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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

States of decay
Daniel Barter Art, Pictorial works Carpet Bombing Culture
A new breed of urban adventurers take a savage ride through the hidden story of America's North East. Join us as we follow two explorers' journey through derelict spaces. From New York City to the infamous Rust Belt, once home to America's heavy industry, 'States of Decay' brings you a glimpse of the broken, the doomed, the entropic dreamlands on the flipside of the silver dollar coin. The morbid counterparts to the modern America that pumps greenbacks from its corporate epicentres though its far reaching veins, nurturing the glossy surfaces. Peer into the recent past as dark histories unfold and their stories are told. Journey into atmospheric asylums, derelict houses of worship, forgotten educational institutions, industrial monoliths, vacant hotels, desolate transport hubs, and other ruins of the 20th century. See them as they stand today. Travel back in time and immerse yourself in the shadows of their past"--Introduction.
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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 :)

Summer Island
Eliot Porter
Excerpt from foreword: "Ther was world enough then, and more time than there is now. Neither has to go and both can return. Not the times and the people whom Eliot Porter remembers here, for their time was a special one, a golden time, and they had room to live in it, room that let human spirit grow- the wide green land, the untroubled shore, a little alabaster here and there, and places no one thought to pave yet that are almost all slipping away now."

The Teds
Chris Steele-Perkins Richard Smith Photo Essays Dewi Lewis Publishing
The Teddy Boys were a flashily dressed, rebellious and sometimes violent youth movement that originated in Britain in the '50s. The three-quarter-length Edwardian jacket with velvet collar, drainpipe trousers and quiff became a focus of male fashion which still holds cult status today. The Teds combines image and text to tell their story-a fascinating tale spanning three decades.
Chris Steele-Perkins is a member of the prestigious Magnum Photos. He has published eight books and exhibited worldwide. His reportages have received high public acclaim and won several awards, including the Tom Hopkinson Prize for British Photojournalism, the Oscar Barnack Prize, the Robert Cappa Gold Medal and a World Press Award.

Terence Cuneo: Railway Painter of the Century
Narisa Chakra New Cavendish Books
Railway paintings

Thomas Eakins
Darrell Sewell United States Yale University Press
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is one of the most fascinating and important personalities in the history of American art. His memorable and much-loved scenes of rowing, sailing, and boxing as well as his deeply moving portraits are renowned for their vibrant realism and dramatic intensity. This beautiful and insightful book, published in conjunction with a major exhibition on the life and career of Eakins--the first in twenty years--presents a fresh perspective on the artist and his remarkable accomplishments. Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 of Eakins's most significant paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculpture, the book features essays by prominent scholars who place his art in the context of the history and culture of late nineteenth- century Philadelphia, where he lived. The contributors also discuss how Eakins applied his French academic training to subjects that were distinctly American and part of his own immediate and complex experience. Eakins's own photographs, which he used as part of his unique creative process, are also examined for the first time in the full context of his life's work.

Thomas Jefferson, architect : Palladian models, democratic principles, and the conflict of ideals
Lloyd DeWitt Exhibitions, Exhibition catalogs, publications Chrysler Museum of Art ; New Haven
Renowned as a politician and statesman, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was also one of the premier architects of the early United States. Adept at reworking Renaissance-particularly Palladian-and Enlightenment ideals to the needs of the new republic, Jefferson completed visionary building projects such as his two homes, Monticello and Poplar Forest; the Capitol building in Richmond; and the University of Virginia campus. Featuring a wealth of archival images, including models, paintings, drawings, and prints, this volume presents compelling essays that engage broad themes of history, ethics, philosophy, classicism, neoclassicism, and social sciences while investigating various aspects of Jefferson's works, design principles, and complex character. In addition to a thorough introduction to Jefferson's career as an architect, the book provides insight into his sources of inspiration and a nuanced take on the contradictions between his ideas about liberty and his embrace of slavery, most poignantly reflected in his plan for the academical village at the University of Virginia, which was carefully designed to keep enslaved workers both invisible and accessible. Thomas Jefferson, Architect offers fresh perspectives on Jefferson's architectural legacy, which has shaped the political and social landscape of the nation and influenced countless American architects since his time.
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Through the Night
W. Kross Focal Press

Tibet: Between Heaven & Earth
Peter Grieder Arts & Photography Clear Light Books

Time Exposure
Cecil Beaton, Peter Quennell Batsford

Time's Island: The California Desert
T. H. Watkins Natural History Gibbs Smith

Tina Modotti Photographs
Sarah Lowe Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Harry N Abrams
This is the first serious art-historical study of the photographic achievement of Tina Modotti (1896-1942). Modotti's photographic career spanned a brief but intense seven years (1923-30) when she lived in Mexico and became committed to revolutionary Communism. The beautifully reproduced duotone images in this book include portraits, still lifes (among them, Modotti's memorable "revolutionary icons" incorporating an ear of dried corn, a bandolier, a sickle, and a guitar), Mexican workers, folk art, street photographs, architectural studies, and flowers and plants. They have been selected to represent the full range of Modotti's esthetic imagination, and nearly half have rarely or never been reproduced before.
In an informative biographical and critical essay based on exhaustive research, Sarah M. Lowe, curator, art historian, author of a book about Frida Kahlo, and contributor to Abrams' The Diary of Frida Kahlo, explores the forces that shaped Modotti's early family influences in Italy; her formative experiences in the bohemian communities of San Francisco and Los Angeles in the 1910s; the relationship with legendary American photographer Edward Weston that provided her with her first photographic training; and the artistic and political circles she entered in Mexico. Lowe casts new light on Modotti's Mexican years, describing her relationships with a constellation of powerful artists, critics, activists, and journalists.
Tina Modotti: Photographs is the catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition of Modotti's work, organized on the occasion of the centennial of her birth by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Toni Frissell - Photographs, 1933-1967.
Arts & Photography Doubleday
A collection of the work of the photojournalist who revolutionized fashion photography and was the first female staff photographer for Sports Illustrated

Tuscany: Inside the Light: Inside the Light (Photography)
Joel Meyerowitz Maggie Barrett Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Sterling
Joel Meyrowitz is one of the world's best-known and best-selling photographers; his Cape Light has become a color photography classic with 100,000 copies sold.

The Tuscan countryside is among the most well-loved on earth, for its beauty, its natural bounty, its magnificent light. Award-winning photographer Joel Meyerowitz and novelist/playwright Maggie Barrett have combined talents to create a loving and personal portrait of Tuscany through the seasons. Meyerowitz provides the breathtaking images; Maggie Barrett offers poetic, evocative commentary that pays loving tribute to this alluring rural world. They take you inside everyday Tuscan life and landscape, and also capture the warmth of the people who live there and their profound connection to the land.

Joel Meyerowitz, who has published 14 books, is a Guggenheim fellow and an NEA and an NEH award-winner. His photographs have shown in major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art. He was the only photographer granted access to Ground Zero, where he persistently captured both the devastation and the dedication of the many workers who toiled at the World Trade Center site.

Maggie Barrett is the author of three novels and a collection of short stories. Her play, Give it Up, was performed off Broadway.

Two Million Miles
Andrew MacPherson Photography, Individual Photographers teNeues
In an increasingly mobile society, it's common to cross the globe many times in a single month. Journeys that might once have taken weeks, now take hours. All of this travel is a suitable metaphor for Andrew Macpherson's rise to the pinnacle of celebrity photography. He has literally traveled the world to profile the best-known people of our age; Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, and George Clooney to name a few. As he's done so, he's also embarked on an artistic journey to bring something fresh and inviting to each of his images. In this quest, he employs a multitude of varied techniques, playing with form, context and color. A note of poignancy overshadows this work. Many of the original negatives were lost in a warehouse fire. It is a testament to the strength of Macpherson's work that even scanned from magazine pages--as some of these images are--the results still radiate vitality and power. Originally from London, Andrew Macpherson is now based in Los Angeles. His body of work includes covers for Rolling Stone and Vogue. He has photographed personalities as varied as Bono, Muhammed Ali, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone and John Malkovich.. SELLING POINTS: * Profits from this remarkable collection will be donated to the Entertainment Industry Foundation's Women's Cancer Initiatives 78 colour & 152 duotone photos

Under Cape Cod Waters
Ethan Daniels Nature, Animals, Marine Life, Ecosystems & Habitats, Oceans & Seas, Plants, Aquatic, Photography, Subjects & Themes, Plants & Animals, Photoessays & Documentaries, Regional, Underwater, Science, Earth Sciences, Oceanography, Travel, United States, Northeast, New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) Union Park Press
In Under Cape Cod Waters, award-winning photojournalist Ethan Daniels captures the mystery and importance of the often overlooked natural communities along the Cape Cod coast. The Cape's near-shore waters are both diverse and productive, making these coastal ecosystems as dynamic and prodigious as any along the Atlantic shoreline. With the trained eye of a scientist and the sensibilities of an artist, Daniels photographs the amazing and resilient life forms that play such a vital role in maintaining the health and wellbeing of this cherished peninsula. The result is a stunning portrait of a world only seen from the surface. In the hazy, dark waters, Daniels reveals the arresting orange of a sponge, the silvery flash of fish scales, the bright blue of a crab claw. With chapters on each of the Cape's aquatic ecosystems--the salt marsh, bay, open ocean, and freshwater ponds--Daniels at once enlightens and educates us about the treasures hidden amidst this mesmerizing seascape.

The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them, 1970-1980
Cecil Beaton Artists, Architects & Photographers Carroll & Graf
A twentieth-century photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, Cecil Beaton was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. This book brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited. Hugo Vickers, the executor of Beaton's estate and the author of his acclaimed biography, has added extensive notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves.
Here is the photographer for British and American Vogue, designer of the sets and costumes for the play and film My Fair Lady and the film Gigi, with a cast of characters from many worlds, at shooting parties in the English countryside, on yachts, at garden parties at Buckingham Palace, at costume balls in Venice, Paris or London.
Beaton began as an outsider and "developed the power to observe, first with his nose pressed up against the glass," and later from within inner circles. Vickers has said, "His eagle eye missed nothing."The Unexpurgated Beaton is not only a great read and wicked fun, but also a timeless chronicle of our age.

Unseen New York
Mark Feldstein Architectural Dover Publications
In 90 black and white and eight color pictures, Mark Feldstein has created arresting abstract compositions from New York City building facades by concentrating his camera on limited areas -- a sculpture piece, a door, an arch, a roof line, a draped motorcycle, and so on.

The Unseen Saul Leiter: With 76 Color Slides
Margit Erb, Michael Parillo PHOTOGRAPHY, Photography, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Individual Photographers, Monographs, Subjects & Themes, Street Photography D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers)
A thrilling trove of newly discovered color works from the photographer celebrated for his pioneering painterly vision

Now firmly established as one of the world's greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was relatively little known until the 2006 publication of "Saul Leiter: Early Color", when he was already in his eighties. Choosing to shoot in color when black and white was the norm, Leiter portrayed midcentury New York's street life with a gorgeous painterliness that evoked the sensuality of his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries Rothko and Newman. His studio in the East Village, where he lived from 1952 until his death in 2013, is now the home of the Saul Leiter Foundation, which has commenced a full-scale survey of his more than 80,000 works.
This volume contains works discovered through this project--specifically, color photography from slides never before published or seen by the public. It is edited by Margit Erb and Michael Parillo of the Saul Leiter Foundation, and is embellished with texts that describe how Leiter assembled his slide archive and how it is being catalogued and restored.
Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. He pioneered a painterly approach to color photography in the 1940s and produced covers for fashion magazines such as "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar", before largely withdrawing from public attention in the 1980s. The publication of his first collection, "Early Color", by Steidl in 2006, inspired an avid "rediscovery" that led to worldwide exhibitions and the release of a documentary, "In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter" (2014). He died in New York in 2013.

Van Gogh - Self Portraits
Karen Serres Courtauld Institute
An exhibition catalog tracing the evolution of Van Gogh’s self-presentation in his art.

This volume accompanies an exhibition at London’s Courtauld Gallery, the first to explore the full chronological range of Vincent van Gogh’s self-portraits.

The myth of Van Gogh today is linked as much to his extraordinary life as it is to his world-famous paintings. His biography has often shaped the way his self-portraits have been (mis)understood. Spanning his entire career, this volume explores these highly personal paintings, analyzing the artist’s self-representation in context to reveal the role it plays in his oeuvre. Of particular interest is the striking way the evolution of Van Gogh’s self-representation can be seen as a microcosm of his development as a painter.

In addition to the celebrated Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, the exhibition showcases a group of major masterpieces brought together from international collections, including the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, among others. Beautifully illustrated, this exhibition companion includes detailed entries on each work, an appendix illustrating all of Van Gogh’s self-portraits, and three insightful essays on the theme.

Villages In The Sun
Myron Goldfinger Reference Rizzoli
Villages in the Sun is both an exceptional pictorial record of the glorious Mediterranean villages of Greece, Italy, Spain, Morocco, and Tunisia, and an exploration of the rationale behind their architectural and urban forms as well as the processes of their construction. While noting that differences in climate, site, materials, and traditions have resulted in local patterns of design, architect Myron Goldfinger also points out that most of these towns have certain common characteristics that make them highly successful as communities. The dramatic expression of details, textures, materials, and colors simultaneously reveals a building's function, construction, and the individuality of its creator. The towns featured include such well-known and well-loved places as Positano, Mykonos, Santorini, Alberobello, and Djerba.
These extraordinary villages also present a viable model for contemporary housing. The author argues, in his comprehensive introduction, that Mediterranean towns impart a welcoming sense of community and the chance for individual expression that is all too often lacking in our "planned" housing developments of today.
This book, originally published in 1969, is now revised, with a new preface, and issued in color for the first time. Goldfinger spent seven years studying, photographing, and living in Mediterranean villages while preparing the original work, which is now enriched by an additional twenty years of observation and experience.

The Villas of Palladio
Vincent Scully Specific Styles Bulfinch Pr
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) may well be the single most influential architect ever, and by conspicuously adopting his vocabulary, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson and the post-modernists have made him a byword for the 1980s and 1990s. This book contains photographs and text which disclose some of Palladio's elegant country houses - located in the north of Italy.

A Vision of Paris
Eugene Atget, Marcel Proust French Macmillan USA
A Vision of Paris, the photography of Eugene Atget with words of Marcel Proust. A visionary exploration of Paris in a beautiful hard bound book, dust jacket shows a much loved book.

Volkswagen: A Week at the Factory
Peter Keetman Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Chronicle Books
One of the best-known and best-loved cars ever manufactured, the VW Bug was a symbol for decades of a casual lifestyle replete with breezy outings. But the 71 duotone photographs in this elegant paperbound volume offer a striking contrast to this populist impression. In 1953, photographer Peter Keetman spent a week at a Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, emerging with a collection of remarkable images that, although rejected by the Volkswagen publicists, transform the parts of the popular car into works of abstract art gleaming stacks of hoods and fenders trace sinuous lines reminiscent of Edward Weston's seashells; bolts of cable look like exotic plants; sheet metal takes on a life of its own. Arranged in the order of the car's manufacturing process, accompanied by three essays on photography and Volkswagen production, Volkswagen: A Week at the Factory is a landmark in the history of industrial photography and a timeless look at a contemporary icon.

W. Eugene Smith
W. Wugene Smith Aperture
W. Eugene Smith is the master of the photographic essay; he created essays which include some of the most dramatic and affecting single images of the twentieth century. Fiercely energetic, he made countless photographs memorable for their formal brilliance and for their compassion. This volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography presents more than 70 of Smith's greatest photographs, selected from work created over the course of 45 years. Smith's interests were broad; his work spanned subject matter from the process of birth to the horrors of death in action. Included here are photographs from Smith's most celebrated photo-essays, including Country Doctor, Spanish Village, Pittsburgh and Minamata, as well as examples of his World War II work and selections from the later, more introspective work made in his loft in New York City. In his introductory essay, Jim Hughes, Smith's biographer, provides an overview of Smith's life, and insight into his work.

Walker Evans
Clément Chéroux, Svetlana Alpers, Anne Bertrand, David Campany, Julie Jones, Didier Ottinger, Jeff Rosenheim, Jerry L. Thompson Centre Pompidou
Some of Walker Evans' most iconic images of 20th-century American culture are showcased in this book celebrating his 50-year career. Walker Evans was one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century. His focus on everyday life in America, in both urban and rural settings, makes him also one of the most relatable. This retrospective volume traces Evans' career through more than 300 images--from his first photographs of the late 1920s to his Polaroids of the 1970s. Organized thematically, the book examines topics such as Evans' relationship with the impresario Lincoln Kirstein, his work in postcards and magazines, and his lifelong exploration of the American vernacular. In addition, this volume features items from the photographer's own collection, including personal writings, signage, postcards, and other ephemera. Through these ancillary objects and a thorough overview of Evans' career, readers will come away with a better understanding of a photographer whose iconic photographs remain timeless.

Walker Evans
James R. Mellow Social History Basic Books
Before his death in 1997, James Mellow left one last gracefully written, sensitively nuanced biography to add to a shelf containing National Book Award winner Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times and a remarkable trilogy on seminal figures of the Lost Generation. Mellow's biography of photographer Walker Evans (1903-1977) is just as nimble in making connections between an individual life and the cultural trends it reflected and affected. Although he will always be best remembered for the austere images of Depression-era poverty that accompanied James Agee's prose in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Evans was a nondidactic social realist. "I love to find American vernacular," he once remarked, and Mellow's subtle analysis of Evans's work shows his fastidiously uninflected photographic style being mistaken for a "documentary." In fact, the images' psychological intensity and formal sophistication make the photographs far more than simple records of a time or place. Mellow does not neglect Evans's turbulent personal life, including two divorces and a drinking problem, and is astute about the role in his success of collaborators like Agee, "more ambitious, more hard-headed, more informed about opportunities and better placed to make use of them." Each page and elegantly turned sentence proclaims Mellow's mastery of the biographical craft; he will be sorely missed. --Wendy Smith

Walker Evans: Signs (Getty Trust Publications, J. Paul Getty Museum)
Andrei Codrescu Museums Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum
For many people, Walker Evans's name conjures up visions of the rural American South of the 1930s, where the photographer made some of his most notable images. But signs--marking buildings; advertising grocery prices, churches, and cabarets; communicating political messages--transfixed him throughout his life. Evans was interested in all aspects of signs, from the typography and graphic layout to the messages they conveyed and the objects themselves. He collected nearly as many of them as he photographed and often exhibited actual signs alongside his photos. Andrei Codrescu, in the essay he wrote to accompany the images in Signs, offers a concise explanation of the power of this subject matter. He writes that Evans's era was, "the time of popular writing, of huge advertisements, of lettering that invaded every nook and cranny and even wrote the skyline. America wrote big, with bold new alphabets, in lightbulbs, in neon, in smoke. One could follow the text of twentieth-century America from coast to coast...."
This small book is beautifully designed. The 50 gelatin silver prints selected from the Getty Museum's collection are reproduced on full pages with little or no cropping, and are meticulously documented at the back of the book with notations on dimensions, dates the photos were shot, and printing dates. A wide range of images, from the Photographer's Window Display, in which miniature portraits are displayed behind a pane of glass on which the word studio is painted, to a pair of commercially produced movie posters advertising a double feature of The Man from Guntown and I Hate Women, offers readers perspective on the breadth of Evans's vision. This focused look at an element of Evans's photography helps broaden the understanding of his entire body of work.

Wall Street Christmas
Robert Gambee W.W. Norton
New York's financial distrit comes alive in over three hundred full-color photographs in this comprehensive portrait of one of the city's oldest and most elegant architectural neighborhoods. These photographs reveal Wall Street's past and present with every major institution in the financial district represented here.

Walter Rosenblum
Walter Rosenblum Arts & Photography (VERLAG DER KUNST)
The photos are divided in these chapters: War, South Bronx, Haiti, Long Island City, Gaspe, 105th Street, Hospitals, Europe, Spanish Refugees and Pitt Street and cover the period 1938 through 1980. 211 pages; 140 full-page b&w photographic plates; 9.5 x 11.5 inches. Cloth covered hardback. Includes a biographical chronology and a list of captions. Text in German and English.

The Wandering Years
Cecil Beaton Weidenfeld & Nicolson

WEEGEE-PAN PHOTO LIB (Pantheon Photo Library)
Centre National De La Photographie Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Pantheon
An accessible, collectable book on Weegee. First immigration American, Weegee (1899-1968) is the archetypal tabloid photographer of the twentieth century. Preferring to photograph under the cover of night, he was known for his aggressive use of flash. Weegee's photographic eye was unstoppable: drawn to the grotesque, the illicit, the illegal, Weegee delivered both harrowing and poignant photographs of crime scenes and criminals to New York's tabloid-reading public in the 1930s and 1940s. Named after the `Ouija board' for his uncanny ability to arrive at the scene of a crime before the police, Weegee recorded the dark side of New York's streets. No sordid crime seemed to escape his flash and no crime was too gruesome to capture on camera for the papers the next day. Weegee's understanding of people's simultaneous repulsion and attraction to vivid photographs of crimes of passion, murder, brutal accidents was well before his time. Even today, his photographs still have the power to shock, and the originality of the images has elevated them in importance far beyond the newspapers he worked for.

Werner Bischof: 1916-1954, His Life and Work
Marco Bischof Rene Burri Guido Magnaguagno Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Norton*(ww Norton Co

The White House: The President's Home in Photographs and History
White House Historical Association (Contributor) Vicki Goldberg (Author)Mike Mccurry (Foreword) Arts & Photography Little, Brown and Company
The White House: The President's Home in Photographs and History covers every aspect of White House Life over the past 200 years. Witness multiple refurbishments to the house, media coverage and popular photography of the White House, and photos of its illustrious inhabitants, visitors, and even pets and illustrations. Accompanying the photographs is an incisive, informative text by renowned critic Vicki Goldberg.

A rich visual history and a beautiful gift book, The White House is a must for photography and history buffs alike.

William Albert Allard: Five Decades
William Albert Allard Arts & Photography Focal Point
From "William Albert Allard"
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Buckaroo T. J. Symonds, IL Ranch cow camp, Nevada, 1979 Sandrine Gataleta, Arles, 1993 IL Ranch buckaroo Stan Kendall at the bar, Mountain City, Nevada 1979 Ungaro models backstage, Paris, 1988
Calving time, Padlock ranch, Montana, 1975 Indigo Maynard, Missoula, Montana, 2009 Brian Morris, Circle A boss, Paradise Valley, Nevada, 1970 Minor league spring training, Phoenix, Arizona, 1990

Winogrand
John Szarkowski History & Criticism Museum of Modern Art, New York
Back in Print The first comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand, long out of print and difficult to come by, contains an eloquent and important essay on the life and work of the photographer by John Szarkowski and a lavish plate section presenting the photographs thematically. Grouped under the following titles-- Eisenhower Years, The Street, Women, The Zoo, On the Road, The Sixties, Etc, The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, Airport, and Unfinished Work-- many of the 179 plates are works that had never before been published. The last section includes 25 pictures chosen from the enormous body of work that Winogrand left unedited at the time of his death in 1984. In his essay, Szarkowski, who knew the photographer well during most of his career, describes the development of Winogrand's pictorial strategies during his years as a photojournalist, the increasing complexity of his motifs as he pursued more personal goals, and the challenge posed for other photographers by the powerful and distinctive authority of Winogrand's best work, "with its manic sense of a life balanced somewhere between animal high spirits and an apprehension of moral disaster."

Within the Stone: Nature's Abstract Rock Art
Bill Atkinson, Si Frazier, Ann Frazier, Robert Hutchinson Arts & Photography Browntrout Publishers
With this book of color photographs of the polished hearts of stones portrayed as natural paintings, BILL ATKINSON completes his transition from whiz kid of Silicon Valley to high priest of Silica.
After helping to usher in the age of personal computing by designing the graphical user interface of the Macintosh computer, Atkinson turned his visual and technical talents to nature photography. While shooting in the Painted Desert, Atkinson became intrigued with the brilliant colors in the petrified wood littering the ground. He brought home some polished rock slabs, photographed them in natural color and without magnification, and was enthralled. The photographs looked more like paintings of forgotten dreams than either rocks or photographs. Atkinson went on to borrow and photograph thousands of art-quality stones at gem shows.
From these thousands of stones, Atkinson has picked for WITHIN THE STONE those seventy-two that yielded the most striking, the most poetic, and the most ineffable images. Many of the photographs suggest the styles of particular masters of modern painting: Klee, Klimt, Turner, O’Keefe.
To accompany these images, the publisher commissioned seventy literary pieces for WITHIN THE STONE from seven top writers, each one accomplished in both scientific and artistic fields. Each writer was asked to free-associate with his or her ten assigned photographs as though they were Rorschach patterns on steroids. The seven contributors are DIANE ACKERMAN (poet and psychologist), PHILIP BALL (Nature editor and dramatist), JOHN HORGAN (science writer and philosopher), ANDREW REVKIN (New York Times reporter and screenplay writer), DORION SAGAN (science writer and novelist), TYLER VOLK (biologist and architect), and DAVID ZINDELL (science fiction novelist and mathematician).
In an appendix to WITHIN THE STONE, professional lapidaries SI and ANN FRAZIER and mineral scientist ROBERT HUTCHINSON provide a detailed description and commentary for each specimen.

Woman
Edouard Boubat Aidan Ellis Publishing

A World Through My Window
Ruth Orkin Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions HarperCollins
Color images captured on film from the perspective of a photographer's New York apartment window show the city, its people, and Central Park in every season and are complemented by selections from great writers' works

Worlds in a Small Room
Irving Penn Penguin Books
On assignment for Vogue in the 1950s and 1960s, Penn (1917-2009) traveled the world as an "ambulant studio photographer", setting up a tent and photographing the people of Cuzco, Crete, Extremadura, Dahomey, Cameroon, San Francisco, Nepal, New Guinea, and Morocco. There is as well his photo-essay on the "small trades" of Paris, London and NYC. A photo-book masterpiece of the late 20th century.

Cloth-bound hardcover in a pictorial dust jacket. 96 pages; 76 b&w photographic plates--most full-page--including text illustrations and photographs of Penn at work by his wife, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn; 11 x 11 inches.

Wyeth: Andrew & Jamie in the Studio
Timothy J. Standring Art, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, History, Contemporary (1945-), Individual Artists Yale University Press
An essential new look at the diverse work and artistic methods of beloved American realist painters Andrew and Jamie Wyeth Father and son artists Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946) are among the most celebrated American realist painters of the 20th century. Despite their similar habits of mind, studio practice, and rural Pennsylvania upbringing, the two artists produced strikingly different work. However, they also employed a wide range of processes in works that parallel and complement each other. This artistic conversation is evident when considering the artists' vast output of preliminary work--much of which has remained unpublished until now--alongside their iconic paintings. This groundbreaking publication takes a novel approach in exploring the Wyeths' working methods and processes. Author Timothy J. Standring also provides the reader with a rare personal glimpse into the artists' world by chronicling his visits to their studios in the Brandywine Valley and Midcoast Maine over the course of four years. With over 200 color illustrations showing works in a variety of media--including pen and ink, graphite, chalk, watercolor, dry brush, tempera, and oil--this handsome book situates each artist's "oeuvre" in the context of their shared biographies, place, and artistic practices.

Wynn Bullock (Phaidon 55s)
Chris Johnson Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Phaidon Press
Wynn Bullock (1902-75) was one of the most widely respected photo-artists of his generation. He explored many alternative processes before adopting 'straight' photography. His evocative images are often visual metaphors, with a psychological dimension beneath the meticulous realism.
Other artists in this series include: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Boris Mikhailov, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Shomei Tomatsu, Joel-Peter Witkin



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