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strikes the same chords of beauty and evolution that we find in his earlier images, but with
a more intense dramatic and metaphoric intention. His new work often has an almost
theatrical effect on the viewer -- seeming to emanate directly from the lives of the artist’s
models. The settings, the subjects, the sumptuous lighting will all be familiar to longtime
admirers of Sturges’ ongoing body of work. As his experience as a photographer has deepened
and his relationships with his growing subjects spans decades of collaboration, both
subjects and photographer have found more to say to each other. The new photographs
include diptychs of clothed/nude models, pictures of true mutual trust, as well as neverbefore
seen color photographs! This large format book takes direct aim at Jock Sturges’
long-standing vision as his large format, 8x10 view-camera always demanded the large
exhibition prints that were to follow. Thanks to the brilliant combination of computerdriven
advances in modern printing techniques and the old-world attention to detail and
craftsmanship, this book sets a new standard for the reproduction of artworks. - € 125
478. SUDEK, Josef & LINHART, Lubomir: Fotografie.
Prague: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury, Hudby a Umeni, 1956. Cloth in a
dustjacket, 232 pp.
This is Sudek’s landmark collection; extremely scarce in its dust jacket! “In its classic,
clean design (by Frantisek Tichy), exquisite photogravure printing, and attention to detail
(down to a white silk ribbon as bookmark!), it is the perfect vehicle for the full range of
Sudek’s romantic, atmospheric work. “ David Levi-Strauss, from Roth, et. al., The Book of
101 Books. Dustjaket damaged, mainly at the spine, missing a small chip of paper. - € 500
479. SUDEK, Josef: Praha Panoramatická.
Praha, Statni Nakladatelstvi, 1959. Clothbound in photo-illustrated dustjacket. Preliminaries
+ poem by Jaroslav Seifert + 284 plates.
This magnificent book alone would have secured a place for Sudek as a master among
twentieth century photographers. Photographing this book, Sudek used a modified 1899
panoramic camera that took individual sheets of film. Josef Sudek’s “Praha Panoramaticka”
was selected as one of the greatest photography books in “The Photobook”. “Josef
Sudek Fotografie” was selected as one of the “Seminal Photography Books of the 20th Century”
in “The Book of 101 Books”. Dustjacked damaged at the ends of the spine, missing
some chips of paper. A bit weak in the hinges, as often. Still a very good copy. - € 900
480. SUDEK, Josef & FÁROVÁ, Anna: Josef Sudek.
Gina Kehayoff Verlag, 1999. Hardcover with dustjacket, 405 pp. Josef Sudek is counted
among the greatest personalities in photography this century. He was born in 1896 in
Bohemia, and was severely wounded in the First World War, losing his right arm. In the
early Twenties he founded, together with other photographers, the Czech Photographic
Society. He made a name for himself with photographs of the reconstruction of Prague
Cathedral as the official photographer of the City of Prague. He is known today for his
mastery of still life and nature photographs. His lyrical, realistic photographs, often with
a background of filtered daylight, direct sunlight or grey skies, are melancholy, elegiac and
sad. His poetic vision takes the viewer into the world of Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Seifert.
- € 175
481. SULTAN, Larry: Pictures from home.
New York, Harry N Abrams Inc. 1992. Clothbound in pictorial dustjacket, 127 pp.
“Pictures from Home was a decade-long project Larry Sultan initiated when his father,
Irving, was forced into early retirement from his career as vice president of the Schick
Safety Razor Company. As initially conceived, the project was to be about “what happens
when – as I interpreted my father’s fate – corporations discard their no-longer-young
employees, and how the resulting frustrations and feelings of powerlessness find their way
into family relations, “ explains Sultan. While Irving continued to be Sultan’s favored
subject, the project evolved to include video stills from his family’s home movies and the
on-going commentary on Sultan’s project by both of his parents. Interestingly, working
in the San Fernando Valley suburbia where he grew up led Sultan to his next project,
The Valley, an investigation of suburban houses used as pornographic film sets. (Kendra
Greene, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.) - € 250
482. Sultan, Larry: The Valley.
Zürich. Scalo. 2004. Cloth, in dustjacket, 127 pp.
Since 1988, Larry Sultan has returned time and again to photograph on porn sets in
Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley--the Silicon(e) Valley of the porn industry. But The
Valley is by no means a documentary on porn filmmaking. Rather, it is a dense series of
pictures of middle-class homes invaded by the porn industry. Sultan’s lens focuses on
pedestrian details--a piece of half-eaten pie, dirty linens in a heap, “actors” taking a break-
-that offer clues to a bizarre other-world. The lush and intricate images adroitly play with
artifice and reality, adding up to rich, elliptical narratives that circle around the concepts
of “home” and “desire. “ These images of homes and gardens, porn actors and film crews,
studio and location shootings are an ambiguous meditation on suburbia and its trappings,
family and transgression, the utopias and dystopias of middle-class lifestyle. The Valley
and its many-layered photographs outline the complexity of domestic life at the beginning
of the 21st century, opening up new perspectives for photography through its innovative
combination of staged and documentary photographs. - € 295
483. SUZUKI, Kiyoshi: Soul and soul.
Self Publication, 1972. Cloth in dustjacket, 81 pp.
In 1972 Kiyoshi Suzuki self-published his first photobook, Nagare no uta, which is known
by the English translation Soul and Soul. Suzuki passed away in 2000 after self-publishing
eight photobooks between 1972 and 1998. Signed edition. - € 650
484. SZABO, Joseph & ZIEGLER, Alan: Almost Grown.
New York, Harmony books, 1978. Paperback, 125 pp. Photographs and poems combine to
capture the emotions, aspirations, experiences, and activities of the teenage years. - € 150
485. SZABO, Joseph: Teenage.
Los Angeles, Greybull Press., 2003. Hardbound with photo-illustrated boards. No jacket
as issued, 168 pp. Essay by Cameron Crowe.
Szabo has been photographing his teen-age students for the past twenty-five years, and
has perfectly captured the ambivalence of that time of life. As a high school teacher of
photography, he takes seriously their pretentions, passions, and confusions, and he knows
intimately how students put on, act up, behave, and misbehave. As Cornell Capa says in
his foreward, “Szabo’s camera is sharp, incisive, and young, matching his subjects. One
can use many adjectives: revealing, tender, raucous, sexy, showy. . . in Szabo’s hands, the
camera is magically there, the light is always available, the moment is perceived, seen, and
caught. “ - € 225
486. TACONIS (A. O. ): Children’s World.
Tokyo,Heibonsha, 1957. Hardcover in dustjacket. Photos by Taconis, Seymour, Rodger,
Cartier-Bresson, arnold, Marath, Capa, Erwitt. - € 400
487. TARAMELLI, Ennery: Mario Giacomelli.
Paris, Contrejour, 1992. Cloth, in dustjacket, 167 pp.
Mario Giacomelli (1925–2000) was an Italian photographer born on 1 August 1925
in Senigallia, Italy. He died on 25 November 2000 in the town of his birth. Known for:
Photographs of Italian seminaries and a poetic transcription of everyday life in Southern
Italy. Bold, stylized compositions with stark contrast. - € 350
488. TEMPLETON, Ed: Ed Templeton.
Rome, Drago, 2002.
Templeton’s photography depicts the nitty gritty of life in an urban landscape. - € 175
489. THORBECKE, Ellen & THORBECKE, Willem Johan Rudolf: People in
China. 32 photographic studies from life.
London, Bombay, Sydney, 1935. Cloth in dustjacket, 141 pp.
His collaborator, Ellen Thorbecke, was a distinguished German photojournalist whose
maiden name was Ellen Catleen. She was one of the two most outstanding European
women photographers working in China in the 1930s. Her work seems to have irritated
the sort of art critics that like to put creative people into neat little boxes. After she married
the Netherlands Minister in China, she dropped her maiden name and used Thorbecke
instead. This may be why bewildered critics have classified her as an “amateur Dutch
photographer” although of course there is nothing remotely unprofessional about her
work, which is brilliant, but madly unconventional. The photographs were taken with a
Rolleiflex camera, by Ellen Thorbecke, the noted German photojournalist. Divided into the
following sections :Introduction The industrialist The pedlar The pupil of the sing-song
house The Manchu Duke The student The countrywoman The eunuch The thirteen-yearold
husband The happy couple The fortune-teller The mother-in-law The daughter-in-law
The cabbage-vendor The little girl The camel-driver The concubine The farmer’s son The