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Magnum contact sheets
Kristen Lubben Thames & Hudson
This special and important photography book presents, for the first time, the very best contact sheets created by Magnum photographers. Contact sheets tell the truth behind a photograph. They unveil its process, and provide its back story. Was it the outcome of what a photographer had in mind from the outset? Did it emerge from a diligently worked sequence, or was the right shot down to pure serendipity - a matter of being in the right place at the right time? This landmark publication provides the reader with a depth of understanding and a critical analysis of the story behind a photograph, the process of editing it, and the places and ways in which the selected photographs were used. For anyone with a deep appreciation of photography and a desire to understand what goes into creating iconic work, Magnum Contact Sheets will be regarded as the definitive volume.
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Manhattan Seascape
Robert Gambee Hastings House
A large format collection of black and white photographs combined with poems and prose by famous authors. The only book ever published to treat New York from this perspective. Selected by the City of New York as its official gift to distinguished visitors. Only a very few copies left.

Manpower
Sally Soames Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Andre Deutsch Ltd

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photopoetry
Arts & Photography Chronicle Books
Manuel Alvarez Bravo was one of the foremost practitioners of visual arts in the twentieth century. Manuel Alvarez Bravo, the first major retrospective of his eighty-year career, showcases hundreds of iconic photographs and unveils more than twenty previously unpublished images. Featuring landscapes, still lifes, rural and urban scenes, religious and vernacular subjects, as well as portraits of luminaries such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Carlos Fuentes, and Octavio Paz, the work is chronologically arranged and richly varied. Three illuminating essays reveal the poetry of Bravo's photographsfrom his use of light and form to his fascination with dreams and his preoccupation with death. This definitive monograph is a powerful tribute to Mexico's most distinguished photographer.

Marc Riboud in China
Marc Riboud Photo Essays Harry N. Abrams
Marc Riboud's images are a window on a world in transition as China reinvents itself with dizzying speed--his is as revealing a window as we are likely to find. The contrast between China old and new, as interpreted by Riboud, is an often startling one that cannot help but inform and intrigue. He specializes in the juxtaposition of images, perhaps none are more jarring than his photograph of a poor man lugging a sack of belongings down a trash-littered back street while a pair of chubby-cheeked babies glance over his shoulder in a nearby poster and a porno actress bares her chest in an ad overhead. Riboud's home is France, his territory is the world from Vietnam to Iran, but his heart and soul are apparently in the China he has covered from the days of Mao's revolution through the erosion of Communism to the country's modern economic upheaval.

Margaret Bourke-white: The Early Work, 1922-1930
Ronald E. Ostman, Harry Littell, Margaret Bourke-White Arts & Photography David R Godine
Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) was one of the leading photojournalists of her time, a mainstay of the Luce empire whose signature work for "Fortune" celebrated the machine age and whose later work for "Life" featured the human face and a "progressive" humanitarian sensibility. Many of her photo essays are classics; indeed those on the Louisville Flood and its victims, on the liberation of the Nazi death camps, and on the poverty of India and Pakistan are now part of the iconography of the twentieth century.
In this brief collection of her earliest work, two art historians present the "unknown" Bourke-White, the young amateur aged eighteen to twenty-six. Her first photographs, created in 1921 under the tutelage of Columbia University's Clarence H. White, were impeccably designed soft-edged still lifes, "painterly" images characteristic of the period but not of the artist. Bourke-White took this technique to college – to the University of Michigan and to Cornell – and there made traditional portraits of campus buildings and, almost by accident, her first "industrial" photograph, a Duchamp-like study of loudspeakers. After graduation she moved to Cleveland, where, trembling with fear and aesthetic excitement, she photographed the interior of the Otis Steel Mill, the trestles of the High Level Bridge, and the new Terminal Tower. It was these thrilling Cleveland photographs, made in 1928–30, that won her an audience with Luce, who sent her on to "Fortune" . . . and to fame.
The eighty photographs reproduced here have seldom been seen outside the archives of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and the University of Syracuse Library. They will fascinate anyone interested in the life and work of Margaret Bourke-White and the early history of American photojournalism.

Margaret Bourke-White: The Photography of Design, 1927-1936
Stephen Bennett Phillips Architectural Rizzoli International Publications
How did Margaret Bourke-White become the top photographer for Fortune and Life, a globetrotting adventuress who held court in the most glamorous studio on earth--a Chrysler Building penthouse patrolled by alligators, adjacent to the fierce gargoyle she made famous? By first muscling in as a master of the masculine art of corporate photography. For the first time, that early work has gotten its due in Stephen Bennett Phillips'Margaret Bourke-White: The Photography of Design 1927-36. In insightful prose and glossily reproduced black-and-white photos, he opens our eyes to her fast-developing genius. Her 1927 photos of Cleveland's Terminal Tower expertly aped the fuzzy, romantic pictorialism of early Edward Steichen, but her 1928 shot of the same building through the spiral grillwork shows her rigorous sense of composition. After she discovered magnesium lighting, her pictures of what could've been ordinary industrial scenes acquired stunning star power. Rows of tin soup cans, aluminum rods, hogs hanging in a stockyard, Moscow ballet dancers, Wurlitzer organ pipes: she transformed them all into patterns bespeaking brute power. Her camera was a magic device that transformed everything she saw into a shiny Deco masterpiece. This book is as smart and beautiful as its stellar subject. --Tim Appelo

Marion Post Wolcott, FSA Photographs. Introduction by Sally Stein.
Marion Post. Wolcott Arts & Photography Friends of Photography Bookstore,
MARION POST WOLCOTT FSA PHOTOGRAPHS, with an introduction by Sally Stein, is a 48-page medium format book printed on glossy paper. The book is 9 x 11 inches. The reproductions are of various sizes, for example, 7 x 8 inches, 6 x 8 inches, or 5.5 x 7.25 inches. There are 35 black and white photographs. The photos are of excellent contrast, and can be enjoyed even when viewed under dim lighting.

WRITING. In the introduction, we read that Wolcott's photographs were unique among FSA photographers because they illustrated discrepancies in social and racial classes.

We read about, "the photograph she made looking upon an outdoor Florida resort scene . . . as a part of a series of photographs that contrasted the complacency of the affluent with the abject poverty she documented in nearby migrant labor camps." We read about, "prohibition against direct contract between classes is the pointed subject of another photograph by Post Wolcott, "Business managers paying off cotton pickers (1939)" . . . the photographer's chosen vantage point behind the managers allows us to see only one cotton picker, and that one only barely . . . all evidence indicates that this plantation was run on strict business principles, there is nothing personable about the rural relations depicted. The picker was not even handed her pay. Instead, it was set down a few inches away from the narrow window." (pages 4-5) It is therefore the case, in my opinion, that Sally Stein's writing is intelligent, insightful, and inspiring.

PHOTOGRAPHS. There are nine photos of poor white people, four photos of city street scenes with people, three pictures of black cotton pickers, five pictures or rich white people, and ten group poses (black, white, rich, poor), and two landscapes. The cover of the book bears the photo, "Migrant family from Missouri, Belle Glade, Florida, 1939," which shows a poor white family posing under palm trees. The photo is a work of art, because of the grouping. Three toddlers form a tight cluster on the left. Three young women are in a row, over to the right half of the photo. In the foreground, a young man stoops over, digging in the ground with a stick.

Plate 8, entitled, "Business managers paying off cotton picker, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi, 1939," shows two well-dressed business managers viewed at an angle from behind them, a mechanical calculating machine, where one of the men is paying money to cotton pickers. A screened window separates the managers from the pickers. The negro hand of a picker reaches through a small aperture in the screen, resembling the hand of a monkey reaching through the bars of a cage in a zoo, for food from visitors. Although the photo was taken in 1939, it is an accurate metaphorical representation of how management in most present-day corporations treat lower-level employees.

Plate 19, entitled, "Negro entering movie theater by outside entrance to upstairs colored section, Belzoni, Mississippi, 1939," shows an outdoor flight of stairs by the wall of a movie theater, with a negro walking up, and a sign reading, "COLORED ADM. 10 cents." Under the stairs is a door to a toilet reading, "WHITE MEN ONLY." At the very center of the photo is a step ladder with its shadow. The step ladder with shadow add a mysterious element to the photograph, that is, mysterious in the same way that the odd structures in the surrealist paintings by YVES TANGUY are mysterious.

Plate 25, called, "Woman lying in the sun, Miami Beach, Florida, 1939," shows an obese woman with pigeon-toed legs, lying face-down on a recliner. The legs are so extremely pigeon-toed that they could almost be characterized as a birth defect. Immediately to the right the fat lady's feet is a row of shadows from a row of pudgy architectural columns, and to the right of the shadows is the row of columns. The photo is a work of art, because the odd shape of the woman's two legs, situated side-by-side with respect to each other, correspond somewhat to the side-by-side nature of the oddly shaped architectural columns. In short, the woman's legs and the architectural columns both resemble piano legs.

CONCLUSION. In my opinion, this book could be considered to be indispensable to all people who consider themselves to own, or who are planning on owning, a library of photography books. You don't have to sympathize with any particular social cause, and you don't need a minute of training in art history, in order to appreciate the enduring quality of the artistic merit of the photographs in this book.

Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs
Barbara Morgan Modern Morgan & Morgan, Inc.
A collection of black-and-white photographs by Barbara Morgan, the noted photographer of dance, captures the force of Martha Graham's theater, as manifested in sixteen dances originally presented during the years from 1936 to 1941

Martin Munkacsi: An Aperture Monograph (Aperture)
Martin Munkacsi Susan Morgan Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Aperture Book
The great fashion photographer Martin Munkacsi was born in Hungary in 1896, spent the 20s and 30s in Berlin, and immigrated to New York City in 1934. For many years the best paid photographer of his time and a profound influence on photographers like Richard Avedon, his work was out of fashion at the time of his death in 1963. Recently, Munkacsi has emerged from history as one of the most significant talents of the twentieth century, having shaped the beginnings of modern photojournalism, set in motion a previously static medium and combined fact-finding accuracy with a highly formal aesthetic standard. Munkacsi was an outstanding representative of the 'Neues Sehen' (New Way of Seeing), certainly photography's weightiest contribution to advanced art. His fashion and sports photography were both groundbreaking and unmatched. Up until now, however, all this work has been scattered throughout the world, and much of it has been lost, although the Ullstein Archive in Berlin maintains an extensive collection of Munkacsi's work from Hungary and Germany. Martin Munkacsi gathers and assembles this mid-century master's images as never before. It contains pictures from each of his artistic phases and several photographs and reports that haven't been seen since their initial magazine publications. A major collection featuring 318 tritones, it offers a valuable glimpse of photography's tense, technology-obsessed, glamorous and contradictory beginnings.

Mary Ellen Mark (Phaidon 55s)
Charles Hagen Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Phaidon Press
Mary Ellen Mark (b.1940) has excelled as a documentary photo-grapher for over thirty years. She has recorded the lives of people on the margins of society in dramatic, compelling images. Yet her work is more than a record of newsworthy events, presenting rich symbolic narratives about humanity in general.
Other artists in this series include: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Joel Meyerowitz, Boris Mikhailov, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Shomei Tomatsu, Joel-Peter Witkin

Master Photographers
Crown Clarkson Potter
Sixteen photographers answer questions regarding the mechanics, techniques, and vision of photography and use their photographs to illustrate some of these aspects

Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum: The Paintings
St. Louis Art Museum, Lynette Roth Saint Louis Art Museum
One of the greatest German painters of the 20th century, Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950) came to America in the mid-1940s and settled in St. Louis. There he met the retailer and collector Morton D. May. By the time May died, in 1983, he had amassed a comprehensive collection of Beckmann's oeuvre, most of which he bequeathed to the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM). The stunning breadth and power of Beckmann's work is explored in this volume, which thoroughly examines all thirty-nine paintings in SLAM's collection. In addition to featuring some of Beckmann's most celebrated images, this book offers the English-speaking public new and fascinating insights into Beckmann's life and art - in particular his underappreciated early work and previously unexplored aspects of his final years in the United States. Divided into six sections, the book traces Beckmann's involvement with the Berlin Secession; his post-World War I life and rise to fame in these years; the impact of Parisian culture on Beckmann's art; his life under Nazi rule and exile in Amsterdam; his role in the St. Louis art scene of the 1940s; and his complex relationship to his adopted country. Accompanying each chapter are discussions of relevant works, documentary photographs and comparative illustrative material that will deepen readers' understanding of Beckmann's evolution as an artistic force. AUTHOR: Lynette Roth, formerly a Mellon Fellow at the Saint Louis Art Museum, is the Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art from German-speaking countries, with special emphasis on painting, the relationship between art and politics, and the history and reception of German art in the United States. 160 colour illustrations

Michael Kenna: A 20 Year Retrospective
Michael Kenna Look Inside Art Books Nazraeli Pr
For over thirty five years, British born Michael Kenna has been looking at landscapes in ways quite out of the ordinary. His mysterious photographs, often made at dawn or in the dark hours of night, concentrate primarily on the interaction between the ephemeral atmospheric conditions of the natural landscape, and human-made structures and sculptural mass. Kenna is both a diurnal and nocturnal photographer, fascinated by times of day when light is at its most pliant. Using non digital equipment, his night time exposures can last up to ten hours, and his photographs often record details that the human eye is not able to perceive.

Kenna’s intimate, exquisitely hand crafted black and white photographic prints reflect a sense of refinement, respect for history, and thorough originality. They have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums throughout the world and are included in such permanent collections as The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; The Shanghai Art Museum; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Over forty books and catalogs have been published on Kenna's work.

Michael Wesely Open Shutter: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sarah Hermanson Meister Museum of Modern Art
Since the early 1990s, German photographer Michael Wesely has been inventing and refining techniques for using extremely long camera exposures to take uniquely compelling photographs. Through the use of filters and a very small aperture, yet one that is standard in a professional camera lens, he is able to diminish the amount of light hitting the negative to the point where he can extend the exposure many thousands of times longer than we would ordinarily expect. Some of Wesely's pictures of the rebuilding of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, for example, in a series completed in 1999, were continuously exposed over a period of 26 months. The results of Wesely's explorations are as surprising as they are beautiful. In 2001, as The Museum of Modern Art began to prepare for its ambitious construction and renovation project, a turning point in its history, it recognized in Wesely's work an unequalled opportunity to artistically document that project. In August of that year, then, Wesely set specially designed cameras in long-term installations in and around the museum, choosing his locations for the construction views they provided. Nearly three years later, the images are complete, and their pentimento-like strata of transparencies and overlays render the construction project's evolution in time as a dense and delicate network of forms and colors in space. Open Shutter accompanies an exhibition organized by Sarah Hermanson Meister, Associate Curator of the museum's Department of Photography. Included in the book are several images of the construction of the new Museum of Modern Art.

My Experiences in Color Photography
Dr. Paul Wolff Grayson
http://pindelski.org/Photography/2012/06/27/dr-paul-wolff/

Naked: Flowers Exposed
Walter Hubert Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Harpercollins
Over one hundred photographers and other celebrities explore flowers as an expression of their fantasies, visions, and dreams

Nantucket
Robert Gambee Arts & Photography W. W. Norton & Company
With over 525 color plates, this is the most comprehensive book on Nantucket ever published. All aspects of the island are included-its history, architectural treasures, beaches, sailboats, artists, open spaces, and gardens. There are over 220 photographs of private homes and secret gardens, plus over 70 photographs of antique and classic cars.

Nature's Chaos
James Gleick Eliot Porter Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Viking Adult
The essence of the earth's beauty lies in chaos, in the disorder of grasses strewn in a meadow, the blotching of green lichen on a tree trunk. Eliot Porter's photographs of the natural world, spanning thirty-five years and five continents-from an Antarctic ice floe to an American desert to an Icelandic lava field-reveal in mesmerizing ways what scientists are beginning to see for themselves: the patterns, relations, and inter-actions present in nature's disorder and wildness. This is the perfect marriage of image and text-brilliant full-color photographs by the preeminent nature photographer of his generation together with an illuminating essay by the widely praised author of Chaos.

New York at Night
Christopher Gray Arts & Photography Merrell Publishers
The New York skyline is arguably one of the most distinctive on Earth. At night, however, the city’s numerous landmarks are transformed from the familiar into the new. Following the success of Merrell’s London at Night, award-winning aerial photographer Jason Hawkes offers a dramatic, night-time perspective on one of the world’s most iconic locations. From the vantage point of a helicopter, Hawkes captures the magical, almost abstract quality of such familiar sights as the Statue of Liberty, Times Square and the Empire State Building as seen after dark, as well as revealing some of New York’s less well-known vistas. Featuring an informative introduction and extended captions by the New York Times journalist Christopher Gray, New York at Night is a unique and often breathtaking record of the city that truly never sleeps.

New York Today
Michael George History Harry N Abrams

No Smoking
Luc Sante
Can you imagine Groucho Marx without a cigar? Do you remember that a few years ago smoking was allowed in airplanes? Can you tell when New York stopped smoking?

In the not so distant past, posing seductively with a cigarette was de rigueur for Hollywood types. How many celebrities today dare to even hold one? No Smoking is a tribute to the 20th century, a century that created, promoted and glorified the cigarette and then suddenly declared war on it.

No Title Here
Arts & Photography powerHouse Books
In 1981, Jeff Mermelstein began taking trips to Asbury Park, New Jersey, where he gravitated toward the abundant supply of bizarre characters populating this town made famous by Bruce Springsteen. Drawn to the seedy atmosphere and entranced by the taffy-rich colors, Mermelstein was mesmerized by the sights: a pink lady at a baby parade, a startled bag lady dressed in red, a cat-show judge named Mr. Friend. Things kept getting stranger for Mermelstein, whose first magazine assignment was to photograph animal actors, including the legendary four-pawed performers Morris the Cat, Lassie, Benji, the Merrill Lynch bull, the Exxon tiger, and Zippy, a performing chimp. "I still feel the excitement of hugging Zippy," Mermelstein has noted, "and watching and photographing him in his bus as he entertained at a Bar Mitzvah on Long Island." Inspired by these encounters with the odd and unusual, Mermelstein began to vigorously prowl the streets of New York City during the mid-'80s with some Kodachrome and a flash, snapping up scenes of vivid color, glitz, and plastic artifice. Attracted to the surreal, Mermelstein continued to document outlandish scenes, whether on magazine assignments or on adventures of his own devising - to dog shows, promotional events, and grand openings of malls across this colorful, far-too-colorful-for-words land. No Title Here catalogues the results of the past twenty years Mermelstein has spent photographing the wacky, the quirky, the off, and the oddly lyrical he has encountered across America.

Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour
Louise Baring Arts & Photography Rizzoli
One of the great pioneers of fashion photography, Norman Parkinson is famous for his sense of style and glamour. Heralded as one of the true innovators in his field, he pushed the boundaries of the day by bringing the model out of the studio and onto the street. He set the model against unusual and daring backdrops, such as the gritty working-class districts of London, and was a seminal influence on subsequent generations of fashion photogaphers. "Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour" is a lavish portrait of Parkinson’s long career from the 1930s through the 1980s. In a unique collaboration with the Norman Parkinson archives in London, his iconic photographs for "Vogue", "Queen", and "Harper’s Bazaar" are reproduced alongside a trove of previously unpublished fashion work. The classics of Parkinson’s career are also shown here, providing the full breadth of his career. This exciting and definitive look into Parkinson’s illustrious legacy is sure to rank among the most important publications on fashion and photography.

Norman Parkinson: Portraits in Fashion
Robin Muir Fashion Trafalgar Square Publishing
This elegant monograph is the first to focus exclusively on the celebrated photographer's fashion portraits.

Odysseys & Photographs: Four National Geographic Field Men
Arts & Photography Focal Point/National Geographic
Spanning almost a century of global upheaval and riveting human drama, this magnificent book follows the careers of Maynard Owen Williams, Volkmar Wentzel, Luis Marden, and Tom Abercrombie—a stellar quartet of National Geographic photographers who used their cameras to record a truly remarkable era.

While the lensmen were all supported and nurtured both technically and creatively by the Geographic, each had his own interests and his own distinctive style—and each made his own unique contribution to world culture, science, and history. Following a thoughtful introduction that sets the scene, the book is divided into four parts, each devoted to one man’s life and work. Chapters open with an essay and then display up to 50 pages of breathtaking historic images, many of which lay hidden in National Geographic archives for decades. Close associates and loved ones authored each photographer’s intimate story, calling on journals, anecdotes, and behind-the-scenes correspondence to portray the real person behind the lens. Our four subjects, taken together, represent the entire and quite glamorous progression of National Geographic photography—a chronicle that will be eagerly embraced by all who love world history, biography, and great pictures.

Odysseys and Photographs: Four National Geographic Field Men
Leah Bendavid-Val, Gilbert M. Grosvenor, Mark Collins Jenkins, Viola Kiesinger Wentzel Arts & Photography Focal Point
Spanning almost a century of global upheaval and riveting human drama, this magnificent book follows the careers of Maynard Owen Williams, Volkmar Wentzel, Luis Marden, and Tom Abercrombie—a stellar quartet of National Geographic photographers who used their cameras to record a truly remarkable era.

While the lensmen were all supported and nurtured both technically and creatively by the Geographic, each had his own interests and his own distinctive style—and each made his own unique contribution to world culture, science, and history. Following a thoughtful introduction that sets the scene, the book is divided into four parts, each devoted to one man’s life and work. Chapters open with an essay and then display up to 50 pages of breathtaking historic images, many of which lay hidden in National Geographic archives for decades. Close associates and loved ones authored each photographer’s intimate story, calling on journals, anecdotes, and behind-the-scenes correspondence to portray the real person behind the lens. Our four subjects, taken together, represent the entire and quite glamorous progression of National Geographic photography—a chronicle that will be eagerly embraced by all who love world history, biography, and great pictures.

The One-room Schoolhouse: A Tribute to a Beloved National Icon
Paul Rocheleau Reference Universe
Offering a glimpse at the values that built this country, The One-Room Schoolhouse is a poignant, engaging, beautiful and heart-warming tribute to an enduring slice of Americana.
From 1750 through about 1950, the one-room schoolhouse was a common fixture on the American landscape, with as many as 200,000 in total across the land. Today, approximately 450 one-room schoolhouses are still in use.

Despite the decline in numbers, it remains a powerful presence, and its mere mention conjures up feelings of warmth and nostalgia for a long ago time. The One-Room Schoolhouse pays homage to this American icon and is a tour of these structures still standing, detailing the best examples from the forty-eight contiguous states. Exploring working schools, some in existence for more than 100 years, schools restored as historic museums, and schools converted into private residences, The One-Room Schoolhouse touches and inspires us by sharing "conversations" with past and present one-room schoolhouse teachers.

Other Realities
Jerry Uelsmann Peter C. Bunnell Paul Karabanis Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Bulfinch
Rediscover the work of an acknowledged American master whose influence has been immeasurable but is only now beginning to be fully understood and appreciated.Jerry Uelsmann is a modern master of photography, one of a select group of artists who can be said to have altered the very language of their medium. By synthesizing his photographs from multiple negatives starting in the 1960s, Uelsmann broke rank with the prevailing aesthetic of the period and pioneered a new approach that would influence countless artists and photographers and anticipate the digital-image revolution by a generation. OTHER REALITIES showcases a personal selection of Uelsmann+s most compelling images from the early 1960s to the present. An accessible and insightful foreword by photography critic and historian Peter C. Bunnell, and a preface by Paul Karabinis, director of the University Gallery of South Florida, open the book.

Our Chicago: Faces and Voices of the City
Richard Younker Photo Essays Chicago Review Pr
Lots of great pictures of the every day people that make up this great American city.

Page After Page
Tim Page Photojournalism Atheneum
Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and war were the things Page cared about most as a freelance photographer in Vietnam, and he managed to combine all four passions in a wild, exhilarating, scary party that lasted from the early '60s into the '70s. He saw more combat than did the average soldier and sustained so many wounds that had he been in the military he'd have deserved a chest-full of Purple Hearts. He claims to have had "the best time anyone could want to have." The postwar years were less jolly. Suffering from drug addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder, Page plunged in and out of poverty and despair, and underwent a series of operations to repair his damaged body. He writes here in a feverish, fast-forward shorthand style, telling a story that is alternately hilarious and heartrending. Readers of his memoir will understand why he has long been referred to as "the legendary Tim Page." Photos.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Paris
Robert Doisneau Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Flammarion
As a photographer, Robert Doisneau is known for his ability to infuse images of daily life with poetic nuance that imbued his photojournalism with an enduring popular appeal. The unprecedented scope of this collection provides the opportunity to study his more composed, aesthetically structured images alongside his snapshots, which offer a more anecdotal account of Doisneau's Paris. Organized thematically, the book leads us on an entrancing tour through the gardens of Paris, along the Seine, and through the crowds of Parisians who define their beloved city. More than 600 photographs-many rare, forgotten, and previously unpublished-are assembled in this beautiful volume to create a unique portrait of Paris. From toddlers scrambling to cross rue de Rivoli to fresh-faced accordionists, from elegant dog walkers to exuberant roller skaters, and from the indelible kiss in front of the Hétel de Ville to cyclists beneath the Eiffel Tower, the magic of Paris in black and white is a timeless treasure. The photographs, edited by Doisneau's daughter, are complemented by citations from the photographer himself, which reveal his profound fascination with the city where he lived and worked.

Paris in the Fifties
Sanford Roth Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Mercury House
Gathers photographers of children, shop windows, street vendors, bicyclists, artists, circus performers, political protestors, cafes, and animals

The passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
James David Draper New York ; New Haven Metropolitan Museum of Art ; distributed by Yale University Press
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827­–1875) was an extraordinarily gifted sculptor―the greatest in 19th-century France before Rodin―and embodied the emotionally charged artistic climate of his era. The passionate Carpeaux comes alive in this handsome new publication. Carpeaux’s wrenching representations of human forms, shown in beautiful color details and illustrations, echo his turbulent personal life, fraught with episodes of violence and fatal illness.

Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs (Aperture Monograph)
Calvin Tomkins Bestsellers Aperture
Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs, a long-unavailable Aperture classic, is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the power and force of a major photographic figure of our time. Before his death in 1976 at age eighty-five, Strand combed his photographic prints and his many books with an eye to the completion of this volume. Seen here is the summation of a lifework, from the first abstract photographs to the series of plant photographs taken in the last years of his life. Also included is a rarely examined series of filmsUbrilliant, unprecedented documentaries that foreshadowed Italian neo-realism and the new cinema of the post-war years. The re-release of this volume, which features the famous biographical profile by Calvin Tomkins and excerpts from Strand's correspondence, interviews, and other documents, makes one of photography's major artists newly accessible.

Penn Station, New York
Louis Stettner
A poetic look at Penn Station from Louis Stettner, one of the masters of street photography, published in book form for the first time

Louis Stettner is one of the last living members of the avant-garde New York School of photography of the 1950s, which challenged many of the long-accepted foundations of art form. His Penn Station series of the late 1950s represents some of his most important work, gathered here in a single form for the first time. The series is less a portrait of the building than a study of people at once in transit and in suspension.

The pivotal moment for Stettner occurred in 1957, the year before he began the series in earnest. He had taken a photograph of a girl in a party dress stepping from one circular patch of sunlight to another across the vast floor of Penn station, away from the photographer into the shadowy distance. A year later Stettner felt compelled to return and create the series, but he found the photographs not “newsworthy” enough to publish. With time and distance, their significance has been recognized, and the series is now considered a major work of art. 65 black-and-white photographs

Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray
Alan Axelrod Gaye Brown Arts & Photography Abbeville Press
Artist profile.

The Persuasive Image (Masters of Contemporary Photography)
Art Kane Thames and Hudson Ltd
This is one of a series of eight books on various aspects of photography. They were published in the mid Seventies and have a great deal of good information and diagram some of the shots featured in the book. because of the time frame it is all film. No digital photography as it had not been invented yet. This book is one of the best of the eight and that is saying something as they are all good. Sadly Art Kane committed suicide five or six years after this book came out, so it is now a retrospective of most of his work.

Peter Clapham Sheppard: His Life and Work
Tom Smart ART, Canadian, Biography & Autobiography, Artists, Architects, Photographers Firefly Books
"Peter Clapham Sheppard was a retiring, elusive artist whose skill and vision, untouched by the noisy nationalism of some of his peers, can now finally be properly celebrated in the remarkable artistic rediscovery that is unveiled in the pages of this book."
-- Ross King

This book is a celebration of the rediscovery of the masterworks of Toronto-born Peter Clapham Sheppard (1879-1965), an artist who played a leading role in the founding of Canada's national school of art. A contemporary and colleague of the Group of Seven, he was one of the finest artists of his generation and his work is among the best in Canadian art.

The book is full of beautiful color reproduction of Sheppard's paintings, and his work shows a wide range of sources and influences. In the early years of the 20th century he was a Realist who captured the life and times of the city and people of Toronto. Later, he was inspired by the French Impressionists to capture with paint the effects of light and weather, particularly in winter, in urban settings, especially New York City.

Termed a radical in his early career, rather than being inspired by his friends and contemporaries in the Group of Seven, Sheppard looked to New York painters of the urban and industrial scenes for inspiration. He was a forceful painter of urban development which he interpreted as a metaphor of national growth and resilience during World War I.

He was skilled at drawing and painting the city, capturing the dynamism of urban life, but he also traveled into the woods and wilderness of Ontario, much like the Group of Seven, to paint scenes of woods and waterfalls.

Although he was widely exhibited in national and important international exhibitions of Canadian art in his early career, over the course of the last century Sheppard has fallen into the shadow cast by the Group of Seven. From occupying a place among a generation of artists who established a national school, he died in relative obscurity.

This book casts light on a unique talent, an artist of his times, whose art matched the quality of the Group, but found inspiration beyond the sources that inspired his more famous contemporaries. This book is the culmination of a 30-year effort to bring Sheppard's name and art to its rightful place in this country's art history.

Peter Lindbergh
Peter Lindbergh Assouline
Although he’s most widely known for his artistic vision of the fashion world, Peter Lindbergh is also a science fiction nut. This fun and fantastic collection of rarely seen photos demonstrates Lindbergh’s flair for the dramatic, the weird, and the downright spooky. These images of aliens and explosions, flying saucers and dumbstruck models venture into the realm of film and pop art, but they are every bit as glamorous as his fashion work. From UFOs over a modern city and frightened figures wrapped in mist, to an elegant couple witnessing a desert explosion and their capture by extraterrestials, Lindbergh’s attention to detail, his sophisticated sense of irony, as well as his wit and charm make these colorful explosive photos a dynamic addition to an already brilliant career.

Photobiography
Cecil Beaton Odham
"Cecil Beaton, internationally famous as one of the finest photographic artists of the day, presents, for the first time, a full and intimate account of his crowded and successful twenty-five years' career."

The Photographic Art of Hoyningen-Huene
William A. Ewing George Hoyningen-Huene Fashion Design Thames & Hudson
George Hoyningen-Huene was born into the privileged world of the Russian aristocracy at the turn of the century. In Paris, as a refugee from the Revolution, he worked for Vogue, first as an illustrator and then as a supremely successful fashion photographer. Confidently, even imperiously, he created unprecedented images of perfect elegance by means of models, clothes, and, above all, the manipulation of light. Moving in the 1930s to Harper's Bazaar, he extended his range to portraiture and travel, capturing artists, composers, Hollywood stars, and the landscapes of Africa, Greece, Egypt, and Mexico in timeless visions of classical harmony. Two hundred and twenty-five superbly reproduced color and duotone illustrations display the full range of Hoyningen-Huene's talent. They have been chosen by William A. Ewing, Director of the Muse de l'Elyse in Lausanne, who also provides an account of the photographer's career, drawing extensively on his unpublished memoirs. He shows how Hoyningen-Huene's style and techniques were shaped by his aristocratic upbringing, by his collaboration with Man Ray, by his intimate contacts with the artistic milieu of 1920s Paris, and by the influence of the photographers Edward Steichen and Baron de Meyer. Little-known aspects of his life, such as his work in Hollywood as color coordinator for George Cukor, are discussed. The text concludes with a survey of his importance for photographers as diverse and distinguished as Avedon, Penn, and Horst.

Photographing Arizona
Lawrence W. Cheek Arizona Highways

The Photography Book
Editors of Phaidon Press Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Phaidon Press
The concept for this book is simple: 500 photographers, 500 pages. Arranged alphabetically, each of the photographers--from contemporary Dutch cameraman Hans Aarsman to mid-century New York shutterbug James Van Der Zee--gets a full, oversized page. On it is a large, expertly reproduced image and a concise caption packed with information about the photographer and his or her work. The coincidental alignment of photos of different eras and aesthetic sensibilities provides unusual and exciting contrasts that add an extra dimension to readers' perception of the work. Rineke Dijkstra's color-saturated shot of a bikini-clad beachgoer in South Carolina faces a Mike Disfarmer portrait of a rural Arkansas couple in 1943. Imogen Cunningham's inimitable Nude is here, along with a more surprising image--My Mother, Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, a color-photo collage by painter David Hockney. With iconic photographs like Alfred Eisenstaedt's shot of a sailor and a nurse kissing in Times Square on V-J Day, historic ones like Larry Burrows's shot of wounded U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, and pop images like David LaChapelle's picture of a bodybuilder posing amid a cluster of little boys aping his stance, the scope of this visual encyclopedia is truly epic. And with its incredibly low price tag, there's no better value out there for fans of photography.

The Photography of John Gutmann: Culture Shock
Sandra Phillips Arts & Photography Merrell Publishers
John Gutmann's immigration to the United States was so monumental in that the images he brought forth of normal occurances in this country, were largely ingored by his colleges- thus, his pictures are not the carbon copy variety of say Ansel Adams. This book is fanastic, excellent tonality, and is even greater when viewing the actual exhibit. I recommend Culture Shock to everyone whose ever had an interest in urban/1930 photography. Gripping to say the least.

Photorealism
Louis K. Meisel History Abradale/Abrams
A survey of modern paintings, whose disconcerting fidelity to life prompts a reexamination of common, everyday sights that are taken for granted

Pilgrim
Richard Gere Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Bulfinch Press
Richard Gere has pursued and developed an interest in photography since childhood. This is a volume of the photographs he has taken in the last 15 years of his friendship with and study under the Dalai Lama. They document his trips through India, Nepal and Tibet, and his own spiritual journey.

Please don't smile
Frank Horvat Hatje Cantz
Excelling in numerous genres, Frank Horvat (born 1928) likes to transgress boundaries, and he does not worry about the conventions of the genre in his fashion photographs: as early as the 1950s, he was going out onto the street, brazenly positioning a model in the middle of a vegetable market (1959) for Jours de France, or, shortly afterwards, experimenting with bold cropping or humorous film quotation. In doing so, Horvat mostly dispenses with artificial light and shoots many of his fantastic pictures with a 35mm Leica from the hip, so to speak. He works for Elle, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and other major magazines, with famous models and celebrities, and he is the first photographer ever to use Photoshop for his work. Respect for the portrayed women and palpable endearment distinguish Horvat’s sensual, elegant pictures from those by all other photographers on the fashion scene.

Poiret (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
Andrew Bolton Harold Koda Fashion and Photography Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the annals of fashion history, French couturier Paul Poiret (1879–1944) is known for liberating women from corsets and introducing pantaloons into their wardrobes. However, it is Poiret’s remarkable innovations in the cut and construction of clothing, made all the more remarkable by the fact that he could not sew, that secures his legacy.
This essential book is the first to explore Poiret’s radical modernity from a number of perspectives. Essays by renowned scholars describe the historical context of his work; its relation to the dominant artistic discourses of the early 20th century; his muse, Denise Poiret, and her influence on his work; and his role in the paradigmatic shift to a new ideal of feminine beauty. Poiret’s entrepreneurship, his creation of an atelier to extend his influence beyond fashion to the art de vivre, and his relationship to the workshops of the Wiener Werkstatte are also discussed.
Poiret’s innovative creations are represented by colorful pochoirs (stencils), personal photographs from the Poiret family archives, and newly commissioned photographs of Poiret’s masterworks

Portrait of France (Travel Portraits)
Lee Server Guidebooks New Line Books
Armchair travelers and globetrotters alike will appreciate these lavishly illustrated, informative volumes which will rekindle old memories and inspire new flights of fancy.

Here is the essence of France -- the turmoil of its history, the richness of its culture, and the beauty of its countryside.

Portraits of Love: Great Romannces of the 20th Century
Editors of Premiere Magazine Entertainment Filipacchi

Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film
Susan Tumarkin Goodman
A fascinating account of the avant-garde photo-based arts from the early Soviet Union, featuring many previously unpublished images

Finalist for a 2015 National Jewish Book Award in the Visual Arts category

Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist photojournalism of Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson, Soviet photographers were not only in the vanguard of style and technological innovation but also radical in their integration of art and politics. Filmmakers such as Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Esfir Shub pioneered cinematic techniques for works intended to mobilize viewers.

Covering the period from the Revolution to the beginning of World War II, The Power of Pictures considers Soviet avant-garde photography and film in the context of political history and culture. Three essays trace this generation of artists, their experiments with new media, and their pursuit of a new political order. A wealth of stunning photographs, film stills, and film posters, as well as magazine and book designs, demonstrate that their output encompassed a spectacular range of style, content, and perspective, and an extraordinary sense of the power of the photograph to change the world.

Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York

Princeton
Robert Gambee W. W. Norton & Company
Briefly outlines the town's history and shows and describes the Princeton University campus, and churches, important businesses, and historic homes in the area

The private experience, Elliott Erwitt (Masters of Contemporary Photography)
Sean Callahan Thames and Hudson
From the Masters of Contemporary Photography Series, subtitled: Personal Insights of a Professional Photographer. 96 pages; profusely illustrated with b&w and four-color plates; 8.5 x 11 inches. Includes a section on technical details and films.

The Queen's People
Izis Bidermanas The Harvill Press

The Quiet Hours: City Photographs
Mike Melman Bill Holm Architectural University of Minnesota Press
A milling district along the Mississippi River. A railroad bridge on Washington Avenue. Jim's Hamburgers in Duluth. A spiral staircase in the Schmidt Brewery. These are the spaces that capture the moods of Minnesota's prewar era. These are the everyday places where ordinary people lived and worked. These are the images that show us the remnants of a city's past.
In The Quiet Hours, Mike Melman records a vanishing era of Minnesota's towns and cities through a series of seventy black-and-white photographs taken from 1985 to 2002. Working in the half-light of predawn hours, Melman brings a new perspective to familiar places, one shaped by his training as an architect and his particular affinity for old buildings. Melman's atmospheric photographs give us insight into the bygone life of a city where we had not thought to look for one before.
In his essay, Bill Holm compares Melman's work to that of Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg, artists who embrace and celebrate the urban experience. Holm writes, "These photographs take us a long way toward an understanding of that mighty heart of a city. . . . These are very American pictures in their stubbornness, their integrity, and their dogged affection for the working-class life buried inside them."
Through his artistic and historic images, Melman exposes the speed at which American cities change and presents a gritty yet contemplative portrait of urban Minnesota.
Mike Melman's photographs have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in the Twin Cities and have appeared in Architecture Minnesota and Minnesota History.
Bill Holm is a poet and essayist living in Minneota, Minnesota. Among his recent books are Eccentric Islands: Travels Real and Imaginary (2000) and The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth: Minneota, Minnesota (1996).

R. G. Smith: The Man and His Art: an Autobiography
R. G. Smith, Rosario Rausa Art, Biography & Autobiography, Transportation, Aviation, History Schiffer Publishing, Limited
R.G. Smith began his career as an engineer for Douglas Aircraft Company in the 1930s, and played a key role in the design of many successful tactical airplanes and along the way developed world-class skills as an artist. In this autobiography, "R.G." describes his transition from helping design tactical aircraft to painting them in such compelling and dramatically beautiful fashion that he earned a worldwide reputation as one fo the most skilled and admired aviation artists of all time. This book features over 140 of his best paintings, drawings and sketches, and includes an excellent sampling of his non-aviation art depicting landscape, harbor and other scenes from the far west.

Railway Masterpieces
Brian Solomon Pictorial Krause Publications
Travel the world through the pages of this unique pictorial capturing some of the most impressive, significant, and interesting elements of railroading from today and yesterday. Lush photos are accompanied by informative and fascinating stories that convey the energy and excitement of steel-rail transport.
Locomotives, trains, stations, bridges, tunnels, and other railway masterpieces are richly displayed, accompanied by technical details and distinctive perspectives. American railroading takes center stage in this volume—including Grand Central Terminal, the Pioneer Zephyr and Moffat Tunnel—but readers will also experience the best the world offers: Britain's Flying Scotsman, the Japanese Shinkansen, Finland's Helsinki Station, and more.
Solomon is a leading world railroad photographer and writer. He has co-authored more than ten books and has studied railway operations in more than a dozen countries. The book draws from his 100,000+-image collection, plus features the photographic work of such notables as Otto Perry, Jim Shaughnessy, Colin Garratt, John Gruber, and many others.
• Lush photos of current and historical trains, bridges, stations, and more
• Feature stories tell the tale behind each masterpiece
• Author is respected railway expert, photographer, and writer

Ray K. Metzker: Landscapes
Ray K. Metzker Aperture
One of the most inventive American photographers of the postwar era, Ray K. Metzker has startled and delighted viewers with his images for the past forty years. Ray K. Metzker: Landscapes collects the landscape images that Metzker has made throughout his career. The majority of the work in this volume dates from the last fifteen years, during which period Metzker has made many innovations and stretched the meaning and importance of the term "landscape" with images ranging in style from the traditional to the surreal.

Real Chicago
Richard Cahan, Michael Williams, Neal Samors Chicago's Neighborhoods, Inc.
"Real Chicago: Photographs from the Files of the Chicago Sun-Times" is an artistic and historical look at Chicago since 1940 based on photographs from the files of the Chicago Sun-Times. The book includes 250 duotone, black and white photographs, and an introduction by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Roger Ebert

Regina Relang: The Elegant World Of Regina Relang
Esther Ruelfs Arts & Photography Hatje Cantz Publishers
Description: The Elegant World of Regina Relang is just that, an enchanting volume of pictures presenting a whirlwind tour through the entrancing world of haute couture that the late German photographer recorded throughout the mid-20th century. One hundred and sixty of the best original images from Relang's estate follow the lady shutterbug's eye as she worked the Paris fashion shows from her first days at Vogue in 1938 through to her rise as one of the leading fashion photographers of the 50s and 60s. Her spectacular images of the most forward, fashionable styles were featured twice a year in all of the major German fashion journals, for whom she represented the essence of the catwalk-shooting genre. This handsomely illustrated volume reproduces fine vintage prints from Relang's early reportage career and from the height of her days as a documenter of style, while also providing valuable insight into the historical background of her work. The Elegant World of Regina Relang chronicles the changing fashions of Christian Dior, Pierre Cardin, and Yves Saint-Laurent, among other arbiters of la mode, while also tracing the transformation of the image of woman through the mid-20th century.

Richard Avedon Portraits
Maria Morris Hambourg Mia Fineman Richard Avedon Philippe de Montebello Photo Essays Harry N. Abrams
For over 50 years, Richard Avedon (b. 1923) has captured the creative genius of our time with dazzling insight and incomparable style. Spanning the artist's entire career, from the late 1940s through his most recent work, Richard Avedon Portraits offers a superb selection of his photographic portraits.
With uncompromising directness, Avedon portrayed his subjects against a white background, with no extraneous details to distract from the essential specificity of face, gaze, dress, and gesture. This challenging innovation, coupled with the artist's intense interest in his subjects and mastery of his craft, resulted in mesmerizing portraits-among them Truman Capote, Willem de Kooning, Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon, and Marilyn Monroe, as well as the uncelebrated Americans of his project, "In the American West"-that rival the greatest works in the portrait tradition.
Richard Avedon Portraits is published to accompany a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. With its innovative accordion-style design and superb reproductions, the book is a virtual stand-alone mini-exhibition in its own right.

Rico Puhlmann a Fashion Legacy: Photographs and Illustrations 1955-1996
Adelheid Rasche William A. Ewing Arts & Photography Merrell Publishers
A lavishly illustrated retrospective of one of the greatest international fashion photographers. From the 1950s until his death in the crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996, Puhlmann worked with most of the top models, stylists and designers in the fashion industry. Features arresting portraits of Isabella Rossellini, Cindy Crawford, Cheryl Tiegs, Mel Gibson, Calvin Klein, Jerry Hall, Naomi Sims and many others.

River of Colour
Raghubir Singh Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Phaidon Press
This is a retrospective view, since the mid-1960s, of the work of Raghubir Singh, one of India's greatest photographers. Published to mark the occasion of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, it contains images of India, with an introduction by Singh and quotations by India's best-known writers. Since the 1960s, Singh has roamed far and wide across the vast expanses of India, from the source of the Ganges and the ghats of Benares, to Bombay and the Himalayas. In his introduction, he explains what India means to him - focusing in particular on colour. Arranged in 11 thematic sections, the images capture the sights and smells of streetlife, monuments and pilgrims to create a comprehensive picture of daily life in India.

Riviera Cocktail
Arts & Photography teNeues
The French Riviera of the Fifties was an exciting place with much change in the air. Rock and roll and the bikini, existentialism and the atom bomb. Edward Quinn chronicled a playground that was influenced by international trends, but very much its own universe. On the Riviera every night was a party...

Robert Capa: Photographs (Aperture Monograph)
Richard Whelan Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Aperture
Robert Capa, whose images of the Spanish Civil War brought home the hideous suffering of that conflict and brought Capa international fame, is the 20th century's most accomplished photographer of warfare. This collection of Capa's work demonstrates that he was more than a war photographer: he was a master of depicting ordinary life in extraordinary circumstances. The volume includes an essay by Cornell Capa, the photographer's brother and the founder of the International Center for Photography, as well as a foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Robert Capa: The Paris Years 1933-54
Michel Lefebvre Bernard Lebrun Arts & Photography Harry N. Abrams
Robert Capa, the most celebrated photojournalist of the 20th century and a founder of Magnum Photos, used Paris as a global platform for his photog­raphy throughout his career. "Robert Capa: The Paris Years 1933–1954" tells Capa’s story by focusing on his Paris studio.
Recently many artifacts have surfaced, including the so-called “Mexican suitcase,” which contained Capa’s Spanish civil war negatives. These newly discovered documents, which were either created in or found in his Paris studio, are featured in the book.
With original textual analysis and both rare and renowned images, "Robert Capa" offers a newly informed, fresh look into the life of this revered photographer.

Praise for "Robert Capa": "Historians and photographers alike will be rewarded by the authors' excellent blend of narration and academic analysis, coupled with a generous helping of groundbreaking photos, many of which have never been published before." —"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)

Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting
Jennifer Cohen, Monica McTighe, Simon Kelly, Sarah Rich Art, Individual Artists, Monographs, Techniques, Painting Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Company KG
A new definitive overview of the founding Abstract Expressionist celebrated for his "Elegies to the Spanish Republic"

Famously the most politicized and intellectual of the Abstract Expressionists, Robert Motherwell (1915-91) evolved a form of austere gesturalism reflective of both the human psyche and the political realm. "Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting" offers an in-depth exploration of his oeuvre--the first publication to do so in many years. Leading art scholars Jennifer Cohen, Susan Davidson, Simon Kelly, Monica McTighe and Sarah Rich examine Motherwell's turn from Surrealism to abstraction and consider the major series that developed over his 50-year career. The catalog also studies the dialogue between Motherwell's art and the 19th-century French painting tradition, and investigates his relationship to Spanish painting techniques and processes, with an emphasis on underlying political significance of this relationship (as expressed in his great series "Elegies to the Spanish Republic"). Another section looks at Motherwell's unique use of ocher pigment, with its evocation of deep geological time and of avant-garde strategies.

Robert Weingarten: 6:30 A.M.
Arts & Photography Hatje Cantz Publishers
For an entire year--whenever he was at home--Robert Weingarten photographed the view from his bedroom window overlooking Santa Monica Bay each morning just after dawn. Every shot was taken from the same camera position, using the same lens, and focusing on the same frame of view, yet the reduced motif has a different look in every one of the atmospheric photographs reproduced here. The small sliver of land between Santa Monica Beach, Los Angeles International Airport, and the ocean undergoes amazing transformations under the influences of the changing seasons, weather, and visibility conditions. In a formal sense, Weingarten's magnificent, vividly colored images are reminiscent of Abstract Realism paintings. These systematic, focused observations of nature in the tradition of Claude Monet prompt viewers to stop and consider what wonders they may have passed by without really looking.

Roger Mayne: Photographs
R. Mayne Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Jonathan Cape
For three days in 1956, Roger Mayne photographed the children and the street life of Southam Street in North Kensington, London. This became his stalking ground for five years, resulting in one of the great social documents of a vanished age. This book is the first presentation of the whole range of Mayne’s work.

Route 66
Gerd Kittel Alexander Bloom Freddy Langer Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Thames & Hudson
The road that became known as Route 66 holds a unique place in American popular culture. Unlike any other road in world history, this modest two-lane highway has taken on cult status, bound up with American nostalgia for a past in which life was far less complex and mechanized than it has become at the turn of the twenty-first century. Inaugurated by a group of businessmen in the 1920s, at a time when the automobile was rapidly becoming the main preference for family vacation travel, Route 66's lifespan was short—less than fifty years—but its mythology lives on. Before the advent of interstate superhighways, Route 66 was the main road to the American West, where, it was believed, opportunity and success were waiting. While Alexander Bloom and Freddy Langer relate the curious history of Route 66 in detail, it is Gerd Kittel's extraordinary photographs that tell the story of the road as it is now. Wistful, brutal, and beautiful at the same time, they show what has become of a once powerful symbol of American hopes and pleasures: the wrecks of abandoned automobiles, the deserted diners and souvenir shops, the battered remnants of silos and warehouses, derelict towns, surviving personalities and buildings, as well as some of the views the road offers as it passes through eight states between Chicago and the Pacific Ocean. Anyone who has ever been aware of Route 66—if only from the hit song by Bobby Troup or the television series of the 1960s—will find much to treasure in Gerd Kittel's moving photographs. 83 color photographs.

Russian Journal 1965-1990
Inge Morath Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Aperture Book
An acclaimed photographer's images and the words of Russia's foremost writers combine in an intimate record of the contemporary Russian experience: an intractable culture in the throes of irrevocable change. 30 color and 70 black-and-white photographs.

Sacred Ground: The Cemeteries of New Orleans (stunning duotone photographs of New Orleans legendary cemeteries)
Robert S. Brantley Photography, Subjects & Themes, Regional, Travel, United States, South, West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX) Princeton Architectural Press
Sacred Ground is a sumptuous photographic portrait of New Orleans's legendary cemeteries. Robert S. Brantley celebrates the otherworldly landscapes, intricate ironwork, evocative memorials, and stately monuments as vibrant sites of remembrance. New Orleans history is further revealed through biographies of twenty individuals whose grave sites are among those featured, including entrepreneurs, celebrated musicians, a world-class violin maker, an ex-slave turned minister, a ship's captain, and a young soldier felled by Spanish flu while in basic training for World War I. The rich duotone photographs, organized by cemetery, are followed by an index identifying the tombs and their iconography; an introduction by S. Frederick Starr provides background on New Orleans cemetery history, culture, and burial customs. Sacred Ground provides a stunning exploration of the traditions born of New Orleans's unique religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity.

Sam Abell:The Photographic Life
Leah Bendavid-Val Arts & Photography Rizzoli International Publications
Celebrated photographer Sam Abell has been a mainstay in the landscape photography and photojournalism worlds for decades. Immensely well-known and popular among photography students and amateur photographers alike, Abell's signature landscape photography has graced the pages of such magazines as "National Geographic" and "Popular Photography". "Sam Abell: The Photographic Life" is an unprecedented look at the life and work of this artist's photographic process and reveals much about the relationship between art and life through the teachings that make him so sought after by photography students. This elegant book contains photography by Abell and such ephemera as postcards and invitations-most previously unpublished-that detail the inspiration for and influences on his photography. This a perfect gift book for lovers of photography.

This book coincides with a major traveling retrospective that opens in fall 2002 at the Bayly Museum of Art, Charlottesville, the artist's hometown. The exhibit travels to the Toledo Museum of Art and the George Eastman House.

Sam Shaw : a personal point of view
Sam Shaw Criticism, etc, interpretation Hatje Cantz
Charming photographs of cinematic icons Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Marilyn Monroe and countless others.

San Francisco - Photographs by Santi Visalli
Kevin Starr Universe

Sargent: The Masterworks
Stephanie L. Herdrich Art, Individual Artists, Monographs, Techniques, Oil Painting, American Rizzoli
A lush new volume devoted to the best works by beloved American Impressionist and portraitist John Singer Sargent, whose dazzling use of light and color depicts modern subjects with arresting intimacy.

An ideal introduction to the painter’s work, "Sargent: The Masterworks" features 100 of his most beloved paintings. Illustrating all aspects of his diverse oeuvre—portraits, landscapes, mural commissions—in oil and watercolor, this handsome new book includes works from both private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s infamous "Madame X".

Author Stephanie L. Herdrich draws on a wealth of new research to provide both an essential overview and a more nuanced understanding of the great American painter. Richly illustrated, the book’s three chapters cover the artist’s career from his childhood and early years in Paris, to his mid-career portraits made in England and United States, and his later years painting out of doors. An illustrated chronology contains fascinating details and archival imagery about the artist’s life. Sargent’s cosmopolitan upbringing and education made him perfectly suited to capture the upwardly mobile bourgeoisie and aristocrats of his era, creating sensual portraits that depict his sitters with startling vibrancy. Though he achieved tremendous success in portraiture, Sargent focused on painting outdoors after 1900, achieving the most brilliant and personal images of his career. One of the greatest portraitists and watercolorists of his time, Sargent remains one of the most well-known and well-loved of all American artists.

Saul Leiter: Early Color
Martin Harrison Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Steidl/Howard Greenberg Gallery
Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter's color photographs at The Museum of Modern Art in 1953, for 40 years afterward they remained virtually unknown to the art world. Saul Leiter: Early Color provides the first opportunity to see a comprehensive presentation of images by one of photography's great originals. Leiter moved to New York in 1946 intending to be a painter, but through his friendship with the Abstract Expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart, he quickly recognized the creative potential of photography. Though he continued to paint, exhibiting alongside Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning, Leiter's camera became--like an extension of his arm and mind--an ever-present interpreter of life in the metropolis. He sought out moments of quiet humanity in the Manhattan maelstrom, forging a unique urban pastoral from the most unlikely of circumstances. The lyricism and intensity of his vision come into fullest play in his eloquent handling of color unequaled by his contemporaries. Leiter's visual language of fragmentation, ambiguity, and contingency is evoked by these 100 subtle, painterly images that stretched the boundaries of photography in the second half of the 20th century.

Scavullo Nudes
Leddick David Erotic Photography Harry N. Abrams
Francesco Scavullo is one of the leading image-makers of the last half century-a photographer whose celebrity portraits and glamorous fashion work helped create the look of an entire era. Along the way, he has also shot many nudes-striking, sensuous images that are inimitably Scavullo. Now, for the first time, a group of these nudes are presented in one stunningly designed volume.
Scavullo's subjects include both men and women and range from supermodels (Linda Evangelista, Stephanie Seymour, Jerry Hall) and movie stars (Rene Russo, Sylvia Miles) to dancers, musicians, denizens of the demimonde, and personal friends of the photographer. Affordably priced yet glamorous, this book will be irresistible for anyone attuned to fame, fashion, and the human form.
100 illustrations, 6 x 8 1/2"
FRANCESCO SCAVULLO's images have appeared on movie posters, albums, and the covers of Rolling Stone, LIFE, Time, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Mademoiselle, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan, among other magazines. His work has been collected in five books, including, most recently, Abrams' Scavullo: Photographs, 50 Years.
DAVID LEDDICK is the author of several books, including The Male Nude and three novels. He lives in Miami Beach and in France.

Scotland
Colin Baxter Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Voyageur Press
In this personal portfolio of photographs, Colin Baxter shares some of the best moments he has captured during nearly twenty years of photographing Scotland's ever-changing panoramas.

Seasons of Yellowstone: Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
Thomas G, Mangelsen, Jane Goodall, et.al.
Established in 1872, Yellowstone is America’s first national park and sits at the heart of the only remaining region in the Lower 48 states that contains all of the free-roaming, iconic mammals on the continent: wolves, elk, bison, grizzlies, and countless species of birds. This is North America’s equivalent of the African Serengeti.

For the park’s 150th anniversary, Mangelsen has opened his vault of stunning photographs from every corner of the 2.2 million acres that make up Yellowstone and the adjacent Grand Teton. Visit such awesome national treasures as Yellowstone Lake, Old Faithful, the Snake and Yellowstone Rivers, and the wide plains of the Lamar Valley.

Seeing Gardens
Sam Abell Professional & Technical National Geographic
At the heart of every garden lies an idea; the greatest gardens represent not just nature's beauty but the clear vision of a gifted artist. The same is true of an inspired garden book.
To capture the essence of a garden demands both a keen eye and a subtle sensibility, the hallmark qualities of Sam Abell's acclaimed photography. Not for nothing is this volume entitled "Seeing Gardens," for its landmark images have as much to tell us about "how" we see as "what" we see. To Abell, a scatter of pears ripening on a Moscow windowsill evokes an orchard just as surely as his portrait of a 600-year-old Japanese garden summons up an ancient tradition of artfully cultivated wildness. Each pebble, pond and twisted pine in that garden is carefully placed to create an idea of unstudied nature as resonant as reality itself.
As befits a book that melds two visual arts, "Seeing Gardens" lets its 150 pictures speak for themselves with a spare text that offers context rather than commentary. The book is at once thoughtful and elegant, and the anecdotes, recollections and aesthetic philosophy amount to a brief but telling memoir of Abell's three decades of interpreting gardens. His photographs include planned gardens in a variety of cultural settings; found gardens, created by nature but given form by the artist's frame; and the many allusions to gardens in daily life. Whether in the pruned symmetry of a line of plane trees along Lake Como's shores, the pristine shape of a wild water lily in the blackwater mirror of the Okeefenokee Swamp, or the leafy print of a vivid floral fabric, Abell discovers gardens everywhere. The gift of this book is the gift of seeing gardens in a new, intimate and involving way.

Seizing Beauty
Paulette Tavormina
In her sumptuous photographic still lifes replete with flora, food, and artifacts, Paulette Tavormina creates intensely personal interpretations of timeless tableaux. With a painterly perspective reminiscent of Old Masters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Adriaen Coorte, and Giovanna Garzoni, Tavormina’s meticulously orchestrated and lit photographs are boldly contemporary in their precision.

Paulette Tavormina: Seizing Beauty presents the full array of her seductive and opulent still life series, heirs to the legacy of a cherished art tradition now seen through the lens of photography. Essays by art and photography scholars Silvia Malaguzzi, Mark Alice Durant, and Anke Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven delve into the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources of Tavormina’s inspiration, her stance in art photography, and how the conventions of yesterday’s painting can transform to make visually stunning photographic art for today.

Sicily
Donatella Trotta Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Universe Publishing
Sicilycaptures the spectacular beauty of this tiny island that many consider to be the true heart of Mediterranean history and culture. Conquered by Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Normans, Turks, and others, modern Sicily is a fascinating mosaic of its past that remains relatively unknown and shrouded in mystery. Rosario Bonavoglia has spent years documenting the sites, monuments, festivals, landscapes, and faces of this extraordinarily charismatic place.

Sisters Under the Skin
Norman Parkinson Arts & Photography ST MARTINS PRESS @
Norman Parkinson pictures

Sittings, 1979-83
Antony Armstrong-Jones Snowdon Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Tony Armstrong-Jones portraits

The Sixth River
Fikr Taunsvi
‘Deftly combining social satire with political critique, Taunsvi anticipates Manto’s Partition fiction, written after 1948… The Sixth River is a most welcome addition to the burgeoning personal narratives on Punjab’s and India’s partition.’ —Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts University

The Partition of India in 1947 left millions displaced amidst indiscriminate murders, rapes and looting. The Sixth River, originally published as Chhata Darya, is an extraordinary first-person account of that violent time.

Born Ram Lal Bhatia in the town of Taunsa Sharif, then in the Punjab, Fikr Taunsvi left for the cosmopolitan city of Lahore in the 1930s. Here he worked with various newspapers, wrote poetry and articles, and became a part of the intellectual circle. But when independence was announced, Fikr was faced with a new reality—of being a Hindu in his beloved city, now in Pakistan.

The Sixth River is the journal Fikr wrote from August to November 1947 as Lahore disintegrated around him. Fikr is angry at the shortsightedness and ineptness of Radcliffe, Nehru, Gandhi and Jinnah. In the company of likeminded friends such as Sahir Ludhianvi, he mourns the loss of the art and culture of Lahore in the bloodlust and deluded euphoria of freedom; and derides the newly converted, who adopted stereotypical religious symbols. He is bewildered when old friends suddenly turn staunch nationalists and advise him to either convert or leave the country. And the deep, unspeakable trauma millions faced during Partition reaches Fikr’s doorstep when his neighbour murders his daughter, and when he is eventually forced to migrate to Amritsar in India.

Powerful, ironic and deeply harrowing, The Sixth River is an invaluable account of the Partition. This brilliant translation by Maaz Bin Bilal makes the classic available in English for the first time.

Skrebneski Portraits: A Matter of Record
Victor Skrebneski DoubleDay
Anyone interested in photography as an art form would be well-rewarded by buying this book.
Mr. Skrebneski is a master photographer, a very unique artist, whose work I have loved my entire life.
This man is truly in full command of his art. This book's subjects are at the height of their allure, particularly Diana Ross, Candice Bergin, Estee Lauder, Barishnikov, amongst others. I was fortunate enough to get a signed copy. In the book's forward, Mr. Skrebneski reveals the subtext to his work:silent films. The flattery gained by being photographed by him within the photography world is eternal and sterling. In the 21st Century, you can't place a price tag on that.
If you love the art of photography, this is the book for which coffee tables were made.

Slim Aarons: Once Upon a Time
Slim Aarons Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Harry N. Abrams
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons has established his place in the pantheon of great postwar photographers. It was Aarons who perfected, if not invented, the environmental portrait while photographing the international elite in their exclusive playgrounds during the jet-set decades of the '50s, '60s, and '70s, carrying out his self-described mission: to document "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
This luxurious book is the ultimate insider's view of the lifestyles of the wealthy, privileged, and powerful. Aarons's first book in nearly 30 years (his long-out-of-print A Wonderful Time is a collector's item fetching more than $1,000 a copy) is an eagerly anticipated publishing event. Presenting Hollywood royalty, European aristocracy, the grande dames of high society, captains of industry, media moguls, statesmen, and luminaries of various stripes, across a vast geography of opulent and glamorous settings, Slim Aarons's photographs-some 250 of which are included here-define the Beautiful People and document a lost era of style, grace, and grandeur.

Solitude of Ravens
Masahisa Fukase Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Chronicle Books
If you're reading this on Amazon, you've probably read or heard about the great rare 1986 hardcover book Karasu (Ravens) in Japanese and English by Masahisa Fukase that costs several thousand dollars, and you're probably wondering if it's worth shelling out several hundred dollars for this 1991 out-of-print paperback reprint in English.* The short answer is "Yes, But You Should Ignore the Words 'The Solitude Of' in the Title."

A longer answer follows. The 1986 first edition in Japanese and English is mentioned in books on Amazon such as these: Photography Now by Mark Haworth-Booth (1989) , Beyond Japan: A Photo Theatre by Mark Holborn (1991) , The Photobook: A History, Vol. 1 by Parr & Badger (2004) , and Setting Sun: Writings By Japanese Photographers by Ivan Vartanian (2005) . It is also mentioned in articles such as "Ravens tops all photobooks in BJP poll" and "Masahisa Fukase - 350MC Research notes."

Comparing the 1986 and 1991 editions, you would find that the odd-numbered pages between 3 and 125 with 62 black-and-white photographs are virtually identical. The page size is about 10x10 inches. All the photos except the last one are printed full bleed to the right edge with 1.5" white borders at top and bottom; the last photo, showing the back of a man in a city street, has 2.5"-3" white margins all around. The quality of the paper and of the printing is quite similar (see Customer Image). I would characterize all the differences between the 1986 and 1991 editions as either unrelated to the photos or as minor.**

Nevertheless, there is one important difference related to the photos between 1986 and 1991: the title. The addition of the three words "The Solitude Of" in 1991, probably due to the afterword by Akira Hasegawa which mentions "solitude" several times, gives the impression that the book should be interpreted in a certain way. But I agree with a 2009 paper, " 'Becoming a Raven': Self-Representation, Narration, and Metaphor in Fukase Masahisa's 'Karasu' Photographs" by Philip Charrier, that claims that the series of photos is "more than a creative expression of the pain of lost love, or a symbolic representation of the experience of loneliness or sorrow." Instead, the book has multiple potential meanings. For example, one might feel that it contemplates humankind's relationship with nature. The blurry images on pages 17-27 might show what a raven might see while flying; the single dead ravens on pages 37, 41, and 49 might represent a normal part of life; the gulls and cormorants on pages 21, 31, and 93 might symbolize natural competition; and the smokestacks on pages 57-61 and trash on pages 121-125 might allude to humans' destruction of the environment. The original title "Ravens" leaves more to the imagination and should have been used in this reprint as well. Buy this from Amazon.com sellers!

* I have not seen the out-of-print hardcover 2008 reprint by Tokyo's Rat Hole Gallery entitled "The Solitude Of Ravens" whose price on the secondary market is between the 1986 and 1991 versions, but the photographs inside look similar to the 1986 and 1991 versions based on another site's "BookTease" function.

** Although the 1986 copy I examined lacked the cardboard slipcase, glassine dust jacket, and caption page described elsewhere on the Web, here are the differences I detected between the 1986 and 1991 books themselves: (a) The front cover illustration is a single raven (like the photo on page 3) that is debossed on black background in 1986, but a flock of ravens in the sky (crop of photo on page 9) with title & author at bottom in 1991. (b) The back cover shows a debossed raven in 1986, but is solid black with ISBN in 1991. (c) The spine has debossed barely-legible text in 1986, but white-on-black English text in 1991. (d) The paperback's flaps with "blurbs" are present only in 1991. (e) The pastedown endpapers are black in 1986, but the inside covers are grey in 1991. (f) The flyleaves (free end papers) are black in 1986, but absent in 1991. (g) All text (e.g., on the title page) is given in Japanese and English in 1986, but in English only in 1991. (h) The pages facing the photos have no numbers and are white, except for what would be page 2 being black and would be page 124 being grey in 1986 and 1991, and what would be page 122 being black in 1991 only. (i) An "introductory note" by David Travis entitled "Fukase's Face and Photographs" is present on pages 127-128 of 1991 only. (j) An afterword by Akira Hasegawa is found on pages 127-130 of 1986 in Japanese and English, but on pages 129-130 of 1991 in English only. (k) The final unnumbered page of 1986 gives only publication info, but the final page of 1991 gives publication info as well as the location and year of each photograph.

Sonoran Desert
Charles Bowden Arts & Photography Harry N Abrams
The vast Sonoran Desert, which stretches from southern Arizona and southeastern California far into Mexico, offers mysteries aplenty to uninitiated travelers and longtime desert rats alike. Pulitzer prize-winning photographer Jack Dykinga has been wandering its lonelier stretches for years, and the images he conjures up in "The Sonoran Desert" make for a rare and bounteous feast. He has a special fondness for cactus and boojum studded horizons, withered landscapes at high noon, and the arid shores of the Sea of Cortez, and no one has captured the essence of the place quite so well. The text by Charles Bowden, himself a noted desert traveler, is an added attraction to a first-rate collection of photographs.

Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine
Alexander Nemerov Art, History, American, Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Biography & Autobiography, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Photography, Individual Photographers, Monographs, Subjects & Themes, Portraits & Selfies, Historical Princeton University Press
Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874–1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal mines, and factories from Vermont and Massachusetts to Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri. Using his camera as a tool of social activism, Hine had a major influence on the development of documentary photography. But many of his pictures transcend their original purpose. Concentrating on these photographs, Alexander Nemerov reveals the special eeriness of Hine's beautiful and disturbing work as never before. Richly illustrated, the book also includes arresting contemporary photographs by Jason Francisco of the places Hine documented.

"Soulmaker" is a striking new meditation on Hine's photographs. It explores how Hine's children lived in time, even how they might continue to live for all time. Thinking about what the mill would be like after he was gone, after the children were gone, Hine intuited what lives and dies in the second a photograph is made. His photographs seek the beauty, fragility, and terror of moments on earth.

Spirit of Place: The Art of the Traveling Photographer
Bob Krist Reference Amphoto Books
Traveling photographer Bob Krist shows traveling nonprofessional photographers how to bring home memorable pictures of people, festivals, wildlife, archeticture even aerial and underwater shots. Directions are detailed for composing landscapes with a variety of lenses, working in both natural and artificial light. Valuable tips tell how to pack and carry photo equipment, deal with airport and hotel security and prepare for various locations.

Stanley Spener: Looking to Heaven
Stanley Spencer Unicorn Publishing Group
"Hundreds of letters and artist’s notes for an unrealised autobiography are to be published for the first time, shedding new light on the painter more than half a century after his death." ― Guardian

"Stanley Spencer’s private papers shed fresh light on the artist’s early life and experience of war. This exquisitely produced book is a labour of love." ― Sunday Times

"In this, the 125th anniversary of his birth on June 30, 1891, it is right to think again about Spencer, to see beyond wisteria blossom. A volume of Spencer’s letters and jottings, Stanley Spencer: Looking to Heaven, published by the Unicorn Press, offers the opportunity to do so." ― Spectator

“Spencer’s prose lacks the consistency of his painting. It can be tangled and opaque, straggly and shapeless. But it shows at all times the profundity of his artistic vision, and it contains moments of transcendent beauty.” ― Mail on Sunday

"The notable 20th-century artist kept journals throughout his life, containing both his notes and sketches. This is the first of a three-volume illustrated set, publishing his abridged journals for the first time, and giving insights into how he thought and worked." ― The Bookseller

Stealing Beauty
Bernardo Bertolucci Screenplays Grove Press

Steam, Steel and Stars
O.Winston Link Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Late years of steam railway in America - 1955 to 1960 - are documented in this book by American photographer O.Winston Link. The black and white photos taken at night capture the drama and energy of the great trains in action.

Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau
Charles Bowden Jack W. Dykinga Arts & Photography Harry N Abrams
The red-rock, high-desert country of the south-west of the United States is among the most stark and beautiful natural wildernesses remaining in North America. For this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jack W. Dykinga and author Charles Bowden travelled to the Escalente River system and Paria Canyon on the borders of Utah and Arizona to reveal a land endowed with historic and natural gifts, and yet relatively unknown. Hiking through precipitous and parched slick-rock canyons, Dykinga captured brief, brilliant springtime flowerings, rich autumn colour changes, simmering midsummer heat pulsing off variegated canyon walls, and the extraordinary contrasts of early winter snow on deep, red rock. Bowden's narrative recalls wading through icy streams that seasonally slice through narrow clefts, and nights under the stars watching bats wheel overhead. He writes of long-ago Spanish mission fathers, and of Mormon settlers who struggled through the treacherous "hole in the rock" en route to new homesteads south of the Great Salt Lake.

Street Photographs
Juan Buhler Selk Published

Street Smarts
Thomas Pindelski Lulu
The greatest street photography ever, in London and Paris 1973-77.

Studio Portrait Photography: A Guide to Classic Portrait Photography (Pro-Photo)
Jonathan Hilton Portraits Rotovision
I just finished reading this book and anyone without a general understanding of how the basic photographic process works would be a little stumped, because this book does get pretty technical.
On the plus side, it is extremely easy to read and browse thru esp coz some of the work is really very good. My one little qualm with the book was there are a couple of pictures that i wudve lovd to kno the lighting setup for, but tht wasnt demonstrated.. for most of the shots tho, a small briefing abt camera, esposure settings, lighting setup, special techniques and little hints and tips are provided which are very helpful to get to know the essence of shooting the frame. Sum of the work is truly outstanding, tho sumtimes i get the feeling that the lighting setups werent explained very accurately which led me to believe that mebbe the author conjured up the setups on his own without inputs from the original photographers.
overall there are good tips and techniques most of which ud probably know already if u've bin shooting on your own.. and it does tend to get a little repetitive abt certain ideas.. overall tho it is a book i'd recommned anyone interested in portaiture ought to have for the sheer simplicity of presentation and useful ideas you'd glean as you read the book. Since this is a classic portraiture book, dont expect to find radical new age images in it.. a lot of the shots are tastefully done B&W's.. with a good sprinkling of those cross processed fashion ed shots...classic stuff that you'd always use throughout your life shooting people.. this book addresses shooting people from all walks of life of all ages of both sexes for commercial and personal use. Most of the work is studio work with a few daylight and strobes + daylight pics for variety.. so u'd have to have atleast one studio strobe with reflectors to b able to try atleast sum of the shots..
Sum shots have complex light setups.. the lighting diagrams are not as good as the PRO LIGHTING series diagrams from ROTOVISION also.. but then thats a specilised book.. this book offers useful technique that isnt offered in the PRO LIGHTING series.
To conclude i'd just say this is a book that shud be on ur shelf just coz u'll always find sumthing useful from this book for a long time if u shoot people :)



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