In 1938, the Museum of Modern Art staged an exhibition of Evans' photographs, the first exhibition at the museum to be devoted to the work of a si...

With a letter from Nelson Rockefeller. The Last Rivet was produced to celebrate the completion of the Rockefeller Center. It contains photographs b...

Signed. Bill Burke studied Far Eastern art and religion at university while the United States was engaged in the Vietnam War. In the early 1980s, h...

Ishimoto participated in the first and third The Eyes of Ten exhibition in May 1957 and July 1959. In between, he published this, his first book a...

Home Town comprises photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) by Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Edwin ...

Ralph Eugene Meatyard was an optician by trade. He photographed mainly on the weekends and mostly in and around Lexington, Kentucky, where he rais...

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men chronicles the lives of three sharecropper families in Alabama during the Depression. Its origins lie in a 1936 assig...

Brassaï's first two books inscribed to Emiel van Moerkerken. Van Moerkerken or perhaps even Brassaï has removed and discarded the text pages with P...

Presentation copy. The first monograph of Moholy-Nagy's photographs, presentation copy inscribed: 'für herr sandels mit / besten gruss[?] / Moholy-...

'a sad poem for sick people'. An uncommonly fine copy of the first published edition of Robert Frank's The Americans, a book that altered the cours...

As with The Crime of Cuba (1933), this book originated with literary agent Ernestine Evans, who had wanted to engage Walker Evans in another proje...

These photographs represent the only period Walker Evans spent working as a photographer outside the United States. Carleton Beals wrote The Crime...

Signed. René Burri's first book was published by Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag in Zurich as Die Deutschen and by Robert Delpire in Paris as Les Allema...

Presentation copy with an original photograph and a drawing. presentation copy inscribed: 'D [drawing of an ear] Patrick: Merry Christmas & Hap...

The End of the Game is Peter Beard's first and most important book, a powerful account of the gradual and relentless destruction of East African w...

Presentation copy with a drawing. An early presentation copy of Araki Nobuyoshi's most important work, inscribed to Asahi Sonorama Chief Editor Tat...

One of 350 copies signed. A Guide to Trees is concerned with the efforts made by governing bodies to present an acceptable or preferably impressive...

One of 78 with an original photograph. In Concresco, David Galjaard explores the social and symbolic significance of the numerous concrete bunkers ...

The first publication of a rayograph. This issue of Les Feuilles Libres contains the first publication of one of Man Ray's rayographs, preceding Le...

Chance witness reveals. Life is Good & Good For You in New York changed the parameters of what a book of photographs could be, representing Wil...

Kikuji Kawada's The Map is a high point of Japanese photography and book design, published on August 6 1965, the twentieth anniversary of the bomb...

Inscribed to Owen R. Lovejoy. An important presentation copy in a remarkable example of the rare dust-jacket, inscribed: 'To Owen R. Lovejoy / for ...