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Licking the Skull: A Retrospectacle of Photographic Works by Ira Cohen
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIra Cohen
New York: Cythia Broan Gallery, 2000.Catalogue of the photographic works of post-beat American poet and photographer Ira Cohen (1935-2011). Essays by Michale Rothenberg and Ian MacFadyen. Subjects include butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, guitarist Jimi Hendrix, and a host of others from Indian mystics to American creatives.
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Show Me! A Picture Book of Sex for Children and Parents
Read MoreWill McBride; Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1975.Originally published in German as ‘Zeig Mal!’, this is the first edition in English. Show Me! is a graphic sex education book written in a frank style to encourage teaching “children to grow up proud and unashamed of their bodies and sexuality.” The publisher was accused of obscenity, with prosecutors arguing the book was child pornography. In all of the original cases judges ruled the book was not obscene, though the book continued to feature in US court cases relating to obscenity, child pornography, and the First Amendment, and was eventually pulled from shelves by the publisher “stating that though they believed Show Me! was not pornographic, they could no longer afford the legal expenses to defend it”. An important work both in the history of sex education and book censorship.
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MAX. Photographs by Max Vadukul
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Vadukul
New York: Callaway, 2000.Large format fashion photobook.
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The Monograph
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHerbert List
New York: The Monacelli Press, 2000. -
Untitled Nudes
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSimon Harsent
New York: Simon Harsent, 2001.Large format photo book of nudes by English born Australian photographer Simon Harsent during his time in New York.
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California Trip
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDennis Stock
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1970.Photobook of Magnum photographer Dennis Stock’s 1968 5-week road trip along the California highways, documenting the height of the counterculture hippie scene. This is the larger format first printing softcover.
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Change
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMikiko Hara; Stephen Dixon
New York: The Gould Collection, 2016.The first volume of The Gould Collection pairing Stephen Dixon’s short story Change with Mikiko Hara’s Tokyo photographs from 1996 to 2009. This copy signed by both Hara and Dixon on a tipped in sheet.
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Illuminance
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRinko Kawauchi
New York: Aperture, 2011.Second printing of the first edition (a tenth-anniversary edition was published in 2021). The first of the Japanese photographer’s books to be published outside of Japan. Essay by David Chandler.
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JGS: Witness Number Two
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDaido Moriyama
New York: Joy of Giving Something, Inc., 2007.The second in the JGS Witness series presenting works from Shanghai by Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama, together with contributions from Emi Anrakuji and Ken Kitano.
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Ametsuchi
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRinko Kawauchi
New York: Aperture, 2013.“Inspired by two Japanese characters meaning heaven and earth and taken from the title of one of the oldest pangrams in Japanese–a chant in which each character of the Japanese syllabary is used. In Ametsuchi, Kawauchi brings together images of distant constellations and tiny figures lost within landscapes, as well as photographs of a traditional style of controlled-burn farming (yakihata) in which the cycles of cultivation and recovery span decades and generations. Punctuating the series are images of Buddhist rituals and other religious ceremonies–a suggestion of other means by which humankind has traditionally attempted to transcend time and memory.” (from Aperture website)
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Mushrooms, Russia and History
AU$14,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartValentina Pavolvna Wasson; R. Gordon Wasson
New York: Pantheon Books, 1957.The founding work of ethnomycology. One of 512 numbered copies.
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Old Women
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrantisek Halas; Ivan Ruzicka; Robert E. Marx
New York: Vestal, 1966.Old Women by Frantisek Halas, written in Czech, was first published in 1935, and here translated into English by Ivan Rizicka with etchings by Robert Marx. One of 25 signed and numbered copies printed in colour (a further 20 numbered copies in black and white also produced).
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Art of Africa
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Kerchache; Jean-Louis Paudrat; Lucien Stephan
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993.First Edition in English, translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager. With an essay, The Principal Ethnic Groups of African Art by Francoise Stoullig-Marin.
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Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock’s Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands of China
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Aris
New York: China House Gallery, 1992. -
Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition & Continuity
AU$10,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Schuster; Edmund Carpenter; Lorraine Spiess.
New York: Rock Foundation, 1986-88.Based on the Researches & Writings of Carl Schuster. Edited & Written by Edmund Carpenter. Assisted by Lorraine Spiess. A cornerstone of comparative anthropology, mythology, and art history. This monumental work draws on the vast ethnographic record assembled by American art historian Carl Schuster (1904-1969). Schuster died suddenly of cancer, leaving the material unpublished. Carpenter spent nearly two decades editing Schuster’s archive into this twelve-volume synthesis. The result is an epic survey of visual and mythic patterns: from Paleolithic Europe to the tribal societies of Oceania, the Americas, and Africa. Issued privately in a very small edition distributed directly to museums and researchers Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism is likely the most comprehensive documentation and analysis of traditional symbolism ever published.
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The Illustrated Delta of Venus
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnais Nin; Bob Carlos Clarke
New York: Gallery Books, 1980.The first book of erotic photography by British-Irish photographer Robert Carlos Clarke (1950-2006) that has been called “the British Helmut Newton”.
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The Leatherman’s Handbook II: Updated Second Edition
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Carlyle Communications, 1989.A completely new sequel to the definitive exploration of the gay S&M leather scene.
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Chains
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Badboy, 1994.One of the many gay erotic pulp novels produced in the mid to late 20th century. These short sexually explicit stories, many of which were formulaic and published in easily recognisable series with graphically illustrated covers and titillating titles each targeting a specific sexual niche, demonstrate the breadth of sexual fantasy, occupation, desire, and deviance of the emerging homosexual culture.
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Golden Boy as Anthony Cool: A Photo Essay on Naming and Graffiti
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHerbert Kohl; James Hinton
New York: The Dial Press, 1972.Important early study of urban text graffiti and tagging in New York. More than just a photobook, though Hinton’s work definitely gives it that distinction, Kohl, founder of the 1960s Open School movement, provides lengthy and invaluable insight into language and identity.
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Fille de Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of the Evening, Madams, a Few Occasionals & Some Royal Favorites
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVarious Authors
New York: Grove Press, 1967.An anthology of images and text.