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Life’s a Beer
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis
Melbourne: Ross Books, 1984.A continuation of Rennie Ellis’ ‘Life’s a…’ series. Australians enjoying beer, casually at the beach or in private settings, or wildly, at raucous parties in all of their 1980s glory.
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Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRyan Pfluger
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2022.“Throughout 2020 and 2021, artist, advocate and photographer Ryan Pfluger set out to capture intimate images of queer, interracial couples, along with personal insight into their relationships in todays world. Featured together for the first time in this book, this unique collection of modern love in its many forms across the spectrum of race, sexuality, and gender identity and gives space to these couples to share short, revealing stories about their relationships. The photos in this collection, and the people in them, can be startling in their openness, playful in their poses, and tender to their core. Pfluger has captured the magic, honesty, and beauty of love in todays queer culture.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Helmut Newton: [SUMO]
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHelmut Newton; June Newton
Koln: Taschen, 2019.Published 20 years after the original SUMO, one the biggest feats of 20th century art publishing. Includes the Celebrating 20 Years of Sumo booklet.
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The Male Figure Volume Thirty-Five [35]
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce of Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Bruce of Los Angeles, 1966.The penultimate issue of physique photography of LA bodybuilders by Bruce Bellas (1909-1974), more commonly known as Bruce of Los Angeles. The final two issues in a slightly larger format. In this issue: John Bennett, Billy Parks, Ralph Kleiner, Frank Nisi, Big John Clark, Tom Vanselow, Jerry Rogers by Mel Roberts, Chuck Baker by Milo, Dale Hepburn, John Quincy Adams by Milo, Bill Melby, Bob Jackson, Dean Densman, Dennis Densman, LeRoy Williams & Elmer Matt.
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The Male Figure Volume VIII, Spring, 1958
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce of Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Bruce of Los Angeles, 1958.Single issue of physique photography of LA bodybuilders by Bruce Bellas (1909-1974), more commonly known as Bruce of Los Angeles. In this issue: Meet Jerry Roquemore, Mr. Apollo contest, Edgar Hayes, Harry Miller, Cowboys of the West, and Steven Wengryn.
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Nobuyoshi Araki: A Life in Photography
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNobuyoshi Araki
Kyoto: Seigensha, 2020.Six decades of life as a photographer, in his own words.
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The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnne Marsh
Melbourne: Macmillan, 2003.“Anne Marsh’s treatise on the art of photography traces its theoretical underpinning from the early debates between the rationalists and the fantasists, through psychoanalytical interpretations, to the theatre of desire. She investigates the role of photography in ghostly performances, the masking of desire, and high camp aesthetics – through to performance art and the role of the photographer as a gender terrorist – as in the work of Del LaGrace Volcano. The study concludes with notable examples of postmodern photography as they have occurred in the Australian context. This ground-breaking work by a leading Monash University academic will interest all students of photography and followers of recent trends in art and art theory.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Encounter at Nagalarramba
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRoslyn Poignant; Axel Poignant
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1996.A photographic and written account of Axel Poignant’s expedition to the Liverpool River in Arnhem Land in 1952.
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Tutta la Solitudine che Meritate. Viaggio in Islanda
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClaudio Giunta; Giovanna Silva
Macerata and Milan: Quodlibet Humboldt, 2013.All the Solitude you Deserve. Trip to Iceland. With text by Claudio Giunta and photographs by Giovanna Silva. This is the story of a trip through Iceland detailing the history, culture, music, and books, illustrated with images of the magnificent landscape.
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Above and Below
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMick Richards
Gold Coast: Keeaira Press, 2022.“Mick Richards is a Brisbane-based artist. This book is a survey of over 200 photographs, selected from more than half a million film and digital images from 1984-2021. Richard’s remarkable social documentary photography has taken him to Asia, South America, the Pacific and Europe. His photogrpahs expose social codes, rituals, and traditions. They reveal community leadership and resilience; unspoken power by exposing colonial realities and dysfunction; they highlight social-cultural acceptance on sports grounds, in clubs, theatres and galleries. They cover the field.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Real Great Society Album
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartScott Hyde
New Jersey: Bayonne Publishing Co., No date.Multiple exposure collages of classical nudes, American themes, and streetscapes.
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Fugitive Text
AU$70.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Maloney
Melbourne: M.33, 2022.“Fugitive Text draws together photographic diptychs and triptychs made since the mid-1990s in response to the artist’s experience of love, desire and loss through the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It incorporates photographs taken in-camera as well as images drawn from a variety of sources, including vintage photographs found in flea markets and images re-photographed from pornography and popular culture. The photographs views of architectural and public spaces, flowers, nudes, images of sea and sky are paired and, in most cases, overpainted with text anecdotes, fragments drawn from memory, popular verse and queer culture. The images draw on Peter Maloneys experience of the HIV/AIDS pandemic (as an HIV-positive person who lost much of their social group during the 1980s and early 1990s) and on photographys specific relationship to memory, time and place, and testimony. Combined with scraps of text, the images become memory fragments. The memories suggested by these works are those of someone remembering love and loss friends and lovers lost to HIV/AIDS, and also the moments of desire, risk and sensation that in a way mark the queer experience of time and space. The book, with its exposed spine and multiple fold out triptychs, was designed by Elliott Bryce Foulkes and is in itself an object of exceptional beauty. The works are accompanied by texts by the prominent American author and cultural critic Lynne Tillman and writer and curator Shaune Lakin.” (publisher’s blurb)
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tempete apres tempete
AU$70.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRebekka Deubner
[Gent]: Art Paper Editions, 2021.“Ive been meeting you through a strip of land, called Fukushima-ken emerging of the Pacific ocean. The scenery I am wandering around is made of water and cells — randomly forming pink-whitish seaweed, shiny epidermis, teeming caves, narrow pupils, raven hair. Shamelessly Im strolling around the offered pieces of the landscape’s body. Hidden behind my telephoto lens, I am gazeating every detail of it, responding to an urge to feel and seize all the shapes emerging from the still fertile breach of a disaster and its offspring. Keiko, Natsumi, Hayato, Hitoshi, Junka, Hisashi and AsamiIf I am lucky, your defense caves in and I’ll get close, collecting scattered pieces of you and soft gestures — a face revolving — a folding hand — lips opening — a winking eyelid — my pictures become the films stills of a slow sequence shot which wasnt filmed. Suggesting the missing images from the in-between, calling out to us to fill the gaps while the nocturnal fauna of the sea is swarming through the seaweed, feeding itself on the leftovers of the wave(s).” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Dark Wood
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDanielle Mericle
[Los Angeles] and [Melbourne]: The Ice Plant and Perimeter Editions, 2021.“Danielle Mericle’s The Dark Wood explores broad questions of history and our collective ability to document and learn from the past. Through intertwined images of abandoned Greco-Roman casts, an ancient Sequoia forest and the artists own texts, Mericle invites us to consider history as a fluid process rather than a static truth. The once highly valued casts — which appear in the book as original and archival photographs — were rejected as worthless copies during the early part of the 20th century, under the belief that they lacked the artistry and aura of the originals, despite the fact that many of the originals were in fact Roman copies of Greek artefacts. During the two World Wars, many of these originals were damaged or destroyed, and the casts are now considered some of the most authoritative versions available. A Sequoia forest in Northern California offers two important counterpoints. Ancient Sequoia tree rings chart the rise and fall of civilisations over the last 3000 years, including those that created the Greco-Roman artefacts. The tree rings position human history within a broader geological timeframe, lending an adjusted perspective to the human enterprise. The rings also reveal the complex history and shifting perspectives on the significance of fire in the region, with the dissonant histories of expansive logging practices, the conservation movement, Indigenous knowledge, and climate change playing out against the troubled fate of the ancient Sequoias. Though we attempt to understand and preserve our past, the endeavour is subject to inevitable shifts in knowledge, the whims of ideology, and the vagaries of historical truth. With an epilogue that grounds the complex sequence of images in personal elegy, The Dark Wood re-calibrates our sense of scale by allowing us to locate a sense of mourning, loss and the specifics of our own narratives within the broad and unfixed framework of history.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Sixties
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGary Baigent; Les Cleveland; Peter Turner
Wellington: Peter McLeavey Gallery, 1998.A book made to mark an exhibition “The Sixties”, held at Peter McLeavey Gallery, 147 Cuba Street, Wellington, from 7th of February 1998 to 28th of February 1998. One hundred copies made. Contains text by Peter Turner and an original photograph by both Gary Baigent and Les Cleveland.
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Capturing Brisbane: The City’s First Photographers, 1855 to 1901
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian G. Rough
Brisbane: Brian Rough, 2022.“Photographers have made a significant contribution towards our understanding and interpretation of the Citys past by recording the people and places around them. Capturing Brisbane provides the stories of 158 commercial photographers and 54 photographic studios operating in the City between 1855 and 1901. By accurately identifying the people who created the images, and from when and where they were operating, it provides a very useful tool to assist in dating Brisbane photographs.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Parodist
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartShuichi Tsunoda
Tokyo: Seigensha, 2010.Photographs in the style of famous international photographers, or as celebrities, modelled and captured by Japanese commercial photographer Shuichi Tsunoda. Parodies Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin, Serge Lutens, Pierre et Gilles, Peter Lindbergh, David Lachapelle Ellen Von Unwerth, Herbs Ritts, Nick Knight, Paolo Roversi, Richard Burbridge, Steven Klein, Juergen Teller, Mario Testino, Tim Walker, Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Beyonce, and Lady Gaga.
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The Rock Photography
AU$165.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRex R. Kubota; Erica Nakada
Tokyo: Sunday-sha, 1979.Photography of 1970s Japanese rock bands on and off stage. Photographs by Masakazu Sakomizu, George Ide, Takumi Uchida, Kenji Suzuki, and Nobuhiro Sakagami. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC at January 2022.
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The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s Classic Revisited
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Lagerfeld; Carine Roitfeld
Gottingen: Steidl, 2012.“This book is Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld’s reinterpretation of Chanel’s iconic little black jacket. Lagerfeld has redesigned the jacket, transforming it into a modern, adaptable garment to be worn by both sexes of all ages. The Little Black Jacket contains Lagerfeld’s photographs of celebrities wearing the jacket with individual flair – sometimes classic, sometimes irreverent, but always Chanel – and each styled by Carine Roitfeld. A range of accomplished actors, musicians, designers, models, writers and directors gets the little black jacket treatment, including Claudia Schiffer, Uma Thurman, Kanye West, Tilda Swinton, Baptiste Giabiconi, Yoko Ono and Sarah Jessica Parker. This book shows the astounding versatility of Chanel’s vision in Lagerfeld’s hands, and ensures the little black jacket’s future as a timeless classic.”
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Sky Walker’s Sightseeing
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMasuda Yoshiro; Uchibori Hidetaka
[Osaka]: Masuda Yoshiro and Uchibori Hidetaka, 2003.Artist photography book, largely architectural photographs and photographs taken from high vantage points. A collaboration between Japanese photography Masuda Yoshiro and designer Uchibori Hidetaka. Unrecorded in OCLC.