Title: IMPORTANT PHOTOBOOKS & PHOTOGRAPHS
Date: May 19, 2011
Time: 1:30 PM
Exhibition: Sat., May 14, 10-4
Mon., May 16, 10-6
Tues, May 17, 10-6
Wed., May 18, 10-6
Thurs., May 19, 10-noon
Contact Person: Daile Kaplan
dkaplan@swanngalleries.com

Among varied individual prints are Francesca Woodman’s Untitled, 1980; Herb Ritts’s Waterfall, 1989; and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Picnic on the Marne, 1938; printed 1980s. There are desirable portfolios, each with 10 photographs, by Brassaï; Ken Josephson, 1961-73, printed 1975; and Jazz by Jim Marshall, 1960-76, printed 1994. Photobooks range from William Klein’s Life is Good and Good for you in New York, 1956, to Kikuji Kawada, Chizu--The Map, 1965; Robert Frank’s Flower Is . . . , 1987; and Mario Testino’s Coincidence of the Arts, 1998.

Highlights Include:
Helmut Newton, By-Product of An Advertising Sitting, ferrotyped silver print, 1973.

Irving Penn, Alexandra Beller, New York, (from the "Dancer" series), selenium-toned silver print, 1999, printed 2000.

Bert Stern, Marilyn Monroe (from "The Last Sitting"), unique enlarged Fuji Crystal Archive print contact sheet, 1962, printed 1979.

Ryan McGinley, the kids are alright, an artist's, hand-assembled book containing 35 color and black-and-white reproductions of McGinley's photographs (a few are double page spreads) produced on an Epson printer, 2000.

Alfred Stieglitz, 291, Numbers 1-12, The rare, and complete, series of 12 numbers in 9 issues, comprising Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5/6, 7/8, 9, 10/11, and 12, first and only edition, March 1915- February 1916.