All-American: Family Albums introduces readers to a group of diverse and uniquely talented people, all of whom present an aspect of American family life. ... - publisher
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An American in Europe: the Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from the Norton Museum of Art,
Jeane Von Oppenheim
2001, Hatje Cantz Publishers
11.25" x 9.5", 168 pp.
List price: $45.00

The first full look into the Smithsonian's 700 extraordinary photographic collections.... - 82 color photographs, 195 duotones, 2 gatefolds.
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Searching for photographic images of black women, Deborah Willis and Carla Williams were startled to find them by the hundreds. In long-forgotten books, in art museums, in European and U.S. archives and private collections, a hidden history of representation awaited discovery. The Black Female Body offers a stunning array of familiar and many virtually unknown photographs, showing how photographs reflected and reinforced Western culture's fascination with black women's bodies. ... Read more about this book

Edited by: Wu Hung and Christopher Phillips

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 "... BLINK provides an up-to-the-minute, global overview of contemporary photography. BLINK contains the enormous breadth of ideas, forms and approaches influencing photography today. It covers all types of work, from art to photojournalism, fashion to digital photography. - Read more about this book.

... Covering countryside and city, farm and factory, work and play, the images in this book open a window onto our national experience from 1939 to 1943, revealing a world that we have always seen in our mind's eye exclusively in black and white. Never before has there been a book that paints this picture in full color. - 180 color illustrations - Read more about this book

"Neither a conventional history of the city nor simply a collection of illustrations and photographs, this ground-breaking work weaves together diverse historical works -from political and economic analyses to ethnic and gender studies -with visual evidence from each period. ..." - publisher
787 images - Read more about this book.

The Family of Man
Edward Steichen
2002, Museum of Modern Art
11.02" x 8.32", 192 pgs.
List price: $19.95 - soft bound edition

 Since the late 1980s, the field of fashion photography has exploded, moving away from presenting a desirable ideal to showing contemporary lifestyles. An intriguing exchange of ideas and techniques between commercial photography and art photography and, more specifically, between fashion and art photography has completely changed the idea of what a fashion photograph is and what it should look like. The focus is on defining a milieu rather than just clothing. Fashioning Fiction in Photography Since 1990 presents a selection of high-profile fashion photographs influenced by two aesthetic strategies: cinema and the amateur photograph. The cinematic image, through its attention to drama and its reverence for tension and voyeurism, seduces a young audience whose primary visual points of reference are film and television. The amateur photograph, including the family album picture, provides seemingly offhand documentation of the activities of friends and associates in the lives of photographers, blurring the line between pictures made for hire and those made as personal keepsakes.
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Edited by John Wood 
21ST Volume VI, an international survey titled Flesh and Spirit, combines the images of some of the finest contemporary Belgian, Chinese, English, French, Greek, Mexican, Spanish, and American photographers with the writings of what is probably the finest selection of novelists, playwrights, poets and historians ever assembled between two covers. The book is a celebration of the things of the earth, the things of the heaven, and their elegant intersection in the mind's eye. - publisher
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"In Flora Photographica, photographic historian and curator William A. Ewing has brought together more than 180 works by over 100 photographers both to display their work as well as to trace the history of flower photography from the earliest experiments of William Fox Talbot to the suprisingly lucid compositions of Robert Mapplethorp." - from the book jacket.

Photographers include: August Lumière, Roger Fenton, Karl Blossfeldt, Edward Steichen, Imogen Cunningham, Mark Anthony, Edward Weston, August Sanders, Hugo Erfurth, Julia Margeret Cameron, Helen Levitt, Eiko Hosoe, Sally Mann, Paul Outerbridge, Man Ray, George Platt Lynes and many, many more.

"This catalogue from the Tenth International Biennial of Photography and Photo-Related Art, held at this year's FotoFest in Houston, Texas, features national and international work exploring the subject of water. Profusely illustrated with work from over 100 exhibitions, including work by Edward Burtynsky, Alexey Titarenko, Susan Derges, Steven Benson, and Stanley Greenberg." - numerous black-and-white and color illustrations
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"This is a very important and exciting book, one whose illustrations alone deserve to be seen. Bringing them together with these essays is a publication that is long overdue, one that will finally be available to North American audiences for both the generalist and the specialist, the artist and the writer." --Michele M.

"Penhall, specialist in the history of Latin American photography FotoFest 1992, a major festival of international photography, brought Latin American photography into focus for a wide audience. Offering a diverse selection of photographers, countries, artistic movements, and subject matter, the shows revealed a photographic tradition rich in history and creativity. Drawing from the more than 1,000 images exhibited by FotoFest, this book documents the work of fifty photographers from ten countries. The photographs range from the opening of the Brazilian frontier in the 1880s to documentary images from El Salvador's recent civil war to works of specifically aesthetic intent. Many of the photographs appear here in print for the first time. Wendy Watriss's opening essay provides the curatorial overview for the book. Lois Parkinson Zamora examines the roots of visual image-making in Latin American cultures. Boris Kossoy addresses the history of Latin American photography through the nineteenth century, while Fernando Castro covers the contemporary scene. With its compelling images and English-Spanish text, this book will serve as a benchmark for future studies of photography in Latin America."

"A 'must-have' for amateurs and professionals alike, this elegant collection brings together, for the first time, the most impressive landscape shots by the world's most acclaimed professionals.

Featuring the work of such luminaries as Charlie Waite, Galen Rowell, Michael Busselle, and other top photographers, The World's Top Photographers: Landscape reveals the stories behind some of their favourite images. With anecdotes, tips and technical details, this book gives a fascinating insight into the creative processes behind the world's most stunning landscape photographs. There is also a brief biography of each photographer, including a bibliography of their published work."

Light and Shadow,
Miloš Hrbas
1959, Artia
11" x 9.5", 130 pp.
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This book is an exquisite anthology of 50 contemporary Czech and Slovak photographers from the 1950's. The reproductions are clean and crisp photogravure.
119 black-and-white photographs.
Actual title: Light und Schatten, Light and Shadow, Ombre et Lumière

Likeness and Landscape: Thomas M. Easterly and the Art of the Daguerreotype,
Dolores A. Kilgore, Thomas M. Easterly
1994, Missourie Historical Society
12.5" x 9.5", 250 pp.
List price: $70.00
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Friends, lovers, confidantes, collaborators-the multifaceted relationship between husband and wife takes on another dimension when the couple are also artist and muse. In The Model Wife, Arthur Ollman explores the imagery and photographic history of nine twentieth-century photographers who used their wives as models over a period of years. He delves into issues of marriage itself and the powerful influences that such a partnership can have on artistic production. Comparisons between the couples and the resulting photographs enrich this fascinating discussion. Following an in-depth overview that includes excerpts from interviews with several of the wives are individual essays and portfolios on each of the nine artists: Adolph de Meyer, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Harry Callahan, Emmet Gowin, Lee Friedlander, Nicholas Nixon, Masahisa Fukase, and Seiichi Furuya. Each of these portfolios is an extraordinary journey, with revelations not only about the making of art, but about love in all its pain and transcendence-marriage with all its constraints and passions." - 150 duotones, 5 color illustrations.

New Yorkers, As Seen by Magnum Photographers,
Max Kozloff
2003, powerHouse Books
10.25" x 10.25" ,176pp.
List price: $45.00

"Differing from other picture books on New York, New Yorkers: As Seen by Magnum Photographers introduces a gallery of eye-catching untamed images of the metropolis, taken by Magnum photographers. Known for their independent spirit, they proffer scenes that can best be described as bouncy, cryptic, melancholy, droll, or glamorous, often bringing these clashing possibilities together against great odds, in a single image. For these pictures to have been on target, they had to be off-kilter-as charged with contradictions as the realities of their subject. The photographers featured here come from many countries and armed with a range of purposes, united only by their membership in Magnum Photos, the renowned photo agency. ..."
"... Featured here is surprising work by legends Bruce Davidson, Inge Morath, Dennis Stock, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ferdinando Scianna, Leonard Freed, Richard Kalvar, Burt Glinn, Elliott Erwitt, Eli Reed, Raymond Depardon, Eve Arnold, and many more. New Yorkers: As Seen by Magnum Photographers emphasizes the color work of the Magnum photographers, much of it surprisingly early, and contains an essay by Kozloff, who tackles his offbeat subject with relish."

Original Sources: Art and Archives at the Center for Creative Photography,
Amy Rule
2002, Center Creative Photography
9.82" x 7.27", 416 pgs.
List price: $40.00

The Center for Creative Photography, located in Arizona, is home to one of the largest and most eclectic photographic collections in the world. This publication offers a virtual guided tour of the center's extensive holdings, including a visit through the archives of some of the 20th century's most important North American photographers: Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Lee Friedlander, Tina Modotti, Beaumont & Nancy Newhall, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and Garry Winogrand. With scholarly commentary on artists' books, 19th-century travel photography, early 20th-century travel albums, and the CCP's collections of French, German, Japanese, Mexican, and Spanish photography, "Original Sources" is the most comprehensive introduction to one of photography's most treasured repositories. Edited by Amy Rule.

Photographers include: Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Lee Friedlander, Tina Modotti, Beaumont & Nancy Newhall, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Paul Strand, Edward Weston and Garry Winogrand.

Photography Transformed: The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Collection,
Klaus Ketrtess
2002, Harry N. Abrams
11.42" x 9.80", 264 pgs.
List price: $75.00

Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence H. White School of Photography,
Clarence H. White
1996, Rizzoli
12.25" x 9.5", 207 pgs.
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Presumed Innocence
2008, DeCordova Museum
9" x 12", 160 pp
List price: $39.95

Rethink: Cause and Consequences of September 11,
George Baravalle
2004, de.MO
10.18" x 9.2", 584 pp.
List price: $86.00

RETHINK, A de.MO Project, is a book about history and politics, a book about our lives and about our world, and what we are trying to accomplish in it. RETHINK confronts our diversity, our stupidity and cleverness, our preoccupations and rage, our laughter and desperate tears, our need for justice and love, our thirst for blood and power, our need to nourish and be nourished, our need to breathe, close our eyes and dream.

Investigation of the historical, political and moral aspects of such a tragedy, the events that may have fostered it and its political consequences creates a new viewpoint. de.MO believes that ignoring explanation and questioning can foster new catastrophic events.

The contributors to RETHINK had the freedom to create their own voices and were encouraged to respond in a manner that would acknowledge the historical events and causes that brought us to September 11th. Their varied responses create a document of great interest at a time when politics and values are in tremendous flux.

RETHINK can be used as a weapon or as a treasure, and readers are invited to handle it with care. In RETHINK, we are forced to be open-minded, to review all opinions and issues with the possibility that we might emerge with a new perspective and personal ideology."

Few individuals have exerted as profound an influence on 20th-century American art and culture as Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). This luxurious two-volume boxed set is the definitive catalogue of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the most complete Stieglitz holding in existence, donated to the gallery by his widow, artist Georgia O'Keeffe.

Numbering 1,642 photographs, the collection represents the full range of the master photographer's work-from early studies made in Europe, to views of the majestic New York skyline, to incomparable intimate portraits of O'Keeffe. Coinciding with a major traveling exhibition and providing complete scholarly apparatus and a chronology, this sumptuous volume demonstrates how Stieglitz absorbed the most advanced artistic concepts of his time into photography and transformed the medium forever.

"When shots ring out, photographers shoot back. Their images can startle, inform, and serve as witness. Mundane and profound, gruesome and compelling, crime photographs are, for better or worse, part of our world. Featuring many rarely and never-before-seen images, this heavily illustrated book sheds new light on the role of crime photography in our history and in our culture.

These are pictures we see once and never forget: an autopsy photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald; the bodies of Lizzie Borden's parents, photographed in the room where they were slain; mug shots of celebrities such as Larry King and Bill Gates; and O.J. Simpson pictured wearing shoes that match the footprints at the murder scene."

Speaking with Hands groups a remarkable collection of these photographs thematically and historically. In 'Portraits,' photographs of hands, like Dorothea Lange's Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy Arizona (1940), reveal the nature of the sitter's profession-in this case farmer-as well as racial, ethnic, and age identity. Others, like Alfred Steichen's 1920 image of Georgia O'Keeffe's hands, purport to reveal the source of the sitter's celebrity. 'Hand Signs' documents the myriad codes with which hand gestures convey meaning, be it through ASL, theatrical conventions, or rhetorical gesture; as well, this section considers images, like Andres Serrano's The Morgue (Knifed to Death I) (1992), in which the details of the hand are examined in order to determine identity. 'The Manipulated Image' includes abstract and manipulated work from the 1930s to the 1950s, by such avant-guardists as El Lissitzky, André Kertész, and Man Ray, in which the hand appears in a fragmented and fetishized form. The photographs in 'The Cinematic Image,' shot mostly in the 1950s, poetically represent the real world in a documentary style. In these images by Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, and Helen Levitt, the hand is disproportionately the bearer of meaning. In 'Conceptual Photography' from the 1970s Vito Acconci, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, and others used the camera to document the intersection of their bodies and their environment, often using the hand as a unit of measure and denotation of reality. And over the last 20 years, we find the hand in 'Contemporary Art' by Janine Antoni, Chuck Close, Anna Gaskell, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, and many others. - publisher
250 color illustrations

Taken by Design
Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937 - 1971,
David Travis
2002 University of Chicago Press
12.32" x 8.87", 271 pgs.
List price: $45.00

Tina Modotti and Edward Weston travelled to Mexico in 1923 at the start of an extraordinary period of artistic creativity that became known as the Mexican Renaissance. Although often perceived as being principally embodied by the politically motivated work of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco, the Mexican Renaissance was shaped by the contribution of dozens of artists, both Mexicans and expatriates, and gave rise to an exceptionally hospitable environment for innovative art-making.

The work Modotti and Weston made in the 1920s marks the beginning of a Modernist photographic aesthetic that left an indelible mark on the history of photography in Mexico. Each contributed to this history individually: Modotti is known for beautiful still-lifes that gave way to Modernist images of Mexican workers and poetic revolutionary icons. Weston’s Pictorialist-influenced imagery was abandoned in favour of sharp, clear, ‘straight’ photographs and an engagement with form. Also included in this exquisitely produced book is a selection of images by two Mexican photographers, Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Mariana Yampolsky, whose work was influenced by these two foreigners. - 150 duotone illustration

War. USA, Afghanistan, Iraq,
VII, et al.
2004, de.MO
12.75" x 11.36", 416 pp.
List price: $96.00

"WAR reveals the true story of what our country has faced since that fateful Tuesday in 2001. Featuring 223 photographs, insightful vignettes, and three thought-provoking major essays, WAR is a powerful collaborative effort from VII, a cutting- edge photo agency co-operatively owned by nine elite photojournalists. The three full-length essays, written by eminent journalists Peter Maass, Remy Ourdan, and David Rieff, discuss the three major crises of the 21st century from a social, political, and militaristic standpoint and further illuminate the powerful photographic images in WAR. The photographers of VII — Christopher Anderson, Alexandra Boulat, Lauren Greenfield, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, and John Stanmeyer — are u