Salgado defines his work as "militant photography" dedicated to "the best comprehension of man"; over the decades he has bestowed great dignity on the most isolated and neglected among us-- from famine-stricken refugees in the Sahel to the indigenous peoples of South America. With "Workers," Salgado brings us a global epic that transcends mere image making to become an affirmation of the enduring spirit of working men and women. In this volume, three hundred fifty duotone photographs form an archaeological perspective of the activities that have defined hard work from the Stone Age through the Industrial Revolution to the present. With images of the infernal landscape of an Indonesian sulfur mine, the drama of traditional Sicilian tuna fishing, and the staggering endurance of Brazilian gold miners, Salgado unearths layers of visual information to reveal the ceaseless human activity at the core of modern civilization. "Workers" presents its subjects on several interactive levels: Salgado's introductory text expands his passionate photographic iconography, and extended captions, also written by Salgado, provide a historical and factual framework. Evoking the monumentality of Baroque sculpture, images of oil-fire fighters extinguishing Kuwaiti wells are informed by data detailing this perilous venture. Heroic photographs of Cuban and Brazilian peasants harvesting sugarcane are enriched by an overview of the history of the sugar trade, which documents centuries of colonialist exploitation. On the eve of the millennium, "Workers" serves as anelegy for the passing of traditional methods of labor and production. Yet its ultimate message is one of endurance and hope: entire Indian families serve as construction crews to build a dam that will bring life to their land, and laborers using contemporary technology connect England and France through Eurotunnel. Honoring the timeless and indomitable spirit of the manual laborer, "Workers" renders the human condition with honesty and respect.

    Richard Avedon introduces the volume with an essay on his working method and portrait philosophy, and Laura Wilson, who accompanied Avedon and his team, provides a journal of their travels, between 1979 and 1984.

    With over 320 photographs, 32 extended interviews, and essays on the City's history and character, this reprint is not only an informative glimpse of a now vanished landmark but a sensitive and penetrating portrait of a unique community.

    Chris Marker, the undisputed master of the filmic essay, composed the film almost entirely of still photographs.It traces a desperate experiment by the few remaining survivors of World War III to recover and change the past, and gain access to the future, through the action of memory. A man is chosen for his unique quality of having retained a single clear image from prewar days: no more than an ambiguous memory fragment from childhood -- a visit to the jetty at Orly airport, the troubling glance of an unknown woman, the crumpling body of a dying man.These elements become crucial hinge-points in the ensuing narrative, thickening and accumulating nuance with each successful expedition into the historical past. The image of the woman, increasingly suffused now with the time- and eros-bestowing capacities of a deep but impossible love, provides the kernel for the recovery of the dimension through which humankind and history will be saved, as well as the tragic abyss into which both the hero and the narrative inexorably fall. The story Marker tells -- a stunning parable of our modern fate -- is about the death of the world, about loss, memory, hope, and the indomitable power of love. This edition reproduces the original film's images along with its accompanying text in both English and French.

    The book traces his immense impact on the portrayal of the leading stars year by year, from his arrival in California in 1925 until his departure in 1943. During that time he photographed all of the greatest personalities, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Brothers, and Columbia as well as independently. The prints come from the Chapman Collection, one of the most extensive archives of original Hurrell photographs in the world, and they include a number of rarities and surprises. Although some photos by Hurrell are familiar and frequently reproduced, most of the images in this book will come as a revelation, since they have not been published in over half a century. The genesis of the pictures is examined in a remarkable text by Mark A. Vieira, himself a highly regarded portrait photographer, who came to know Hurrell well during the photographer's later years. Vieira explains in detail Hurrell's technical feats of lighting and retouching. And drawing on firsthand accounts, he vividly re-creates the lively interplay between the photographer and his subjects at the shooting sessions in which these portraits were taken.

    Ever since the early 1970s Goldin has lived with and among drag queens, documenting both their glamour and their struggles. The Other Side is her very personal declaration of love and gratitude to these drag queens, who showed her a way out of the captivity of pre-packaged, socially prescribed identity. As she put it: "The pictures in this book are not of people suffering gender dysphoria but rather expressing gender euphoria.... The people in these pictures are truly revolutionary; they are the real winners in the battle of the sexes because they have stepped out of the ring". In contrast to much of the early 90s drag queen mania, The Other Side has brilliantly passed the test of time: Goldin's photographs are as beautiful, moving, and vibrant as ever, heralding the utopian promises of a world where gender has stopped being a prison -- a vision that remains as vital and acute as it was when the book was first published.

    Gathers previously unpublished color photographs of the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, Mount McKinley, Mono Lake, Death Valley, and White Sands National Monument.

    An international favorite since its original hardcover publication in Spring 1994, this spectacular collection of enthralling, full-color photographs portrays an array of serendipitous and thoroughly charming cats against a backdrop of the beautiful Greek Isles. Combining the romantic beauty of the Mediterranean and the delightful behavior of felines, Cats in the Sun will appeal to cat lovers, travelers, and photographers alike.

    This book contains 125 of his best photographs, which together with text, provides a view of the emotional and spirital lives of the indiginous North Americans of that period.

    A photographic history of Guns n' Roses discusses their early days, their rise to fame, their personal lives, and more and includes posed portraits and candid photographs.

    Day in, day out Atget trudged the streets of Paris recording a face that was constantly changing. His images show the buildings, alleyways, court-yards, balconies, cafes, vehicles, shop windows and goods on display -- all in perfect detail. Although hailed by the surrealists for the poetic quality of his images, Atget refused to accept that he was an artist, claiming that the pictures he took were simply documents. He has become known as the first modern photographer. The shape of this book, which is that of a Parisian cobblestone, is in itself a tribute to Atget the legendary walker.

    The illuminating essays in Galen Rowell's Vision are grouped into four chapters covering the fundamental aspects of the art of adventure photography as practiced by one of its masters: "Goals," transforming dreams into realities through personal vision; "Preparations," pushing the limits of equipment, film, and technique; "Journeys," merging visions with realities; and "Realizations," communicating one's worldview through photography. Throughout, Rowell includes examples of some of his most memorable images and relates fascinating anecdotes from his extraordinary photographic career.

    In the visual arts, they have ranked since the 1960s alongside major figures in minimal and conceptual art such as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson and Sol LeWitt. In the history of photography, their work is mentioned in the same breath as Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Karl Blossfeldt and August Sander, with whom the Bechers share a passion for the documentary and narrative qualities of the medium. Culturally, their brilliant black and white photographs of industrial buildings are rooted in the history of architecture and engineering, where their work provided an early research tool and resource for industrial archaeologists seeking to broaden the scope of architectural conservation. With their photographs of water towers and winding towers, blast furnaces, silos and gas tanks, over sixty of which are reproduced in this book, Bernd and Hilla Becher set new standards in perceptual aesthetics, presenting heavy industry as an object of art. perplexingly complex surroundings, they appear as monumental symbols of their own history - with all the stylistic diversity of the great masterpieces of architecture.

    More than four hundred full-colour photographs and detailed sketches highlight this look at the key stages in life of 288 plants and animals, taking an incredible journey through the year, one month at a time.

    --The New York TimesIntegrating revealing excerpts from Edward Weston's daybooks and letters with some of his most exquisite photographs, Nancy Newhall sheds light on Weston's attempts to iunderstand the strange flashes of vision that came through his camera.

    Founder and Publisher Emerita Joani Blank, then working as a sex educator and counselor, started writing her own books about sexuality at her clients' and other therapists' behest.The press currently has a list of eighteen sexual self-awareness titles, including innovative and practical non-fiction with non-judgmental techniques for strengthening sexual communication. Down There Press also publishes lively literary and photographic erotica.

    The vast Okavango wetlands support a diversity of wildlife unparalleled anywhere in Africa. Hippos, crocodiles, zebras, impalas, giraffes, lions, and some of the continent's last wild elephant herds are but a few of the creatures that find sustenance in the seasonal ebb and flow of fresh water across Botswana's arid plain. With striking, full-color images and an insightful text, this award-winning volume will captivate nature lovers, environmentalists, and photography enthusiasts alike.

    One of the first women to make her living as a photographer, Cunningham consistently experimented with a wide range of techniques during her remarkable career. Ideas without End offers the first complete retrospective of 100 of her photographs -- the majority of which have never been published -- from her earliest efforts at the turn of the century to the many now-famous images. A biographical essay by Richard Lorenz, a chronology of Cunningham's life and work, and a bibliography are also included in this superb collection, at once a beautiful portfolio and an enduring tribute to a gifted and compelling artist.

    Their photographic and literary art confronts you and draws you intimately close with images charged with powerful feelings. Though the people of Appalachia have been photographed often--by Lange, Evans, Bourke-White, Ulman and others--there has not been, until now, a photography book of this genre from an insider's perspective."--the publisher.

    170 photos, 20 in color.

    He is the author of "The Viceroy of Ouidah", "On the Black Hill", "The Songlines" and "Utz". He won the Hawthornden Prize for his "In Patagonia".

    These candid photographs are intimate, behind-the-scenes portraits of the legendary Beat writers and personalities who inspired a generation and are a vital part of the American literary landscape. (Adapted from jacket copy.)

    "... a wonderful lesson in the art of looking closely.... Friedlander has produced a photographic essay that testifies... to his virtuosity." -- Newsweek

    Essays by African-American writers - Terry McMillan, Toni Cade Bambara, Nelson George, Charles Johnson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Melvin Van Peebles - accompany production stills taken by David Lee.

    Combining the best elements of photo documentary, portraiture, and sports photography, Bingham captures Ali the public figure, in the ring and out, surrounded by the biggest stars of stage, screen, and sports.

    In each section, an introductory essay or story is followed by pairings of images and quotes, which together reveal Mother Earth’s tenderness and power, playfulness and intensity, intimate detail and vast breadth, inspiring readers to look afresh at her fragile yet powerful beauty and the interconnectedness of all life.

    Sorayama is back with his latest collection of 68 erotic female cyborgs, or Gynoids, presented in dramatic, large format pages.

    These photographs document the enduring charisma of the young actor whose phenomenal popularity is based on only three movies: East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant. 51 plates.

    Paul's Cathedral; the towers of Parliament and Westminster Abbey; and Trafalgar Square. Never before have London's architectural treasures, verdant parks, skyline, and streets been so beautifully and panoramically displayed. Gaze at spectacular vistas of the city's different neighborhoods, including some quite rustic areas, as well as its best-known streets and some hidden wonders. 160 pages (all in color), 11 3/4 x 7 1/2.

    Annotated with excerpts from Vishniac's diaries.

    Detailing skill-building techniques for the beginner as well as the practicing photographer, a practical guide covers such applications as fashion, architectural, and still-life, while presenting advice on organizing a portfolio.

    He then tells us how to photograph them as he does with such consummate skill. Here in one book is all you could hope to know about our hummingbirds north of the border.--Roger Tory Peterson

    The photography is excellent, showing the portrait genre of the medium as an intellectual endeavor as he places light, hair, face and (some) form in ways that make these redheads seem like brand-new visual discoveries.

    Features over 250 full-color photographs.

    This survey of his work includes his late portraits, as well as many of his best-known photographs and some new discoveries. There are also two revealing essays, one by Deborah Willis, author of Black Photographers, 1840-1988, which shows how VanDerZee used his artistic powers to shape a collective image of his world, and a biographical text by Rodger Birt that tells the story of the discovery of VanDerZee by the world outside Harlem in 1969.

    After a long career as a journalist, critic, novelist, and man about town in New York, Chicago, and Paris, he turned to photography full time in the 1930s, knowing many of the most interesting artists, actors, and musicians in the United States. Until his death in 1964 Van Vechten made 15,000 photographs that constitute a remarkable catalogue of the leading figures of modern arts and letters. Included in this collection are subjects as diverse as Cab Calloway and Alfred Stieglitz, George Gershwin and Gertrude Stein, Frida Kahlo and Tallulah Bankhead. The essay by Keith Davis shows Van Vechten to be a photographer of extraordinary energy and insight, one whose remarkable body of work is significant and under-recognized.

    A spectacular art book--and a magnificent gift for fans and fellow travelers. 100 full-color photos.

    The 253 works in the exhibition, many of them rare or unique and all of exceptional print quality, have been culled from the more than five thousand that comprise the legendary but seldom exhibited Gilman Paper Company Collection, the most important private collection of photographs in the world. Assembled over the past two decades, the collection is composed of images both ravishing and historically significant, setting the standard of connoisseurship in the field and illuminating the aesthetics of the medium. The first three chapters cover the period from the birth of photography in 1839 through its early maturation in the 1860s, in the locales where it first and most magnificently flourished, in Victorian England and France of the Second Empire and on tours of the Mediterranean basin and beyond, in India and Asia. Chapter Four examines photography in America during the nineteenth century and vividly charts the Civil War and the exploration of the majestic terrains of the American West. Investigations of the self and society are explored in Chapter Five, in the psychologically penetrating portraits and dreamlike landscape studies of the fin de siecle in Europe and America. And in Chapter Six, the modern era rushes into view with the provocative new vision of the twentieth century. The artists represented include such renowned British and French masters as Roger Fenton, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Nadar, Edouard Baldus, and Gustave Le Gray. The American chapter highlights the wo

    Part of the collection resulted from a 1200 mile, 100 day kayak trip around Lake Superior that Blacklock made in 1991. Accessible only by boat, many of these are places most of us will visit only through his work. The mastery of the photographer captures the magic of the lake as no one else has done.

    This striking, large format volume presents photographer Carrie Mae Weems's compelling serial works on the status and place of African Americans in the United States.

    Now available in paperback, The Enchanted Landscape, a definitive retrospective monograph of his photographs, confirms Bullock as one of this century's preeminent photographers and celebrates the incandescent brilliance of a true American sage.

    Before the advent of frequent-flier miles, eight-lane interstate highways, and cellular telephones, dream vacations took place on America's highways, and no road was greater than Route 66...Then, postcards respresented not only a form of communication, but also a way of telling your friends and family that you had, believe it or not, been there.Route 66 Postcards: Greetings from the Mother Road presents thirty of the finest classic postcards from that golden era of America's past.Come with us as we visit:Chicago's Famous Architectural SkylineThe Chain of Rocks Bridge Spanning the Mighty MississippiBen Stanley's Vintage Cafe in Miami, OklahomaThe Largest Longhorn Steer Alive, measuring over 6 feetMaisel's Quaint Indian Trading Post in AlbuquerqueThe City of AngelsEnjoy the trip, get your kicks, and don't forget to mail one to a friend!

    This book reveals the woman in photographs and works of art, combined with an insightful text. 267 photos, 17 in full color.

    An extended essay illustrated with archival photos sets the scene. Eighty full-colour images document everything from the oolichan harvest and the coming of winter to commemorating the raising of the first new totem pole of the century. Most importantly, this book records the determination, vitality, humour and implacable patience of a people who have never given up and have steadfastly refused to be assimilated.

    Cindy Sherman is unquestionably one of the most significant artists working today. Her career and her art embody two of the most important developments in art of the last decade: the impact of postmodern thinking on the art world and the rise of photography and its mass-media techniques as a powerful means of expression for fine artists. In this first presentation of the artist's complete work, leading contemporary art historian Rosalind Krauss reviews Cindy Sherman's remarkable series of photographic works - in which the artist has notoriously assumed various roles, from B-movie starlet to Old Master model - and the enormous influence these works have had on feminist thinking and on current dialogues about the strategies of contemporary art in general. Almost perversely, Krauss argues, Sherman's unsettling attempts to dissect the formation and perception of images have turned her artworks - and herself - into icons for feminists' and others' agendas. Krauss explores in depth the various approaches to Sherman's work taken by philosophers and art historians and asks if they have not often lost sight of the imagery itself - or, more specifically, the way the images are constructed. Examining Sherman's use of photographic techniques, from camera angles (the famed Centerfolds series, for example) to specific styles of lighting. Sherman's most recent, horror-show images of mannequins (known as the Sex Picture) and identifies their place in her continued out-of-body investigations. bibliography and chronology, 200 + illustrations (140 in color),numerous unpublished works, represents Sherman's complete career to date.

    

    

    This collection of Courtney Milne’s exceptional color photographs captures the astonishing variety of the prairie skies — dramatic sunsets, northern lights, rainbows, brilliant sunshine, violent storms, enormous cloud-filled firmaments, as well as the more tranquil, contemplative moods that characterize the region. Beautiful, powerful, and evocative, these images reveal the overwhelming presence of the prairie skies and their profound influence upon the lives of those who inhabit the prairie world.

    

    

    Guerrero, who spent 20 years shooting Wright s work, his homes and many key moments in his life. " Picturing Wright: An Album from Frank Lloyd Wright s Photographer" provides an illuminating portrait of Wright from the day of Guerrero s serendipitous hiring in 1939 until his last assignment just before the architect s 1959 death, a particularly momentous time in Wright s career. Guerrero captured Wright at Taliesin West in Arizona, at Taliesin in Wisconsin and later at Taliesin East his personally remodeled suite at New York s Plaza Hotel. Guerrero was there as the Arizona site evolved from a makeshift camp to an internationally renowned architectural community; for the Taliesin Fellowship s treks east to Taliesin each spring; and for life among the apprentice architects who created buildings, grew their own food, picnicked on the hillsides and thrived under the master s watchful but benevolent eye. Guerrero photographed many of Wright s later projects, among them his innovative Usonian houses and provocative public buildings. Throughout, he recorded Wright in candid poses that provide a unique, behind-the-scenes glimpse of the architectural genius. " Picturing Wright" gathers 200 of these compelling images to capture Wright in a refreshing new light. The photographs come to life through the entertaining, often humorous stories Guerrero tells to accompany them, from what Wright thought of cows to how he rearranged clients interiors to suit his own vision. An afterword to this updated edition by Dixie Legler Guerrero, Guerrero s wife, traces the photographer s life after Picturing Wright was first published. The book, a newly edited and curated edition building on the initial 1993 release (out of print for more than 20 years), has a group of new color photographs and features a foreword by noted architecture critic Martin Filler. In 1991, the American Institute of Architects named Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 1959) the greatest American architect of all time and 12 of his buildings appeared on "Architectural Record" s list of the 100 most important buildings of the previous century, including Fallingwater, the Robie House, the Johnson Administration Building, the Guggenheim, Taliesin and Taliesin West."

    John Margolies traces the entertaining and significant tradition of gas station design, history, and lore - from horse-drawn pumps at the turn of the century to the convenience stores and self-serve pumpers of today. Particular attention is given to "the golden age" from 1920 to 1940, when humble curbside stations evolved into palaces of petroleum. Then, the whole experience became much more than just filling the tank: attendants in spiffy uniforms bustled about among gleaming pumps, eye-catching signs, and strings of pennants flapping in the wind. Those days are gone now, but John Margolies brings this era back to life by combining rare archival photographs, postcards, advertisements, and other service station artifacts and collectibles with his own trademark color photographs. He delves into such diverse and unusual topics as the hoopla of the sparkling and sometimes not-so-sparkling rest room; the evolution of road maps; and the development of gas pumps from jerrybuilt hot water tanks to the sleek, computerized vending machines of today. Pump and Circumstance is the definitive book of its kind - a nostalgic and lighthearted remembrance of the gas stations of our youth.

    Potter's art of the bizarre is widely acknowledged to be the most intelligent and original work to appear in the fantasy/horror/SF realm in years. This first collection presents an extraordinary gallery of images displaying his remarkable technical virtuosity and turbulent imagination. Introduction by Stephen King. 105 color illustrations.