Ansel Adams at 100 is the most significant book yet on the great photographer's work, edited and with text by legendary curator John Szarkowski. John Szarkowski has painstakingly selected what he considers Adams' greatest work - 114 images - and has attempted to find the single best photographic print of each. He notes, 'It includes many ...
A beautiful collection of Adams' work, hand-picked by himself--a last statement portfolio to represent his life's work intended to be exhibited throughout the country as The Museum Set. 76 duotones.
Originally published in 1973, this marvelous collection of photographs with accompanying texts by the revered late Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski has long been recognized as a classic. Reissued in 1999-with new digital duotones-this volume is now available to a new generation of readers. This is a picture book, and its ...
Harry Callahan (1912 - 1999) was one of the most influential photographic artists of the twentieth century. A master of modernist experimentation, Callahan explored a range of subjects - from landscapes to city streets to portraits of his wife - and techniques throughout his career. Beautifully designed and produced, this book focuses on ...
Revered photographer John Szarkowski draws from an exquisite selection entirely from his collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and discusses each photograph with intelligence and humor in the clear and entirely accessible language for which he is known. 100 tritone photos.
Irving Penn is one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. His elegant and innovative photographs are the subject of this volume. It includes some 200 images.
In 1962 John Szarkowski accepted the position of Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Before that time he had received two Guggenheim Fellowships for his own photography, had been given exhibitions by The Walker Art Center, The George Eastman House and the Art Institute of Chicago and had published two books of his ...
Some of America's most renowned photographers are featured in this landmark project. Michael Book, Lois Conner, Judith Joy Ross, Dawoud Bey, Linda Butler, Lee Friedlander, Gregory Conniff, Frank Gohlke, Larry Fink, Douglas Lucak, Nicholas Nixon, and Barbara Bosworth explore Cleveland from the Cuyahoga River to Lake Erie, through local ...
World-renowned for her iconic black-and-white street photographs, New York City's visual poet laureate Helen Levitt also possesses a little-known archive of color work, which has been collected for the first time in Slide Show, her third powerHouse Books monograph. In 1959, and again in 1960, Helen Levitt received grants from the Guggenheim ...
"Russell Lee's sense of the possibilities of photography was almost as generous, open, and democratic as photography itself. His appetite as a spectator was as wide as the prairie, and his sympathy for his fellows appeared seamless." --John Szarkowski, from the foreword Russell Lee is widely acclaimed as one of the most outstanding documentary ...
In 1999 photographer Thomas Roma found himself within the walls of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison, one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, doing a special photographic project for Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory. During downtime Roma wandered through this nineteenth-century fortress, walking in and out of many of its seven hundred ...
Known particularly for her luminous still lifes, Jan Groover has achieved a reputation among viewers, critics and collectors for her contribution to contemporary fine-art photography. This book features a selection of her work. Groover's early photographs - close-up and larger than life - brought critical acclaim and popularity, and although her ...
Offering a vivid sense of rural life in the Civil War era, "Mr. Bristol's Barn" pairs eloquent photographs of a 19th-century barn owned by Abel Bristol with moving selections from the diary of Bristol's neighbor and contemporary, Philo Blinn. 33 duotone photos.
In beautifully reproduced photographs, the life story of one of America's best-loved artists: six decades of Adams's work as teacher, musician, crusader, photographer, environmentalist. The illuminating text is by John Szarkowski.
The personal world of the photographer at Lake George in the Adirondack mountains of New York State, where he spent summers at a family farmhouse. Photographs of landscapes and people, including his wife Georgia O'Keeffe.
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