ANDREW Elist 44: Recent AquisitionsPHOTOGRAPHY 1 Elist 44: Recent Aquisitions ART CAHAN LITERATURE BOOKSELLER, LTD AMERICANA Terms: All items are offered subject to prior sale. A phone call, email or fax insures availability. Shipping and insurance charges are additional. Returns are accepted for any reason within ten days of receipt; we request notification in advance. All items must be returned in the exact condition in which they were received. Library and Institutional billing requirements will be accommodated. Customers new to us are requested to send payment in advance or provide references. For your convenience we also accept payment by Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and PayPal. Ohio customers will be charged the applicable sale tax. Overseas customers please note: all items will be shipped via insured priority airmail unless otherwise requested. A statement will be sent under separate cover and we request payment in full upon receipt. We accept payment by bank transfer, a check drawn upon a U.S. bank in dollars, or via credit card. This list represents just a small portion of our stock. If there are specific items you are seeking, we would be pleased to receive your desiderata. We hope you will keep in mind that we are always pleased to consider fine individual items or entire collections for purchase. To receive our future E-Lists and other notifications, please send us your email address so we can let you know when a new list is available at our website, cahanbooks.com. PO Box 5403 • Akron, OH 44334 • 330.252.0100 Tel/Fax [email protected] • www.cahanbooks.com 1. Adams, Mac and Patrick Bouvet. ONE HUNDRED LIES. Paris: Christophe Daviet-Thery, 2001. First edition. A titled black folder, 10.5 x 11 inches, which is photo-illustrated on the inside panels, containing 9 loose b&w photographic plates of varying size, with concrete poetry in both French and English on the reverse, each separated with a blank paper guard. Very light wear to the edges of the folder; else fine. $75.00 The photographs of domestic scenes, and dolls are by Mac Adams, poetry by Patrick Bouvet. Limited to 500 copies. WorldCat locates only three copies: Whitney Museum; Getty Research Institute; Bibliotheque d’Art et d’Archeologie. [email protected] http://www.cahanbooks.com Specializing in Rare and Out-of-Print Photographic Literature 2 Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd. 2. Atget, Eugène. LE PAIS D’ATGET. Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company, 1979. First edition. 4to., 172, [11] pp., 168 pull-page b&w plates from photographs, followed by text in Japanese. Brown cloth, titled in gold and white ink, with a protective acetate dust jacket printed in tan ink, housed in the publisher’s printed cardboard box with closing flap. The book and dust jacket are fine as new, with the cardboard box showing moderate rubbing and a small stain. $250.00 The text, in Japanese includes a short essay by Pierre Gassmann, which follows the suite of photographs. Scarce, with WorldCat locating a single copy of the University of Southern Australia. 3. Baden, Karl. [Cambridge, Mass.]: Badger Press, 1981. First edition. 8vo., 14 unnumbered leaves, each illustrated from a b&w photograph. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Very good. Appears to be SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. $125.00 Award-winning photographer Karl Baden (b. 1952, New York) received his B.A. in Fine Arts at Syracuse University in 1974 and an M.F.A. in Photography at University of Illinois, Chicago in 1979. He has taught at Boston College, Harvard, Clark University, and Rhode Island School of Design, and has numerous solo and group exhibitions. In this body of work, the photographer has humorously imposed himself in classic photographs by Edward Weston, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Timothy O’Sullivan, Andre Kertesz, Brassai, E.J. Bellocq, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, George Eastman, et al. Since February 23, 1987, Baden has made a self- portrait every day. This is the photographer’s first book. The copy of photographer Chris Enos, with her signature. WorldCat locates only six copies. PO Box 5403 Akron, OH 44334 330.252.0100 Tel/Fax Elist 44: Recent Aquisitions 3 4. Blenkinsop, Philip. THE CARS THAT ATE BANGKOK: BEING THE TRUE AND TERRIFYING PICTORIAL ACCOUNT OF THE THAI PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL IN THE AGE OF THE AUTOMOBILE. Bangkok: White Lotus Co., Ltd., 1996. First edition. 4to., over 100 unnumbered pages, profusely illustrated from b&w photographs, drawings, newspaper clippings and collage. Black cloth with a photo- illustrated dust jacket. Fine. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. $125.00 Presented in the form of a scrapbook, this is a grim account of the perils of vehicular travel on the roads of Bangkok and its vicinity. The format, which incorporates local signage and drawings is reminiscent of Bill Burke’s I WANT TO TAKE PICTURE. Philip Blenkinsop, born 1965, is an Anglo-Australian photojournalist, working in Asia since 1989. He has covered the conflicts in East Timor, Borneo, the Hmong of Laos, and the earthquake in China, among many others. This is his first book. 5. Clark, Larry. TULSA. NY: [Larry Clark], [1971]. First edition in cloth. 4to., unpaged, b&w photos. A fine, near new copy in the photo-illustrayed dust jacket that shows the slightest of rubbing at corners; else fine. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. $650.00 First published by Lustrum Press in 1971 in wrappers. At a later unspecified date (1979) Larry Clark self-published this edition in cloth with illustrated dust jacket, not to be confused with even later printings. 6. Cumming, Donigan. REALITY AND MOTIVE IN DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY / LA RÉALITÉ ET LE DESSEIN DANS LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DOCUMENTAIRE. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1986. First edition. 4to., 78 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers in an identical dust jacket. Fine. $85.00 Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Centre national de photographie in Paris [December 18, 1986 - March 2, 1987]. Bilingual texts in English and French, which include essays by Robert Graham and Martha Langford, catalogue of the exhibition and a biography of the photographer. Donigan Cumming (born in Daneville, Virginia, 1947) works in a variety of photographic media; his primary concern is social engagement, its truths and fictions. [email protected] http://www.cahanbooks.com Specializing in Rare and Out-of-Print Photographic Literature 4 Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd. 7. Fau, J. [Julien]. DOUZE LEÇONS DE PHOTOGRAPHIE: DESCRIPTION DE PROCÉDÉS SIMPLES ET GACILES, AU MOYEN DESQUELS ON OBTIENT, PRESQUE INFAILLIBLEMENT, DES ÉPREUVES SUR VERRE ET PAPIER. Paris: Charles Chevalier, 1854. First edition. 16mo., 88 pp. Original printed paper wrappers; lacking the spine covering, with some chipping and staining. The text shows some staining and occasional spots of foxing, with one loose signature. Contemporary note on the blank terminal endpaper. A good copy. Housed in a newly made pamphlet box of paper over boards with printed labels. $1,650.00 Julien Fau, a doctor of medicine in Paris, was a noted anatomist; in 1845, he published the first of two works for artists with 24 beautifully rendered lithographic plates: ANATOMIE DES FORMES EXTERIEURES DU CORPS HUMAIN, A L’USAGE DES PEINTRES ET DES SCULPTEURS, a highly regarded work which is still available in a reprint with a translation of the text in English. I can find nothing on Dr. Fau’s conversion to the photographic arts, and can only assume that he found rendering the human form through its agencies more in keeping with his scientific predilections. DOUZE LEÇONS DE PHOTOGRAPHIE... Dr Fau’s short but concise manual is an early work on the collodion process. WorldCat locates only ten copies, with Eastman House, New York Public Library and Dartmouth College being the only American holdings; we know that Harvard also has a copy, having acquired it from us in 2002. Roosens and Salu No. 6522. This title escaped the attention of Bellier de la Chavignerie, in his Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, the first bibliography of French photographic books. A rare publication. 8. Freeman, Roland L. THE ARABBERS OF BALTIMORE. Cenreville, Maryland: Tidewater Publishers, 1989. First edition. 4to., xiii, 176 pp., profusely illustrated from b&w photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. A fine copy. SIGNED by the photographer on the half- title page. $75.00 Arabbers is a term native to Baltimore, first applied to the African- American horse cart vendors of fresh fruits, vegetables and seafood, who roamed the city streets, plying their trade. Roland L. Freeman, a fourth generation Arabber, took up the camera, and for better than twenty years, he documented Baltimore’s Arabbers in words and photographs. PO Box 5403 Akron, OH 44334 330.252.0100 Tel/Fax Elist 44: Recent Aquisitions 5 9. Friedlander, Lee and Jim Dine. WORK FROM THE SAME HOUSE. PHOTOGRAPHS AND ETCHINGS. London: Trigram Press Ltd., 1969. First edition. Oblong small 4to., (10) pp., plus 16 full-page plates from b&w photos and 16 etchings. The printed stiff white wrappers are moderately toned. Very good. SIGNED by Lee Friedlander beneath his portrait with Jim Dine. $400.00 Friedlander’s first trade publication, a collaboration between these two artists. Also published as a limited edition portfolio of original photographs and etchings 10. Funke, Jaromír. JAROMÍR FUNKE; Edice Mezinárodni Fotografie / Svazek 2. Praha: Pressfoto, 1979. First edition. 4to., [11], pp. text pamphlet, with 12 b&w silver gelatin, 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches, or the reverse, loose as issued. Housed in a illustrated stiff paper folder. The paper portfolio is slightly toned on the blank rear panel, with the photographs bright and fine. $600.00 The silver prints, which are reproductions of classic Funke photographs, include still-life, modernist abstractions, landscapes and cityscapes.