Photography Books
A curated selection of photography monographs and collections, from classic Provoke-era Japanese photography to contemporary documentary work.
Owl Bureau's photography shelves brought together landmark Japanese photobooks, American documentary projects, and intimate monographs by artists whose work is held in major museum collections. The selection spanned the raw, grainy aesthetic of 1960s–70s Provoke-era publications through to present-day visual storytelling.
Notable Titles
- Provoke Complete Reprint — NITESHA (Set) $400.00
- Oklahoma — Rahim Fortune $35.00
- Peter Fink: My Mind's Eye $50.00
- Between the Two — Todd Hido Price on request
Provoke & Japanese Photography
The Provoke Complete Reprint set commemorated the 50th anniversary of Provoke magazine, first published in November 1968. The original publication — founded by photographers including Daidō Moriyama and Takuma Nakahira — reshaped postwar Japanese photography with its radical, are-bure-boke (grainy, blurry, out-of-focus) aesthetic. The complete reprint set, issued in 2018, gathered all three issues alongside related materials in a single collection.
Peter Fink: My Mind's Eye
Peter Fink (1907–1984) was an American photographer whose work explored light, form, and urban reflection. His photographs are held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt. My Mind's Eye gathered a career-spanning selection of his most distinctive images.
Contemporary Documentary
Rahim Fortune's Oklahoma offered a deeply personal portrait of the American South and its communities, while Todd Hido's Between the Two continued his signature exploration of suburban nightscapes and ambiguous domestic interiors — both reflecting the shop's eye for photography that sits at the intersection of fine art and documentary tradition.
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Photography titles often overlapped with the Art collection, where monographs and artist books shared shelf space with painting, sculpture, and critical essays.