There's an ethereal magic to standing beneath a dome, neck craned, looking up at a vision of the heavens created by some long-ago figure of genius. From the Pantheon to the Hagia Sophia, the power of the dome seems transcendent. Photographer David Stephenson's magnificently kaleidoscopic images of dome interiors capture this evanescent drama, and ...
Art Sinsabaugh is an American artist ripe for rediscovery. This revealing monograph explores how his wide format photographs expose the bond between humankind and the earth, as suggested by his images of wide horizons interspersed by skyscrapers, bridges, silos, and highways. Sinsabaugh studied and later taught at the renowned Institute of Design ...
"In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation." Frederick Sommer This stunning book, published in the artist's centenary, chronicles the extraordinary life and work of Frederick Sommer (1905-1999). One of the great masters and key innovators in the history of art photography, Sommer was a complex and highly creative individual. His ...
"The Origins of American Photography" chronicles the emergence of a new visual paradigm, from the introduction of the daguerreotype in 1839 through the Civil War and the exploration of the West to the rise of popular photography in the 1880s. Beautifully designed and produced, with over 600 reproductions in tritone and four-colour, this important ...
In his thirty years of activity with the camera, Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) produced a uniquely important body of work. The 15,000 photographs he made between 1932 and 1964 constitute a remarkable visual catalog of the leaders of modern arts and letters. Working strictly for his own pleasure, Van Vechten recorded the most prominent painters, ...
An intimate peek at mountain politics and the 1960 presidential primary campaign. Rich and straightforward stories of political tomfoolery, vote-buying, and eventual victory for Jack Kennedy in West Virginia's primary, often sited as the most important and vital primary win in Senator John Kennedy's run for the Whitehouse. The book features the ...
George N. Barnard (1819-1902) was one of the most important photographers in nineteenth-century America. While best known for his powerful Civil War photographs, Barnard had a long and productive career that provides an unparalleled cross-section of the formative years of American photography. Barnard's interests as a picture-maker were uniquely ...
This volume provides a much-needed reassessment of the life and work of Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985). Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Laughlin lived most of his life in New Orleans, He discovered the literature of Baudelaire and the French Symbolists in the mid-1920s and began writing poetry and Gothic fiction at that time. In 1934, ...
Journeys occupy a central role in the history of American thought, and travel photography has been a vital genre since the 1840s. The appeal of the foreign and exotic is just as strong to contemporary photographers as it was to their nineteenth-century counterparts. Our voracious appetite for images of the unfamiliar remains undiminished. This ...
This work, West Virginia Tough Boys, represents an intimate peek at mountain politics and the 1960 John F. Kennedy presidential primary campaign. Rich and straightforward stories of political tomfoolery, vote buying and the eventual victory for JFK in the Mountain State's primary, which is often sited as the most important and vital win for ...
The much-anticipated biography of America's Favorite Family of Gospel Music, the Hoppers, is available. This is the account of the Hoppers, the longtime anchors of the Gaither Homecoming videos and television shows, and award winning Gospel artists. There are also many rare and personal photos of the family from their beginnings in 1957 to today. ...
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