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Anthology of ballads, sonnets, odes and songs as well as humorous, strange and odd items from the pages of 19th century photographic periodicals. Munich: Nazraeli Press, 1994.
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Resource index to over 2,000 institutions, workshops, museums, galleries, periodicals, individuals etc. in academic/fine-art photography. Munich: Nazraeli Press, 1993.
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He gave hundreds of lectures on photography as a guest at colleges, universities, art schools and camera clubs in
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Hand-printed, leather bound livre-de-luxe, containing tipped-in original photographs. Friends of
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Snapshots. Photographs of amateur photographers with their cameras at picture places in
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Focal Press Ltd., London, 1972. A history of the nude as a subject for photographers, from 1840-1970. Second edition: 1980.
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The first comprehensive collection of critical essays and images by Shaw. Peregrine Smith, Utah, 1989.
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Munich: Nazraeli Press, 1998. Movie option rights acquired by Coppos Films, Los
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Portraits of homeless men in a small California seaside town. Nazraeli Press, 2005.
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