Product Description: Lee Miller (1907-77) was not only one of the great beauties of the twentieth century but one of its most remarkable photographic artists, performing with brilliance on both sides of the camera. Miller conceived and exhibited many Surrealist-inspired photographs of haunting originality; she was a portraitist of genius and an inspired and daring war photographer...read more

Product Description: In 1960, after spending an intense year photographing a notorious Brooklyn street gang called The Jokers, Bruce Davidson decided that he needed to get away from the tension, depression and potential violence connected to that work...read more

Product Description: American-born Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) was one of the most gifted and internationally admired graphic artists of the 20th century. His work-synonymous with radical innovation, superb use of color, and accomplished design-dominated the posters seen around Britain between 1920 and 1950...read more

Product Description: Things, published in association with London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and drawn from its superb photography collection, showcases the work of artists, scientists, reporters, and advertising and editorial photographers. Ranging over 150 years, it includes the images of ninety photographers, from Fox Talbot and Julia Margaret Cameron to Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus, and that of a new generation on the cutting edge of recent technology...read more

Photographs of London, landscapes, and nudes are accompanied by a discussion of Bill Brandt's artistic career

Product Description: In the 1980s, Andre Kertesz encouraged Dorothy Bohm to switch to color film. Immediately thereafter, torn advertising posters, graffiti and vernacular murals began to emerge as one of the persistent themes in her work. If their initial appeal was their seductive visuality, their deeper significance arguably stems from her history as a Lithuanian refugee who lost touch with most of her family when she immigrated there as a teenager in 1939...read more

Product Description: In 1996 Bruce Bernard was commissioned to create a collection of photographs for an eminent private collector. After several years of trawling through galleries, art fairs and auction houses he settled on 100 images that "truly stimulated and satisfied" him...read more

A catalog of an exhibition held at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (view table of contents)

Product Description: The theme of Walls and Windows encompasses a wide range of subject matter: mannequins in shop windows, fragments of torn posters, shop fronts, urban building sites. Despite their diversity, the photographs in this collection display some of the central preoccupations of Dorothy Bohm's work: an acute sense of observation for the detail of everyday life; a fascination with surfaces and reflections, and an eye for painterly textures; a subtle, often witty exploration of spatial ambiguity; and the ability to capture the moment, to encapsulate in a single image the mood of a place...read more

Product Description: Public art museums and photography developed at a comparable historic moment in the mid-19th century. No museum had a more interesting relationship with photography in that period than the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Known originally as the South Kensington Museum, the institution not only collected photographs as early as 1853 but commissioned them for documentary purposes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has one of the finest and oldest collections of photography in the world. In this fascinating book, Mark Haworth-Booth, Curator of Photographs at the V&A, offers the first comprehensive introduction to this extensive and impressive collection...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From pictures of Lincoln''s assassins to Weeg ee''s blood-drenched murder victims and the thousands of pris oner portraits taken by the Khmer Rouge, Police Pictures exp lores both manipulation of images and the policing function of photography. ' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Paul Strand was more than a great artist: he discovered that photography had the potential to be the most dynamic medium of the twentieth century. Purity, elegance, and passion are the hallmarks of Strand's imagery. This inaugural volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series presents forty-one of Strand's greatest photographs, drawn from a career that spanned six decades...read more

Product Description: The subject of this book, which is the first to be devoted to a single photograph, is Camille Silvy's remarkable River Scene. Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first exhibited in France in 1859, the photograph is accompanied here by newly commissioned color photographs by noted photographer Stephen Shore...read more

Shows examples of Strand's portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and abstract photography and offers a brief appreciation of his work.

Photographs of London, landscapes, and nudes are accompanied by a discussion of Bill Brandt's artistic career

Gathers pictures by important Victorian photographers, including Julia Margaret Cameron and William Henry Fox Talbot, and traces the development of photography from the daguerreotype and calotype to the beginning of the modern era

Product Description: Introduced to the British public in 1839 by its inventor, William Henry Fox Talbot, photography quickly took its place-alongside explorations of new territories, discoveries in science, and expanding horizons in the arts-as an authentic wonder in an age of wonders...read more