Photobooks

  • Lignes en quatre directions et toutes leurs combinaisons. Sol Lewitt,

    # 37400

    [LEWITT, Sol]

    Lignes en quatre directions et toutes leurs combinaisons. Sol Lewitt,

    Bordeaux : Musée d’art contemporain, 1983. Quarto, photobook of an installation by Sol Lewitt with detail of the works shown, printed in a folded accordion style, small crease to one corner, pp. [40], a very good copy.

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  • Australian photography 1957

    # 37530

    ZIEGLER, Oswald L. (editor)

    Australian photography 1957

    Sydney : Oswald Ziegler Publications, 1957. Quarto, illustrated wrappers. unpaginated, illustrated throughout. Introduction by Hal Missingham, essays by Laurence Le Guay and Val S. Waller, photographs by Laurence Le Guay, Gordon F. De Lisle, Axel Poignant, Kerry Dundas, Hal Missingham, Wolfgang Sievers, Max Dupain, Athol Shmith, Cyril Jackson, Helmut Newton, David Potts, John L. Wrap, …

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  • Oneiroi

    # 37134

    HENSON, Bill (1955 -)

    Oneiroi

    Melbourne : Scanlan Theodore, 2016. Quarto, lettered cloth, pp. 32, foreword by John Tatoulis, essay by Peter Craven, photographic plates by Bill Henson. Printed in a limited edition of 300 copies. ‘ONEIROI sets out to inspire discussion about what it means to be custodians of an ancient past and captures the way in which our …

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  • Image 384. Portfolio '81

    # 36810

    EVANS, Joyce (1929 - 2019)

    Image 384. Portfolio ’81

    [Melbourne] : Church Street Photographic Centre, 1981. Black clamshell box, 475 x 380 mm, containing text sheet and eight original photographs mounted on cards, each signed by the photographer, one numbered in an edition of 14, suggesting that 14 portfolios were made. The photographers are Philip Cordingley, Robin Ernest Blume, Paul G. Frijlink, Chris Hughes, …

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  • The ghillies : Polixeni Papapetrou (signed copy)

    # 36366

    PAPAPETROU, Polixeni

    The ghillies : Polixeni Papapetrou (signed copy)

    [Melbourne] : Polixeni Papapetrou, 2013. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 36, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Signed by the artist twice. Published to accompany an exhibition held at Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, 28 March – 25 May 2013.

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  • Spirit of 76. London Punk Eyewitness

    # 35838

    INGHAM, John

    Spirit of 76. London Punk Eyewitness

    London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 160, illustrated. New cpy. When punk first broke in the UK in 1976, music journalist John Ingham was on hand to document the very heart of the scene. Struck by the music, fashion and sheer iconoclasm of a little-known outfit called the Sex Pistols, …

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  • Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958 - 1987

    # 35873

    WOODWARD, Richard B.

    Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958 – 1987

    Cologne : TASCHEN. 2017. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 408, illustrated. New copy. Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the …

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  • [LEPORELLO] Album of Sandhurst views

    # 32898

    Anon.

    [LEPORELLO] Album of Sandhurst views

    [Melbourne : Schütze, Steffens & Co., 272 Little Collins Street (but printed in Germany), c.1891]. Leporello album. Octavo, original cloth backed pictorial boards gilt (corners bumped), containing a concertina foldout with [13] panels of lithographed views (after photographs) of Sandhurst, including a four-panel panorama of the town, public buildings and churches, Alexandra Fountain and Pall …

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  • Lux et nox (first edition)

    # 36034

    HENSON, Bill (b. 1955)

    Lux et nox (first edition)

    Zurich : Scalo, 2002. First edition. Extended oblong folio (430mm wide), cloth in illustrated dust jacket, 175 pp. of Henson’s ethereal photography. This is the first edition, printed in Germany. It was then reprinted in Melbourne in 2008. As new copy, still sealed in plastic.

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  • Physique pictorial. Vol. XVI, No. 1

    # 35019

    MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992)

    Physique pictorial. Vol. XVI, No. 1

    Los Angeles : AMG, 66. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (a few pen marks and light stain), pp. 32, black and white photographs. 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 …

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  • Bill Henson

    # 34721

    HENSON, Bill (1955 -)

    Bill Henson

    Deluxe edition with two signed photographs. Paris : Editions Bessard, 2016. Quarto, full silk with lenticular (holographic) cover, pp. [48], all full-page images of Henson’s photographs, paper folder at rear containing a signed photograph of a nude girl measuring 11.5 x 16 cm, housed within a silver-lettered raw silk clamshell box. The deluxe edition, limited to …

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  • Less than Lovers

    # 34633

    PETTIFER, Drew

    Less than Lovers

    Melbourne : M.33, 2014. Quarto, lettered wrappers,  unpaginated, photographically illustrated. New copy. Following hot on the heels of his playfully provocative 2011 publication I keep mine hidden, Drew Pettifer presents a more languid, more moody and delicate collection of images in his latest book from M.33. Once again taking its name from a song title; this …

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  • Jesse Marlow – Second City

    # 34628

    MARLOW, Jesse

    Jesse Marlow – Second City

    Melbourne : Sling Shot Press, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 96, illustrated. New copy. Printed in an edition of 900 copies. ‘When I was at photography school, every few weeks our photojournalism teacher would send the class off into the city on “Citywalks”. With an otherwise open brief, our only task was to keep an …

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  • Matthew Barney : The Cremaster cycle (Paris edition)

    # 33828

    SPECTOR, Nancy

    Matthew Barney : The Cremaster cycle (Paris edition)

    Paris : Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002 (New York : Guggenheim Museum, 2002). Thick quarto, embossed silk wrappers, pp. xv, 522, diecut edges, a fine copy. Text in English Published on the occasion of the exhibition Matthew Barney: the Cremaster Cycle, Musueum Ludwig, Cologne, June 6-September 1, 2002; Musee d’Art Moderne …

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  • Physique pictorial. Vol. 12, No. 1 (featuring Tom of Finland)

    # 34782

    MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992)

    Physique pictorial. Vol. 12, No. 1 (featuring Tom of Finland)

    Los Angeles : AMG, July 1962. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, pp. 32, black and white photographs. Includes a double page spread illustrated by Tom of Finland, a double page spread illustrated by Spartacus, and the back cover illustrated by Harry Granite. Physique Pictorial, published by Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild (AMG) was the first all-male and …

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  • Bahrain in original photographs 1880 - 1961

    # 34188

    WHEATCROFT, Andrew

    Bahrain in original photographs 1880 – 1961

    London and New York : Kegan Paul International, 1988. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (light handling wear), pp. xiv; 142, photographically illustrated, a hint of pale foxing to preliminaries, else internally fine. The front free endpaper with a lengthy gift inscription to a visitor celebrating their birthday in Bahrain, dated 1989, loosely enclosed is a note …

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