As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction, These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose--what adults make of that pose may be the issue. Sally Mann's work is in the collections of major museums across the country. Haunting black-and-white studies of children, shown here as surprisingly sensual and often distant beings, the magical keepers of some obscure and vaguely frightening secrets.--Karen Lipson, Newsday

    By the 17th century, the complex pictorial language of symbols which encoded its theories and secrets had reached a highpoint of elaboration and sophistication. With the spread of printing, the iconography of alchemy began to flower as never before.

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    "This anthology of essays on writing and illustrating for children reveals a formidable intelligence and a remarkable degree of empathy with fellow toilers in the field."--Publisher's Weekly

    The eighty plates contained in Night Work, beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper, span over two decades of work and confirm Kenna's position as one of the most compelling landscape photographers working today. Michael Kenna's photographs have been shown in numerous exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan. His work is represented in such permanent collections as The National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; and The Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague. Night Work is published to coincide with an exhibition at The Friends of Photography, San Francisco. It includes texts by Deborah Klochko and Bill Jay, and an interview with the artist by Tim Baskerville.

    Known for his steamy and luxurious photographs of nudes, Mapplethorpe has observed of his work that it "is about seeing--seeing things like they haven't been seen before." 45 color and 85 duotone illustrations.

    Von Bruenchenhein (1910-1983) was an isolate or "outsider" artist from Wisconsin who produced several thousand works of art over a 40-year period. His fantastic oeuvre, discovered only upon his death in 1983, included hundreds of oil paintings depicting a universe of strange exploding shapes, imaginary landscapes, nightmarish creatures, and devastating nuclear blasts. He had also created countless chicken-bone sculptures shaped like towers and tiny thrones, ceramic crowns and vessels meticulously ornamented with repeating leaf designs, reams of poetry, pinup-style photographs of his wife Marie in exotic costumes, make-believe musical instruments, and gigantic concrete masks. This book includes an essay on the artist and his work by Joanne Cubbs, a selection of poetry and theoretical writings by Von Bruenchenhein himself, and a catalogue listing of works by the artist in the permanent collection of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.