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Everything I want to be when I grow up
Polly Borland
Brisbane: University of Queensland Art Museum, 2012.Celebrated Australian photographer, Polly Borland is famous for her experimental, stylised, and occasionally unsettling portrait images. This exhibition catalogue is from her survey show at UQ Art Museum (University of Queensland), the first to bring together the various diverse threads of her practice. Curated by Alison Kubler, it includes portraits of famous faces such as Cate Blanchett, Nick Cave and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and the series Australians, The Babies, Bunny and Smudge, and the most recent series, Pupa. “Borland, who draws inspiration from Diane Arbus, carefully directs the costumes, makeup, and poses of her models, creating scenes that are intimate and dystrophic.” This copy signed by Borland.
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Between Worlds
Polixeni Papetrou
[Melbourne]: Polixeni Papapetrou, 2009.Catalogue for a series of photographic works by contemporary artist Polixeni Papetrou (1960- 2018).
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Life’s Still A Beach
Rennie Ellis
Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 1998.A continuation of Rennie Ellis’ 1980s ‘Life’s a…’ series. Australians at the beach in the 1990s.
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Life’s a Parade
Rennie Ellis
Melbourne: Lothian, 1986.Uninhibited 1980s Australian fashion culture captured by Rennie Ellis as part of his Life’s a series.
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Decade, 1970-1980
Rennie Ellis
Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books and State Library of Victoria, 2013. -
No Standing, Only Dancing
Rennie Ellis; Susan Van Wyk
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2008.Catalogue for a retrospective exhibition of Australian photographer Rennie Ellis held at the NGV two years after his death.
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School Photography
John Dunn
Sydney: Piper Press, 1988.1980s Australian secondary school text on photography with a foreword by Max Dupain and 190 photographs by Australian secondary students.
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City Indians: Photographs of Western Tribal Fashion
Chris Wroblewski; Nelly Gomez-Vaez
Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn Verlag, 1983.Photographic study of youth subculture in the United Kingdom and Europe in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Divided into sections: Mohicans, Piercing, Skinheads, Rock and Roll, Sons of Hell, Leather, Sic Boys, Dress, Tattoo, Hare Krishna, and Rasta. This copy inscribed by Wroblewski on the title page and with an inscribed laid in postcard of his photograph of one of the tattooed subjects featured in the book.
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Starting Again: A Time in the Life of William Yang
William Yang
Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1989. -
Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits
Eikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 2012.125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading 20th century artists in their youth. Features butoh dancers, writers, artists, and creatives such as Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Akira Sato, Yoko Ashikawa, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies, this copy signed by Eikoh to the front free endpaper.
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’93: Punching the Light
Simon Burstall
[Bologna]: Damiani, 2019.Photo documentation of the early 90s underground rave subsculture in Sydney, Australia, captured by the then 17 year old Simon Burstall.
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Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class, For Artists and Students including Anthropometry and Anatomy (2 Volumes)
John S. Barrington
London: John S. Barrington, 1970.John S. Barrington (1920-1991) was a prolific 20th century British physique photographer. Receiving a formal art training in Paris, he was also a visual artist and sculptor, and earlier in his career worked in theatre design. Barrington began picking up and photographing men at the pool, eventually going on to establish one of the most prolific physique studios of the 20th century, during which time he probably published and distributed more full male nudes than any of his contemporaries up until the changing censorship laws in the latter part of the century. Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class is one of his scarcest works, unrecorded in public collections, and with a stated limited edition of 100 copies (though this could be Barrington’s marketing at work). It combines his photography and visual art with detailed instruction in the art of the measurements and proportions of the male body, and features numerous photographs and drawings of many of his favourite models, who were also his lovers or unrequited lusts. A prospectus at the end of volume two alludes to a third and fourth volume to be published and available only to subscribers of the first two volumes, though no record can be found of them ever having been published. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC at October, 2023.
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T*
Giordano Bonora
Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2019.“This book is inspired by the pictures that Giordano Bonora, a young streetcar operator and aspiring photographer, took of Bologna’s small transgender community in 1980 (although it would be more correct to speak, in this case, of proto-Transgenderism). Reproduced here for the first time, these raw and gilded images reflect–during a period in Italy characterized by subversive movements and political revolts that were not just rooted in questions of identity–attempts made by T* people at a construction of the self outside the binary logic of the genotypically XY male/genotypically XX female.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy in the publisher’s plastic wrap.
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Angels / Misfits: The Perfection of Imperfection
Gary Cook
Minneapolis: Clown on Fire Media, 2011.Photography project of over 150 tattooed indie women, clothed, partially clothed, and nude.
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(not only) Black+White (Complete Set, 89 Volumes)
Marcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1992-2007.A complete set of successful Australian photography magazine, (not only) Black+White, from issue 00 to 88 (89 total). Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events. The premiere issue featured articles on Agenda: Gender, Marcus Graham, Dykes on Bikes, and Teen Satanists, and featured photography by or of Simon Denny, Helmut Newton, Kym Wilson, Angie Bowie, and others. Over its 15 year history (not only) Black+White featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Toni Collette, Alan Moore, Bettina Rheims, Alain de Botton, Keira Knightley, Billie Piper, Tara Moss, Kylie Minogue, Nobuyoshi Araki, Natalie Portman, Patti Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Olaf Martens, Scarlett Johansson, Peaches, Anton Corbijn, Ellen von Unwerth, Gottfried Helnwein, Dolly Parton, Bruce Weber, Kate Moss, Bob Carlos Clarke, Mario Testino, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Lindbergh, Radiohead, Serge Gainsbourg, Harrsion Ford, Penelope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, David Cronenberg, Bill Henson, PJ Harvey, John Waters, Irvine Welsh, Chloe Sevigny, Johnny Depp, David Bowie, Arthur C. Clarke, William Klein, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Nick Cave, Spike Lee, Jan Saudek, Dennis Hopper, Devo, Madonna, Woody Harrelson, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Naomi Watts, Albert Watson, David Hamilton, Pierre et Gilles, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, and countless others. International buyers please contact for shipping quote.
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Claude Alexandre
Claude Alexandre
Tokyo: Treville, 1992.Black and white S&M photography.
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The Other Side of the Picture
Olivier Theyskens
New York: Assouline Publishing, 2009.Photographs by Julien Claessens. Introduction by Sally Singer.
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Shan Tung Pictorial
Takayoshi Yamashita
Qingdao: Aoshima Souvenir Museum, 1940.Japanese souvenir photobook of Shandong Province, China, produced during the second Japanese occupation of Tsingtao (Qingdao). Photographs are captioned in English and Japanese and depict the people, the city, and surrounding landscapes and temples, as well as battle relics of the first occupation during WWI, and important Japanese buildings. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC or CiNii.
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WET
Jurgen Maelfeyt
[Ghent]: Art Paper Editions, 2021.“WET continues artist, designer and Art Paper Editions founder Jurgen Maelfeyt’s playful re-appropriations of retro erotic imagery.” Edition of 500.
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Life’s an Adventure: The First Twenty-Five Years
Ken Duncan
Wamberal: Panographs Publishing, 2008.