Photography Books

TASCHEN | Muhammad Ali

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> limited edition copy of GOAT: A Tribute to <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Muhammad+Ali&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Muhammad Ali</a>, accompanied by a signed boxing glove, and signed framed photograph.<ul><li>Muhammad Ali (American).</li><li>United States: TASCHEN, 2004.</li><li>Large folio.</li><li>Approximately 792 pages.</li><li>Profusely illustrated throughout with over 3,000 images, including archival photography, reproduced memorabilia, and facsimile documents.</li><li>Limited edition, number 9493 of 10,000.</li><li>Signed by Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons to the limitation page.</li><li>Publisher’s padded white binding with metal corner protectors, as issued; housed in the original silk-covered clamshell presentation case.</li><li>Accompanied by a signed boxing glove, executed in black pen, the signature bold and clearly legible; the glove housed in a custom-made display case.</li><li>Also accompanied by a signed photographic portrait of Muhammad Ali, depicting the iconic image of Ali standing over Sonny Liston following their 1965 championship bout; signed in silver pen, the signature prominently positioned and contrasting effectively against the image; mounted and framed.</li></ul> A monumental and ambitious publication, widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive visual tributes produced on Ali’s life and career. A cohesive and highly displayable group celebrating one of the most significant sporting figures of the twentieth century, combining a dual-signed limited edition publication with two striking signed presentation pieces. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated at time of purchase.

GOAT: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali | Signed Limited Edition Book, Accompanied by  a Signed Boxing Glove, and a Signed Photograph

David Bowie

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> collector's edition of Moonage Daydream, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=David+Bowie&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Bowie</a>.<ul><li>David Bowie (English).</li><li>Genesis Publications, 2002.</li><li>346 pages.</li><li>Number 489 of an edition of 2,150.</li><li>Signed by David Bowie and Mick Rock.</li><li>Printed on 14 paper stocks including clear acetate, trace leaves and a variety of colors and textures.</li><li>Quarter bound in blue leather, with a photograph foiled on the front and rear and gold and silver blocking, housed in a solander box bearing the clothing pattern on the outfit worn by David on the cover of his The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust album.</li></ul> David Bowie’s first ever&nbsp;book. His sharp, often humorous text discusses the origins of the Ziggy Stardust stage persona, comments on Mick Rock’s photographs and gives unprecedented insight into Ziggy’s stratospheric two-year career.

Moonage Daydream Collector Edition

Nobuyoshi Araki

A first edition, signed presentation copy of Sentimental Journey by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.<ul><li>Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese).</li><li>Tokyo: Privately published, 1971.</li><li>108 pages.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Includes black-and-white photographs printed in offset.</li><li>Inscribed to Asahi Sonorama Chief Editor Tatsuo Shira with a drawing of a three-trunked elephant, which was Araki's preferred method of embellishment in the 1970s.</li><li>Wire-stitched with white photo-illustrated card wrappers, printed in black, with the printed leaf of green paper added by Araki shortly after publication at a bookshop's request.</li></ul> Sentimental Journey is Araki's signature work, comprising photographs made while on honeymoon with his wife Yoko in Yanagawa on Japan's Kyushu island. Araki's exposure of this most intimate of occasions attracted much criticism in a country which still valued a strict code of behavior, but ultimately, by putting his private life forward for public scrutiny, he paved the way for successive generations of Japanese photographers to work in a similar vein. Initially, Araki had intended for Sentimental Journey to contain no text. However, after publication and at the request of the bookshop Kinokuniya, he wrote a short introduction that rejects the falseness and insincerity of much photography and compares his work to the popular post-war literary form of the "I" novel. This text was printed on a green leaf of paper and laid into the book.

Senchimentaru Na Tabi / Sentimental Journey

Michael Muller

A catalogue of adrenaline and awe, this Collector’s Edition of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Michael+Muller&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michael Muller</a>’s epic shark photography&nbsp;comes&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by the photographer&nbsp;and with its&nbsp;own metal shark cage.<ul><li>Michael Muller (American).</li><li>Koln: TASCHEN.</li><li>334 pages.</li><li>Collector’s Edition (201–1,200).</li><li>Each numbered and signed by Michael Muller.</li><li>Hardcover volume with two fold-outs encased in its own metal shark cage.</li></ul> A tribute to the beauty, might, and fragility of the ocean predator, the volume includes the&nbsp;first known image of a great white breaching at night&nbsp;and an&nbsp;essay from Philippe Cousteau Jr.

Sharks Collector's Edition

Robert Frank

This first edition copy of Flower Is contains three bodies of work: photographs taken in Paris of flowers, flower sellers and chance encounters on the street, the River Rouge car factory in Detroit, and Polaroids made in Mabou Mines, Nova Scotia.&nbsp;<ul><li>Robert Frank (Swiss-American).</li><li>Design by Sugiura Kohei and Sato Atsushi.</li><li>Tokyo: Yugensha / Kazuhiko Motomura, 1987.</li><li>112 pages.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Includes black-and-white photographs printed in offset.</li><li>Bound in grey silk-covered boards, titles stamped in dark grey on spine and upper side, publisher's grey paper-covered board slipcase with titles stamped in dark grey on spine.</li><li>Accompanied by original shipping carton.</li></ul> Flower Is is the second of three books Frank made with Motomura Kazuhiko, a collector of photographs and photography books and occasional publisher, each designed by Sugiura Kohei. "By 1949 I had lived in New York City for two years. When I returned to Paris, I was 26. The beauty of that city touched me... Returning to America I began to look at Americans... and began to photograph the city and factory which produced the American car. The summer of 1955 was hot and after two days at the River Rouge Plant in Detroit I was told to leave the factory. I travelled south and was astonished to see black people treated as inferiors. I experienced the suspicion against anything not 'American'. I was learning about American determination to win... Flowers of Paris is memory... After the publication of The Americans in 1959, a slow fade begins. Filmmaking replaces the single frame photograph!"

Flower Is

TASCHEN | Helmut Newton

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Helmut+Newton&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Helmut Newton</a>, SUMO edition, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by Helmut Newton and accompanied by a bookstand designed by Philippe Starck.<ul><li>Helmut Newton (German-Australian).</li><li>Monte Carlo: TASCHEN, 1999.</li><li>Large folio.</li><li>Signed in blue pen.</li><li>Part of an edition of 10,000 copies.</li><li>Accompanied by a bookstand designed by Philippe Starck.</li></ul> Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated at time of purchase.

Helmut Newton SUMO Edition

TASCHEN | Sebastião Salgado

An art edition of&nbsp;Genesis&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Sebasti%C3%A3o+Salgado&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sebastião Salgado</a>, accompanied by a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a>&nbsp;print.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4: 2 volumes, 1 framed print, and 1 bookstand.</li><li>Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian).</li><li>Koln: TASCHEN.</li><li>704 pages.</li><li>Part of an edition of 100.</li><li>Leather bound.</li><li>With a gelatin silver print on Ilford FB warmtone paper.</li><li>With booklet and wooden bookstand designed by Tadao Ando</li></ul> Genesis&nbsp;is Sebastião Salgado’s love letter to the planet. It is the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the mountains, deserts, and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society—the land and life of a still pristine planet. The&nbsp;Genesis&nbsp;project, along with the Salgados’ Instituto Terra, is dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet, reversing the damage done to it, and preserving it for the future. On over 30 trips—by foot, light aircraft, boats, canoes, and even balloons, through extreme temperatures and in sometimes dangerous conditions—Salgado has created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous peoples in such intense beauty it takes our breath away. The reach is truly global. Through Salgado’s lens, one discovers the animal species and volcanoes of the Galápagos; the penguins, sea lions, cormorants, and whales of the South Atlantic; Brazilian alligators and jaguars; and African lions, leopards, and elephants. We travel over icebergs in the Antarctic, the volcanoes of Central Africa, the ravines of the Grand Canyon, and the glaciers of Alaska. We encounter the Stone Age Korowai people of West Papua, nomadic Dinka cattle farmers in Sudan, Nenets and their reindeer herds in the Arctic Circle, as well as the Mentawai jungle communities on islands west of Sumatra.

Genesis | Art Edition No. 201–300, with Signed Print ‘Black-Browed Albatrosses, Falkland Islands’

An art edition of Genesis by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Sebasti%C3%A3o+Salgado&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sebastião Salgado</a>, accompanied by a <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> print.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4: 2 volumes, 1 framed print, and 1 bookstand.</li><li>Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian).</li><li>Koln: TASCHEN.</li><li>704 pages.</li><li>Part of an edition of 100.</li><li>Leather bound.</li><li>With a gelatin silver print on Ilford FB warmtone paper. </li><li>With booklet and wooden bookstand designed by Tadao Ando</li></ul> Genesis is Sebastião Salgado’s love letter to the planet. It is the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the mountains, deserts, and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society—the land and life of a still pristine planet. The Genesis project, along with the Salgados’ Instituto Terra, is dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet, reversing the damage done to it, and preserving it for the future. On over 30 trips—by foot, light aircraft, boats, canoes, and even balloons, through extreme temperatures and in sometimes dangerous conditions—Salgado has created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous peoples in such intense beauty it takes our breath away. The reach is truly global. Through Salgado’s lens, one discovers the animal species and volcanoes of the Galápagos; the penguins, sea lions, cormorants, and whales of the South Atlantic; Brazilian alligators and jaguars; and African lions, leopards, and elephants. We travel over icebergs in the Antarctic, the volcanoes of Central Africa, the ravines of the Grand Canyon, and the glaciers of Alaska. We encounter the Stone Age Korowai people of West Papua, nomadic Dinka cattle farmers in Sudan, Nenets and their reindeer herds in the Arctic Circle, as well as the Mentawai jungle communities on islands west of Sumatra.

Genesis | Art Edition No. 1–100, with Signed Print ‘Two Mursi Women, Omo Valley, Ethiopia’

Annie Leibovitz

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> SUMO edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Annie+Leibovitz&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Annie Leibovitz</a>, Whoopie Goldberg cover, with stand designed by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Newsom&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Newsom</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2: 1 book and 1 stand.</li><li>Annie Leibovitz (American).</li><li>Koln: TASCHEN.</li><li>476 pages.</li><li>Collector’s Edition (Number 1,001–10,000).</li><li>Signed by Annie Leibovitz.</li><li>With a tripod bookstand by Marc Newson.</li><li>Hardcover with 8 fold-outs.</li></ul> A limited edition of 9,000 signed and numbered copies, the Annie Leibovitz SUMO presents some of the most famed actors, musicians, artists, writers, athletes, and businesspeople of our time. Presented with a Marc Newson designed book stand and a supplementary essay compendium. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated at time of purchase.

Annie Leibovitz SUMO | Whoopi Goldberg Cover | Signed by Annie Leibovitz

Daido Moriyama

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Daido+Moriyama&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daido Moriyama</a>'s Shashin yo Sayonara, <a href="First edition, signed in black ink on title-page; 4to (230 x 181 mm, 9 x 7¼ in); black &amp; white photographs printed in gravure, transcript of a conversation between Moriyama Daido and Nakahira Takuma; plain endpapers with small mark from bookseller's label, printed wrappers, black, grey, and blue, light reading crease, printed white dust jacket, text in black, blue, and grey, lightly rubbed and marked, light darkening to spine, an excellent copy in a custom drop spine box ; 308, [2]pp." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by the artist.<ul><li>Daido Moriyama (Japanese).</li><li>Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>308, [2] pages.</li><li>Black and white photographs printed in gravure.</li><li>Transcript of a conversation between Moriyama Daido and Nakahira Takuma.</li><li>Signed in black ink on title-page.</li><li>Text in Japanese. </li><li>Plain endpapers with small mark from bookseller's label, printed wrappers, black, grey, and blue, printed white dust jacket, text in black, blue, and grey, in a custom drop spine box.</li></ul> Shashin yo Sayonara is the central book of the Provoke movement, born out of Moriyama's perceived limitations of Provoke's manifesto and photography as a medium. The resulting combination of images re-photographed from newspapers, magazines, television screens, other people's negatives, and his own pictures composed mainly of out-takes, scratched frames, and blurred images was sequenced by two editors at Shashin Hyoron-sha in a seemingly random order to create a visual manifestation of the overpowering density of life in modern Japan.

Shashin yo Sayonara Signed First Edition

Stanley B. Burns | Elizabeth Burns

First editions of Burns' Sleeping Beauty and Sleeping Beauty II.<ul><li>Stanley B. Burns (American).</li><li>Elizabeth Burns (American).</li><li>Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America and Sleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement and the Family in Memorial Photography. American &amp; European Traditions.</li><li>Altadena, California: Twelvetree Press, 1990.</li><li>New York: Burns Archive Press,&nbsp;2002.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Illustrated with 76 and 134 plates after photographs.</li><li>Signed in the second volume by Stanley and Elizabeth Burns.</li><li>Bound in publishers’ blue and black cloths in black dust jackets printed in silver.</li></ul>

Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America

TASCHEN | Linda McCartney

The deluxe Taschen publication Polaroid Diaries brings together highlights of Linda McCartney’s vast archive of candid instant pictures from the early seventies to the mid-nineties. <ul><li>Linda McCartney (American).</li><li>Los Angeles: Taschen America LLC, 2019.</li><li>The collection includes portraits, landscapes and interior compositions which affirm her bold eye for pattern, color and her elegant use of light. </li><li>This is No 365 of 500 limited edition collector’s copies, each hand signed by Paul McCartney.</li><li>The book is accompanied by a clear recycled glass acrylic slipcase.</li><li>This book comes in the original shipping box.</li></ul>

The Polaroid Diaries

Marc Newson | TASCHEN

Art Edition of America's Cup, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Newson&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Newson</a>, in case designed by Newson, with a carbon fiber bookstand.<ul><li>Edited by Giuseppe (Pino) Allievi.</li><li>Cologne: TASCHEN, 2025.</li><li>564 pages.</li><li>Hardcover bound in a cotton sailcloth, with metal closure manufactured by Louis Vuitton, book block with silver edges.</li><li>564 pages.</li><li>Part of an edition of 175.</li><li>With a carbon fiber bookstand designed by Marc Newson.</li></ul> Art Edition (No. 1–175), signed by Marc Newson. Case designed by Marc Newson, crafted from cotton sailcloth, and fitted with a custom-made Louis Vuitton closure, with a numbered carbon fiber bookstand also designed by Marc Newson. The America’s Cup is&nbsp;the pinnacle of sailing—a battle of alpha ambition and prowess. This&nbsp;special edition&nbsp;celebrates the&nbsp;skippers, owners, defenders, challengers,&nbsp;and astounding advances in&nbsp;boat technology. Packed with&nbsp;previously untold tales and unseen photographs,&nbsp;it unfurls the story of a&nbsp;legendary race. In collaboration with the official partner of the 37th America's Cup, Louis Vuitton. ‘There Is No Second’ It’s the&nbsp;world’s oldest international sports competition. Its name conjures stormy seas, courageous crews, and entrepreneurs willing to risk everything. The America’s Cup is played out on a lavish scale—vast sponsorships, larger-than-life egos, and a hunger for victory that has spanned three centuries, pitting the most sophisticated yachts and best helmsmen against each other. This&nbsp;Art Edition, produced in collaboration with Louis Vuitton and designer&nbsp;Marc Newson,&nbsp;features a&nbsp;case crafted from cotton sailcloth, fitted with a custom-made Louis Vuitton metal closure, plus a carbon fiber bookstand resembling the keel of a sailboat, in a salute to the technology that defines the sport. The&nbsp;story of the Cup began in 1851, when the schooner America stunned the British fleet, winning a race around the Isle of Wight. The crew renamed the trophy in honor of their boat, declaring it a&nbsp;‘perpetual challenge cup’.&nbsp;There have been 37 editions of the Cup&nbsp;since that inaugural upset, with&nbsp;the New York Yacht Club holding it for 132 years—the longest winning streak in sporting history. Today, Australia, New Zealand, and even landlocked Switzerland have claimed the ‘Auld Mug,’ proving that no champion is ever safe. This very special edition,&nbsp;packed with rare archival material, unseen photographs, technical data and expert insights, celebrates the&nbsp;teams, tactics, and technology&nbsp;behind the world’s most prestigious yacht race. This isn’t just a chronicle of a competition—it’s a saga of human ambition, bravery, ingenuity, and the relentless pursuit of victory at all costs.

America's Cup | Marc Newson Art Edition with Book Stand

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Robert%20Frank&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Frank</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Art%2520and%2520Design" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">photobook</a> The Americans.<ul><li>Robert Frank (American).</li><li>New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959.</li><li>170 pages.</li><li>First American edition.</li><li>83 black and white photographs printed in gravure.</li><li>Plain endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles to spine in gold, white photo-illustrated dust-jacket printed in black, black and red collage by Alfred Leslie on the lower panel.</li></ul> The first American edition of Frank's masterpiece, after Robert Delpire's Les Américains, was published in France the previous year. The Americans follows a careful and complex sequence, with four chapters, each introduced by a photograph of the American flag. In his successful application for the Guggenheim grant that allowed him to make this work Frank wrote: 'The project I have in mind is one that will shape itself as it proceeds... The material is there; the practice will be in the photographer's hand, the vision in his mind!' Between April 1955 and June 1956 he set out on a series of trips across America. His aim was to complete a body of work that would be 'a broad, voluminous picture record of things American, past and present... A visual study of a civilisation.' For this, the defining edition, Frank stripped the texts which appeared opposite the photographs in Delpire's edition and added an introduction by Jack Kerouac, who writes, 'What a poem this is, what poems can be written about this book of pictures some day by young new writers.... Whether 'tis the milk of humankind-ness, or human-kindness, Shakespeare meant, makes no difference when you look at these pictures. Better than a show... Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world!' Like Vladimir Nabakov, Frank saw 1950s America as no American could have seen it, 'the loneliness, alienation, rootlessness, and sadness of automobile-happy mid-century America.' David Levi Strauss referred to the French edition as sociology, whereas the American edition is poetry. And as Kerouac writes 'Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see?' With this book, Frank galvaniZed photography for his generation and has influenced, in some way, every other generation since.

The Americans | First American Edition

Claude Cahun

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, presentation copy of Le Coeur de Pic, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inscribed</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Claude%20Cahun&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Claude Cahun</a>.<ul><li>Claude Cahun [pseudonym of Lucy Schwob] (French).</li><li>Lise Deharme (French).</li><li>Preface by Paul Eluard.</li><li>Le Coeur de Pic. Trente-deux poèmes pour les enfants illustrés de vingt photographies par Claude Cahun.</li><li>Paris: Librairie José Corti, 1937.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>60 pages.</li><li>20 photographs printed in relief halftone.</li><li>Inscribed by Claude Cahun in different colored pencils on first page.</li><li>Red cloth-covered boards over green cloth spine, titles in black on upper side, color photographic reproductions on upper and lower.</li></ul> Presentation copy, inscribed by Claude Cahun: 'á Germaine [Hennes] et J. Euzenat / Bien amicalement / Claude'. Deharme and Cahun, who were both active in French surrealist circles, envisioned Le Coeur de Pic as a cohesive artwork. Cahun’s photographs brought inanimate objects to life and encouraged older viewers to see the world through a child’s perspective. ‘Beyond its visual accomplishments, Le Coeur de Pic is also noteworthy as a collaborative project between two women artists. Well into the 1930s, surrealist women were still perceived as muses rather than creators, a realty that complicated collaborative projects between female artists and often resulted in the critical dismissal of their work’ (What They Saw 94).

Le Coeur de Pic Inscribed First Edition

Hans Bellmer

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of La Poupée by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Hans%20Bellmer&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hans Bellmer</a>.<ul><li>Hans Bellmer (German).</li><li>Paris: GLM [Guy Lévis-Mano], 1936.</li><li>44 pages.</li><li>Number 76 of 100 copies with 5 hors commerce, this being one of 80 copies on papier rose.</li><li>10 mounted gelatin silver photographs.</li><li>Text translated by Robert Valençay.</li><li>Pink wrappers, peach printed folding cover with titles on upper side in black, in a custom box by Devauchelle.</li></ul> La Poupée evolved out of a series of events in Hans Bellmer’s personal life: his cousin, Ursula Naguschewski, moving from Kassel to Berlin in 1932; an encounter with renowned dollmaker Lotte Pritzel and his attendance of a performance of Jacques Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann, in which the protagonist falls in love with an automaton; and his mother shipping him his old toys. Bellmer constructed several dolls, the first dating from 1933, which he assembled and photographed in strange and disquieting configurations. Ten of these photographs were published in Germany as Die Puppe (1934). It was Bellmer’s cousin Ursula who, while studying at the Sorbonne in 1934, apparently first brought Bellmer’s photographs to the attention of André Breton in Paris. In 1934, the Surrealist journal Minotaure published a portfolio of these images, and in 1936, one was published in an issue of Cahiers d’art devoted to the Surrealist object. Guy Levis Manos published this expanded French Edition with an introduction by Bellmer, translated by Robert Valencay. In February 1938, Bellmer left Berlin for Paris.

La Poupée First Edition

Henri Cartier-Bresson

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of Images a la Sauvette by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henri%20Cartier-Bresson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henri Cartier-Bresson</a>.<ul><li>Henri Cartier-Bresson (French).</li><li>Paris: Éditions Verve, 1952.</li><li>Large quarto.</li><li>154 pages.</li><li>Black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Draeger.</li><li>Text in French, by Cartier-Bresson.</li><li>Design by Tériade and Marguerite Lang.</li><li>Plain endpapers, printed white paper-covered boards illustrated after a design by Matisse in black, blue and green.</li></ul> Images à la Sauvette was conceived by Tériade (pseud. of Elfstratios Eleftheriades), editor of Minotaure and founder of Verve, who made a number of deluxe illustrated books with artists such as Matisse, Miró, and Léger. The photographs in this collection perfectly illustrate Cartier-Bresson’s notion of ‘l’instant décisif’. In his preface Cartier-Bresson writes ‘To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression... if the shutter was released at the decisive moment, you have instinctively fixed a geometric pattern without which the photograph would have been both formless and lifeless.’

Images a la Sauvette: Photographies par Henri Cartier-Bresson First Edition

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of Les Européens by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henri%20Cartier-Bresson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henri Cartier-Bresson</a>.<ul><li>Henri Cartier-Bresson (French).</li><li>Paris: Éditions Verve, 1955.</li><li>Large quarto.</li><li>136 pages.</li><li>Black and white photographs printed in gravure by Draeger.</li><li>Text is in French, by Cartier-Bresson.</li><li>Design by Tériade and Marguerite Lang.</li><li>In presentation dust-jacket.</li><li>Bound in printed paper-covered boards illustrated after a design by Joan Miro in yellow, blue, red, and black; in a cream dust-jacket printed in grey.</li></ul> One of a small number of copies issued in a presentation dust-jacket with the printed name of the recipient, this example designated ‘à Monsieur Roger Loubry, européen...’ Roger Loubry was chief pilot, captain, and co-founder of the airline Union Aéromaritime de Transport (UAT). He made the first commercial air link between Paris and New York in 1946 and two years later was pilot for the first non-stop flight between the two cities. Les Européens is identical in format to Cartier-Bresson’s first book, Images à la Sauvette (1952). Both were published by Tériade (pseud. of Elfstratios Eleftheriades), editor of Minotaure and founder of Verve, who made a number of deluxe books with artists such as Matisse, Miró and Léger. The photographs in the present work were taken between 1950-5 and show ordinary people going about life in post-war Europe. In his introduction Cartier-Bresson sums up his role as a photojournalist simply by saying ‘I was there and this is how life appeared to me at that moment.’

Les Européens First Edition

Edward Ruscha

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Edward%20Ruscha&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ruscha</a>'s photobook Every Building On The Sunset Strip.<ul><li>Edward Ruscha (American).</li><li>(Los Angeles):&nbsp;Edward Ruscha,&nbsp;1966.</li><li>Signed by Ruscha along bottom edge of slipcase.</li><li>Accordion-fold printed recto only and mounted in printed wrappers, housed in original silver Mylar foil-covered slipcase with intact original plain white paper band.</li></ul> Signed first edition, second issue of this quintessentially Los Angeles book, and one of the great photobooks of all time – with the original wrap-around band intact. "Not only the most physically ambitious of Ruscha's books, but the most flamboyant." — Parr &amp; Badger Ruscha's fourth book captures the Sunset Strip at a particular moment in time. A monumental and continuous accordion-fold scroll that opens to more than 25 feet, Ruscha documents — as the title suggests — the entirety of the Strip, with even numbered addresses running along the top the page and odd facing opposite along the bottom. "The effect is less like the fluid cinematic pan […] than a series of jolting jump cuts […] a ragged progression of gas stations, motels, apartment houses, parking lots, strip-malls, and honky-tonk signage" (Parr 182).

Every Building On The Sunset Strip

Jean-Michel Basquiat

A hand-<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> 1986 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed&amp;query=Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Basquiat</a> catalog published on the occasion of Jean-Michel Basquiat Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover: 28th of November, 1986, to the 25th January, 1987.<ul><li>After Jean Michel Basquiat.</li><li>Hanover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1986.</li><li>Approximately 100 pages.</li><li>Featuring 60 works by a then 25 year old Basquiat, Kestner is widely remembered as Basquiat’s last major exhibition during his lifetime. -</li><li>Signed and inscribed to ‘Hans’ on the interior title page.</li><li>With full-page images of over 30 Basquiat paintings, in addition to several in collaboration with Andy Warhol.</li><li>Text in German.</li><li>Bound in stiff wraps.</li></ul> Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential African-American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Basquiat’s paintings are largely responsible for elevating graffiti artists into the realm of the New York gallery scene. His spray-painted crowns and scribbled words referenced everything from his Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage, to political issues, pop-culture icons, and Biblical verse. The gestural marks and expressive nature of his work not only aligned him with the street art of Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, but also the Neo-Expressionists Julian Schnabel and David Salle. “If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence,” he said of his process. “It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.” Born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, NY, Basquiat never finished high school but developed an appreciation for art as a youth, from his many visits to the Brooklyn Museum of Art with his mother. His early work consisted of spray painting buildings and trains in downtown New York alongside his friend Al Diaz. The artist’s tag was the now infamous pseudonym SAMO. After quickly rising to fame in the early 1980s, Basquiat was befriended by many celebrities and artists, including Andy Warhol, with whom he made several collaborative works. At only 27, his troubles with fame and drug addiction led to his tragic death from a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988 in New York, NY. The Whitney Museum of American Art held the artist’s first retrospective from October 1992 to February 1993. In 2017, after having set Basquiat’s auction record the previous year with a $57.3 million purchase, the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa surpassed it, buying the artist’s Untitled (1982) at Sotheby's for $110.5 million. This set a new record for the highest price ever paid at auction for an American artist's work. Today, Basquiat's works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among others.

Kestner-Gesellschaft Exhibition Catalog Signed by Basquiat

Various Photographers

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">collection</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> volumes of The Journal of Contemporary <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Photographs&amp;Book%20Subject=Photography" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Photography</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6 volumes.</li><li>Museum Editions, 21st Editions, 1998 - 2003.</li><li>The Signed Deluxe Limited Editions contain original hand-pulled photogravures and color ptanographs (waterless lithographs) that illuminate the essays and commentaries found in each book.</li><li>They are fully signed on the limitation page by the artists included in each volume.</li><li>Bound in Morocco, Japanese silks and Italian fabrics, cased in a matching portfolio box. </li></ul> More information about each volume is below. Volume 1: <ul><li>Number 193 of 235. </li><li>Focuses on the "transcendent vision" of 15 major contemporary photographers, illustrated here in richly printed hand-pulled photogravure. </li><li>Volume I also contains a woodcut by the late Leonard Baskin. Writers include Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Wilbur; prize-winning novelists Ann Beattie and Robert Olen Butler; poet and critic Dana Gioia; Harvard professors and award winning historians John Stilgoe and John Stauffer; and Wales’ great poet, the late R. S. Thomas, among many others.</li><li>Signed by: Bernard Faucon, Michael Kenna, Holly Wright, Luis Gonzales Palma, Keith Carter, Duane Michaels, Steven Albahari, Mark Klett, Sandy Skoglund, Jock Sturgis, Ernestine Ruben, Willie Middlebrook, John Metoyer, Olivia Parker, Leonard Baskin, and Patrick Bailey-Maitre-Grand.</li></ul>&nbsp;Volume 2<ul><li>Number 187 of 200. Extends the metaphysical themes of the first volume and brings together the work of 13 modern masters of the photographic arts. It contains original essays by France's leading novelist Michel Tournier; philosopher Frederick Turner; award-winning photographic historian Lee Fontanella; novelist and playwright Elizabeth Dewberry; novelist Josh Russell; and photographic historian and 21ST contributing editor Lance Speer.</li><li>Signed by: Adam Fuss, Jaume Blassi, Bill Jacobson, Joyce Tenneson, Kenro Izu, Vik Muniz, Cy DeCosse, John Dugdale, Tom Baril, Joan Fonteuberta, Arthur Tress, Robert Parke Harrison, and Sheila Metzner.</li></ul>&nbsp;Volume 3:<ul><li>Number 82 of 100. Entitled The Clandestine Mind, is devoted entirely to the lyrical work of John Dugdale. This master photographer's elegant male nudes and still lifes, printed in rich blue inks to match the original tones of his cyanotypes, are complemented by a short prayer for Dugdale by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler; a poem by prize-winning poet Morri Creech; and an essay by John Wood, the editor of 21ST.</li><li>Signed by: John Dugdale and features - Annunciation, Christ Out Liberator, The Clandestine Mind, I Could Not See To See, Longing, Mourning Tulips, Wonder Stings Me More Than Bee, and Three White Peaches.</li></ul>&nbsp;Volume 4:<ul><li>Number 82 of 100. Entitled The Gardens of DeCosse, focuses exclusively on the beautiful works of Cy DeCosse. Literary contributors include fiction writer Scott Ely; gallery director John Stevenson; poet Susan Ludvigson; musician and scholar Carol Wood; and editor John Wood.</li><li>Signed by Cy Decosse and features the following: King of the Night, Sunflower, Fritillaria, Cultered Pearl, Squash, Flowers &amp; Dill, Water Lilly, Tuscan Lemons, and Queen of the Night.</li></ul>&nbsp;Volume 5:<ul><li>Number 39 of 125. </li><li>Aptly named Strange Genius, is an insightful examination of the ways in which artists today make conscious attempts to create work that can often be unsettling, difficult, even horrific. </li><li>Writers include poets Raul Peschiera, Susan Ludvigson, Gerard Malanga, and Paul Zimmer; novelists Ann Beattie and Neil Connelly; and essayists Paul LaRosa, Lance Speer, and John Wood.</li><li>Signed by: Sally Mann, Michal Macku, Connie Imboden, Vincent Serbin, Sheila Metzner, Andrea Modica, Josephine Sacabo, John Metoyer, David Levinthal, Stephen Berkman, Kelly Grider, Keith Carter, Christopher Pekoe, and Don Gregorio Anton.</li></ul>&nbsp;Volume 6:<ul><li>An international survey titled Flesh and Spirit.</li><li>Combines the images of some of the finest contemporary Belgian, Brazilian, Chinese, English, French, Greek, Mexican, Spanish, and American photographers.</li></ul>

The Journal of Contemporary Photography Collection

Peter Henry Emerson | Thomas Frederick Goodall

First edition deluxe edition, one of 100 copies of Thomas Frederick Goodall's Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads.<ul><li>Peter Henry Emerson (English).</li><li>Thomas Frederick Goodall (English).</li><li>Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, Illustrated with Forty Beautiful Plates from Nature Executed in Platinotype [The Plates are Absolutely Permanent]. With General and Descriptive Text.</li><li>London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886.</li><li>Frontispiece and 39 platinum prints made by Valentine &amp; Son, Dundee.</li><li>Bound in a modern cloth portfolio incorporating the original cloth-covered boards with a pictorial image and title in gilt on upper side.</li></ul> Peter Henry Emerson is a crucial figure in the evolution of fine art photography, from its roots in the nineteenth century to its modernist manifestation in the early twentieth century. In Life and Landscape in the Norfolk Broads, his first and most important book, Emerson, accompanied by his friend, the artist Thomas Goodall, sought to document the disappearing traditions of rural working life. They capture scenes of reed harvesters, marshmen and eel catchers, balancing scientific and artistic developments in photography, social reportage and natural history. The photographs, 27 by Emerson and Goodall and 13 by Emerson alone, are accompanied by a text describing aspects of life in and around the inland waterways of the Norfolk Broads. "The subtle prints and insightful handling of the subjects combine to make this the most important of Emerson's illustrated books. The text gives sociological dimension to photographs that are cornerstones of British photographic estheticism." (Truthful Lens) According to Robert S. Kahan and J.B. Colson in their bibliography, a deluxe edition of 100 copies with a vellum cover decorated in black and gold and 750 ordinary copies in green cloth were initially advertised, but only 27 of the deluxe edition and 175 copies of the ordinary edition were issued.

Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads

Jamie Baldridge

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> deluxe limited edition of The Everywhere Chronicles.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Jamie Baldridge (American).</li><li>21st Editions, 2009.</li><li>Limited to 17 numbered copies of which this is #4</li><li>Signed and numbered by Jamie Baldridge, John Wood, and the publisher, Steven Albahari.</li><li>With 12 signed hand printed pigment ink prints.</li><li>Bound in brass with a wax patina, black leather backed spine, with 1 additional free standing print, housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell box, the separate portfolio contains 12 signed free standing prints, housed in a matching brown cloth clamshell box.</li></ul> In 2009, fine press photography book publisher 21st Editions released The Everywhere Chronicles. Limited to 50 copies. The first 17 numbered editions also contain a separate portfolio of 12 signed free-standing prints that appear in the book. This copy #4 was presented to Lance Speer, 21ST Editions Contributing Editor and Director of Marketing, upon completion of the project. A Letter of Provenance from Lance Speer is included. 21ST Editions was awarded the prestigious 2009 Lucie Award for Book Publisher of the Year for their publication of The Everywhere Chronicles. The worldwide photography community pays tribute to the year’s most outstanding photographic achievements at the annual Lucie Awards ceremony. The Lucies recognize men and women whose life’s work in photography merits the highest acclaim by their peers. As 2003 honoree Douglas Kirkland said, "The movie industry has its Oscars and the photography community has its Lucies." From the Publishers: "To say that Jamie Baldridge is an imaginative genius is to state what will be obvious to anyone who views The Everywhere Chronicles, though readers of the tale he wrote to accompany the photographs may decide he is an escapee from the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. Using sumptuous colors and the most bizarre, sometimes zany, often mystical imagery, Baldridge reveals a world he has miraculously imagined. He then takes us on tour through the whimsical travelogue he has written to accompany his masterful photographs. His guidebook may be a little mad, but his photographs are no collection of elaborate jests and spoofs. They are the stuff of archetypes, and they transport us to mythic places of the mind, of memory, and of histories not yet written.” In a natural evolution, 21ST Editions (a unique publisher known throughout the world for its mastery of classic photographic processes such as platinum prints, hand-pulled photogravure and silver gelatin photographs) has utilized color pigment ink printing for the first time with The Everywhere Chronicles. This is due to the fact that we at 21ST Editions wish to stay true to the original and preferred medium of the artist, who works exclusively in pigment ink and who personally printed and signed each photograph himself. The result is their first color book, one that reflects our decade long commitment to creating the finest photography books in existence, incorporating the widest range of original processes available.

The Everywhere Chronicles

Michael Kenna

A limited edition of Mont-Saint-Michel, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> and numbered by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed&amp;query=Michael%20Kenna&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michael Kenna</a>.<ul><li>Michael Kenna (English).</li><li>Henry Adams (American).&nbsp;</li><li>Massachusetts: 21st Editions, 2007.</li><li>Limited to 60 numbered copies of which this is #17.</li><li>Signed and numbered by Michel Kenna, John Wood, Lance Speer, and the publisher, Steven Albahari on the limitation page.</li><li>Fourteen signed hand printed platinum prints plus one signed free-standing platinum print.</li><li>Housed in the original silk cloth clamshell slipcase.</li></ul> This copy #17, was presented to Lance Speer (21st Editions Contributing Editor and Director of Marketing and writer of the original essay contained in the book entitled “Memory as Muse: Michael Kenna at Mont-Saint-Michel”) upon completion of the project. Included is a letter of provenance by Speer. The entire edition sold out, sight unseen, in only fourteen days. 21st Editions was awarded the prestigious Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Award Silver Medal in 2008 for "Best Book Arts Craftsmanship" for its publication Mont-Saint-Michel. For years Michael Kenna has been recognized as one of the world's leading photographers, an artist with so great a grasp of place that his way of seeing Stonehenge, Versailles, Easter Island, Hokkaido, and elsewhere has become "our" way of seeing them. Kenna has now turned his eye to Mont-Saint-Michel where light dawns through graceful arches, cascades down stairways and roadways, wraps itself around 900 year old Gothic architecture in a delicate embrace as it seeps into otherwise impermeable stone to illuminate it from within. Kenna has indeed created the photographic portrait of the island and its architecture, a body of work which rivals and complements Henry Adams' classic Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, the famed book which is the verbal portrait of the Mount. This handmade, limited edition unites Adams’ words with Kenna’s images and contains a short introduction by John Wood and a scholarly essay by Lance Speer.

Mont-Saint-Michel

Man Ray

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a> with first issue title-page of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Man%20Ray&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Man Ray</a>'s Photographs 1920 Paris 1934.<ul><li>Man Ray (American).</li><li>Hartford, Connecticut: James Thrall Soby, 1934.&nbsp;</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by The Néogravure Company.</li><li>Texts in English and French by Man Ray, Paul Eluard, Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, Rrose Selavy [Marcel Duchamp].</li><li>Color photo-illustrated covers, with a plastic comb binding by Draeger Frères.</li></ul> Man Ray’s first monograph, with the scarce first issue title-page. James Thrall Soby was an important patron of the avant-garde in the United States. Alfred Barr, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, had encouraged Soby to visit Man Ray in Paris, and following their meeting, Soby subsidized the production of this, the first monograph of Man Ray’s work.&nbsp;&nbsp;Man Ray had hoped that royalties from the sale of this book would enable him to make a long-overdue trip back to New York. Photographs... was well received in France, but in the United States, the reception was distinctly less enthusiastic. Lewis Mumford wrote in The New Yorker that Man Ray had ‘done almost everything with a camera, except use it to take photographs... photographing Calla lilies so that they will look like drawings by a second-rate academician.’ Commercially, it was not a success. It is widely suggested that in an attempt to generate sales, the publishers recalled the book and replaced the original title page with one stating ‘deuxième édition’. The favorable reception in France also led to the ‘second edition’ being titled in French with attention drawn to the other contributors: Man Ray. Photographies 1920-1934 Paris avec un portrait par Picasso – textes de André Breton Paul Eluard Rrose Sélavy Tristan Tzara –préface par Man Ray.&nbsp;

Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a>, second issue of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Man%20Ray&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Man Ray</a>'s extraordinary first monograph — association copy inscribed to friend and muse Joella Bayer, whose portrait appears in the book.<ul><li>Man Ray (American).</li><li>Texts by André Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Sélavy, and Tristan Tzara.</li><li>Preface by Man Ray.&nbsp;</li><li>Hartford, Connecticut: James Thrall Soby, (1934).&nbsp;</li><li>Frontispiece portrait of Man Ray by Picasso.</li><li>104 heliogravures.</li><li>Inscribed by Ray to Joella Bayer on the inside of the front cover: "For Joella / Man Ray."&nbsp;</li><li>Additionally signed below by her husband Herbert Bayer, with his thumbprint.&nbsp;</li><li>Text in English and French.&nbsp;</li><li>Original color photographic wrappers with plastic comb binding.</li></ul> "Seized in moments of visual detachment during periods of emotional contact, these images are oxidized residues, fixed by&nbsp;light and chemical&nbsp;elements, of living organisms." — Man Ray Man Ray's photobook of "sensuous, often dreamlike" photographs and rayographs, inscribed to Joella Bayer, daughter of poet and artist Mina Loy and wife of designer and photographer Herbert Bayer (whose signature and thumbprint are also present). Joella Bayer knew Ray most of his life, having been introduced to the artist by her mother in Paris in the 1920s and then growing closer through her first husband, the gallerist Julien Levy, who frequently exhibited Ray. Ray portrayed or photographed Joella Bayer a number of times during his life, most famously in this book, where her solarized portrait appears as plate 47. Arranged in five thematic sections, Photographs includes laudatory essays and poems from Ray's surrealist contemporaries André Breton, Paul Éluard, Rrose Sélavy [Marcel Duchamp], and Tristan Tzara marking the divisions. Stated "Second Edition" (as almost all copies are); in fact it is the second issue of the first edition, mislabeled in an attempt "to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold out. After replacing the title pages of these copies with one stating second edition, [the publisher] returned them for sale" (Roth 80).

Photographs

Paul Strand

A signed copy of The Garden: A Portfolio of 6 Photographs.<ul><li>Paul Strand (American).</li><li>New York: Strand/Hoffman, 1976.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Limited to 50 copies, this being number 13, signed in the shaky hand of the photographer.</li><li>Laid in loose, in green cloth dropbox.</li></ul>

The Garden

A first-edition copy of the catalog for Keith Haring's exhibit at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, featuring the iconic neon Haring Three Eyed Smiling Face cover.<ul><li>Forward by Tony Shafrazi (American).</li><li>Includes texts by Keith Haring, Jeffrey Deitch, Robert Pincus-Witten and David Shapiro.</li><li>Includes photographs of Haring's subway drawings by Haring’s close friend Tseng Kwong Chi.</li><li>Designed by Dan Friedman.</li><li>New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1982.</li><li>144 pages.</li><li>Softcover.</li><li>Includes 15 double-sided lithographic inserts.</li><li>Part of a limited edition of 2,000 copies.</li><li>Metal wire bound.</li></ul>

Keith Haring at Tony Shafrazi Gallery Catalog

Linda McCartney

A limited edition copy of Life in Photographs, signed by Paul McCartney.<ul><li>Linda McCartney (American).</li><li>Germany: Taschen,&nbsp;2011.</li><li>Large folio.</li><li>Number 635 of 750 copies.</li><li>Bound in cloth, pictorial upper cover, in matching cloth clamshell box.</li></ul>

Life in Photographs

Paul Penrose

A signed, limited-edition copy of this photography portfolio by Paul Penrose.<ul><li>Paul Penrose (English).</li><li>Introduction by John Fowle.</li><li>Wellingborough:&nbsp;Skelton's Press,&nbsp;1982.&nbsp;</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Fifteen black and white photographs each mounted on off-white mat.</li><li>Numbered 15. from an edition of 25.</li><li>Each photo is signed by Paul Penrose and numbered 15/25.</li><li>The introduction page is signed by introduction writer John Fowles.</li><li>Housed in blue buckram clamshell box with vellum-covered inner box, folding enclosure protecting photos, and tray containing linen gloves for viewing.</li></ul>

Fifteen Photographs of Lyme Regis

Eikoh Hosoe

Limited-edition portfolio of 10 signed silver gelatin prints with a signed first edition of&nbsp;Luna Rossa.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10.</li><li>Eikoh Hosoe (Japanese).</li><li>Tokyo: Weston Gallery, 1993.</li><li>From the edition limited to 20 copies, only 10 were issued as a portfolio with this being number 9, the remaining 10 were sold as individual prints.</li><li>Included with the portfolio is a first edition of&nbsp;Luna Rossa&nbsp;that has been signed by Hosoe, which presents 9 of the 10 images included in the portfolio.</li><li>The portfolio consists of 10 original solarized gelatin silver prints mounted to larger sheets of cream card with each signed in Kanji and numbered 9 of 20 by Hosoe in pencil below the image, and are loose as issued in the original publisher's wooden drawer, brass corner fittings, drawer pulls and label plaque.</li><li>Housed in a paulownia wood portfolio box.</li></ul> Photographs:Lady from Ukiyo-e, Woodstock, New York.Moonlight, Woodstock, New York.Butoh Dance in the Dawn, Snowmass, Colorado.Shadow of a Bodhi Tree, Snowmass, Colorado.Morning Eclipse of the Sun, Woodstock, New York.Witness of the End of the Twentieth Century, Anchorage, Alaska.Before Awakening, Woodstock, New York.Sunflower Song, Snowmass, Colorado.Great White River, Anchorage, Alaska.Black Waterlilies, Woodstock, New York. This portfolio, also known as&nbsp;Luna Rossa, was published in 1993 on the occasion of Eikoh Hosoe's 60th birthday and in connection with the exhibition titled&nbsp;Eikoh Hosoe's New York — Before the Dawn: Toward the Turn of the New Century, held at the I.C.A.C. Weston Gallery in Shinjuku, Tokyo in March 1993. Eikoh Hosoe worked on this series of nudes in the summers of 1990–96 while teaching photography workshops in the U.S. The theme of his workshops was "Nudes and the Natural Environment" and his students participated in the making of these images by being his subjects. In&nbsp;Luna Rossa&nbsp;(Red Moon, a metaphor for the darkroom's red light bulb), all the photos were solarized in the darkroom. Actually, three darkroom techniques were employed: Solarization (in the style of Man Ray's Rayograph), photograms (in the style of Moholy Nagy) and photo sketching (in the style of Japanese photographer Ei-Q). Although solarization is the dominant technique, you sometimes see a small part of the photograph that looks normal. It was created by using an object (as for a photogram) to cover an area during the solarization process. The resulting whitish area in the photograph is a very nice contrast with the surrounding darkish solarization effect. (For example, the sunflower was covered from solarization and looks normal. The sunflower is being held by a person standing behind the woman in front.) The artful photographs are the result of a lot of delicate darkroom work. It makes Hosoe an artist behind the camera as well as under the darkroom light. Photoeye, in their review of&nbsp;Luna Rossa&nbsp;wrote, "Hosoe's subjects for this series seem to be clothes-shedding naturalists from Woodstock, Snowmass, and Anchorage. With a decidedly hippy/new-age feel to the work (with titles like Sunflower Song and Moonlight), Hosoe has employed a variety of darkroom techniques, such as solarizing and masking, to produce work that is at once romantic and futuristic."

Before the Dawn: Turn of the Century

Richard Tuttle | Alexey Brodovitch

Sculptural one-of-a-kind artist-bound copy of Alexey Brodovitch's&nbsp;Ballet.<ul><li>Alexey Brodovitch (Russian-American).</li><li>Sculptural-bound by artist Richard Tuttle (American,&nbsp;b. 1951) in 2013.</li><li>New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945.</li><li>First-edition limited original print at 500 copies.</li><li>104 black-and-white photogravures.</li><li>Bound in lambskin over sculpted boards.</li><li>Housed in walnut presentation box with etched glass featuring ballerinas in various poses.</li></ul> Tuttle creates one-of-a-kind works of art that merge the written word with fine leather, paper, paint, wood and veneer.&nbsp;These original book bindings have been featured in a PBS documentary on the Chicago Art beat. Tuttle describes his work as follows:&nbsp;“I make literary artifacts. They are designed to pull books down off the shelf and display them in the salon, gallery or home [...] I seek to find a perspective that shouts out a piece of the essence of the literary work. I try to put myself in the author's or character's mind to say something about the time it was written in; the attitude that is explored and expressed; the magic that makes it a work of art."

Ballet

Neil Leifer | TASCHEN

Limited edition print of Homage to Ali signed by Leifer.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Neil Leifer (American).</li><li>‘Ali Invents the Double-Clutch Shuffle, 1966’</li><li>Köln:&nbsp;Taschen, 2023.</li><li>Edition of 40.</li><li>Dye-sublimation print on ChromaLuxe aluminum panels ready to hang.</li></ul>

Homage to Ali: Ali Invents the Double-Clutch Shuffle 1966

Catalog for Keith Haring exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, signed by the artist.<ul><li>Includes original drawing by Haring along with signature.</li><li>Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1986.</li><li>83 Pages.</li><li>Preface by Wim Beeren.</li><li>Includes in-depth interview with the artist.</li><li>Includes photography by Haring's close friend, Tseng Kwong Chi.</li><li>Published for the occasion of the exhibition Keith Haring at the Stedelijk Museum, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 15th – May 12th, 1986.</li></ul>

Keith Haring Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Signed Catalog

TASCHEN | Albert Watson

KAOS&nbsp;presents a&nbsp;kaleidoscopic overview of Watson’s career&nbsp;to date, and the dazzling array of subjects, objects, people and places he has encountered along the way.<ul><li>Albert Watson (Scottish).</li><li>Edited by Reuel Golden (British).</li><li>Köln:&nbsp;Taschen,&nbsp;2017.</li><li>408 pages.</li><li>Hardcover with faux chimpanzee fur fitting.</li><li>Art Edition no. 151–200, edition of 50.</li><li>Signed by Watson.</li><li>Accompanied by signed print&nbsp;Kate Moss, Marrakech, 1993, printed on archival paper by Watson in his studio.</li><li>Presented in&nbsp;a clamshell box.</li></ul> One of the most important names in photography, Albert Watson has created powerful and alluring pictures that blur the lines between fine art and commercial work.&nbsp;&nbsp;Born in Edinburgh and blind in one eye, Watson studied graphic design, film, television and photography before moving to Los Angeles in 1970, where he continued photography as a hobby. A chance liaison with an art director introduced his work to Max Factor, where he booked his first job, and the fashion world soon took notice.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some of Watson’s most recognizable images include the 1973 Christmas issue of&nbsp;Harper’s Bazaar&nbsp;featuring Alfred Hitchcock holding up a plucked goose, and the black and white portrait of Steve Jobs which was used for the autobiography and memorial. Other images have ranged from shots of Kate Moss to Keith Richards, President Clinton to Queen Elizabeth II, who honored him with an OBE in 2015. Watson’s work has appeared on over 100 covers of&nbsp;Vogue, as well as&nbsp;Rolling Stone&nbsp;and&nbsp;TIME&nbsp;magazine, in addition to Hollywood posters for films such as&nbsp;Kill Bill&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Da Vinci Code. The Photo District News considers Albert Watson one of the most influential photographers in the history of the profession.&nbsp;

Kaos: Art Edition

Limited edition book with signed print - KAOS&nbsp;presents a&nbsp;kaleidoscopic overview of Watson’s career&nbsp;to date, and the dazzling array of subjects, objects, people and places he has encountered along the way.<ul><li>Albert Watson (Scottish).</li><li>Edited by Reuel Golden (British).</li><li>Köln:&nbsp;Taschen,&nbsp;2017.</li><li>408 pages.</li><li>Hardcover with faux chimpanzee fur fitting.</li><li>Art Edition no. 101–150, edition of 50.</li><li>Signed by Watson.</li><li>Accompanied by signed print&nbsp;Breaunna, Las Vegas, 2001, printed on archival paper by Watson in his studio.</li><li>Presented in&nbsp;a clamshell box.</li></ul> One of the most important names in photography, Albert Watson has created powerful and alluring pictures that blur the lines between fine art and commercial work.&nbsp;&nbsp;Born in Edinburgh and blind in one eye, Watson studied graphic design, film, television and photography before moving to Los Angeles in 1970, where he continued photography as a hobby. A chance liaison with an art director introduced his work to Max Factor, where he booked his first job, and the fashion world soon took notice.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some of Watson’s most recognizable images include the 1973 Christmas issue of&nbsp;Harper’s Bazaar&nbsp;featuring Alfred Hitchcock holding up a plucked goose, and the black and white portrait of Steve Jobs which was used for the autobiography and memorial. Other images have ranged from shots of Kate Moss to Keith Richards, President Clinton to Queen Elizabeth II, who honored him with an OBE in 2015. Watson’s work has appeared on over 100 covers of&nbsp;Vogue, as well as&nbsp;Rolling Stone&nbsp;and&nbsp;TIME&nbsp;magazine, in addition to Hollywood posters for films such as&nbsp;Kill Bill&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Da Vinci Code. The Photo District News considers Albert Watson one of the most influential photographers in the history of the profession.&nbsp;

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