Larry Fink - Social Graces

Grant, Ulysses S. Large Albumen Photograph Magnificent large albumen photograph of Ulysses S. grant by Abraham Bogardus. An unusually large late (circa 1880) photograph of Grant, post-presidency, in formal dress, sitting and in partial profile. Mounted on thick card with the photographer’s credit and address (“A. Bogardus / 872 Broadway, NY”) on matte below the photo. The photographer, Anthony Bogardus, was a photographic pioneer, described by the New York Times as “the best-known photographer in the United States” in his prime who took “the first photographs of Gen. Grant, Gen. Hancock, Samuel D. Morse, inventor of the telegraph; Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher and other equally well-known men.” The engravers Currier & Ives produced an engraving based on this photograph, calling it “the last and best taken of General Grant...

Flower Is… “is one of Frank’s great books (which means it is one of the greatest of photobooks), demonstrating magisterially, as he himself says in the boo...

"The Journal des Dames et des Modes was an expression "of the most refined Parisian elegance, and illustrated by the most gifted designe...

"The triumph of this book is that it does manage to reflect the mad experience of traveling in Southeast Asia, while still reflecting on what it all means" (Roth 101).

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Stunning large gelatin silver limited edition photograph; one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. One of only 450 in the edition. “In 1946, when Albert Einstein was in residence at Princeton University, Fred Stein...

Photograph Signed

ORIGINAL VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY CHARLES LINDBERGH.

Photograph of a young Lindbergh sitting at h...

Published by DelMonico Books and Prestel Publishing, 1st edition, 2009. Hardback English text. This beautiful catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Larry Johnson held by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Following in the tradition of conducting surveys of mid-career artist...

6 Volumes. H. D. Traill. Social England, A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature, ans Manners, From the Earl...

Christies, April 2002 French furniture and decorative arts, A & C fink collections, Sydney. 172 lots all in color, on 139 pages. With results. NPT Books a division of N.P. Trent Anti...

Drawings and Digressions by Larry Rivers. Clarkson N. Potter, New York, 1979. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 263 pp. Foreword by John Ashbery with 285 illustrations and ph...

First edition, published by Scalo Verlag, 1993. As a living icon of American film, director, photographer, writer and film producer Larry Clark is known for his controversial works,...

The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice & the Environment, 1965-2005 by Elizabeth Resnick. Massacchusetts College of Art...