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Hal Goldenberg (NY Post), 1979, Mafia boss Carmine Galante body after he was shot to death in the patio of the Joe & Mary's Italian-American Restaurant, Photograph, Private collection of John Rodden, LL/128559
Kodak (artwork and design) Gary Dineen (photograph), 1979, Kodak Film You've got what it takes (USA Full-size Kodak Girl), Advertising cut-out, Gary Dineen / East Edge Gallery, LL/121677
Les Krims, 1979, Wary, Camera-Savvy, High-Liberal Gentiles, on a Foggy Day, at the July 4th Parade, Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Inkjet print, Provided by the artist - Les Krims, LL/14736
Les Krims, 1979, Buffalo Fashion: Watch your Ps-and-Jews; True; a Breadline; and an Oxymoron (Big Moron), [Idiosyncratic Pictures, 1980], Inkjet print, Provided by the artist - Les Krims, LL/14685
Malick Sidibé, 1979, Portrait of Man and Woman, Gelatin silver print, in original frame of reverse-painted glass, tape, cardboard, string, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61698
Unidentified photographer, 1979, Druids at Stonehenge during the Summer Solstice of 1979, Photograph, Private collection of John Quin, LL/102396
Unidentified photographer, 1979, Carte de non-visite, [Bitte striken Sie meinen Namen aus den Ihren Notzibuch], Photograph, with text, Private collection, LL/37578
Andy Warhol, 1979, The 'Polaroid Collections/Do Not Remove' stamp, the "Innovation / Imagination: 50 years of Polaroid Photography" exhibition label, and the "Instant Likeness: Polaroid Portraits" Exhibition label, Print, reverse, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38091
Chuck Close, 1979, The "Innovation / Imagination: 50 years of Polaroid Photography" exhibition label, Print, reverse, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38092
1979, Book cover for Michael Hiley, 1979, Victorian Working Women, (Gordon Frazer), Book cover, Collection of Michael G. Jacob, LL/86306
1979, Book cover for Piero Becchetti & Carlo Pietrangeli, 1979, Roma in Dagherrotipia, (Quaser Editions), Book cover, Collection of Michael G. Jacob, LL/87043
1979, Book cover for "the Photograph Collector's Guide" by Lee D. Witkin and Barbara London (London: Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1979), Book cover, Private collection of Alan Griffiths, LL/16083
1979, Book cover for Jac Remise, Pascale Remise & Regis Van De Walle, 1979, Magie Lumineuse: Du Théâtre D'Ombres à La Lanterne Magique (Balland), Book cover, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/126658
1979, Book cover for Guillermo Thorndike, 1979, Autorretrato: Peru 1850-1900, (Lima: Promoinvest), Book cover, Amazon - USA, LL/62027
1979, Book cover for Michael Hiley, 1979, Victorian Working Women: Portraits from Life, (London: Gordon Fraser), Book cover, Collection of Michael G. Jacob, LL/55091
1979, Book cover for Lee D. Witkin & Barbara London, 1979, The Photograph Collector's Guide, (Boston: New York Graphic Society), Book cover, Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd, LL/52536
Lumière Brothers, 1979, Book cover for "Les Freres Lumiere a l'aurore de la Couleur" (Fondation Nationale de la Photograhie, 1979), Book cover, Archive Farms, LL/41913
Ansel Adams, 1979, Book cover for Ansel Adams, 1979, Yosemite and the Range of Light, (Boston: New York Graphic Society), Book cover, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/53479
Bernard Plossu, 1979, Book cover for Bernard Plossu "Egypte" (Paris: Editions Phot'oeil, 1979), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/43387
Bernard Plossu, 1979, Book cover for Bernard Plossu, 1979, Le voyage mexicain: 1965-1966, (Paris: Contrejour), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/55903
Bernard Plossu, 1979, Book cover for Bernard Plossu "Le voyage mexicain. 1965-1966" (Paris: Editions Contrejour, 1979), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/43386
Brassaï, 1979, Book cover for "Nõchtliches Paris/ Paris de Nuit" (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1979), Book cover, Private collection, LL/16328
Chas Eisenmann, 1979, Book cover for "Monsters of the Gilded Age: The Photographs of Chas Eisenmann" by Mike Mitchell & Charles Eisenmann, Book cover, Arcana: Books on the Arts, LL/1066
Don McCullin, 1979, Book cover for Don McCullin, 1979, Homecoming, (St. Martin's Press), Book cover, Amazon - USA, LL/53428
Eliot Porter, 1979, Book cover for Eliot Porter, 1978, Antarctica, (E. P. Dutton), Book cover, Amazon - USA, LL/52764
Eliot Porter, 1979, Portfolio cover for Eliot Porter, 1979, Eliot Porter: Intimate Landscapes, (New York: Daniel Wolf Press), Portfolio cover, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58447
Herbert Ponting & Frank Hurley, 1979, Book cover for Antarctic Photographs, 1910-1916: Scott, Mawson and Shackleton Expeditions (Pan Macmillan, 1979), Book cover, Amazon - USA, LL/49614
Inge Morath, 1979, Book cover for Inge Morath & Arthur Miller, 1979, Chinese Encounters, (Farrar Straus & Giroux), Book cover, Amazon - USA, LL/59587
Jaromír Funke, 1979, Book cover for Jaromir Funke, 1979, Jaromir Funke, (Prague: Edice Mezinarodni Fotografie - Press Foto), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/55865
Josef Koudelka, 1979, Cover for "'Josef Koudelka: A Monograph' " (special issue of Camera, August 1979), Portfolio cover, Private collection, LL/16510
Lewis Carroll, 1979, Book cover for Morton N. Cohen, "Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children: Four Nude Studies" (Philadelphia: the Rosenbach Foundation, 1979), Book cover, Private collection, LL/18034
Lisette Model, 1979, Book cover for "Lisette Model" (S.l. [New York], Aperture, 1979), Book cover, Artcurial, LL/27319
Mary Ellen Mark, 1979, Book cover for Mary Ellen Mark, 1979, Ward 81, Text by Karen Floger Jacobs with an introduction by Milos Forman, (New York: Simon and Schuster), Book cover, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/51845
Todd Webb, 1979, Book cover for "Todd Webb: Photographs: Early Western Trails and Some Ghost
Towns" (Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, [1979]), Book cover, Private collection, LL/20482
Weegee, 1979, Book cover for Weegee "Violenti e violentati" (Gabriele Mazzotta, Milano, 1979), Book cover, Piasa, LL/46368