Evans Lost Work

Sontag, Susan: On Photography, NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1977
ISBN: 0-374-22626-1 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By Jacqueline Schuman

First printing of Sontag's seminal work. One of the 20th-century's definitive photography texts. x, 212pp. Gray cloth, silver gilt spine lettering, gray endpapers. Dust jacket price 7.95. Signed by Sontag to half-title page. Book and dust jacket appear in fine, unread condition [almost imperceptible 4mm closed tear to rear panel bottom edge]. No remainder markings. "Susan Sontag was an American literary theorist, novelist, filmmaker, and political activist. Sontag's literary career began and ended with works of fiction [but] it was as an essayist...that Sontag gained early and enduring fame and notoriety. Sontag wrote frequently about the intersection of high and low art." - wikipedia. "The essays in Susan Sontag's controversial collection were originally published in the New York Review of Books. They deal with the work of individual photographers, Atget, Sander, Evans, Frank, and Arbus, to name just a few, as well as with larger historical and philosophical issues regarding photography." Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism (1977), this is "a brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking of the world and ourselves over the lost 140 years." - Washington Post Book World. "Every page of 'On Photography' raises important and exciting questions about its subject and raises them in the best way." - The New York Times Book Review. "A book of great importance and originality . . . All future discussion or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies are now bound to begin with her book." - John Berger. "Not many photographs are worth a thousand of [Susan Sontag's] words." - Robert Hughes, Time. "After Sontag, photography must be written about not only as a force in the arts, but as one that is increasingly powerful in the nature and destiny of our global society." - Newsweek. "'On Photography' is to my mind the most original and illuminating study of the subject." - Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Roma, Thomas (Photographer); Mailer, Norman & Coles, Robert (Contributors). ENDURING JUSTICE: PHOTOGRAPHS BY THOMAS ROMA Limited Edition With Signed Original Silver-Gelatin Print. New York City, NY: PowerHouse Books, 2001.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 180 pages. As New in As New Dust Jacket. Landmark collection of photographs. One of the greatest photography books of the new century. Limited Edition of 80 numbered and signed copies. A handsome production by Thomas Roma and Marvin Hoshino: Oversize-volume format. Deep blue silk cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Thomas Roma. Foreword by the great American novelist Norman Mailer, who has famously fought for prisoners' rights throughout his activist life. Introduction by Robert Coles, one of the finest living child psychiatrists, the first psychiatrist to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the United States Government bestows on individuals for their outstanding achievement. 8 X 10 inch original silver-gelatin print encased in its own glassine sleeve and laid into the book. Matching slipcase with metallic-silver titles on one side. Printed on thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the very highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents the American photographer's finest collection, austere and unforgettable photographs of mostly very young men and women accused of committing crimes and awaiting trial. Some of them are shown with their loved ones and family members. All of the accused were awaiting trial at the Brooklyn Criminal Court, where Thomas Roma patiently waited for fourteen months, between December 1997 and February 1999, to take his pictures. Although some of the subjects were aware that they were being photographed, most are snapshots, and those that are portraits were not staged. Most of the subjects are not looking directly at the camera, are looking away or their heads are bowed, none of which is surprising because, whether one is guilty or not, to be accused is to be shamed. The individual "loses face", and these quietly beautiful photographs show us exactly what a person who has lost face looks like. The collection is reminiscent of (and clearly influenced by) Walker Evans' seminal classic, "Many Are Called", rather than say, Danny Lyon's "Conversations With The Dead" or the more recent "One Big Self" by Deborah Luster. The last two books captured prison life, one pessimistic and dark, the other hopeful and compassionate. Roma's project is much more ambiguous. None of his subjects has been convicted of any crime yet. It is therefore deeply disturbing that one feels they have already internalized their shame, and have to endure what is unmistakably the inhumanity and "facelessness" of the justice system. No one condones crime, but at least on paper, no one should condone injustice, either. A photographer of some of the most stunning landscape and portrait work of his generation ("Sunset Park" and "Higher Ground"), this collection, in its unsentimental simplicity, piercing gaze, and genuine humane-ness, is Thomas Roma's single finest body of work. "In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls" (Lenny Bruce). A "must-have" title for Thomas Roma collectors. <b><i> This copy is one of a Limited Edition, indicated as such on the original 8 X 10 silver-gelatin print that is prominently and beautifully numbered, dated, and signed in pencil on verso by the photogrpaher: "Thomas Roma (Limitation Number) 1998". This is the only copy of the Limited Edition available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. </b></i> 82 plates, I original print. One of the finest living American photographers. A flawless collectible copy. . ISBN 1576871029. Signed..

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Davis, Wade; Foreword by Andrew Weil. The Lost Amazon The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes, London, England Thames & Hudson Ltd 2004
0500285241

Paperback Edition: First Edition; First Printing Paperback with flaps. With over 124 illustrations. The Lost Amazon is the first major publication to examine Richard Evans Schultes's work through his photographs. Among his collection are images of the hallucinogenic mushrooms known to the Aztec as Flesh of the Gods, and whose identification sparked the psychedelic era: there are also photos from the heart of the rain forest, a mantle of green that once stretched across entire continents. Most importantly, there are portraits of many peoples never before photographed, lovingly and respectfully captured in moments that reflect his deep relationships with them. Book as new, in shrink wrap. Due to weight book will attract extra postage; B&W Photographs; 28 cm; 176 pages Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

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Evans, Richard Paul. The Locket. NY: Doubleday, (1998).
mourns her youth and her lost love. When Michael is falsely accused of abusing a resident, Esther gives him a locket as a keepsake of one person's missed opportunities and another's second chance.. After the death of his mother, Michael finds work at the Arcadia nursing home & befriends a reclusive elderly woman who.

Large print, VG in VG DJ.

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