Very Rare: Karma, Harper's and Fulton Ryder Booksellers at the Lowell Hotel

In time for this year's New York AIPAD Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory––one of the world's biggest international photography events––the booksellers Karma, Harper's, and the famously furtive FULTON RYDER have set up shop in the Hollywood Suite of the Lowell Hotel (perhaps in the spirit of Sophie Calle's takeover of a different suite in the same hotel last year), transforming it into a library of rare books. Some incredible finds include the very first edition of Robert Frank's The Americans (which I was not allowed to handle because it's so fragile!), Andy Warhol's Screen Tests LA Diary, Araki Nobuyoshi and his collective Geribara 5's Five Girls, and artwork by Richard Prince. The suite is open all day today and tomorrow until noon. Just mention "Harper Levine's suite" at the front desk.

Through April 5th, 2013.

THE LOWELL HOTEL
28 East 63rd Street
New York, NY 10065
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From Araki Nabuyoshi's Five Girls

The Fulton Ryder booth

Work by Richard Prince on the bed

Andy Warhol's Screen Tests LA Diary (first edition) with Araki Nabuyoshi books, all from Harper's

From Andy Warhol's Screen Tests LA Diary

More from Araki Nabuyoshi's Five Girls

The Japanese photo book Bye, Bye, Photography Dear by Daido Moriyama (1972, Harper's Books) is a true milestone in contemporary photography. Moriyama was the first photographer to show his raw works with markings on the negatives before Araki and others followed suit.