Eugene Smith is the master of the photographic essay; he created essays which include some of the most dramatic and affecting single images of the twentieth century. Fiercely energetic, he made countless photographs memorable for their formal brilliance and for their compassion. This volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography presents more than 70 of Smith's greatest photographs, selected from work created over the course of 45 years. Smith's interests were broad; his work spanned subject matter from the process of birth to the horrors of death in action. Included here are photographs from Smith's most celebrated photo-essays, including Country Doctor, Spanish Village, Pittsburgh and Minamata, as well as examples of his World War II work and selections from the later, more introspective work made in his loft in New York City. In his introductory essay, Jim Hughes, Smith's biographer, provides an overview of Smith's life, and insight into his work.

    American Photographs includes three essays including facets of Lang's work, including her role in the evolution of American documentary style; her relationship with members of group f.64and the notion of photography as an art form in California; and her unique collaborative relationship with her husband sociologist Paul Taylor.

    To this gifted French photographer, who died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of 36, photographs were objects of wonder and mystery, even possessing a touch of the supernatural. "Photographs are not innocent." Guibert writes in one of the most provocative essays in Ghost Image, a collection of critical and autobiographical writings on photography translated for the first time into English by Robert Bononno. "They influence and...betray what is hidden beneath the skin. They weave not only lines and grids, but plots, and they cast spells....They are an impressionable material that welcomes spirits." Guibert, photography critic of La Monde for many years, himself weaves a spell with his many topics and moods, delineated in a continually unpredictable mixture of precise descriptions and poetic musing. Guibert recalls family members through the frozen reality of pictures taken at different times. He offers a compact history of the Polaroid, and informative remarks on noted travel journals resembling photography. He confesses to having betrayed an actress he photographed, and silently ponders whether certain pictures should arouse him, adding his views on the differences between visual erotica and pornography. His own occasional role as model causes ambivalence. A flurry of other incidents and thoughts - some real, others fantasy - crowd Guibert's pages as he struggles to fathom the essence of that which captures life. In an unforgettable conclusion, through his account of an enigmatic portrait and its strange fate, Guibert finally achieves the union of person and picture he sought. Ghost Image is a collection of beautifully and hauntingly written essays on what is and what lies behind any photograph.

    

    Presents the winning and commended images from the 1997 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition, organized by BBC Wildlife Magazine and The Natural History Museum, London.

    

    

    The first retrospective monograph on the work of William Klein, also known as "William Klein, Photographs, Etc.: New York and Rome, also Moscow and Tokyo, also Elsewhere" which references the chapter headings: New York (1954-1955), Rome (1956), Moscow (1959-1961), Tokyo (1961), Elsewhere (1956-1980.)

    

    

    

    Motels, eating and drinking establishments, gas stations, and roadside attractions of great variety argue for the appreciation of the ordinary, the eccentric, and the whimsical, in addition to giving vivid evidence of the highly inventive nature of our commercial design.The photographs in this book chronicle buildings that survived seven decades of American road life. Located throughout the USA, these structures attest to a time when our cities and towns were marked by character, pride, personality, and humor; and to a time when the individual proprietor's vision of what the traveler was seeking had not yet been superseded by the homogeneity brought about by large corporations and the interstate highway system.The End of the Road celebrates the rich and splendid diversity of our vanishing vernacular. It is a book for anyone with an interest in America - past, present, and future.