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As with the two previous collections, in this series, At Ease: Navy Men of WWII and Men of WWII: Fighting Men at Ease, the images in this volume are drawn from a subset of the Navy Record Group at the... more info...

(Contemporary Artists). This monograph offers the first complete examination of StephenShore's long and storied career, from his residency at Warhol's Factory to his experiments in conceptual photography,... more info...

In 2002, journalist Brad Zellar unearthed more than 10,000 negatives belonging to Irwin Denison Norling, the unofficial town photographer for Bloomington, Minnesota, from the basement of the Bloomington... more info...

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This photographic series of 1-hour portraits creates in its final form a new identity for each subject. The soft outlines of heads & bodies take on a new power in their loss of detail, and we look to the... more info...

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Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) is renowned for his paintings and prints that take their subject matter from nature and reflect the orderly design and the fine handcrafting... more info...

Since the 1970s, questions of ethics raised by documentary practice have been central to debates in photography. Perhaps no other photographer has so closely & consistently represented and participated... more info...

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With the recent conventions of contemporary Japanese art - from the Superflat movement to the referencing of traditinoal art objects like scrolls or contemporary pop phenomena like manga - certain themes... more info...

This book, the first completely dedicated to Kertesz's early Hungarian prints, offers a unique window on the origins of his photographic genius. Ninety images, selected frommore than 1,000 contact prints... more info...

A photographic portfolio of the Shaker hamlet in Maine, one of the nineteen original Shaker sites in America, and the only one that is not a historical re-creation. Photographer Stephen G. Williams has... more info...

(Aperture Masters of Photography Series). The quintessential New York City news photographer, Weegee, went to the heart of ugly situations to illustrate the grotesque and brut (& Diane Arbus-esque - before... more info...

An photo-exploration of the ways people interact with the landscapes in which they live, in locations as diverse as Sri Lanka, Iceland, Costa Rica, and New York. These images are conceived by the photographers... more info...

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Casasola photographed everyone of consequence in Mexico at the time of its revolution, from Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata and the exiled Russian leader Leon Trotsky to artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.... more info...

In the late 1970s, with only her Hasselblad and a telephoto lens, Veretta Cobler visited many of New York City's infamous nightclubs amd captured the erotic energy of the peak disco era. Culled from over... more info...

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The penetrating, enigmatic, and almost mystical nature of photographer Wynn Bullock's images is accomplished through formal beauty matched with provocative imagery. This volume contains his most influential... more info...

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This selection of images traces the history of the nude athlete in photography from Muybridge's motion studies of runners and javelin throwers, through European Naturism, the painterly photography of Pictorialism... more info...

A full-scale monograph that realizes the range and brilliance of Burckhardt's photography: his telling street scenes, penetrating portraits of artists in their studios, views of European cities, studies... more info...

(Eleventh Edition). Originally assembled for the highly acclaimed exhibition at the Noorderlicht Festival in the Netherlands, these photographs by fifty-six Arab and Western photographers comprise the... more info...

(Aperture Masters of Photography Series). Celebrated for her extraordinary studies of modern dance in the late 1930s and early forties, Morgan's entire artistic career was fluid, searching, &embraced a... more info...

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Shanghai is hip, trendy, and young, the city with the highest development rate in the world, a place of history and tomorrow and, as is amply evident in Shanghai, a very sexy place. In a tour de force... more info...

Collected photographs by the multi-faceted conteist, which incorporate a use of color that borders on the psychedelic with a bizarre, highly personalized imagery marked both by Samaras's frequent use of... more info...

Often considered drab-colored poor relations of the "beautiful" butterfly, the moth is seen in an altogether new visual form. Using a high-resolution scanner, recently developeddigital printing technology,... more info...

Renowned architectural photographer Roberto Schezen captures the grandeur, mystery, and power of 21 pre-Colombian sites in evocative B&W images. For each location shown, a brief textdetails its historical... more info...

The rich monumental heritage and setting of the Alhambra exercised a strong fascination on the early photographers and provided an inexhaustible resource within the professional lives of m an others. For... more info...

The catalogue to the exhibition "Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project 2000" presents installation images and banners - a series of digital photographs printed on muslin and canvas in variable dimensions.... more info...

Yann; Christian Balmes; Isabelle Delannoy. Based on the hugely successful original, this affordable 2005 edition of the picture-a-day compilation presents breath-taking color photographs accompanied by... more info...

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An overview of the complete career of the Polish-born American photojournalist who used his camera to record political upheavals & social change during the 1930s-1950s. A foundig member of Magnum Photos,... more info...

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For the first time ever, here is renowned photographer Gertrude Kasebier's haunting collection of photographqs of Native American performers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show taken in 1898. These images... more info...

The remarkable, long-lost manuscript written by Bob Dylan in the 1960s, inspired by renowned photographer Barry Feinstein's portraits of Tinseltown. These twenty-three prose poems are thought-provoking,... more info...

The photographer, with her roots in Walker Evans & James Agee, presents photographic works from several projects: Appalachia, Colombia, Saudia Arabia, as well as others. The photographer's interaction... more info...

In 1978, photographer Arno Fischer moved into one of the world's original live/work spaces: a farmhouse. He laid out a garden, a pond and aviaries, and began to photograph winged visitors with a Polaroid... more info...

IN 1960, the writer & photographer John Jonas Gruen and his wife, the painter Jane Wilson, bought a carriage house in Water Mill, Long Island, a hamlet nestled between Southampton and East Hampton. Gruen,... more info...

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This volume of Mapplethorpe's portraits/still-lifes walks a tightrope: hard and romantic, calculating, and full of abandon, intimate & theatrical. Some 70 images over a period of years, 1975-1987 reveal... more info...

This exceptional photographic reportage of China, dating from the early part of the 20th century, is the work of Father Leone Nani. These unpublished images bring back to life the people, places, traditions... more info...

Just as Samuel Johnson had his Boswell, hip hop has its very own Ricky Powell. For two decades, Ricky's had "a drink on." He knows access is everything. Pounding the streets of his native New York, touring... more info...

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This unique publicatio combines sixty intensely evocative photographs from photographer Leo Rubinfien's project, which commenced in 2002, in the aftermath of 9/11 - that of photographing in cities around... more info...

The photographer's long-awaited first monograph catalogues his exploration of spatial and temporal dimensions in photography: Panoramas, Grids, Portraits, Multi-Exposures, Diptychs - each fieldemploying... more info...

Though there are many books that feature the work of particular photographs, this work offers a broad collection of striking photographs - some familiar, but many quite rare, some spectacular, others quietly... more info...

Alessandro Bertolotti’s unrivalled collection of books on nudes, amassed over thirty years, allows us to explore the history of photographic creations, from the first academic snapshots all the way up... more info...

Seventy previously unpublished photographs by the Swiss photographer (1916-1954) powerfully reiterate the man, the nature of his humanity and his search for a benign and beautiful cognizance of the brief... more info...

The Swiss-born documentary photographer has turned his lens on Cuba since the early 1960s, recording a people emanating quiet pride even as they wait for change. Among the photographs assembled here is... more info...

The first book to demonstrate how common it was for 19th-century American men to commemorate intimate friendships with a visit to the local photographer. Reproducing more than 100 never-before-published... more info...

Facsimile edition first published in 2001. When this book was first published in 1909, Cambodia was under the French Protectorate, and the Thais had only just ceded suzerainty of the province of Siem Reap... more info...

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The photographs of this book were first published in 1906 in Berlin. Classical poses. In black-and-white. 64p. more info...

Produced during the final phase of the Vietnam War, this piece of historical mock-documentary was first released in 1977. It presents a powerful restaging of events from WWII that remains just as poignant... more info...

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One was an acclaimed artist, the other an ardent collector of photography, a promoter, and author. Man Ray (1890-1976) and L. Fritz Gruber (1908-2005) nurtured professional and personal contact for more... more info...

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With this luscious two-volume set, Martin Parr's affinity for focused accumulation is presented with appropriate thoroughness, and with typical Parrianhumor. Some of the items in the first volume, Objects,... more info...

This volume celebrates Muybridge's revolutionary contribution to photography - his motion studies of horses and other animals made in the 1870s and '80s. The photographs and objects featured in thisexhibition... more info...

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A name synonymous with the cutting edge of recent fashion photography, this is Testino's first book. Provocative and unexpected, it is a lightning roller-coaster of unpublished images - fashion and the... more info...

Nicknamed "The Eye of Paris" by Henry Miller, photographer Brassai (1889-1994) captured the whole flow of humanity in the French capital. This volume accompanied a traveling retrospective exhibition 1999-2000,... more info...

This book is a guided tour/chronicle of the post-surrealist & existialist period in Paris - the left bank cafes, galleries, underground jazz clubs, theatres & apartment salons inhabited by a cast of luminaries... more info...

The 19th-century French photographer is recognized as the first great teacher in the medium, whose interest in experimentation and high technical standards jeopardized his commercial success. He ended... more info...

One of the finest British amateur photographers, Turner (1815-94) produced some of the more intriguing photographs of rural England.Between 1852 and 1854, he compiled sixty of his photographs in an album... more info...

For more than two decades photographer David Paul Bayles has been making images of trees in cities and suburbs - places of tension, as he put it, between "what we build and what we grow." The images in... more info...

In October 1993, Henry M. Buhl purchased Alfred Stieglitz's photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe's hands. This photograph became the cornerstone of his private collection that now includes over 1,000 images,... more info...

Arguably the best jazz photographer in the world, Claxton's photos have become iconic images by which to remember the young Chet Baker, Bill Evans & Ray Charles at the piano, a sparkling Sarah Vaughn,... more info...

From a worker who photographed a ghorse and buggy because she says she feels like the horse, to a well-known Chinese architect turned trucker whose photograph of a bridge represents his path from that... more info...

Lange's photo-documentation while working for the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s etched forever into the popular imagination the Depression and the disastrous migration of farming families to... more info...

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Told with unflinching candor & with candid images that capture the trajectory of Edie Sedgwick from her meteoric rise to Andy Warhol Factory stardom to subsequent unraveling, "Edie: Factory Girl" presents... more info...

For a decade during the early years of the 20th century, Zaid Ben-Yusuf (1869-1933) enjoyed a dynamic and successful career as a photographic portraitist of great distinction and originality. This beautiful,... more info...

German-born and Hamburg-based, photographer Esther Haase (b. 1966) celebrates physicality and sheer joy of life in her photographs. Haase uses costumes, backdrops and poses to create baroque and glamorous... more info...

The photographer's pioneering locomotion studies of the 1870s and 1880s, which produced over 20,000 photographs, radically changed the way people understood animal and human movement. Images from his lesser... more info...

A central figure in the 20th century's modernist photography movement, Tina Modotti documented the people and tumultuous politics of Mexico. Her portraits range from hired studio shots of socialities to... more info...

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This book, companion to photographer Link's earlier best-selling book "Steam, Steel & Stars," celebrates a decade-long project of photographing steam railroading at night using synchronized flash. Illus.,... more info...

(Phaidon 55 series). Cameron's (1815-1879) innovative use of lighting & focustransformed portraiture to such an extentthat it led to the popularization of photography as an expressive art. Illus., 55 photos... more info...

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The Alinari photographs in this volume depict "place" from every corner of the Mediterranean Sea with a similarity that suggests the concept of "Mare Nostrum" or "our sea." Text in English, Italian, Arabian.... more info...

The leading portraitist of his day, Brady (1823-96) creat ed a heroic national narrative during the Civil War era. 55w photos accompanied by extended captions. 128p. Pap. more info...

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition @ The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio (1997). This volume provides a broad introduction to photographic works of the Dayton-based American Pictorialist,... more info...

One of the first photographers to depl oy photography as a form of Conceptual art, Baltz came to prominence in the mid-70s as one of a group of artists included in the influential exhibition `The New Topographics'.... more info...

The French photographer was there at the beginning of its emergent popularity. He is perhaps best known for his series of seminal portraits made between the mid-1850s and the 1870s, with his concentration... more info...

(Concept: Photography Series #1). This loosely knit collection of books kicks off with "Dialogues & Attitudes," an exploration of key themes in the contemporary photography discourse that concentrates... more info...

In this beautifully photographed third issue of the international art/fashion collectible Fashion Magazine, the acclaimed American photographer Alec Soth plays Editor-in Chief, Advertising Director, and... more info...

Christer Stromholm, one of Sweden's most influential 20th-century photographers, who passed away in 2002, didn't mind being the subject of a photograph himself. This volume indulges that passion, with... more info...

The Vienna-born photographer arrived in America in 1938, embarking on a project `to photograph America's self portrait a million times projected and reflected'. This pocket-sized portfolio presents images... more info...

(Place Space Series, #4). Joseph Holtzman is creator of the eclectic-taste making-interior-designer-art-frenzy NEST magazine. He has channeled his obsessive sophistication and uncompromising attention... more info...

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Photographs that present the "subjective document of a journey into the absurdist spectacle of cultural frisson: "the attempt to capture the magic mundanity - both the incidental and the monumental - in... more info...

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(Aperture Masters of Photography series). From his extended portraits of his wife, Eleanor, to his formal studies of architectural details and his observation of abstract-expressionist line in natural... more info...

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The full range of William Wegman's art. A pioneer video artist, conceptualist, photographer, painter, and writer, Wegman moves fluidly among various media: from conceptual works to commissioned magazine... more info...

Published to accompany a major traveling exhibition, this book presents artist Wegman's most intriguing and provocative portfolio to date: high-fashion photographs of canine supermodels Battina, Chundo,... more info...

This brief collection of Margarety Bourke-White's earliest works reveal impeccably designed soft-edged still lifes, "painterly" images characteristic of the period but not of the artist. The eighty photographs... more info...

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Taken over a twenty-year period, photographer Joan Liftin recalls a culture of ephemeral evenings at the drive-in in photographs - some off-hand, some desultory, some with a startling mesmeric evocation... more info...

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A visually stunning, full-color photo-portrait of Tibetan life in exile capturesthe indomitable resiliency of this unique culture. Illus., 176 color photographs. Unpgd. Pap. more info...

During a prolific career that spanned from the 1930s into the 1980s, Angus McBean photographed many of the greatest sdtars of stage, screen, and music. Drawing on his background in set design, McBean experimented... more info...