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Photography Books and Magazines. Enrico Natali to Nueva Luz.
125. Natali, Enrico. New American People. [Social documentary
portraits.] Morgan & Morgan, 1972. Good. $15.
127. Nature Photography. Attenborough, David. The Living Planet:
A Portrait of the Earth. [Companion to PBS Television series.
Profusely illus. by Attenborough, Bruce Coleman, Tony Morrison,
et al.] Little, Brown, 1984. Fine w. vg+ dj, $10.00.
128.1. New Mexico, U.S.A. A Photographic
Essay of New Mexico. Created and edited by Barbara Erdman. Designed
by Mary Shapiro. Published by the Santa Fe Center for Photography,
Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1st printing, 1985. Cloth, fine with dust
jacket in fine condition, with gift inscription on front flyleaf.
Photographs by Roswell Angier, Raymond Belcher, Kevin Bubridki,
Paul Caponigro, Walter Chappell, Rahoul Contractor, Stephen Cooper,
William Davis, Orlando Diaz, Helen Doroshhow, Barbara Erdman,
Richard Erdoes, Michael Fahy, Ike Fordyce, Barbara Gluck, Do
Greiser, James Hart, Murrae Haynes, Michael Heller, Bradner Crawford
Jones, Douglas Kahn, Douglas Keats, Edward Klamm, Robert Klintworth,
Barbaraellen Koch, Lisa Law, J.D. Lincoln, Carm Little Turtle,
Paul Logsdon, Herb Lotz, Cissie Ludlow, Judy Ellen Moore, Beaumont
Newhall, David Grant Noble, Steve Northup, Jack Parsons, Mary
Peck, Deede Phillips, Bernard Plossu, Eliot Porter, Michael Rosenthal,
Meridel Rubinstein, James David Ruffner, Janet Russek, Robert
Saltzman, David Scheinbaum, Nicholas Decor, Barbara Simpson,
Susan Steefy, Alex Traube, Barbara Van Cleve, Willard Van Dyke,
Charles Venrick, Nancy Hunter Warren, John Whatley, Richard Wickstrom,
Jeannette Williams, Susan Zwinger. ISBN 0-9615298. Scarce in
hardcover! $25.
128.2. Newhall, Beaumont. Airborne
Camera: the World from the Air and Outer Space. Hastings House
in collaboration with The George Eastman House, 1969. Special
edition for The Museum of Modern Art. Stiff illustrated wraps.
Amazingly fine condition for a book of this vintage. A history
of aerial photography dating back to Felix Nadar's photographs
from balloons, ca. 1860, to photographs taken by cameras carried
by pigeons, to early aircraft photography, on up to space photography
in the 1960s. Newhall, who was closely associated with leading
figures in photography such Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, and Alfred
Stieglitz, and was married to the photography writer Nancy Newhall,
is well known as one of the foremost authorities on the history
of photography; his book, The History of Photography, went through
a number of editions. He also wrote hundreds of other books and
articles on daguerreotypes, the invention of photography, and
myriad other topics, and served as the director of The George
Eastman House. $20.
128a. Newhall, Beaumont. Album 6. July 1970. Special George
Eastman House Issue with introduction by Beaumont Newhall and
contributions by Thomas Barrow and Harold Jones. [Many of the
photographs in this magazine were in an exhibition, From the
George Eastman House Collection, 1774-1969. Newhall was the director
of the George Eastman House at this time. The entire magazine,
which is bound like a book in stiff illustrated wraps, is devoted
to the Eastman House and constitutes the only available catalog
for this exhibit.] Very good plus, $20.
128a.1. Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography. Museum of Modern Art, 1964, 1978. 4th edition, sixth printing. Better quality reproductions than some other editions. Blue cloth, vg, no dust jacket. $10.
128b. Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography. Museum
of Modern Art, 1982. 1st printing of 5th revised edition. VG
in stiff illustrated wraps with previous owner's name on preliminary
title page. $15
128c. Same, 3rd printing of 5th revised ed. Fine, wraps, $15.
Beaumont Newhall - see also History, in the H list.
129. Newhall, Beaumont. Image of America: Early Photography,
1839-1900. Library of Congress, 1957. [Illus. cat. for exhibit
at LC that opened Feb. 8, 1957.] Wraps, as issued, fine exc.
spine & edges darkened. $20.
129a. Newhall, Beaumont. In Focus: Memoirs of a Life in Photography.
Bulfinch,/Little, Brown, 1993. [The famous photohistorian's autobiography
with stories of his relationships with Alfred Stieglitz, Edward
Weston, Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams, and other photo luminaries.
Well illustrated with many photos not published elsewhere. An
essential reference for students of Modernist photography.] 1st
ed. Hardcover with mylar protected dust jacket. Name of previous
owner on preliminary title page, mylar protected dust jacket
has a very short closed tear at bottom rear corner and a short
crease at bottom of back cover. Book does not appear to have
been read, almost like new except for minor imperfections noted.
$35.
130. Newhall, Beaumont. Photography 1839-1937. NY: Museum
of Modern Art, 1937. One of 3,000 copies. First edition of Newhall's
history of photography, this hard cover book served as the catalog
for a landmark exhibit at MoMA, the first survey of the history
of the medium. It was revised in 1938 and then again several
more times in future decades, with the third and subsequent editions
titled, "The History of Photography." As the first of
Newhall's books, this volume is of singular importance in the
literature of photography. Moderate wear at extremities, otherwise
fine. $100.
130.1. Newhall, Beaumont. Photography: A Short Critical History,1839-1937. NY: Museum
of Modern Art, 1938. One of 3,000 copies. Second revised and emended edition of Newhall's
1937 history of photography, issued as the catalog for the survey exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, for which Newhall was unable to get the participation of Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz was pleased with Newhall's curatorial efforts and the 1938 edition includes a frontispiece by Stieglitz, whose endorsement of Newhall had long-term effects on the historiography of photography. Newhall's book was revised again several
more times in future decades, with the third and subsequent editions
titled, "The History of Photography." As the second edition of of
Newhall's first book, with important changes, this volume is of singular importance in the
literature of photography. Moderate wear at spine tips, otherwise
fine. $85.
130a. Newhall, Beaumont and Nancy. Masters of Photography. Barziller,
1958. [Inc. Hill and Adamson, Southworth and Hawes, Cameron, O'Sullivan,
Gardner, Stieglitz, Steichen, Atget, Strand, Weston, Salomon, Lange.]
1st ed. Better reproduction quality than the reprint. Fine w. edge torn
and chipped dj. $50.
130aa. Same, Park Lane reprint, 1981. Fine with near fine dust jacket.
$15.
130b. Newman, Arnold. Arnold Newman, Faces USA. Foreword by
Thomas Thompson. Amphoto, 1978. [Based on a photo competition
for the prototypical American face, Arnold Newman went out and
took pictures of the winning subjects. In an appendix, this book
also includes the photos of the faces submitted by the amateurs.]
Near fine, hard cover with vg mylar protected dust jacket that
is chipped at one corner. Small red remainder mark at top of
text block. $20.
131a. Newton, Helmut. Olivia Newton John, Soul Kiss. (Record
album w. front and back covers by Newton; back cover shows singer
as a dominatrix). MCA 6151, mfd. by RCA. Sealed. $10.
131bb. Nixon, Nicholas. Robert Coles (text) and Nicholas Nixon
(photos). School. [Includes students at the Boston Latin School,
Perkins School for the Blind, and a school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Little, Brown, 1998, 1st ed. fine with dust jacket. Still in
original shrinkwrap. $35.
131b.1. Norberg, Marc. Black and White Blues. [ Superb portraits
of blues musicians such as Eddy Clearwater, Mark Naftlalin, Billy
Boy Arnold, Saffire, Lil Ed, John Lee Hooker, Sunnyland Slim,
Jimmy Rogers, James Cotton, Charlie Musselwhite, Jerry Portnoy,
Luther Guitar Junior Johnson, Bob Margolin, Hubert Sumlin, Johnnie
Johnson, Junior Wells, Jimmy Johnson, Lady Bianca, Lowell Fulson,
Taj Mahal, Odetta, Jerry Ricks, Dave Van Ronk, John Hammon,d,
Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, Sue Foley, Pee Wee Crayton,
Albert Collins, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Anson Funderburgh,
Sam Myers, Marcia Ball, Charles Brown, Buckwheat Zydeco, John
Mooney, Earl King, Robert Cray, Joe Louis Walker, Duke Robillard,
Kim Wilson, Jimmy Thackery, Ronnie Earl, Larry McCray, Holmes
Brothers, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Pinetop Perkins, Memphis Slim,
B.B. King, Honeyboy Edwards, Joe Williams, Koko Taylor, Big Daddy
Kinsey, Snooky Prior, Otis Clay, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Etta James,
Willie Dixon, and others.] Graphis, 1995. Wraps, fine with custom
made mylar jacket. $50.
131c. Norfolk, Simon. Afghanistan: chronotopia. Dewi Lewis Publishing,
2002. Ninth edition. [Large format monograph with color photographs,
the pictures were made in December 2001 and in May 2002 won the European
Publishers Award for Photography.] Hard cover with dust jacket, bumped
on top and bottom of spine, o/w fine, $30.
131d. Norman, Dorothy. Intimate Visions: The Photographs of Dorothy
Norman. With an essay by Miles Barth and introduction by Dorothy Norman.
Chronicle/ICP, 1993. 1st printing in stiff wraps with custom made 4-mil
polyester protector. Fine condition. Includes photographs by Norman
of her mentor and close associate, Alfred Stieglitz, as well as photographs
by Stieglitz of Norman. Also portraits of many luminaries in Norman's
circle, including Sherwood Anderson, Bernard Berenson, Ingrid Bergman,
Paul Bowles, Bertolt Brecht, Martin Buber, John Cage, Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Marc Chagall, Harold Clurman, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Charles Demuth,
Theodore Dreiser, Marcel Duchamp, Albert Einstein, Louis Fischer, Waldo
Frank, Indira Gandhi, Morris Graves, Elia Kazan, Beatrice Lamb, Carlo
Levi, Andre Malraux, John Marin, Thomas Mann, Lewis Mumford, Jawaharlal
Nehru, Isamu Noguchi, Jacques Prevert, Luise Rainer, Hans Richter, Stephen
Spender, Gerald Sykes, Edgard Varese, and Richard Wright. Plus photographs
of An American Place; New York City; India; Cape Cod; flowers, et al.
$30.
132. Notman, William. Roger Hall, Gordon Dodds, and Stanley
Triggs. The World of William Notman: The Nineteenth Century Through
a Master Lens. [Lavishly illus. monograph on best known 19th
cent. Canadian photographer; issued at $75. Godine, 1993. Mint
in shrinkwrap. $50.
132.1. Kelly, Jain. Nude: Theory. Photographs and Essays by
Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Harry Callahan, Lucien Clergue, Ralph Gibson,
Kenneth Josephson, Andre Kertesz, Duane Michals, and Helmut Newton.
Lustrum, 1979. Black cloth binding, fine, with mylar protected
dust jacket that has wear, mostly along top edge. Presumed 1st
ed., as no later printings indicated. $35.
132a. Nueva Luz. Premier Issue, Volume 1, Number 1, Winter
1985. Featured photographers: Sophie Rivera, Tony Mendoza, Kenro
Izu. 11x17, very good with small piece missing from lower right
edge on cover. $20.
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