Three volumes from the Getty Museum's popular In Focus series are packaged together here, offering a handsome set of books on these important photographers: Andre Kertesz, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Man
Arlene Gottfried first came across the Eternal Light Community Singers at a Gospel Fest in an abandoned gas station in New York’s Lower East Side. Eventually she herself became a choir member and join
An excellent set of black and white photos of the last days of steam power on the Indian railways. Gritty, intimate, nostalgic, distressing views of an industry that threw men, rather than mechanizat
From Winston Churchill to American humorist Margo Kaufman, who quipped "the pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor," these little dogs with squashed faces, protruding eyes, bulging bellies,
With its poignant and indelible images of Greece and its people, this is one of the all-time classic photo collections, and among the most memorable portraits of the country ever presented.
WINNER OF THE 2001 KRASZNA-KRAUSZ PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK AWARD (Technical Photography category) The only definitive book to fully encompass the use of photography and imaging as tools in science, technology
As it contemplates the nature of photography, the first part of Clive Scott's The Spoken Image examines the language used in titles, captions and commentaries, particularly as they relate to documenta
First published in 1991, The History of Photography explores the people, technology, and imagery that have made photography such a tremendous force in modern culture. As technology has improved, the l
The exhibition Space/Sight/Self was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues--identity, vision, and place. The goal was to produce a portrait, as it wer
In recent years, photographic images have been blamed for everything from heroin chic and meaningless politics to women’s distorted body images and the death of Princess Diana. InOver Exposed, a group
In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre wrote, "I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature." In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire
In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay provides a compelling rethinking of the political and ethical status of photography. In her extraordinary account of the "civil contract" of pho
