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Introduction titled "The Discovery of Good Books"written by Boris Kachka.

Offers a trilogy of tautly rendered examinations of the spectacle of war, memory, and landscape. This book presents an exploration of the American military, a pursuit both personal and civic.

Offers an analysis of the causes of decades of environmental abuse along the largest river system in North America.

Photography deepens our connections to the world around us, to ourselves, and to one another. In this book, the author works with the worlds top photographers, many of whom also teach, to publish their core thinking on photography making their experience, insight, and knowledge accessible to a wider audience, including students.

A compelling narrative of Bernard Plossu's road trips through Mexico, which began in the 1960s, shown in 300 black-and-white and color photographs compiled at last in a singular volume

Contains author's photographs of the human form from her 197677 provisionally titled series Early Color, as well as a selection of black-and-white photographs from the same period.

An incredible object of desire: dramatic in scale, superbly designed, featuring extraordinary images of Mars

First monograph of an artist with an established gallery track record who has been widely published

After nearly a lifetime of traveling and photographing in far-flung places such as Mexico, Ghana, Italy, Scotland and his adoptive country, France, Paul Strand began to concentrate on the stony beauty of his own garden at Orgeval. The work that constitutes "The Garden at Orgeval" offers a close, exacting study of nature's forms and patterns: tiny button-shaped flowers, cascading winter branches and snarls of twigs. While these photographs exhibit the same directness and precise vision that is so quintessentially Strand, they also reflect his increasing preoccupation with mortality and the fragility of existence.The photographs in this volume have been selected by the renowned photographer, Joel Meyerowitz--whose own affinity toward the "Orgeval" series stems from a lifetime of photographing in different genres and ultimately, like Strand, returning to nature as an enduring subject. Meyerowitz also contributes an essay responding to Strand's images and reflecting on the contemplation of gardens and the process of aging.Paul Strand (1890-1976) was one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, and among the first to establish photography as an art form. As a youth, he studied under Lewis Hine at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, going on to win acclaim from the likes of Alfred Stieglitz and David Alfaro Siqueiros. After World War II, Strand traveled around the world--from New England to Ghana, France to the Outer Hebrides--and eventually settled in Orgeval, France, where he spent the remaining 27 years of his life.

From magazine pages to gallery walls, from advertisements to photo journalism, this book charts the history of color photography in the United States from the moment it became available as a mass medium to the moment when it no longer seemed an unusual choice for artists.

Lauded by photographers, artists, and critics for his influence on the contemporary generation of art photographers, James Welling has created beautiful and uncompromising photographs for over thirty-five years. This book provides thorough presentation of the artists work to date.

In an era of social confusion and visual pandemonium, David Levi Strauss tackles issues of photography and politics in a way that few critics today are courageous enough to attempt. The essays collected in "Between the Eyes" address topics ranging from propaganda and the imagery of dreams, to Sebastião Salgado's epic social documents and the deeply personal photographic revelations of Francesca Woodman. Other issues broached here include the legitimacy of photographic imagery and the media frenzy surrounding the events of September 11, as well as essays on the work of Ania Bien, Miguel Rio Branco, Alfredo Jaar, Joel-Peter Witkin and others, plus an interview with painter Leon Golub (who worked from photographs). Reviewing the first edition of "Between the Eyes," "Publisher's Weekly" wrote: "'Photography and Propaganda, ' a study of the work and deaths in '80s Central America of photojournalists Richard Cross and John Hoagland, should be required reading in the age of embeddedness, and 'Photography and Belief' is a terrific meditation on truth in the age of digital manipulation."

Dutch graphic designers have long worked at the forefront of their discipline, often crossing existing boundaries and exploring new territories qualities that have become a part of contemporary Dutch photobook culture. This title offers selections from approximately one hundred historic, contemporary, and self-published photobook projects.

Offers a rethinking of photography's impact on our culture and our lives. This title provides an exploration of the many ways photographs package information and values, demand and hold attention, and shape our knowledge of and experience in the world.

Provides Lynne Cohen's work situating her appropriately within the lineage of Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore, and other widely celebrated Topographic photographers.

Presents Diane Arbuss work that includes photographs which were taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1969 and 1971, in the last years of Arbuss life.

Begins with the 1920s onwards, providing revelatory perspectives on the undercharted history of Latin American photography, and featuring work by Claudia Andujar, Barbara Brandli, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Horacio Coppola, Paz Errazuriz, Graciela Iturbide, Sara Facio, Paolo Gasparini, Daniel Gonzalez, Boris Kossoy, and others.

Explores the private thoughts and motivations of an artist whose vision derived from the courage to see things as they are and the grace to permit them simply to be. This book provides biographies for fifty-five personalities, family members, friends, and colleagues, from Marvin Israel and Lisette Model to Weegee and August Sander.

Offers a reinterpretation of every-day consumer and vernacular images. This title presents an approach to quintessential issues of representation in contemporary culture, including how images are used to construct and communicate consumer desire, and whether or not the growing volume of images we view online fosters a critical visual literacy.

Social scientist, artist, writer, and provocateur, the author has been exploring the secret activities of the US military and intelligence agencies - the black world - publishing, speaking, and making photographs. This monograph highlights the array of tactics used by him to depict what can and cannot be seen.

Martin Parr's first major body of work, from the mid- 19 70 s, published in book form for the first time

For Paul Strand, the great pioneer of Modernism, the summers of 1926 and 1930-1932 were a return to experimentation and periods of great artistic growth. He worked in makeshift darkrooms--one in a hotel basement and another above the Taos movie theater. The Southwest period brought not only artistic renewal, but also personal turmoil. His political and social ideas were shifting, and his relationship with the two most important people in his life--his wife Rebecca and his mentor Alfred Stieglitz--were disintegrating. This book reconstructs, in an intimate, visual way, the emotional and creative swirl around Paul Strand, through beautiful reproductions of his images from the period and a comprehensive collection of notes, illustrations and ephemera. While a handful of Strand's Southwest photographs have been previously published, this period of his outstanding career remains largely unexplored. "Paul Strand Southwest" presents many images for the first time, including dramatic landscapes, decayed ghost towns, the noble architecture of adobe churches and his final austere portraits of Rebecca.

Children, landscape, lovers-these subjects are almost as common to the photographic lexicon as light itself. But Sally Mann's take on these iconic themes, rendered through both traditional and esoteric processes, is anything but common. Astonishingly original both in image and technique, Mann's work consistently challenges the viewer: in her hands, experiences drawn from daily life are rendered both disquieting and sublime. Now, having studied relationships between parent and child, artist and subject, life and death, Mann's Proud Flesh investigates the bonds between husband and wife. Exquisitely detailed, intimate, psychologically and emotionally intense, Proud Flesh engages territory most often inhabited by male artists portraying their wives and female lovers as Mann turns the camera to her husband of 39 years, Larry. Beautiful, textured, and provocative, these unprecedented nude studies neither objectify nor celebrate; rather, they go far under the skin to suggest a relationship between man and woman that is profoundly trusting: sensual, sexual, sometimes painful, often indescribably tender, and always unblinkingly honest.

Korean photographer Atta Kim commandeers average scenes - city streets department stores, freight depots, and forests, and turns them into exhibition spaces. He reflects the pressure cooker of contemporary Korean life.

UK photographer Sarah Pickering's "Explosions, Fires and Public Order" is a visually arresting glimpse into the secret world of civil defense. Combining four series, the book begins with "Public Order," a project exploring the Metropolitan Police Public Order Training Centre, a simulated urban environment near London where officers rehearse responses to imagined scenarios of civic unrest. The "Explosions" series documents the tactical use of controlled explosions by the British military, designed to add realistic stress to training exercises and familiarize soldiers with various munitions. "Fire Series" and "Incident," Pickering's most recent series, were produced while she was an artist in residence at the UK Fire Training College. While there, she photographed blazes that were set inside meticulously and elaborately constructed home interiors, as well as the stark, charred remnants of fake urban settings after the scenario fires had been put out. Pickering's projects reflect an aspect of the current zeitgeist: global terrorism matched with omnipresent anxiety. "My work explores the idea of imagined threat and response, and looks at fear and planning for the unexpected, merging fact and fiction, fantasy and reality."