Fine Prints and Photography Auction

November 02, 2015

LOT 115

Lot 115

Photography, Inuit and Canadian Art Book Collection

Photography, Inuit and Canadian Art Book Collection
Lot 115 Details
Photography, Inuit and Canadian Art Book Collection

COLLECTION OF 65 HARDCOVER AND SOFT COVER BOOKS INCLUDING FIRST EDITIONS AND AUTOGRAPHED COPIES:

Consisting of:
“Andre Kertesz A Lifetime of Perception,” autographed copy, Ben Liftson, editor Jane Corkin;
“Beaton,” Secker & Warburg, London, 1980 [1st ed];
“Edward Weston Nudes Remembrance Charles Wilson,” 1977. Murray Mann Intro;
“Imogen. Imogen Cunningham Photographs 1910-1973,” 1974;
“Cecil Beaton War Photographs 1939-45,” Peter Quennell/ Gail Buckland, 1981;
“Anne Liebovitz Photographs,” Intro by Tom Wolfe, 1983;
“Man Ray Photographs,” Intro by A.D. Coleman, 1975;
“Diane Arbus,” 1972;
“Peter Simon Decent Exposures,” intro by Asa Elliot, 1974;
“One Mind’s Eye, The Portraits and other Photographs of Arnold Newman,” Foreward by Beaumont Newhall, 1974;
“W. Eugene Smith An Aperture Monograph,” Lincoln Kirstein, 1993 [2nd ed];
“Earth Visions Visions Terrestres, Judith Eglinton,” [autographed and dated 1973 by Foster];
“The Autochromes of J. H. Lartigue 1912-1927, A Studio Book,” 1981 [2nd ed];
“Gordon Parks A Poet and His Camera,” Gordon Parks, 1968;
“The Camera at War: A history of war photography from 1848 to the present day by Jorge Lewinski,” Simon & Schuster, New York, 1978;
“Richard Avedon. A Meditation on Likeness,” Intro by Harold Rosenberg, 1976 [1st ed];
“Jungle Fever Jean-Paul Goude,” edited by Harold Hayes, Xavier Moreau, Inc., 1981;
“Beyond the Surface Photographs by Irma Eibich,” 1988 [1st ed];
“Helmut Newton White Woman,” Stonehill Publishing Company, Mondadori, Verona, 1976 [1st ed];
“The Songs of Wade Hemsworth,” Illustrations by Thoreau MacDonald, Penumbra Press, 1990;
“Edward Weston: Fifty Years,” Illustrated biography by Ben Maddow, Aperture Inc., 1973;
“Skrebneski,” Ridge Press, New York, 1969;
“Matthew Brady and His World,” Produced by Time-Life Books from Pictures in the Meserve Collection, 1977;
“Worlds in a Small Room by Irving Penn as an ambulant studio photographer,” Penguin Books, 1974;
John Szarkowski ,“Irving Penn,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984;
“East 100th Street Photographs by Bruce Davidson,” 1970;
“Trails of Light: Photographs of a Canadian Biosphere -The Bruce Trail – Theresa Kazmierczak-Stubler,” Intro by Robert Bateman, Penguin Books Ltd., 1992;
“Avedon Photographs 1947-1977,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978 [1st ed];
“Cameraworks David Hockney,” Intro by Lawrence Weschler, Alfred Knopf Inc., Milan, 1984;
“Skrebneski Portraits: A Matter of Record,” Doubleday & Company Inc., New York, 1978;
“Scavullo: Francesco Scavullo Photographs 1948-1984,” Harper & Row, New York, 1984;
“Moshe Safdie,” Edited by Wendy Kohn, Academy Group Ltd., London, 1996;
Fritz Muller, “The Living Arctic,” Methuen, Canada, 1981;
Ulli Steltzer, “Inuit: The North in Transition,” Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., Vancouver/Toronto, 1982;
“Contact Theory,” Lustrum Press, New York, 1980;
“Nude: Theory,” Lustrum Press, New York, 1979
Norman Parkinson, “Sisters Under the Skin,” St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1979;
Polly Devlin, “Vogue Book of Fashion Photography 1919-1979,” Intro by Alexander Liberman, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1979;
George Calef, “Caribou and the barren-lands,” Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, 1981;
“The Naked Eye Great Photographs of the Nude,” Selection and Intro by David Bailey and Martin Harrison, 1987;
Marilyn McCray, “Electroworks,” International Museum of Photography, 1979;
Bradley Smith, “20th Century Masters of Erotic Art,” Foreward by Henry Miller, 1980;
Harry Callahan, “Masters of Photograph Aperture,” Essay by Jonathan Williams, Aperture Foundation Inc., 1999;
Oscar Forel and Edita Lausanne, “Hidden Art in Nature Synchromies,” Harper & Row, Switzerland, 1972;
“The Best of Life,” Editor David E. Scherman, Time-Life Books, New York, 1973;
Diane Keaton and Marvin Heiferman, “Still Life,” Callaway Editions Inc., New York, 1983;
“The Banff Purchase: An Exhibition of Photography in Canada,” John Wiley and Sons Canada Limited, Canada, 1979;
“Fashion: Theory. Photographs and Essays by David Bailey,” Edited by Carol Di Grappa, Lustrum Press, 1980;
David Douglas Duncan, “Self-Portrait U.S.A.,” Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1969;
“Toronto: in words and pictures by William Kilbourn and Rudi Christl,” McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1977;
“Paris by Night: Brassai,” Intro by Paul Morand, Pantheon Books, New York, 1987

Estimate $500-$700

Realised: $369
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Provenance:

Ex. Libris Michael Foster, Canadian artist

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