Based in the Boston area, F. Holland Day (1864--1933) was a central figure in artistic circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Publisher of Oscar Wilde and Stephen Crane, mentor to a young Kahlil Gibra
This engrossing book presents the photographs of four historically engaged artists and explains what they reveal about the highly dramatic revolutionary and post-revolutionary period in Mexico from 19
In 1909 the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn launched a monumentally ambitious project: to produce a color photographic record of human life on Earth. An internationalist and pacifist, Kah
Lewis Carroll is best known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, books which have delighted children and adults from their publication in the mid-nineteenth
The co-authors of Our Point of View: Fourteen Years at a Maine Lighthouse describe how they relocated from their beloved lighthouse keeper's dwelling to a more enclosed, wooded riverside, in a lavishl
Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) is best known for his spectacular documentary record of the Native American tribes in the first decades of the twentieth century. His portrayal of their ceremonies an
A CDS Book 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, Volume 2 showcases 25 more of America’s most promising photographers, 25 years old and younger. Illuminating and sometimes startling
Since the invention of the first camera through the advent of digital photography, men and women have sought to communicate a variety of messages and document a variety of experiences both personal a
Photographer Moyra Davey takes quiet but ravishing photographs of typically overlooked and banal objects. Newspapers, dust, books, money, empty bottles, and the things on top of refrigerators all figu
Andrew Bush examines the tension between private and public in this series of photographs of individuals driving cars in and around Los Angeles - a city famous for its car culture. By attaching a cam
While looking through his contact sheets, the author noticed that one of his pictures reminded him of a 'Friedlander', another someone else. All photographers do this, and if the photograph in questio
"While Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, and Alfred Steiglitz photographed New York's sleek skyscrapers, Arthur Fellig (called Weegee) documented the seamy underside of depression-era New York.
This volume, published to accompany the first posthumous European retrospective of Edward Steichen's work, traces Steichen's career trajectory from his early Pictorialist beginnings to his time worki
In his lifetime Yousuf Karsh was hailed as "the Rembrandt of photography." Newspapers and magazines vied to show his photographs, and his stories were told again and again, both by himself and by othe
Julius Shulman, one of the great masters of modern architectural photography, is the preeminent recorder of early California modernism. By 1927 when he was sixteen, Shulman was already using the famil
The first full-length title in English on the celebrated photographer Claude Cahun whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. This lively and original book looks at Cahun and her oeuvre in the contexts
Traces photographic history both topically and chronologically, profiles key masters, explains terms and processes, and features the landmarks in the development of photography.
Traces photographic history both topically and chronologically, profiles key masters, explains terms and processes, and features the landmarks in the development of photography.
Today, photojournalist David Rubinger stands at the peak of his profession: a winner of the Israel Prize for services to the media and a fixture on the masthead of Time, he is the only photographer wh
In his previous book City Gorged with Dreams (2002), Ian Walker challenged established ideas about Surrealist photography by emphasising the key role played by documentary photographs in Parisian Surr
