Photobooks

  • Less than Lovers

    # 34633

    PETTIFER, Drew

    Less than Lovers

    Melbourne : M.33, 2014. Quarto, lettered wrappers,  unpaginated, photographically illustrated. New copy. Following hot on the heels of his playfully provocative 2011 publication I keep mine hidden, Drew Pettifer presents a more languid, more moody and delicate collection of images in his latest book from M.33. Once again taking its name from a song title; this …

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  • Small business

    # 34629

    WADELTON, David

    Small business

    Melbourne : M.33, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 171, illustrated. New copy, printed in an edition of 500 copies. Small Business is a companion volume to David Wadelton’s Suburban Baroque – with the focus this time on work rather than domestic spaces. Designed once again by Yanni Florence and with an accompanying essay by Professor Natalie King OAM, Small Business looks at the small but …

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  • Jesse Marlow – Second City

    # 34628

    MARLOW, Jesse

    Jesse Marlow – Second City

    Melbourne : Sling Shot Press, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 96, illustrated. New copy. Printed in an edition of 900 copies. ‘When I was at photography school, every few weeks our photojournalism teacher would send the class off into the city on “Citywalks”. With an otherwise open brief, our only task was to keep an …

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  • Life's a beach

    # 34642

    ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)

    Life’s a beach

    Melbourne : Currey O’Neil, 1983. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (bottom corner bumped with some slight crumpling to lower margin of text block), unpaginated, photographic illustrations, light handling wear, a good copy. Ellis’ candid photographs of Australian bodies on display in the hot summer sun of the eighties.

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  • Australian photographs : the 1980s

    # 34611

    ENNIS, Helen

    Australian photographs : the 1980s

    An exhibition from the Australian National Gallery sponsored by Kodak. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, [1988]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (small water stain to upper wrapper), pp. 112, inscription to half-title illustrated. Photographers include Julie Brown-Rrap, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Ruth Maddison, Tracey Moffatt, Jacky Redgate, Anne Zahlka and others. Cover image by Anne Ferran.

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  • Georgian architecture in Australia

    # 34556

    DUPAIN, Max et al.

    Georgian architecture in Australia

    With some examples of buildings of the post-Georgian period. Photography by Max Dupain. Architectural commentary and notes by Morton Herman. Social histories of New South Wales and Tasmania by Marjorie Barnard and Daniel Thomas. Sydney : Ure Smith, 1963. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (water stain to spine), pp. 148, illustrated with Dupain’s photographs. …

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  • Polly Borland : Australians.

    # 34485

    BORLAND, Polly

    Polly Borland : Australians.

    London : National Portrait Gallery, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 120, illustrated. Essay by Peter Conrad, biographies and interviews by Virginia Ginnane. Foreword by Nick Cave. Includes portraits of Barry Humphries, Ron Mueck, Marc Newson, Harry Kewell, Clive James, Elisabeth Murdoch, Germaine Greer, Natalie Imbruglia, Richie Benaud, Cate Blanchett, Kylie Minogue and many others.

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  • Not Only Sport - A complete set of all issues

    # 34305

    STUDIO MAGAZINES; GRAND, Marcello (editor)

    Not Only Sport – A complete set of all issues

    Sydney : Studio Magazines, 1997 – 2000. Six issues (complete), quarto, illustrated wrappers, each issue approximately 128 pages, extensively illustrated with high quality photography, occasional light handling marks a very good set. A complete set of all six issues of the high-end photography sports magazine, each issue essentially a photobook of the highest quality, with …

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  • Bahrain in original photographs 1880 - 1961

    # 34188

    WHEATCROFT, Andrew

    Bahrain in original photographs 1880 – 1961

    London and New York : Kegan Paul International, 1988. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (light handling wear), pp. xiv; 142, photographically illustrated, a hint of pale foxing to preliminaries, else internally fine. The front free endpaper with a lengthy gift inscription to a visitor celebrating their birthday in Bahrain, dated 1989, loosely enclosed is a note …

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  • (not only) Blue - Premiere issue

    # 34475

    STUDIO MAGAZINES; GRAND, Marcello (editor)

    (not only) Blue – Premiere issue

    Sydney : Studio Magazines, February 1995. Issue 00. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 154 pages, extensively illustrated with high quality photography, occasional light handling marks a very good copy. The Premiere issue of the groundbreaking magazine aimed at a gay male audience, each magazine essentially a photobook of the highest quality, with articles, interviews and editorial on …

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  • Decade 1970-1980

    # 34445

    ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)

    Decade 1970-1980

    Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books and the State Library of Victoria, 2013. Quarto, diecut boards, pp. 255, illustrated. New copy. Winner, Best Designed Fully-illustrated Book Over $50, Designers’ Choice Book of the Year, Australian Book Designers Association 2014. ‘His photographs explore the cultures and subcultures of the decade , as well as the emerging decadence and …

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  • Decadent 1980 - 2000

    # 34444

    ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)

    Decadent 1980 – 2000

    Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books and the State Library of Victoria, 2014. Quarto, diecut boards, pp. 251, illustrated. Mint copy, still in publisher’s shrinkwrap. Decadent: 1980-2000 is a photography book showcasing Rennie Ellis’ contribution to photography and social history. With an introduction by photographer and Rennie contemporary William Yang and an essay by photographer and …

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  • Twelve Australian Photo Artists

    # 34417

    Twelve Australian Photo Artists

    Sydney : Piper Press, 2009. Quarto, silver-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 200, illustrated. New copy. Photography has been described as the art form of our time, and this book presents our most important practitioners: Bill Henson Anne Zahalka Destiny Deacon Rosemary Laing Simryn Gill Tracey Moffatt Brenda L Croft Jacky Redgate David Stephenson Pat …

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  • Dupain's beaches

    # 34228

    WHITE, Jill

    Dupain’s beaches

    Introduction by Sebastian Smee, text by Matthew Cawood. Sydney : Chapter & Verse, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 112, a new copy. Max Dupain, who took Australia’s most famous photograph, Sunbaker, loved the beach. This collection of Dupain’s photographs is, by his own admission, among his ‘best work’. In it we see Dupain’s fascination …

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  • Australian Artists. Portraits by Greg Weight.

    # 29961

    WEIGHT, Greg

    Australian Artists. Portraits by Greg Weight.

    Sydney: Chapter & Verse, 2004. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, 204pp. Includes portraits of Brett Whiteley, Tracey Moffatt, Lloyd Rees, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Arthur Boyd, John Olsen, Rosalie Gascoigne, Jeffrey Smart, Margaret Ollet, Garry Shead, Tim Storrier, Charles Blackman, Cressida Campbell and many others.

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  • [PHOTOGRAPHY] The art of John Kauffmann

    # 34338

    KAUFFMANN, John (1864-1942)

    [PHOTOGRAPHY] The art of John Kauffmann

    : Twenty illustrations in half-tone, with Biography and Essay by Leslie H. Beer. Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin, 1919. Limited edition of 500 copies, signed by the artist. Folio, printed green card wrappers over boards (corners bumped, a couple of stains),18 pp, with 20 pp of plates (scattered foxing, not affecting plates). Probably the first monograph …

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