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A major overview of 50 years of image making by this influential American photographer that examines both Eggleston’s photography and videos.

This book examines sequentiality and serialism in the practice of photography from the medium’s earliest years to the present, including works by Minor White and Ana Mendieta.

The first book on the photographs of Amy Blakemore, renowned for deceptively simple images that evoke fleeting aspects of personality and memory.

A renowned critic and historian offers a radically new account of the meaning of ambitious art photography since the Bechers.

This arrestingly beautiful book is devoted to the burdock, an unruly weed transformed by Janet Malcolm’s camera into an extraordinary photographic subject. Malcolm’s “portraits” of individual burdock leaves confirm her assertion that “looking at natural forms close up is an exercise in awe.”

Focusing on 200 vintage images of spirits and the occult, this book analyzes photography’s impact on science and popular culture as a result of developments in technology during the 19th century.

This magnificent collection of photographs by Laura McPhee depicting landscapes and life in the American West also presents the environmental complexities of managing one of the last remote places in the country.

A collection of provocative photographs by artists including Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Imogen Cunningham, and Lee Friedlander that present impossible juxtapositions and disorienting spatial orders that challenge reality.

This engrossing book explores what the photographs of four historically engaged artists can tell us about the highly dramatic revolutionary and post-revolutionary period in Mexico from 1910 to 1935

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In this timely volume, more than 20 leading scholars discuss the discipline, practice, historiography, and study of photography, from William Henry Fox Talbot to Louise Lawler.

An eloquent look at prints from Ruwedel’s ongoing series Westward the Course of Empire, which depicts landforms created by railroads built and abandoned in the American and Canadian West since 1869.

This new version of the original 1994 landmark edition reprints in rich tritones each of the quietly moving images.

denver and What We Bought: These exquisite new editions of out-of-print classics from a project completed between 1968 and 1974 demonstrate Robert Adams at the height of his powers as a documentary photographer.

This unprecedented overview of the Pictures Generation––the most significant and influential group of artists of the last 40 years––features works by Richard Prince, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, and others, who explore ways in which images influence how we perceive the world and ourselves.

A collection of off-stage photographs of rock & roll superstars––among them Elvis, Eric Clapton, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Jimi Hendrix––by the most talented photographers of the era.

In this appealing book, acclaimed photographer Ralph Gibson offers more than 60 intimate black-and-white portraits of guitar masters playing their instruments.

An unparalleled and definitive survey of American photography from its beginnings through the nation’s coming of age and the rise of popular photography in the 1880s.

A portfolio presentation of a remarkable and previously unpublished series of photographs depicting individuals driving their cars in and around Los Angeles by contemporary artist Andrew Bush.

Bringing together for the first time works by Stieglitz, Newman, Loengard, Webb, and others, this book provides a s...

Published in conjunction with the centenary of his birth, this first biography of leading 20th-century photographer Yousuf Karsh examines his career and features 60 of his most celebrated portraits.

Lee Miller (1907-1977) was one of the most remarkable photographic artists of the twentieth century. Published in conjunction with the centenary of Miller’s birth, this beautifully designed and produced book is an essential survey of this fascinating woman’s life and career.      

A rare and important glimpse into the creative process and life of this master of modernist experimentation, this book presents unpublished images and documents from Callahan's archive.

This catalogue publishes for the first time the 548 photographs in the Norton Simon Museum’s outstanding collection, nearly all of which were acquired between 1969 and 1974—a fascinating moment of transition in the history of photography. The volume includes first-person recollections by and about photo artists of the period.

 

This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras. Drawn from the archives of European and American occult societies and private and public collections, the photographs in many cases have never before been publish...

Chen Changfen (b. 1941) began to photograph the Great Wall in the early 1960s. This fascinating book presents a small fraction of the resulting works, each informed by traditional Chinese art, history, and philosophy. This is the first English-language study of these beautiful and important images.

This stunning book chronicles the life and work of twentieth-century visionary Frederick Sommer. Among the great masters of art photography, Sommer employed an array of innovative methodologies and techniques to create complex and unconventional images. More than 200 exquisite reproductions of his works affirm the extent of his extraordinary achievement.

This book of stunning photographs by two pioneering photojournalists documents key moments in the experiences of the Jewish people from 1933 to the present. The images tell the story of Jewish life in prewar Berlin, of Jewish communities from Iran to Morocco to Spain, and of the creation and evolution of Israel.

This book tells the intertwined stories of photography and the American West--a new medium and a new place that came of age together in the nineteenth century. As pioneering photographers recorded the Mexican-American War, California’s goldseekers, native peoples, and the spectacular topography of the West, Americans gained a new vision of their expanding nation and its spectacular topograph...

The first major English-language study of the work of the revered Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu, this richly illustrated book presents a fascinating selection of the dramatic images Tomatsu has captured during his long career.

Cecil Beaton photographed such luminaries as Picasso, Garbo, Churchill, and Britain’s Royal Family. This sumptuous book—published on the centenary of Beaton’s birth—brings together over 150 of his evocative portraits and discusses the wide range of his career.

This compelling new interpretation of the work of the renowned and controversial photographer Diane Arbus features a significant body of previously unpublished images. These pictures reveal that Arbus was far more savvy with the camera, more aware of photography as an artistic and commercial practice, and more sensitive to the social and cultural tensions of the 1960s than has been acknowledged be...

This beautifully written book weaves together biographical, historical, and artistic strands to present a colorful tapestry of photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s early life and work. The volume includes photographs Stieglitz took in Europe (some rarely seen), his first works in the U.S., and new photographs of important sites in the young Stieglitz’s life.

Before achieving fame for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and other beloved children’s books, Lewis Carroll was a prolific and sophisticated photographer. This beautifully illustrated book is the first to examine Carroll’s photographs as the creations of a serious photographic artist, demonstrating their context within Victorian England and their importance to the ...

This handsome book presents the work of renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, whose large-scale color photographs of the landscapes of mining, quarrying, railcutting, recycling, oil refining, and shipbreaking uncover a stark beauty in the residue of industrial “progress.” Essays and an interview with the artist accompany the astonishing and powerful photographs.

This gorgeous and groundbreaking book—the first comprehensive account of the history of Japanese photography—reveals to English-speaking audiences the richness and beauty of this art form. Presenting hundreds of photographs from the 1850s to the present day, the book emphasizes the unique features of Japanese photography and its interconnections with the culture and society of Japan.