Welcome to the new photo-eye Auctions! Read What's New! Weekly Auctions, No Reserves, Video Presentations, Expanded Listings and more to come! Important updates to our platform include: Weekly Auctions. All lots open on Saturday and end on the following Thursday afternoon. Each week's new auction items will be announced in the weekly New Arrivals+ newsletter. For maximum convenience ending times are closely spaced in the mid-afternoon. No Reserves. Opening bid takes the item unless outbid. Weekly Video Presentations. Eric Miles, now in his eighth year as rare book and photo specialist at photo-eye, will take an in-depth look at one or more of the week's most important auction items. Expanded Individual Listings. Including additional video presentations and slide shows. Past Auction Results. Continued access to nearly eight years worth results, with descriptions, for thousands of photobooks makes photo-eye Auctions one the finest educational tools in the field. And More to Come. Stay tuned in the weeks ahead for a mix of special offers, Limited Editions, prints and 'Buy it Now' books. In our new listings for rare, out-of-print, and limited edition photobooks, we will use all the tools the web now offers to provide context and offer insight into the material on offer, making photo-eye Auctions singular place for learning and an invaluable destination on the web for collectors, artists, and dealers. This week: two of the most important aesthetic statements of the Bauhaus and New Vision moment in Photography and Film, Werner Graff's Es Kommt der Neue Fotograf! [Here Comes the New Photographer!] & Hans Richter's Filmgegner von heute. Filmfreunde von morgen [Opponents of film today. Movie fans of tomorrow], both in scarce original dust jackets!! Other highlights this week include: Allen Ginsberg: Photographs (SIGNED, with Flower Drawings); André Kertész: (Aperture History of Photography Series No. 6)--SIGNED!; Jim Goldberg: Raised by Wolves (SIGNED); Josef Koudelka: Reconnaissance Wales (SIGNED!!); Ed Van Der Elsken: Wereldreis in Foto's [Around the world in photos] & Much More!! We are now accepting consignments of fine photobooks and prints. Be sure to contact Eric Miles if you have material you'd like us to consider. See our auction F.A.Q.s for guidelines.

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Richard Avedon: Made in France (SIGNED!) "This extraordinarily printed collection stands as an important rediscovery of a small but central body of work in the career of one of the world's best known and beloved photographers. The Richard Avedon images presented here, many for the first tim . . . [bid or read more]

$1195 3h 19m [bid]

 

Lee Friedlander: 1960s-2000s (Rare Japnaese Catalogue, SIGNED) Beautifully printed overview of Friedlander's prolific career. Includes images from Self Portrait, Little Screen, Early Works, The American Monument, Portraits, Nudes, Letters from the People, Self Po . . . [bid or read more]

$145 3h 24m [bid]

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Ryan McGinley: (2002 Index Monograph) "Ryan McGinley makes large-scale color photographs of his friends, a group that forms part of New Yorks Lower East Side youth culture. He uses photography to break down barriers between public and private spheres of activity. His subjects are willing . . . [bid or read more]

$345 3h 29m [bid]

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Josef Koudelka: Reconnaissance Wales (SIGNED!!) "[Koudelka's] landscapes look like they have not so much been taken as dug from the soil that they frame. Likewise, the moments he depicts may be fleeting, but there is always a deeper intransigence a . . . [bid or read more]

$1195 3h 34m [bid]

 

Hans Richter: Filmgegner von heute. Filmfreunde von morgen.(1929, 1ST Ed. in Dust Jacket!) A companion volume to ES KOMMT DER NEUE FOTOGRAF by Werner Graff, who had a hand in the production of this volume. The text by Richter deals with Dada, Surrealism in film, and the emerging avant-garde. "Berlin-born Hans Richter - Dadaist, painte . . . [bid or read more]

$2995 3h 39m [bid]

 

Werner Graff: Es Kommt der Neue Fotograf! [Here Comes the New Photographer!]--in Scarce Dust Jacket! One of the key documents of the New Vision Photography in Germany. Published at the time of the famous Stuttgart "Film und Foto" exhibition of 1929. "Importantly, the exhibition attracted leading mode . . . [bid or read more]

$2495 3h 44m [bid]

 

Jim Goldberg: Raised by Wolves (SIGNED) This book documents the lives of teenage runaways who live on the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Goldberg tells their story with a combination of photographs, found documents, and handwritten texts by the subjects themselves. A stark and u . . . [bid or read more]

$195 3h 49m [bid]

 

Gilles Peress: Telex Iran (SIGNED!) Gilles Peress' portrait of Iran, Telex Iran remains a vital and revealing portrait of this belaguered, complicated nation. The political collision of America and Iran, which resulted in the 1981 hosta . . . [bid or read more]

$325 3h 54m [bid]

 

Ed Van Der Elsken: Wereldreis in Foto's [Around the world in photos] The globetrotting van der Elsken compiled these images from 1959-1960. Volume 1 takes in India, Malaga, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Japan. Volume 2 finds the photographer in Africa. A photobook artist without peer, Van der Elsken . . . [bid or read more]

$85 3h 59m [bid]

 

Wolfgang Tillmans: Concorde (1st printing!) "Exhibited at Tate Britain, Tillmans’ well-known shots of Concorde look more and more like key works each time I see them. They speak of the desire to capture sensory experience (the supersonic jet el . . . [bid or read more]

$195 4h 4m [bid]

 

André Kertész: (Aperture History of Photography Series No. 6-)--SIGNED! "There is in the work of Kertész a sense of the sweetness of life, a free and childlike pleasure in the beauty of the world and the preciousness of sight."--John Szarkowski, Looking at Pictures [bid or read more]

$270 4h 14m [bid]

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Allen Ginsberg: Photographs (SIGNED, with Flower Drawings) Included in the Included in Roth, The Book of 101 Books. For decades the poet Allen Ginsberg photographed the "Beat" generation and the countercultures around him. This invaluable visual histor . . . [bid or read more]

$695 4h 19m [bid]

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Nobuyoshi Araki: Tokyo Lucky Hole [with Obi!] "One of Araki's best-known and most controversial books," according to Parr and Badger writing in The Photobook: A History, vol. I. "As usual, Araki's view is that of the voracious photographer who cannot stop clicking, even when participating in the . . . [bid or read more]

$295 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Nobuyoshi Araki: Tokyo Elegy (with obi!) Amid the seemingly endless list of Araki publications, those published up until the early 1980s most sought after. This scarce Araki title shows the artist still developing what would become his famil . . . [bid or read more]

$295 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Print from Portfolio Three: The Work of Ralph Eugene Meatyard "In his 1911 collection, The Devil's Dictionary, American writer Ambrose Bierce defined 'romance' as "Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as They Are." Ralph Eugene Meatyard, a great reader who was known to find inspiration in litera . . . [bid or read more]

$795 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Kiyoshi Suzuki: Mind Games (SIGNED) From Sadayoshi Fukuda's essay: Photographer Kiyoshi Suzuki's works somehow recall the pleasure of an earlier day. This pleasure first of all requires us to place ourselves in an artificial darkn . . . [bid or read more]

$845 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Keito Kitajima: New York Equally fascinated with the Manhattan's prosaic street life as well as its seamier underbelly, Keizo Kitajima's landmark 1982 book harkens back to both Weegee and Klein. His images highlight the stark juxtapositions and quiet desperation of city life . . . [bid or read more]

$850 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

André Kertész: Az Igazi Ady (The Real Ady). Text by György Bölöni (1934 First Edition!) A rare volume that places the work of Kertész in an important contemporary context! Among several of Kertész's earliest appearances in print (Enfants, 1933; [bid or read more]

$465 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Mark Power: Superstructure (SIGNED!) See images from Superstructure on the Magnum site. Mark Power's 2002 book [bid or read more]

$95 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

George Hashiguchi: [We Can't Stay Anywhere-- Wild Teens of the World] Hashiguchi, well known of his books Seventeen's Map and Seventeen, explores the anomie and alienation of disaffected youths in a severa . . . [bid or read more]

$195 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Paul Virilio: Bunker Archéologie (First Edition) "Approximately 15,000 bunkers were built during World War II along the French shores to forestall an Allied landing-- the so-called "the Atlantic Wall." Decommissioned after the Allied invasion of Normandy, this elaborate defense system now lies aban . . . [bid or read more]

$395 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Hellen van Meene: Untitled (Scarce 1st Monograph) Excerpt from an interview with Jörg Colberg on his always excellent blog, Conscientious: Jörg Co . . . [bid or read more]

$495 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Machiel Botman: Drifting (Limited Edition with Print) A stunning and very scarce artist's book from the author of Rainchild produced for his 2005 exhibition at HUP Gallery in his Amsterdam. "Machiel Botman has always been in lo . . . [bid or read more]

$395 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Raul Corrales: Giron: Memorias de una Victoria, Bay of Pigs (+ 1 other) Giron: Memorias de una Victoria, Bay of Pigs. Photographs by Raul Corrales. Introduction by Rafael Acosta de Arriba. Percorsi Immaginari, Rome, 2001. 115 pp Quarto. Stiff, flexi boards in photo-illust . . . [bid or read more]

$195 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Nobuyoshi Araki: Japan Journey (SIGNED) "Araki is a superstar in Japan. You realize this if you chart his wake through the streets of Shinjuku--young girls screeching, yakuza gangsters pointing, salary men stopping dead in their tracks. No photographer in the West has this kind of public v . . . [bid or read more]

$345 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Ikko Narahara: Europe: Where Time Has Stopped One of the underrated classics!! Records Narahara's travels in Europe pre-Provoke, yet using the William Klein-influenced high contrasts and wide-angle composition. Breaks with the prevailing document . . . [bid or read more]

$850 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Kohei Yoshiyuki: Document Kouen (Document Park) "[Document Kouen] is a brilliant piece of social documentation, catching perfectly the loneliness, sadness and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo."--Parr & Badger, The Photobook, A H . . . [bid or read more]

$895 Inquire to Buy it Now

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