Photobooks
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# 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.
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# 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.
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# 42837
KING, Natalie (editor)
Tracey Moffatt : my horizon
Sydney : Australia Council for the Arts ; Melbourne, Victoria : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2017. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 150, illustrated. New copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tracey Moffatt: my Horizon, curated by Natalie King, for the Australian Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 13 …
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# 42529
COOK, Michael (1968 - )
Michael Cook
Brisbane : Andrew Baker Art Dealer, circa 2015. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [20], illustrated. ‘Michael Cook is a photographer who worked commercially both in Australia and overseas for twenty-five years. In 2009, Cook was drawn into art photography by an increasingly urgent desire to learn about his Aboriginal ancestry and identity. As a child, Cook …
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# 42519
"BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES" [BELLAS, Bruce] (1909 - 1974)
The male figure
Volume thirty-six. Los Angeles : Bruce of Los Angeles, 1966. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp 54, with photographic illustrations. Fine, uncirculated copy. The thirty-sixth volume of a beefcake magazine first published in 1956, dedicated to the male figure by renowned photographer Bruce Bellas, who published under the name Bruce of Los Angeles. Bruce’s distinctive skill in …
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# 42503
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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# 42493
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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# 42492
HEYWARD, Michael
Bill Henson (dust jacket design with seascape)
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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# 42417
SOLOMON-GODEAU, Abigail
Rosemary Laing
Sydney : Piper Press, 2012. Oblong folio, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 176, extensively illustrated. New copy, mint condition, sealed in shrinkwrap. ‘Rosemary Laing presents a spectacular vision of Australia as both haunted by history and alive to the present. Her images appear suspended between fantasy and reality, and render the impossible possible.’ – the publisher
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# 42350
HENSON, Bill
Bill Henson : landscapes
Castlemaine : Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 2016. Oblong quarto, wrappers, pp. [x]; 8 colour plates with text; [6]. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Catalogue for exhibition Bill Herson: Landscapes held at Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum from 30 April to 30 June 2016
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# 42345
OPPENHEIM, John
Jew : A Photographic Project by John Offenbach
Milan : Skira Editore S.p.A, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 176, illustrated. John Offenbach’s wonderful collection of portraits, boldly and bluntly entitled Jew, could not be more timely. In a period when antisemitism and racism are rife, when ignorance and prejudice prevail, here is a captivating tale of the unexpected. A portrait of Jewish people …
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# 42287
YANG, William
Sydney Diary 1974 – 1984
Sydney : James Fraser, 1984. Folio, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), 143 pp., previous owner’s name neatly written on endpaper, small spot of foxing to title page, illustrated throughout. William Yang’s honest and unabashed portraits of Sydney in the 1970s and 80s record a time of cultural renewal and new identity. Yang’s photographs record the …
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# 41235
CLIFT, William (1944- )
New Mexico : photographs by William Clift.
Announcing a portfolio of eight original photographic prints by William Clift. With an introduction by Eliot Porter. Santa Fe, NM : William Clift, 1975. Prospectus. Printed paper wrappers, 105 x 115 mm, containing [8] loose sheets with high quality reproductions of the images in the forthcoming portfolio, and [2] sheets with publication and ordering information; …
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# 41292
HENSON, Bill
Principio erat (standard edition A)
Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, pictorial laminated boards, pp. [70], several double fold-out pages, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. Principio erat is published in a standard and deluxe edition – described as the ‘Artist’s edition’ by the publisher. The standard edition is published in two variations, each limited to 500 numbered copies. …
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# 41030
MOFFATT, Tracey et alia
Visionaire 30 : the game. Australia edition
[New York] : Visionaire Publishing, 1999. Limited to 6000 numbered copies. A fine example. Issue 30 of the avant garde photography magazine, presented in the form of a game, featuring photographs by Australian artists and sitting in a box designed by Louis Vuitton. “30 GAME is not only a collection of art but also a …
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# 39687
MIKI, Akiko; ISSIHIKI, Yoshiko and SATO, Tomoko (editors)
Araki. Nobuyoshi Araki : self, life, death
London : Phaidon Press, 2005. First edition.. Quarto, papered boards in illustrated dustjacket (pale sunning to spine), pp. 720, illustrated. A fine copy of the first edition, the most comprehensive monograph on Araki. Nobuyoshi Araki is one of Japan’s greatest living photographers, and certainly its most controversial. Over the last forty years he has published …