Photographic Art

New York: Rizzoli. 2011. A celebration of the male form First US edition. 348x260mm. Unpaginated. [pp 252]. Numerous full-page photographs throughout. Illustrated cover featuring a photograph of a posed male nude in black and white on the front and a different angle of the same model on the back. Near fine save for a scratch on back cover towards the top edge. Internally fine. Mariano Vivanco's intimate and sensual photographs of the male form are elegantly presented in this coffee table style book.

New York: Times Books in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 1987.First edition. Oblong 4to. 255 by 303mm. 128pp Unpaginated. 55 colour photographs. Text by Any Grundberg and Anne Wilkes Tucker, design by Elissa Ichiyasu and Mark LaRiviere. Original dove-grey cloth with spine lettered in silver. Title to upper cover in blind. Original colour photographic dust-jacket. A particularly nice, near fine copy of this collection of starkly archetypal images of everyday America. Sternfeld travelled across America on and off for eight years with a large format camera.