Search Results: Photography from Purpora Books

Providence, RI: Matrix, 1982. Oblong, 8 1/2" x 7", cover with flaps. Black on rear cover shows rubbing; internal fine. B&W photographs of 14th Street, New York City. 96 pages.. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine..

New York: Aperture, 2006. Spine of dust jacket has faded from grey to pale green. Duotone reproduction of 28 pictures (woods and rivers), most of them published here for the first time. 95 pages.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine Plus.

London: Phaidon, 2005. Large and heavy; 719 pages with bibliography, chronology, and index. Dust jacket has a few minor defects. A comprehensive overview of Araki's prolific forty-year career. Essays by Ian Jeffrey, Akiko Miki, Yuko Tanaka, and Jonathan Watkins. Additional postage will be required for this item.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine Plus.

UK: Nobody / Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007. Square, 8 3/4" x 8 3/4"; hand-painted (each copy has a blob of red paint on upper board) clothboud (brown) hardback; 3000 copies. Colour plates on all pages of Gill's photographs; with a 12 page afterword by Iain Sinclair inserted. Unpaginated with one fold-out leaf.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine./No Dust Jacket as Issued.

New York: Leo Castelli Gallery Single sheet folded twice vertically to make six pages (both sides). Brochure advertising two separate Ralph Gibson exhibitions at the Leo Castelli Gallery (420 West Broadway) and Castelli Uptown (4 East 77 Street); not dated, but most recent photo in brochure is dated 1985. Illustrations, 6 in B&W for the Artifacts exhibtion, and 6 in colour for the Avenue Cover Works exhibition.. First Edition. Brochure. Near Fine..

Munchen: Schirmer / Mosel, 2001. Large oblong (12 1/2" x 10"). Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Huis Marseille, Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam. Text in English and German; 52 pages. Signed bu Hutte on the half-title page.. Signed by Photographer. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued.

New York: Museum of Modern Art \ Callaway , 2000. Large format, 10" x 12", heavy. 224 pages: captures the essence of French documentary photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927). 100 tritone and 5 duotone photographs. May require additional postage because of heavy weight.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine Plus.

North Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery, 1990. Light edge wear to covers. Large format, 9" x 11 3/4", paperback, 54 pages. This is volume 2 (photographic works) of a two-volume exhibition catalogue (the exhibition also included film work). Includes essays by Helen Ennis and Geoffrey Batchen and features the photographic work of Julie Brown-Rrap, Dennis Del Favero, Anne Ferran, Paul Hewson and Linda Marie Walker, all of Australia. Colour and B/W photo illustrations. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine..

Portland: Nazraeli Press, 2008. Oversized at 13 1/2" x 16 3/4". A few very light scratches to plate pasted to upper board, otherwise book externally and internally is pristine. 70 beautiful B&W reproduction of photos. Additional postage will be required for this item.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued.

Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham Museum of Art / Birmingham News, 1988. Large format (8 1/2" x 11"); 56 pages. Six photographers document Birmingham on 100th birthday of the Birmingham News: Philip Trager, William Christenberry, Duane Michals, Bruce Davidson, Gordon Parks, and Robert Frank; colour and B/W reproduction of their photographs.. First Edition. Large Paperback. Near Fine Plus..

Kanagawa, Japan: Super Labo \ Nobody, 2010. Oblong, 10" x 7 1/4". Town and country photographs, reproduced in colour, with a named bird in each (although some are not readily apparent). Signed by Gill on title page.. Signed by Photographer. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback. Fine..

Saanichton, BC: Hancock House, 1977. Large format, 10 1/4" x 13 3/4", dark blue fau leather binding blind stamped with title on upper board and with gilt lettering on spine. Dist jacket has a 3" tear bottom of front panel and some other minor edge wear and soiling. 17 page introduction by St. Pierre and reproduction of colour photographs showing the many faces of the British Columbia landscape; 160 pages in all. Heavy and may require additional postage depending on destination.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine Plus/Very Good.

Toronto: Canadian Art Foundation, 2013. Magazine, 9" x 11", 152 pages. Includes feature article by Timothy Taylor on Fred Herzog's art.. First Edition. Magazine. Near Fine Plus..

New York: Lustrum, 1982. With a foreword by William Howard Adams; 128 pages with about half being full-page photographic reproductions.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine Plus.

London: Country Life, 1952. Large format, 9" x 11 1/2". Tips bumped, and offsetting to endpapers; internally clean, unmarked and soundly bound. 59 B&W plates, all full-sized photographs of the west country of England. Colour photograph of the south Cornish coast tipped to front panel of dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001. Large format, 11" x 12". Bottom fore tip bumped, otherwise book is clean, unmarked and tightly bound. Foreword by Robert Bateman. Colour photographs of Emily Carr's British Columbia with snippets of her writings. 192 pages. Heavy item and may require additional postage depending upon destination.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus.

Boston: Bulfinch Press / Little Brown, 1997. Large format, 10" x 11". First comprehensive presentation of the artist's oeuvre. 224 pages with 264 illustrations, 234 in duotone and 30 in color, and a biography, a full bibliography, and lists of awards, exhibitions abd public collections. Heavy and may require additional postage depending on destination.. First North American Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine Plus.

New York: Pantheon, 1985. Clear laminate of cover is peeling away in places and vertical crease at bottom of both front and back covers; internally fine. Of the Pantheon Photo Library series. Smallish, 5" x 7 1/2". 61 plates.. First American Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Very Good Plus..

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000. Cover with flaps. Of the In Focus series. 144 pages with reproduction of Atget's photos.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

New York: Museum of Modern Art / Simon & Schuster / Touchstone, 1983. Clean and bright, and tightly bound. Large format, 8 1/4" x 11"; 192 pages. Originally published in 1955. 30th Anniversary Edition. Large Trade Paperback. Near Fine Plus..