Few careers with a camera have been as narrated and celebrated as that of Margaret Bourke-White. With legendary fortitude and energy, Bourke-White time and again nailed the assignments she was given with formal brilliance and incisive descriptive power. In this series of images, we feel a relaxing of her precision as she recorded an emblematic struggle between natural force and human ingenuity, between our limitations and the grand devices we create to defy them. In the March 22, 1937 issue of LIFE, a publication just six months old, there was a cover story entitled 'Parachutes.' Margaret Bourke-White s pictures told the story of the Irving Air Chute Company in Buffalo, New York, the world s largest manufacturer of parachutes. The photographic sequence of parachutes being tested by Irving employees in this book did not make the article in 1937, but survive instead as diminutive and precious vintage prints, as art. Their wonder is in their ambiguity, their lack of captions and context, their archetypal address of the questions of human importance, of who is really pulling the strings. Printed in duotone on matt stock, and bound in Japanese saifu, this elegant little book is an important addition to the literature on this extraordinary artist. Introduction by Trudy Wilner Stack.

Twenty Parachutes

Arts & Photography

Margaret Bourke-White

Photography & Video

Nazraeli Press

All four Taft Street one picture books in a box set.

Taft street (Nazraeli Press one picture book)

HIDO, Todd

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Michael Kenna: A 20 Year Retrospective

Michael Kenna

Individual Artists

Nude photographs of the dancer Alexandra Beller from the Bill T. Jones Dance Company taken by Penn over four sessions in 1999. Published on the occasion of the 2001 exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. Photographs by Irving Penn; essay by Sylvia Wolf; introduction by Anne Wilkes Tucker. 63 pages; 27 full-page tri-toned b&w plates; 11 x 12 inches.

Dancer

Irving Penn

Sylvia Wolf

From the publisher: "Dictionary Definition of Nakazora: The space between sky and earth, the place where birds, etc. fly. Empty air. An internal hollow. Vague. Hollow. Around the center of the sky. Or, emptiness. A state when the feet do not touch the ground. Inattentiveness. The inability to decide between two things. Midway. The center of the sky (the zenith). A Buddhist term. Nakazora is our second publication on the work of Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto. But this is no book: the artist has designed a scroll measuring over eighteen feet long, beautifully printed in process color on uncoated Japanese stock. The timelessness of Yamamoto's imagery is beautifully echoed in scroll presentation. The scroll was one of the earliest vehicles used for storing and presenting visual information. Nakazora combines the aesthetic and tactile attributes of this traditionally one-off format with the advantages of modern printing technology. A striking marriage of traditional and hi-tech materials and production techniques, Nakazora redefines the term 'artists' book.'"

Nakazora: Scroll

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Masao, Yamamoto

Crafts & Hobbies

LIMITED EDITION (with Print) First edition, first printing. Special limited edition of 50 copies hand-numbered and signed by Weifenbach, with one original color Type C print tipped in the front cover. Hardcover. Cloth, with debossed title on cover, no dust jacket as issued. 72 pp. with 35 four-color plates. 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. CONDITION: New. From the publisher: "Terri Weifenbach has received international acclaim for her gorgeous, vividly colored landscape photographs -- and deservedly so. She has been described as "the Emily Dickinson of photography" and the work in this new book can only strengthen her reputation as a truly original force in contemporary art. Weifenbach creates images based on seemingly unexceptional pastoral scenes that become quite extraordinary through her masterful presentation of their subject matter. Sometimes a whole picture is shot out of focus, or perhaps just one detail -- a leaf, a bud, a blade of grass -- is sharply focused, commanding attention, while the rest gently recedes into a soft and mellow blur. The results are breathtaking as, dream-like and entrancing, they evoke gentle memories of hazy summer days. The images for this, the artist's third monograph, were made in Lana, a small Italian village nestling in the mountainous South Tyrol."

Terri Weifenbach: Lana, Limited Edition (with Print)

Terri Weifenbach

How to make a pearl (Nazraeli Press one picture book)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

From the publisher: "This stunning new book by Todd Hido is a perfect companion volume to his first title, House Hunting, which was named "Best First Monograph of 2001" by Photo-Eye and is now a Limited Quantity title. Hido's large-format color photographs of suburbia convey an aura of loneliness, mystery and isolation while managing, at the same time, to exude comfort and even warmth. His portraits of tract homes are imbued with an eerie softness, their exteriors glowing invitingly - or is it ominously? - in the cool night air. An essay by the eminent writer Luc Sante, entitled "Stranger," brilliantly echoes Hido's work and is a fine introduction to the book. Todd Hido was the recipient of the 2001 Eureka Fellowship. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, as well as in other public and private collections." From Mary Hull Webster, Artweek: "Photography is arguably the most accomplished art form of the moment, and one of its most intelligent practitioners is Todd Hido."

Outskirts

Catalogs & Directories

In 1950, while studying fashion drawing in Japan, Toshiko Okanoue had no confidence in her ability to draw and claimed to know almost nothing about the history of art. Working with scissors, paste and a stack of lifestyle and fashion magazines, she cut out the photographs that - in her own words - 'fit my dreams' and arranged them on black flocked paper. 'Those scraps of my fantasies turned into strangely interesting things, she said, 'things I would not have thought of. Emboldened and delighted by the results, I made one collage after another.' When an exhibition of her work opened in Tokyo in 1953, Okanoue's collages were described as 'a contemporary version of Alice in Wonderland.' Surreal in appearance, they are perhaps most remarkable for what they represent: a young Japanese woman's perception of the Western way of life, as seen through her artless rearrangement of images clipped from such magazines as Life and Vogue. The work reproduced here was made between 1951 and 1956. In 1957 Okanoue married the painter Kazutomo Fujino and ceased making pictures. Introduction by Ryuichi Kaneko.

Drop of Dreams

Toshiko Okanoue

Hardcover. 11.5" x 11.25." First Edition. Burgundy boards with photographic plate tipped in on front board. Still in shrink-wrap. Like New. ISBN: 1590050398

Staglieno

FRIEDLANDER, Lee

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