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Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982
Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982
by Daniell Cornell
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Southern California's pool culture is the subject of this unique and luscious collection of photographs that explore the parallel evolution of an iconic symbol and an artistic genre. Since the end of World War II, Southern California's backyard pools... (read more)

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Bones Books and Bell Jars: Photographs of the Mutter Museum Collection
Bones Books and Bell Jars: Photographs of the Mutter Museum Collection
by Andrea Baldeck
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Bones Books & Bell Jars, a new photography book by fine art photographer Andrea Baldeck, offers a contemporary fusion of art and medicine, recalling an era when artists and physicians collaborated to educate aspiring medical students and share... (read more)

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Nudes I
Nudes I
by Annette Crandall
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This collection showcases images by some of the world's leading photographers, including Herb Ritts, Sheila Metzner, Francois Gillet, Matthew Ralston, Toshyuke Ohashi, Joyce Tenneson, Jon Ortner, Uwe Ommer, Christian Vogt, Robert Farber, Shintaro... (read more)

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Driving Lantau: Whisper of an Island
Driving Lantau: Whisper of an Island
by Yin Shan Lo
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The largest of the islands that make up the greater Hong Kong area, Lantau remains decidedly separate from the urban sprawl of Hong Kong island and the Kowloon peninsula, boasting a wide array of native animals and plants as well as numerous longterm... (read more)

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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
by Peter Menzel
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The age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habits worldwide. HUNGRY PLANET profiles 30 families from... (read more)

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Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures, 1971-2005
Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures, 1971-2005
by Gilbert & George
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Gilbert & George are among the foremost artists of their generation. A collaborative team, they were early to explore performance as an art form, and early to explore the idea that every aspect of daily life could be classed as such. They were early to... (read more)

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Walker Evans: Signs (J. Paul Getty Museum Publications Series)
Walker Evans: Signs (J. Paul Getty Museum Publications Series)
by Walker Evans
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Walker Evans photographed signs throughout every phase of his career. From the 1920s to the time of his death in 1975, Evans was obsessed with the signage he found in modern America--from billboards to gas station pumps to street graffiti to handmade... (read more)

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Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning
Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning
by Boyd Norton
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Award-winning author-photographer Boyd Norton draws upon his extensive experiences and photographs of the Serengeti ecosystem, including the Serengeti National Park, Kenya's Masai Mara, and Ngorongoro Crater. Using thrilling firsthand accounts and... (read more)

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Photography Reader (03 Edition)
Photography Reader (03 Edition)
by Liz (ed.) Wells
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"The Photography Reader" is a comprehensive collection of twentieth-century writings on photography- its production, its uses and effects. Encompassing essays by photographers including Edward Weston and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and key thinkers from Walter... (read more)

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Lady Gaga X Terry Richardson
Lady Gaga X Terry Richardson
by Terry Richardson
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In this book of original, behind-the-scenes photographs, acclaimed photographer Terry Richardson follows superstar Lady Gaga during one year of her life, from Lollapalooza through the final show of her Monster Ball tour. During the time period he... (read more)

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Paris: Portrait of a City
Paris: Portrait of a City
by Jean-claude Gautrand
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The vivid history of the capital of love and photography A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It was on the banks of the Seine that Niepce and Daguerre officially gave birth to... (read more)

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Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography
Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography
by Anne Wilkes Tucker
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Recently contemporary Korean art has garnered significant international recognition, in part for the work of photographers Atta Kim and Bae Bien-U. Now, this richly illustrated book brings their work together with that of forty other up-and-coming Korean... (read more)

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Occupants
Occupants
by Henry Rollins
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For the past twenty-five years, Henry Rollins has searched out the most desolate corners of the Earth—from Iraq to Afghanistan, Thailand to Mali, and beyond—articulating his observations through music and words, on radio and television, and in... (read more)

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Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978
Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978
by Steve Crist
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One afternoon in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland drove up Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles and encountered skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of the canyon. Immediately transfixed by their grace and... (read more)

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Street Photography Now
Street Photography Now
by Sophie Howarth
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Included are luminaries such as Magnum members Bruce Gilden, Martin Parr, and Alex Webb (who are still "seeing what is invisible to others," as Robert Frank put it), along with an international group of emerging photographers whose individual biographies... (read more)

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Master Breasts
Master Breasts
by Francine Prose
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The most revealing look at breasts. Photographs of breasts are everywhere: in museums, on book covers, in fashion ads, and on posters. Alluring symbols of womanhood, breasts have fascinated generations of image makers. Here, for the first time between... (read more)

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New York September 11
New York September 11
by Magnum
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The date, September 11, 2001, now has a certain permanence, graven on ourcollective memory, like a very few others December 7, 1941, and November 22, 1963, dates which seem to separate yesterday from today, and then from now. They become the rarest of... (read more)

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The Contact Sheet
The Contact Sheet
by Steve Crist
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Behind every great photograph is a story. For every noteworthy image there are many more images taken before and after the moment that are often left unseen to anyone but the photographer himself. Featuring a diverse collection of original contact sheets... (read more)

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Versailles: A Private Invitation
Versailles: A Private Invitation
by Guillaume Picon
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Exquisite photography of one of Frances most significant historical landmarks. The largest château in the world still holds a thousand and one hidden secrets. While Versailles has been described in detail since the reign of Louis XIV, numerous... (read more)

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Under Antarctic Ice: The Photographs of Norbert Wu
Under Antarctic Ice: The Photographs of Norbert Wu
by Norbert Wu
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Wu's stunning collection of photos captures a world few people know about or have ever seen--a world brimming with life, just a few feet beneath the icy wasteland of Antarctica, the last terrestrial wilderness on the planet.... (read more)

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