Welcome to photo-eye Auctions! Auction Director Eric Miles has skipped town for an intimate weekend of family camping in the Berkshires with about thirty 3 to 5 year-old kids and their parents. He's left a trove of fantastic selections on the auction block. Leading off is a major Koudelka rarity, a SIGNED copy of the Czech magazine Respekt devoted to Koudelka's photos of the Soviet invasion of 1968. A must for Koudelka fans! There's been a new wave of interest in early color photography in recent years. Long before Eggleston and Shore, Keld Helmer-Petersen: 122 Color Photographs (1948) was a "remarkably early and largely successful attempt to make color photography work." (Parr & Badger). Also up, signed books by Sebastiäo Salgado, Susan Meiselas, Sally Mann, Ray K. Metzker and much more! Thanks as always for looking!! Read our F.A.Q.s.

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Josef Koudelka: Respekt (1968 Prague Invasion Photos!)--SIGNED!! Issue devoted to Koudelka's photos of the Soviet invasion of 1968. A rare Koudelka item, even more so signed! The design of this issue of the Czech weekly is ultimately reflected much later in the won . . . [bid or read more]

$995 1d 15h 55m [bid]

 

Sebastião Salgado: Migrations (SIGNED) "In Migrations Sebastião Salgado turns his attention to the staggering phenomenon of mass migration. Photographs taken over seven years across more than thirty-five countries document the epic displac . . . [bid or read more]

$265 1d 16h 0m [bid]

 

Sebastião Salgado: Sahel--The End of the Road (SIGNED) In 1984, Salgado released Sahel: L'Homme en Detresse through a French publisher. It was his first book and was quickly followed by the ICP Photojournalist of the Year award in 1988. This is its first . . . [bid or read more]

$95 1d 16h 5m [bid]

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Keld Helmer-Petersen: 122 Color Photographs "In the history of photography, that is to say the history of photography according to the art museum, color photography became an artistically viable medium around the early 1970s, with the emergence . . . [bid or read more]

$995 1d 16h 10m [bid]

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William Eggleston: Elvis at Graceland "...The only [of Eggleston's] publication[s] which is more specifically place-related is Graceland. For this project, Eggleston photographed Elvis Presley's villa in Memphis, a masterpiece of bad tast . . . [bid or read more]

$225 1d 16h 15m [bid]

 

Susan Meiselas: Carnival Strippers (SIGNED!) Included in Roth, The Book of 101 Books. Writing there David Levi Strauss called this book "a remarkably human document." Meiselas was accepted into the prestigious Magnum agency the year it wa . . . [bid or read more]

$195 1d 16h 20m [bid]

 

Karin Apollonia Müller: Angels in Fall (SIGNED) "Müller was born in Heidelberg, studied at the Folkwang School in Essen. She creates powerful photographs with a muted palette and low contrast By juxtaposing the human figure (actual or implied) subt . . . [bid or read more]

$245 1d 16h 25m [bid]

 

Lewis Baltz: Park City Along with Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz is the key practitioner of a coolly minimalist style of landscape photography that arose in the early 1970s, largely in response to the grandiose, operatic scenes . . . [bid or read more]

$265 1d 16h 30m [bid]

 

Sally Mann: Flesh and Spirit (SIGNED) Voted on of the photo-eye Best Books of 2010 by: Elizabeth Avedon, Marco Delogu, Colin Pantall & Jörg M. Colberg "Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit is the first in-depth exploration of this wo . . . [bid or read more]

$195 1d 16h 35m [bid]

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Ray K. Metzker: City Stills (SIGNED) + Composites A rare signed copy of a key Metzker title! "Metzker was born in 1931 in Milwaukee and attended the Institute of Design, Chicago--a renowned school that had a few years earlier been dubbed t . . . [bid or read more]

$295 1d 16h 40m [bid]

 

Aaron Siskind (and Walt Whitman): Song of the Open Road (SIGNED, Limited Edition with 6 Gravures) Siskind's final body of work consisted of painterly, abstract photographs of road tar patterns. In this lavish production, they are reproduced in rich, inky gravure and juxtaposed with Whitman's 1856 . . . [bid or read more]

$695 1d 16h 45m [bid]

 

Robert Frank: Gli Americani (The Americans)--Scarce 1st Italian Edition (1958)! "...paved the way for three decades of photographs exploring the personal poetics of lived experience. Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memora . . . [bid or read more]

$1865 1d 16h 50m [bid]

 

Leigh Bowery (1st Ed., Major Monograph) True first edition, not to be confused with a later Violette Editions publication on Bowery. Leigh Bowery (1959-1994) was, among other things, a performance arti . . . [bid or read more]

$265 1d 16h 55m [bid]

 

Nancy Rexroth: Iowa (SIGNED) Rexroth used a "Diana" camera (a plastic toy camera) for this six-year long project. These selenium and gold toned prints are vignettes that unlock the Midwestern atmospheres of her childhood. Rexroth . . . [bid or read more]

$265 1d 17h 0m [bid]

 

Richard Prince: Adult Comedy Action Drama "Adult Comedy Action Drama is a kind of self-portrait of the artist as individual consumer. Or one might think of it as landscape photography, where the landscape is consumerism...Richard Prince, alwa . . . [bid or read more]

$195 1d 17h 0m [bid]

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Hiroshi Hamaya: Record of Anger and Sadness [Ikari to Kanashimi no Kiroku] A key book in the history of Japanese photography, this early protest book by Hiroshi Hamaya followed his well-known books on the Japanese countryside [bid or read more]

$265 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Michael Lesy: Wisconsin Death Trip "[Author Michael] Lesy discovered a striking archive of black and white photographs in the town of Black River Falls dating from the 1890’s and married a selection of these images to extracts from the . . . [bid or read more]

$195 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Sugimoto (Dioramas, Theaters, Seascapes--1988 Exhibition Catalogue) The first major publication dedicated to the work of Sugimoto. Fantastically rare, it features gorgeous reproductions from three bodies of work that have since become iconic. . . . [bid or read more]

$995 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Krass Clement: Skygger Af Øjeblikke + Berlin Notat + Paris. Carnet de recherche (3 Books) Skygger af øjeblikke (Shadows of Moments). Photographs by Krass Clement. Erichsen, København, 1978. 61 pp. Quarto. [8 1/2 x 10 1/4 in/22 x 26 cm.] Hardbound. Photo-illustrated boards. No jacket . . . [bid or read more]

$1495 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

(Anonymous) The Great Hall of the People (Portfolio of Twenty Photos) Like Albert Speer in Nazi Germany, Chinese architects knew full well the potential of architecture to advance the power of the state. Though they blended in certain indigenous elements, The Great Hall . . . [bid or read more]

$1995 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Yutaka Takanashi: Tokyoites (Tokyo-Jin)--SIGNED A rare publication--especially signed--in an idiosyncratic format by one of the original Provoke members. Highly Recommended! "Yutaka Takanashi’s work creates a biographical record of Tokyo and its r . . . [bid or read more]

$895 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Yasuhiro Yoshioka [Self-Pulbished, 1962 Monograph by Famed Cinematographer to Oshima] Yoshioka's moody, abstracted nudes are composed in grainy high-contrast tonalities that will undoubtedly appeal to fans of Eikoh Hosoe's contemporaneous Man and . . . [bid or read more]

$425 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Nobuyoshi Araki: Oh Nippon! A rare copy of Araki's first conventionally published book (just one privately published book preceded it)! Stylistically similar to his slightly earlier Xeroxed books, its eroticism is more innocent- . . . [bid or read more]

$1995 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Michael Cooper: Blinds & Shutters (SIGNED by Ten Contributors) A sprawling illustrated oral history of rock-and-roll and its context in the sixties centering mostly on the Beatles and Rolling Stones, but also casting a much wider net. . . . [bid or read more]

$995 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Josef Koudelka: Invaze. '68 (SIGNED)--Rare Czech Edition! "In 1968, Josef Koudelka was a thirty-year-old acclaimed theater photographer who never photographed a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city o . . . [bid or read more]

$495 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Saul Leiter: 2008 Steidl Monograph (SIGNED) "I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I collaborated with Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. I was constantly awar . . . [bid or read more]

$595 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Andreas Gursky: Montparnasse A key work in the Dusseldorf School canon! "By the very nature of his work Gursky is primarily a gallery artist [as an exhibition print, Montparnasse was printed over 13 ft--4 m.--long!], but he has m . . . [bid or read more]

$1995 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

Philip-Lorca diCorcia: A Storybook Life (Limted Edition, SIGNED) "The disparate photographs assembled here were made over the course of twenty years. None of them were originally intended to be used in this book. By ordering and shaping them I tried to investigate . . . [bid or read more]

$295 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

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 Inquire to Buy it Now

 

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 Inquire to Buy it Now

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