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Shore's 1982 work is a crucial development in the acceptance and evolution of colour art-photography with his elevation of the quotidian and banal to the sublime.","brand":"SHORE, Stephen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":25026368773,"sku":"1978","price":475.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/1978.JPG?v=1488824326"},{"product_id":"nymph-naiad","title":"Nymph \u0026 Naiad","description":"London: George Routledge \u0026amp; Sons. 1940.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1st ed, 4to. pp 8, 48 B\u0026amp;W plates. Very light toning to margins and occasional spotting to versos of plates and endpapers only. Text block is approx 1\/8th\" bowed - else a Very Good copy in oatmeal buckram with chocolate brown-stamped titles and authors signature to the upper board. In a Very Good original photographic DJ - lightly toned overall with chipping to edges, a 1\/4\" closed tear to the top edge near the front corner and an area of loss - approx 1\" by 1\/2\" - to the head of the spine which has been previously backed with tape. Evereard's fifth book of nude studies takes a classical theme.","brand":"EVERARD, John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":25026368837,"sku":"2215","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/2215.jpg?v=1486930635"},{"product_id":"judgement-of-paris","title":"Judgement of Paris","description":"London: George Routledge \u0026amp; Sons. 1941.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1st ed, 4to. (310 by 250mm)  pp. 8, 48 B\u0026amp;W plates on semi-glossy stock. Very good although with some spotting to endpapers. In oatmeal buckram with chocolate brown-stamped titles and artist's signature to the upper board and spine. In a very good original photographic dust jacket in plastic wraps with light chipping to extremeties and light overall toning. Evereard's sixth book of nude studies - this time with a Gallic theme.","brand":"EVERARD, John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":25026369029,"sku":"2223","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/2223.jpg?v=1486748996"},{"product_id":"thank-you","title":"Thank You","description":"Germany Scalo. 1996.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8vo paperback. 76pp, illustrated throughout. 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Banned in the U.S. when it was released. Over 150 colour and black and white photographs including Clark's use of collage and images taken from television screens. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Larry Clark's work has always obsessively circled around adolescent boys, their awakening sexual drives, the enormous energies they have to harness. Clark offers the viewer a cultural anthropology of this transitory period that oscillates between painful pleasure and exuberant self-destruction. Clark is spellbound with the vital, unruly, and destructive force teen boys exude. Clark confronts us with lucid images of male sexuality and its equally creative and destructive impulses. He combines pop-culture imagery with his own photographs to evoke a myth ingrained in the heart of our culture. The Perfect Childhood combines an overview of Clark's work-ranging from collages and found images to photographs from his native Oklahoma in the late 1960's-with a new series of tender and erotic portraits of a skater boy-the latest incarnation of the mythical eternal youth Clark investigates and idolizes in his work. Material from the past 30 years is combined to create one new work of art-overwhelming proof of the consistency of Clark's artistic vision. The book is as raunchy and brutally straightforward as it is melancholy and affectionate. Its attitude will confound all those thinking in comfortable and complacent opposites-gay and straight, creative and destructive, tenderness and violence, good and evil. Clark's work is a mirror for those strong enough to face the truth about growing up as a boy.\" This is a very good copy of an important and controversial work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Larry Clark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":25026370885,"sku":"2462","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/2462.jpg?v=1488822849"},{"product_id":"le-point-revue-artistique-et-litteraire-le-jazz","title":"Le Jazz","description":"\u003cp\u003eParis: Mulhouse. 1952.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarge octavo, (255x195mm). pp48. Original plain beige card wrappers. Original black dust-jacket printed with white and yellow lettering. Booksellers small ticket to front flap of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket slightly rubbed at extremities. A near fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. 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Contents fine, dust jacket very good but it is extraordinarily rare to find this highly sought-after and important collection in its original jacket. ffep has a non-authorial gift inscription. Preface by Kiyoshi Otsuji. Text in Japanese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelf and Others was published in 1977 in a very small run of only 300. It is Gocho’s most important work and the most revealing of his own difficult life. He was born in 1946 with a rare degenerative illness which prevented him from growing to full adult height; he was only four feet tall. Furthermore Gocho knew from an early age that he would not live beyond middle age; he died in 1983. His three surviving volumes and, in particular Self and Others, are therefore imbued with an overwhelming sense of melancholy and disconnection. It is as though his physical difference and his awareness of his own life’s fragility created a distance between himself and the world he observed, a distance bridged by his camera. As we view these images, an entire world, with its possibilities largely thwarted and unachievable in Gocho’s case, starts to open, and then close before us. This becomes clearer still when we reflect on the opening image of a new-born baby screaming in its hospital cot and the mysterious closing photograph of a group of people (mainly children) running across a field into a thick fog through which a floodlight dimly glows. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an important and influential book representing a movement towards the subjective and personal in Japanese photography. 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Text in French. Eight page introductory essay by Lélia Wanick Salgado setting out the aim of the book: \"This book tells the story of humanity on the move\". The four hundred pages of Salgado's stark black and white images tell that story in the most elemental photographic form. The book is divided into four sections. Part one is about migrants and refugees generally - \"the instinct for survival\". Part two covers \"the African tragedy\", the third part, Latin America; and part four is about Asia and migration into the cities. This in a moving and fascinating record of one of the most important and pressing questions of the 21st century.","brand":"Sebastião Salgado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":26058170565,"sku":"2781","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/2781.jpg?v=1488887658"},{"product_id":"till-minnet-av-mig-sja-lv-in-memory-of-myself","title":"Till minnet av mig själv [In memory of myself]","description":"\u003cp\u003eStockholm: Foto Expo. 1965.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 12mo (199x147mm). pp. [32, [8] (unpaginated). 38 black and white photographs, text by Per Olaf Sundman, Peter Weiss and Tor-Ivan Odulf, design by Erik Pettersson. Original black and white photo-illustrated covers. Protected by transparent plastic wrapper. 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He was a practising designer and graphic artist, and an active member of the Art Workers' Guild and has been described as \"one of the men who made the artistic and literary life of London\" in the 1890s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Studio\u003c\/em\u003e appealed to a specifically British bourgeois taste but its firmly local roots gave it the confidence, unselfconsciously, to broaden its geographical and aesthetic appeal. The magazine attracted a wide readership well beyond this country and so influenced Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements across Europe and the United States. \u003cem\u003eThe Studio\u003c\/em\u003e was much more than a British art magazine. As Clive Ashwin says, \"Virtually all art periodicals founded in the ensuing decades owed some debt to this pioneer of art journalism\". \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the most radical innovation was the adoption of a photomechanical printing technique which transferred an image photographically onto a metal block in halftone. This meant that, for the first time, the intermediate tones and shades found in paintings and photographs could be faithfully reproduced. For this reason, Clive Ashwin has called\u003cem\u003e The Studio\u003c\/em\u003e \"the first visually modern magazine\". It is the striking and beautiful illustrations that made it so popular and influential but White and Holme were fortunate in finding an artist who immediately mastered the photomechanical halftone technique. This was Aubrey Beardsley who provided the first cover and was the subject of an illustrated feature in the first issue. The Studio brought Beardsley to a wide audience and effectively launched his short but brilliant career. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe success of The Studio owed much to the ability of successive editors to understand and reflect changing tastes. Charles Holme died in 1923 but his son Geoffrey took over and, during the 1920s and 1930s cemented the magazine's reputation as one of the leading contemporary art magazines.","brand":"HOLME, Charles and Gleeson White","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37584717906111,"sku":"3439","price":3750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3439_1.jpg?v=1608737358"},{"product_id":"its-after-the-end-of-the-world","title":"It's After The End Of The World","description":"London: Art Yard Limited. 2019.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSigned limited, lettered Edition (one of twenty six copies) with a set of four giclée prints. 280x220mm. pp. 344. Illustrated throughout with 306 photographs. Printed on 150gsm Garda Matt Ultra FSC (Italian paper stock). Pale blue cloth hardback with metal foiling and laminate print to both covers, lettered in gilt to spine. Lower cover has a poem from Sun Ra printed in gilt. With publisher's belly band. Housed in a printed cardboard box. Unopened, new and in immaculate condition. The giclée prints, measuring 270x210mm are titled \"A Certain Darkness Is Needed To See The Stars\". They feature the actress Jodie Turner-Smith. The images are all by the photographer Gerald Jenkins and the text includes work from Sun Ra, Darius James (the author of Negrophobia), Little Annie Bandez (Annie Anxiety), the poet Norman Douglas and the handwritten lyrics by Kain The Poet (Gylan Kain) to his seminal work Black Satin Amazon Fire Engine Cry Baby. Described as a picture novel study of the human spirit in the fantastic \/ magical and the human soul in the metaphorical and physical in Five Chapters – being Oppression, Rainbows, Mythology, Cosmology, Salvation, this is a stunning book. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's After The End Of The World takes its title from the 1970 song and album by Sun Ra, the great African American musician, mystic and pioneer of Afrofuturism. Sun Ra died in 1993 and Gerald Jenkins continues to photograph members of The Sun Ra Arkestra, the musician's ever-changing band who perform his work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is Sun Ra's Afrofuturism (what has been described as \"a musical tradition of performing blackness\") that lies behind Jenkins's book. Long interested in Australian Indigenous peoples and the treatment of women of colour, Jenkins turns his attention here to broader questions of race, gender, spirituality, oppression and liberation. For Jenkins, \"untainted indigenous relationships with the Universe are so intimate and direct\" and it is these that he is exploring here. As Michael Gonzales (a contributor to It's After The End Of The World) said in an interview with Gerald Jenkins in Afropunk, \"Jenkins' images shook me, because they were so Afro-Everything — haunting, scary, fly and, most of all, inspiring\".","brand":"JENKINS, Gerald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37584720494783,"sku":"3447","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/ThinkAboutIthighres.jpg?v=1608735181"},{"product_id":"nude","title":"Nude","description":"Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo. 1971.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. Portfolio of ten gravure prints, eight in black and white and two in colour. 592x420mm. The prints are in a large white envelope together with a separate title page on the verso of which are notes and details about the photographs (text in Japanese). They are protected inside the envelope by a heavy sheet of cardboard. This is all placed in a black card folder with an illustrated label covering part of the upper cover, spine and lower cover. The photographs are in excellent condition although there are some marks on the rear of the prints but these do not affect the images in any way. The white envelope has some fading and sunning and there is a little marking and spotting to the black portfolio case. Overall this is in very good condition - an excellent example of the complete set of these striking images many of which are from Shinoyama's 1970 book \"Nudes\". These place the nude human form in the expansive landscape of Death Valley to create a challenging surrealism. Always beautiful, Shinoyama's work, in common with much postwar Japanese photography, frequently hints at the dark and threatening.","brand":"Kishin Shinoyama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38182752846015,"sku":"3467","price":575.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20210203_111141_resized_1.jpg?v=1615216432"},{"product_id":"remarks-on-some-evidence-recently-communicated-to-the-photographic-society-1863-br-remarks-concerning-certain-photographs-supposed-to-be-of-early-date","title":"Remarks on some evidence recently communicated to the Photographic Society (1863)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRemarks on some evidence recently communicated to the Photographic Society (1863)\u003cbr\u003eRemarks concerning certain photographs supposed to be of early date. (1864)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemarks concerning certain pictures supposed to be photographs of early date. (1865)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: Bradbury \u0026amp; Evans. 1863-65.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEight pamphlets under three titles. Privately printed by M.P.W. Boulton between 1863 and 1865, the three titles concern a dispute about the origins and invention of photography and are a refutation by Boulton of claims made in 1863 by F.P. Smith. Further details of this are given below. Each title has more than one version. Boulton issued each pamphlet and then added further notes to it to build up his argument. This means that each title has a final complete form but these represent an expanded version of the first issued pamphlet. The final form of each title is here in this collection of eight different versions of the three works (items 2,6 and 8 below) but we can see from the other pamphlets how, and at what point, Boulton introduces new evidence and develops further strands in his detailed discussion. There is an overlap between the variants within each title but no two pamphlets are exactly the same. All of these pamphlets are rare institutionally and two variants are unrecorded. We are offering one set of all eight pamphlets. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1863. Remarks on some evidence recently communicated to the Photographic Society. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRemarks on some evidence recently communicated to the Photographic Society.\u003c\/strong\u003e 1863.\u003cbr\u003epp. 6, 63. This is the 1863 publication \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemarks on some evidence recently communicated to the Photographic Society \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(pp6)\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Bound with \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemarks concerning certain photographs supposed to be of early date.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e 1864. Pp. 63. Five plates. The edition of the 1864 Remarks concerning certain photographs is variant 4 below but with the addition of Notes F,G,H and I and a print of a camera obscura. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne copy located at the National Gallery of Art Library Washington. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRemarks on some evidence recently communicated to the Photographic Society.\u003c\/strong\u003e 1863.\u003cbr\u003epp. 6, 71. This is the 1863 publication,\u003cem\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eRemarks on some evidence recently communicated to the Photographic Society\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(pp6). Bound with \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemarks concerning certain photographs supposed to be of early date.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e pp. 71. Eight plates.\u003cbr\u003eThe edition of the 1864 Remarks concerning certain photographs is as above (although pp61-63 have a very slight difference in the typesetting) but with the addition of Notes K and L and three lithographs by Vincent Brooks: Plate 5. Winson Green, from a photograph recently taken. Plate 6. Copy of a Drawing of Winson Green made in 1841. Plate 7. Photograph in Kensington Museum alleged to represent Old Soho House.\u003cbr\u003eSix copies on Worldcat (Bodleian, BL, Getty, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Royal Danish Library, Danish Union Catalogue) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1864. Remarks concerning certain photographs supposed to be of early date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. \u003cbr\u003eRemarks concerning certain photographs supposed to be of early date.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003epp. 28. Two chapters and notes to chapter one (Notes A and B). Stitched at spine. \u003cbr\u003eNo copies recorded. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4. \u003cbr\u003eRemarks concerning certain photographs supposed to be of early date. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003epp.55. Chapters I and II as above but with the addition of Chapter III and Notes to Chapter III (Note C) and three plates. One wood engraving illustration in the text. \u003cbr\u003ePlate 1. \"Sketch from the photograph in Soho Library alledged (sic) to represent Old Soho House\". \u003cbr\u003ePlate 2. Restoration of the House represented in the photograph found in the library. \u003cbr\u003ePlate 3. The house at Holker.\u003cbr\u003eOne copy on Worldcat at Rijksmuseum Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e5. \u003cbr\u003eRemarks concerning certain photographs supposed to be of early date.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003epp.56. As in 2 above but with the addition of a fourth plate and a Note D to Chapter III.\u003cbr\u003ePlate 1. \"Sketch from the photograph in Soho Library alledged (sic) to represent Old Soho House\". \u003cbr\u003ePlate 2. Restoration of the House represented in the photograph found in the library. \u003cbr\u003ePlate 3. The house at Holker. (Vincent Brooks lithograph)\u003cbr\u003ePlate 4. Soho House in its modern state (Vincent Brooks lithograph)\u003cbr\u003eFour copies on Worldcat: Yale; George Eastman Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; University of Arizona. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6. \u003cbr\u003eRemarks concerning certain photographs supposed to be of early date.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003epp.58. As in 3 above but with the addition of a Note E to Chapter III.\u003cbr\u003ePlate 1. \"Sketch from the photograph in Soho Library alledged (sic) to represent Old Soho House\". \u003cbr\u003ePlate 2. Restoration of the House represented in the photograph found in the library. \u003cbr\u003ePlate 3. The house at Holker. (Vincent Brooks lithograph)\u003cbr\u003ePlate 4. Soho House in its modern state (Vincent Brooks lithograph)\u003cbr\u003eNo copies recorded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1865. Remarks concerning certain pictures supposed to be photographs of early date.\u003cbr\u003e7. \u003cbr\u003eRemarks concerning certain pictures supposed to be photographs of early date.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003epp. 55, [1]. 4 plates. Plate 1 \"The Photograph in Kensington Museum, alleged to be Old Soho House\", Plate 2 \"Winson Green, from a photograph recently taken\", Plate 3 \"Copy of a drawing of Winson Green made in 1841\", and Plate 4 \"Soho House in its modern state\". Stitched with string. \u003cbr\u003eNo copies recorded on Worldcat but there are copies of editions with 29pp and 31pp. This edition (with 55pp) is an expanded version of these with additional material. \u003cbr\u003eThis edition ends with a discussion of the work of Mr Wallis. The last paragraph reads: \"I might make remarks on various other conjectures put forward by Mr Wallis but I do not think it would be interesting to do so; it being sufficiently clear that he has no real acquaintance with the facts, and that he has copiously indulged in conjectures which are quite erroneous\". \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e8. \u003cbr\u003eRemarks concerning certain pictures supposed to be photographs of early date. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8vo. pp. 74 incl. title-page plus 4 lithographic plates - Plate 1 \"The Photograph in Kensington Museum, alleged to be Old Soho House\", Plate 2 \"Winson Green, from a photograph recently taken\", Plate 3 \"Copy of a drawing of Winson Green made in 1841\", and Plate 4 \"Soho House in its modern state\". Stitched. Near Fine. pp1-55 are as above (save for omission of the last paragraph). \u003cbr\u003eThis edition appears to follow on from the previous one as it does consider and engage with the work of Mr Wallis in more detail. It omits the last paragraph of the previous edition (quoted above) and continues on p55 with the following: \"In examining once more Mr Wallis's paper…\". The discussion continues for a further 19 pages. \u003cbr\u003eWorldcat records one copy at the Bodleian and nine in the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis series of pamphlets, privately printed by M.P.W. Boulton between 1863 and 1865, concern a dispute about the origins and invention of photography. Boulton was the grandson of another Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), one of the most important figures of the early Industrial Revolution. Boulton (senior) was a business part of the James Watt, who developed the steam engine and transformed mechanisation in British mills and factories. Boulton used the engine to power his Soho Mint in Birmingham and so revolutionised British coinage. Boulton was also a member of the Lunar Society (along with Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood and Joseph Priestley) which met monthly to discuss and advance ideas in the sciences and the arts. \u003cbr\u003eAmong Boulton’s artistic and scientific experiments was the production, with Francis Eginton, of “mechanical paintings” or “polygraphs”. These were, essentially, a form of coloured “aquatint” engraving used by Eginton and Boulton in the production of coloured copies of paintings by, among others, the then enormously fashionable Angelica Kauffman. In 1863, in a paper given to the Photographic Society of London, F. P. 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He won prizes at Cambridge for Latin and Greek composition but he had inherited from his grandfather an interest in the sciences and engineering and, remarkably, composed a Latin poem with the title Vehicula vi vaporis impulsa, translated as \"Vehicles driven by the power of steam\". Later, Boulton carried out experiments in powered flight and invented the aileron. He was a member of the Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) to which many of the intellectual figures of the day belonged. Boulton was a brilliant but self-effacing figure who deserves to be better known. His obituary in the Times described him as “...a most gifted member of a gifted family, the inheritor of a large fortune, and highly cultured; but, being naturally a recluse, with no care for self-assertion, his wide knowledge and sterling qualities were known only to a few”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOULTON, M[atthew] P[iers] W[att]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40079683911871,"sku":"3539","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20210622_155115_002.jpg?v=1624467511"},{"product_id":"24-photos","title":"24 Photos","description":"Bern: Verlag L.M. Kohler. 1946.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. A portfolio of twenty three loose photographs (each photograph measures 302x231mm) housed in a folder with boards and cloth spine and ties. Some marking to the boards and rubbing to the edges and the cloth spine is torn and damaged but holding. The twenty-fourth photograph is the image on the front cover pasted on board. (306x235mm) Four page folded introduction with one page introduction by Manuel Gasser and a list of the titles of the photographs. The plates are in very good condition with only some very slight rubbing to the edges. They are an eclectic set of nature and animal photographs with a few portrait studies, landscapes and buildings. Bischof started his career working in magazines and news journalism but, finding it superficial and sensationalist, he abandoned this world for a more creative approach to photography. \"Werner Bischof always considered himself as an artist. His humanistic approach towards existential human issues combined with his artistic talents made him a classic of black and white photography\". This humanism and engagement with the natural world is apparent in this collection of beautiful and moving images. Bischof died at the age of thirty eight in a car crash in Peru.","brand":"BISCHOF, Werner (mit einer einleitung von Manuel Gasser)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40486170558655,"sku":"3541","price":275.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3541_2.jpg?v=1682608668"},{"product_id":"wege-zu-kraft-und-schonheit","title":"Wege zu Kraft und Schonheit.","description":"Berlin: Hergestellt von der Kulturabteilung der UFA. n.d..\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevised edition. 155x235mm. pp. 32. In pictorial paper covers, some wear and a repaired tear to front cover but overall in very good condition. Bound into blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Ten pages of text (in German) and nineteen photographs. Undated, this appears to be an abridged, smaller version of the book that accompanied the 1925 film made by Prager in praise of the beautiful and athletic body. The film and these photographs taken from it profess to be about sporting prowess: there are images of the runner Paavo Nurmi and the American high-jumper Harold Osborn. But these are squeezed in at the end after several photographs of naked and semi-naked girls engaged in \"rhythmic gymnastics\". Some poses set in an imaginary ancient Greece encourage us to make the connection between nudity, classicism and athletics.","brand":"PRAGER, Willhelm und Dr Nicholas Kaufmann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41774443299007,"sku":"3661","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20220628_185151.jpg?v=1656953850"},{"product_id":"art-photographique-le-nu-le-drape-en-plein-air","title":"Art Photographique: Le Nu \u0026 Le Drape en Plein Air","description":"Paris: Ch. Mendel. [1898].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 280x190mm. pp. 48. Text in French. 28 photographs included in the text and seven plates. Original illustrated paper covers, with some soiling and a tear to the joint with lower cover. Internally near fine. A nice copy of a rare book which explains the techniques of photographing the female form both nude and clothed \"en plein air\". Paul Bergon (1863-1912) was both a photographer and a naturalist specialising in images of orchids and nudes. The photographs are beautiful, Bergon being an exponent of 'pictorialism', a movement that sought to create more painterly images in photography rather than simply record the moment. The photographs in this volume capture perfectly Bergon's artistic connections between naturism and naturalism.","brand":"BERGON, Paul et Rene Le Begue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41774443397311,"sku":"3663","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20220704_175244.jpg?v=1656953714"},{"product_id":"ethik-der-nacktheit","title":"Ethik der Nacktheit","description":"Leipzig: Parthenon-Verlag. 1927.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 239x154mm. pp. 64. Original paper wrappers illustrated with a drawing of a Greek temple and a photograph of a naked woman. 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