Women photographers\u2014you can\u2019t live with them and you can\u2019t live without them. There are plenty of female practitioners, both past and present, but they still form a minority, making this catalog feasible (one on men photographers would just be too big). Women photographers first appeared in increasing numbers starting around the turn of the twentieth century, participating significantly in the movement of pictorial photography. My last catalog was on Pictorialism and included books by many female workers. Thus, I have not included them again in this one, so please refer to that catalog or my website for books on women pictorialists. Note that I have a small group of original photographs by women and list some of them herein. But, please let me know if you are interested in gelatin silver prints by Berenice Abbott, Ruth Bernhard, Margaret Bourke-White, Eleanor Parke Custis, or Barbara Morgan.<\/p>\n
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This thick handbook was probably used as a high-school and college textbook. Abbott covers equipment, technique, composition, documentary work, and other topics. About half of the reproductions are by her, including the frontispiece of her now well-known night view of New York. Other photographers represented include Ansel Adams, Eugene Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Lewis Hine. Endpapers glue stained (as is normal), dustjacket worn. $35<\/p>\n
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This is one of two books authored by Valens for children using scientific photographs made by Abbott. While the title page features an image of a boy\u2019s running feet, Abbott\u2019s best pictures are those she made in her studio of moving objects such as balls as multiple exposures. Previous owner\u2019s written name and wet stamp on both the front free endpaper and cloth cover. Dustjacket torn and wrinkled. $150<\/p>\n
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2 softcovers, 11 \u00be x 8 \u00bd inches each, in slipcase with label.<\/p>\n
The first volume features a selection of images and essays edited with an introduction by Julia Van Haaften and was published by the New York Public Library in 1989. It has 96 pages and 49 halftone illustrations of portraits, New York City, science studies, and American scenes. The second, with a matching design, has essays by Naohito Okude and Michiko Kasahara (text in both Japanese and English) and was published by the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 1990. The 14 reproductions are after prints in the museum\u2019s collection. While the New York Public Library catalog is common in the U.S., this boxed set is not. Near fine condition. $100<\/p>\n
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\u201cBerenice Abbott, 93 Dies; Her Camera Captured New York in Transition,\u201d New York Times<\/em>, December 11, 1991 (on original newsprint). Half-page obituary by Charles Hagen, which includes reproductions of three of her images.<\/p>\n \u201cBerenice Abbott,\u201d (London) Times<\/em>, December 14, 1991 (on original newsprint). Obituary that includes a portrait of Abbott.<\/p>\n Prospectus for Berenice Abbott: American Photographer<\/em> by Hank O\u2019Neal, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985. Half of brochure, with other half devoted to a book by Philippe Halsman.<\/p>\n A Berenice Abbott Photograph Can Grace Your Home<\/em>, brochure for ordering one of four original Abbott photographs, signed and numbered, which was accompanied by Hank O\u2019Neal\u2019s book Berenice Abbott: American Photographer <\/em>(see above). Limited to 400 sets, and offered by Artnews Books, New York, c. 1985.<\/p>\n Berenice Abbott: Vintage Photographs of New York from the 1930s<\/em>, Winchester, Massachusetts: Lee Gallery, 1999. Brochure, 11 x 8 \u00bd inches, 6 panels, 15 halftone illustrations.<\/p>\n Group of five: $35<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alpern\u2019s defining series of grainy pictures made looking into a bathroom window of a sex club in New York\u2019s financial district, in which people urinate, take drugs, have sex, and count money. A fabulous voyeuristic study. Laid in are an announcement for the book and Alpern\u2019s business card, plus this copy is signed by her (what more could you ask for?) One corner lightly bumped in mildly rumpled dustjacket. $150<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Shows the renowned humanitarian in both French Equatorial and his homeland of Alsace, France. Schweitzer is pictured playing music and with patients, villagers, animals, and family members. Text and captions by Eugene Exman and editing, layout, and typography by fellow photographer Barbara Morgan. Anderson spent four years on this project and was also a filmmaker. Laid in is the New York Times<\/em> obituary (on original newsprint) of Schweitzer\u2019s daughter, Rhena, who died in 2009, with an image of her and her father by Anderson. Price-clipped dustjacket is rubbed, torn, and lightly edgeworn. $25<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This \u201cSpecial Edition for The Museum of Modern Art\u201d is the first printing, which includes the image \u201cTwo girls in identical raincoats, Central Park, N.Y.C,\u201d replaced in later printings by another picture. The book is one of the most important twentieth-century monographs on a photographer and Aperture has kept it in print nearly continuously over the last forty years. Edited and designed by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel, it is an understated masterpiece. It features fifteen pages of quotations by Arbus and virtually all of her iconic square-format images of the unusual individuals she sought out and encountered on the street, including the highly-recognizable pair of twin girls on the cover. The cover has indentations, is rubbed, and lightly edgeworn. $250<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Text by Arbus and the essay \u201cThe Magazine Years, 1960-1971\u201d by curator Thomas W. Southall. The book covers Arbus\u2019s lesser-known commercial photographs, commissioned by magazines such as Esquire<\/em>, Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/em>, and the Sunday Times Magazine<\/em> of London. In addition to reproductions of magazine pages that featured her work, it also has a bibliography of her known contributions. Mint condition, in shrink wrap. $75<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This little-known exhibition catalog reproduces ten of Arbus\u2019s pictures, among them \u201cA young Brooklyn family going for a Sunday outing,\u201d and \u201cPuerto Rican woman with a beauty mark.\u201d Each is accompanied by brief general comments by the photographer about her thoughts and process. Also included are listings of her principal exhibitions and publications and the nearly one-hundred photographs in the show. Bilingual text in Spanish and English. Fine condition. $75<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reproduces a single body of work by Arbus, made 1969-71, during the last years of her life. Here, she turned her camera on residents of homes for the mentally challenged, primarily young women and often in Halloween costume. According to the New York Times Book Review<\/em>, \u201cTheir participation in Arbus\u2019s theater of the human grotesque is simultaneously emotionally touching and ethically disturbing, which gives this long-awaited, elegantly designed book a relevance Arbus herself could not have imagined.\u201d Includes an afterward by Doon Arbus, the photographer\u2019s daughter. Mint condition, in shrink wrap. $75<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The entire front of the record sleeve reproduces Arbus\u2019s 1967 image \u201cPatriotic young man with a flag, N.Y.C.\u201d As was common among punk bands, Hellnation undoubtedly used the image without permission, as the Arbus estate is very controlling and the photographer is not credited. This Kentucky trio called itself \u201ckings of the motherfuckin\u2019 thrash,\u201d and, indeed, the record comprises nearly thirty short, fast, and furious songs that are nearly indistinguishable from one another. Mint condition, in shrink wrap. $25<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The front cover features Arbus\u2019s image of the boy with a toy hand grenade, a detail of which is also on the label and back cover. Though Arbus is credited, the picture was certainly used without her permission (like the LP above). Light wrinkle to cover. $10<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This intriguing item features one long shelf with many books from Arbus\u2019s library, some face out and others revealing only their spines. The captions below identify such titles as The Family of Man<\/em>, books by Eugene Atget, Bill Brandt, Walker Evans, and works of fiction, literature, and other genres. Accompanied by an announcement for the book. Mint, in shrink wrap. $75<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n This little volume is heavily illustrated with many of Arbus\u2019s known images. The short text and chronology are in Chinese. This is undoubtedly a pirated book, as the Chinese are prone to produce, issued without the approval of the strict Arbus estate. Thus, it is a desirable item for the Arbus completist. Tiny edgewear. $35<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Box of Ten Photographs<\/em>, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1973. Postcard announcement for a show of the museum\u2019s portfolio, bought shortly after Arbus\u2019s death in 1971 and one of the earliest to enter an institutional collection.<\/p>\n A Box of Ten Photographs<\/em>, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1973. Brochure for the above exhibition, with a statement by curator Carroll T. Hartwell, who signed this copy.<\/p>\n A Box of Ten Photographs<\/em>, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1973. Member\u2019s January calendar with information on the above show.<\/p>\n Set of 3: $25<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cFive Photographs by Diane Arbus,\u201d cover, 5 photographs, and text by Arbus, Artforum<\/em>, May 1971. Published a few months before her suicide.<\/p>\n \u201cArbus Reconsidered,\u201d cover article by Arthur Lubow. Features seven never-before-published images by her, including a double self-portrait with her infant daughter, Doon, and the contact sheet of the boy with a toy hand grenade.<\/p>\n The pair: $35<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cDiane Arbus: Her Vision, Life, and Death,\u201d by Patricia Bosworth, New York Times Magazine<\/em>, May 13, 1984. Published about the time Bosworth\u2019s biography of Arbus was issued.<\/p>\n \u201cDiane Arbus\u2019s Family Values,\u201d by Richard B. Woodward, New York Times<\/em>, October 5, 2003. Review of the exhibition \u201cFamily Albums\u201d at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Profound Vision of Diane Arbus: Flaws in Beauty, Beauty in Flaws,\u201d by Michael Kimmelman, New York Times<\/em>, March 11, 2005. A review of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s show \u201cDiane Arbus Revelations.\u201d<\/p>\n Set of 3: $15<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is the story of a Navaho trader and his children. The reproductions, after Armer\u2019s photographs, show the Native American kids in activities such as tending livestock, riding horses, weaving, and playing. It is one of Armer\u2019s books of juvenile fiction, some of which won national awards. Armer (1874-1963) was a portrait and pictorial photographer based in San Francisco. Cloth rubbed and lightly worn in a few places. $25<\/p>\n <\/p>\n While she includes some city and rural scenes, Arnold focuses on the American people throughout the country. She pictures children, musicians, athletes, prisoners, Native Americans, educators, politicians, and many other generic types. Laid in is the New York Times<\/em> obituary for Arnold (on original newsprint), who died in 2012 at 99. One corner bumped and dustjacket lightly browned. $35<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Arnold, a major Magnum photographer, turns her camera on the people of Great Britain, her adopted country, during the 1960s and seventies. She provides her own text and pictures both common folk, such as a gunsmith and a butler, and the famous. Among the known faces are Queen Elizabeth, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Burton, and Margaret Thatcher. Laid in is the New York Times<\/em> obituary for Arnold, January 6, 2012, on original newsprint. Near fine condition, in rubbed dustjacket. $25<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The story of a fascinating woman and her long diversified career, from 1900 to her death in 1942. Covers her work as an itinerant photographer, her time in Buffalo and New York, having children, her poetry, travels, and final days in California. Her pictures were seen in many regional newspapers and national magazines such as Vogue<\/em>, Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/em>, and Ladies\u2019 Home Journal<\/em>. Near fine except for fold and two small tears to back of dustjacket. $35<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This little monograph was the first one on Ben-Yusuf, a portrait and pictorial photographer working around 1900. She was written about by critic Sadakichi Hartmann and associated with Alfred Stieglitz, who included three halftones by her in his quarterly Camera Notes<\/em>. Born in England, Ben-Yusuf (1869-1933) was best known for her figure studies. Fine condition. $10<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This tribute to San Francisco\u2019s cable cars features bits of text by Van, a young cable car grip man, and Bernard\u2019s documentary work on the subject. The author, whose full name was Melvin Van Peebles, went on to success as a black film actor and director. The title of the book came from his lines, \u201cA cable car is a big heart with people for blood. The people pump on and off.\u201d Bernhard shot the cable cars from both the inside and out, and included Melvin in a few of her pictures. Bottom of spine bumped and indentations to cover, dustjacket lightly worn with a few tears. $45<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As the title states, fifty nudes by one of the female masters of the genre. Features all of Bernhard\u2019s best-known ones, dating 1934-1976. Includes an introduction by the photographer and commentary by writer\/photographer Margaretta Mitchell. This copy signed by both Mitchell and Bernhard. Near fine condition. $150<\/p>\n Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. Comprises a good selection of Bernhard\u2019s still lifes and nudes, including some little-known images, like a 1929 portrait of a woman. Features text by Peter C. Bunnell and Williams, who begins, \u201cRuth Bernhard is a Renaissance woman. She is a timeless artist who lives by principle, curiosity, love, and discovery. She has been an influence in defining my gallery, sharpening my focus, and softening my life\u2014all without advice.\u201d Near fine condition. $150<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Two Portfolios<\/em>, prospectus for \u201cThe Eternal Body\u201d and \u201cThe Gift of the Commonplace,\u201d c. 1976. Folder, 8 \u00bd x 11 inches, 3 halftone illustrations. Each portfolio contained ten gelatin silver prints and cost $1,000.<\/p>\n Printed form letter, dated November 1, 1982, announcing that she would no longer be represented by Collected Visions and would begin selling her own work. Signed, in ink, by Bernhard.<\/p>\n Card reproducing her image \u201cSkull and Rosary\u201d signed twice by Bernhard, in mailed envelope, 1993.<\/p>\n Ruth Bernhard<\/em>, San Francisco: Vision Editions, 1993. Folder, 7 x 4 \u00be inches, 11 loose cards, 10 halftone illustrations. This portfolio included ten platinum\/palladium prints of nudes, featuring such popular pictures as \u201cIn the Box\u201d and \u201cClassic Torso.\u201d The card with information about the portfolio is signed in ink by Bernhard.<\/p>\n Gift of the Commonplace<\/em>, San Francisco: Vision Editions, 1994. Accordion-style brochure, 6 x 4 \u00bc inches, 12 panels, 10 halftone illustrations. This portfolio of ten platinum\/palladium prints comprises still lifes like \u201cTeapot\u201d and \u201cTwo Leaves.\u201d This copy signed in ink by Bernhard.<\/p>\n \u201cRuth Bernhard, Photographer, Dies at 101,\u201d obituary. New York Times<\/em>, December 21, 2006 (on original newsprint). Reproduces her 1952 image \u201cClassic Torso with Hands.\u201d<\/p>\n A very nice group of six, most of them signed: $50<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This catalog celebrated Bernhard\u2019s ninetieth birthday and features many of her well-known still lifes, such a \u201cLifesavers\u201d and \u201cCreation.\u201d Introduction by fellow photographer Michael Kenna. This copy boldly signed by Bernard on the half-title page. Near fine condition, with lightly rubbed covers. $100<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A very charming children\u2019s book about Jo Anne and her friend Marshall, which, according to the flap, was \u201cacclaimed by all as the most beautiful photograph book they have seen.\u201d In an upper middle-class environment, the well-dressed children play with toys, pick daisies in a field, and go to the beach. Overall, a nice, sunlit period piece. Near fine condition, in a full-bleed image dustjacket with tiny edgewear and a few missing pieces. $125<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Features Bohm\u2019s images, from the 1950s and sixties, of people on the street, in the United States, Italy, Israel, Spain, Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Introduction by Roland Penrose. Faint stains to titled page, tiny cloth edgewear, in chipped dustjacket. $35<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is not a pretty book and nearly went unpublished. Bonney pictures the \u201cunwanted\u201d children of World War II, orphaned, poor, dirty, hungry, and otherwise disenfranchised. The reproductions bleed off the right-hand pages and are starkly visualized. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Bonney (1894-1978) was a devoted war photographer and correspondent who published other related books. Wear to edges, in dustjacket that is worn, torn, and chipped. $75<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is Bourke-White\u2019s first and most significant book, produced when she was only twenty-five years old. She both wrote the text and provided the images, primarily of male and female workers and the dynamic architecture of Soviet industry. The dustjacket quotes her as saying, \u201cThings are happening in Russia, and happening with staggering speed. I could not afford to miss any of it. I wanted to make the pictures of this astonishing development, because, whatever the outcome, whether success or failure, the plan is so gigantic, so unprecedented in all history, that I felt that these photographic records might have some historical value. I saw the five-year plan as a great scenic drama being unrolled before the eyes of the world.\u201d Two pages stained from laid in newsprint article titled \u201cRussians See Hope in a Change of Policy.\u201d The cloth is particularly bright, due to the presence of the rare dustjacket, which is worn and missing pieces. $2,500<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This copy is inscribed to an individual, \u201cin remembrance of one of my [illegible] photographing days in the open iron mines.\u201d This probably refers to Bourke-White\u2019s 1936 visit to the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota. Pasted onto a preliminary blank page is a portrait of the photographer, cut from the original dustjacket. Front hinge separating, covers lightly browned, with faint ring mark. $2,500<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The \u201cbiography of a business,\u201d namely the Commercial Solvents Corporation. This Indiana company initially converted Midwestern grains into solvents and subsequently pioneered the development of acetone and butanol. The book covers fermenters, methanol, alcohol, dry ice, and other chemicals. Bourke-White is credited on the front of the dustjacket, but nowhere else in the book. Printed in high-quality gravure, her pictures are visually dynamic and rich in tonalities, sometimes spreading across two pages. The cloth sports a nice modernist design of a factory printed in silver ink. Laid into this copy is a business card for a regional manager of Commercial Solvents. Fine condition, in a lightly chipped, wrinkled, and torn dustjacket. $45<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bourke-White\u2019s first-person written and visual account of the Russian people under siege by the Germans at the beginning of World War II. Includes her extended captions to the pictures. Chipped dustjacket is laminated. $45<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bourke-White\u2019s insider text and pictures of Germany at the end of World War II. She photographed individuals, concentration camps, bombed-out cities, children, and other remnants\u2014human and physical\u2014of Hitler\u2019s horror. Previous owner\u2019s name and date written in, dustjacket wrinkled and chipped. $45<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Accompanying her text are recently made photographs of India\u2019s princes, child laborers, impoverished factory workers, farmers, priests, revolutionaries, and Mahatma Gandhi, both alive and at his funeral pyre. Dustjacket spine sunned, with small tears and wear. $45<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This book documents what at the time was the largest religious order in America, with text by Jesuit Father LaFarge. It and Bourke-White\u2019s images (made on assignment for Life<\/em>) cover Jesuit training, theory of education, apostleships, missions, and other activities. Previous owner\u2019s address written in, dustjacket lightly rubbed and torn. $35<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9 \u00bd x 6 \u00bd inches, 384 pages, halftone illustrations, dustjacket. Stated first printing.<\/p>\n The photographer\u2019s autobiography, covering most of her life. \u201cFor more than thirty years, Margaret Bourke-White has made photographic history\u2014as the first photographer to see the artistic and storytelling possibilities in American industry, as the first to write social criticism with a lens, and as the most distinguished and venturesome foreign correspondent-with-a-camera to report wars, politics and social and political revolution on three continents. In the world of pictures, of magazines, of books, she won fame and fortune.\u201d She candidly discusses her battle with Parkinson\u2019s disease, of which she died less than a decade later. Price-clipped dustjacket wrinkled and chipped. $25<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Published only a year after her death in 1971, this catalog accompanied one of the first museum retrospectives on Bourke-White, who attended Cornell. Art history professor Brown covers her life, love of machines and people, and her pictures in both war and peace. Includes reprints of two articles by Bourke-White from the 1930s. Mylar dustjacket rubbed, torn, taped, and missing a few pieces. $35<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A richly illustrated biography based on extensive new research and incorporating excerpts from her books and previously unpublished writing that vividly recall the momentous and poignant experiences of her remarkable career. Preface by fellow Life <\/em>photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Near fine condition, with one short tear to dustjacket. $45<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A dealer\u2019s catalog picturing work dating from the 1920s to forties on such topics as gardens, steel mills, Moscow\u2019s Kremlin, and children. Introduction by Terrence Heath. Laid into this copy is a sheet of Corkin Gallery letterhead \u201cwith my compliments.\u201d Near fine condition. $25<\/p>\n <\/p>\n During the late 1920s and thirties Madeline Brandeis wrote and illustrated approximately twenty children\u2019s books in her series, \u201cThe Children of All Lands,\u201d about subjects largely in Europe. In each, she described and photographed the everyday life of a single child and his or her friends and family members. Her goal was to educate American children about their counterparts across the Atlantic, in simple prose and accessible images. It seems that these books were printed in large numbers and were popular. According to her obituary in the New York Times<\/em> (June 29, 1937), Brandies died at the young age of 39, from injuries suffered in an automobile accident. The series was then continued by another author.<\/p>\n These hardcover books have cloth spines, printed paper over boards and dustjackets. They were published by Grosset and Dunlap (New York), measure about 8 \u00be x 7 inches, run about 200 pages, and include about 40 halftone illustrations. They often have an inscription and lightly worn edges and dustjackets.<\/p>\n The Little Indian Weaver<\/em>, 1928.<\/p>\n The Little Swiss Wood Carver<\/em>, 1929.<\/p>\n Little Jeanne of France<\/em>, 1929.<\/p>\n The Wee Scotch Piper<\/em>, 1929.<\/p>\n Little Anne of Canada<\/em>, 1931.<\/p>\n The Little Mexican Donkey Boy<\/em>, 1931.<\/p>\n Little Tony of Italy<\/em>, 1934.<\/p>\n Carmen of the Golden Coast<\/em>, 1935.<\/p>\n Little Rose of the Mesa<\/em>, 1935.<\/p>\n The Little Spanish Dancer<\/em>, 1936.<\/p>\n Little John of New England<\/em>, 1936.<\/p>\n Little Pepito of Central America<\/em>, 1941, by Gladys Shaw Erskine.<\/p>\n Set of twelve: $95<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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