Kyonen - Nobuyoshi Araki - 1st Edition, AaT Room & Eyesencia, 2002

First Edition, published by Kehrer Verlag & Kestnergesellschaft, Germany, 2008. With two volumes, one for each artist, housed jointly in a slipcase, this is a brilliant pictorial di...

First Edition, published by Heibonsha Limited, Japan, 2005. Two of the most celebrated Japanese photographers, Nobuyoshi Araki who says “I do battle erotically”, and Daido Moriyama ...

First Edition, published by Kodansha International, Japan, 2003. A record of the career of Nobuyoshi Araki, photomaniac and permanent enfant terrible of the Japanese art world. Publ...

First edition, limited to 3000 copies, published by PPP Editions, New York, 2002. Signed by Daido Moriyama at title page. “In 1971, Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama took a trip to New York City with Tadanori Yokoo. He stayed at the Chelsea Hotel and spent his days in The Museum of Modern Art Photography Study Center looking at pictures taken by Weegee. He shot 100 rolls of film with a half-frame camera, yielding 70 images per roll. Some of those pictures are presented here.” With hundreds of high quality black and white reproductions on heavy paper, and signed by Daido Moriyama at the title page, this classic photobook is immediately recognisable as Moriyama’s work, with his high-contrast, grainy and seemingly fleeting style. Including an interview with Moriyama, an essay by art writer and curator Neville Wakefield, and an appropriately chosen exact from James Baldwin’s Another Country, this is an involving record of Moriyama’s trip to a changing New York seen...

First Italian Edition, published by Contrasto, Rome, 2002. Text in Italian. This Italian edition of William Klein's dynamic and influential portrait of the city of Paris is a stun...

1st Edition 2002 by Ferrari Fulvio published by Umberto Allemandi text English A very rare and important book with beautiful photographs throughout principally in colour. Lamps ar...

“This book reveals everything about me. It’s been a 60-year contract. Photography is love and death—that’ll be my epitaph.” —Araki The first title in our new TASCHEN limited seri...

Porch Presence: Interior design for the Exterior Room, by Sally Fennell. Grove Weidenfeld Press, New York, 1990. Stated 1st Edition hardcover with dust jacket. It begins with a histo...

Willard Metcalf, Yankee Impressionist. New York: Spanierman Gallery, LLC, 2003. 1st Ed hardcover with no dust jacket as issued. 151 pp. Exhibition catalogue on the work of Willard Me...

The history of Postmodern Architecture by Heinrich Klotz. Cambridge MA; The MIT Press, 1988. This first standard work on the past 25 years in postmodern architecture documents the ri...

Van Gogh a Retrospective 1986 1st edition. Large beautiful heavy hardcover coffee table book. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Dimensions:13.50 X 10.5 X 1.50 inches. * Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hugh Lauter Levin Associates; First edition. (January 1, 1986) * Language ‏ : ‎ English * Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 385 pages Synopsis: This is a very useful book. If you are interested only in the reproductions (good drawings as well as paintings), you will enjoy their high quality--and the breadth of Vincent's work that they cover. If you are interested in primary resources about van Gogh's life--newspaper articles; letters and reminiscences from friends, fellow artists, relatives--this volume is a real treasure. Between the excellent reproductions and the extraordinarily fine collection of biographical materials, this must be the best one-volume source on van Gogh. By the time he died in 1890 at the age of thirty-seven Vincent van Gogh had painted hundreds of pictures, yet sold only a few. Today his paintings sell for millions of dollars each, and his life as an artist is legendary. He is the quintessential modern artist, operating on the edge of his sensibilities, where life and art are inextricably bound together. Van Gogh : a retrospective tells the story of the great Dutch artist as a single volume has never told it before, illuminating his work with a fascination selection of primary texts, including some of Van Gogh's letters. In 125 superb color reproductions and 103 black-and-white illustrations, the struggles and triumphs of Van Gogh's art are surveyed from the early dark landscapes and paintings of Dutch and Belgian laborers to the bright, intense visions of Paris, Arles, Saint Remy, and Auvers, where he took his life. Complementing the works are pertinent photographs from the period and portraits of the artist by Toulouse-Lautrec, Emile Bernard, Paul Gauguin, and others. Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. From Publishers Weekly "He did not paint his pictures; it was like he exhaled them in a gasping, boiling breath," one German critic aptly wrote of Van Gogh. Reminiscences of the artist by friends and passing acquaintances, letters from his brother Theo and appreciations by critics and artists make up the text of this handsomely packaged potpourri. For Margritte, the blind force of Van Gogh's obsessions made the tortured artist an unfree man. To Kokoschka, the tension in the painter's famous sunflowers and undulating cypresses speak of the fragility of an easygoing lifestyle in a mechanized age. Each artist seems to confront his or her own concerns when analyzing Van Gogh. Jean Renoir, Francoise Gilot, Gauguin and Klee are among the commentators. One hundred twenty-five superior color reproductions and 103 halftones remind us that Van Gogh could do a very formal Still Life with Coffeepot, a street scene ablaze with fauve-like color or the solemn, biblical Raising of Lazarus...

Hundertwasser Architecture 1997 Taschen 1st Edition. Hard cover black cloth with gilt lettering, Includes wrap around die cut band, 317 pages. Catalogue Raisonne of Hundertwasser arc...