Horror A Vacui (Signed)
by SHAW, Jimmy and Benjamin Weissman
Vienna: Galerie Krinzinger, 1992. Faint soiling to the covers, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Octavo. SIGNED by Benjamin Weissman and Jim Shaw. Collaborative artist's book published in the occasion of the important group exhibition of Los Angeles artists LAX, at Galerie Krinzinger, 1992.
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Early Work of Cindy Sherman
by SHERMAN, Cindy
East Hampton: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in association with D.A.P., 2000. Fine in photo illustrated boards; sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap.. Second Edition. Octavo. Foreword by Edsel Williams. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (Aug. 18 - Oct. 1, 2000). Illustrated with 15 black and white photographs from Sherman's "Bus Riders" series, followed by 17 black and white photographs from her "Murder Mystery People;" the photographs were shot in 1976 but not printed until 2000 for... Read More
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Dam (Signed Limited Edition)
by SHIBATA, Toshio
Tucson: Nazraeli, 2004. Fine in green boards with photo mounted to cover, housed in a fine slipcase.. Limited edition. Folio. SIGNED by Shibata and numbered 152 of an edition of 500. 18 large-scale duotone photographs of dams and waterworks, exemplary of Shibata's investigation of the transformation of nature through industry.
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Sadistic Play of Bondage
by SHINOYAMA, Kishin
Tokyo: Haga Shobo, 1971. Near fine in wrappers in a near fine jacket (lacking the rare obi).. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED by Shinoyama in silver marker. A collection of bondage images, color and black and white, with more humor than Araki, as evidenced by the color shots of tied-up Yakuza. The height in Japanese photobooks of bondage as theater. Great English titles for the scenes, like "Hostess linched on roof," etc.
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Steel Town (Special Edition, Signed)
by SHORE, Stephen
London: Mack, 2021. Near fine in cloth boards with color image affixed to front panel.. Special Edition. Quarto. Stephen Shore's photo-essay on the American Rust Belt, first commissioned by Fortune Magazine in 1977. Published by Mack in 2021; this Special Edition SIGNED by Shore to an additional color plate affixed to rear pastedown.
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David Shrigley
by SHRIGLEY, David
Bignan: Domaine de Kerguehennec, 2003. A hint of wear to corners, else fine in photo-illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Octavo. Published on occasion of the exhibition by Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France. Text in French and English.
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[Studio Malick Portrait (2 September)]
by SIDIBÉ, Malick
Bamako, Mali: Studio Malick, 1975. Mounted in wooden frame (9.5 x 7.5 inches). NB: Additional shipping costs will be calculated after checkout.. Gelatin silver print photograph (6.75 x 4.75 inches), with serrated edges. One of a number of studio portraits from acclaimed Malian photographer Malick Sidibé—the "Eye of Bamako." With studio stamp to verso, dated Sep. 2, 1975.
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Imaginary Club 1 (Limited Edition)
by SIEBER, Oliver
Düsseldorf: Böhm/Kobayashi publishers, 2008. Matte illustrated self-wrappers; [24] pages in loose gatherings. A fine copy.. Limited Edition. Slim quarto. Hand-numbered as copy 14 of 150. First iteration of Oliver Sieber's street photography project, Imaginary Club, juxtaposing subcultural scenes from Germany and Japan. As Markus Schaden commented on the final cut of the project, which won the 2014 Paris Photo-Aperture award: "it is a contemporary photographic landmark based on the work of August Sander and Daido Moriyama.
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Rain
by SILKO, Leslie Marmon and Lee Marmon
New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996. Stab-sewn binding, by Claudio Cohen. Housed in plain cardboard slipcase. A fine copy.. Deluxe Limited Edition. Quarto. One of 130 copies printed by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum, with proceeds of sales benefiting the Museum Library. This copy being number 11, SIGNED and hand-numbered on colophon by both poet and artist. Featuring black-and-white photograph by Lee Marmon, SIGNED to lower corner, housed loose in... Read More
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Yes & No: The O.G. #9
by SILLMAN, Amy
Bregenz, Austria: Kunsthaus-Bregenz, [2016]. Minor rubbing to corners of stapled trifold wrappers; close to fine.. First Edition. Octavo. Published on the occasion of Amy Sillman's site-specific installation at KUB Arena; her first institutional show in Austria (Nov. 12–Jan. 10, 2016). As per the printed artist statement, Sillman chose to exhibit everything other than the paintings themselves; "a diagram to 'explain' the abstraction, a platform for presentation, a book with an interview, even the color scheme, but no paintings.... Read More
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On the Music of the Spheres
by SIMIC, Charles and Linda Connor
New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996. This copy in Fine condition.. Limited Edition. Large quarto. Cloth boards in slipcase. The sixteenth publication from the Whitney's Artists and Writers Series, featuring poetic text from Charles Simic, accompanied by 15 prints from Linda Connor, six of which were reworked by Connor from original negatives from the Lick Observatory at the University of California. SIGNED by both Simic and Connor to colophon.
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Water Ballet / Family Collision
by SIMMONS, Laurie
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1987. Light toning to text block, a few marks to covers; near fine in holographic boards.. First Edition. Oblong octavo. Artist's book by Laurie Simmons featuring a series of underwater photographs of nude swimmers and miniature dolls, printed on heavy card pages. Design by Yolanda Cuomo.
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Raf Simons Show: Autumn-Winter 1999-2000
by SIMONS, Raf
Antwerpen: Raf Simons, 1999. Fine in a close to fine glossy black box.. Limited edition. Square sheets in a box. SIGNED by Raf Simons on one of the portrait sheets. A collection of 24 sheets including eleven portraits, forty-four runway shots on eight sheets and five text sheets, including a cryptic "Class of '84" list of names. The clean and monochromatic looks in black and gray are complimented by the minimalist design. The exterior housing, a glossy black... Read More
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An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
by SIMON, Taryn
Göttingen: Steidl, 2007. Fine in gilt-stamped black and gray boards.. First Edition. Tall quarto. SIGNED by the photographer and inscribed, "For Bill Siegel". Published on the occasion of artist's exhibition at the Whitney, March – June, 2007. Foreword by Salman Rushdie. An inventory of the strange, surreal, and macabre. One of the more influential art or photography publications of the past decade.
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Birds of the West Indies (Signed)
by SIMON, Taryn
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2013. Fine in yellow cloth boards in a fine jacket.. First Edition. Thick quarto. 439pp. SIGNED by Simon to the title page. Volume one in a two part series with volume two published in 2015. Simon’s project begins with a visual catalog documenting the female characters, weaponry, and modes of transport featured throughout five decades of James Bond films. The second volume shifts focus as Simon adopts the role of Bond as an ornithologist, systematically... Read More
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The Innocents
by SIMON, Taryn
New York: Umbrage Editions, 2003. Lightly crimped at the spine ends and tapped at the corners, very minor shelfwear; near fine in a near fine jacket.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Photographs and interviews by Taryn Simon; her first book. Commentary by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at P.S. 1. 43 haunting color photographs printed with accompanying text on the opposing page.
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U.S.A. to Europe: 1952-1953
by SLOAN, James
N.p.: Self-published, 1953. One image captioned in ink; near fine in ring bound gilt-stamped thick plastic wrappers (two spokes of the ring binding have broken off).. First Edition. Tall ring bound quarto. Possibly unique album of 30 original images taken by James Sloan on a trip from America to Europe. (The first photograph in the album, a bearded older man in a tunic, is presumably Sloan.) The images are uniformly 9 1/2 X 9 1/2 and have been... Read More
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Exotic Sacrifice of Lucky Landlord Paradise Enters Spiritual Oasis Fantasyland of Socialistic Art... (Memorial Card)
by SMITH, Jack
New York, 1989. Slight bump to top corner; otherwise fine.. Memorial announcement card (8 x 5.5 in.); printed recto/verso. Poetic memorial card for Jack Smith: "legendary filmmaker, theatrical genius, and exotic art consultant;" complete with penguins, Lola Montez, and one last assault on the Landlords. With service to be held at the East Village's Performance Space 122.
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Josh Smith: Currents
by SMITH, Josh
New York: 38th Street Publishers, 2009. Fine in photo-illustrated wrappers.. Limited edition. Oblong quarto. An edition of 1000 copies. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at Luhring Augustine, New York, February 14 – March 14, 2009. Illustrated with nearly 600 images of Smith's paintings.
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(Untitled) (Unique Painted Artist's Book)
by SMITH, Josh
Self-published, 2015. Spiral-bound self-wrappers; a fine copy.. One of 3 unique copies. An evocative handmade artist's book from Josh Smith, with ten xerographic leaves on kraft paper; mostly over-painted. Fugitive images of the artist's hand camouflaged by a semblance of organic growth and decay. SIGNED by Smith to front cover and numbered as 2 of 3 to rear; presumably produced for the 2015 edition of Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair.
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Untitled (Set Screw) [Limited Edition Artists' Book]
by SMITH, Josh
New York: Josh Smith, 2015. Short faint crease along the edge of the front cover, otherwise near fine in spiral-bound printed wrappers.. Limited Edition. Quarto. Spiral-bound, notebook-style book with cardboard back cover. SIGNED by Smith on the back cover, dated, and numbered 8 of 12 copies in 3 colors of crayon. The book consists of a series of xeroxes on lined, yellow notebook paper and one xerox on white office paper. Nearly all of the images are of... Read More
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Ringier AG: Annual Report 2008
by SMITH, Josh
Zurich: Ringier AG, 2009. A fine copy.. First Edition. Octavo. Since 1997, the Swiss-owned media company Ringier has invited a different artist to illustrate their annual report that's distributed to shareholders. For the 2008 report—in which the company celebrated its 175th anniversary—the artist was Josh Smith, who designed the color wrappers as well as a sequence of over 100 glossy color plates. As per his artist statement: "The meaning of the large group of color images is not... Read More
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Japan... A Chapter of Image (Inscribed)
by SMITH, W. Eugene and Carole Thomas
Tokyo: Hitachi, 1963. Papered boards, with gilt lettering to front panel and spine. Minor chipping at edges, as typical; a near fine copy of Smith's rarest book.. First Edition. Quarto. This copy SIGNED by Smith to title page, along with lengthy apologia, in which he makes reference to his pseudonym: "There are 21 mistakes that are uncorrected in this book. But I believe it worth the price for the writing of Walter Trego." A company book commissioned by... Read More
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My Mind Has Finally Accepted That It Is Right. Volume One (Inscribed)
by SNOW, Dash
New York: Self-published, 2005. Loose folded sheets, lacking the original binding band, with minor rubbing to spine-fold; close to fine. An early association copy; scarce, with no OCLC records located.. First Edition. Octavo. Hand-numbered as copy 22 of 25 and INSCRIBED by Snow to title page: "For King Solomon. From the Snowman. 2005 August 05." One of Dash Snow's first photozines, exhibiting 97 of his most recent Polaroids; "the pictures in this were taken in may and june... Read More
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Broken Bottle! Broken Dreams! (Hand-Numbered)
by SNOW, Dash
New York: Self-published, circa 2005. A fine copy, save for minor scuffing to the self-wrappers, composed with a stunning cover design. Scarce, with no OCLC records located.. First Edition. Octavo. Hand-numbered in black marker to rear cover (21/25). An early example of Dash Snow's neo-Dada aesthetic; perhaps most effective when he approached the photocopy bed as his canvas (cf. Zine Masters of the Universe). With Broken Bottle! Broken Dreams!, Snow collages the libertine Polaroids through which he chronicled... Read More
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