Charles Brittin (14 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Scuffing and dust soiling to covers, otherwise very good. No markings. Laid in is a price list for the photographer's work offered by Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica. Seven pages, vg.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Paperback Edition. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Published by Smart Art Press, 1999. Quarto. Pictorial wraps with flaps. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Covers have light shelf wear with some faint smudges. 85 pages. ISBN: 1889195286. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Smart Art Press, Published 1999. Paperback, 84 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout; Smart Art Press, Volume V, No. 50; published in association with Craig Krull Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Charles Brittin, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, January 23-February 27, 1999; foreword by Craig Krull; introduction by Walter Hopps; interview with Kristine McKenna.In Very Good condition. Black and white pictorial paper covers with French flaps; front cover bearing a close-up black-and-white photograph of an eye; mild surface and edge wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.A survey of the work of Charles Brittin (1928-2011), a Los Angeles photographer whose images captured a pivotal period in the city's bohemian cultural life. From 1950 onward, Brittin moved through the inner circle of the emerging LA art scene, documenting Ed Kienholz, Wallace Berman, Walter Hopps, John Altoon, and George Herms at work and play in Venice Beach studios and galleries. His photographs of the Ferus Gallery milieu are among the most intimate records of that moment in California art history. As the Beat era gave way to the sixties, Brittin turned his camera to the civil rights movement, photographing the Watts riots, Black Panther funerals, and the Mississippi Delta, producing documentary work of equal power alongside his bohemian portraiture. Accompanied by a substantial interview with Kristine McKenna tracing Brittin's career and his decades of engagement with the Los Angeles avant-garde.…

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued; 216 pages; as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Text: English. 86 p.; b/w photographs; 21 x 28 cm. Exhibition catalogue. Charles Brittin took photographs of his friends, the underground artists and poets in Los Angeles during the 50's/60's. Fortunately, he captured the scene; otherwise, there would be almost no visual record of it. He didn't take snap shots. All are beautifully composed and outstanding photographs of individuals who influenced his life and creativity. Brittin also became involved in the civil rights movement and had his camera ready to document the brutality he experienced while marching with demonstrators. In 1999 there was a retrospect of these photographs as well as those he took of his 50s companions at the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica. This gallery published an excellent book of his work from that show. Over the years he has continued in his chosen field of photography and has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world. Now his photographs are in the archives at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Fine.…

Condition: Used: Like New. Encore sous blister.

Condition: Good. Introduction by Walter Hopps: Foreword by Craig Krull; Interview with Christine McKenna. Perfect binding. 85 plates. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Condition: Good. Fo. 214 pp. Color plates. Hard cover. Very Good. Heavy book, may cost extra for shipping.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Uncommon inscription from noted photographer Charles Brittin. Attractive survey of Brittin's varied photographic work, with accompanying interview. Clean and internally unmarked, excepting Brittin's signature. Light shelfwear to wraps. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Throughout the 1950s, Charles Brittin was the unofficial house photographer for the Beat community that coalesced around the artist Wallace Berman. Brittin settled in Venice Beach, California, in 1951, and his beach shack became a hangout for the Berman circle, which included actors Dean Stockwell and Dennis Hopper, artist John Altoon, curator Walter Hopps and poet David Meltzer, among many others. A self-taught photographer, Brittin was working as a mailman at the time, and spent much of his free time wandering the streets with a camera; he came to know Venice intimately, and his pictures of the town are freighted with a hushed beauty and forlorn sweetness. In the early 1960s the focus of Brittin's life shifted dramatically when he became involved with the civil rights movement. "I suddenly realized I was compelled to do something," Brittin recalls, "because the times demanded it." As a photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality, Brittin documented the dramatic non-violent protests that occurred throughout Southern California, and made a courageous trip to the deep South, in 1965, to assist with the registration of black voters. As the 60s progressed he documented the antiwar movement, and by the end of the decade was devoting most of his time to the Black Panther Party. These two very different social revolutions are at the heart of Charles Brittin: West and South. With 150 images--138 of them previously unpublished--this monograph is published on the occasion of a 2011 retrospective at Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles.Charles Brittin (born 1928) moved to California from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after enrolling at UCLA. He contributed several photographs to Wallace Berman's Semina magazine throughout the 50s and 60s, while working as a photographer for Charles and Ray Eames. After a two-decade hiatus, Brittin returned to photography in the 1990s, also making video works.…

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Black and white silver gelatin measuring 8" x 10". Slight curling and edgewear else near fine with captions on the verso. A photo by photojournalist Charles Brittin capturing police brutality against anti-war protests at Century Plaza in Los Angeles on June 23, 1967. According to the LA Times, "President Lyndon Johnson arrived at Century City to deliver a speech at a Democratic Party fundraiser. Ten thousand anti-Vietnam War protesters also arrived." The protests soon turned violent and this image captures that with views of protesters on the ground with their hands over their heads while police with batons are in mid-attack. …

First Edition. Folded pictorial covers with interior printed manila pocket housing 18 loose poems and images. 18.5x12 cm (7 1/2" x 5"). One of 350 copies. Contents complete. Near Fine, light wear and soiling to wrappers; some pieces with toning or offsetting, a few with creases at corner tips The fifth installment of Wallace Berman's legendary artist's magazine. Contributors include Berman, John Wieners, David Meltzer, Ruth Weiss, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Christopher Maclaine, Anne McKeever, Antonin Artaud, Larry Jordan, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, John Chance, Bob Kaufman, Michael McClure, John Reed, Wm. Margolia, and John Hoffman. Semina was published for nine issues, between 1955 to 1964. All are now rare.…