Photography

Seattle: Henry Art Gallery / University of Washington Press, 2000. Signed and dated 2000 on the half-title page by Uta Barth. First edition / First printing. Illustrated boards. Very fine. Issued without dust jacket, a mylar jacket is supplied.

Atlantic Beach, Florida:: Linda Broadfoot,, 2005.. Edition of 50. A combination of handset letterpress and computer generated work. Letterpress was used to print the text using metal type on a flat bed press on a Vandercook Universal III using Hahnemuhle Biblio and Copperplate papers at the Letterpress & Foundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler. Then digitally reproduced small Giclée prints of the artist's original 20 x 24" Polaroid image transfers were printed archivally on Crane's Museo paper using an Epson 4000 printer. A modern day Cabinet of Wonders. Broadfoot uses A. S. Byatt's "Things Are Not What They Seem" to accompany her images as "a numinous guide to viewing" these wonders of nature. The insects shown were selected from the Florida State Collection of Arthropods. Broadfoot: "In the spring of 2001, I began to borrow insect specimens from the Florida State Collection of Arthropods. Carefully transporting this delicate cargo to… Read More

1886. Albumen photograph mounted on card. 150mm x 110mm overall. Tenants of building (as per signs) include: Union Bank of Australia, Alex Brown Colliery, Belgian & US Consulate, New Lambton Colliery Indemnity Fire and Machinery Insurance, Hewison Shipping Insurance & General Commission Agent. According to Newcastle Library records these businesses were located in a bank building in Newcastle, but pictorial records depict a different building. It would seem highly coincidental if these same businesses were located at the same time in nearby East Maitland or Morpeth, but remains a possibility. No other pictorial records can be located..

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1981. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Plates Throughout. Xii + 7 "Portfolios" Of Plates. First Published In 1977, This Is An Entirely New Design By Ann Lampton Curtis, New Printing By Gardner/Fulmer Lithograph On Centura Gloss Paper Using New Higher-Quality Laser-Scanned Separations. Signed By Ansel Adams On The Half-Title, No Inscription. As New In As New Dj.

New York: Aperture, 2000. Signed by Salgado and rare thus. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Brussels: Zeebrugge Museum Book. Illus. by Brusselle, Arthur ( Photographer ). Very Good +. Card Covers Sewn. Presumed First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Oblong. About fine but for minor bumping to peripheries, and a touch of rubbing to front cover title .3 hole string stitched binding. No date, ( circa 1917 - 1918 ). 24 pages of tipped in photos in excellent condition with tissue guards. . 42 photos. A few tissue guards creased.. Complete with notice page, in French and English, which relates the history of these remarkable photos, and identifies each one. A powerful documentation of submarine warfare..

The price is £6000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]
ANNAN & Sons.
Clyde Navigation. Glasgow Harbour and Docks.
Glasgow, Annan & Sons, 1892-1898
8 platinum prints, 15.5 x 12.0 ins, mounted on original card 25 x 19 ins with printed titles on card, some foxing on images no.5 and 6, preserved in the original portfolio case with ties, rebacked in goatskin, internally lined with archival paper, upper cover lettered gilt Glasgow Harbour and Docks.
Historic archive of photographs in the maritime history of Glasgow – the development of the Clyde Navigation, Harbour and Docks recorded in eight original platinum prints by the famous Glasgow photographers Annan & Sons between 1892 and 1898 and preserved in their original portfolio case.
Glasgow was the second city of the Empire and by the end of the 19th century had become a major Atlantic seaport and the Clyde shipyards were building the most sophisticated and technologically innovative iron and steel ships in the world.
The photographer was John Annan… Read More

Ridinghouse, 2012. Hardcover. New condition. Still sealed in shrinkwrap. Photo is of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

With a preface by Théophile Homolle. Translated from the French by Charles Frederic Hardy. First english language edition. 132 pp.+ 40 full-page photogravure plates with printed tissue guards and 86 illustrations in the text. 39x31 cm. Éditions d'Art Fred. Boissonnas, Genève, 1920. There are printed of this work on fine hand-made paper, prepared specially for this edition, 300 copies, of which this copy is No. 15. (Additional postage due to heavy weight) --- François Frédéric Boissonnas, nicknamed Fred (1858-1946) came from a Swiss family of photographers. An enthusiastic trekker, he started out on his journey from Geneve together with his inseparable friend and travel companion, Greek scholar Daniel Baud-Bovy, rector in the Geneva school of Fine Arts. From their first journey in 1903 until 1920, carrying a baggage of stereotypes on Greece passed on by travellers of the previous centuries, they toured and took photographs everywhere, from Epirus to the Peloponnese and from Ithaca to Olympus and… Read More

London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1861. A lovely near-fine copy, the binding firm and bright. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and a little spotting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean and fresh throughout. A superb example of a very scarce title. 8vo (21.8 x 15.7 cm). Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the upper board and spine, gilt to all page edges. Illustrated with 20 mounted albumen prints. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest works of poetry to be illustrated by photography. The anthology combines extracts from authors including Keats, Clare, Wordsworth, Cowper, and Longfellow, with mounted photographs depicting idyllic scenes of contemporary rural life by the renowned stereographer William Morris Grundy (1806-1859), to create a harmonious interweaving of verse and imagery. Grundy was born in Birmingham, moving to Sutton Coldfield in 1850. Initially taking up photography as a hobby in 1855, he went on to achieve… Read More

Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2015. Original black and white Type-C print signed by Daido Moriyama in gold ink on the front of the image it is tipped in. First edition / First printing. Limited edition. Number 437 of 500 copies. Metallic laminated boards. Very fine. The 90th publication in the Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series.

1te. - (4te.) Lieferung. 4 instalments (= all published). Basel und Genf, H. Georg's Buch- und Kunsthandlung (1864 ?). 20 original photographs (albumen – various sizes ca 110 x 180 mm to 225 x 280 mm) mounted onto white cardboards. Loosely contained in publisher's lithographed wrappers, with calligraphed title on front cover and contents on back cover. Folio (450 x 310 mm). Spine of fourth instalment restored, wrappers lightly dust-soiled and with a few short tears in margins. Cf. ADB XL, 460-465 (for Wackernagel) ; not in Heidtmann. Bibliographie der Photographie. Jakob Hoeflinger (1819-1892), was a native from the Black Forest region who emigrated to Swiss and became a photographer around 1853. He established his very successful business in Bale in 1857. His son Albert (1855-1936) took over the company in 1885. In 1896 he sold it to his cousin August Höflinger (1867-1939), who had joined the management the same year as he. From then on, August himself devoted himself to portrait painting. Until… Read More

Zurich: Windsor GmbH / Studio Achermann Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcovers with gilt lettering except #4 which has photo illustrated covers. #1 Speed, 2000 Richard Prince, Jonathan Meese, Claude Closky, Sylvie Fleury, Terry Richardson. #2 Embroidery, 2000. Bless, Vidy Gastaldon & Jean-Michel Wicker, Karen Kilimnik. #3 Party, 2001. Helmut Newton, Cat Tuong Nguyen, Redge Forester. With CD. #4 Terry Richardson in Dusseldorf, 2002. Terry Richardson. Photographs printed on high gloss paper. #5 Love, Death, Beauty, 2002. Sam Samore. 22,3 x 15,3 cm. Rare complete set. .

N.B. OVERSIZE ITEM: Additional shipping applies.Has some corner bumps as photographed, binding is tight. Great copy.

Into the wild: Journey into the world of Peter Beard (1938-2020) Photographer, collector, diarist, and writer of books Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolved into a serious career as an artist and earned him a central position in the international art world. He was painted by Francis Bacon and painted on by Salvador Dalí, he made diaries with Andy Warhol and toured with Truman Capote and the Rolling Stones—all of whom are brought to life, literally and figuratively, in his work. As a fashion photographer, he took Vogue stars like Veruschka to Africa and brought new ones—most notably Iman—back to the U.S. with him.
After spending time in Kenya and striking up a friendship with the author Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) in the early 1960s, Beard bought a piece of land near hers. He witnessed the dawn of… Read More

Groningen: Groninger Museum, 1997. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Bound in artificial leather with gilt titles stamped on front cover and spine. All edges gilt. No dust jacket as issued. Boldly signed by Andres Serrano. Illustrated with 60 color reproductions of photographs. Published on the occasion of the exhibition in the Groninger Museum in 1997. With an interview in Dutch by Xaviera Hollander, 2 blanc notes pages and 3 pages with maps. Preliminary pages 5-7, printed on thin paper, with light crease, otherwise a fine copy. 120 pp. 29,5 x 24,5 cm. .