Mexico: Producciones Barbachano Ponce, Circa 1959. Three vintage photographs from the set of the 1959 film. All likely shot on the same day, and on a set in a rural location. Buñuel appears in each photo wearing a pith helmet, in the first with cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, the second with lead actor Francisco Rabal, and the third eating lunch alone... (read more)
![Fever Mounts at El Pao [La fievre monte a El Pao] (Original photograph of Bunuel on the set of the 1959 film). Luis Bunuel, Gabriel Figueroa, Henri Castillou, Georges Yves Massart, Gerard Phillipe, director, cinematographer, novel, still photographer, starring.](/pictures/thumb/138216.jpg?v=1515088096)
Mexico: N.p., 1959. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white press photograph of director Luis Bunuel and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa behind the camera in Mexico during the making of the 1959 film (a French-Mexican co-production released during Bunuel's Mexican period). Mexican stamp of photographer Georges Yves Massart on the verso. Handwritten text on the verso reads (in Spanish): "One of the scenes should... (read more)
![The Phantom of Liberty [Le fantome de la liberte] (Collection of 6 original photographs from the 1974 film). Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, director, screenwriter.](/pictures/thumb/136476.jpg?v=1492979313)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1974 film. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. (read more)
Paris: Greenwich Film Productions, 1972. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1977 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Six bourgeois friends try to sit down to a meal together and are repeatedly interrupted by surreal dream-like happenings. 7 x 9.5 inches (17.75 x 24 cm). Near Fine. Criterion Collection 102. Schrader 33. (read more)
Paris: Greenwich Film Productions, 1971. Original double weight, wide margin photograph of Luis Bunuel and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere by Mary Ellen Mark, taken outdoors during the shooting of Bunuel's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie." Notated on the verso as having been taken in 1971, with a separate rubber stamp showing a date of 1980, presumably when the photograph was... (read more)
Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution, 1967. Vintage black-and-white borderless press photograph of director Luis Bunuel with cinematographer Christian Matras and the cast on the set of the 1967 film. With a European press agency stamp on the verso ("Photo exclusive / EUROPANEWS"), a date stamp of April 8, 1969, and a few other notations. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good to Near Fine. (read more)
Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution, 1967. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Catherine Deneuve and director Luis Bunuel on the set of the 1967 film. With the French producer's stamp on the verso ("Robert et Raymond Hakim"), and a printed list of credits in French. Buñuel's first color film, about a young housewife who begins working in... (read more)
Madrid: Alenda Distribucion / Jose Esteban, 1978. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1978 Spanish release (and first release in Spain) of the 1930 film. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Collection of 5 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1962 film. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. (read more)
![The Phantom Of Liberty [Le fantome de la liberte] (Original photograph from the set of the 1974 film). Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Julien Bertheau Adriana Asti, Adolfo Celi, Jean-Claude Brialy, screenwriter director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/144555.jpg?v=1540246253)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Vintage borderless photograph of Luis Bunuel, Pierre Lary, Jean Rochefort, and Julien Bertheau on the set of the 1974 film. With holograph notations on the verso. A non-linear surrealist comedy that challenges bourgeois notions of morality. 9.5 x 17.75 inches (24 x 25.5 cm). Near Fine. Criterion Collection 290. Rosenbaum 1000. Weldon 1996. (read more)
![The Phantom Of Liberty [Le fantome de la liberte] (Original photograph from the set of the 1974 film). Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Julien Bertheau Adriana Asti, Adolfo Celi, Jean-Claude Brialy, screenwriter director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/144583.jpg?v=1544116786)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Vintage borderless photograph of Luis Bunuel, Julien Bertheau, and Michel Piccoli on the set of the 1974 film. With holograph notations on the verso. A nonlinear surrealist comedy that challenges bourgeois notions of morality. 9.5 x 6.25 inches (24 x 16 cm). Near Fine. Criterion Collection 290. Rosenbaum 1000. (read more)
Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution, 1967. Vintage borderless photograph of Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, and Luis Bunuel on the set of the 1967 film. With holograph notations and agency stamp on the verso. Buñuel's first color film, about a young housewife who begins working in a brothel while her husband is at work, with tragic consequences for... (read more)
![Orpheus [Orphee] (Original British quad poster for the 1950 film). Jean Cocteau, Francois Perier Jean Marais, Maria Casares, artist director, designer, starring.](/pictures/thumb/137656.jpg?v=1492979743)
Paris: Films de France, 1950. Vintage British quad poster for the classic 1950 film. French surrealist director, poet, and artist Jean Cocteau explored fantasies within most of his films such as "The Blood of a Poet" (1932) and "La Belle et la Bette" (1946). With "Orphee," he took on the myth of Orpheus entering the Underworld to persuade death to... (read more)
New York: Atide / Crown, 1962. First American Edition, an English language translation of the original Swiss publication by Edita S.A. Lausanne. With over 150 black-and-white and full color illustrations throughout. Near Fine in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket spine and edges lightly toned, with light soil overall, and a touch of laminate lift to the crown. (read more)
N.p. Douglas Films, 1970. Collection of eight vintage borderless photographs from the 1970 Mexican film. From the Tele Cine Documentation archive, originally known as the Collection Daniel Bouteiller, with their sticker to the verso of two stills. A bizarre surrealist Western film, "El Topo" is a mystical allegory for the world's religions, while also hitting all the important plot points... (read more)
Woodbury, New York: Barron's, 1980. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Some foxing to the endpapers, preliminary pages, top page edges, and jacket verso, else a lovely, unread copy. (read more)
![Original photograph of Man Ray's sculpture "The Gift" [Cadeau]. Man Ray, Attilio Bacci, sculpture, photographer.](/pictures/thumb/142659.jpg?v=1507736210)
N.p. N.p., 1963. Vintage double weight photograph of a replica of Man Ray's iconic readymade sculpture "The Gift" as displayed at Galleria Schwarz in Milan, Italy in 1963. With the gallery stamp, and stamp of photographer Attilio Bacci on the verso. Man Ray created the original sculpture as a literal gift for the owner of the gallery where he held... (read more)
Los Angeles: G Ray Hawkins Gallery, -1986. A deluxe edition limited to 403 sets. Square octavo. "Exhibition catalogue" comprised of a black lacquered redwood box containing 13 objects including lapel button, illustrated match boxes, a sheet of stamps et al, and 3 extra objects including a hand-painted porcelain mask. This limited edition is signed on the colophon sheet by Man... (read more)
![Mystery Tour [Voyage surprise] (Collection of 6 original photographs from the 1947 film). Pierre Prevert, Mireille and Jean Nohain, Maurice Diamant-Berger Jacques Prevert, Claude Accursi, Maurice Baquet, Mireille, Jean Nohain, screenwriter director, operetta, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/143065.jpg?v=1515181503)
France: Cooperative Generale du Cinema Francais / Productions Synops / Societe Nouvelle Pathe Cinema, 1947. Collection of six vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1947 film. With the stamp of distributor Les Grands Films Classique on the verso and bottom margin of the recto, along with the name of the film in holograph ink. Based on the operetta "Paris... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Copley Galleries, 1948. First Edition. One of 500 copies issued. INSCRIBED by the author and artist on the front endpaper: “For Charlotte [Bebe] and Louis Barron. Cordially, Man Ray, Hollywood, 1949.” An exceptional avant-garde association. Around this time the Barrons were beginning to experiment with committing electronic sounds as music to magnetic tape, and were ultimately not... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Original scenario artwork by Charles K. Hagedon for the 1955 film musical. A bizarre image, showing a sailor with his gall, entering a cave that has bats, skeletons, a raven in the shadows, and in the distance a window outside of which appears a Dali-esque landscape. Signed by Hagedon at the bottom right corner... (read more)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co, 1950. First Edition. A collection of short horror stories, illustrated by Salvador Dali. Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has a light dampstain, visible only at the verso, a few short closed tears and associated folds at the extremities, and mild soil. (read more)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1935. Original British film program for the seminal 1954 film. Photo-illustrated throughout. A program that reflects the completely surreal aura of what many consider to be Sirk's masterpiece of technicolor melodramatic fantasy. Self wrappers, 8 pages not inclusive of wrapper. Near Fine, with some rubbing at the fore-edge of the wrapper. Criterion Collection 457. (read more)
![La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques [Can Dialectics Break Bricks] (Original Poster for the 1973 film). Rene Vienet.](/pictures/thumb/137888.jpg?v=1492979791)
Paris: Telemondial, 1973. Original French Grande poster and double sided French flyer for the 1973 Situationist film by Rene Vienet, which repurposes the 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film "Crush," directed by Kuang-Chi Tu, overdubbing the dialogue to create "a critique of class conflicts, bureaucratic socialism, the failures of the French Communist Party, Maoism, cultural hegemony, sexual equality and the... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1959. Hand tinted woodcut by Kurt Seligmann in 1959 as a Christmas card, titled "Moor," SIGNED and dated in pencil by Seligmann just below the image, and further INSCRIBED to Amos Vogel: "We loved your card - with Jean Durand! / Season's greetings / Arlette and Kurt." Kurt Leopold Seligmann (1900-1962) was a Swiss-American surrealist painter and engraver. He... (read more)