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Philips, Sandra. Henry Wessel: 1st ed., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Steidl, 2007. New, pristine condition. This retrospective look at the career of Henry Wessel, one of the late twentieth century's most original and dryly funny photographers, tracks his contribution to the New Topographics movement of the 1970s and continues through more than 30 years of incisive observations on the American social landscape. In 133 photographs, it offers up a range of work from the earliest in the 1960s to a recent series on Las Vegas, made between 2000 and 2004. Throughout, Wessell not only chronicles the idiosyncrasies and anomalies of Southern California and the American West, but demonstrates over and over that photography can surpass its documentary role to speculate and to suggest narratives within and beyond the frame. Ultimately, he challenges not only our expectations of his medium, but our ways of seeing and our preconceptions about the familiar. Sandra Phillips, Curator of Photography at the San… Read More

Todd Hido: House Hunting: 2nd ed., Nazraeli Press, 2007. Near FineOur first monograph on the work of Todd Hido, House Hunting, was published in to huge acclaim, and was named as Best First Monograph by Photo-Eye. With his fifth monograph selling out within weeks of publication, the time feels right to bring back into print this very special book. It is classic Hido; large color photographs of suburban homes at night, radiating contrasts of warmth and cold, loneliness and comfort, dark and light. Six years on, this outstanding collection of photographs is still something to get excited about. Hido's work is held in a large number of collections, both public and private, including The Art Institute of Chicago, The Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. A faithful reprint of the first edition, the book opens as before with a short text by A.M. Homes.