In a celebration of the wild hoofed animal that descended from the prehistoric bison and was the lifeblood of the Plains Indians, the author and photographer document this awesome beast in all its grandeur and beauty.100 color photos. ...

Ross Bleckner's deeply personal camera work travels over the intimate contours of a lover's body and the pages of his daily newspaper. The enigmatic and absurd landslide of images that inundate our daily lives falls across the pages of this book and is mounted like so many strange butterflies on every page. Perhaps the images are a cumulative autobiography -- an effort by the artist to suggest that all we reach out to and all we touch are the ...

A historical record in words and pictures of American society in the years after World War II. At that time the self-image among America's white middle class was affluence and moral superiority, but it hid an undercurrent of racism, political witch hunts, and alienation. This dissonance between words of the social critics and photographic images of how Americans wanted to see themselves make the upheavals of the 1960s understandable. 170 photos. ...

In The Lives of Images, Peter Mason examines the history of European representations of non-European peoples. Using four striking case studies and a wide range of source material, including paintings, medals, murals, frescoes, monuments, engravings, codices and contemporary photographs, Mason analyzes early photographs of native Tierra del Fueguens; 18th-century portraits of Formosan islanders; images from Mexican religious manuscripts; and ...

England's Royal National Theatre celebrates its 25th Anniversary on the South Bank this year. During this time over 400 productions have been seen in rehearsal through the eyes of some of the world's leading photographers. The 200-plus black and white photographs in this book capture the essence of theatre-in-progress, actors and directors at work behind closed doors, and shows the development of some of the great names of our stage.
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Few cities can boast of a longer or richer baseball tradition than Rochester, New York. The game's roots in the Flower City can be traced to the early nineteenth century, when a primitive form of baseball was being played on Mumford's Meadow near the Genesee River. Since that time, some of the greatest names in baseball history, including Stan Musial and Cal Ripken Jr., have honed their skills in Rochester. Their exploits, along with those of ...

Daniel Canogar's work has long dwelt on issues of immersion and realism, of corporeal images and sensations, of light instrumentalized to reveal figments and traces of visual matter. His consistent use of photography undermines and transcends simple questions of photographic realism, through play with variable scales, obsessive pseudo-repetition and disconcerting projection procedures and surfaces. ...

For a photographic research project and exhibition meant to document a subject of Dutch cultural life, photographer Morad Bouchakour visited numerous and various parties throughout Holland, from the wedding of Dutch crown prince Willem Alexander and Maxima Zorreguieta to intimate birthday celebrations and birth rituals, from bachelor parties to massive raves and hard-core gay bashes. It's rocking good time. ...

That most American of activities, the cross-country road trip, is here appropriated by two Dutch artists who set out to understand the United States in a way they never could through advertisements. From Los Angeles to New York, photographer Auke Vleer and designer Barbara Dijkuis traveled 8,000 kilometers (or 5,000 miles, depending on your point of view) over backroads and through small towns, documenting the landscapes, places and people they ...

"Declaring Independence" is the fourth in David Graham's trilogy of photographic books about the American cultural landscape. Unable to stop searching the country for the odd, unusual and colorful, Graham has continued on his quest to find out how Americans express themselves through their environments. The result of his latest journey is this book of photographs which delves further into the complex weave of image, symbol and reality that we ...