A richly illustrated retrospective features the artist's work from his first twenty years as a photographer and that since resuming his life as a photographer, published in conjuction with a major touring exhibition of the work of the revered curator and critic.

Product Description: Japan’s brilliant and influential postwar photographer Shomei Tomatsu (b. 1930) has created some of the most dramatic images in the history of photography. Many of his photographs have become icons of the twentieth century. This important book is the first in-depth English-language study of Tomatsu’s work...read more

Product Description: In 1977 photographers Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel sifted through thousands of photographs in the files of the Bechtel Corporation, the Beverly Hills Police Department, the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Stanford Research Institute and a hundred other corporations, American government agencies, and educational, medical and technical institutions...read more

A compilation of photographs taken by John Gutmann captures the social turbulence in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A crucial overview of an artist whose pioneering work prefigures much current cutting-edge photography. Influenced early on by William Klein and Andy Warhol, Moriyama stands as one of Japan's central postwar photographers.

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: Poignant and provocative, Crossing the Frontier is the first major photographic exploration of human use, development, and abuse of the Western landscape. Published to accompany a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition, the photographs in Crossing the Frontier are powerful, vivid, and unsentimental, spanning almost 150 years and including both found images and works by major classic and contemporary photographers...read more

Product Description: Poignant and provocative, Crossing the Frontier is the first major photographic exploration of human use, development, and abuse of the Western landscape. Published to accompany a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition, the photographs in Crossing the Frontier are powerful, vivid, and unsentimental, spanning almost 150 years and including both found images and works by major classic and contemporary photographers...read more

Profiles the homesteads of the Hudson River artists, including Thomas Cole, Frederic E. Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Asher B. Durand