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(ABBOTT, Berenice; BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret, et al, photographers). The Last Rivet. The story of Rockefeller Center, a city within a city, as told at the ceremony in which John D. Rockefeller Jr. drove the last rivet of the last building, November 1, 1939 New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. Quarto, 45pp. First edition. Illustrated with photographs by Bernice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Fritz Henle, Paul Woolf and others. A near fine copy in cloth backed, stamped and inlaid green velveteen, with the very scarce silver printed dust jacket. A beautiful production.
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AGEE, James and EVANS, Walker. Let us now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Octavo, 471pp. First edition of this landmark collaboration. A rather weary copy, with a tear to the head of the spine, shelf-wear to bottom edge, mottling to cloth in a good only, but not unpresentable dust jacket.
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AVEDON, Richard. An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1993. Baby elephant folio. Crimson lettered brown cloth with pasted illustration on rear panel as issued. Fine in fine original printed acetate dustjacket, and in publisher's original white and red-lettered cardboard box. Signed by Avedon.
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AVEDON, Richard. Avedon Photographs 1947-1977 New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. Folio. Inscribed by Avedon.
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AVEDON, Richard. In the American West. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985. Folio, 172pp. Signed on front endpaper "To Francine and Clare Yours in the struggle Richard - 85".
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[BORGES, Jorge Luis.] KREMENTZ, Jill. Black-and-White Portrait Photograph, signed and dated by the Artist. 1968. 8" x 10" (image size 4 ¾" x 7") bust photograph of the great Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, aged 69. One of the author's blind eyes is fixed directly upon the viewer, while the other peers into a faraway universe of his own. This is perhaps the most powerful and dignified portrait of the artist we have encountered -- and Borges was a man of palpable dignity. A wonderful print, signed and dated, April 8, 1968, by Krementz. Krementz is certainly the most important and prolific photographer to have taken the literary world as her subject, and even within its limiting confines, she has managed both to capture an essence of her subjects that is rarely even touched by other photographers, and to produce works of art that extend both deep into her subjects, and beyond them again into the world. Fine.
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(CHAR, René) MAN RAY. Original photograph portait of René Char, signed and dated. Paris: 1933. Paris: 1933. Vintage silver gelatin print (6 ¾" x 8 ¾") of the great one-time Surrealist poet and member of the French resistance, taken quite early in his career, at around the time when he published his first major collection of verse, Le marteau sans maitre. Signed "Man Ray 1933" in the lower right hand corner. Stamp from the photographer's famous Montparnasse studio on verso, "Man Ray 31bis rue Campagne-Premiere, Paris -- 14e." A tiny pinhole on top of print, some inoffensive fingerprints to surface, otherwise a lovely photograph, and a document of the first importance.
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CLOSE, Chuck and HOLMAN, Bob. A Couple Ways of Doing Something. New York: 2003. Folio. First edition, one of only 75 copies, of this extraordinary collection of twenty digitally printed daguerreotypes of Close's portraits of friends, among whom are Cindy Sherman, James Turrell, Elizabeth Murray, Kiki Smith, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Bob Holman, Andres Serano, Terry Winters, Robert Wilson and Close himself, accompanied by praise poems by New York poet Bon Holman. The portraits are marked by a sublime lyricism and an extraordinary delicacy of texture, such as has traditionally been achieved only by the process of photogravure -- one feels that the essence of the subjects emerges and crystalizes at the surface from irresolute materials. Close began taking photographs using the daguerreotype process in 1999, working with Jerry Spagnoli in his New York studio. The twenty images are bound en face with a praise poem about its subject by New York poet Bob Holman, in four separate leporellos, each ten feet long. Each image is 16" x 12," the overall dimensions of the book, 16½" x 13½." A single enclosed self-portrait of the artist is signed and numbered; a digital recording of Bob Holman reading his texts is also included. In addition to the 75 copies, there were 20 artist's proofs, 8 collaborator's proofs and 8 hors commerce proofs. Fine. At publisher's price.
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Estabrooke, Edward M. The Ferrotype and How to make it. Cincinnati / Louisville, Gatchel & Hyatt, 1873. 8°. X, 167, 14 nn. pages. Original blindstamped cloth with damaged hinge (4 cm missing). Corners dampstained. Including the often missing sample Ferrotype in the front pastedown. "Sample Ferrotype - Made on John Dean and Co's Adamantean Chocolate Tinted Egg Shell Plate". Must have collectible of early photography.
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GINSBERG, Allen. American Sentences. Osnago: Edizione Pulcinolefante, 1996. Octavo, unpaginated. First edition of this small homage to the American poet, consisting of a printed facsimile of three couplets indited in 1995 for the Italian author Simone Bandirali and accompanied by a photograph of Ginsberg taken by Bandirali at a reading in Milano. The text of the poems is also offered in printed form on a tissue sheet. One of 32 copies printed on heavy paper, hand illustrated with a central motif of a watermelon by Angela Caremi. Fine. An extrelely rare Ginsberg ephemeron.
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