Gustave Le Gray's life was as romantic as any novel. A young painter in Rome, then a fashionable portrait photographer in Paris, Le Gray received commissions from Napoli??on III, and astonished viewer
Coinciding with the centennial of Ansel Adams' birth, this is a comprehensive biography of the renowned photographer. It takes us from the earthquake that broke his nose to the valley that shaped his
A regional pioneer of photojournalism, Jack Richard photographed in the Yellowstone area from the 1940s to the 1980s, where his crisp, superbly composed images captured the Western way of life. From r
Rooted in autobiography, and made over a fifteen year period, Ken Grant's photographs offer us a unique insight into the Merseyside community in which he was born. As the buoyancy of Liverpool's indus
Before being "discovered" by U.S. explorer Zebulon Pike in 1806, the Pikes Peak region was home to a variety of different cultures, including Native Americans, Mexicans, and French and Spanish explore
In this remarkable contribution to photographic criticism and psychoanalyticliterature, Ulrich Baer traces the hitherto overlooked connection between the experience of traumaand the photographic image
Welcome to a book with lots of pictures, the first to chart the phenomenon that is LOMO, AKA, a little camera with a big heart and a lot of friends. Inside you'll find more than 2000 LOMOGRAPHS, shot
Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with well over a h
A lavish two-volume boxed set is a definitive catalogue of the artist's collection at the National Gallery of Art and is published to coincide with a major traveling exhibition.
William Henry Fox Talbot--a scientist, mathematician, author and artist--is credited with being the inventor of photography as we know it. In mid-1834 he began to experiment with light-sensitive chemi
Emmet Gowin has been taking aerial photographs of the landscape in the United States, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Asia, and the Middle East for more than twenty years. His growing body of work bears witn
For over 25 years, Toby Old has had a photographic dialogue with Times Square - at different times of day, in all lights, and during all seasons, with its multitude of events, parades, theater, sports
"Cemeteries", writes Mark C. Taylor, "are where I go to commune with 'my' ghosts. The journey to the cemetery is always solitary even when I am with people who are closest to me. In the graveyard, the
Last season we published Horn's Dictionary of Water, a universal lexicon, now we offer This Is Me, This Is You Horn's handbook of identity. Here in this uniquely bound twinned volume we have a book wi
One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of Design was among the most important schools of photography in twentieth-century America. It began as an outpost of experimental Bauhaus e
Farming families from Germany and New York state were among the first settlers to trudge along the Native American trail-now Ogden Avenue-and build their homes on the fertile prairie land that became
