Alland alexander sr (10 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First US Edition. New York: Camera/Graphic Press, 1978. First American edition [1978]. Softcover with minimal edgewear, firm binding, pages clean and unmarked. First US Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover, unpag. (approx. 128 pgs), over 50 full-page sepia-toned images. 8.25 x 10.75 in. Very light surface/corner wear.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Text in English and Danish. Preface by Bjorn Ochsner. Over 50 sepia toned photographs. An about near fine copy in photo illustrated wrappers that are somewhat rubbed and also have a small faiint red mark to the bottom edge.

Zustand: Very Good. softcover, very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 220 pages. Features a preface by Ansel Adams and text by Alexander Alland, Sr. A collection of black and white images from this important American photographer who often worked to document the ills of society. A tight near fine copy in black cloth boards with some offsetting to the front and rear endpapers from the flaps of the near fine price clipped dust jacket with some sunning to and along the spine and edges. Still, a pleasing copy of this terrific book.…

Camera/Graphic Press, New York 1978. 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrations in b/w. Orig. softcover. Spine barely and evenly sunned and light traces of usage to cover. Near fine-. * Text in english and danish.

220 pp. Richly illustrated. Publisher's cloth with dustjacket. Jacket slightly faded on spine and with a 5 cm tear. Book condition: Near Fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Printing. 220 pages. Riis "took pictures to document and expose the everyday misery of the despairing and often unseen poor." - from Introduction. "The remarkable journalist and reformer Jacob Riis was the forerunner in America's great tradition of documentary photography. This book brings together for the first time a full selection of Riis's photographs and a detailed account of his extraordinary years with a camera. To Riis, an immigrant struggling to expose human misery in the slums of New York nearly a century ago, such other possibilities as art and self-expression were of no concern. He was a muckraking journalist, to whom fact was the 'mightiest lever', and he took up the camera only because it offered new firepower in his crusade for social justice. Self-taught, he became America's first true journalist-photographer - a pioneer in the use of flash and in obtaining entry to and photographing previously inaccessible slum dwellings." - from dust jacket. "The photographs are direct and penetrating, as raw as the sordid scenes which they so often represent." - Beaumont Newhall, in "History of Photography". Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. A worthy reference copy of this unforgettable compilation. Riis, Jacob A. (illustrator).…

4to. pp. [64 leaves-most versos blank]. Text in English & Danish. 59 illus. wrs.

Très bonne monographie abondamment illustrée de reproductions à pleine page de photographie de Jacob A. Riis, l'un des pionniers de la photographie sociale à l'aube du XXe siècle.