Photography Books. Rae to Russia.

147a. Rae, Bruce. Bruce Rae: New Work. 20 May - 18 July 1998. Michael Hoppen Photography gallery, London, 1998. Exhibition catalog. Introduction by Robin Muir. [Rae's work here consists of salt prints of flowers.] Stiff wraps, 20 pages, like new. Two copies available. $15.

147a.1. Ralston, Birgitta. Birgitta Ralston: Sisters. Photographic Portraits. An Exhibition Curated and with an introduction by Joyce Koskenmaki Parr. Essay by Missy Daniel. Statement by Birgitta Ralston. University Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, January 26 - February 18, 1989. Illustrated stiff wraps, 32 pages, with black-and-white portraits of sisters taken mostly in Sweden. Fine with picture postcard laid in promoting the exhibit at another venue, Radcliffe College, December 3, 1990 - January 4, 1991. Scarce, only six copies in libraries listed in WorldCat. $20.

147a.2. Rankin, Tom. Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta by Tom Rankin. University Press of Mississippi, 2003. Foreword by Charles Reagan Wilson. Wraps, 84 pages, 1st ed. Near very good with some waviness of pages, kissed at lower right corner, and crimp at corner of back cover. Black-and-white photographs by Rankin of African American people, churches, and other subjects associated with religion in the Mississippi Delta. $10.

147a.3. Ranney, Edward. Edward Ranney Photographs: The John B. Elliott Collection. February 15 - June 7, 2001. Princeton University Art Museum, 2001. Preface and introductory essay by Peter C. Bunnell. Wraps, 1st edition, French fold flaps, 35 pp., check list, 15 full page black-and-white plates. An immaculate copy. $75.

147b. Rauhauser, Bill. A Sustained Vision: Bill Rauhauser. From Content to Form, 1946-1992. Detroit Focus Gallery, April 24 through May 30, 1992. Foreword by Mary M. Denison. Essay by Ellen Sharp. Stiff illustrated wraps, 16 pages printed on heavy-weight paper, illustrated with 19 black-and-white photographs with varied subject matter. Includes checklist of 53 works and biographical information on the Detroit photographer, whose work was included in the 1954 Family of Man exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Very good with minor shelf wear. $30.

148. Rauschenberg, Robert. Rauschenberg Photographs. Pantheon, 1981. 1st U.S. edition, also published in France, for which this publication was issued in connection with an exhibition at the Centre Beaubourg in Paris. Very good, with trace of foxing on preliminary title page, in very good protected dust jacket, that has two minuscule closed tears on top edge and a crimp on inside of front flap. [A copy of this book sold at the #1971Swann auction in 2003 for $175, plus buyer's premium.] $75.

Rawlings, John - See Weston, Edward.

148a. Regnault, Victor. Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography: the Art of Avoiding Errors by Laurie Dahlberg. Princeton University Press. [The most complete book yet available on a leading calotype photographer of the 1850s in France, with high quality reproductions.] 1st edition, 1st printing. Like new with protected dust jacket. $20.

148aa. Renger-Patzsch, Albert. Untitled 12 (Renger-Patzsch issue). Friends of Photography, 1977. Edited by James Enyeart. A few loose pages as common with this perfect bound book. Slight shelf wear. Also includes "Picking Winners" by Henry Holmes Smith and a chronology of exhibits at the Friends, 1967-1977, which reads like a who's who in photography. $12.

148a.1. Reproduction and Printing Processes by Modernage Photographic Services, New York, n.d. Printed in Switzerland by Bucher, publishers of Camera magazine, which has an ad inside back cover. Front cover and format looks like an issue of the magazine, with several foldouts. One page with information and photos related to Modernage. Wraps, 44 pages. Includes samples and descriptions of Letterpress, Intaglio, Lithography, Offset, and Gravure. Sample photographs by Richard Avedon, et al. Very good with a bit of shelf wear. No copies found for sale on Internet or in WorldCat in June 2020. $30.

148a.2. Researching Photographers by Amy Stark. Center for Creative Photography, 1984. Wraps, 16 pages, 3-hole punched for looseleaf binder, as issued. Bibliographies under headings Biographical Dictionaries, General Bibliographies, Indexes, General Histories Containing Biographical Information, Specialized Histories, Collections of Photographers’ Writings and Interviews, and Other Resources at the Center for Creative Photography, plus indexes to titles and authors. Near fine with slight fading at extremities to the light blue covers. $15.

148a.3. Resnick, Marcia. See by Marcia Resnick. Self-published, 1975. Wraps, 36 pages, tipped in color photo on cover. With a few crimps and with crinkling on a few pages that occurred during binding process. Covers like new. People seen from rear engaged in seeing. Photographer's first book. 34 full-page b&w photos. $25.

148aa. Riboud, Marc. Visions of China. (Superb images, 1957-1980). Pantheon, 1980. 1st U.S. ed., hardcover in maroon cloth. Minor wear on price clipped dj., o/w fine. $75. Another copy, closed edge tears on top of protected price clipped dj, otherwise fine. $65.

148b. Richards, Eugene. Stepping Through the Ashes. [Aftermath of 9/11 at the World Trade Center, poignant documentary.] 1st printing. Aperture, 2002. 192 pages. Fine with near fine protected dust jacket with price sticker on verso. $30.

148c. Rickard, Jolene. Jolene Rickard: Cracked Shell. April 1 - June 30, 1994. Exhibition catalog. No. 36, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University. Essay by Amy Hufmagel. In this exhibit, Rickard, a turtle clan member of the Tuscarora Nation territories, photographs her "intuitive and spiritual interaction with land." Wraps, 20 pages, fine. $15.

149. Ries, Linda A., ed. History of Photography in Pennsylvania. Special Issue of Pennsylvania History, 64:2 (Spring 1997). [Includes articles on Marcus Aurelius Root, Francis L. Cooper (amateur), early Pittsburgh photographers, John F. Nice, Elias Goldensky, Thomas Eakins, early oil industry, Mifflin and Engle, Black daguerreotypist Glenalvin J. Goodridge, Julius Sachse, and the Raymond Holland Collection. Winner of the 1997 MARAC Arline Custer Award for publications.] Signed by one of the authors, Gary Saretzky. 356pp. $20.

149a.1. Ries, Stan. The World Trade Center Remembered. Aerial and Panoramic Photographs by Stan Ries. Comments by Philip Johnson, Cesar Pelli, Hugh Hardy, Alex Cooper, Stanton Eckstut, Phillip Lopate, Peter Samton, and Adar Eisenbruch Linlithgo Publishers, 2006. Excellently printed color photos by Stan Ries. Oblong wraps, 32 pages, like new, SIGNED. $25.

149a. Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives. Studies Among the Tenements of New York. With 100 Photographs from the Riis Collection. Dover, 1971. Reprint of the 1890 edition with additional photographs. The original edition had 38 redrawn photographs while this edition has 100 half-tones and is a fuller realization of Riis' intentions. Wraps, as issued, vg+, $10.

149b. Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives (1890). Introduction by Donald N. Bigelow. Hill and Wang, 1957, first edition thus. Wraps. Ex-library, well worn, acceptable. This edition is text only, no illustrations. Reading copy. $5.

150. Riis, Jacob. The Making of an American. [Autobiography of one of the pioneers of social documentary photography. Includes images from Riis' earlier book, How the Other Half Lives.] Macmillan, March 1902, 5th printing [first issued in November 1901]. Nonauthorial 1902 gift inscription on flyleaf, blue cloth binding w. gilt lettering, worn extremities, o/w very good, custom made polyester jacket. $40. Also available, 1966 Harper Torchback paperback edition with biographical essay by Roy Lubove, worn ex-library paperback, reading copy with illustrations higher quality in the 1902 edition. $5.

150a. Robinson, David. Saving Graces: Images of Women in European Cemeteries. Foreword by Joyce Carol Oates. W.W. Norton, 1995. 1st printing in wraps, very good with a bit of curling to front wrapper, else fine. $15.95 price sticker on verso. $5.

150a.1. Rodchenko, Alexander. Schaaktafel, 1925: Bouwplaat, schaal 1:7 = Chess table, 1925 : paper model, scale 1:7. Thoth Publishing, 1989. [Not a photography book but Rodchenko was also a photographer. New in shrink-wrap. Museum store price label on back of item. Never opened. Includes 1:7 paper model of Rodchenko's design for the Great International Exhibition for Applied and Industrial Arts in Paris, 1925. Includes booklet with drawings of some of the pieces so that these can be reconstructed. Also comes with chess pieces which enable playing a game of mini-chess. Scarce.] $995.

150aa. Rogers, Kenny. Kenny Rogers. Your Friends and Mine. [Oversize, more than 11x14 inches, celebrity studio portraits by the singer and photographer, his second book of photographs. Subjects include Michael Jackson, Linda Gray, Burt Bachrach and Carole Bayer Sager, Kirk Douglas, Jimmy Stewart, President Gerald Ford, John Huston, Jaclyn Smith, Dick Clark, Elton John, Julie Harris, President Ronald Reagan, Dudley Moore, Morgan Fairchild, Alexander Godunov, Catherine Oxenberg, Bruce Boxleitner, Bob Hope, Sylvester Stallone, Ray Chalres, Yousuf Karsh, Dionne Warwick, Larry Bird, Phil Collins, Burt Reynolds, and many others.] Little, Brown, 1987. 1st ed. Very good with small annotations inside rear cover with very good dust jacket. $25. Another copy, ex-library, no spine label on dust jacket, card pocket on rear flyleaf, no markings on pages of book, fine/fine except as noted. $12.50.

150aaaa. Rogovin, Milton. Windows That Open Inward: Images of Chile. White Pine Press, 1998. 1st edition. Wraps, 68 pages, fine with custom made polyester jacket. Photographs by Rogovin with poems by Pablo Neruda translated into English, for the most part on facing pages. $55.

151. Rogovin, Milton. Brutvan, Cheryl A., Robert J. Doherty, and Fred Licht. Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones. [Retrospective of Rogovin's photographs of the working class; includes interview with the photographer.] University of Washington, 1985. Wraps, crease in lower right corner of cover, o/w vg+. $35.

151.01. Roma, Thomas. Higher Ground. D.A.P., 1998. Introduction by Ian Frazier. Essay by Ellen Handy. ISBN 1-891024-00-0. [Black-and-white photographs taken in and from elevated trains in New York City.] Hardcover with dust jacket, as new, still in shrinkwrap. Issued at $45. SOLD

151.02. Roma, Thomas. Sicilian Passage. Introduction by Sandra S. Phillips. Afterword by Anna Roma. powerHouse, 2003. 1st ed., fine with protected dust jacket, as new. Thomas Roma has been awarded two Guggenheim fellowships and has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography in New York. Currently (2009) Director of Photography at Columbia University, he has also taught at Yale, Fordham, Cooper Union, and the School of Visual Arts. Sicilian Passage is one of his first ten books. As stated by Mary Ellen Mark on the back of the dust jacket, "This book is a timeless view into a landscape and its people. Thomas Roma's eloquent photographs of Sicily are like beautiful poems about a land that he loves." $25.

151.03. Roma, Thomas. Pannaroma–MCCC. Exhibition catalog, Sept. 2-25, 2014. The Gallery, Mercer County Community College, West Windsor, New Jersey. Photographs made with Thomas Roma's 1x3 panoramic camera, named after Roma's wife Anna. Photographs by Thomas Roma, Inbal Abergil, Tony Chirinos, Michael Dalton, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Hilger, Yoav Horesh, Zsolt Kadar, Richard Labarbera, Jeffrey Ladd, Kai McBride, Claudio Nolasco, Anibal Pella-Woo, Dennis Santella, Laura, Mercik-Sellers, Raghubir Singh, Sasha Waters Freyer, and Dan Willner. SIGNED by Michael Dalton under one of his photos. Wraps, 8.5 x 3.5 inches. Like new. Uncommon, especially signed. $25. Another copy, unsigned, $20.

151.03a. Romer, Willy. Willy Romer: Kinder auf der Strasse. Berlin 1904-1932. Edition Photothek II. Dirk Nishen Verlag in Kreuzberg. Dirk Nishen, 1983. Text by Diethart Kerbs in German. Street photography of children in black-and-white. Wraps, 32 pages, fine with price label on back cover. $15.

151.03. Ronis, Willy. Willy Ronis. I Grandi Fotografi by Romeo Martinez and Bryn Campbell. Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1983. In Italian. Wraps, 64 pages, near fine with minor imperfections. Includes self-portrait and many full page photographs taken in Paris, France, featuring his street photography, female nudes, et al. $20.

151.04. Rosenberg, Daniel. Museum Studies. By Daniel Rosenberg with an introduction by Tom Drysdale. Published by Civia & Irwin Rosenberg, 1989. Wraps, 56 pages. Includes some of artist’s senior thesis exhibit in 1988 at NYU, during which he died. Work consists of black-and-white photographs of items on view in museums, an example of image scavenging postmodernism. Very good with minor edge wear. From the collection of the late Louis H. Draper, though unmarked. $18.

Rossiter, Alison - see Contact Sheet.

151.1a. Rosskam, Edwin. San Francisco: West Coast Metropolis. The Face of America. Alliance, 1939. Introduction by William Saroyan. [Rosskam's first book, produced in collaboration with his wife Louise Rosskam.] Cloth, vg+ , previous owner's bookplate inside cover, with good dust jacket (hard to find with any kind of dust jacket). $40.

151.2. Rosskam, Edwin. Washington: Nerve Center. The Face of America. Alliance, 1939. Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. Co-edited by Ruby Black. [Rosskam's second book, produced in collaboration with his wife Louise Rosskam.] Cloth, vg+ , previous owner's bookplate inside cover, with good+ dust jacket (hard to find with any kind of dust jacket). $40. Another copy, cloth, vg+, slight fading to orange cloth binding, no dust jacket. $20.

151.4. Rosskam, Edwin and Louise. Towboat River. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. 1st edition. [The last of the Rosskams' documentary photography books and the only one in which Louise Rosskam is fully credited on the title page.] Cloth, no dust jacket, near very good. With The Photo Review, 25th Anniversary Issue, 24:1 & 2 (Winter/Spring 2001) that includes"Bliss on the Old Miss: The Rosskams and Towboat River," by Gary D. Saretzky and signed by him on the cover. Both items, $25.

151.5. Rosskam, Louise. Re-Viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam by Laura Katzman and Beverly W. Brannan. American University Museum/Penn State, 2011. [The first monograph about the documentary photographer, issued in conjuction with an exhibit at American University Museum.] New in shrinkwrap, 1st ed., $50.

151a. Rosskam. Three articles about Edwin and Louise Rosskam by Gary D. Saretzky. Part one. "She Worked Her Head Off: Edwin and Louise Rosskam & the Golden Age of Documentary Photography Books," in The Photo Review, 23:3 (Summer 2000). [First of three part article; this one covers the Rosskams' early lives and their first two books, San Francisco: West Coast Metropolis and Washington: Nerve Center.] Part two: " Documenting Diversity: Edwin Rosskam & the Photo Book, 1940-1941, covering As Long as the Grass Shall Grow, Home Town, and 12 Million Black Voices in 23:4 (Fall 2000). Part three: "Bliss on the Old Miss: The Rosskams and Towboat River," 24:1& 2 (Winter/Spring 2001). Three complete issues of the magazine. Signed by author. Fine. $30.

151aa. Roth, Andrew. The Book of 101 Books. Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. Catalog and essays by Vince Aletti, Richard Benson, May Castleberry, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Daido Moriyama, Shelley Rice, David Levi Strauss, and Neville Wakefield. PPP Editions/Roth Horowitz LLP. 1st trade edition, 2001. [Essential reference, 305 pages, profusely illustrated, commonly cited as "Roth 101" in bookseller listings. Comparable copy sold at Photo-Eye auction in 2010 for $385. Near fine with small bump at top of spine and corresponding small wrinkle in protected dust jacket. $200.

151b. Rothstein, Arthur. Photojournalism. Pictures for Magazines and Newspaper. Amphoto, 1956. 1st ed. [Arthur Rothstein worked for Roy Stryker at the Farm Security Administration before moving on to Look Magazine, where he was Technical Director at the time of this book. Includes photos by Rothstein, Joe Rosenthal, Fred Hanson, Joseph Costa, Max Desfor, Paul Nadar, Edweard Muybridge, Frank Bauman, et al. This copy is signed by the late Trenton, NJ, photographer, M.W. Barish.] vg+, no dj, $30.

151bb. Rothstein, Arthur. Photojournalism. Pictures for Magazines and Newspaper. Amphoto, 1974. 3rd revised ed. [Arthur Rothstein worked for Roy Stryker at the Farm Security Administration before moving on to Look Magazine, where he became Technical Director. Includes photos by Rothstein, Joe Rosenthal, Fred Hanson, Joseph Costa, Max Desfor, Paul Nadar, Edweard Muybridge, Frank Bauman, et al.] Ex-library, mylar covered dust jacket taped to book, spine lael, rear flyleaf removed, worn tips. [Note: dust jacket refers to 4th edition but this is erroneous and the dust jacket is the one that came with the third edition.] $5.

Rothstein, Arthur - see also 100g. Leica.

151bb.1. Rousseau, Ann Marie. Shopping Bag Ladies: Homeless Women Speak About Their Lives. Pilgrim, 1981. Interviews and photographs of the women by Rousseau. Very good hardcover in cloth with college department stamps on top and bottom of text block, lacks dust jacket. Short stray ink mark on page 137, a few pages with crease marks. $5.

151bbb. Rowe, Willyum. Willyum Rowe: Discovery and Detail. March 25-May 31, 1992. Introduction by Jeffrey Hoone. Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University. No 28. [Selections from humorous series by Rowe, who has "created works grounded in photography that combine drama and burlesque with a sensitive and intelligent equilibrium." (Hoone).] Wraps, 12 pages including illustrated covers, fine. $15.

151bbbb. Rowell, Galen. "Roofs of the World: Galen Rowell shares his 'down-to-earth' techniques to bring home sky-high mountain photography, from California's Sierras to Nepal and Tibet," by Steven Werner, in Outdoor Photographer, Premier Issue, June 1985, pp. 24-31, 68-69, 73. [Extensive interview with Rowell, one of the greatest mountain photographers before his untimely death, illustrated with color photographs. Entire issue of magazine, 74 pages. Also includes article with photographs of wild animals by Leonard Lee Rue III, characterized as "the foremost wildlife photographer," with text by Rue. Very good with minor signs of use, no marks. $15.

151c. Royalty. Patrick Montague-Smith. The Country Life Book of the Royal Silver Jubilee. London: Hamlyn, 1976. [Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip, the Queen Mother, the Royal Children, The Royal Family Tree, etc., profusely illus. in color and black-and-white.] 175pp. Fine w. vg+ dj. $10.

151c.1. Rubel Collection. Inventing a New Art: Early Photographs from the Rubel Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Malcolm Daniel. Issued as Metroplitain Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 1999. Illustrations of exceptional daguerreotypes, calotypes, and albumen silver prints by Antoine Claudet; William Henry Fox Talbot; Robert Hunt; Nevil Story-Maskelyne; Hill & Adamson; Roger Fenton; Gustave Le Gray; Julia Margaret Cameron; John Adams Whipple; Platt Babbitt; Felix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin; Southworth & Hawes, et al. Wraps, 56 pages, fine. $15. Two copies available.

151d. Rubinfien, Leo. A Map of the East. Afterword by Donald Ritchie. David R. Godine, 1992. [Photographs by Leo Rubinfien of Japan, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, India, and Borneo.] 1st edition in stiff wraps, vg+ with small crimp on cover. Issued at $25. $6.

151d.1. Rumph, Charles. Charles Rumph: Chambers. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. July 26-September 7, 1980. Exhibit catalog, illustrated stapled wraps, 17 pages, 11 black-and-white plates of details taken in building interiors, checklist of 73 works, chronology of photographer's life. Essay by David Tannous on Rumph's connections to the formalist tradition in photography exemplified by Edward Weston. Edition of 1,500 copies printed by Meriden Gravure. [Rumpf began his career as a musician and rodeo performer, then after getting a law degree, served as Deputy Attorney General, State of California. His photographic career began in the 1970s and after winning prestigious awards, he established his own photography business in 1978, specializing in photography of art and architecture, and lecturing on photography. ] Very good with small abrasion spot near edge of front cover, otherwise fine. $15.

151d.1.1. Ruohomaa, Kosti. Night Train at Wiscasset Station. Text by Lew Ditz, photos by Kosti Ruohamoaa. Doubleday, 1977. [Photographs of Maine by the photographer whose archives are at the Penobscot Marine Museum.] Wraps, with custom made 4-mil polyester protector. Small scuff on rear cover where price tag removed, otherwise fine. $20.

151d.2. Ruscha, Ed. Guacamole Airlines. Abrams, 1980. 1st edition. [With his characteristicl deadpan humor, Ruscha turned his attention from gas stations to airlines in this series of conceptual photographs.] Ex-library with protected dust jacket. Rear flyleaf trimmed to remove card pocket. No spine label (neatly removed). Spine somewhat faded where there was no label. Crease in a foldout page. Tape stains on cover where tape was used to affix former dust jacket protector, which has been replaced with a new one. Library stamp at top of text block blacked out. An attractive copy except as noted. $10.

151e. Russell, Andrew J. Russell's Civil War Photographs. 116 Historic Prints by Andrew J. Russell. With a preface by Joe Buberger and Matthew Isenberg. NY: Dover, 1982. Wraps, 9x12 inches, near fine reprint with $7.95 original price, $13. Another copy, 1st ed. with original $6.95 price, vg with a few crimps on cover, $10. Another copy, 1st ed. with original $6.95 price, VG- with moderate edgewear and darkening at edges of covers, $5.

151ee. Russell, Andrew J. Westward to Promontory. Building the Union Pacific across the plains and mountains. A Pictorial Documentary with text by Barry B. Combs. Illustrated with reproductions of A.J. Russell photographs made with 10 x 13 collodion wet plate negatives. Essential book on the history of railroads and Russell’s western landscape photography. Before he did these photos, A.J. Russell was active as a photographer during the Civil War. He is considered one of the major figures in Western United States landscape photography in the nineteenth century. Important book for both the history of railroads and the history of photography. Promontory Press, copyright 1969. 0883940116 ISBN. Fine with very good chipped and edge worn dust jacket. There are three small pieces of the dust jacket missing on the top and bottom edges, the largest on the back about one inch in diameter. $15.

151eee. Russell, Andrew J. The Last Spike Is Driven. National Golden Spike Centennial Commission Official Publication. Utah Historical Quarterly, Winter 1969, Volume 27, Number 1. Edited by Everett L. Cooley. Essays by Leonard J. Arrington, Robert G. Athearn, George Kraus, F.A. Ketterson, Jr., Gerald M. Best, J.N. Bowman, Brigham D. and Betty M. Madsen, David H. Mann, and Jack Goodman. [Celebrating the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869]. Photos by Charles R. Savage, Alfred A. Hart, A.J. Russell, et al. Wraps, 144 pages. Fine with title, The Last Spike, written neatly in ink on the blank white spine. $7.

151e.1. Russia. Contemporary Photographic Art from Moscow. Edited by Alexander Tolnay. Prestel-Verlag, 1995. Stiff illustrated wraps with custom made 4-mil polyester jacket. Includes plates by 18 different photographers or groups of photographers, as well as essays by Tolnay, Yekaterina Dyogot, Kathrin Becker, Barbara Barsch, Angel Lammert. Large format, 128 pages. Photographers include Boris Mikhailov, Igor Moukhin, Vadim Fishkin, Alexei Goga, Sergei Leontiev, Tatyana Liberman, Ilya Piganov, Maria Serebriakova, Alexei Shulgin, Anatoli Shuravlev, AES Group, Yuri Babich, Gor Chahal, Olga Chernysheva, Vladislav Efimov, Fenso Group, IV Vysota Group. Fine condition, like new. $20.