Product Description: Between 1859 and 1905, a number of photographers, working from the Maghreb to Turkey, collectively amassed a vast documentation of the region's landscape, towns and monuments. Gardens of Sand unites 90 original photographs, mostly hitherto unpublished, by photographers such as James Robertson, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt, G...read more

Product Description: The Quing Dynasty, which spanned three centuries, from 1644 to 1911, was the last ruling dynasty of China. Before the collapse of the empire ended 2,000 years of Imperialism and ushered in a time of political and economic strife, artists and artisans turned out rich paintings, porcelain plates, vases and photographs--the last having arrived in the country in the 1840s...read more

Product Description: Between 1888 and 1927 Eugne Atget meticulously photographed Paris and its environs, capturing in thousands of photographs the city's parks, streets, and buildings as well as its diverse inhabitants. His images preserved the vanishing architecture of the ancien rgime as Paris grew into a modern capital and established Atget as one of the twentieth century's greatest and most revered photographers...read more

Product Description: An amazingly handsome volume of panoramic images of nighttime India, pulsing with exotic surprises like no other country in the world. Driven by Foster's passion of India, this book marks the fiftieth anniversary since the artist began photographing there...read more

Product Description: Eugene Atget’s photographs of Paris between 1898 and 1927 form the bedrock of an American modernist photographic vision. In 1927, Berenice Abbott, one of the century’s most renowned photographers in her own right, became the largest collector of Atget’s work when she purchased his estate...read more

Product Description: Edward S. Curtis was the greatest photographer of Native Americans that this country has ever produced. Curtis photographed more than eighty Native American tribes at what for many was the penultimate moment of their existence in a period spanning more than three decades...read more

Product Description: Walker Evans was perhaps the greatest "documentary artist" American has ever known. In a career that lasted forty-six years (1928-1974) Evans profoundly changed the way Americans looked at themselves, their social causes, and their country...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Images of persons and personages reveal the influence of British pageantry against a backdrop of Indian customs, manners, and poverty in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

The Japanese people and their customs and culture, as well as the cities and countryside, are captured in over 100 photographs taken during the period of Japan's transition from a nearly feudal to a modern society

Collection of early photographs depicting the lives and customs of an ancient people and their exotic, often starkly beautiful, land