- Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs
By: Ansel Adams
This book is a chronological compilation of many of Ansel Adams’ photographs. From his first photos in the 1920’s to his final photos in the 1960’s, this volume shows the evolution of a man who is still considered one of the top photographers of the 20th century.
- Chicago Under Glass: Early Photographs From the Chicago Daily News
By: Mark Jacob and Richard Cahan
Old photographs, forever frozen in glass negatives, are housed in the Chicago History Museum. This book brings early 20th century Chicago to life by publishing these images, some for the first time.
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot:
By: Ashley Gilbertson
Twenty-five year old photographer Ashley Gilbertson risks life and limb to capture candid shots of the war in Iraq. His photos show true behind-the-scenes accounts of life behind enemy lines.
- Israel Through My Lens
By: David Rubinger with Ruth Corman
David Rubinger is an acclaimed photojournalist, and the recipient of the Israel Prize for services to the media. In this book, he chronicles his life through pictures and antidotes reflecting on his time in Israel, and the changes which occurred there.
- Creature
By: Andrew Zuckerman
Photographer Andrew Zuckerman's strikingly detailed images of animals from around the world are as delightful as they are inspiring. This collection of astonishing studio portraits of 175 wild creatures from baby leopards to parrots, bears, mandrills, and many more are stunningly foregrounded against white backgrounds, depicting their subjects with rare sensitivity, insight, humor, and wonder. Creature is a beautiful and thought-provoking look at the fragile wonders of the natural world.
- Floral Art Structures
By: Gil Boyard
Floral structures are the in-thing. They make a base for decoration and can be used over and over again. Gil Boyard and Muriel le Couls, both Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Craftsman of France), designed structures for tables, buffets and halls. Firstly they elaborately present the structure in situ. Afterwards they decorate them in three completely different ways, in order to demonstrate the countless possibilities for re-use. This book is brimming with creative ideas. Text in English and French.
- A World History of Photography
By: Naomi Rosenblum
A World History of Photography encompasses the entire range of the medium, from the camera lucida to the latest computer technology, and from Europe and the Americas to the Far East. It investigates all aspects of photography - aesthetic, documentary, commercial, and technical - while placing it in historical context. Included among the more than 800 photographs by men and women are both little-known and celebrated masterpieces, arranged in stimulating juxtapositions that illuminate their visual power.
- Kandinsky
By: Ulrike Becks-Malorny
Wassily Kandinsky was undoubtedly one of the most exciting artists of the twentieth century. He brought an equal passion and commitment to his work as a painter, a theoretician and a teacher of art. After conventional beginnings in Munich, he devoted his intellectual and artistic energies to pioneering new dimensions of expression in art. He ultimately arrived at an abstract style of painting based on the inner properties of colour and form.
- Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People
By: Hamish Bowles
This unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens—whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue and Vogue Living over the past two decades but also on images that have never before been published. Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People takes you to these style-makers’ private realms around the world, captured by such celebrated photographers as Miles Aldridge, Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Oberto Gili, François Halard, Horst P. Horst, Annie Leibovitz, Sheila Metzner, Mario Testino, Tim Walker, and Bruce Weber, among many others. Their dazzling photographs bring to life interiors and exteriors, modern and classical, that are both inspiring and transporting.
- Pop Art
By: Tilman Osterwold
“Everything is beautiful,” raved Andy Warhol, in raptures at the glamour of modern life, consumer society, and the world of the media and its stars; his proclamation can be considered the maxim of the pop generation, which included artists Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenberg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann, and Richard Hamilton, among others. The pop artists of the 1960s had a profound effect on the cloth of art history and their influence can be clearly seen in art today. Here, Tilman Osterwald explores the styles, themes, and sources of pop art around the world.
- Spectrum 13: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
By: Arnie Fenner and Cathy Fenner
For 13 years the Spectrum annual has been the preeminent showcase for fantasy and sci-fi art and an invaluable resource for art directors and illustrators. Drawn from work created for books, comics, magazines, art galleries, advertisements, and the portfolios of some of the finest fantasy artists working today, the illustrations in this collection extend the boundaries of the imagination and explore new realms of creativity.
- The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerrotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885
By: Keith F. Davis and Jane L. Aspinwall
An exceptional 'key reference' book for the formative years till the era of the dry - plate in America. Author Keith F. Davis demonstrates various key themes and genres in early American photography, placed in a sociological / historical context. The various chapters offer new essential reading on photography and its first processes, daguerreotypes, calotypes, ambrotypes, albumin, collodion, and more.
- American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By: Frances Gruber Stafford
The Metropolitan Museum’s preeminent collection of early colonial furniture is expertly documented in this long-awaited publication. It covers the full spectrum of furniture forms made during the 17th and early 18th centuries—from chairs and other seating to tables, boxes, various types of chests and cupboards, and desks.
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- Maps: Finding Our Place in the World
Edited By: James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow, Jr.
The title of this book really says it all; it is a book about maps. This book gives a pictorial study of maps and the way they are used in the understanding of history. From lands to the heavens, this book shows how maps are not only informational but also interesting.
- Sustainable Landscape Construction
By: J. William Thompson and Kim Sorvig
This book shows environmentally friendly ways to brighten the world through landscape. From maintaining a healthy site to repairing damage, this book uses scientific research which responds to the ever growing concern for the environment.
- Circus
By: Bruce Davidson
One of the world's most influential photographers, Bruce Davidson, takes readers inside three midcentury big tops in images that are poetic, realistic and profound. He reveals not only the swiftly vanishing cultural phenomenon of the circus, but what might be called the eternal human circus. Most of these pictures are published here for the first time.
- One Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity
By: Nicolas Hulot
A big subject embraced by a big, beautiful book. Hulot, a well-traveled French journalist, has assembled breathtaking color photographs by a superb cast of international photographers to create an astonishing pictorial survey of the planet, ranging from close-ups of the tiniest of creatures to glorious panoramic landscapes. The images are powerful.
- Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome: Drawing Course
By: Gerald Ackerman
This book is a complete reprint of the fabled but rare Drawing Course (Cours de Dessin) of Charles Bargue and Jean-Léon Gérôme, published in Paris in the 1860's and 1870's. For most of the next half-century, this set of nearly 200 masterful lithographs was copied by art students worldwide before they attempted to draw from a live model. This book will be valuable to a wide range of artists, students, art historians and collectors, even as it introduces them to the hitherto-neglected master, Charles Bargue.
- Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery
By: Charles J. Kibert
In this revised edition, Charles Kibert delivers a detailed, and passionate, overview of the entire process of green building, covering the theory, history, state of the industry, and best practices in green building. Kibert uses not only the dominant LEED assessment system, but includes such newer ones as Green Globes and several noteworthy building assessment systems from other countries.
- Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art
By: Jeffrey Spier
Picturing the Bible explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images did these Christians use to express their faith openly? Were they the first believers to part with Mosaic law by creating “graven images”? What Jewish and pagan sources, if any, did they look to for inspiration? When did they begin to depict the life of Jesus? This beautifully illustrated book takes up such questions, revealing the story of how Christian art began through insights from recent discoveries.
- Michelangelo
By: Frank Zollner
Renaissance man Michelangelo as never seen before. Before reaching the tender age of thirty, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted David and Pieta, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. Like fellow Florentine Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo was a shining star of the Renaissance and a genius of consummate virtuosity. His achievements as a sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and architect are unique- no artist before or after him has ever produced such a vast, multi-faceted, and wideranging oeuvre. Only a handful of other painters and sculptors have attained a comparable social status and enjoyed a similar artistic freedom.
- Leonardo
By: Frank Zollner
The quintessential “Renaissance man,” Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is still recognized today for his accomplishments in science, architecture, and philosophy, as well as his artistic masterworks. Full-color reproductions and thorough text provide a quick yet solid introduction to this master.
- The Art of the Snowflake
By: Kenneth Libbrecht
The perfect geometry and exquisite beauty of nature is nowhere so clear to us as in the snowflake. But how have we been able to appreciate this infinitesimal wonder in all its crystalline glory? This book, as much a work of art as a testament to science, reveals how one of the snowflake’s most inspired photographers came to such intimate knowledge of his craft and its fleeting focus. Beautiful pictures illustrate Kenneth Libbrecht’s story of the microphotography of snow crystals, from the pioneering work of Wilson Bentley in the 1890s right up to Ken’s own innovations in our age of digital images. A breathtaking look at the works of art that melt in an instant, this is a book to page through and savor, season after season.
- Pop Art
By: David McCarthy
Mass culture, popular taste, and kitsch-previously considered outside the limits of fine art-were the inspiration for and provocative themes of Pop Art, a movement that enjoyed great prominence in the late 1950s and 1960s. Rejecting the idea that art and life should be separated, artists in both the United States and Britain-among them Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, and Richard Hamilton-used mass-produced objects and photographic images to make a blatant connection between art and the postwar world of consumerism.
- Fantasy Art Now
By: Martin McKenna
Whether you are a fantasy artist looking for ideas and inspiration, or a fan of the genre interested in following the work of the finest, freshest, and most exciting talents in the world of fantasy art today, Fantasy Art Now gives you all you need in one lush full-color volume.
- American Encounters
By: Angela Miller, Janet C. Burlo, Bryan Wolf, and Jennifer L. Roberts
American Encounters is a long-awaited dynamic new narrative of the history of American art that focuses on historical encounters among diverse cultures, upon broad structural transformations such as the rise of the middle classes and the emergence of consumer and mass culture, and on the fluid exchanges between “high” art and vernacular expression. The text emphasizes the intersections among cultures and populations, as well as the influences, borrowings, and appropriations that have enriched and vitalized our collective cultural heritage.
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