Title & Author:

The book of 101 books : seminal photographic books of the twentieth century / edited by Andrew Roth ; essays by Richard Benson, May Castleberry, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Daido Moriyama, Shelley Rice, Neville Wakefield ; catalogue by Vince Aletti and David Levi Strauss.

Publication:

New York : PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz, LLC, 2001.
New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

Description:

x, 305 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Andrew Roth -- When objects dream / Shelley Rice. A note on the description format -- 1907. Edward S. Curtis : The North American Indian, volume 1 -- 1909. Alvin Langdon Coburn : London -- 1911. Alfred Stieglitz : Camera work, number XXXVI -- 1917. Paul Strand : Camera work, number XLIX, number L -- 1925. László Moholy-Nag y: Malerei fotografie film -- 1927. Germaine Krull : Métal -- 1928. Karl Blossfeldt : Urformen der Kunst ; Albert Renger-Patzsch : Die Welt ist schön -- 1929. August Sander : Antlitz der zeit ; Edward Steichen and Carl Sandburg : Steichen the photographer -- 1930. Ansel Adams : Taos pueblo ; Eugène Atget : Atget photographe de Paris ; Claude Cahun : Aveux non avenus ; Frantis̆ek Drtikol : Z̆ena ve Svĕtle.
1931. Max Ernst and René Crevel : Mr. Knife Miss Fork ; Helmar Lerski : Köpfe des alltags ; Moï Ver : Paris ; Erich Salomonn: Berühmte Zeitgenossen -- 1933. Brassaï : Paris de nuit ; Doris Ullman and Julia Peterkin : Roll, Jordan, roll -- 1934. Man Ray : Man Ray photographies 1920-1934, Paris -- 1935. El Lissitzky : Industriia sotsializma ; Man Ray and Paul Éluard : Facile -- 1936. Hans Bellmer : La Poupée ; Bill Brandt : The English at home ; Georges Hugnet : La Septième face du dé -- 1937. Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell : You have seen their faces ; Leni Riefenstahl : Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf -- 1938. Walker Evans : American photographs -- 1939. Berenice Abbott : Changing New York -- Dorothea Lange and Paul Schuster Taylor : An American exodus.
The presence of the past / May Castleberry. 1941. Walker Evans and James Agee : Let us now praise famous men -- 1945. Alexey Brodovitch : Ballet ; André Kertész : Day of Paris -- Jindrich Styrsky and Jindrich Heisler : Na jehlách tĕchto dńi ; Weegee : Naked city -- 1946. Wright Morris : The inhabitants ; Zdenek Tmej : Abeceda -- 1947. Robert Capa : Slightly out of focus ; Edward Weston : Fifty photographs -- 1949. Robert Doisneau and Blaise Cendrars : La banlieue de Paris -- 1952. Henri Cartier-Bresson : The decisive moment ; Paul Strand and Claude Roy : La France de profil -- 1955. Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes : The sweet flypaper of life.
1956. William Klein : Life is good & good for you in New York ; Josef Sudek : Josef Sudek fotografie ; Ed Van der Elsken: Een liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint Germain des Prés -- 1959. Richard Avedon and Truman Capote : Observations ; Robert Frank : The Americans ; Aaron Siskind : Aaron Siskind photographs ; Ed Van der Elsken : Jazz -- 1960. Irving Penn : Moments preserved -- 1961. Bill Brandt : Perspective of nudes -- 1962. Frederick Sommer : Frederick Sommer 1939-1962 photographs -- 1963. Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima : Killed by roses -- 1964. Harry Callahan : Harry Callahan photographs.
1965. Peter Hill Beard : The end of the game ; Emmet Gowin : Concerning America and Alfred Stieglitz, and myself ; Kikuji Kawada : The map ; Helen Levitt : A way of seeing -- 1966. Walker Evans : Many are called ; Edward Ruscha : Every building on the Sunset Strip -- 1967. Ugo Mulas : New York : the new art scene ; Andy Warhol : Andy Warhol's index (book) -- 1968. Danny Lyon : The bikeriders -- 1969. Garry Winogrand : The animals -- 1970. Bernhard und Hilla Becher : Anonyme skulpturen ; Bruce Davidson : East 100th Street ; Lee Friedlander : Self portrait ; Jacques-Henri Lartigue : Diary of a century.
A choice of titles / Jeffrey Fraenkel. 1971. Nobuyoshi Araki : Sentimental journey ; Larry Clark : Tulsa ; Danny Lyon: Conversations with the dead ; Lucas Samaras: Samaras album -- 1972. Diane Arbus : Diane Arbus -- Pierre Molinier and Peter Gorsen : Pierre Molinier, lui-même ; Daido Moriyama : Bye, bye photography, dear.
Reflections / Daido Moriyama. 1973. Michael Lesy : Wisconsin death trip ; Bill Owens : Suburbia -- 1974. Robert Adams : The new west ; Lewis Baltz : The new industrial parks near Irvine, California ; Ralph Eugene Meatyard : The family album of Lucybelle Crater -- 1975. W. Eugene Smith : Minamata -- 1976. William Eggleston : William Eggleston's guide ; Lee Friedlander : The American monument ; Susan Meiselas : Carnival strippers -- 1977. Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan : Evidence -- 1979. Lisette Model : Lisette Model -- 1983. Larry Clark;: Teenage lust ; Gilles Peress : Telex Iran -- 1985. Jim Goldberg : Rich and poor.
1986. Nan Goldin : The ballad of sexual dependency ; Bruce Weber : O Rio de Janeiro -- 1987. Bill Burke : I want to take pictures ; Joel Sternfeld : American prospects -- 1989. Joan Fontcuberta y Pere Formiguera : Fauna -- 1990. Allen Ginsberg : Allen Ginsberg photographs -- 1991. Lothar Baumgarten : Carbon -- 1994. Christian Boltanski : Menschlich -- 1995. Richard Prince : Adult comedy action drama ; Stand-up comedy and the horizontal sublime / Neville Wakefield. 1996. David LaChapelle : LaChapelle Land -- Photography in print / Richard Benson.

Summary:

The history of the photographic book goes back well more than a century; the medium of photography and the book format were understood very early on to relate to each other on both technical and aesthetic levels. The examples of truly great combinations of photographic image and text, great design and typography bound together as books are numerous, and make up an impressive artistic, social, and documentary statement of the 20th century. Writer and rare book expert Andrew Roth has selected for this volume a group of 101 of the best photography books ever published: books that bring all of the elements of great bookmaking together to create, ultimately, a thing of beauty, a work of art. Mostly made up of publications in which the photographs were meant to be seen in book form, as opposed to the book being merely a repository of images, this list includes many artists and titles that will be familiar to the collector, but also not a few surprises.
Chronologically, the first book is Volume One of Edward Curtis's seminal 1907 "The North American Indian", the last is David LaChapelle's "LaChapelle Land" from 1996, and in between are books by Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott, Atget and Brassai, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand, and many other seminal photographers from all over the world. Each book in the catalogue will receive a double page spread which will include publication information, several image spreads, and a short text about it.
"The Book of 101 Books", however, is far more than simply an annotated and illustrated catalogue. Six important new essays on a variety of related topics from respected scholars, critics, and artists are included as well: here you will find Richard Benson on the history of printing techniques, Shelley Rice on the societal significance of photography books, May Castleberry on reprints, exhibitions, and keeping books alive for the public; Daido Moriyama on his personal memories of making his classic "Bye Bye Photography, Dear", Neville Wakefield on the particular attributes of one of the most recent books in this group: Richard Prince's 1995 "Adult Comedy Action Drama, and Jeffrey Fraenkel on the myriad perils of publishing photography books. The catalogue entries themselves are written by the well known critics Vince Aletti and David Levi Strauss.

ISBN:

096707746X (deluxe ed.)
9780967077468 (deluxe ed.)
0967077443 (trade ed.)
9780967077444 (trade ed.)
0967077451 (limited ed.)
9780967077451 (limited ed.)

Subject:

Photography Bibliography Catalogs.
Photography, Artistic Bibliography Catalogs.
Photographie Bibliographie Catalogues.
Photographie artistique Bibliographie Catalogues.
Photography
Photography, Artistic
Fotografie
Fotoboeken.

Form/genre:

Bibliography
Catalog
bibliographies.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
Bibliographies
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Roth, Andrew, 1958- editor.
Benson, Richard, 1943-2017, writer of supplementary textual content.
Aletti, Vince.
Strauss, David Levi.
Stamperia Valdonega, printer.

Book of one hundred one books
Book of one hundred and one books

Holdings:

Location: Library study room photo 218019
Call No.: TR15. B6 2001
Status: Available