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. Robert Frank & Allen Ginsberg This week we're pleased to offer an amazing image of the Beat era, Robert Frank's 1959 portrait of his friend Allen Ginsberg. Four photos by Allen Ginsberg, also on offer, look back at Ginsberg's Beat lineage, forward to its mid-sixties proto-hippie incarnation, and beyond to the gazes exchanged by two éminences grise. Thanks for watching!

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Robert Frank: Portrait of Allen Ginsberg,1959 (Early 70s Print!) An image that crystallizes a lifelong friendship, taken at one of the most mythologized moments in American cultural life. . . . [bid or read more]

$7995 49m [bid]

 

Allen Ginsberg: 'City Lights Bookshop', 1956 Snapped by Peter Orlovsky, this iconic shot of a core group of the Beat writers not quite at the height of their powers was taken . . . [bid or read more]

$1095 54m [bid]

 

Allen Ginsberg: Neal Cassady & Natalie Jackson, Market Street, San Francisco, 1955 In a later caption for this image Ginsberg wrote, "Cassady had been prototype for Kerousac's late 40's On the Road saga hero . . . [bid or read more]

$995 59m [bid]

 

Allen Ginsberg: Portrait of Robert Frank, 1984 During a portrait shoot for for the cover of his soon-to-be released "Collected Poems, Ginsberg turns the camera on his friend. Taken in Frank's 17 Bleeker St. studio. . . . [bid or read more]

$1095 1h 4m [bid]

 

Allen Ginsberg: 'Timothy Leary, Neal Cassady--with 'Merry Pranksters' on the 'Further' Bus', 1964 One of Ginsberg's most iconic 60s pictures--Timothy Leary and Neal Cassady on the infamous 'Further' Bus. "" YOU'RE EITHER ON . . . [bid or read more]

$1095 1h 14m [bid]

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Man Ray: Photographs 1920-1934 "Man Ray imbued everyday scenes with drama and mystery, making the familiar feel strange and unsettling. Buildings and landscapes are photographed from odd angles with dramatic shadows. The edge of a . . . [bid or read more]

$1245 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Charles Holme (ed.): Art in Photography: (Special Summer Number of With chapters divided by country, this important collection of early 20th century photographic art includes most of the major names from the period. Among the represented included are J. Craig Annan, . . . [bid or read more]

$300 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Leni Riefenstahl: Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf (SIGNED!) Writing in The Book of 101 Books, David Levi Strauss says of this book, "These are such exquisite, transcendentally beautiful images of athletes, that one almost forgets their context." Schönhe . . . [bid or read more]

$795 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Chicago Chicago (1992 Wall Calender) Ishimoto was included in Otto Steinerts second 'Subjecktive Fotografie exhibition. Yasuhiro Ishimoto published two books on Chicago Someday, Somewhere (1960) and Chicago, Chicago (1969); the latter is . . . [bid or read more]

$95 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Herbert Baldwin: A War Photographer in Thrace (1912 edition!) An account by Herbert Baldwin, press photographer of Central News Ltd., of London, of his personal experiences during the war of 1912 between Turkey and the Allied Balkan States. In addition to provid . . . [bid or read more]

$695 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

John Werge: The Evolution of Photography (1890) An historical and anecdotal discussion of 19th century photographic history. "Interesting [and] opinionated early history with dates for many photomechanical patents in England. 4 Collotype plates"--H . . . [bid or read more]

$245 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Otto Steinert: (ed.): Subjektive Fotografie + Subjektive Fotografie 2 (2 Books) OTTO STEINERT (editor) Subjektive Fotografie. Ein Bildband moderner europischer Fotografie -- Subjective Photography. A Collection of Modern European Photography. Photographs by numerous artists. . . . [bid or read more]

$995 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

André Kertész/György Bölöni: Az Igazi Ady (The Real Ady)--Rare 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]

$595 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Jozsef Pecsi: A fenykepezo muveszete. Mumellekletekkel (The Art of Photography)--1928 2nd Ed.! The 1928 revised edition with all new photos of A fenykepezo muveszete (The Art of Photography), Jozsef Pecsi's key 1916 book on the theory and practice of photography. Jozsef Pecsi (1889- . . . [bid or read more]

$375 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Jozsef Pecsi: A fenykepezo muveszete. Mumellekletekkel (The Art of Photography)--1916 1st Ed.! A fenykepezo muveszete (The Art of Photography) is the first book by Jozsef Pecsi, offered here in an incredibly rare first edition (it was revised and updated with all new photographs for the 192 . . . [bid or read more]

$995 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Edward Curtis (illus.): Flute of the Gods This mystico-historical romance recounts the coming of the white man to the pueblos of the southwestern desert (just up the road from photo-eye headquarters in Santa Fe, NM!). It is very much part of . . . [bid or read more]

$130 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Candle Lighting Time (Photographs by Hampton Institute Camera Club) Nice copy of a not uncommon book. An important piece of turn-of-the-century popular culture. Paul Laurence Dunbar's poems highlight the dialect of turn-of-the-century African-Americans, introducing th . . . [bid or read more]

$145 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Karl Blossfeldt: Konstformer I Naturen (Art Forms in Nature--Incredibly Rare Swedish Edition!) A rare find!! This is the extremely rare Swedish edition of Blossfeldt's much-loved Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature). Unlike the better known German, English, and French editions that are boun . . . [bid or read more]

$995 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Bill Brandt: A Night in London (+ 1 other) I photographed pubs, common lodging houses at night, theatres, Turkish baths, prisons and people in their bedrooms. London has changed so much that some of these pictures now have a period charm al . . . [bid or read more]

$1695 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Alvin Langdon Coburn: Men of Mark "To make satisfactory photographs of persons it is necessary for me to like them, to admire them, or at least to be interested in them. It is rather curious and difficult to exactly explain, but if I . . . [bid or read more]

$5495 Inquire to Buy it Now

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