Godlis (7 results)

1st edn 1st printing. 4to. Original laminated pictorial boards (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. 159, illus throughout with b&w plates (no inscriptions).

The book is brand new and still in the protective cellophane. Portraits of a long-lost art-deco world of Jewish retirees, lawn chairs and palm treesIn January 1974, David Godlis, then a 22-year-old photo student, took a ten-day trip to Miami Beach, Florida. Excited to visit an area he had frequented a decade earlier as a kid, Godlis set his sights on an area of art deco hotels, a Jewish retiree enclave on the expansive beaches facing the Atlantic Ocean. These retirees, all dressed up in their best beach outfits, would spend their days on lounges and lawn chairs, playing cards amid the sunshine and palm trees. Photographing this somewhat surrealistic scene, Godlis discovered his own street photography style?an eclectic mix of Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. Godlis shot 50 rolls of black-and-white film in just ten days, making his way up and down the beaches, photographing what he didn't know then was essentially the end of an era. The area he photographed in 1974 is now the infamous South Beach. This volume reproduces this account of a vanished Miami Beach for the first time. Born in New York City in 1951, David Godlis picked up his first camera in 1970. He stumbled into the burgeoning punk scene at CBGB on the Bowery in the mid-1970s, where, after seeing Brassaï's photographs of 1930s Paris, he began to photograph with long handheld exposures under the Bowery streetlights, portraying the Ramones, Television, Richard Hell and Blondie, documented in his first book History Is Made at Night. Since the late 1980s he has been the unofficial official photographer for the Film Society of Lincoln Center, covering the New York Film Festival.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Condition: Very Good; Hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. This is a Signed Limited Edition. #237 of 1200 copies. Signed and inscribed by Godlis. Book is in Very Good condition with clean covers and pages along with a tight, square binding. Bottom corners barely bumped. First Edition. Photos upon request.

Signed by Godlis and dated 2010 on the verso. Early photograph of The Feelies, a rock band formed in Haledon, New Jersey in 1976. Though The Feelies never gained commercial success, REM later cited their unique sound as direct influence. Silver gelatin print. 11 x 14 in. Signed. Matted. Near fine.

A spectacularly weird and unsettling photo of Devo live at the legendary Max's Kansas City, shot in the year of the release of their first single, "Mongoloid." Not only an early-career photo of the band at a legendary venue, but shot by a legendary photographer: Godlis was one of the more important documenters of New York's punk and new wave scenes. This print was struck from the negative by the photographer in 2010. Silver gelatin print. 14 x 11 in. Captioned and signed at the lower margin in black ink, and again on the verso in pencil, with Godlis' inkstamp. Very good; lower left corner bumped.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. A collection of 70's vintage prints by photographers David Godlis and Stephanie Chernikowski. Included are 27 different 8" x 10" black-and-white gelatin silver prints plus two contact sheets (probably by Godlis), each individually sleeved and housed in an archival presentation box. All are fine or very nearly so. The majority of the prints are photographer stamped on the back. Subjects include CBGB's, Suicide, Lydia Lunch (and Teenage Jesus), Richard Hell, Robert Quine, Lenny Kaye, Alex Chilton (of Big Star and The Cossacks), Chris Stamey, Martin Rev (Suicide), Miriam Linna (The Cramps and Nervus Rex), one that we think is Legs McNeil, and a few others unidentified by us. From the estate of Charles Ball, co-founder of Ork Records, founder of *Lust/Unlust*, and manager of Television.