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Ghost in the Shell
Tracing the modern photographic portrait over the past 150 years, the book reveals the many ways the photographic arts have investigated, represented, interpreted, and subverted the human face and, consequently, the human spirit.
Bobcats
"Eric Payson has created a thoroughly terrific book - an eye view of a young girls' softball team that is at once intimate and revealing...and at the same time evokes the grace, beauty, frustration and elation of any athletic endeavor. It is a striking achievement to be treasured by anyone who appreciates brilliant photography and anyone who loves sports" - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author, Doris Kearns Goodwin "Payson has captured the...dynamics of the group and the isolation of the individual" - R. Sobiezek Illustrated with 59 full-colour and 7 b/w photos.
Roger Ballen: Shadow Chamber
Striking, ambiguous images from Johannesburg-based photographer Roger Ballen.
Robert Smithson
This catalogue is "the" major study of Smithson (1938-1973), who is most renowned as an early earthworks artist and creator of Spiral Jetty, a 1,500-foot rock coil dramatically situated in the Great Salt Lake.
The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes
107 outstanding works: celebrity portraits (Daniel Webster, R. W. Emerson, etc.), landscapes, marine views, more.
The Camera i
Here, brought together for the first time, are great self-portraits of the masters of photography from the 1850s to the present, including Andre Kertesz, Nadar, Cecil Beaton, Edward Weston, Irving Penn, Duane Michals, and Cindy Sherman. A probing essay by Robert A. Sobieszek illuminates each of the 149 images.
Ports of Entry
Robert Sobieszek analyses William S. Burroughs contribution to the world of the visual arts, wherein his visions, conjured in his writings of a fragmented world, are parallelled in cut-up and fold-in collages.
David Maisel
For more than two decades, David Maisel has photographed civilisation?s aggressive advance across the American landscape. The sites he has pursued, the subjects he has discovered, and the abstract beauty he has confronted are all the more unfamiliar and disarming because of their aerial perspectives. Looking down from low-flying aircraft banking steeply over the terrain, Maisel constructs skewed landscapes that seem at times to have no horizons, no up or down, and no near or far. ?The Lake Project? documents Maisel?s work around Owens Lake. This arid expanse, located just east of the Sierra Nevadas, is for the most part a desiccated bed of mineral deposits. Drained for the water needs of Sou...
British Masters of the Albumen Print
Presents a selection of 215 photographs from the collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.
