Photobooks

  • # 44306

    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. New. 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 …

  • # 44157

    POSTLE, Bruce

    Bruce Postle : the image maker (signed and inscribed copy)

    Melbourne : Elm Grove Press, 2011. Oblong folio, illustrated laminated boards in slipcase, corners bumped, short split at head of spine, pp. xxvi; 374, extensively illustrated. Limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by the photographer. A good copy. With a personalised inscription signed by Bruce Postle. The definitive collection of photography by one of Australia’s …

  • # 44124

    [JERREMS, Carol et al.].

    Woman 1975

    Melbourne : Young Women’s Christian Association of Australia, 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (cover image by Laurie Wilson), lightly marked and rubbed; pp. 160, b/w photographic illustrations throughout; foreword by Stella C. Watson, introduction by Jennie Boddington; front free-endpaper inscribed ‘Mrs and Mr Annita Connor – for your contribution to International Women’s Year – Catherine 1975’; …

  • # 43938

    HICKS, Petrina; CROMBIE, Isobel; QUIRK, Maria

    Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic (deluxe edition with signed print)

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2019. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, wraparound band for the deluxe edition, pp. 144, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies, accompanied by a inkjet archival print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper of Hicks’ most recognisable image, Shenae and Jade 2005, printed by Warren Macris at High Res Digital in …

  • # 43913

    DWORZAK, Thomas; ANDERSON, Jon Lee; REES, Thomas

    Taliban

    London : Trolley, [2003]. Octavo (210 x 155 mm), publisher’s illustrated boards (no dust jacket, as issued); approx. [119] pp., colour photographic illustrations throughout; a fine copy. In 2002, while on assignment in Afghanistan for the New Yorker, Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak collected an astonishing array of glamourised portrait photos of Taliban fighters in Kandahar, …

  • # 43830

    MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992)

    Physique pictorial. Volume 15, number 3, June 1966

    Los Angeles : AMG, 1966. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, pp. 32, black and white photographs, with cover art by TOM OF FINLAND. The breakthrough publication which saw Touko Laaksonen’s ‘dirty little pictures’ exposed to a broader gay readership. Laaksonen submitted his drawings to publisher Bob Mizer simply signed as ‘Tom’. Mizer saw the envelopes had arrived …

  • # 44011

    HENSON, Bill (1955 -)

    Bill Henson : private view

    Sydney : RoslynOxley9 Gallery, 2008. Exhibition invitation card, 210 x 150 mm, folded card, illustration on upper panel. A fine copy. The highly controversial invitation to Henson’s 2008 exhibition which saw the entire exhibition confiscated by police and the Prime Minister denounce the works as ‘absolutely revolting’. ‘On 22 May 2008, the opening night of …

  • # 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 …

  • # 43574

    HEYWARD, Michael

    Bill Henson (complete set of three books in different illustrated dustjackets)

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 75, illustrated. New copies, still sealed in shrinkwrap. Three copies of the standard edition, printed with three variant dustjacket illustrations in equal numbers (marble sculpture, face of a girl and a seascape). The dustjackets fold out to make a large poster of a …

  • # 43573

    WOOL, Christopher, b. 1955

    Christopher Wool : Yard

    Berlin : Holzwarth Publications, 2018. Folio, gatefold card wrappers, pp. 184, 92 duotone illustrations, signed and dated 2018. ‘In this artist’s book from 2018, Christopher Wool layers photos of backyard debris and dusty roads, of Texan wilderness and found situations rife with allusions to sculpture. Two realities invade each other, and their overlapping actualities collapse …

  • # 42765

    CLARKE, Glen

    Suppression = alienation = oppression

    Melbourne : Champion, 1979. Quarto, coil bound, illustrated wrappers, pp. [44], photographically illustrated. Photographically illustrated artist’s book.

  • # 37021

    MORIYAMA, Daido (1938 - )

    Accident, 2011

    Tokyo : Goliga, 2011. Artist’s book, 360 x 260 mm (closed) ‘each book has 80 Pages that are comprised of 40 individual sheets folded and bound together in an accordion format. All sheets are printed single-sided with tritone silk screening on 220 kg paper stock. A mixture of two varieties of the same paper have …

  • # 43014

    MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992); LEYLAND, Winston

    Physique. A pictorial history of the Athletic Model Guild

    San Francisco : Gay Sunshine Press, 1982. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [96], illustrated with erotic photography of male nudes. Physique Pictorial, published by Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild (AMG) was the first all-male and all-nude magazine in the United States. It is an example of a ‘beefcake’ magazine which published images of athletic and attractive …

  • # 43009

    MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992); TOM OF FINLAND

    Physique pictorial. 16 issues featuring covers by Tom of Finland

    Los Angeles : AMG, 1961 – 1976. 16 issues of Physique Pictorial all featuring covers designed by legendary gay artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (known by the pseudonym ‘Tom of Finland’, each issue octavo, pictorial wrappers, each approximately pp. 32, black and white photographs of male nudes. The breakthrough publication which saw Touko Laaksonen’s ‘dirty little …

  • # 42730

    LINDBERGH, Peter

    Peter Lindbergh : images of women

    Munich : Schirmer/Mosel, 1997. Folio, cloth in dustjacket (handling creases and wear), pp. 308, extensively illustrated. Stunning monograph on the late German fashion photographer, credited with launching the careers of supermodels Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford, amongst others.

  • # 42888

    BARTON, Crawford (1943 - 1993)

    Beautiful men

    San Mateo, CA : Liberation Publications, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a little rubbed and creased), pp. [96], internally fine. Iconic and seminal photobook, the first publication from Crawford Barton, who is noted for his documentation of the emergent gay subculture in San Francisco from the 1960s to 1980s. Rare.