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leak, painterly and carnivalesque atmosphere. From his native Marseilles to New York,
Mexico and Central America, d’Agata has drawn from over 10 years of travelling as the
inspiration for his photography. Whether his subjects are portraits, desolate landscapes or
inner city streets, d’Agata’s twilight world captures the intense and intimate nature of his
chance encounters with people and places. Likening the compulsion to photograph to that
of proving one’s own existence, d’Agata distances himself from straightforward documentary
photography. Signed copy. - € 450
15. AGATA, Antoine d’: Stigma. Images en Manoeuvres.
Editions, 2004. Hardcover, 2004.
Antoine D’Agata veritably takes us on his travels. Instead of trying to represent the
world, he tells us how he is part of this world. We find ourselves swept up in the chaos and
turmoil of his nights: sordid and artificial purgatory, slices of wounded and famished flesh,
desperate promiscuity on vacant evenings, and constellations of depraved and violated
private lives. This is crudeness of the state of being seized photographically. - € 175
16. ALVERMANN, Dirk: Keine Experimente, bilder zum Grundgesetz.
Berlin, Eulenspiegel Verlag, 1961. In photo-pictorial boards issued without dustjacket,
136 pp.
Keine Experimente: Pictures of Basic Law is a book about the general attitude of the
West German population towards the changes brought about in West Germany with the
election of the CDU party. Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic
of Germany ushered in an era of rapid economic growth for post-war Germany that was
essentially a free-market economy that spurred upwards of 8 percent growth per year.
Adenauer’s “Keine Experimente” (No Experiments) slogan symbolized a more practical
approach to politics for people who had just years prior experienced the ideologies and
economic upheavals of the war period. Although living standards did improve for most
Germans, it was a policy that would have a similar effect to “trickle-down” economics of
Reagan in the United States where large gaps between the rich and poor would be created
and where wages for workers stagnated. Alvermann’s impressive pictures from the
years 1956-61 follow the paragraphs 1 to 9 of the Basic Constitutional Law of the Federal
Republic of Germany and are directed clearly against the blind faith into the German
Wirtschaftswunder. - € 390
17. ANDERSEN, Morten: Fast city.
Oslo : Morten Andersen, 1999. Paperback. 110 pp. Signed by Andersen. - € 85
18. ANDERSEN, Morten: Oslo F.
Oslo, HitMe! Books, 2005. Hardcover, 224 pp.
A book about the streets of Oslo with the old buildings and stairways of the 19th century,
a book about friends and the walk from the studio back home. The black and white tones are
astonishing. 222 photos. limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Signed copy. - € 175
19. ANDERSEN, Morten & GANGE, Eva Klerck: Days of night.
Oslo, Museet for Samtidskunst, 2003. Cloth.
Born 1965 in Oslo, Norway, Andersen is one of the leading younger photographers in
Norway. Educated at the International Centre of Photography, New York (Joan Liftin,
Nan Goldin, Larry Clark), he has received several European grants for his work, which can
be described as straightforward photography. While most of the European and American
photographers prefer a very conceptual strategy, Morten Andersen is interested in humankind
and its fate, his pleasures and fears shown by pictures taken on the street, captured in
bars and nightclubs, in the underground and in hotels. Andersen documents the human
struggle in pursuit of happiness. The title of the exhibition is a slight alteration of the term
“Day for Night”, which is used in the film industry when shooting night scenes during the
day, using special filters. It is also the title of a film by French director François Truffaut
known also as La Nuit Americaine. The photographs taken from the series Days of Night
are mostly black and white images, often very rough and grainy. Images of people caught
in a very moment of joy, fear or despair, emptied streets, a stray dog are shown together
with color images of flowers. A signed edition. - € 110
20. ANDERSEN, Morten & KUNSTNERSENTER, AKERSHUS: Leira.
Oslo, Hit Me! & Akershus Kunstsenter, 2006. Cloth in slipcase. Publisher’s Description:
Leira is a river just outside Oslo, where the photographer was born. This project represents
a 2 year photographic romance with the river, nature and the landscape around it. As such,
it is something of a departure for Andersen, whose previous work has had a more distinctly
urban feel, often reminiscent of Daido Mariyama and other Japanese street photographers.
With a silver Gelatin print. copy 194/ 450, signed. - € 125
21. ANGIER, Roswell: “A kind of life”, conversations in the combat zone.
Danbury, N.H.: Addison House.1976. Hardcover, 130 pp. - € 120
22. ARBUS, Diane: ARBUS, Doon: Diane Arbus. The libraries.
San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2004. Hardcover in matching slipcase, 32 pp.
From the book: “The books and other objects documented in the following pages were
assembled from the collection of Diane Arbus and constitute a significant portion of the
contents of her library. They are pictured here as they were displayed in several rooms of
the international museum retrospective Diane Arbus Revelations, which was organized
by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and traveled to seven other institutions
between October 2003 and October 2006”. - € 125
23. ARINO, Eimu: Cities - Space Between Real And Unreal.
Japan, AIM Press Company, 1983. Cloth in dustjacket. 188 pp. First edition. 94 photographic
plates. Text in English and Japanese.
Arino Eimu was born in 1941 in Amegasaki (Hyogo Pref). After graduating from Osaka
Educational University he became a high-school teacher in his home town. The present
images are taken between 1977 and 1982 in London, Paris, New York, Osaka, Interlaken,
Bern, Kyoto, Nagoya, Kobe, Rome, and a few other locations. Arino emerges as a hunter of
surreal or poignant images that negate the city that they were taken in. “There are times
we feel the city has a life of its own. And occasionally, we even become convinced that the
city harbors personal feeling of kindness, malice, admiration, and contempt towards its
inhabitants” (‘Is the City Rebelling’ Introduction by Hajima Irako). Small fold in
dustjacket. A near fine copy. - € 350
24. ATGET, Eugène & RECHT, Camille: Lichtbilder.
Paris and Leipzig. Verlag Henri Jonquieres, 1930. Cloth, 143 pp. Printed in a limited
edition of 1000.
The German edition of this monograph was published simultaneously in English and
French editions on the occasion of the first one-man exhibition organized by Levy and Abbott
at the Weyhe Gallery in New York. A rare copy of an important book. - € 650
25. AUER, Michel: Encyclopédie internationale des photographes de 1839 à nos
jours.
Editions Camera Obscura, 1985. Hardcover, 837 pp. 2 vol. - € 250
26. AVEDON, Richard & CAPOTE, Truman: Observations.
Luzern, Camera Verl., 1959. Cloth in dustjacket in slipcase, 151 pp. Like Robert Frank’s
‘The Americans, ’American photographer Richard Avedon’s first book, ‘Observations, ’
was published in 1959. And, like ‘The Americans’ it was included in Andrew Roth’s ‘The
Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the 20th Century (PPP Editions, 2001),
now itself a seminal work on the history of the photographic book. Having begun to take
photographs during the Second World War, where he served in the Merchant Marine,
Avedon became chief photographer of ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ in the late 1940s, where he helped
redefine and elevate fashion photography to an art form, frequently taking his models out
of the studio. But Avedon’s first book did not focus on his fashion work, but on his iconic
and penetrating portraits. In the 150 pages that form ‘Observations, ’ with comments by
the great American writer Truman Capote, we encounter the likes of Charlie Chaplin,
John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Arthur Miller, Pablo
Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, Mae West, Judy Garland, Igor Stravinsky, Katherine Hepburn,
Brigitte Bardot, Louis Armstrong, Humphrey Bogart, Buster Keaton, and many others.
(Wayne Ford, The Photo Book Club) - € 350
27. AVEDON, Richard & BALDWIN, James: Im Hinblick.
Luzern, C. J. Bucher, 1964. Hardcover in slipcase, 88 pp.
Avedon and Baldwin were high school friends. Writing in The Photobook: A History, Vol.
I, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger describe this book as a “surprisingly bitter, existential
work, as jaundiced in its view of the 1950s United States as Robert Frank’s ever was …
[Avedon’s] best book, his demonic version of The Americans. This is the first Swiss edition
of the book. - € 150