Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear LUG members: This message was originally sent on Friday, but apparently did not go through - so, it is being sent out again. Hoping that everyone on the LUG is having a good summer, the following is our annual summer book sale and with only one or two exceptions noted all books are signed by the photographer (an asterik* means that it is exclusive to Leica Gallery and was not distributed in the US): *22 Photographers (contemporary Austrian Photography) signed by Regina Anzenberger, signed, color and black and white, hardcover, was $50. now $30. Austrian Documentary Photographers, signed by Regina Anzenberger, softbound, black and white, was $22. now $16. *Gerald Axelrod: als lebten die engel auf erden (as though Angel would Live on Earth), with full English translation, signed (black and white on sensuous and strange Italian cemetary monuments), hardbound, was $25. now $15. Ralph Gibson: Courant Continu, French text, large oversized hardbound and signed. A fantastic buy with only a few left (black and white and color) was $90., now $45. Erich Hartmann (Magnum): In the Camps, hardbound, unsigned, black and white on how the concentration camps look today, was $35., now $15. L. Kusnetsova: Shaking the Dust, Aperture book, signed with bookplate, Leica-winner's photographs of Ukraine/Russia, hardbound/black and white, was $45., now $30. Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe: The African Flower, softbound, signed, her newest book in black and white, was $25., now $15. *Norbert Rosing: The World of the Polar Bear, hardbound, color, Rosing's poster was the biggest seller ever for National Geographic, signed on ornamental bookplate in book, was $40., now $25. Frank Stewart: Smokestack Lightning, hardbound, out-of-print and rare, signed, black and white photographs with subject being barbecue in the US including recipes and text. Opaque Dustjackets either damaged or absent; however, book is perfect, was $35., now $10. Larry Towell (Magnum): Then Palestine, hardbound, Aperture, signed, black-and white photographs, fantastic buy with a few left, was $45., now $30. Larry Towell: The Mennonites, signed $69.95 includes the new Larry Towell CD "The Mennonites" with Larry's picture on the cover and containing 15 tracks with his readings from the book (this book & CD is probably his most impressive recent work) Peter Turnley: Parisians, hardbound, signed, black and white, the subject of a famous Leica show on Paris, was $50., now $30. David and Peter Turnley: In Times of War and Peace, hardbound, signed by both photographers, out-of-print and a monumental work in black and white and color, was $60. now $35. *Riccardo Venturi:Sette Minuti, This Leica award winner from Italy, 63 page black and white book out-of-print and rare (one of Italy's best contemporary Leica photographers), hardbound and signed, only a very few left, was $45., now $25. *Harry Weber: Ein Photographisches Bilderleben (A Photographer's life in Pictures), text in German, but mostly just pictures, hardbound and oversized and signed. One of Austria's most famous photographers now in his eighties. The subject of a full-Leica show, was $55., now $35. *Dr. Paul Wolff: Berlin, 1936, hardbound, not signed, text in French, the Dr. Paul Wolff pictures of the 1936 Olympics, wonderful black and white photographs published in France and now out-of-print, was $35., now $20. *Antonio Zuccon: Quadrigrafie, hardbound and signed with slipcase that looks like a 35mm slide holder with the inside cover opening up like 35 mm film in fantastic color - fold out designs both figurative with people and abstract with text in Italian and English - work that is design oriented and fine-art in character, out-of-print and very rare and very interesting via Leica Italy, was $55., now $25. Also, our exhibition at Leica Gallery: "Recent Memories" by the Leica photographer, John Flattau runs through 10 August. John Flattau is a longtime associate and friend of Ralph Gibson and was a partner with Gibson in Lustrum Press which published all the early Gibson and Flattau books. The show has had wonderful reviews and was all taken with Leica M and R cameras. His work is fine art with nude studies similar to Gibson. If you can't make it here (Tuesday through Friday 11 to 6 and Saturday 12 to 6) we have Flattau's books: Recent Memories, softbound, printed in Italy just for the show with the Leica Gallery imprint / Duotone, signed - $25.00 Bridges (Lustrum, 1985), hardbound, out-of-print and rare, signed by Flattau - - $25. Rue Obscure: Vague Regret (Ianda, 1996), hardbound, out of print, rare and signed by Flattau - $25. Photographs(Witkin, 1993, softbound, out-of-print and rare, signed by Flattau - - $15. Shipping charge in the continental US (via UPS) is $10. minimum and maximum (no matter how many books are bought). Leica Gallery takes AMEX, Visa, and MC and you can contact us by E-mail (leicaphoto @aol.com) or by 24 hour fax 212-777-6960 and by telephone 212-777-3051 Tuesday through Friday 11 to 6 and Saturday 12 to 6 ET. We are usually here at least one hour later than closing. Sale is good through 10 August: please remember if charging to give full street address (no P.O. Box) including zip, credit card number, expiration, zip code where your credit card billing goes to for security, telephone number. Best to everyone - Rose and Jay Deutsch, Leica Gallery, 670 Broadway, Suite 500, New York, NY 10012 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html