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the Americas


Dream Street<br>Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project

Dream Street
Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project

Paperback
28x24cm
176 pages
Publisher W. W. Norton & Co.; New Ed edition (26 Aug 2003)
ISBN:0 393 32512 1
An epic portrait of Pittsburgh by one of the 20th Century’s most influential photographers.

List price: £22.95
On offer: £16.00
Member price: £13.00


Public Relations<br>by Garry Winogrand

Public Relations
by Garry Winogrand

Introduction by Tod Papageorge
Clothbound, 11 x 8.5 in.
112 pgs / 74 duotone.
ISBN: 9780870706325
The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2004

In 1969 Winogrand was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph what he called "the effect of media on events." With his characteristic zeal, passion, spontaneity, and intensity, he photographed an array of public events including museum openings, press conferences, sports games, demonstrations, award ceremonies, a birthday party, and a moon shot...

Price: £16.00
Member price: £12.80


Peru<br>by Robert Frank

Peru
by Robert Frank

Book design Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl
48 pages, 39 tritone plates
25 cm x 20 cm
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket
STEIDL Robert Frank
ISBN: 978 3 86521 692 2
Publication date: April 2008

A few of these images are well-known in Frank’s oeuvre but previously the entire series had only ever been seen by a small number of people. This book presents for the first time the complete sequence of images, based on the original book Frank had conceived and realised under his direction. Peru is a work of major historical significance in both the artist’s history and the history of photography...

Price: £17.50
Member price: £14


Paris<br>by Robert Frank

Paris
by Robert Frank

108 pages, 80 tritone plates
20 cm x 24.5 cm
Clothbound flexible hardcover with dust jacket
Steidl
ISBN: 978-3-86521-524-6
Publication date: May 2008

Paris is the first time that the significant body of photographs which Robert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950s have been brought together in a single book...

Price: £25.00
Member price: £20


Zero Mostel Reads a  Book<br>by Robert Frank

Zero Mostel Reads a Book
by Robert Frank

Book design by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl
40 pages, 36 tritone plates
13.7 cm x 20.2 cm
Hardcover
STEIDL Robert Frank
ISBN: 978-3-86521-586-4

When Robert Frank had completed his first two films, he accepted a commission for a photo-book from the New York Times, which became Zero Mostel Reads a Book. In it Frank takes the comic actor Zero Mostel (1915–1977) for his subject, and depicts him in cartoonish dimensions–bemused, baffled and apoplectic, as he makes his way through an unidentified hardback volume...

Price: £14.00
Member price: £11.20


The Americans<br>by Robert Frank

The Americans
by Robert Frank

Introduction by Jack Kerouac
Book design by Robert Frank, Gerhard Steidl and Claas Möller
180 pages, 83 tritone plates
20.9 cm x 18.4 cm
Hardcover with a dust jacket
Steidl / National Gallery of Art
ISBN: 978-3-86521-584-0
Publication date: May 2008

This Steidl edition of The Americans celebrates the 50th anniversary of this landmark book and features two images printed from different negatives than the ones used in all other editions. The design of the book was overseen by Robert Frank.

Price: £35.00
Member price: £28


Elvis & Presley<br>by Robert Huber and Stephan Vanfleteren

Elvis & Presley
by Robert Huber and Stephan Vanfleteren

’’The King is Alive!’’...The journey of the photographers Robert Huber and Stephan Vanfleteren began in New York somewhere along 42nd street. It ended three weeks and eleven states later in Death Valley. Everything the two artists did during their journey, they did dressed as Elvis Presley, the King of Rock’n’Roll. The artists photographed each other, with Presley (Vanfleteren) in black and white, and Elvis (Huber) in color...

Hardcover: 98 pages
28.5 x 28.5 cm
ISBN-10: 3934923062
ISBN-13: 978-3934923065
Kruse Verlag 2001


List price: £39.00
On offer: £29.00
Member price: £27


The Power Book<br>by Jacqueline Hassink

The Power Book
by Jacqueline Hassink

The Power Book, the first survey of Hassink’s photography, takes the form of a travelogue – the best of her photographs from America, Europe, the Middle East and Japan are presented chronologically along with illuminating diary notes and sketches – and is published to accompany her major exhibition ‘The Power Show’...

Hardcover, 192 pages
13.5 x 10.75 inches, 343 x 270 mm
254 colour photographs
ISBN 10: 1-905712-07-3
ISBN 13: 978-1-905712-07-6
Chris Boot Books
Release: 15 November 2007
Available now from foto8.com!

List price: £30.00
On offer: £24.00


Alter Ego<br>by Robbie Cooper

Alter Ego
by Robbie Cooper

Introduction by Julian Dibbell, interviews and glossary by Tracy Spaight

Alter Ego explores the personal and social identities being shaped in the metaverse at the beginning of the 21st century. Portraits of online gamers and virtual-world participants from America, Asia and Europe are paired with images of their avatars, with profiles of real-world and virtual characters...

Hardcover (with lenticular double image)
160 pages, 140 colour photographs
305x145mm
ISBN 10:1-905712-02-2
Chris Boot Books


List price: £17.95
On offer: £14.40


RFK Funeral Train<br>by Paul Fusco<br>Softcover –Signed Copy

RFK Funeral Train
by Paul Fusco
Softcover –Signed Copy

The much sought after book of this classic set of photographs documenting the funeral train that transported Robert F Kennedy’s body from New York to Washington DC after his assassination in June 1968.

Softback, 280 x 180mm
ISBN 1-884167-05-5
128 pages, colour photographs throughout
Umbrage Editions 2001
Signed Copy

Price: £45.00


RFK Funeral Train<br>by Paul Fusco<br>Hardcover-Signed Copy

RFK Funeral Train
by Paul Fusco
Hardcover-Signed Copy

The much sought after book of this classic set of photographs documenting the funeral train that transported Robert F Kennedy’s body from New York to Washington DC after his assassination in June 1968.

Hardback, 280 x 180mm
ISBN 1-884167-05-5
128 pages, colour photographs throughout
Umbrage Editions 2001
Signed Copy

Price: £85.00


Lost & Found in America<br>

Lost & Found in America

These are simple photographs – predominantly from early ‘instamatic’ cameras – yet their stories are complex. They present ordinary life – set against the background of the extraordinary year of 1968.

Selected from the Lenny Gottlieb collection
Hardback, 160pp
150 colour photographs,170 x 240mm
ISBN:1-904587-11-9
Dewi Lewis Publishing


Price: £15.99
Member price: £12.80


Havana<br>by Burt Glinn

Havana
by Burt Glinn

‘It is an astonishing experience to look at Burt Glinn’s on-the-spot photographs of Fidel Castro’s 1959 triumphal march into Havana...’

Hardcover, 217mm x 298mm
128 pages, 83 duotone photographs
ISBN: 1-899235-19-1
Dewi Lewis Publishing


Price: £25.00
Member price: £20


Suspended Time: Cuban Portrait<br>by Haris Kakarouhas

Suspended Time: Cuban Portrait
by Haris Kakarouhas

Combining portraits of great beauty with still lives and interiors, the book will be of interest to anyone who has visited the island or who wants to understand its unique and fascinating attraction.

Hardcover, 120 pages
68 photographs 300mm x 300mm
ISBN: 1-904587-05-4
Dewi Lewis Publishing


Price: £25.00
Member price: £20


In the Wake of Katrina<br>by Larry Towell

In the Wake of Katrina
by Larry Towell

Towell’s are not loud news pictures, but haunting and poetic landscapes – many of them panoramas – depicting the devastation...

Afterword by Ace Atkins
In association with the Archive of Modern Conflict
Publication date: August 2006
Hardcover, 144 pp., 8.5 x 11.25 inches
50 black and white images
ISBN 0-9546894-2-9



List price: £15.00
On offer: £12.00


Cats, Dogs & Other Rabbits<br>by Harry Whittier Frees

Cats, Dogs & Other Rabbits
by Harry Whittier Frees

His mother made most of the early outfits, which were designed to help hold the animals in what can only be described as ‘unnatural’ poses.

Hardcover 80 pages
205 x 150mm
ISBN:1-904587-24-0
Dewi Lewis Publishing


Price: £12.99
Member price: £10.40


Consuming the American Landscape<br>by John Ganis

Consuming the American Landscape
by John Ganis

John Ganis has chronicled the effects of the development and extraction industries in every region of the United States over a period of 17 years – desolate strip mines, clear-cut forests, industrial parks, landfill sites and terrains flattened for housing developments.

Hardcover, 144 pages
86 colour plates, 320mm x 245mm
ISBN: 1-904587-00-3
Dewi Lewis Publishing


Price: £30.00
Member price: £24


Rough Beauty<br>by Dave Anderson

Rough Beauty
by Dave Anderson

A powerful photographic documentation of the people and places in a poor and isolated town in rural southeast Texas, known for its long history as a KKK town.

Hardback, 120 pages
90 duotone photographs 250mm x 250mm
ISBN: 1-904587-29-1
Dewi Lewis Publishing

Price: £25.00
Member price: £20


People<br>by Stefan Ruiz

People
by Stefan Ruiz

Stefan Ruiz’s first book is about people – about the diversity of the world and the fragility of the human condition...

Hardbound, 11.5 x 9 inches
144 pages, 88 color photographs
ISBN 1-905712-00-6
Publication date October 2006
Published by Chris Boot Books



List price: £30.00
On offer: £24.00


The Republicans<br>by Steve Simon

The Republicans
by Steve Simon

"When the Republican National Convention came to New York, it inspired massive, impassioned protest marches and naturally, a media-frenzy ensued..."

Hardcover, 24cm x 17cm
80 pages, 55 duotones
ISBN: 8881585618
Charta

List price: £20.00
On offer: £18.00
Member price: £14


Mouthpiece<br>by Justin Quinnell

Mouthpiece
by Justin Quinnell

Justin Quinnell has used his mouth as a pinhole camera. The results are surreal, revealing and hilarious...

Hardback, 96 pages
60 colour photos
115mm x 150mm
ISBN: 1-904587-33-X
Dewi Lewis Publishing
available now on foto8.com

Price: £9.99
Member price: £8


Testify<br>by Colin Finlay<br>signed copy

Testify
by Colin Finlay
signed copy

Facing head-on the conflicts around the world and their aftermath, famine and disease-ridden people, children in prison and indentured, the photographer’s persona begins to emerge as clearly as the stories he is seeking to tell...

Hardcover, 23cm x 30cm
Publisher: ZUMA Press, Inc. (2006)
ISBN: 0977927903
signed copy

Price: £30.00
Member price: £24


Mexico<br>by Martin Parr<br><i>signed copy</i>

Mexico
by Martin Parr
signed copy

"Martin Parr show us, almost shamelessly, the likeable and hateful aspects of our characters – themselves a product of our history and culture. ..."

Photographs by Martin Parr, Introduction by Rogelio Villarreal
Hardback, 88 pages
21 x 30 cm /8.25 x 11.75 inches, 80 Colour photographs
ISBN 0-9546894-8-8
Chris Boot books

signed copy

Price: £25.00


Bawdy Language<br>by Beverley Abramson<br><i>signed copy</i>

Bawdy Language
by Beverley Abramson
signed copy

This work took her into the world of exotic dance in Toronto during performances and in the intimate and often chaotic surroundings backstage...

Paperback, 37 pages, 211x165mm
37 illustrations
ISBN 0-9733119-0-8
signed copy

Member price: £8


My America<br>by Chris Morris

My America
by Chris Morris

Christopher Morris’s My America was produced over the past three years while on assignment for Time magazine covering the first and now second administrations of U.S. President George W. Bush.

Edited by Christopher Morris and Claudia Christen
180 pages, 112 colour plates
20 cm x 23 cm, Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN: 3-86521-201-8
Steidl

Price: £24.00
Member price: £19.20


Work, Play and No Rest<br>by Julio Osorio

Work, Play and No Rest
by Julio Osorio

A series of black and white images of children who live largely beneath the poverty line, the photos in Work Play And No Rest sit somewhere between the school of documentary, mass observation, photography and the holiday snap.

Julio Cesar Osorio
paperback, 15x15 inches
100pp.,150 photographs
ISBN 0-9548974-0-4

Price: £25.00


Mexico<br>by Martin Parr

Mexico
by Martin Parr

"Martin Parr show us, almost shamelessly, the likeable and hateful aspects of our characters – themselves a product of our history and culture. ..."

Photographs by Martin Parr, Introduction by Rogelio Villarreal
Hardback, 88 pages
21 x 30 cm /8.25 x 11.75 inches, 80 Colour photographs
ISBN 0-9546894-8-8
Chris Boot books

List price: £25.00
On offer: £20.00


New York to Nova Scotia<br>by Robert Frank

New York to Nova Scotia
by Robert Frank

This collection of images and texts is a rich source for much of the most absorbing material on Robert Frank: there are letters from Frank to his parents telling them about New York, a facsimile of his 1954 proposal...

Author: Robert Frank
Introduction: Peter C. Marzio
Essays: Robert Coles, Philip Brookman and Anne w.Tucker
Paperback, 112pp
27 duotones and 4 colour plates, 227 x 304mm
ISBN: 3-86521-013-9
Imprint: Steidl

Price: £17.50
Member price: £14


 Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs

Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs
Gathered here again for the first time since 1935, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier Bresson and Walker Evans’ images represent an exceptional set of essential and sometimes unknown photographs...

Authors: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier Bresson, Walker Evans
Bilingual French / English text
Hardback, 192pp
89 tri tone plates and 29 text illustrations,
200mm x 240mm
ISBN: 3-86521-072-4
Imprint: Steidl and Partners
Documentary Photography

A reconstruction of the 1935 exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery New York.

Price: £20.00
Member price: £16


Using History<br>by Greta Pratt

Using History
by Greta Pratt

From Civil War battle re-enactments to Abraham Lincoln impersonators to colossal buffalo and Indians, Greta Pratt’s vivid, humorous, color photographs examine how historic iconography is used and challenge us to question who Americans are.

Author: Greta Pratt with essays by Rennard Strickland and Karal Ann Marling
Hardcover, 88 pages
65 colour plates, 27.5 cm x 27 cm
ISBN: 3-86521-129-1
Imprint:Steidl
Social Documentary

Price: £25.00
Member price: £20




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