Photobooks
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# 44343
HENSON, Bill
Bill Henson Photographs 1974 – 1984 (signed copy)
Introduction by David Malouf. Sydney: Pan Books, 1988. Folio, boards in dustjacket (lightly rubbed), numerous folding photographic plates, previous owner’s name to pastedown. A fine copy, signed by the artist on the front free endpaper. Fine Henson photography from the 70s and 80s.
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# 44467
HENSON, Bill.
Mnemosyne
Zurich : Scalo, 2005. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, 501 pp. A massive and extensively illustrated monograph on the famously controversial Melbourne photographer, published in conjunction with the artist’s major survey exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. A fine copy, with related Bill Henson ephemera enclosed.
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# 44253
PARR, Martin and BADGER, Gerry
The photobook : a history. Volume 1
London : Phaidon, 2004. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light wave), pp. 320, extensively illustrated. A very good copy. ‘While the history of photography is a well-established canon, much less critical attention has been directed at the phenomenon of the photobook, which for many photographers is perhaps the most significant vehicle for the display of their …
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# 44128
BOULTER, Jason
Unemployable. 30 Years of Hardcore, Skate and Street (signed presentation copy)
Melbourne : Thames and Hudson, 2016. Thick quarto, letters cloth with pictorial inlay, [xv]; 693, extensively illustrated, a fine copy. This copy with a personal signed inscription from the author to arts publisher Jenny Zimmer, dated 2.11.2016. ‘Unemployable traces the origins of the Hill brothers’ passion for skateboarding to the founding of their initial company …
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# 44423
JONES, Shar
J. W. Lindt : master photographer
Melbourne : Currey O’Neil Ross Pty Ltd on behalf of the Library Council of Victoria, 1985. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, light edge wear, pp. 128, previous owner’s label to endpaper, a very good copy.
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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’; …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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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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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 42765
CLARKE, Glen
Suppression = alienation = oppression
Melbourne : Champion, 1979. Quarto, coil bound, illustrated wrappers, pp. [44], photographically illustrated. Photographically illustrated artist’s book.
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# 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 …
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# 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 …