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307. LEVINTHAL, David: Mein kampf.
Santa Fe, Twin Palms Publishers 1996. Cloth in dustjacket, 87 pp. Since his first publication
in 1977, Hitler Moves East, photographer David Levinthal has explored a panoply
of compelling issues in representation. Using toy soldiers, dolls, and other figurines,
Levinthal, in Mein Kampf, has created dramatic tableaux which engage the narrative of
Hitler’s rise to power and the Nazi campaign to wipe out the Jews. - € 125
308. LEVITT, Helen: Way of seeing.
New York, Viking Press, 1965. Cloth in dustjacket, 78 pp. Essay by James Agee.
Although most of the pictures in this book were taken by 1948, it did not appear until
1965. Writing in Roth, et. al., The Book of 101 Books, Vince Aletti refers to the images as
“. . . an episodic montage--bleak, antic, poignant; sometimes melodramatic, often comic--at
once suggestively narrative and as ephemeral as a passing glance. “ In The Photobook: A
History, vol. 1 Martin Parr and Gerry Badger write, “Levitt’s photographs are beautiful-
-major underrated works. Like Henri Cartier-Bresson, she achieves a rare balancing act:
her pictures have sentiment without being sentimental, always maintaining an objective
distance. . . The casual observer of these pictures, dazzled by their poetry, could easily
miss the harsher realities masked by the surface warmth and joie de vivre. “ Price clipped
dustjacket. - € 395
309. LEVITT, Helen: Slide Show. The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt.
New York, Power House Books, 2005. Cloth in dustjacket, 118 pp. PowerHouse Books
published a collection of more than one hundred of Levitt’s color photos in a book called
Slide Show, with an introduction by John Szarkowski, (who was a strong proponent of
Levitt’s work during the influential decades he was curator of photography at MoMA).
The book has a great collection of images. - € 110
310. LIPPER, Susan: Grapevine.
Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 1994. Cloth, in dustjacket. 111 pp.
A series of monochrome photographs by Susan Lipper of Grapevine, West Virginia, taken
between 1988-1993 with a transcript of a conversation between the photographer and three
residents. - € 350
311. LISSITZKY, El & TSCHICHOLD, Jan & ROH, Franz: Foto-auge, 76 Fotos
Der Zeit Oeil Et Photo. . . Photo-eye . . .
Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Dr. Fritz Wedekind & Co, 1929. In black & white wrappers
with a photograph by El Lissitzky.
Two books were published to accompany the 1929 “Film und Foto” exhibition in Stuttgart
organized by the Deutscher Werkbund -- Foto-Auge, edited by Franz Roh and Jan
Tschichold, and Es kommt der neue Fotograf!, edited by Werner Gräff (TR653 . G7 1929
Art Locked Stacks). With its cover of El Lissitzky’s now famous “Self Portrait” of the artist
as a hand in service to the eye celebrating the monocular medium (photography), Foto-
Auge served both as an catalog of the work exhibited as well as a visual polemic detailing
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s New Vision. Featuring work from the world’s leading modernist
photographers, as well as anonymous news and bureau photos, Roh’s and Tschichold’s editing
and sequencing energetically riff on the Bauhausian notion of enlightened objectivity.
Spine slightly damaged, some slight staining to covers & discoloration to spine. - € 1.400
312. LIST, Herbert: Licht über Hellas, eine Symphonie in Bildern.
München, Georg D. W. Callwey, 1953. Cloth in dustjacket, 243 pp. Greece is List’s main
interest from 1937 to 1939. After his first visit to the antique temples, sculptures and
landscapes, his first solo show in Paris opens in the summer of 1937. Publications in Life,
Photographie, Verve and Harpers Bazaar followed and List works on his first book called
“Licht Ueber Hellas”, which won’t be published until 1953. During his work in Athens,
List hopes to escape the war but is forced by the invading troops to return to Germany in
1941. Some of his work, which is stored in a hotel in Paris, is lost forever. Because of his
Jewish family descent, List is not allowed to publish or work officially in Germany. - € 140
313. LUKAS, Jan: Zeme a Lidé, Kniha fotografii.
Kniha fotografii, 1946. Cloth in dustjacket.
With 63 black and white photographs of landscapes and everyday life in the Czechoslovakian
countryside. With Tmej and Koudelka he is one of the most important Czech
photographers of the 20th century. - € 125
314. LYON, Danny: The destruction of lower Manhattan.
New York, Macmillan company, 1969. Clothbound in illustrated dust jacket. 75 plates
printed by Rapoport Printing.
“The Destruction of Lower Manhattan is a historical record of a fast-disappearing scene
and a beautiful portraits of buildings that we will never see again; but in a way, it is also
a portrait of the people who lived there. . . “(from the jacket copy). With a former owners
entry on the first blank. - € 350
315. LYON, Danny: The bikeriders.
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Pub, 1997. Cloth in dustjacket, 96 pp. In 1968, a small and
unassuming book of photographs featuring America’s bikers was published. Little note was
taken of its release, and it rather quietly disappeared. Today The Bikeriders is recognized as
a seminal work of documentary photography by one of a new generation of photographers.
This is a reissue of Lyon’s long-out-of-print and much-sought-after first book, treasured
both as a cult classic and a standard of photojournalism. - € 110
316. LYON, Danny & MCCUNE, Billy: Conversations with the dead.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Cloth, in dustjacket. 196 pp.
Photos. of prison life, with the letters and drawings of Billy McCune #122054. (Parr &
Badger volume2, 19; Roth 210-211) - € 650
317. MADONNA & BARON, Fabien: Sex.
Dohosa, 1993. Spiral bound with brushed aluminum boards in silver mylar envelope, 134
pp.
Composed chiefly of photographs and erotic stories. Includes a CD and ‘comic book’. This
edition contains additional pages not in the US version and is printed on better quality
paper. Japanese edition unopened, still in Box. - € 250
318. MAGDANZ, Andreas: Dienststelle Marienthal, eine Gebäudemonographie.
Aachen, Verlag Andreas Magdanz. Cloth in dustjacket, 155 pp. Photographs and text by
Andreas Magdanz. Additional text by Christoph Schaden (text in German and English).
Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London
and New York: Phaidon, 2006). An excerpt from a New York Times review by Richard
B. Woodward (January 11, 2004): “The Dienstelle Marienthal (or Marienthal Office) is
among the most ambitious but least-known monuments to “thinking the unthinkable” ever
conceived. This vast underground tunnel complex, built from 1960 to 1972 outside Bonn,
was once so secret that to acknowledge its existence could bring charges of treason in West
Germany. Designed to house 3, 000 of that government’s essential personnel in case of nuclear
attack, it represented one of the most exclusive fraternities in the world. . . [Magdanz]
was the first person authorized to photograph there. . . With a precise and clinical eye, Mr.
Magdanz shows the 25-ton doors, the miles of cable and the air ducts that connected the
underground denizens, through a series of filters, with the upper atmosphere. The décor is
spare, the furniture uniformly modern. There are no gymnasiums or libraries. Fluorescent
light and gray airlessness are pervasive. “ - € 450
319. MAHURIN, Matt: Matt Mahurin photographs.
Santa Fe, Twin Palms Press, 1989. Cloth, in dustjacket, 94 pp. - € 175
320. MANEN, Bertien van & Kapuscinski, Ryszard introduction: A hundred summers,
a hundred winters.
De Verbeelding Booksellers, 1994. Paperback. - € 295
321. MANNIKKO, Esko & JAUKKURI, Maaretta & DAULT, Gary Michael:
Mexas.
Oulu and Gothenburg: Esko Mannikko and Hasselblad Center, 1999. Hardcover, 77 pp.
Presents Esko Mannikko’s photographs of Batesville and San Antonio, Texas. All of the
American subjects are of Mexican descent. Hence Mannikko’s clever conflation, “Mexas”.
Mannikko’s lifelong subject, the decline of rural Finland (which is tenderly mirrored by
the decline of rural America in this collection), is off-putting, even depressing, something
people say they do not want in their lives, as if it were ugly or toxic, an accusation that the
American writer Annie Proulx had to endure all the way to “Brokeback Mountain”. This
is ironic because Mannikko’s work breathes whereas most contemporary art and photography
are lifeless exercises in Mannerist cleverness. Mannikko is a Classicist, a rarity in our
shallow “post-modern” art world. Signed on the title page. - € 150