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1989
American Photographer - December 1989
Fashion photographer Guy Bourdin; firefighters by Dave Fornell; picture editors. Celebrities in this issue include Madonna and Charles Barkley.
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American Photographer - November 1989
Photogjournalism by Gene Richards; Paris showgirls by Harris Gaffin; high society by Barbara Norfleet. The cover photo is Christy Turlington by Patrick Demarchelier.
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American Photographer - October 1989
National Geographic photographer Albert Allard; "The New Collectors"; the midwest by Robert Hower; Hollywood photographer Jean Howard. Celebrities in this issue include Graham Nash, Lawrence Olivia, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood, Clark Gable, Marylin Monroe, and Linda Christian.
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American Photographer - September 1989
Larry Fink; Tiananmen square; the desert by William Lesch; the U.S. Marines by Anthony Edgeworth.
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American Photographer - August 1989
Special section on landscapes (includes Pat O'Hara); P.L. diCorcia; early aerial photography by Alfred G. Buckham. Celebrities in this issue include Karen Alexander.
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American Photographer - July 1989
Advertising photography by Paul Berg; New York photographers Mark Seliger, Karen Kuehn, and Chip Simons; the California valley by Robert Dawson and Stephen Johnson; Andy Grundberg's ten favorite images; fashion by Victoria Pearson Cameron; Celebrities in this issue include Sam Kinison, Robert Downey Jr., and Elle MacPherson.
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American Photographer - June 1989
Photojournalism by David and Peter Turnley; Mark Weiss; commercial photojournalism by Dan Weiner; celebrity portraits by Greg Gorman (Kim Basinger, Grace Jones, Tiger Williams, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen); turmoil in Tibet by Asupi. Other celebrities in this issue include Cindy Crawford (Fuji film ad).
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American Photographer - May 1989
Exhibition: "New Composites" by Nancy Burson; 10-page feature on fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier; abstracts by Geof Kern; 8-page section on pinhole photography; Rudy Robinson. Celebrities in this issue include Cindy Crawford and Che Guevara.
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American Photographer - April 1989
Photojournalism by Sebastiao Salgado; space photography by Roger Ressmeyer; photographer portraits by Fi McGhee (includes Bert Stern, Arnold Newman, Albert Watson, and Jay Dusard); world record-holders by Frank Berger. Celebrities in this issue include Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer.
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American Photographer - March 1989
"Great Pages of 1988" - includes Maggie Steber, Gilles Bensimon, Ronald C. Modra, James L. Stanfield, Michael Tighe, Frans Lanting, Tommy Oesterlund, Hiro, and Just Loomis; still lifes by Jan Groover; migrant farmers by Horace Bristol.
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American Photographer - February 1989
"New Faces 1989" - Raymond Meier, Josef Astor, Adam Fuss, Charles Trainor, Frans van der Heyden, Jon Jensen; sports by Tony Duffy and Steve Powell; architecture by the Hedrich brothers; fashion stylist Tina Bossidy.
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American Photographer - January 1989
"10 Pictures that Changed America" (Birmingham unrest by Charles More, child laborer by Lewis Hine, Volkswagen Bug by Wingate Paine, Lucille Brokaw running by Martin Munkacsi, Gettysburg battlefield by Timothy O'Sullivan, My Lai massacre by Ron Haeberle, Old Faithful by William Henry Jackson, Calvin Klein underwear ad by Bruce Weber, nude Marilyn Monroe by Tom Kelley. Earthrise by Bill Anders); still lifes by Frank Majore; Elliott Erwitt.
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1988
American Photographer - December 1988
Exhibition: "People with AIDS" by Nicholas Nixon; 12-page feature on combat photographer Catherine Leroy; house interiors by Tina Barney; photography in Boston.
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American Photographer - November 1988
Gorillas by Nick Nichols; urban landscapes by Jan Staller; shoe fashion photography; celebrity portraits by Jimmy Kriegsmann. Celebrities in this issue include Jimmy Durante, the Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra, Paul Anka, Cab Calloway, Johnny Carson, Bill Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Ike and Tina Turner.
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American Photographer - October 1988
Special issue on photojournalism. Exhibition by Lloyd Ullberg; world history in photographs; inteveiw with museum curator Marianne Fulton; photojournalist Stan Grossfeld. Celebrities in this issue include Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Benito Mussolini.
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American Photographer - September 1988
8-page feature on David Bailey; architectural abstracts by Barbara Kasten; pictorals by Pierre Dubreuil; New Mexico landscapes by Mark Nohl. Celebrities in this issue include Jesse Jackson and Michael Caine.
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American Photographer - August 1988
Celebrities by Bonnie Schiffman; Nazi Germany by Hanns Hubmann; microphotography by Bill Marin. Celebrities in this issue include Roy Rogers (cover photo), Christie Brinkley; Robin Williams, Howie Mandell, John Belushi, Teri Garr, Ed Harris, and Whoopi Goldberg.
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American Photographer - July 1988
Inside political campaigns; campaign photography by Arthur Grace; consumerism by Gerhard Vormwald; landscapes by John Gossage. Celebrities in this issue include Michael Dukakis (including the cover photo), Paul Simon, Jesse Jackson, George Bush, Pat Robertson, Al Gore, Gary Hart.
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American Photographer - June 1988
Glamour by Albert Watson, subjects include Rachel Hunter (cover) and Andy Warhol; Northwest logging by Darius Kinsey.
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American Photographer - May 1988
Celebrities by paparrazi Vinnie Zuffante, subject include Catherine Oxenberg (cover), Madonna, Farrah Fawcett, Keith Richards, and Michael Jackson; California by Morley Baer; the Serengeti by Mitsuaki Iwago; the Sicilian mafia by Letizia Battaglia and Franco Zecchin; advertising by Sergio Caminata.
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American Photographer - April 1988
12-page feature on ELLE photographer Gilles Bensimon, including photos of Christy Turlington (cover), Elle MacPherson, Paulina Porizkova, and Karen Alexander; the homeless by Michael Evans; California by Stephen Wilkes; Q&A with Ruth Bernhard.
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American Photographer - March 1988
"Great Pages of 1987", includes Brigitte Nielsen by Helmut Newton on cover and inside, Iran-Contra by Terry Ashe, Rudolf Hess, Charles Bukowski by Herb Ritts, fashion by Gilles Bensimon; United Nations photographer John Isaac; platinum prints; advertising by Bert Stern, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Henry Wolf, Hiro, and others.
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American Photographer - February 1988
Exhibition by Charles Harbutt; "New Faces 1988 including Carol Kaplan, Lance Staedler, Alexandra Avakian, Mary Jo Toles, David H. Wells, Grant Peterson; 20-page "American Photographer Profile" supplement; 12-page feature on Arnold Newman; inside Newsweek. Celebrities in this issue include Donald Trump.
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American Photographer - January 1988
Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston by Beaumont Newhall; 12-page feature on Robert Mapplethorpe; 20-page "American Photographer Profile" supplement; still lifes by Jeff Atherton; the Iowa farm crisis by Dave Peterson; photography in Aspen, Colorado. Celebrities in this issue include Marilyn Monroe.
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1987
American Photographer - December 1987
Exhibition by Henri Cartier-Bresson; Cornell Capa; a hundred years of National Geographic photography; copyright protection.
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American Photographer - November 1987
Exhibition by Cindy Sherman; high-performance automobiles by Jeff Zwart; 20-page "American Photographer Profile" supplement; nuclear weapons by Robert Del Tredici; black and white nudes by Hiroshi Osaka; Q&A with New York museum photography director John Szarkowski. Celebrities in this issue include Richard Nixon and Tricia Nixon.
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American Photographer - October 1987
Baseball by Herbie Scharfman; horse racing by Henry Horenstein; food by Hans Neleman; photography trivia quiz; the death of Ernesto "Che" Guevara by Freddy Allborta.
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American Photographer - September 1987
Music stars by Jim Marshall; 20-page "American Photographer Profile" supplement; Americana by Joel Sternfeld; foreign photojournalism; Q&A with Joyce Tenneson; Paul Vathis' photos of the public suicide of Budd Dwyer. Celebrities in this issue include Wade Boggs, Mick Jagger, Thelonious Monk, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Grace Slick.
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American Photographer - August 1987
Celebrities by Herb Ritts (includes Kim Basinger, on the cover, Madonna, Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Tina Turner, and Jack Nicholson); arthictecture by Michael Eastman; English beachgoers by Martin Parr; the late Jacques Henri Lartigue.
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American Photographer - July 1987
Pinups by Bunny Yeager; 20-page supplement called "American Photographer Profile"; Air Force planes by George Hall; mountaineering by Vittorio Sella; the Vietnam War by David Burnett. Celebrities in this issue include Ed Koch, Bunny Yeager, and Bettie Page.
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American Photographer - June 1987
12-page feature on William Clift; 24-page supplement called "American Photographer Profile"; water skiing by Tom King; press photographers of the Reagan White House; shoe fashions by Uwe Ommer. Celebrities in this issue include Ronald Reagan, Donald Regan, Edwin Meese, George Bush, and Nancy Reagan.
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American Photographer - May 1987
Other Americas by Sebastiao Salgado; children's fashions by Jade Albert; 50 years of Consumer Reports product testing; photography in Houston; Henry Cox; boxing by Will Hart. Celebrities in this issue include Paul Newman, Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns, Larry Holmes, and Mike Tyson.
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American Photographer - April 1987
August Sander: Citizens of the Twentieh Century; adventure by Nick Nichols; editor John Loengard; Patrick Nagatani; fashion photography in Milan. Celebrities in this issue include Louis Armstrong.
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American Photographer - March 1987
Veruschka is on the cover and an 8-page feature on artistic photographs involving bodypainting. Other features are "great pages of 1986" -- includes the Challenger explosion, Tip O'Neill, Caroline Kennedy's wedding by Harry Benson, and contributions by Walter Iooss Jr. and Gilles Bensimon --technical photographs by Andreas Feininger; Q&A with Harry Lunn.
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American Photographer - February 1987
"New Faces 1987", including Charles Purvis, Nana Watanabe, Dennis McDonald, David LaChapelle, Thea Schrack, Hans Neleman; yachting by Morris and Stanley Rosenfeld; animals by Rosamond Wolff Purcell.
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American Photographer - January 1987
The Photographic Art of Hoyningen-Huene by William Ewing; photojournalism by Jodi Cobb; b/w by Olivia Parker; fashion by Jaques and Dominique Silberstein; . Celebrities in this issue include Steve Yeager, Heather Locklear, Linda Evangelista, Renee Simonsen, Paulina Porizkova, and Sarah Webb.
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1986
American Photographer - December 1986
The cover has a classic photo of Brigitte Bardot by Philippe Halsman. Other jumping celebrities from Halsman's book Jump include Sid Caesar, Edward Steichen, Lucille Ball, Dick Clark, Joanne Woodward, Richard Nixon, Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Perkins, and Grace Kelly. This issue also has a 16-page feature on Life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt -- subjects include George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Gobbels, Bob Hope, Marilyn Monroe, and the Kennedy family in 1940. Other features, 1950's themes by Karen Filter; Q&A with Judy Dater.
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American Photographer - November 1986
Exhibition by John Thomson; 16-page feature on Antonin Kratochvil; portraits of Glenn Gould by Don Hunstein; Japanese tatoos by Sandi Fellman; tribute to the late Ernst Haas.
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American Photographer - October 1986
Cover photo is Kate Capshaw by Gary Heery. Other celebrities in the Heery feature include Roy Orbison, Marty Feldman, Julie Andrews, Madonna, and Timothy Leary. This issue also features: 16 pages of nature by Art Wolfe; Q&A with Larry Clark; food by Barbara Swain and Dan Wolfe.
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American Photographer - September 1986
Exhibition by Angela Poggioni; Exploding Into Life by Dorothea Lynch; 16-page feature on Edward Weston; athletes who are models; still lifes by Brian Hagiwara; Q&A with Mary Shanahan, Celebrities in this issue include Babe Ruth and Martina Navratilova.
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American Photographer - August 1986
Cover by and 14-page feature on Greg Heisler. Other features: deep sea by Jeff Milikan; Ralph Steiner's ten favorite images; The New Yorker covers. Celebrities in this issue include Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Donald Trump, Paul Prudhomme.
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American Photographer - July 1986
Exhibition, "Landscapes" by Hiroshi Hamaya; sports by Brian Lanker; British culture by Neal Slavin; birds by Roger Tory Peterson; Ellis Island by Augustus Sherman. Celebrities in this issue include Julius Erving, Leon Gray, Ricky Henderson, Carl Lewis, and Elle MacPherson.
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American Photographer - June 1986
24-page feature on Margaret Bourke-White; glows by Dean Chamberlain; signs by George Olson; nuclear test witnesses by Jim Lerager. Celebrities in this issue inclue George Patton and Gandhi.
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American Photographer - May 1986
Portraits and glamour by Victor Skrebneski; the tropics by Alex Webb; Sam Wagstaff's top ten photographs; nudes by Jay Daniel; Q&A with Diana Walker and Jill Krementz. Celebrities in this issue include Ronald Reagan, Orson Welles, Vanessa Redgrave, Karen Graham, and Josephine Baker.
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American Photographer - April 1986
Exhibition by Emmet Gowin; early flight; WWI planes by Philip Makanna; cutting-edge airplanes by Mark Greenberg; Bernice Abbot; animal photography. Celebrities in this issue include James Joyce.
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American Photographer - March 1986
Aerial cityscapes by Peter B. Kaplan; "great pages of 1985" - includes Ronald and Nacy Reagan by Harry Benson and contributions by Hiro, Mary Ellen Mark, and Annie Leibovitz; the U.S.S.R. by Yuri Abramochkin.
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American Photographer - February 1986
L'Amour Fou: Photography & Surrealism by Rosalind Knauss and Jane Livingsoton; "New Faces 1986" (includes Diane Padys, Lisa Powers, Ron Ennis, Anne Turyn, Knut Bry, and Phil Schofield); 12-page feature on Andre Kertesz; the Adnree Arctic expedition by Nils Stridnberg.
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American Photographer - January 1986
Newborn babies by Penny Gentieu; portraits by Patrick Lichfield; Europe by Josef Koudelka; the circus by Susan Felter; Q&A with Daniel Wolf. Celebrities in this issue include Queen Elizabeth, Princess Anne, and Omar Sharif.
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1985
American Photographer - December 1985
The work of William Eugene Smith; models by Douglas Hopkins; autobiographical photos by Antonio Mendoza; casino photographer Susan Baker.
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American Photographer - November 1985
Exhibition by Bill Brandt; the grotesque by Joel-Peter Witken; Scotland by Michael Ruetz; humorous photos by Henry Wolf; Shaker houses by Arnold Newman; executive portraits. Celebrities in this issue include Harpo Marx and Tondy Randall.
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American Photographer - October 1985
Exhibition by Julia Margaret Cameron; war photographs by Robert Capa; Las Vegas by Chester Michalik;celebrities by Penny Wolin; Q&A with Andy Warhol. Celebrities in this issue include Ron Howard, Piz Zadora, Randy Newman, Charlton Heston, Teri Garr, and Chaka Khan.
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American Photographer - September 1985
Q&A with war photojournalist Jim Nachtwey; landscapes by Mark Klett; Barbie photography; the Iran-Iraq war. Celebrities in this issue include Madonna.
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American Photographer - August 1985
"Street Snaps" exhibition by Henry Cox; photojournalism by Carl Mydans; bizarre photographs by Michael Hoppen; gum prints; fire in Philadelphia
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American Photographer - July 1985
Surfing by Aaron Change; inside photo collectors' homes; composite and aged portraits by Nuncy Burson (includes Reagan/Andropov, Reagan/Chernenko, Prince Charles, and Princess Diana).
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American Photographer - June 1985
Exhibition by Eugene Atget; Van Deren Coke; American diners by Tom Baril; four artists focus on flowers.
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American Photographer - May 1985
Advertising by Onofrio Paccione; Ethiopan famine by Sebastio Salgado, Stan Grossfeld, and Anthony Suau; Mexico by Geoff Winningham; Q&A with Ben Fernandez Celebrities in this issue include Hedy Lamarr.
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American Photographer - April 1985
16-page feature on Playboy photographer Pompeo Posar; nature by Michael Kenna. Celebrities in this issue include Laura Young, P.J. Lansing, Claire Rambeau, Cyndi Woods, Bridgett Rollins, Connie Mason, and Jolanda Egger.
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American Photographer - March 1985
Exhibition by Eugene Atget; Van Deren Coke; American diners by Tom Baril; four artists focus on flowers.
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American Photographer - February 1985
Exhibition by Nicholas Nixon; Diane Arbus: Magazine Work; "1985 New Faces", includes Jimi Lott, Maria Krajcirovic, Antonin Kratochvil, Merrell Wood, Kei Pgata, and Cotton Coulson; sports by George Silk; nature by Richard Misrach; cow portraits by Maggie Murphy.
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American Photographer - January 1985
Exhibition by Irving Penn; Washington D.C. photographers; the desert by Bernard Plossu; "distant nudes" by John Crawford; dancers frozen in mid-jump by Lois Greenfield
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1984
American Photographer - December 1984
Special feature on postwar photography in Life (includes Philippe Halsman, Walter Kelleher, Edward Clark, Fritz Goro, Ben Hardy, Milton Greene, Nina Leen, Lisa Larsen, Howard Sochurek, Cornelius Ryan, Loomis Dean, Francis Miller, Alfred Eisenstaedt, David Douglas Duncan, John Brenneis, Eliot Elisofon, George Lacks); skiing by John Kelly and Bill Eppridge. Celebrity photos include Gina Lollobrigida, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marlene Dietrich, John F. and Jaqueline Kennedy, Robert Taft, Noel Coward, and Richard Nixon).
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American Photographer - November 1984
Paulina Porizkova is on the cover and in a 3-page article by Paolo Curto; bayou wildlife by C. C. Lockwood; the Walter Mondale presidential campaign by Thomas Arndt; politics by Robert Frank; dancers by Harvey Edwards; Q&A with Robert Freidus.
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American Photographer - October 1984
Exhibition of Poloroids by Lucas Samaras; 24-page feature on Irving Penn; wildlife hunting by James Balog; Aubrey Bodine.
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American Photographer - September 1984
High-speed photography by Dr. Harold Edgerton; glamour by Uwe Ommer; exhibition of Minneapolis-St. Paul photographers; industrial photos by Arthur d'Arazien.
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American Photographer - August 1984
Exhibition by Sheila Metzner; Northern Ireland by Gilles Peress; Ralph Krubner; beach photography by Charles Traub; surfing by Wayne Levin.
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American Photographer - July 1984
Marilyn Monroe is on the cover and a 6-page article. She is photographed by Richard Avedon, costumed and posing as great glamour queens of the past. On the cover, she is Lillian Russell. She also poses as Jean Harlow, Theda Bara, and Clara Bow. This issue also features cowboy/western photographer Bill Allard; the late Ansel Adams; and Mississippi by Eudora Welty.
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American Photographer - June 1984
Features ten years of People magazine, including Cher (cover), Wendy O. Williams, Gloria Steinem, Jimmy Carter, Christie Brinkley, and Howard Cosell. Photographers include Harry Benson and Mary Ellen Mark. Other features: the work of Avery Crounse and Stefan Lorant; kittens by Satoru Tsuda.
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American Photographer - May 1984
Exhibition by Bettina Rheims; photographer-physician Dr. Matthew Naythons; nude model Betty Biehn; oriental landscapes by Eliot Porter; Shomei Tomatsu; Zelig by Woody Allen.
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American Photographer - April 1984
Exhibition by William Mortensen; 25-page feature on Cuba, Kansas by Jim Richardson; Q&A with Sid Rapoport; 12-page "Snaps" humor supplement.
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American Photographer - March 1984
Canova by David Finn and Fred Licht; special feature, "The Best Pages of 1983" (includes William F. Haxby, Hiro, Peter Jordan, Robert Carr, Michael O'Neill, Deborah Turbeville, Martin Schreiber, Carol Beckwith, Tony Duffy, Denis Piel); Q&A with Lee Friedlander; war machines by Co Rentmeester. Celebritiy photos in this issue include Morgan Fairchild, Ed Harris, and Carl Lewis.
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American Photographer - February 1984
Has a feature on the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, with Paulina Porizkova on a 2-page foldout cover. Other models in the 10-page feature are Carol Alt and Kim Alexis. Other features: A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac; "New Faces of 1984"; Q&A with George Karas; the California desert by Jane Gottlieb.
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American Photographer - January 1984
Exhibition: Mount St. Helens: Work in Progress by Frank Gohlke; DelCorso's Gallery by Philip Caputo; 22-page feature on Annie Leibowitz (includes Mick Jagger, Bette Midler, Keith Richards, Lauren Hutton, Woody Allen, John Belushi, Bob Dylan); landscapes by Chris Rainier; Q&A with Bob Peterson; war photos from Grenada.
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1983
American Photographer - December 1983
Exhibition by Louise Dahl-Wolfe; Ernst Haas; photo editors by Phil Schermeister; Jimmy De Sana; Q&A with Carl Chiarenza.
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American Photographer - November 1983
Photography and Architecture: 1839-1939 by Richard Pare; wilderness by Galen Rowell; Pittsburgh by Duane Michals; nudes by Hideki Fujii; food by Michael Geiger; portraits by Rogi André.
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American Photographer - October 1983
Exhibitions of landscapes by John Pfahl; Nicholas Nixon, Photographs from One Year, Untitled 31; sports photography by Mark Kauffman, John Zimmerman, and Neil Leifer (includes Roger Bannister, Phil Rizzuto, Vida Blue, Wilt Chamberlain, Bob Brown, Bob Seagren, Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston); nudes of bodybuilder Lisa Lyon by Robert Mapplethorpe; Robert Capa; "Farewell to Phyllis" by Tim Jewett.
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American Photographer - September 1983
Killing Time by Joe Steinmetz; yachting by Eric Schweikardt; boats by Allan Weitz; sailing by Frank Beken; Q&A with Cindy Sherman; Saudi portraits by Robert Azzi.
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American Photographer - August 1983
Death exhibition by Joel-Peter Witkin; babies and children by Josef Schneider; babies by Art Kane; Q&A with Elliott Erwitt in St. Tropez; Steiner Street in San Francisco.
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American Photographer - July 1983
Fashion by Norman Parkinson - includes models Iman and Jerry Hall on the cover. Other features: war in Central America by Eli Reed; the work of Steven Wilkes; Arthur Felig, aka Weegee the Famous.
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American Photographer - June 1983
Special fifth anniversary issue. Includes an annotated list of "Photography's Essential 60" people and reprints of photographs from past issues. Includes Elizabeth Taylor by Bert Stern, Sonny Liston by Carl Fisher, Ann-Margaret by Douglas Kirkland, and contributions by Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Deborah Turbeville, Edward Weston, Anthony Edgeworth, Anthony Bruno, Richard Avedon, Cheyco Leidmann, Harry Benson, Paul Outerbridge, and Elliott Erwitt. Other features: David Hockney Photographs.
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American Photographer - May 1983
Books about Alfred Stieglitz; nature by John Shaw; Germany 1919-1933; the work of Sarah Moon.
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American Photographer - April 1983
Nudes by Art Kane; high-mountain photography by Bradford Washburn; New York's 14th St. by Sy Rubin; war by Cecil Beaton; the work of Stanley Smith.
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American Photographer - March 1983
Exhibition by Linn Sage; special photojournalism issue featuring David Burnett, Michael O'Brien, and Russell Lee; Q&A with Shlmo Arad.
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American Photographer - February 1983
The work of Henry Wolf; portraits by the Earl of Snowdon (includes David Bowie, Laurence Olivier, and T.S. Eliot); "New Faces of 1983" (includes Bonnie Schiffman portraits of Robin Williams, Lee Marvin, and John Belushi); "Nagging Question" by Stephen Elston.
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American Photographer - January 1983
Photography agent N. Newbury Hovde ("Nob"); Polaroids by Bill Burke; structures by Walker Evans; nudes by Lucien Clergue.
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1982
American Photographer - December 1982
Factory Valleys by Lee Friedlander; exhibition by Ralph Gibson; transportation by David Plowden; still lifes by Robert Fichter; women by Jacques-Henri Lartigue.; beauty/fashion by Neal Barr (includes Kim Alexis).
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American Photographer - November 1982
Book review, Bill Brandt: Portraits; duck hunting by Hanson Carroll; painted backdrops; the work of Robert Munroe; snowscapes by Ansel Adams.
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American Photographer - October 1982
Futurism by Pete Turner; special feature on sports photography; sports photographer Andy Hayt (includes Ray Mancini, Gaylord Perry, Ozzie Smith, and Gary Carter).
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American Photographer - September 1982
Exhibition: still lifes by Irving Penn; Man Ray/Photographs; Jay Maisel; the unemployed by Douglas Kirkland; daguerreotypes by Samuel Walker; Q&A with Arthur Tress.
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American Photographer - August 1982
Exhibition by Mike Disfarmer; movie stills by Mike Ginsburg (includes Paul Newman); 1981 national photography award winners (Rudi Frey, Nakram Gadel Karim, Kent Kobersteen, Harry Benson, Dan Dry, Herbert Migdoll, Robert Llewellyn, Joel Meyerowitz, Aaron Siskind, John H. White, Ron Edmonds); landscapes by Steven Benson.
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American Photographer - July 1982
Roy DeCarava, Photographs; fashion by Arthur Elgort; America by Jim Alinder; high-contrast nudes by Marco De Valdivia; tennis (includes John McEnroe; Tracy Austin; Martina Navratilova; Bjorn Borg); jazz artist portraits by Giuseppe Pino.
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American Photographer - June 1982
Sharks by David and Anne Doubilet; review of W. Eugene Smith, Master of the Photographic Essay; trains at night by O. Winston Link; 8 pages from Helmut Newton's Big Nudes; India by Samuel Bourne.
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American Photographer - May 1982
Photojournalism by Harry Benson (includes The Beatles, Bobby Fischer, Gilda Radner, Henry Kissinger, John Mitchell, Joe Namath, Dolly Parton, Richard Nixon, Tricia Nixon, Halston); landscapes by Jerry Takigawa; portraits by Gertrude Kasebier; Q&A with Kipton Kumler; fashion by Scott Heiser.
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American Photographer - April 1982
Exhibition by Mario Giacomelli; celebrity fantasies by Barry Levine (includes Cher, Jane Seymour, Pam Dawber, Sandahl Bergman); Louisiana by Clarence John Laughlin; nature by Roger Malloch; nudes by Bill Brandt.
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American Photographer - March 1982
Nastassja Kinski is on the cover posing nude with a large snake. Photographed by Richard Avedon, this cover folds out to two pages. Features, "The 10 Best Pages of 1981", including the cover photo, the rings of Saturn by Voyager II, Meryl Streep by Annie Leibovitz, Anwar Sadat by Robert Azzi, and contributions by Henry Wolf and Irving Penn. Other features: Reagan White House photographer Michael Evans; the work of Don Peterson; Q&A with Horst P. Horst; nature by Ansel Adams.
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American Photographer - February 1982
American Frontiers: The Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan; new faces 1982 (Frank Denman, Sal Corbo, Kozo Miyoshi, Mike Fluitt, Vicky Valerio, Dave Jordano); Mark Sennet (includes photographs of Sarah Miles, Dudley Moore, Paul Williams, Siegfried and Roy, Ed Asner, Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset); annual report photography; fashion photographer Erwin Blumenfeld; Q&A with Lucas Samaras, the future of photography.
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American Photographer - January 1982
Camera Lucida, Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes; exhibition by Eugene Atget; Hiro (includes photographs of The Rolling Stones, Barbara Carrera, Mick Jagger, Muhammed Ali).
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1981
American Photographer - December 1981
Nature photographs by Eliot Porter; magazine covers by George Lois (includes Sonny Liston; Andy Warhol; Richard Nixon; Muhammad Ali; Lt. William Calley); auto racing by Chet Jezierski; ballet by Alexey Brodovitch; the Anwar Sadat assassination; Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
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American Photographer - November 1981
Anthony Edgeworth; American landscapes (includes Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan); Fernand Fonssagrives; Q&A with Robert Rauschenberg.
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American Photographer - October 1981
Exhibition by Edward Weston; space photography by Ralph Morse; portraits by F. Holland Day; assignment by Art Kane (includes model Janice Dickinson); Q&A with Jack Welpott.
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American Photographer - September 1981
Street photography by Joel Meyerowitz; Heribert Brehm's female nudes; Charles Currier; still life by Laurence Bach.
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American Photographer - August 1981
From the Missouri West by Robert Adams; photos by Bert Stern (includes Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Dian Parkinson, and Iman); tree bark by Oscar Forel; French life by Eugene Atget; photos from skyscraper tops by Jonas Dovydenas; Q&A with Leonard Koren, publisher of Wet.
Price: $8 - Ex
Price: $7 - Ex/VG
American Photographer - July 1981
Exhibition by Tod Papageorge; the work of Roman Vishniac; glamour by Bernard Vidal; coal miners by Earl Dotter; India in the 1800's by Raja Deen Dayal.
Price: $8 - Ex
Price: $6 - Ex/G
American Photographer - June 1981
Exhibition by Richard Margolis; Photography and Society by Gisele Freund; fashion photography by Louise Dahl-Wolfe; breast cancer by Eugene Richards; Tsunehisa Kimura; the Reagan assassination attempt.
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American Photographer - May 1981
Time Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures by Michael Lesy; Donald McCullin's war photographs; advertising photography by Michel Tcherevkoff; Q&A with John Gutmann; sensual nudes by Kenda North; wedding photography.
Price: $9 - Ex NL
Price: $8 - Ex
American Photographer - April 1981
Movie publicity photos by George Hurrell from 1930-40 (includes Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Gary Cooper, and Jean Harlow); female nudes by Sam Haskins; Bombay prostitutes by Mary Ellen Mark; "Snaps" humour section.
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American Photographer - March 1981
Garry Winogrand's "Fat City"; Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography by Gail Buckland; Latin American revolutions by Susan Meiselas; Yeats' Ireland by Alen MacWeeney; skydiving photos by Tony Gonzales; high-contrast fine art by J. Seeley.
Price: $7 - Ex/VG
American Photographer - February 1981
"New Faces 1981"; Q&A with Max Yavno; stereographs; nudes of his wife by David Bailey.
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Price: $7 - Ex/G NL
American Photographer - January 1981
Wildlife by Peter Beard; the work of Jim Matusik.
Price: $6 - Ex/G

1980
American Photographer - December 1980
Janice Dickinson is on the cover, photographed by Albert Watson. Has a 22-page feature on Ansel Adams, including many selections from Yosemite as well as other locations. Also features rear ends by Chris Callis; still lifes by Leslie Gill.
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American Photographer - November 1980
Features the work of Gjon Mili (including the cover); the Bonfils of Lebanon; the Middle East by Robert Azzi. Celebrities in this issue include Marilyn Monroe, Ted Williams, Pablo Picaso, and Ray Bolger.
Price: $6 - Ex/G
American Photographer - October 1980
Has a 23-page section on sports photography, featuring Walter Iooss Jr. This issue also features the work of Harry Callahan; fashion by George Hoyningen-Huené. Celebrities in this issue include Brooks Robinson, V.J. Armitraj, and Igor Stravinsky.
Price: $8 - Ex/VG NL
American Photographer - September 1980
Female nudes by Irving Penn; photojournalism by Raymond Depardon; sports shirts by Jerry Burchfield.
Price: $6 - Ex/G
American Photographer - August 1980
Scientific photos by Lennart Nilsson; war by Edward Steichen; in swimming pools by Larry Sultan; homoerotic photography. Celebrities in this issue include Eva Peron and Kent Tekulve.
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American Photographer - July 1980
Features "The Sekonic Series" of fashion photos including light meters by Arthur Elgort (includes Christie Brinkley, Apollonia, Lisa Taylor, and Lena Kansbod). This issue also features Tennessee mountainfolk by Joe Clark; the work of Ferenc Berko; "Main Street, USA" by David Plowden.
Price: $7 - Ex/VG
Price: $5 - VG/G
American Photographer - June 1980
Japanese photography; the work of John Thornton; wedding photography; Michael Weisbrot's photo album of his brain-damaged nephew.
Price: $8 - Ex
American Photographer - May 1980
Photo retoucher Emilio Paccione; Alexander Liberman's favorite selections from the Vogue Book of Fashion Photography (includes Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Deborah Turbeville, and Arthur Elgort); "How to Dodge the IRS and Not Get Burned"; Morocco by Eric Meola; "working cats" by Terry Gruber.
Price: $7 - Ex/VG
Price: $5 - VG/G
American Photographer - April 1980
The work of Brett Weston; the work of Cheyco Leidmann; Afghanistan by Steve McCurry; "Snaps!" humor supplement. Janice Dickinson is on the cover.
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American Photographer - March 1980
The work of Paul Outerbridge (12 pgs); the work of Burk Uzzle (14 pgs); gardens by Peter Laytin; Q&A with Marion Post Wolcott (including a portfolio).
Price: $8 - Ex
American Photographer - February 1980
"New Faces 1980", including Jim Matusik (cover); aerial landscapes by William A. Garnett; still lifes by Olivia Parker; model making in photography; female nudes by Edward Weston.
Price: $8 - Ex
American Photographer - January 1980
Photojournalism by amateurs; advertising by Reid Miles (14 pgs); the Great Plains by Solomon Butcher; the work of Avery Crounse.
Price: $7 - Ex/VG

1979
American Photographer - December 1979
High school football by Geoff Winningham (20 pgs.); gallery owner Carl Siembab; art made with office color copiers; glamour model makeup.
Price: $10 - Ex/VG
American Photographer - November 1979
Excerpts from Homecoming, by Donald McCullin; computer images by Ben Rose; the work of Henry Cartier-Bresson.
Price: $9 - VG
American Photographer - October 1979
The Great Depression by John Vachon (12 pgs.); commercial work by Bishin Jumonji; everyday nudes by Becky Young; Q&A with Life editor John Loengard.
Price: $10 - Ex/VG
Price: $8 - Ex/G
American Photographer - September 1979
Fashion by Jean Pagliuso; female nudes by Anthony Bruno ("Bruno of Hollywood"); Death Valley by Jeanloup Sieff (12 pgs.); the work of Randy Green.
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American Photographer - August 1979
Camera repairman Marty Forscher; the work of Karl Struss; Douglas Kirkland's favorite celebrity portraits (includes Marlene Dietrick, Judy Garland, Ann-Margret, Raquel Welch, Barbara Carrera, Marilyn Monroe, and Farrah Fawcett-Majors); Q&A with Caris Wilson Weston; landscapes by Robert May.
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American Photographer - July 1979
Portraits by Bern Schwartz; female nudes by Robert Farber; the Iranian revolution (16 pgs.); punk portraits by William Coupon.
Price: $10 - Ex/VG
American Photographer - June 1979
Jay Maisel is on the cover and is the subject of a 5-page Q&A article. Also includes: pastoral scenes by Kees van den Berg; America by Robert Frank; art director Alexey Brodovitch.
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American Photographer - May 1979
Eight photographers work with model Anita Russell (including the cover by Peter Gert). Also includes: a special section on aerial photography (24 pgs); Q&A with Garry Winogrand. Celebrities in this issue include Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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American Photographer - April 1979
Special section on Japanese photography, featuring Shoji Ueda and others. Also includes: Ron Galella; the work of Eric Staller; Hugh Edwards; Danskin leotard advertisements (includes cover). Celebrities in this issue include Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, and Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis (all by Galella).
Price: $10 - Ex/VG
American Photographer - March 1979
Portraits by Lotte Jacobi; the work of Richard Kalvar; the Hawaiian island of Kauai by Walter Iooss Jr.; vintage French pin-up postcards; Lee Witkin; daguerreotypes.
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American Photographer - February 1979
The work of Stephen Shore; darkrooms of famous photographers; portraits by Dorothea Lange; "New Faces 1979"; male nudes by Michelle Bogre.
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American Photographer - January 1979
Celebrity portraits by Norman Seeff (includes Carly Simon, The Captain & Tennille, Frank Zappa); female nudes by Larry Dale Gordon; William Henry Fox Talbot (inventor of the photographic negative); special feature on Chicanos (18 pgs.); the work of Robert Walker
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1978
American Photographer - December 1978
Alfred Stieglitz; special section on photojournalism; the work of Christopher James; the work of Todd Walker. Jimmy Carter is on the cover, photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
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American Photographer - November 1978
Richard Avedon is on the cover, photographed by Irving Penn. There is an 8-page article on Avedon, plus his 13 favorite photographs (includes Brigitte Bardot, Lauren Hutton, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Midler, and Sophia Loren). This issue also includes nighttime color by Arthur Ollman. Other celebrities in this issue include Rita Hayworth.
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American Photographer - October 1978
The work of Ralph Steiner; studio photographs by Joyce Baronio; landscapes by Franco Fontana; the Edwardian life by Leslie Hamilton Wilson; the work of Elliott Erwitt.
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American Photographer - September 1978
Collector Sam Wagstaff; panoramas by Jerry Dantzic; wrestling by Walter "Killer" Kowalski; saguaro cacti by Wolf von dem Bussche (14 pgs.); portraits by Barbara Bordnick; street photography by John Thomson; nudes by Flip and Debra Streuber Schulke.
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American Photographer - August 1978
Nudes by Eikoh Hosoe; Marie Cosindas; inside prison by Sean Kernan (14 pgs.); the work of Jessie Tarbox Beals; the work of Joel Meyerowitz; Deardorff cameras.
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American Photographer - July 1978
The work of Brancis J. Bruguiere; special section on underwater photography (33 pgs.), featuring David Doubilet, Douglas Fulkner, and Flip Schulke; primal integration therapy by Sandy Nixon.
Price: $9 - Ex/G
American Photographer - June 1978
Museum director John Szarkowski; abstract still lifes by Hiro (including the cover); women photographers, including Mary Ellen Mark; Masai tribesmen by Eric Meola; the American wildernes by H. H. Bennett;
Price: $10 - Ex/VG

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