"Acclaimed in the nineteenth century as "the world’s most famous landscape photographer," William Henry Jackson and his camera presided over the mapping, bounding, and settling of the American West and the larger American landscape. In this lavishly illustrated study, Peter B. Hales investigates the conversion of America’s landscape from myth to scenery and Jackson’s effect on this cultural transformation. ...

William Henry Jackson himself is rich material for an authoritative study. Not simply a chronicler, he immersed himself and his photographs in the processes of change that swept America from the 1840s until the 1940s. Official photographer to the Hayden Survey of the American West, early explorer of Yellowstone, and celebrant of the Colorado Rockies, Jackson was instrumental in the mass-marketing of landscape photography at the beginning of the twentieth century. Retired in the 1920s, he was rediscovered by the American Scene enthusiasts of the thirties, and found another career as painter of nostalgic images of America’s Golden Age of frontier freedom."

Essays by Jean-Claude Lemagny and Elvire Pereggo
and Pere Formiguera
Spanish with English translations, 105 plates
Spanish pictorialist photographer working from the 1920's - 1970. This book is an extroardinary monograph of his photographs.

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Essays by Predag Matvejevic and George Hersey
Mimmo Jodice, one of Italy's finest photographers, has set out like a modern Odysseus on an epic journey that he describes as "a voyage in search of the past." The result, Mediterranean, is Jodice's most personal and significant undertaking to date. Not content merely to document archaeological sites and artifacts, Jodice has aimed to rediscover a sense of the Classical universe, presenting it in a vivid and original way. ...

"In Paris: City of Light, Jodice's remarkable photographs are supplemented by reflections on the city by some of history's greatest writers and thinkers-- including Charles Baudelaire, F. T. Marinetti, Raymond Queneau, and others. Their words together with Jodice's luminous photographs provide a renewed vision of the world's best-loved city, by one of the world's most revered photographers. ..."45 photos.

.Preface by Alice Waters, introduction by Robert Flynn Johnson
117 plates.

"Here, in exquisite detail, is a visual feast of astonishing vitality for lovers of gardens and freshly harvested food everywhere. Charles Jones, is likely to remain for ever a mysterious figure. We know that he was born in England - in Wolverhampton - in 1866. the son of a master butcher. We know he must of trained as a gardener and was employed on a number of private estates, notably Ote Hall in Sussex, before retiring to Lincolnshire. We shall probably never know exactly how and why he came so obsessive and so brilliantly to photograph the plants he encountered in everyday life at the turn of the century.

Yet Charles Jones did not photograph his vegetables, fruits and flowers within nature. On the contrary, he isolated his works against neutral backgrounds - beguiling studio 'portraits' of beans and onions, marrows and turnips, sunflowers and tulips, plums and pears. His techniques - close-up viewpoints, long exposure and spare composition - anticipate by decades the later achievements of modernist masters ..." - From the book jacket, Thames & Hudson edition.

Note: an earlier 1998, Thames and Hudson edition exists, inquire for details.

"One of the most beloved dogs of the 20th century, the American Pit Bull Terrier has in recent times become one of the most maligned and misunderstood. Marc Joseph’s photographic exploration into the culture of Pit Bulls dogs and their people presents an alternative view of the controversial world revolving around this uniquely American breed of dog, and the human beings who live for them. Granted unprecedented access to homes, yards, events, and celebrated figures (including hip-hop recording artists such as Big Boi from Outkast, and DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill), Joseph reveals this culture through captivating photographs taken across the United States."

Interviews by Cory Reynolds range from Pit Bull elder statesmen Louis B. Colby, and Floyd Boudreaux, to hip-hop’s Joaquin Dean, founder of Ruff Ryder Records. With an historically enlightening and personally sensitive essay from bestselling author James Frey.

Kenneth Josephson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March 26-May 22, 1983
Kenneth Josephson
1983, The Museum
72 pp.
(used copies available)