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
Photography
Imprints: David Plowden: A Retrospective.
Boston: Little Brown And Company, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. Illustrated with 170 b/w photos. A landmark retrospective of the career of one of the most acclaimed documentary photographers in America. Plowden has trained his attention on the remains of America's industrial past, capturing the vanishing rural and industrial..... More
A Sense of Place.
New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, pp. 158. Thoroughly illustrated with b/w photos by the author. Another beautiful book of vanishing America by photographer Plowden, this one documenting the landscape and people of rural Iowa and their agrarian way of life. More
David Plowden: Vanishing Point Fifty Years of Photography.
New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto, pp. 340. 235 b/w photos. A monumental retrospective collection of the career of photographer Plowden, whose works are housed in some of the best art museums in the country. A beautiful volume that captures the essence and importance of..... More
Farewell to Steam.
Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, 1966. Original edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 154. Indexed, richly illustrated with b/w photos by the author. An earlier book by Plowden, devoted to documenting the waning years of the steam age, specifically the grand old steamships, paddlewheel boats, and locomotives that moved vast numbers of..... More
Desert and Plain, the Mountains and the River: A Celebration of Rural America.
New York: Dutton, 1975. Hardcover. Oblong Octavo, pp. 95 + 65 b/w photographs. A stirring tribute to the people and places of rural America by New Yorker writer Roueché, illustrated by noted American photographer David Plowden, whose work has been exhibited extensively under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. More
Polaroid Land Photography.
New York Graphic Society, 1978. Revised. Hardcover. Small Quarto, pp. 307. Indexed, with Appendices. Illustrated with b/w and color photos. Revised and updated edition of Adams' 1963 book on the art of the Polaroid Land camera. A nice reference for the professional and hobby photographer alike, from one of the..... More
American Photographs in Europe.
Amsterdam: V U University Press, 1994. First edition. Original Wraps. Large Octavo, pp. 281. More
A Record in Detail; The Architectural Photographs of Jack E. Boucher
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
Forms in Europe.
Japan: Shinjo Publishing, 1984. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 165. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w photographs. Text in Japanese. Rare Japanese title, part of a photographer's series recording signage and other examples of visual design in Europe and the US. An unusual pictorial survey of various architectural details and..... More
Hoelen Romaeniens (Hollows of Romania).
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
Das Oesterreichische Lichtbild.
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
The Camera and Its Image.
New York: Ridge Press/Newsweek, 1979. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 240, indexed, richly illustrated. More
Chiapas Indigena.
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
Kurt Weill.
(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
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, with Alex Strasser and Janos Reissmann; In the Theater am Nollendorfplatz
(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
Marc and Ida Chagall.
(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
Max Planck.
(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
Max Reinhardt.
(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
Otto Klemperer.
(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
Rodgers and Hart.
(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
Wilhelm Fuertwaengler, in Overcoat and Hat.
(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
Pablo Casals, 1967 in Marlboro, Vermont.
(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
Einstein in the Leather Jacket.
(New York atelier): 1938. 8 x 10 Gelatin silver print. Pencil signed lower right. Taken during a sitting in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1938. Einstein was asked by Life magazine to sit for a photographer to do a photo series. He obliged, as long as the photographer was his Berlin..... More
Floor of the Sky: The Great Plains.
New York: Sierra Club, 1972. Original edition. Hardcover. Quarto, pp. 128. Illustrated with numerous b/w and color photos. A beautiful book of landscapes and portraits from the Great Plains region by one of America's best documentary photographers. More