Imagining Paradise; The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at the George Eastman House, Rochester
Goettingen: Steidl / Edition7L, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, pp. 287, indexed. More
Goettingen: Steidl / Edition7L, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, pp. 287, indexed. More
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1988. First edition. Original Black Cloth. Quarto, pp. 104. A careful selection of Jack Boucher's photographs. Boucher was the primary photographer for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) for nearly 50 years. From the library of Old House Journal. More
Bucharest: Meridian Verlag, 1961. First edition. Cloth over Boards with Original Dust Jacket. quarto. 38-page bibliography plus 143 black and white photographs of the caves of Romania. scarce. text in German. More
Troppau, Germany: Verlag Heinz & Comp. 1933. First edition. Original beige Cloth, w/red title & design stamped on cover. Quarto, pp. 63 pages of text, interleaved with a 125-page section of photographic illustrations, which includes one color plate. First edition of this wonderful Austrian photography annual with essays on light..... More
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1961. First edition. Cloth over Boards, with Original Dust Jacket. quarto. 138 pp. well illustrated with black-and-white photographs. text in Spanish. More
(Atelier Berlin): ca. 1930. 8" x 10," Gelatin Silve Print. Pencil-signed lower left. As Bertolt Brecht's chief collaborator, in Berlin and in Hollywood, Kurt Weill achieved almost cult status. Jacobi's photographs of Weill are some of the most famous and most successful, and...most uncommon. A prime example of Jacobi's connectedness..... More
(Atelier Berlin): 1929. 9" x 7," Silver Gelatin Print. Pencil-signed lower left. This is a very important document of Lotte Jacobi's personal interest in the Weimar Berlin stage. Here she is busy photographing the rehearsals for Walter Mehring's "The Merchant of Berlin," capturing the set designer Moholy-Nagy together with Alex..... More
(New York Atelier): 1945. 10" x 8". Gelatin silver print. Pencil signed lower right and titled "Chagall" on verso in Jacobi's handwriting. After sitting for a series of photos for Lotte Jacobi (some with his daughter Ida), Chagall was presented with the resulting images. After studying them carefully, he pronounced..... More
(Berlin Atelier): ca. 1930. 6.5" x 9" (image, paper 8 x 10). Gelatin silver print. Pencil signed. Planck, a world famous scientist (physicist) and Nobel Prize winner, who was in Berlin in the Weimar Republic. A very uncommon Jacobi image. More
(Atelier New York): 1938. special platinum print edition by printer Carlos Richardson. 8" x 10," Platinum Print. Pencil-signed lower right. Also pencil signed by the printer, Carlos Richardson. Lotte Jacobi had known Max Reinhardt and his stage from their days in Berlin. She immediately re-connected with him (and partner Helene..... More
(Atelier Berlin): ca 1930. 8" x 10," gelatin silver print. Pencil-signed lower right. One of the scarcest of Jacobi's prints. All of her images of musicians and conductors are very hard to locate. More
(New York Atelier): (1940s). 10 x 8; Gelatin Silver Print. Pencil-signed lower right. A very rare glimpse of two giants in the American music scene, at the piano. An extremely scarce image in Jacobi's body of work. More
(Atelier Berlin): 1930. 8" x 10," Silver Gelatin Print. Pencil-signed lower right. Lotte Jacobi had known many of the prominent figures in the theater and classical music world of Weimar Berlin, where she was one of the most active photographers. This dates from that period and is one of her..... More
(Atelier New Hampshire): 1967. 8" x 10," Gelatin Silver Print. Signed in pen lower left. One of the scarcest of all "artistic" images of Lotte Jacobi, taken in Marlboro, Vermont in 1967. We have original correspondence between Lotte Jacobi and Casals, which can be sold as a lot, for possible..... More
Shaun O'Boyle, n.d. (ca. 2007). Original edition. Blue Linen over Boards. Oblong Octavo, pp. 62. Collection of color and b/w photos. A beautiful and haunting collection of photographs of the abandoned boats at a marine wreckers yard filled with navy PT boats, steam tug boats, steam ferries, barges, fire boats..... More
New York: Nan A. Talese, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, pp. 546, indexed, illustrated w/ b/w photographs. More
Cologne: Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000. First edition. Original Cloth. Folio (10 1/2 X 12 1/2), pp. 239, the third volume in the Photography Index series, concentrates entirely on contemporary nude photography. Shows work of over 100 photographers. Appendix contains addresses of al the photographers. More
New York: Knopf, 1993. First edition, as stated. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 318, indexed, richly illustrated w. b/w and color reproductions, b/w photographs. More
Cologne: Agfa Foto-Historama/Braus, 1989. First edition. Cloth over Boards w/Dust Jacket. Quarto, pp. 696, indexed, richly illustrated w/ color and b/w photographs. Text in German. Beautifully made, scarce book, a comprehensive history of the development of photography in Germany, with particular attention to the technical aspects. More
Zurich: Peter Schifferli, 1960. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Square 12 Mo, pp. 116, richly illustrated w/ b/w photographs and drawings. Very scarce in US, by film pioneer Eisenstein. More
New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 1976. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Oblong Octavo, pp. 12, profusely illustrated w/ 14 b/w plates. Attractive photobook, a sequel to the classic "American Monuments," one of Roth's 101 seminal photography books. More
Berlin: Galerie Taube, 1984. First edition. Spiral Bound Wraps. 12 Mo exhibition catalog plus 14 x 18 b/w exhibition poster featuring Blossfeldt photograph from Urformen der Kunst. Catalog pp. 8 plus laid in exhibition schedule. Richly illustrated w/ b/w photographs, 5 4x5 of Blossfeldt works, 4 thumbnails, 2 of Blossfeldt..... More
Berlin: Galerie Taube, 1979. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Small octavo, pp. 14, sensationally illustrated w/ tipped in original photograph (3 1/4" x 2 3/4") by Jacobi, numberd 43/120, plus 8 b/w reproduced photographs. It's impossible to say enough about the original Jacobi included in this catalog; the eight reproduced photos..... More
University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Cloth over Boards. 462 pp. A fascinating history of 'photography in all its manifestations, whether exalted, humble, or even ridiculous . The authors examine photographic ephemera and humor, photography and the law, the photographic studio experience, photography and travel, photography and journalism..... More
New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2004. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 231, richly illustrated w/ b/w photographs and reproductions. More