Search Results: Authors starting with D from Arcana: Books on the Arts

(D'AGATA, ANTOINE). D'Agata, Antoine. ANTOINE D'AGATA: MANIFESTE. Cherbourg-Octeville & Lyon, FRANCE: Galerie Le Bleu de Ciel & Le Point du Jour, Editeur, 2005. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New. 48pp, 30 duotone illustrations. Text in French. Published in conjunction with 2005 exhibition held at Lyon's Galerie Le Bleu de Ciel, "Manifeste" is an elegantly designed and printed survey of Antoine D'Agata's dark and ofttimes tortured images accompanied by writings by the noted French Magnum Photos member and his selection of brief texts by noted literary and cultural figures. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon item (cited on page 216 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné"). 2-912132-48-7 Inventory Number: 024429

(DAGUERREIAN SOCIETY NEWSLETTER, THE). Graf, John F., Editor. THE DAGUERREIAN SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: JULY 1993 (VOL. 5, NO. 4). Green Bay, WI: The Daguerreian Society, 1993. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Photography Periodical. Very Good -. 12pp, 17 b&w illustrations. This is the July 1993 issue of "The Daguerreian Society Newsletter" - the slender bi-monthly compendium of news, reviews, and research queries devoted to the important early photographic process popularized by Frenchman Louis Daguerre. A handsome copy showing some minor wear and creasing to the covers. Inventory Number: 012759

(DAGUERREIAN SOCIETY NEWSLETTER, THE). Graf, John F., Editor. THE DAGUERREIAN SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: SEPTEMBER 1992 (VOL. 4, NO. 5). Green Bay, WI: The Daguerreian Society, 1992. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Photography Periodical. Very Good -. 12pp, 6 b&w illustrations. This is the July 1993 issue of "The Daguerreian Society Newsletter" - the slender bi-monthly compendium of news, reviews, and research queries devoted to the important early photographic process popularized by Frenchman Louis Daguerre. A handsome copy showing some minor wear and soiling to the covers. Inventory Number: 012760

(DALI, SALVADOR). Dali, Salvador. SALVADOR DALI - BOLDLY INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST. Signed Association Copy from the Artist. New York: Carstairs Gallery, 1958. First Edition. Large 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -. One 14 x 21" cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso folded in half vertically to make 14 x 11 ½", 4pp, 1 b&w cover illustration. Cover Designed by Salvador Dali. With an exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the slender four page catalogue published in conjunction with Salvador Dali's 1959 exhibition of thirteen watercolors and drawings at New York's Carstairs Gallery. Stating "This, my best exhibition, I dedicate to Gala, my Sistine Madonna", it features a cover illustration by the Surrealist icon along with his brief "Anti-Matter Manifesto". A most presentable example of this exceedingly uncommon item additionally BOLDLY INSCRIBED "Monsieur… Read More

(DALWOOD, DEXTER). Crow, Thomas. DEXTER DALWOOD: RECENT HISTORY. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2006. First Edition. Small 4to. 1/4 Linen Over Printed Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 60pp, 23 color and 3 b&w illustrations. Designed by Barr Gilmore. With an exhibition checklist, biography and exhibition history. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue produced in conjunction with a 2006 Gagosian Gallery London exhibition of fifteen recent paintings by British artist Dexter Dalwood. A pristine copy still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-932598-39-1 Inventory Number: 020477

(DARWELL, JOHN). Darwell, John. LEGACY: PHOTOGRAPHS INSIDE THE CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE. Stockport, UK: Dewi Lewis Publishers, 2001. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (52pp), 34 color illustrations. This is John Darwell's compact photo-essay documenting the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactors' "Zones of Exclusion": the permanently evacuated area surrounding the 1986 Russian Nuclear Power Plant disaster. It provides a haunting and eerily beautiful glimpse of the thirty kilometer wasteland where no man can now go - and is the perfect compliment to Robert Polidori's oversized volume on the same subject. A brand new, pristine example. 1-899235-58-2 Inventory Number: 015883

(DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce & Barney Simon. BRUCE DAVIDSON: EAST 100TH STREET - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Koln, GERMANY: Galerie am Dom, Burkhard Arnold & Verlag Locher, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 48pp, 28 duotone illustrations. Text in English and German. "What you call a ghetto, I call my home. This was said to me when I first came to Harlem, and during the two years that I photographed the people of East 100th Street, it stayed with me". Bruce Davidson's first book "East 100th Street" which surveys the harrowing state of life in Harlem in the late sixties is one of the classic volumes of Post-War American photography. This elegantly produced hardbound catalogue was issued in conjunction with a 1999 Koln gallery exhibition of twenty-eight of Davidson's arresting "East 100th Street" images. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item… Read More

(DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. Foreword by Mildred Feliciano. EAST 100TH STREET: BRUCE DAVIDSON - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED, SLIPCASED EDITION WITH A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Photographer - with a b&w Photograph. West Hollywood, CA: St. Ann's Press, 2003. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (165pp), 140 tritone illustrations. Designed by Paul McMenamin at SPINE. "What you call a ghetto, I call my home. This was said to me when I first came to Harlem, and during the two years that I photographed the people of East 100th Street, it stayed with me". Bruce Davidson's first book, "East 100th Street" is one of the classic volumes of Post-War American photography. After more than twenty years of unavailability, it has been lavishly republished by the redoubtable St. Ann's Press, with thirty-five new images, all beautifully reproduced. A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe 2003 St.… Read More

(DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. EAST 100TH STREET: BRUCE DAVIDSON - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970. First Edition. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Acetate Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Very Good -. np, 105 duotone illustrations. Designed by Elton Robinson. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "What you call a ghetto, I call my home. This was said to me when I first came to Harlem, and during the two years that I photographed the people of East 100th Street, it stayed with me". Bruce Davidson's first book, "East 100th Street" which surveys the harrowing state of life in Harlem in the late sixties is one of the classic volumes of Post-War American photography. An internally most handsome example of the 1970 Harvard University Press first hardbound printing (cited on page 18 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II", pages 260-261 of The… Read More

(DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. Foreword by U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Introduction by Deborah Willis. TIME OF CHANGE - BRUCE DAVIDSON: CIVIL RIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHS 1961-1965 - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED, SLIPCASED EDITION WITH A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Photographer - with a b&w Photograph. West Hollywood, CA: St. Ann's Press, 2002. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Large Square 4to. Cloth w/Pastedown in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (172pp), 144 tritone illustrations. Designed by Paul McMenamin at SPINE. Photographed during the height of the American Civil Rights struggle (with most of these images uncollected in book form until this undertaking), Bruce Davidson's moving portraits of social change from the rural South to the streets of Harlem and Chicago are a revelation some forty years later. Pictured here are the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, the Freedom Riders, National Guardsmen, Cracker lawmen, Klansmen, and the African-American populace undergoing their… Read More

(DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. Introduction by Henry Geldzahler. BRUCE DAVIDSON: PHOTOGRAPHS - A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed Presentation Copy from the Photographer. New York: Agrinde Publications, 1978. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 168pp, profusely illustrated in black and white. The first major survey of the compelling photo essays of noted Magnum member Bruce Davidson, this well-illustrated monograph includes work from the "Widow of Montmartre", "The Dwarf", "Brooklyn Gang", "England and Scotland", "Sicily", "Black Americans", "The Bridge", "Los Angeles", "The New Jersey Meadows / A Trip West / Topless Restaurant", "Welsh Miners", "East 100th Street", and "The Cafeteria" series. A bright white, most handsome copy of the 1978 Agrinde first hardbound edition (cited on page 222 of Fred Ritchin… Read More

(DAVIES, PETER). Gayford, Martin. PETER DAVIES: NEW PAINTINGS. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2001. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 16pp, 10 color illustrations. Designed by North. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the innovatively designed slender hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with British painter (and Charles Saatchi favorite) Peter Davies' 2001 Gagosian Gallery exhibition of fifteen large-format works. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item. 1-880154-54-4 Inventory Number: 016513

(DE COINTET, GUY). de Cointet, Guy. GUY DE COINTET: A CAPTAIN FROM PORTUGAL. NP (Los Angeles). ND (1972).: Self-Published, First Edition 1/700. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Near Fine. np (48pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "A Captain From Portugal" is the first artist's book published by the late Parisian-born, Los Angeles-based conceptual and performance artist Guy de Cointet. It is comprised of primarily rune-like letterforms of a self-devised language with an example of music, and what appears to be a line of hieroglyphics thrown in. While it bears no publication details - nor in fact any English - it is noted as having been self-published by the artist in 1972 in an edition of seven hundred copies in Frederic Paul's authoritative 2014 Flammarion monograph "Guy de Cointet". A most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item - only four copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - showing a bit… Read More

(DE COINTET, GUY). de Cointet, Guy. ESPAHOR LEDET KO ULUNER! - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM GUY DE COINTET. Signed Presentation Copy from the Artist. NP (Los Angeles). ND (1973).: Self-Published, First Edition 1/600. 12mo. Printed Wrappers. Artist's Book. Very Good. np (75pp). In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is a quirky artist's book published by the late Parisian-born, Los Angeles-based Conceptual and performance artist Guy de Cointet. "Written" in his self-devised, unintelligible language, there are no illustrations, English, nor any publication details to be found here. It is noted as having been issued by the artist in an edition of six hundred copies in 1973 in the bibliography of Frederic Paul's "Guy de Cointet" published by Flammarion in 2014. A most handsome example of this uncommon item - only nine copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "For Peg / Guy de Cointet / Dec 16, '74" in red… Read More

(DE COINTET, GUY). de Cointet, Guy. GUY DE COINTET: A CAPTAIN FROM PORTUGAL. NP (Los Angeles). ND (1972).: Self-Published, First Edition 1/700. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Near Fine. np (48pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "A Captain From Portugal" is the first artist's book published by the late Parisian-born, Los Angeles-based conceptual and performance artist Guy de Cointet. It is comprised of primarily rune-like letterforms of a self-devised language with an example of music, and what appears to be a line of hieroglyphics thrown in. While it bears no publication details - nor in fact any English - it is noted as having been self-published by the artist in 1972 in an edition of seven hundred copies in Frederic Paul's authoritative 2014 Flammarion monograph "Guy de Cointet". A most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item - only four copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - showing a bit… Read More

(DE DIENES, ANDRE) (MONROE, MARILYN). De Dienes, Andre. Steve Crist, Editor. MARILYN - THREE VOLUME SET COMPLETE IN THE PUBLISHER'S PRINTED BOX. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2002. First Edition 1/20000. Folio. Cloth in Illustrated Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jackets - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This is Taschen Verlag's sumptuous, oversized three volume anthology of Andre De Dienes photographs of early Marilyn Monroe. A pristine, unopened copy of the 2002 first edition containing one hardbound book, one spiral-bound volume of magazine cover reproductions and a facsimile of Marilyn's diary all housed in a facsimile of Andre De Dienes' Kodak photographic paper box still in the publisher's printed shipping carton, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-1199-8 Inventory Number:… Read More

(DE GEER, KARL JOHAN).Kugelberg, Johan. KARL JOHAN DE GEER: THE CAMERA AS CONSOLATION 1959-1980 - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION WITH A VINTAGE PRINT HOUSED IN A HAND DRAWN SLIPCASE BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER . Signed by the Photographer - with a Photo Laid In. New York: Ectoplasm Books, 2009. First Edition. Oblong Small 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (60pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Taylor Brigode for Octopuss Limited. "Carl Johan De Geer, born in 1938, grew up in absurd privilege and abject unhappiness as a member of one of Sweden's most powerful aristocrat families. His parents showed no discernable interest in him or his siblings, and so he grew up on a grand country estate with his grandparents, went to art school in the late 1950s, and in an epic choice of rejection lived his life to this day as a perennial Swedish underground artist, working in counterpoint to the privilege of his surname. De Geer, as a masterful Leica M4… Read More

(DE KOONING, WILLEM). Butler, Cornelia H., Paul Schimmel, Cornelia H., Paul Schimmel, Richard Shiff & Anne M. Wagner. WILLEM DE KOONING: TRACING THE FIGURE. Los Angeles & Princeton, NJ: Museum of Contemporary Art & Princeton University Press, 2002. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 200pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Tracey Schiffman. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. This is the lavish hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles retrospective of seventy-eight figurative works on paper by the famed Abstract Expressionist pioneer Willem De Kooning. A brand new, most handsome example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-691-09618-X Inventory Number: 026305

(DE KOONING, WILLEM). Inge, William. WILLEM DE KOONING. Beverly Hills, CA: Paul Kantor Gallery, 1965. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Wrappers in Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine./Very Good.. np (28pp), 8 color and 8 b&w illustrations. This is the lovely catalogue published in conjunction with a 1965 Paul Kantor Gallery exhibition of sixteen then-recent figurative works on paper by the famed Abstract Expressionist pioneer Willem De Kooning. It reproduces each of the pieces shown along with a brief essay by noted playwright William Inge. An internally bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item showing some light soiling and sunning to the spine and rear panel of its green dust jacket. Inventory Number: 027342

(DE KOONING, WILLEM). M(iller)-K(eller), A(ndrea). WILLEM DE KOONING: MATRIX / BERKELEY 12. Berkeley, CA: University Art Museum, the University of California Berkeley, 1978. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. np (4pp), 1 b&w illustration. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the slender four page exhibition brochure cum catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 Matrix exhibition of Willem De Kooning's sculpture at the University Art Museum, the University of California Berkeley. A handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 019491