, of this rare edition which sold out within days of publication. The …
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# 47700
KING, Natalie (editor); JERREMS, Carol (1949 - 1980)
Up close : Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang
Edited by Natalie King. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xiv, 241, illustrated. A fine copy. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same title held at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 3 August – 31 October 2010. ‘Up Close traces the significant legacy of Australian photographer Carol Jerrems (1949–1980) and situates her work alongside …
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# 47937
NEWTON, Gael
Shades of light. Photography and Australia 1839-1988
With essays by Helen Ennis and Chris Long and assistance from Isobel Crombie and Kate Davidson. Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light edge wear) pp. 218, illustrated. A very good copy. A detailed history of Australian photography, from colonial to contemporary. Includes works by Tracey Moffatt, Julie Rrap, Max Dupain, Bill …
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# 47382
WARHOL, Andy; SHORE, Stephen; MORRISSEY, Paul; Ondine; Nico
Andy Warhol’s Index (Book)
With assistance of Stephen Shore, Paul Morrissey, Ondine, Nico, Christopher Cerf, Alan Rinzler, Gerald Harrison, Akihito Shirakawa and particularly David Paul. Several photographs by Nat Finkelstein. Factory fotos by Billy Name. New York: Random House, 1967. Quarto, First edition, silver card ‘tinfoil’ wrappers (a few handling creases, front free endpaper beginning to ‘unglue’ from upper …
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# 47485
MADDISON, Ruth
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2021. Octavo, illustrated gatefold wrappers, unpaginated, approx. 200 pp., illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 numbered copies with wraparound band, containing an original photograph signed by Ruth Maddison. A fine copy, as new. Scarce. ‘Spanning close to 200 pages, this landmark publication sits alongside Maddison’s exhibition as a …
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# 47432
WEIGHT, Greg
Australian Artists. Portraits by Greg Weight (signed presentation copy)
Sydney: Chapter & Verse, 2004. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (corners bumped, spine sunned), 204pp. Limited to 300 signed copies. Signed by the artist and the art patron who commissioned the book, Patrick Corrigan, as well as the photographer Grey Weight. This copy a presentation copy to noted Australian art publisher, author and historian Jenny …
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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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# 42516
MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992)
Physique pictorial. A very substantial run of 77 issues 1951 – 1991
Los Angeles : AMG, 1955 – 1991. 67 issues of Physique Pictorial (a very substantial run, the first seven issues from 1951 – 1953 being photocopies reprinted in 1997, the original vintage printings beginning with vol. 5, no. 2, 1955, through to vol. 41, 1990), octavo, pictorial wrappers, each approximately pp. 32, black and white …
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# 47293
VAN WYK, Susan; NELSON, Robert
Olympia : photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou
Susan van Wyk and Olympia Nelson with Robert Nelson and Solomon Nelson. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2019. Quarto, quarter cloth over illustrated boards, pp. 165, illustrated. New copy, in shrinkwrap. Catalogue of exhibition held at NGV from 27 September 2019 – 15 March 2020. Polixeni Papapetrou was a singular Australian artist, known for …
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# 47231
HEYWARD, Michael
Bill Henson (dustjacket design with face of a girl)
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 75, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, in mint condition, purchased new from the NGV at the time of publication. The standard edition, printed with three variant dustjacket illustrations in equal numbers (marble sculpture, face of a girl and a …
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# 47048
SMORGON, Loti & Victor
Light sensitive : contemporary Australian photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (illustrated with a photograph by Petrina Hicks), pp. 112, illustrated with works by Brook Andrew, Darren Sylvester, Patricia Piccinini, Matthew Sleethe, Scott Redford, Pat Brassington, Deborah Paauwe and others.
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# 47040
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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# 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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# 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 …