Photography Books

Harry Callahan

A first edition, signed copy of Harry Callahan's Water's Edge.<ul><li>Harry Callahan (American).</li><li>With an introductory poem by A.R. Ammons.</li><li>Connecticut: Callaway Editions distributed by the Viking Press, 1980.</li><li>76 pages.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>With black-and-white photographs printed in duotone offset.</li><li>Includes original gelatin silver photograph (5 x 5 inches) mounted on rag paper, signed and numbered in pencil.</li><li>Number 30 of 50 signed copies in set II (of IV), each with a different gelatin silver photograph in an edition of 50 (200 copies in total with an additional 16 hors commerce).</li><li>With an afterword by Harry Callahan.</li><li>Bound in natural linen-covered boards, with cream endpapers, print laid in to the publisher's grey paper portfolio with title to front in blind, housed together in the publisher's quarter vellum over linen drop spine box with titles stamped in blind on spine.</li></ul> Callahan informally began his series of beach photographs in 1938 at Lake Hutton, where his wife's family had a cottage. But it wasn't until 1946, when he started teaching at the Chicago Institute of Design (The New Bauhaus), that he felt he had taken his first good pictures of the subject, taking photographs on the shore of Lake Michigan, just three blocks from his house. The series took shape when Callahan moved to New England to teach at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, in 1961. In his afterword, he writes: "I think that nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness—the point where you can't go any farther. I feel I have come close to that at various times with the Beach Series photographs. A determined single-mindedness and an insistent inner need has led me to that point. That is why I have always kept going back, and that is what still keeps me going today—keeps me alive?"

Water's Edge First Edition with Signed Photograph

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.

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

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

Hunt Slonem

Offers an exciting view into artist&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Hunt+Slonem&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hunt Slonem</a>’s fantastically decorated and meticulously restored homes, such as his two Southern mansions in Louisiana, named Albania and Lakeside.&nbsp;<ul><li>Hunt Slonem (American).</li><li>New York: Assouline, 2014.</li><li>Hardcover, 300 pages.</li><li>Vivid original photography reveals antiques, artworks and fabrics, including the artist’s eponymous collection for Lee Jofa, which is featured for the first time in this book, offering an exciting view into his unique world.</li></ul>

When Art Meets Design

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

Cor Jaring

A first edition, presentation copy of Cor Jaring's book of photographs showing the various subcultures, protests and happenings in Amsterdam during the 1960s, which has been inscribed to James Baldwin.<ul><li>Kor Jaring (Dutch).</li><li>Huizen: nvTritonpers, 1969.</li><li>126 pages.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Inscribed: "For James Baldwin, with great respect / Cor, Paris 1969."</li><li>Includes black-and-white photographs printed in offset.</li><li>Text in Dutch, German, French and English.</li><li>Bound in photo-illustrated paper-covered boards, with publisher's printed orange wraparound band.</li></ul> In 1948, James Baldwin, aged 24, left New York and moved to Paris. In the spring of 1984, during an interview for The Paris Review, Baldwin was asked why he had chosen to live in France, to which he replied: "It wasn't so much a matter of choosing France—it was a matter of getting out of America." Disillusioned with the prejudices he faced, Baldwin feared that he would not have survived should he have stayed and certainly could not sufficiently isolate himself to focus on writing. In New York, the eldest of nine children, he worked several jobs to provide for his family. Baldwin spent nine years living in Paris, returning to the United States in 1957 as the civil rights movement gained momentum. He returned to France in 1970, first to Paris, then settling in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.

Amsterdam First Edition Presentation Copy Inscribed to James Baldwin

Damien Hirst  | Ian Jeffrey

A first edition catalog of an important exhibition by a group of student artists at Goldsmiths College, later identified as the Young British Artists, organized and curated by provocateur Damien Hirst.<ul><li>Damien Hirst (English).</li><li>Ian Jeffrey (English).</li><li>Photography by Edward Woodman, with the exception of Sovereign and Untitled.</li><li>London:&nbsp;The Artists and Ian Jeffrey, 1988.</li><li>Unpaginated.</li><li>Illustrated with color and black and white plates.</li><li>Features artists Steven Adamson, Angela Bulloch, Mat Collishaw, Ian Davenport, Angus Fairhurst, Anya Gallaccio, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Lala Meredith-Vula, Stephen Park, Richard Patterson, Simon Patterson and Fiona Rae.</li><li>Presented in original printed bronze wrappers.</li></ul> In his essay "Platonic Tropics," Ian Jeffrey (then head of art history at Goldsmiths) circles and spins around the idea of a generational "collective imagination," what had become of it, and what it had come to in 1988: "Perhaps '88 works and makes in terms of difference, that it begins from an idea of polarity and of the complementary, and works towards totalization." Perhaps. Coherent or not, Freeze was important for what it was, what it did and what it represented. It was a DIY show organized outside the gallery system in a disused Port Authority building by largely middle-class art students with impressive corporate sponsorship—the retroactively mythic origin point of a movement and a highly successful machine for turning seeming outsiders into art world insiders.

Freeze

TASCHEN | Norman Mailer

Sensual, artistic and cerebral, this volume pairs Norman Mailer's classic book&nbsp;Marilyn&nbsp;with Bert Stern's&nbsp;provocative “last sitting” portfolio&nbsp;to trace the complexity and the allure of an incomparable screen siren.&nbsp;<ul><li>Norman Mailer (American, 1923-2007).</li><li>TASCHEN, 2011.</li><li>Combines the author’s masterful text with Stern’s penetrating images of the 36-year-old Marilyn.&nbsp;</li><li>Numbered and signed by Stern.</li><li>Edition of 1,712 (No. 251–1,962).</li><li>Hardcover in clamshell box, 278 pages.</li></ul>

Marilyn Monroe

Dominique Chivot

This book reveals that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=vatican&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the Vatican</a>&nbsp;is a tiny living city of many facets and follows the journeys of countless pilgrims and cardinals, tracing their footsteps beyond the plazas, basilicas, and museums to unlock the secrets of Vatican City.&nbsp;<ul><li>Dominique Chivot.</li><li>New York: Assouline, 2009.</li><li>Hardcover, 224 pages.</li><li>Chivot recounts papal history in great anecdotal detail, highlighting the legendary reigns of popes from St. Peter to John Paul II, and illuminating masterpieces of architecture, painting, and sculpture executed by artists such as Bernini, Michelangelo, and Raphael.</li></ul>

Vatican

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

Ed Ruscha

A signed first edition copy of Ed Ruscha's artist book A Few Palm Trees.<ul><li>Ed Ruscha (American).</li><li>Printed by G.R. Huttner Lithography.</li><li>California: Heavy Industry Publications, 1971.</li><li>Includes photographs of thirteen palm trees, with the location of each palm tree printed on the page opposite each photo.</li><li>Followed by approximately thirty blank pages.</li><li>From an edition of 3,900 copies.</li><li>Photolithographic artist book on white 80lb Vicksburg Vellum text paper.</li></ul>

A Few Palm Trees | Signed First Edition

This book reveals that <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=vatican&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the Vatican</a> is a tiny living city of many facets and follows the journeys of countless pilgrims and cardinals, tracing their footsteps beyond the plazas, basilicas, and museums to unlock the secrets of Vatican City.&nbsp;<ul><li>Dominique Chivot.</li><li>New York: Assouline, 2009.</li><li>Hardcover, 224 pages.</li><li>Chivot recounts papal history in great anecdotal detail, highlighting the legendary reigns of popes from St. Peter to John Paul II, and illuminating masterpieces of architecture, painting, and sculpture executed by artists such as Bernini, Michelangelo, and Raphael.</li></ul>

This book reveals that <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=vatican&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the Vatican</a> is a tiny living city of many facets and follows the journeys of countless pilgrims and cardinals, tracing their footsteps beyond the plazas, basilicas, and museums to unlock the secrets of Vatican City.&nbsp;<ul><li>Dominique Chivot (French).</li><li>New York: Assouline, 2009.</li><li>Hardcover, 224 pages.</li><li>Chivot recounts papal history in great anecdotal detail, highlighting the legendary reigns of popes from St. Peter to John Paul II, and illuminating masterpieces of architecture, painting, and sculpture executed by artists such as Bernini, Michelangelo, and Raphael.</li></ul>

Christo and Jeanne-Claude | TASCHEN

The third volume in <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Christo+and+Jeanne-Claude&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Christo and Jeanne-Claude</a>&nbsp;Collector’s Edition series celebrates&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The+Gates&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Gates</a>&nbsp;in New York City’s Central Park.<ul><li>Christo (Bulgarian, 1935-2020).</li><li>Jeanne-Claude (Moroccan, 1935-2009).</li><li>Wolfgang Volz (German, b. 1948).</li><li>Köln: Taschen, 2005.</li><li>Documents the entire project from conception to realization, featuring over&nbsp;100 drawings and collages, as well as&nbsp;more than 1,000 project photographs.</li><li>Signed and numbered by Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Wolfgang Volz.</li><li>Includes a 24 x24 cm piece of the original project fabric.</li><li>Edition of 5,000.</li><li>Hardcover.</li><li>968 pages.</li><li>Presented in slipcase.</li></ul> The couple best known for their stunning site-specific installations reimagined the world’s monuments, requiring decades of coordination with public officials and environmentalists while brainstorming technical solutions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon and Christo Javacheff were born on the same day in 1935, but in contrasting circumstances. While Jeanne-Claude grew up in Morocco, Christo studied art before fleeing Communist Bulgaria. The two met when Christo was commissioned to paint a portrait of Jeanne-Claude’s mother. While in Paris, they began to concept ephemeral environmental pieces such as stacking oil cans in an alley as a comment on the Berlin Wall (The Iron Curtain).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Moving to New York, they continued to plan their international installations, which would take years to get approval as well as figure out the technical requirements to wrap public buildings in swaths of fabric. Christo sold the sketches and studies of his previous work in order to fund their masterpieces such as&nbsp;The Pont Neuf Wrapped,&nbsp;The Gates&nbsp;in Central Park&nbsp;and&nbsp;Wrapped Reichstag. Claiming that they did the work for no other reason than joy itself, Christo + Jeanne-Claude’s visually stunning accomplishments had a beginning, middle and end, which now can only be experienced through books and documentaries detailing their artistry.&nbsp;

The Gates | With Piece of Fabric from the Original Project

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

Annie Leibovitz | TASCHEN

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Annie+Leibovitz&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Annie Leibovitz</a> Art Edition No. 1-1000 with <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Keith+Haring&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keith Haring</a> ChromaLuxe aluminum print with floating frame.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2: 1 book, 1 print.</li><li>Annie Leibovitz (American).</li><li>Köln: Taschen, 2023.</li><li>556 pages.</li><li>Print signed and numbered by Leibovitz.</li><li>Hardcover in slipcase.</li></ul>

Annie Leibovitz | Art Edition Number 1–1000, with Signed Print of Keith Haring Photograph

TASCHEN | David Bailey

This <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=SUMo&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SUMO</a>-sized retrospective celebrates&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=David+Bailey&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Bailey</a>, one of the world’s most influential photographers&nbsp;and the culmination of&nbsp;portraits from the 1950s to the 2010s: Discover some&nbsp;300 subjects&nbsp;as varied as Nelson Mandela, the Beatles, the Queen,&nbsp;Salvador Dalí, Bill Gates and Yves Saint Laurent.<ul><li>David Bailey (English).</li><li>Edited by Benedikt Taschen (German).</li><li>Francis Hodgson (English).</li><li>Bookstand designed by Marc Newson (Australian).</li><li>Köln:&nbsp;Taschen, 2019.</li><li>440 pages.</li><li>Hardcover.</li><li>Edition of 2,700.</li><li>Numbered and signed by Bailey.</li><li>Accompanied by bookstand&nbsp;and a set of four book jackets, featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Jean Shrimpton, Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol.</li></ul>

David Bailey | SUMO Edition

TASCHEN | Arnold Schwarzenegger

Capitello Edition of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Arnold+Schwarzenegger&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arnold</a>&nbsp;with companion volume, ChromaLuxe printed cover, and stand.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3: 2 volumes, 1 stand.</li><li>Arnold Schwarzenegger (Austrian-American).</li><li>Stand by Studio65 (Italian).</li><li>Köln:&nbsp;Taschen, 2023.</li><li>334 pages, 556 pages.</li><li>Limited edition of 400.</li><li>Numbered and signed book by Schwarzenegger.</li><li>Hardcover with ChromaLuxe aluminum print cover in slipcase.</li><li>Book stand in hand-finished soft polyurethane.</li></ul>

ARNOLD Capitello Edition | Signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger

Lotte Jacobi

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 the photobook by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Lotte+Jacobi&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lotte Jacobi</a>, with a signed photograph of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Albert+Einstein&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Albert Einstein</a> laid in.<ul><li>Lotte Jacobi (American).</li><li>Edited by Kelly Wise.</li><li>Danbury, New Hampshire: Addison House, 1978.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>187, [5] pages.</li><li>Black-and-white photographs by Lotte Jacobi, printed in gravure.</li><li>Number 86 of 125 copies signed and numbered by Jacobi on the half-title, with a gelatin silver photograph laid in.</li><li>Signed in pencil in lower right of image, small area of mirroring in lower left quadrant.</li><li>White cloth-covered boards, spine and front stamped in brown, publisher's cloth-covered dropback box.</li></ul> With Jacobi's signed portrait of Albert Einstein.&nbsp;Deluxe issue, with the often missing original photograph, 'Albert Einstein, Physicist, Princeton, NJ., 1938.' Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990) was responsible for some of the most striking and enduring photographic portraits of the twentieth century. Her style, characterized by experimentation with unusual perspectives, cropped heads, and high or low angles, places her work in line with the Neue Sachlichkiet (New Objectivity) school of German photography. She was the fourth generation of her family to take up photography, following an apprenticeship with her father, she took over the 'Jacobi Studio of Photography' in Berlin. Between 1927 and 1935, she photographed many prominent figures from the arts and sciences, including Bertolt Brecht, Peter Lorre, Käthe Kollwitz, and Kurt Weill. John Heartfield was a customer of the studio from 1929 – 1932, and Jacobi made photographs for Heartfield's montages and book covers. After 1933, Jacobi concealed her Jewish identity by working under various pseudonyms, and in 1935, she immigrated to New York City, where she re-established a studio and successfully resumed her career. In 1938, she was the first woman to photograph on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange; her picture of the deserted floor was one of many of published in the New York Herald Tribune. Despite efforts to retrieve her archive, much of Jacobi's early work was lost when she left Germany.

Lotte Jacobi Signed First Edition

Annie Leibovitz Art Edition No. 1-275 with David Byrne ChromaLuxe aluminum print with floating frame.<ul><li>Annie Leibovitz (American).</li><li>Köln: Taschen, 2023.</li><li>556 pages.</li><li>Signed and numbered print.</li><li>Hardcover in slipcase.</li></ul>

Annie Leibovitz Art Edition No. 1–275 David Byrne

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, Signed

Alfred Stieglitz

An <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> <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 America and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Alfred+Stieglitz&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alfred Stieglitz</a>.<ul><li>Alfred Stieglitz (American).</li><li>Edited by Waldo Frank, Lewis Mumford, Dorothy Norman, Paul Rosenfeld &amp; Harold Rugg.</li><li>Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran &amp; Company, 1934.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>[ii], x, 339, [1] pages.</li><li>64 pages of black and white plates.</li><li>Presentation copy with a lengthy inscription in black ink on the first page;.</li><li>Black topstain, plain endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles in silver and design stamped to spine in blind, Stieglitz's monogram in blind to upper board, dust jacket illustrated with photographs and reproductions of artworks, printed in black and silver, text in black and white.</li></ul> &nbsp;A presentation copy, inscribed to abstract realist painter De Hirsh Margules and his sister Annette, both active in Greenwich Village social circles: 'Why am I asked to ruin this / nice clean book? And why do I / acquiesce? And why will the / printer turn out spotty pages of / illustrations? And why / must I when seeing them feel / impelled to "retouch" them / &amp; or cover up the faults of / one not caring? Oh why oh / why? - In spite of why, I / think this Book a Book - / It is a Book - so a / rare event - in my life / &amp; all the lives of those / who may see the Book / whether they know it or not. / [?]. For Margules - / him &amp; her — / [signed] Stieglitz / Dec. 2 1934 / An American Place'. De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965) was born in Romania and arrived in New York City with his parents aged ten months. In 1929, he met Alfred Stieglitz, who quickly became one of his most trusted friends and advisors. Between 1936 and 1937, Margules established 'Another Place,' an exhibition space set up in his New York City apartment at 43 West 8th Street, which showed fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and other artists.

America and Alfred Stieglitz Inscribed First Edition

Alec Soth

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 Broken Manual by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Alec+Soth&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alec Soth</a>.<ul><li>Alec Soth [Lester B.Morrison] (American).</li><li>[Saint Paul, Minnesota] and (Göttingen), [Little Brown Mushroom] and Steidl, (2010).</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>First edition of 300 copies.</li><li>Signed and numbered in black ink on the lower cover.</li><li>Laid in color photograph signed and numbered on verso.</li><li>Color and black and white photographs.</li><li>Printed grey wrappers, cream cloth spine with title in black ink, housed in a hollowed out copy of The Nineteenth Century as issued, with a bi-fold leaflet and color photograph laid in to a pocket which is signed and numbered by Soth.</li></ul> Broken Manual was originally issued in an edition of 300 copies, each concealed within another hollowed-out book. Before being sold, all 300 copies were exhibited in an installation forming part of Soth's first US retrospective, 'From Here to There: Alec Soth's America' at the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (12 September 2010 - 2 January 2011). Following the success of his first two books, Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004) and Niagara (2006), Soth began to explore the idea of 'a fantasy of retreat'. He created Broken Manual over four years, between 2006 and 2010; the genesis of the series stems from his fascination with the life of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk who, before he died in 1968, lived for almost three decades at the remote Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. This interest led to further investigations into the places where people go to escape civilization and those that go there to escape, including monks, survivalists, hermits, and runaways. Soth's alter ego, Lester B. Morrison, was borne out of this research and under this name, Soth created an underground instruction manual of sorts for those wishing to retreat from society and escape their lives. It includes suggestions such as '1. Change your appearance (beard)... 8. Create your own language... 7. Avoid women... 16. Get a dog.' Soth then travelled the country, taking photographs that illustrated the ideas found in the manual. Soth explains in Interview magazine how the project had its origin in a commission by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, to make work in the American South: 'I was working in Atlanta and wasn't interested in Atlanta, and then I remembered the Olympic bomber, Eric Rudolph. I poked around where he had been living and hiding out while the FBI was looking for him. I wasn't so interested in the politics of it, it was more the fantasy of the man on the run, something I have always been attracted, the fugitive, that kind of story... it got me thinking about how I wanted to get at that desire to run away, without it being a documentary essay on a specific ideology, outside of the documentary tradition.'

Broken Manual Signed First Edition

Andy Warhol

<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 Andy Warhol's Exposures, <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=Warhol&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Warhol</a> on the front and inscribed by him to curator Robert Rosenblum on half-title.<ul><li>Andy Warhol (American).</li><li>New York: Andy Warhol Books / Grosset &amp; Dunlap, 1979.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Black and white photographs by Warhol.</li><li>Printed endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles to spine in silver, pictorial dust-wrapper.</li></ul> Presentation copy inscribed to curator norman rosenblum.&nbsp; Andy Warhol's Exposures features his photographs and profiles of many of his famous friends and fellow '70s scenesters being famous, including Liza Minnelli, Steve Rubell, Bianca Jagger, Halston, André Leon Talley, and Diana Vreeland. This copy inscribed: 'to robert rosenbloom [Rosenblum] / love / Andy / [with a drawing of a heart].' Robert Rosenblum (1927–2006) was an art historian, curator, and professor based primarily in New York City. He is renowned for his innovative curatorial approaches, including the integration of non-canonical artworks and a deliberate move away from traditional chronological displays.

Andy Warhol's Exposures First Signed Edition

Melanie Grant | Phaidon

The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/jewelry?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jewelry</a>&nbsp;Book, a stunning&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/art-&amp;-design" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">photographic</a>&nbsp;collection of 300 of jewelry’s greatest names, spanning over 200 years.<ul><li>Edited by Melanie Grant (English).</li><li>New York: Phaidon, 2025.</li><li>Hardcover.</li><li>Cover with a luxe, faceted deboss on a metallic material to evoke a dazzling gemstone.</li></ul> The Jewelry Book&nbsp;is a deep dive into the designers, creative houses, artists, collectors, and style icons from around the world who have produced and inspired the most memorable designs in jewelry. Edited by Melanie Grant, author of&nbsp;Coveted: Art and Innovation in High Jewelry, in collaboration with an international panel of experts, this book spans more than two centuries of rich history, showcasing 300 of the industry’s greatest contributors in one lavish, collectible volume. The Jewelry Book&nbsp;is arranged in A to Z order, placing early stars and iconic brands alongside today’s most innovative designers and creatives. Entries ranging from Boucheron, Buccellati, Cartier, René Lalique, Elsa Peretti, Hemmerle, Tiffany &amp; Co and Van Cleef &amp; Arpels to Iris Apfel, Wallace Chan, Loulou de la Falaise, Olivier Rousteing, James de Givenchy, and Elizabeth Taylor reveal the jewelry world’s inextricable connection to fashion, art, and culture. Filled with inspirational images, the book is designed as a gorgeous object in its own right, with a cover featuring a luxe, faceted deboss on a metallic material to evoke a dazzling gemstone. Melanie Grant&nbsp;is a luxury writer and curator based in London, specializing in the interplay between art, jewelry, and economics in society. With more than two decades as a journalist, she has worked at&nbsp;The Times, the&nbsp;Financial Times,&nbsp;Independent,&nbsp;Guardian, the BBC, and the&nbsp;Economist, where she spent sixteen years overseeing luxury content and photography for their&nbsp;1843 Magazine.

The Jewelry Book

TASCHEN | Michael Muller

A catalogue of adrenaline and awe, this Art Edition of&nbsp;Michael Muller’s epic shark photography&nbsp;is a tribute to the beauty, might and fragility of the ocean predator.<ul><li>Michael Muller (American).</li><li>Köln:&nbsp;Taschen, 2016.</li><li>334 pages</li><li>Hardcover.</li><li>Art Edition No. 1–100, edition of 100.</li><li>Numbered and signed by Muller.</li><li>Includes the signed print&nbsp;Tear You Apart&nbsp;(2009).</li><li>Presented with metal cage case.</li></ul>

Sharks: Art Edition

Edward Ruscha

A first edition of Ruscha's eleventh book, featuring one bespoke baby (his own) and many mass-produced commercial cakes.<ul><li>Edward Ruscha (American).</li><li>Photographs by Elizabeth Claman, Sid Felson, Jerry McMillan, Danna Ruscha and Ed Ruscha.</li><li>New York: Multiples, Inc., 1970.</li><li>52 pages.</li><li>Bound in the original robin's-egg blue wrappers with pink satin ribbon tie and green flocked lettering.&nbsp;</li></ul> Babycakes With Weights was originally issued by Goodman's imprint as part of the boxed portfolio set Artists and Photographs, with a catalog and works by 18 other contemporary artists (Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others). Despite the cover's uncharacteristic soft pastels and textures, the book's photographs are in black and white, as austere as frosted cakes ever are. The pictured baby, at a stated 15 lbs 8 oz, weighs double the largest cake shown, or approximately 70 Hostess cinnamon rolls.

Babycakes With Weights

Kishin Shinoyama

Kishin Shinoyama’s widely unseen portrait series of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, shot at Ono’s request for the cover of the couple’s 1980 album, Double Fantasy.<ul><li>Kishin Shinoyama (Japanese).</li><li>Köln: TASCHEN, 2014.</li><li>174 pages.</li><li>Hardcover.</li><li>Part of an Art Edition of 125 (No. 126–250).</li><li>Signed by Yoko Ono and Kishin Shinoyama.</li><li>Accompanied by an unframed pigment print on Hahnemühle PhotoRag paper, signed by Shinoyama.</li><li>Presented in a clothbound clamshell box.</li></ul> Renowned for his sensual, provocative images, Kishin Shinoyama is one of Japan’s most controversial and acclaimed artists, at once hailed by critics and charged for public indecency. His capacity for ease and intimacy is perhaps most poignantly expressed in his beautiful series of photographs of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, shot for the cover and promotion of the couple’s celebrated 1980 album, Double Fantasy, just three months before Lennon’s untimely death. Featuring many previously unseen images, the series resonates with a remarkable honesty, and immortalizes this iconic couple at a pivotal moment in their personal and creative relationship.

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