Staff Favorite Summer Books

Christine Osinski: Summer Days Staten Island

Published by Damiani.
Text by Paul Moakley. Interview by A. H. Data.

Taken in the "forgotten borough" of Staten Island between 1983 and 1984, the photographs in Christine Osinski’s (born 1948) Summer Days Staten Island create a portrait of working-class culture in an often overlooked section of New York City. Captured on Osinski’s large format 4x5 camera as she wandered the island, her candid portraits of strangers, vernacular architecture and quotidian scenes reveal an invisible landscape within reach of the thriving metropolis of Manhattan. The neighborhoods that Osinski captured are devoid of the skyscrapers, swarms of pedestrians and choking masses of traffic that are a short ferry ride away. Instead, she captures kids riding bikes on open, empty streets, suburban homes with neatly tended yards and the small-town feel of New York’s least populous borough. Accompanying the series of images is an essay by Paul Moakley, Time magazine’s Deputy Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise.

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/23/2016
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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 110   

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ISBN 9788862084482 TRADE
List Price: $40.00 CDN $54.00

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In stock

Cape Cod Modern

Mid-Century Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape

Published by Metropolis Books.
Foreword by Kenneth Frampton. Text by Peter McMahon, Christine Cipriani. Photographs by Raimund Koch.

From the “summer Bauhaus” on, the Cape’ s modern designers enjoyed a lifestyle based on communion with nature, solitary creativity and shared festivity

PUBLISHER
Metropolis Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 272 pgs / 130 color / 200 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/30/2014
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Catalog: SPRING 2014 p. 179   

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ISBN 9781935202165 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CDN $62.00

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In stock

Shore Leave

Published by Boyo Press.
Edited by Ryan Mungia. Introduction by Jim Heimann.

For the thousands of US sailors bound for the Pacific theatre of World War II, the Hawaiian Islands were the staging ground for an unknown fate. Their perception of Honolulu as a tropical paradise quickly deflated upon their arrival. The anticipation of a moonlit Diamond Head, available hula girls and free-flowing and affordable rum quickly materialized into crowded streets, beaches cordoned off with barbed wire and endless lines to nowhere. Still, as with many ports of call, diversions were plentiful, and set against the warm trade winds, sailors took advantage of them on their last stop to hell. Shore Leave is the first photobook to capture the Honolulu of this time and place. It is a one-of-a-kind visual document of a port that, for many sailors who passed through, was their initiation into manhood. Classic 1940s images of Hawaiian hula girls complement scrapbook photos of jaunty, uniformed sailors touring the island on a motorcycle or playing pool. Young women masquerading as bonafide hula girls pose with sailors in photobooth arcades, a ritual that for many would be the last human embrace before being deposited onto the battefield. Whether on the crowded streets of Waikiki or in line at the famed Black Cat Cafe, the young American men appear content for the moment with the liberties that their 48 hours away from the ship afforded. Meticulously culled from a 30-year collection of scrapbooks, photo albums and ephemera, Shore Leave—beautifully packaged with its clothbound, tipped-on cover—presents the dreams and realities of young men on their way to war in a Honolulu as exotic and forbidden as it was banal and lonely.

PUBLISHER
Boyo Press

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 10 x 8 in. / 88 pgs / 8 color / 71 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/26/2016
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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 34   

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ISBN 9780991619818 TRADE
List Price: $39.95 CDN $53.95 GBP £35.00

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In stock

Fred Mortagne: Attraper au vol

Catch in the Air

Published by Um Yeah Arts.
Foreword by Anton Corbijn. Essay by Geoff Rowley.

The world of skateboarding meets architectural beauty

PUBLISHER
Um Yeah Arts

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.25 x 11.75 in. / 132 pgs / 66 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/25/2016
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Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 62   

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ISBN 9781942884088 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CDN $60.00 GBP £40.00

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There Was Always a Place to Crash

Al Kaplan's Provincetown 1961–1966

Published by Letter16 Press.
Introduction by Brett Sokol.

There Was Always a Place to Crash: Al Kaplan’s Provincetown 1961–1966 features previously unseen photographs of Provincetown, Massachusetts’ early 1960s bohemian milieu, from future Andy Warhol Factory film star Rene Ricard to the libertine scene unfolding inside gay rights pioneer Prescott Townsend’s legendary treehouse, where countless "washashores" (including filmmaker John Waters) would stay upon first hitting Provincetown. The end result is an intimate look at a key countercultural period in American history—one whose often overlooked nuances still resonate today in both the art world and throughout the gay community. All of the volume’s images have been carefully transferred from the late Miami photographer Al Kaplan’s original 35mm black-and-white negatives. With an introduction by award-winning Miami arts journalist Brett Sokol, There Was Always a Place to Crash is one of the first records of this pre-Stonewall era in Provincetown.

PUBLISHER
Letter16 Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11.25 x 10.25 in. / 72 pgs / 79 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/23/2016
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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 110   

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ISBN 9780989381116 TRADE
List Price: $29.95 CDN $39.95 GBP £27.00

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Out of stock

Deanna Templeton: The Swimming Pool

Published by Um Yeah Arts.
Text by Ed Templeton.

The Swimming Pool is a new photographic essay from California-based street photographer Deanna Templeton (born 1969) that departs from her usual style to offer an expressive, intimate view of the human form underwater. The series was born after an impromptu nude swimming-pool shoot of husband and artist Ed Templeton, which spurred an eight-year journey in the study of light, expression and the enigma of water. Shooting entirely on color and black-and-white film and Polaroid, Templeton sent friends into the pool to be photographed in their truest form. Unlike her street photography, in which subjects were often strangers, Templeton found that creating these portraits required more intimacy and connection—a feeling that is apparent throughout every image in the series, which show strong, liberated individuals, confident and at ease in their most beautiful and vulnerable moments. As Ed Templeton writes in his afterword to this volume, "the nude swimmer is floating in a void of quiet solitude, the gentle pressure of being underwater enclosing her form like a baby in a womb and nothing exists outside of this world. A lone figure amidst a sea of blues and greys and frenetic sunlight performing a solitary dance for the photographer above, choosing movements and directions, twisting and swooping, contorting and expelling breaths painting a picture of form and light together." The Swimming Pool offers a deep and inspiring view of the human form.

PUBLISHER
Um Yeah Arts

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12.5 x 11 in. / 96 pgs / 26 color / 41 bw

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/28/2016
Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 102   

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ISBN 9781942884002 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CDN $72.50 GBP £50.00

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John Severson's SURF

Published by Damiani/PUKA PUKA.
Foreword by Gerry Lopez. Interview by Nathan Howe. Afterword by Drew Kampion.

John Severson (born 1933) revolutionized pop culture's vision of surfing and surf culture through his prolific artistic output that transverses decades and disciplines. He began his career as a painter, selling his canvases at Long Beach State College. These first works consisted of oil paintings, photographs, drawings and prints relating to Hawaiian and Californian surf culture. In 1958, Severson expanded his repertoire and created a series of popular surf movies, such as Surf Safari, Surf Fever, Big Wednesday and Pacific Vibrations. While his were among the first surf movies, it was the posters associated with them, hugely popular when issued in the 1950s and 1960s, that remain collector favorites today. Showcased in these early posters, his graphic skills translated easily to Surfer magazine, which he founded in 1960. The magazine was the first to celebrate and revolutionize the art and sport of surfing, establishing it as a powerful pop culture phenomenon. The first issue was a 36-page collection of black-and-white photos, cartoon sketches and short articles--every aspect of which was created by Severson himself. His photographs appeared in Life, Sports Illustrated, Paris Match and other print venues. John Severson's SURF explores Severson's surf odyssey through painting, photography, film and publishing. Featuring an interview with the artist by Nathan Howe, artist and curator at Puka Puka, Hawaii, foreword by Gerry Lopez, surfer and co-founder of Lightning Bolt surfboards and afterword by Drew Kampion, author and former editor of Surfer, John Severson's SURF documents the birth of surf culture and serves as a testament to our ocean.

PUBLISHER
Damiani/PUKA PUKA

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 212 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/30/2014
Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 49   

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ISBN 9788862083263 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CDN $60.00

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Joni Sternbach: Surf Site Tin Type

Published by Damiani.
Text by Lyle Rexer, April M. Watson, Chris Malloy, Johnny Abegg.

Surf Site Tin Type is an homage to a sport, a way of life, and a tribute to the people who practice it. Over the past decade Brooklyn-based photographer Joni Sternbach has traveled around the world, creating tintype portraits of contemporary surfers using the nineteenth-century wet-plate collodion process. Stunning in their detail, these one-of-a-kind images evoke the romance and adventure of surfing, and the bold individualism of the men and women who live to ride the waves. Working with a large-format camera and using hand-poured plates that are prepared and developed on location, Sternbach has profiled a fascinating range of surfers, both well known and unknown, on prized surfing beaches. Locations include Montauk and Malibu in the United States, Byron Bay in Australia and Cornwall in England. Typical surfing photographs are action shots, riding the mighty wave and in vivid color, whereas Sternbach turns to a historic technique to capture something essential and even primordial in the portraits and settings, recalling a tradition of nineteenth-century anthropological photography. Surf Site Tin Type features texts by noted photo critic and historian Lyle Rexer, curator April M. Watson, and Chris Malloy and Johnny Abegg, both well-known surfers and filmmakers.

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 9.75 in. / 192 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/24/2015
Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 61   

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ISBN 9788862083805 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CDN $60.00

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Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction

Published by Metropolis Books/Gordon de Vries Studio.
Foreword by Alastair Gordon. Text by Christopher Bascom Rawlins.

As the 1960s became The Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York’s Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with coastal landscapes. Pairing this sensitivity with jazzy improvisations on modernist themes, he perfected a sustainable modernism in cedar and glass that was as attuned to natural landscapes as to our animal natures. Gifford’s serene 1960s pavilions provided refuge from a hostile world, while his exuberant post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS masterpieces orchestrated bacchanals of liberation. Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift once spurned Hollywood limos for the rustic charm of Fire Island’s boardwalks. Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffany’s here. Diane von Furstenburg showed off her latest wrap dresses to an audience that included Halston, Giorgio Sant’ Angelo, Calvin Klein and Geoffrey Beene. Today, such a roster evokes the aloof, gated compounds of the Hamptons or Malibu. But these celebrities lived in modestly scaled homes alongside middle-class vacationers, all with equal access to Fire Island’s natural beauty. Blending cultural and architectural history, Fire Island Modernist ponders a fascinating era through an overlooked architect whose life, work and colorful milieu trace the operatic arc of a lost generation, and still resonate with artistic and historical import.

PUBLISHER
Metropolis Books/Gordon de Vries Studio

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 204 pgs / 140 color / 100 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/30/2013
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Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 32   

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ISBN 9781938922091 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CDN $85.00

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In stock

Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines

Polaroids 1975-1983

Published by Damiani.
Edited by Ben Smales. Introduction by Edmund White. Text by Tom Bianchi.

Tom Bianchi’s erotic and celebratory Polaroids of magical summers on Fire Island

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 10 in. / 212 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/31/2013
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Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 31   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788862082709 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CDN $69.95

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Out of stock