2) [Trade Catalog] Graflex
and Graphic Focal Plane Shutter
Photography,
Rochester, NY: Folmer Graflex Corporation, 1936, third edition. Pictorial stapled wraps. Many photographs. Good
condition. Wraps foxed and rubbed at spine. 24 pp.
Provides general instructions for using the medium- and
large-format Graflex cameras and the mechanics of focal
plane shutter photography, which allows for sharper images of fast motion
subjects and sports photography. $40
pp.
Catalog for an exhibition at Wellesley College held 16
November 1977 -23 January 1978, the first showing of some of the
photographs which
Evans took for Fortune during his long tenure with the
magazine. They are quite different from his iconic Depression-era images of sharecroppers and Southern small towns, as published in Let
Us Now Praise Famous Men, though these urban street scenes, architectural details and common hand tools share the same
quiet, austere beauty. $25
11) [Helen Levitt] [Photographic Ephemera] Card brochure
listing lectures, gallery talks, films and other public programs and resources
associated with an exhibition of the work of New York City photographer
Helen Levitt. The exhibition was held at The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, April 1- June 28, 1992. The brochure measures 14 x 21 cm when
folded
over. The front features Levitt's iconic 1940 photograph of
four boys playing in the street with white handkerchiefs stuck into
the back of
their caps so they look like mini-Foreign Legionnaires. Very
Good. $15
15) Photograph Postcard Booklet] Etablissement des Soeurs de Notre-Dame, Bastogne.
Detachable photograph postcard book showing the Sisters of Notre-Dame school in Bastogne, Brussels, circa
1910-1920s. Photos by Ern. Thill, Brussels. Captions in French. Printed
blue card covers. Most all of these 27 postcards have their original
tissue guard. No postcards appear to be missing. Measures 9 x 15
cm. Very
Good. First postcard is detached and has penciled nun's name
on verso.
Photographs show various interior and exterior views of this
school, including the library, chemistry lab, music room, home
economics kitchen, chapels, classrooms, art rooms, etc.The Sisters of
Notre-Dame ran this Catholic primary and secondary school in the late
19th and early 20th centuries in this small town in the mountainous
Ardennes region of Belgium, near the Luxembourg border. The town was
the scene of fierce fighting during the last year of World War II and
it is possible that this school is the same educational facility as the present day Institut Nortre-Dame in Bastogne. Not found in WorldCat.
$50
16) [Tintypes] A set of three tintypes, circa 1860s, each a
portrait of a seated man and standing woman (the better to show off
one's best dress and its underlying voluminous hoops and petticoats).
Each measures 2 x 3 inches. Each tintype is backed with printed
paper
label: "A.E. Alden's, Patent Premium Pictures, taken
only at corner Grand Division and Fourth Streets, Troy, N.Y.". Each
tintype has faint
rosy coloring added to subjects' cheeks. Scratch to woman's
face in one tintype, some erosion to second image at left border,
scratch across lower extremities in third image. $20 for the trio.
18) David Deal, Promotional brochure for photographer printed and bound by Anaconda Press, Forestville, MD, n.d. [circa 2010]. Black
card covers with title stamped in silver on front cover. Very Good. [32] pp.
Consists of 26 high resolution reproductions of photograph portraits in black and white and color of various students, athletes and such clients as Elie Wiesel, Alan Greenspan, Christine Todd Whitman, Lance Armstrong and author Azar Nafisi. Post-it note on inside front cover
with handwritten instructions for reproducing these prints, possibly by Deal.
David Deal is the commercial photographer-turned-attorney who is currently at the midst of the imbroglio involving publication and ownership rights of the photographs of the late Vivian Maier. Maier is the nanny whose secretive street photographs of 1950s-90s New York were unearthed from a storage unit in 2007. Maier's work has been the subject of a film and several books and exhibitions. $40
20) [Cartes de Visite] Three related Civil War era cartes de
visite, "Linked" by virtue of last name and geography.
Each CdV measures 2.5 x 4 inches.
1) Man with beard, sepia tone photograph measuring 2 x 3.25
inches. Verso stamped "photographed by Charles Young,
Sinclearville, NY" and "1504" handwritten there as well. Very Good. Image
somewhat faded. Light soiling. Circa 1860s.
2) Seated woman with book and hoop skirt. Sepia tone
photograph measuring 2 x 3.5 inches. "Charles Young, Photo,
Sinclearville, NY"
stamped on front and handwritten note "Miss Lorinda
Link, to here [sic] cousin" and tax stamp ghost on verso. Tax stamp
dates this photo to 1864-66. Very
Good. Image sharp, but some light foxing and waterstain to lower margin of front mount. Light soiling to
verso.
3) Standing woman in fancy gown, snood and cameo against
tasseled drapery background. Velvety black tone photograph measuring
2 x 3.5 inches. Front mount edged with two red ruled borders and
stamped at lower right "Photd. by Schoonmaker, 282 River St.,
Troy, N.Y." Penciled inscription on verso "Jane Link, pa
sister". Very Good. Image sharp and dark, top left corner bent, rear cover soiled.
Circa 1860s-70s based on her fashions.
Sinclearville is a small village in Chatauqua County, in far
western New York State. It was known as Sinclearville from 1809 when
it was founded by Revolutionary War Major Samuel Sinclear until
1887, when it was officially incorporated and "clarified" the
spelling of its name to Sinclairville.
This trio of cartes de visites: $30
21) Busch, Glenn; Connew, Bruce; Bashford, Uiga; Muhrkuhl,
Maria;Johnsen, Hanne; Kozanic, Dean; Veling, Tim, My Place, Christchurch, NZ: Canterbury University Press, 2005. Softcover. Very Good. Measures 23 x 20 cm. Foreword by Bruce Ansley. 145 pp.
A photoessay that is part of Canterbury University School of
Fine Arts' The Place in Time Project, in which New Zealanders are interviewed and photographed in situ in their homes, shops
and other favorite haunts. Many black and white photos. WorldCat
records only three copies, all residing in New Zealand. No other copies listed
for sale in the trade. $50
23) Hammer, Mina Fisher, History of the Kodak and its Continuations: The First Folding and
Panoramic Cameras, Magic Lantern, Kodak, Movie, Closeup of the
Inventor and the Kodak State, NY: The House of Little Books, 1940, first edition. Brown cloth with titles stamped
in gilt on front boards and spine. Very Good. No jacket, boards rubbed,
top corners heavily worn. Many photos and illustrations. xvi, 95
pp.
A look at the history of photography from the Magic Lantern
era,
including daguerreotypes, collotypes, gelatin dry plates,
phantoscopes, celluloid film, kinetographs and various other
Eastman-Kodak inventions through to the printing date. $80
25) Vishniac, Roman, A
Vanished World, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984, second printing. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Signed
"Roman Edith
Vishniac" on front flyleaf. Edith was Vishniac's wife.
Very Good in Very Good jacket. Jacket lightly wrinkled and rubbed. 179
photo reproductions. 179 pp.
This book represents but a fraction of the photographs of Jewish village life which Vishniac took on various trips to
Ruthenia, Poland,
Czechoslovakia and other parts of Eastern Europe in the
1930s. Vishniac sewed many of the negatives in the lining of his
clothes when he came to the US in 1940, and others were safeguarded by
his father
while in hiding in France during World War II. Vishniac died
in 1990. $150
29) DeCarava, Roy, The
Sound I Saw: The Jazz Photographs of Roy Decarava : January 20
to March 20, 1983, NY: Studio Museum in Harlem, 1983. Softcover. Very Good. Covers very lightly rubbed.
Preface by Willard C. Butcher, foreword by Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, introduction by A. D. Coleman and essay by C. Daniel Dawson. Footnotes. Chronology and bibliography by Sherry Turner
DeCarava. Catalog of the full exhibition at rear. 84 pp.
60 black and white plates of such jazz greats as Duke
Ellington, John Coltrane, Milt Jackson, Billie Holliday, Count Basie, Zoot
Sims,
Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Lester Young,
Coleman Hawkins and many others. Other photos of jazz clubs,
patrons, and
other musicians. $75
32) Margolis, Richard; Peters, Susan Dodge, Photography, Art of the State: An Exhibition
Featuring Work by the Photographers Teaching in the State University of
New York, Brockport, NY: State University of New York, 1983. White
pictorial stapled wraps. Very Good. Light foxing to front cover. 36
pp.
Includes the work of Francois Deschamps, Roger Freeman,
Phyllis Galembo, Tyrone Georgiou, Bonnie Gordon, Charles Heasley,
RobertKeough, Les Krims, Nathan Lyons, Mel Rosenthal, Jim Sylvia,
Michael Teres and John Wood. $15
