Product Description: "German photo artist Thomas Ruff is a master of conceptual serial photography. He made a name for himself in the early eighties with oversized, superrealistic color portraits of his artist friends and as a pioneer of the Diasec process used to mount photographic images onto acrylic glass, thereby obviating frames, liberating photography from the print gallery and paving the way to the "grand gallery" museum walls for large-format photos...read more

Product Description: One of Germany's greatest modernist writers-he is often called "the German James Joyce"-Arno Schmidt (1914-1979) used photography to document settings for prospective stories, to compose still lifes and to portray landscapes around his hometown, Bargeld in northern Germany...read more

Product Description: William Eggleston's standing as one of the masters of colour photography is widely acknowledged. But the gradual steps by which he transformed from an unknown into a leading artist are less well known. Steidl has undertaken to trace these steps in an ambitious series of publications...read more

Product Description: With his photographs of telephone cables rigged in an otherwise pristine Vietnamese jungle, or utility poles and wires strung across Niigata's snowy landscape, Leipzig-based photographer Hans-Christian Schink (born 1961) has documented the clash between civilization and nature for over three decades, exerting a major influence on the German photographic scene...read more

Product Description: A few years ago in the archives of the William Eggleston Artistic Trust in Memphis, a box was found containing Eggleston's earliest photography - remarkably in black and white. The photos were subsequently exhibited at Cheim & Read gallery in New York and sold...read more

Product Description: Ruhr Views presents portraits of the Ruhr valley region in West Germany by 11 internationally renowned cross-generation photographers: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Joachim Brohm, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Andreas Gursky, Jitka Hanzlova, Candida Hofer, Matthias Koch, Elisabeth Neudorfl, Jorg Sasse and Thomas Struth...read more

Product Description: Elvis’s Graceland, a freezer stuffed with food, a Gulf gasoline sign standing in a deserted rural landscape—these are only a few of the iconic images captured by the “democratic camera” of photographer William Eggleston. Not only has he drawn upon images so telling of American culture, he has produced them with an intensity and balance of color that have helped elevate the entire field of color photography to a fine art, especially since his 1976 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art...read more

Product Description: Andreas Beyer says of artists' workplaces, "Places where important works were created have always been fascinating one is immediately on the hunt for clues of the persona and the greatness of what has been made there, trying to locate them on the desk, the walls, the chairs, even in the curtains...read more

Product Description: Is there such a thing as a unique “Zürich photography”? Is it possible that a photographic viewpoint can develop from a particular place that distinguishes itself from the rest of contemporary photography? Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Zürich School of Art and Design’s photography department, Photography, Made in Zürich documents how the illustrious program forged a niche in the international art world and cultivated Switzerland’s foremost photographers, including internationally renowned artists such as Werner Bischof, René Burri, and Ernst Scheidegger...read more

Product Description: Is there such a thing as a unique "Zurich photography"? Is it possible that a special photographic viewpoint develops from a particular place? What differentiates and distinguishes it from other forms of contemporary photography, and how does it position itself internationally? Published on the occasion of the department of photography’s 75th anniversary at the Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung in Zurich, this book pursues the answers to these questions...read more

Product Description: 'At the moment, photography is in a phase of change in which an altered conception of the documentary factor is emerging. It is not so much a matter of the portrayal or representation of reality, but rather of an artistically well-grounded idea of the world...read more

Product Description: One of the most powerful people in the art world--and the only Canadian on that list--Ydessa Hendeles is renowned not only as one of the foremost supporters of contemporary art but also as a brilliant curator and collector. The collection she has assembled under the auspices of the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation is one of the most original, prescient, and highly regarded contemporary art collections in the world--if one of the lesser known...read more

Product Description: This work accompanies Tate Modern's first exhibition of photography, Summer 2003. It reproduces over 200 photographs by the century's most important photographers, together with essays and biographies of the photographers featured.

Product Description: Dag Alveng's beautiful black and white photographs are a study, as the title suggests, in light. Taken at the Norwegian seashore, these landscapes, seascapes, and family scenes all have something to say about the play of sun and shadow and about the power of light in the Northern summer...read more

Product Description: Thomas Struth (born 1954) began his career making cityscapes, jungles and portraits. In the 1980s, after a meeting with psychoanalyst Inge Hartmann, he branched into portraiture. This book presents a selection of Struth's solo and group portraits from the 1990s.

Product Description: Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams' The New West signaled a paradigm shift in the photographic representation of American landscapes. Foregoing photography's traditional role of romanticizing the Western landscape, Adams focused instead on the construction of tract and mobile homes, subdivisions, shopping centers and urban sprawl in the suburbs of Colorado Springs and the Denver area...read more

Product Description: Contributions by Thomas Weski. Text by Heinz Liesbrock. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: with text by Thomas Janzon Albert Renger-Patzsch, together with August Sander and Karl Blossfeldt, was one of the undisputed pioneers of twentieth-century German photography. Indeed, what Sander achieved in portrait photography and Blossfeldt in plant photography, Renger-Patzsch achieved in his renderings of objects and the material world...read more

Product Description: Louise Lawler documents the journey of artwork from studio to gallery to auction to museum or collection. An invaluable assemblage of photographs and accompanying analysis.