Welcome to photo-eye Auctions! The proverbial boat has come in here at photo-eye Auctions! We are thrilled to offer one of the more extraordinary lots in the almost ten year history of photo-eye Auctions: All four of William Klein's seminal 'city books'—New York, Rome, Tokyo & Moscow—ALL SIGNED! In a review of the recent Tate Modern exhibition "Klein + Moriyama: New York Tokyo Film Photography" on the blog 1000 Words, Rachel Ridge writes, "There is an inherent urgency about Klein's practice that speaks to some kind of post war hysteria... A man on a manic quest for his own truth and always trying to break down the façade... Laying things as bare as he can, the American dream seems to shatter slightly every time Klein clicks. The war may have been over but a new one was being waged." Also featured this week: five signed books in three lots by Swedish phenom JH Engström, beginning with his very first monograph Härbärge (Shelter)—incredibly rare! Plus, in one lot, Haunts + Sketch of Home and, in another,CDG/JHE (Charles De Gaule Airport) + La Residence. AND MORE: Thomas Struth's Museum Photographs (1993 true first edition; signed); Rob Pruitt's wryly blasphemous Holy Crap; the protest classic Algerien by Dirk Alvermann (first edition) and MORE. Check out Eric Mile's video presentation. Thanks as always for looking! Read our F.A.Q.s.

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William Klein: New York + Rome + Moscow + Tokyo (4 'City' Books, 1956-1964---ALL SIGNED 1st Eds.!) New York: Life is Good & Good For You In New York! Trance Witness Revels. Photographs and design by William Klein. Editions du Seuil, Album Petite Planète, Paris 1956. 194 pp. with 16 pp. capti . . . [bid or read more]

$12500 4d 10h 57m [bid]

 

Rob Pruitt: Holy Crap A awesome book! Holy Crap that later went on to become a wryly subversive public art installation at the exhibition "Divine Comedy," held at Sotheby's in 2 . . . [bid or read more]

$395 4d 11h 2m [bid]

 

JH Engström: CDG/JHE [Charles De Gaule Airport] + La Residence (BOTH SIGNED!) CDG/JHE. Photographs by JH Engström. Edited by Engström. & Greger Ulf Nilson. Steidl / Gun, Gottingen, 2008. 120 pp. Large quarto. 12 x 9 1/2" First edition. SIGNED on title page. Clothbound with t . . . [bid or read more]

$395 4d 11h 12m [bid]

 

JH Engström: Härbärge [Shelter]--SIGNED! Engström's scarce first book--crazy rare signed!! Made in a shelter for homeless women, these black-and-white images were shot on Polaroid film. In a 2011 interview, Engström relates that, "It was qui . . . [bid or read more]

$595 4d 11h 17m [bid]

 

JH Engstöm: Haunts (SIGNED) + Sketch of Home (SIGNED, Limited Edition of 250!) JH Engstöm: Sketch of Home. Introduction by David Neuman. GunGallery, 2008. Unpaged (appx. 40 pp.). Quarto [12 x 9 1/4"; 30 x 23 cm]. Limited edition of 250 SIGNED and hand-numbered copies. Hardbound. . . . [bid or read more]

$395 4d 11h 22m [bid]

 

Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs (1993 True 1st Ed.; SIGNED!) Rare signed copy of the true first edition of one of Struth's most important bodies of work. With a text by eminent art historian Hans Belting. Struth studied with both painter Gerhard Richter and pho . . . [bid or read more]

$695 4d 11h 27m [bid]

 

Bruce Weber: Bear Pond (INSCRIBED in Year of Publication!) Bear Pond appeared at time when AIDS was ravaging the gay community. It's idealized imagery of a classicized idyll where well-chiseled men frolic in nature is a poignant counterpoint to the dev . . . [bid or read more]

$425 4d 11h 32m [bid]

 

Sally Mann: Proud Flesh (SIGNED) "Children, landscape, lovers—these subjects are almost as common to the photographic lexicon as light itself. But Sally Mann’s take on these iconic themes, rendered through both traditional and esoter . . . [bid or read more]

$245 4d 11h 37m [bid]

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Dirk Alvermann: Algerien (First Edition!!) Reproduced in facsimile in Martin Parr's Protest Box, published by Steidl. One of the most important 'protest' books of the post-war period. "When he went to Algeria in the 1950s Dirk Alverm . . . [bid or read more]

$495 4d 11h 37m [bid]

 

Larry Clark: Teenage Lust (SIGNED 1st Ed., with SIGNED Extras!) Autobiographical in form, Teenage Lust spans Clark's life from adolescence to his early years in New York City. Included are never before seen pictures from his Tulsa series, photographs from his teen . . . [bid or read more]

$695 4d 11h 47m [bid]

 

R. McGinley: 'Flasher Factory'; Moonmilk; agnès b flier; Life Adjustment Ctr; Olympic Swimmers A collection of three books and two additional projects by Ryan McGinley: Flasher Factory, New York (2004); Olympic Swimmers Postcards (2006); Moonmilk. (1st printing, 2010); the world of agnès . . . [bid or read more]

$595 4d 11h 57m [bid]

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Richard Misrach: Grapestake Gallery Exhibition Catalogue (Hardbound, Signed Ltd. Ed. of 100!!) "[Misrach's] masterwork in terms of book-making features the last major series that he made in black-and-white before turning to color--namely, his desert nightscapes...the photographer intended the c . . . [bid or read more]

$995 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Lewis Baltz: New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California (1st Edition!) Writing in Roth, The Book of 101 Books, Vince Aletti referred to this book, along with Robert Adams' The New West, "the most cogent, concise, and rigorous New Topographics documents produced in . . . [bid or read more]

$995 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Les Krims: Lot of 6 Items ( 3 Boxed Sets + Chicken Soup* + Fictcryptokrimsographs + Eight Photos) After several decades of relative obscurity, the idiosyncratic yet pioneering career of Les Krims has recently gained the attention of new audiences: uber-hip places like [bid or read more]

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Shelby Lee Adams: Appalachian Portraits "Here in pictures and in words the photographer Shelby Lee Adams and the novelist Lee Smith explore their unique Appalachian homeland. Their photographic and literary art confronts you and draws you i . . . [bid or read more]

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Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead (Hardbound 1st Edition!) Lyon's seminal photographs of prison life stand as one of the great post-war works of photojournalism, firmly placing this book among the ranks of Evans'and Agee'sLet Us Now Praise Famous Men and Bo . . . [bid or read more]

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Roberta Bayley: PUNK: The Book (Ltd. Ed., 1/76, with 25 Photos, SIGNED by 5 Punk Luminaries!) With the publication of first-generation Punk pioneer Richard Hell's memoir, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp; the recently opened Metropolitan Museum of Art . . . [bid or read more]

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Ed Templeton: Teenage Smokers (First Edition!) From 15 Things You Didn't Know About Ed Templeton, Skateboarder Magazine, June 25, 2003 1. Ed Templeton has suffered six concussions. Five of those hav . . . [bid or read more]

$365 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Peter Beard: The End of the Game, 1st edition Included in Roth, The Book of 101 Books, where David Levi-Strauss calls it, "an epic visual poem on hte subject of loss, especially the ultimate loss of life." A widely acclaimed book . . . [bid or read more]

$295 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Miguel Rio Branco: The Silent Book My work has a lot to do with skin, for that is the surface connecting us to the world, in pleasure as much as in pain. Skin is a dialogue between outside and inside, a separation that is also a con . . . [bid or read more]

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Manchoukuo: A Pictorial Record (1934 Japanese Propaganda Book) A benign-looking, yet chilling Japanese propaganda book from 1934. Published in English and French, during Japan's brutal occupation of Manchuria, in northeastern China. The documentary images, some e . . . [bid or read more]

$365 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Uta Barth (MoCA, L.A. Catalogue, Reissue), SIGNED Limited Edition "Uta Barth is an artist whose evocative, abstract photographs explore the nature of vision and the difference between how a human sees reality and how a camera records it. In contrast to documentary a . . . [bid or read more]

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Lee Friedlander: The American Monument Probably the most important title in the Friedlander cannon. Writing in Roth, et. al., The Book of 101 Books, Vince Aletti describes The American Monument as "almost maniacally inclusive . . . [bid or read more]

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Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993 (Rizzoli Monograph, SIGNED) Among the most influential artists of the last thirty years, Cindy Sherman made her name with the "Untitled Film Stills" (1977-1980), in which she enacted a seemingly unending series of b-movie cliche . . . [bid or read more]

$425 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Garry Winogrand: Women Are Beautiful (Hardbound First Edition!) Included in the 'Roth 101' and 802 Photo Books. A selection from the M+M. Auer collection. Winogrand is getting a l . . . [bid or read more]

$765 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Yutaka Takanashi: Pre-landscape / Hatsukuni (SIGNED) A rare publication by one of the original Provoke members. Highly recommended! The monograph Yutaka Takanashi. Photography 1965-74 won the Best Historical Book Award at the [bid or read more]

$745 Inquire to Buy it Now

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