Art Essentials: Looking at Photographs MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: A new introductory guide to the art of looking at and engaging with photography. Photographs, even the most iconic, often have something seemingly obvious about them. They appear to represent the "real" world and our first instinct is that they can be... MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was:
The Short Story of Photography: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Works, Themes & Techniques MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: The Short Story of Photography is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of photography. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key photographs from the first experiments in the early 19th century to digital photography. The design of the... MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was:
Photographers A-Z - Bibliotheca Universalis Series MSRP: Now: $25.00 Was: Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century alongside her or his most significant monographs. From the earliest representatives of classical Modernism right up to... MSRP: Now: $25.00 Was:
Speedway1972 MSRP: Now: $100.00 Was: While at grad school in the early 1970’s Henry Horenstein would attend Speedway races, in New England to see his brother in law compete. In front of his camera the drivers would fly around the track in beat-up cars customized for racing at break neck... MSRP: Now: $100.00 Was:
Danny Lyon: This Is My Life I’m Talking About MSRP: Now: $49.95 Was: The life and times of the New Journalism exponent behind The Bikeriders and Conversations with the Dead This picaresque memoir dives into the heart of the revolutionary 20th century through the lens of one of its most crucial witnesses, American... MSRP: Now: $49.95 Was:
An Opinionated Guide to Photography MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: In a world of infinite images here is a guide to 65 of the best ever taken. From early experiments with light and form through Leica masterpieces and now artificially generated images, take it or leave it, this is our opinion as to why these particular... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was:
Art Essentials: Photography MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: Photography has a complex relationship to art. This volume uses an innovative framework to help readers appreciate photography as its own modern art form. In his unique and insightful approach, professor of photography David Bate presents iconic... MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was:
History Of Photography: From 1839 To The Present - Bibliotheca Universalis Series MSRP: Now: $25.00 Was: George Eastman’s career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial innovator in photographic history. Eastman died in 1932,... MSRP: Now: $25.00 Was:
Man Ray: Genius of Light 1890–1976 MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: A panorama of Man Ray’s protean artistic output spanning film, assemblage, drawing and much more Emmanuel Radnitzky, better known as Man Ray (1890–1976), occupies a prominent place in 20th-century art. Living at the heart of the Parisian artistic milieu,... MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was:
Claude Cahun (Photofile Series) MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: The perfect primer on the surrealist writer and photographer Claude Cahun. Claude Cahun (1894–1954), the chosen name of the artist Lucy Schwob, was best known in her lifetime as a writer but built up a remarkable body of photographic work that only came... MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was:
Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was: The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them. Today it’s routine to take photos from an aeroplane window, use a camera under the sea or gaze at an X-ray. But the innovations more than a century... MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was:
Carl Van Vechten: 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: Portraits of 50 pioneering figures of the Harlem Renaissance This elegantly designed and beautifully produced volume presents portraits of 50 extraordinary individuals who contributed to making the Harlem Renaissance one of the great cultural movements... MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was:
Mapplethorpe Flora MSRP: Now: $100.00 Was: The definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe’s flower photographs in a sophisticated new edition. Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century’s most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative work. He studied painting,... MSRP: Now: $100.00 Was:
Eugene Atget: Paris MSRP: Now: $25.00 Was: Take an intimate promenade through Paris with some 500 images from Eugène Atget. Down main streets and side streets, through courtyards, arcades, and the city’s 20 arrondissements, we find a unique portrait of a beloved city and the making... MSRP: Now: $25.00 Was:
