Historic Photography Books

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The Secret History of STASI Spy Cameras: 1950-1990

H. Keith Melton with Detlev Vreisleben and Michael M. Hasco
Available December 2020
This lavishly illustrated and authoritative book presents the secret history of Stasi and Warsaw Pact subminiature…
Size: 9″ x 12″ x 1″ | 480 color and b/w photos | 224 pp
ISBN13: 9780764360459 | Binding: hard cover

$50.00
Annapolis: Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine

Jennifer B. Bodine
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Aubrey Bodine, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sunday Sun feature photographer from…
Size: 9 1/8″ x 8 1/8″ x 7/8″ | 169 b/w images | 160 pp
ISBN13: 9780764360640 | Binding: hard cover

$34.99
Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the US, 1850–1900

Katherine Manthorne
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Recover the stories of long-overlooked American women who, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home,…
Size: 9″ x 10 1/2″ x 5/8″ | 72 color and b/w images | 144 pp
ISBN13: 9780764360169 | Binding: hard cover

$45.00
The Blues: A Visual History: 100 Years of Music That Changed the World

Mike Evans with Consulting Editors Robert Gordon & Scott Barretta , Foreword by Marshall Chess
Available Now
Charting the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American South, and focusing on the key musicians…
Size: 10″ x 11″ x 1 1/16″ | 350+ color and b/w images | 272 pp
ISBN13: 9780764359750 | Binding: hard cover

$39.99
Images from “Over There”: Personal Photography of America’s Expeditionary Forces in WWI and Occupation

Stephen C. McGeorge, Major US Army (Ret.)
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This is a detailed study of some 150 unpublished and never before seen images of soldiers of the American…
Size: 9 1/8″ x 8 1/8″ | 150 images | 128 pp
ISBN13: 9780764356353 | Binding: hard cover

$24.99
Birdland, The Jazz Corner of the World: An Illustrated Tribute, 1949–1965

Leo T. Sullivan
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Birdland was a legendary nightclub in New York City and, from 1949–65, was the scene for the greatest jazz…
Size: 8″ x 8″ | 151 color and b/w photos | 128 pp
ISBN13: 9780764355868 | Binding: hard cover

$24.99
Open Aperture: The Evolution of Photography in an Abstract World

Paul Matte
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Fine art photography, like science, is undergoing major transformations. Just as George Eastman’s invention…
Size: 7″ x 10″ | 139 color and b/w photos | 160 pp
ISBN13: 9780764355400 | Binding: hard cover

$34.99
Jazz in Available Light: Illuminating the Jazz Greats from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s

Veryl Oakland, Foreword by Quincy Jones
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Through both personal stories and stunning photographs captured behind the scenes, lose yourself in this bygone…
Size: 9″ x 12″ | 350 b/w photographs | 288 pp
ISBN13: 9780764354830 | Binding: hard cover

$60.00
Trains: Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine

Jennifer B. Bodine
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A. Aubrey Bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sun feature…
Size: 9 1/8″ x 8 1/8″ | 121 b/w images | 128 pp
ISBN13: 9780764354939 | Binding: hard cover

$29.99
Grunts: The Last US Draft, 1972

Ed Eckstein
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This photojournalistic essay documents one of the last groups of civilians to be drafted into the United States…
Size: 9″ x 9″ | 116 b/w photos | 128 pp
ISBN13: 9780764353024 | Binding: hard cover

$24.99
Bodine’s Chesapeake Bay Country

A. Aubrey Bodine. Jennifer Bodine, Editor
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“Photography in the United States was a big thrill, but I always get a bigger thrill when I make a picture of a…
Size: 9″ x 12″ | 283 b/w photos | 168 pp
ISBN13: 9780870335624 | Binding: hard cover

$29.99
Bodine’s City: The Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine

Jennifer B. Bodine
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A. Aubrey Bodine was a Baltimore Sunday Sun feature photographer for 43 years. The 154 images displayed here were…
Size: 9″ x 12″ | 154 b/w photos | 160 pp
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ISBN13: 9780764338441 | Binding: hard cover

$39.99
Bodine’s Industry: The Dignity of Work

A. Aubrey Bodine and Jennifer B. Bodine, Editor
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A. Aubrey Bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sunday Sun…
Size: 9” x 12” | 173 b/w photos | 160 pp
ISBN13: 9780764342851 | Binding: hard cover

$39.99
Cowboys

John Eggen
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In the frontier of Colorado in 1903, Frank Sherman had a photography studio and souvenir shop in Colorado Springs….
Size: 11″ x 8 1/2″ | 100 photos | 128 pp
ISBN13: 9780887404368 | Binding: soft cover

$19.95
Harvey Caplin’s Real Cowboys & the Old West

Abbie Caplin
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Freelance photographer Harvey Caplin recorded ranch life in the American West from the 1940s to the 1980s, before…
Size: 11 3/4″ x 9″ | 173 b/w photos | 160 pp
ISBN13: 9780764334344 | Binding: hard cover

$39.99
Jewish Treasures of the Caribbean: The Legacy of Judaism in the New World

Photographs by Wyatt Gallery, Essays by Stanley Mirvis, PhD, with a foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna, PhD
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This photographic essay highlights the little-known history of the first Jewish communities established in the New…
Size: 9″ x 12″ | 233 color images | 240 pp
ISBN13: 9780764350955 | Binding: hard cover

$60.00
Pawnee Bill’s Historic Wild West: A Photo Documentary of the 1901-1905 Show Tours

Allen Farnum with the photographs of Harry Bock
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Occasionally, some notably historic piece of Americana–artifacts, photographs, or written materia–turns up from…
Size: 11″ x 8 1/2″ | 155 photos | 128 pp
ISBN13: 9780887404375 | Binding: soft cover

$19.95
Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons: Medical Photography and Symbolism

Stanley B. Burns, MD and Elizabeth A. Burns
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This intriguing and comprehensive exploration of the skeleton and the dead body includes more than 400 rare…
Size: 12″ x 12″ | 450 photos | 328 pp
ISBN13: 9780764347467 | Binding: hard cover

$75.00
The West that Was

John Eggen
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Much of early Americana has been destroyed and lost forever. But occasionally, and almost miraculously, some parts…
Size: 11″ x 8 1/2″ | 106 photos | 184 pp
ISBN13: 9780887403309 | Binding: hard cover

$29.95