The winning bidder will enjoy the magical and illuminating images in two rare photography books, "Imagine In Mind" and "Imagining Istanbul".

Robert Root, M.D. is a San Francisco-based photographer and psychiatrist. His first book of photography, Image In Mind: The Psychiatrist as Photographer, offers perspectives on culture, landscape and the photographic relationship.

Inspired by an image on a postcard, Robert couldn’t stop thinking about this mythical city, crossroads of ancient civilizations and a thriving modern metropolis. Imagining Istanbul presents a gallery of his first impressions, and a unique perspective on the people and panoramas of this complex, multilayered society.

Currently Robert is medical director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at California Pacific Medical Center. He lives with his wife and two children in San Francisco.