Man as Art. New Guinea Body Decoration
London, Thames and Hudson, 1981. More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1981. More
Rochester, Humpy Press, 1972. The 'Fictcryptokrimsographs' of the title are manipulated polaroid photographs, most of them surrealist nudes. The phallo-nasal device of the Humpy Press appears gradually, flip book-style, on the last ten plates. Provenance: Melbourne photographer and pioneering gallerist Joyce Evans OAM (1929-2019), with her small gallery label on..... More
Rochester, Humpy Press, 1972. An unusual little book that defies easy categorisation. On one hand, it is a Jewish recipe book containing just three recipes: a chicken broth, 'kreplach' (dumplings), and matzo balls. It is also a photobook, featuring a matronly chef demonstrating the cooking steps, topless. Only later does..... More
Boston, David R. Godine, Publisher, 1975. Contemporary Photographers Series number 2. More
Camberwell, Lantern/ Penguin, 2010. Presentation warmly inscribed and signed by the publisher on the contents page. More
Bath, Callisto, 1999. Signed by the author. More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1963. The famous Australian Second World War photographer. More
The ink-stamp of the photographer ('J. Gazard, 111 King Wm. St., Adelaide') is on the verso, together with a pencilled caption reading: 'June 21 1905. Unveiling of the Monument to Colonel Light, the founder of Adelaide, in Light Square Adelaide, where his remains are buried'. Light Square became the burial..... More
New York, Aperture, 1988. With a essays by Mary Jo McConahay and Richard Rodriguez. More
Cairns, Lik, [2002?]. Loosely inserted is the publicity sheet for the book, with the photographer's business card and flyer for his gallery. More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. This book was published to wide critical acclaim. Lindt was awarded a gold medal at the 1888 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition, 'with special mention for his ethnological photographs, landscapes and photographs from shipboard; they are simply unique. From a technical point of view the..... More
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. Exhibition catalogue. More
San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1978. A Headlands Press book. More
Sydney, ABC Books/ Harper Collins Publishers, 2012. With numerous colour illustrations from photographs by John Bean and Gary Ticehurst. More
Sydney, ABC Books/ Harper Collins Publishers, 2014 (reprint)/ 2012. More
Sydney, ABC Books/ Harper Collins Publishers, 2012. More
The first image shows 665 'Lord of the Isles', a Problem class (or Lady of the Lake class) passenger locomotive. Clearly visible on the wheel arch is its build date, 'Jany 1863'. The second image shows 2146, a DX Goods class locomotive. Both locomotives are shown in 'photographic grey' livery..... More
South Brisbane, Queensland Performing Arts Trust, 2000. Exhibition catalogue. More
Adelaide, Carey, Page & Co., Printers ("Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision"), 1885. The lithographs are a frontispiece view after Skipper, 15 full-page portraits and one plate containing three portraits; the photographs are of the Governor (and dedicatee) Sir William Robinson (140x88mm, by Hammer and Co.) and Loyau (98x58mm..... More
Adelaide, Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced], 1880. A rare and desirable item, attested to by the provenance of this copy: it has the armorial bookplate of Charles Glover on the pastedown, and the blind-stamp of Sir Thomas Ramsay on the flyleaf ('T.M.R. |..... More
The photograph is accompanied by a typed letter signed by Peter Dennison, Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne, to the Hon. Barry Jones, Parliament House, Canberra (at that time the Minister for Science). The letter, dated 24 August 1987, goes into some detail about the circumstances surrounding the..... More
London, Thames & Hudson, 2000. More
New York, Morgan, 1983 (first edition). MacAdams' superb photographs: the "book was so long in making that it is nearly two books.... The first fantasy of an island of women giving way to a more sophisticated study of the nude" (from Kate Millett's preface). More
London, Harvill, 1994. More
[Wellington, Exposures Gallery, 1987]. Inscribed and signed by the author to the Melbourne photographer and pioneering gallerist Joyce Evans OAM (1929-2019). More