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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 255 pages. Published in 2008. Retrospective Exhibition Monograph. The single most valuable book on the photographic art and achievement of Wayne F. Miller. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. A brilliant production by Kiki Bauer: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Wayne F. Miller. Edited by Stephen Daiter, to whom the book is dedicated. Essays by various contributors. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents "Wayne F. Miller: Photographs 1942-1958". The stunning visual life-project of Wayne Forest Miller. "Operating as a combat photographer under his own orders, and answerable only to Captain Edward Steichen, United States Navy, Lieutenant Miller photographed everything of interest that he encountered, from boredom to horror. Those images document an integral part of the American wartime experience and are secured in the National Archives in Washington DC. What set Miller's work apart from many other war photographers was a peculiar empathy, whether creating images of our own soldiers or Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb. He strove to 'climb inside those people, and look through their eyes'. That ethos is present in all of Miller's subsequent work, from his unique and comprehensive study (supported by two Guggenheim Grants) of the citizens of the Bronzeville neighborhood of postwar Chicago to his equally ground-breaking documentation a decade later of the daily life of an American family. Takes us to the midpoint of the career of one of the country's most important visual artists and ends with his tremendously successful series that came to be published as 'The World Is Young' " (Publisher's blurb). Miller was Edward Steichen's Assistant on "The Family of Man" Exhibition, the single most influential photographic exhibition of the 20th century, which featured some of his own images. Steichen would have used even more of Miller's work were it not for his direct involvement in the landmark project. An absolute "must-have" title for Wayne F. Miller collectors. This title is a contemporary photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A scarce copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white plates. One of the finest American photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WAYNE F. MILLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1576874621. no.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 32 pages. Published in 2003. Landmark Exhibition Catalog. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. Precedes and should not be confused with the book-length centenary book, "Siskind 100", published in October 2003. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now scarce. A brilliant production by David W. Williams: Regular-sized volume format. Pristine-white softcovers, as issued. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. Introduction by Stephen Daiter. Text contributions by Barbara Crane, Jed Fielding, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson, Kazimir Karpuszko, and Joseph Sterling, who were all students of Aaron Siskind, and are now among the finest American photographers of our time. List of Plates appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The printing quality is outstanding, worthy of the work that it celebrates. In integral pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine and very large flaps, as issued. Published on the occasion of the photographer's centenary exhibition held at the Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago from May 2 through June 28, 2003 in conjunction with the Galerie Francoise Paviot Paris, where the show travelled on in November 2003. Presents "Aaron Siskind: Order With The Tensions Continuing". Abstract photographs from the late 1940's to the early 1960's by the one photographer who is credited with having brought photography into the 20th century. The title comes from one of Aaron Siskind's most celebrated works. Siskind started out as a documentary photographer and was one of the finest photographers associated with The Photo League, which aimed to marry street and art photography with social concerns and moral conscience. Siskind's book during his early period, "Harlem Document", is now considered a classic. It is also widely acknowledged, however, that his most important artistic output resulted from his crucial shift to Abstract Expressionism. The Abstract Expressionists considered Siskind's abstract photographs not only to be on the same level as their work in the traditional media (primarily, painting). Precisely because Siskind continued to work in photography, he introduced a whole new dimension to the Movement that they themselves did not conceive possible, and Siskind consequently influenced them as much as they influenced him. These photographs are now between 40 and 60 years old, but they have lost none of their cutting-edge vitality, breadth of imagination, and formal elegance. They are "at once sensual, intellectual, and spiritual, and provide a powerful expression of his artistic vision" (Stephen Daiter). An absolute "must-have" title for Aaron Siskind collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the Exhibition Catalog still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A scarce copy thus. 21 tonally rich reproductions from vintage photographs. "Aaron Siskind Photographs" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest artist/photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER AARON SISKIND TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). no.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 145 pages. Published in 2012. New And Expanded Edition of the artist/photographer's masterpiece. One of the most brilliant Conceptual art photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition Thus is now scarce. A brilliant production by Aperture and Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago: Oversize-volume format. Glossy pictorial hard boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Lynne Cohen. Text by Britt Salvesen and David Byrne. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Singapore to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In thick pictorial plastic DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Re-presents, in its now-definitive format, Lynne Cohen's "Occupied Territory". Space as "topographic" reality - well before it was recognized and named as such. "In 1987, Aperture published Lynne Cohen's first monograph, an exploration of space as simulated experience: A sham reality, artificial, idealized, and standardized. This Expanded And Updated Edition situates her work within the lineage of Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore, and other celebrated 'New Topographics' photographers. In the twenty years of work contained in the book, Cohen turns her camera toward classrooms, science laboratories, testing facilities, waiting rooms, and other interior spaces where function triumphs over aesthetics. What decorations the inhabitants might have added to these rooms to make them more inviting, mostly attempts at warmth or individualism, only serve to amplify their artifice and uniformity. Surveys a society of surface, contradiction, and social engineering. In her hands, clouds peel off walls, forest glades invade indoor tennis courts, and the awkward lives of furniture are revealed. Records the world's readymade sculptures, waiting to be framed by the photograph" (Publisher's blurb). Includes twenty images that appear in published form for the very first time (there were 87 plates in the original, 107 in this complete edition), which enhance our re-appraisal and renew our appreciation of Cohen's visionary project. An absolute "must-have" title for Lynne Cohen collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Lynne Cohen. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on the strip of white paper (that was then pasted on the page) through which she signed most copies towards the end of her life (Lynne Cohen died in 2012). As such, her signature on this copy is the best we have ever seen. This title is an art photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the New And Expanded Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. 107 duotone plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LYNNE COHEN TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1597111457. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 120 pages. Published in 2019. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful books on the photographic art and achievement of Marvin E. Newman ever published in our time. Limited Edition of 333 numbered and signed copies. Published as a hardcover original only. A brilliant production by Roland Angst: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial cloth boards with white titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. The linen cloth boards are in two variant color schemes (this is the Orange Version) and feature a wraparound reproduction of "Chicago 1951", three children of Caucasian, African-American, and Asian-American ethnicities, one of the photographer's greatest images. Photographs by Marvin E. Newman. Text by David Travis, Stephen Daiter, and the publisher, Roland Angst. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Berlin, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Marvin E. Newman's "Early Black & White". The finest and most representative images by the one photographer who mastered the aesthetics and practice of two radically different schools of art photography: The Photo League (its documentary, moral humanism) and the Institute of Design (its Bauhaus-principled, experimental formalism). Newman, who received the very first Master's Degree from ID, "embodies the best characteristics of these institutions: A compassion for his human subjects and an exceptional sense of space and design in his experimental photographs" (Stephen Daiter). 2019 was a Milestone Year for the photographer: It marked the 20th year of his inaugural exhibition at Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago, 70 years since he arrived at the Institute of Design, and the 100th-Year Anniversary of the founding of Bauhaus in Germany (the latter leading to major retrospectives, newly published books in Europe and the United States, and full-fledged profiles in the New York Times and New Yorker Magazine). Marvin E. Newman also turned 92 years old on December 5, 2019. An absolute "must-have" title for Marvin E. Newman collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Edition of 333 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Back Limitation Page. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the publisher's delicate white bookplate (pasted on the Back Page) by Marvin E. Newman. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Limited Edition (Orange Boards) available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. 93 black-and-white plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARVIN E. NEWMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 398183397X. Signed by Author.