Edwynn Houk Gallery

- Exhibition Catalogues -
	Joel Meyerowitz: Vintage Prints, April 27 - June 17, 2006 Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2006 45 color reproductions Softbound $45.00 - Pre-order
	Lynn Davis : Water, October 20, 2005-December 3, 2005 Published by Edwynn Houk Gallery in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition of Lynn Davis' most captivating water photographs, this catalogue contains a total of 23 images. From the arctic chill of icebergs in Disko Bay, Greenland, to the roar of Victoria Falls in the south of Africa, to the calming stillness of Canada1s Northumberland Straits, to the mysterious fog settling in the gorges of the Yangtze River in China, this essential element is a seminal source of inspiration for her art, and figures prominently throughout her photography career. Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2005 Softbound $40.00 - Order
	Lynn Davis : Catalogue November 11, 2000-January 13, 2001 Created at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Lynn Davis's recent images compose a history of the future as envisioned by the age of modernism. The subjects of the photographs comprise wonders of twentieth century technology and engineering - ranging from the historical Hoover Dam in Nevada to the science-fiction-like Very Large Array in New Mexico -along with masterful examples of modern architecture and urbanism such as the Jonas Salk Institute designed by Louis Kahn, and the Penzoil Plaza conceived by Philip Johnson. A specific aspect of the project is the exploration of the intricate ties between science and myth as exemplified in pictures of the Epcot Center in Disneyland and of the Géode in Paris's Parc de la Villette. With a preface by the poet John Ashbery. Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2000 Softbound $45.00 - Order
	Jacques Henri Lartigue, Imprints of Joy This 50 page catalogue, featuring 40 duotone reproductions, is released in conjunction with Edwynn Houk Gallery's pioneering exhibition of vintage photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue. The images in the show are culled from the private collection of Florette Lartigue, the photographer's widow who died in May. The child prodigy of photography, Lartigue (French 1894-1986) took his first photograph at age 6. His early photographs record the dawn of a century elated by the conquest of speed and flight. Making full use of faster emulsions and shutter speeds, the young Lartigue captured the accelerated movement of modern times: the first public flight of an airplane in France (1904), the wonderful new sports cars, the swift exchanges of tennis players, and the burlesque antics of family and friends romping with makeshift racers and flying machines. Born into privilege, Lartigue transfixed the delightful life of the pre-War leisure class. His fleeting visions of seaside resorts, and of Ladies of fashion, gliding down the pathways of the Bois de Boulogne and parading at the races, reflect a passionate devotion to the pursuit of joy. Lartigue's dashing figure is brought back to life in the catalogue's vivid introduction written by the photographer's close friend, the major French collector Roger Thérond Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2000 Softbound $40.00 - Order
	Ilse Bing, Vision of a Century This catalogue accompanied an exhibition of vintage works at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in honor of the artist's 99th birthday. It features works from the Thirties, mostly from Bing's French period. As one of the major women photographers of the New Vision, Bing produced a number of classic images such as her Self-Portrait with Leica, 1931, and her Can-Can Dancer, Moulin-Rouge, 1931, as well as several strikingly evocative views of pre-War Paris and New York, all reproduced here. Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 1998. 60 pp., 10 x 11 inches, Softbound $40.00 - Order
	Sally Mann, Mother Land: Recent Landscapes of Georgia and Virginia Published on the occasion of the 1997 Mother Land show at the Edwynn Houk Gallery, this book concentrates on Sally Mann's landscapes. Mann's first experience with landscapes was prompted by her discovery of a cache of 10,000 glass plate negative images of her hometown and its environs made in the aftermath of the Civil War. Her own pictures are timeless visions of a "lost paradise". (...) when I am in the pastures making my own images it is the light that leads into suspended time. The photographs created there in that oneiric warp embrace time and memory and become the still point at which they intersect. As always, that stillness brings longing and a dizzying, time-unraveling spiral into the radical light of the American South." (From the Introduction by Sally Mann). Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 1997. 56 pp., 13-1/4 x 12-1/2 inches, Softbound $40.00 - Order
	Brassaï, The Eye of Paris Brassaï's photographs of the Paris of the 1930s have permanently defined the image of that period. Nicknamed "The Eye of Paris" by his friend Henry Miller, Brassa• relentlessly explored the hidden face of the city of light as it unfolds in the dark. This fascination for the fantastic nature inherent in modern urban life culminated in 1932 with the publication of his first book, the classic Paris de Nuit (Paris by Night). Although Brassaï's subject matter was often candid, his approach was at an opposite pole from the then emerging genre of photojournalism. The key to his art was patience and long exposures. Carefully composing each picture, Brassaï turned his subjects into archetypes. This catalogue accompanied a retrospective featured by Houk Friedman Gallery in 1993. With personal reminiscences by Gilberte Brassaï, the widow of the artist, and an introduction by David Travis, Curator of Photographs at the Art Institute of Chicago. Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, Softbound $40.00 - Order
- Available Titles by Gallery Artists -
	Elizabeth Heyert, The Travelers In 2003/2004 Elizabeth Heyert photographed the bodies of more than thirty people at the Harlem funeral parlor of Isaiah Owens who prepared the corpses for their last journey. This book is her most recent and unique contribution to contemporary portrait photography. It is movingly intimate but never sensationalist. As Heyert explains, "there is a historical dimension to these images: I was aware that I was also photographing a community from the past, a vanishing piece of cultural history. With Harlem rapidly changing, these traditions are fading. I hope my photographs will tell some small part of the story of a passing generation and their way of death." Scalo Books, 2006, 80 pages, 13.2 x 10.1 x 0.6 inches Hardbound $65.00 - Order
	Victor Schrager, Composition as Explanation Victor Schrager photographs books from his personal library, reducing the ultimate symbol of intellectual investigation to their essential aesthetic components‹color and form. Steidl in conjunction with the exhbition at Edwynn Houk Gallery, 2006, 34 color reproductions from both of Schrager's COMPOSITION AS EXPLANATION series (C-prints and pigment prints). Hardbound $35.00 - Order
	Wonders of the African World by Henry Louis Gates Jr., photographs by Lynn Davis Hardbound $40.00 - Order
	Sally Mann, What Remains "Internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann has produced a powerful new body of work on the one subject that affects us all. In What Remains, a five-part meditation on mortality, Mann focuses her lens on the ineffable divide between body and soul, the means by which life takes leave of this earth and manner in which it rejoins it. Mann's new photographs are by turns shocking and sublime. An armed fugitive is hunted down and dies on Mann's bucolic property in rural Virginia, and she photographs the scars left on the land by this chilling incident. A series of brooding, otherworldly landscapes made at the Civil War battlefield of Antietam is followed by a group of close-up portraits of Mann's own children, floating in the inky black atmosphere of the nineteenth-century ambrotype; antoher series taken at a forensics study site offers an unflinching look at the process of decomposition, as do images of a beloved pet greyhound - long since departed. Made with the collodion process, using glass plates, the resulting images are at once painterly, sculptural, and photographic." -Bookjacket excerpt from What Remains Bulfinch Press, New York, 2003, 132 pages, 85 tritone photographs and 1 four-color photograph 12 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches, Hardbound $50.00 - Order
	Elliott Erwitt , Snaps Elliott Erwitt has been taking pictures since the late forties. A member of the prestigious Magnum agency since 1954, he has photographed all over the world and his images have been the subject of many books and exhibitions. Containing over 500 photographs, many of which have never been published before, Elliott Erwitt Snaps is a unique and comprehensive survey of his work. From famous images like Khrushchev and Nixon arguing in Moscow in 1959 and Marilyn Monroe on the set of the film The Misfits, to his many more personal images of places, things, people and animals, Erwitt's unmistakeable, often witty style gives us a snapshot of the famous and the ordinary, the strange and the mundane over a period of more than half a century, through the lens of one of the era finest image-makers. Phaidon Press, New York, 2001, 512 pages, c. 500 duotone photographs, 10 5/8 x 7 inches, Hardbound, $70.00 - Order
	Victor Schrager/A.S. Byatt, Bird Hand Book Over a period of seven years, Schrager has elegantly photographed over 100 species of birds in the hands of ornithologists. In each of Schrager's rich, platinum prints the human hand is transformed into a delicate pedestal for an even more delicate creature. Bird Hand Book combines these sumptuous images with a charming and enlightening essay by Booker prize-winning author A. S. Byatt. Graphis, New York, 2001 - 128 pages 87 plates Hardbound $60.00 - Order
	Bruce Davidson, Central Park For four years, Bruce Davidson explored the alleys of Central Park, looking into every corner, patiently waiting in a spot for hours to see a picture compose itself, and learning to know the Park's indigenous colony of eccentrics, originals, birds and dogs. The result is a poetic rendition of the Park's atmosphere and a revelation of a whole new aspect of Davidson's work. With an essay by the novelist Marie Winn, a preface by the Central Park Conservancy Director Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and a commentary by Bruce Davidson. Aperture, New York, 1995. 88 pp., 9-5/8 x 11-7/8 inches, Hardbound $40.00 - Order
	Lynn Davis, Monument Lynn Davis's desire to record the natural and architectural monuments of the world drives her to undertake daunting expeditions which include Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Australia, the Arctic North, Africa, and the United States. This first monograph is a tribute to the photographer's unique sense of composition, and to the cool refinement of her aesthetic which brings out the purity of form in the timeless wonders she encounters. With a preface by Patti Smith, and an introduction by Rudolph Wurlitzer. Hardbound $65.00 - Order
	Elliott Erwitt, Personal Exposures Released in 1988, Personal Exposures provides a retrospective of Erwitt's work from his beginnings in the late 1940s up to the late 1980s. The book, which includes both famous and previously unpublished photographs, offers a privileged introduction into Erwitt's world. Ranging from the celebrated images of Marilyn Monroe and of Khrushchev and Nixon, to quirky visions of humor unexpectedly breaking through everyday life, and to the photographer's family "snaps", the book presents an in-depth illustration of Erwitt's deceptively simple style. With a lengthy introduction by Erwitt which recounts the photographer's life and career. Hardbound $75.00 - Order
	SandiFellman, Open Secret Flower abstractions, subtly toned in sepia, compose the delicate subject matter of this sensual monograph. The flowers in this body of work are presented with a fluid energy that is a departure from the traditional floral study. Fellman examines her subjects from a modern perspective, revealing flowers' abstract tendencies while remaining true to their feminine and organic nature. At once romantic and contemporary, Fellman's unique interpretation of a favorite photographic subject rides the cutting edge of an artworld sensibility which is once again embracing beauty. With essays by Diane Ackerman, poet, essayist and naturalist, and by Jerry Aline Flieger, Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Women's Studies at Rutgers University. Hardbound $70.00 - Order
	Elizabeth Heyert, The Sleepers Heyert's latest monograph explores a rarely seen, emotional underworld -- the private, primal, interior life of sleep. Her subjects, a diverse range of men and women, single and in couples, seen from above against a stark black background, appear to be floating in space. Traveling to deserted villages of northern Sicily, Heyert projected images of the sleepers onto the ancient walls of ruins and re-photographed them. The resulting photographs possess the grace and poignancy of Etruscan sculpture while capturing the sleepers' unconscious vitality. As an introduction to The Sleepers series, an in-depth interview with Elizabeth Heyert uncovers the subtleties of the photographer's working process and artistic vision. SeiSwann, New York, 2002, 64 pages, 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches, Hardbound $35.00 - Order
	Danny Lyon, The Destruction of Lower Manhattan Lyon thought of the title The Destruction of Lower Manhattan first, and then made a record of each building before it was demolished. The book was released by Macmillan Pubishers in 1969, and remaindered a few years later; the copies sold for one dollar each and became a collector's items ever since. Thirty-nine years after these photographs were made, many of them are the only record that survives entire blocks that once lined Fulton Street, and West Street along the Hudson. Because of the disaster that would strike the city a generation later, New Yorkers have taken on a renewed and fervent interest in the architecture of their city. This work is a major contribution to that new world. Powerhouse Books, New York 2005 9 /12 x 10 3/4 inches, 160 pages, 83 tritone photographs Price: $50.00 - Order
	Danny Lyon, Indian Nations Danny Lyon has again taken his camera to an America unknown to most of us, and by doing so has again helped define who we are. Spending four years visiting the Sioux, Apache and Western tribes, he has returned with haunting pictures of the plains, the desert and portraits that are both very real and romantic. This is Danny Lyonís first major serial documentary since Conversations with the Dead. Introduction by Larry McMurtry. Twin Palms, Santa Fe, 2002, 10 x 12 inches, Eighty-four color plates Hardbound $60.00 - Order
	Danny Lyon, The Bikeriders This is the long-awaited second edition of Lyon's 1968 cult reportage on a Midwest outlaw motorcycle club. The book, with its powerful visions of motorcyclists and their way of life, was seminal in creating what was later called "the new journalism". Its images seem also to have had a strong influence on the movie Easy Rider. Interviews of the bikeriders, following the photographs, add an important sociological aspect to the book. Twin Palms, Santa Fe, 1997. 104 pp., 7-1/2 x 11 inches, Hardbound $80.00 - Order
	Danny Lyon, Bushwick: "Let Them Kill Themselves" Bushwick depicts the lives and rituals of a gang of lost Brooklyn kids whom Danny Lyon met on a subway ride. The book offers an honest, straightforward portrayal of urban youths with death and violence as the ordinary, everyday backdrop. An original narration by Carlos Ferreira, one of the teen-agers befriended by Lyon, accompanies the photographs. Le Point Du Jour Editeur, Rozel, 1996. 48 pp., 8-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches, Softbound $15.00 - Order
	Danny Lyon, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement As the staff photographer for one of the leading civil rights movement in Georgia, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Danny Lyon was able to produce a unique, insider's testimony of the events that shook America in the Sixties. This book combines photographs, some of which are published for the first time here, and a detailed written account by Danny Lyon. North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1992. 190 pp., 9 x 12 inches, Softbound $25.00 - Order
	Danny Lyon, Merci Gonaïves A Photographer's Account of Haiti and the February Revolution Danny Lyon first broke onto the scene of photography with his documentary pictures of the southern civil rights movement. In Merci Gonaïves, he offers a vivid, day-to-day account of the Haitian revolution and its chaotic aftermath both through pictures and text. Lyon's vision of the events reflects a deep understanding and empathy for the people he depicts. Bleak Beauty Books, Clintondale,1988. 63pp., 9 x 11 inches, Softbound $35.00 - Order
	Danny Lyon, Knave of Hearts Knave of Hearts is a one of a kind memoir. It is an impressionistic assemblage of memories, starting with Lyon's family history, and of photographic collages, referred to by the author as "montages". Combining everyday snapshots with some of the photographer's iconic images, the "montages" were the original impetus for this autobiographical essay. Rife with anecdote and written in a limpid, straightforward style, Knave of Hearts is an essential key to understanding the work of an epoch-making photographer. Hardbound $60.00 - Order
	Sally Mann, Immediate Family Using as models her three children, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, Sally Mann reinvents the prosaic genre of the family picture. Mini-dramas and ordinary events of everyday family life take on a new dimension under the lens of this artist-mother's 8 x 10 view camera. Tender, yet uncompromising, these strikingly beautiful pictures capture the complex world of childhood, made up of fantasy, defiance, innocence and sensuality. This monograph opens with an introductory text by Sally Mann, describing her own unconventional childhood in southwestern Virginia, and closes on an afterword by prize-winning novelist Reynolds Price. Aperture, New York, 1992. 88 pp., 11 x 9-1/2 inches, Hardbound $45.00 - Order
	Sally Mann, Still Time Expanded from a catalogue, this book is meant to accompany a traveling exhibition spanning twenty years of Sally Mann's photography. It presents a comprehensive survey of the artist's work from 1971 through 1991, including pictures from the series At Twelve and Immediate Family, and samples of Mann's color photographs, her polaroids and platinum prints. Aperture, New York, 1994. 80 pp., 11-1/4 x 9-1/2 inchds, Softbound $30.00 - Order
	Andrea Modica, Minor League Minor League is based on a series of pictures of baseball players. Working with a view camera, Modica composes classical, almost formal portraits of the players. An interview with Modica and a summary of her technique provide an excellent introduction into the photographer's world. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1993. 60 pp., 8-1/4 x 10 inches, Softbound $15.95 - Order
	Andrea Modica, Treadwell Treadwell is Andrea Modica's first major publication. It sums up ten years of work based on the lives of Barbara, a young girl from rural, backwater America and her family. Modica's intensely subjective visions combine fact and fiction into unique dream tableaux. The subtleties of Modica's exquisite platinum/palladium prints are beautifully rendered here. With an introduction by Maria Morris Hambourg, Curator in charge of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an essay by the Pulitzer prize-winning novelist E. Annie Proulx. Chronicle, San Francisco, 1996. 88 pp., 9-3/4 x 11-1/2 inches, Hardbound $40.00 - Order
	Andrea Modica, Human Being In October of 1999 I had just moved to Colorado after a lifetime on the east coast. I left behind the places and geography that were familiar to me. Above all, I left behind all the things I had chosen to photograph. It was an unfathomable landscape. In some sense, I felt unable to see... >>read the complete introduction Nazraeli Press Hardbound $50.00- Order
	Andrea Modica, Barbara I met Barbara in 1986, when she was seven years old. She was sitting on the porch of her upstate New York home with several of her many siblings and a couple of their kids. Coming from a lifetime of urban living, I had recently been hired to teach photography at a local college. I was young, driving a car for the first time, living in a place that was as foreign to me as another country. I was desperately searching for others in this sparsely populated, rural landscape. Struck by the sheer number of people living in this farmhouse, I stopped. We talked, and I took some photographs. This began a fifteen-year relationship . . . >> read the complete prologue Nazraeli Press, 2004. 8-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches. Hardcover $40.00 - Order