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An unsurpassed surge of humanity In words and images this book seeks to capture both the glory days and haunting reminde......more
Alexander Gardner is best known for his innovative photographic history of the Civil War. What is less known is the exte......more
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This glorious book of photography, featuring more than 200 magnificent National Geographic images of all 50 states, is a......more
A rarely seen collection of archival postcards, drawings, and photographs documenting London s great cemeteries. Since t......more
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"Wise and ebullient." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times The first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental......more
This book delivers an in-depth analysis of Hercule Florence, who is virtually unknown despite being among the world’s ph......more
This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive me......more
Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis: from Slavery to Jim Crow presents a rich interpretation of A......more
Recover the stories of long-overlooked American women who, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home, became c......more
An elegant new edition of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s classic black-and-white photographic study of industrial buildings. D......more
The turn of the 20th century seemed full of promise for Germany. The suburbs may have teemed with tenements to house the......more
This volume chronicles the journey of Abraham I. Blum from induction to training in Mississippi and Louisiana, the Mojav......more
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This innovative text recounts the history of photography through a series of thematically structured chapters. Designed ......more
These rediscovered Photochrom and Photostint postcard images from the private collection of Marc Walter were produced by......more
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- Hands the reader the tools to decode key photographs by the greatest photographers - An overview of the history of pho......more
Dynamic Form traces how intermedial experiments shape modernist texts from 1900 to 1950. Considering literature alongsid......more
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Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies ......more
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Photography represents a medium in which the moment of death can be captured and preserved, the image becoming a mechani......more
Following the Second World War, a new generation of politicians and planners across North America set out to reimagine t......more
In Embodying Relation Allison Moore examines the tensions between the local and the global in the art photography moveme......more
A picture-rich field guide to American photography, from daguerreotype to digital. We are all photographers now, with ca......more
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While nineteenth-century photography is usually thought of in terms of black and white images, intense experimentation w......more
While nineteenth-century photography is usually thought of in terms of black and white images, intense experimentation w......more
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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility comprehensively addresses questions about who is responsible and how......more
A compelling and innovative reflection on the way photography captures and condenses time Two photographs, connected by ......more
"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but who wants to spend his life in a cradle?" Konstantin Tsiolkovsky The Baikonur ......more
How to read photographs: the new essential primer In 1973, John Szarkowski, the revered director of photography at the M......more
The History of Photography Looked at Again. What would it look like if we could retell the history of photography? By pu......more
The Cultural Revolution hit Tibet like a typhoon in 1966. Red Guard cadres destroyed irreplaceable cultural artifacts, e......more
A glimpse inside the darkroom--and into the strategies of renowned photographers This handsome volume offers an innovati......more
Significant and iconic photographs created over the last 100 years provide an essential history and new interpretation o......more
In Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace, award-winning geographer William Wyckoff celebrates the photographic legacy of No......more
Long before he rose to prominence and attained international acclaim for his revolutionary work with America’s abandoned......more
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Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed Brit......more
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Working Together accompanies the exhibition of African American photography to be presented by the Virginia Museum of Fi......more
How photography served as both source and foil for the birth of impressionism From the first announcement in 1839 of the......more
In Unfixed Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial political imagination in Francoph......more
In Unfixed Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial political imagination in Francoph......more
It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography s history in the Western world......more
On the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia from November ......more
This classic surrealist photobook pioneered the imagery of the domestic uncanny First edited and published by Marcel Mar......more
The story of Hong Kong is one of almost constant change. From a sleepy fishing community, Hong Kong - now a Special Admi......more
The Insubordination of Photography is the first book to analyze how various collectives, organizations, and independent ......more
This compelling book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped photography from the invention of the daguer......more
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In Photographic Returns Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments of racial crisis come to be known photographi......more
In Projecting Citizenship, Gabrielle Moser gives a comprehensive account of an unusual project produced by the British g......more
Born in Hungary in 1928, Gabor Szilasi is one of Quebec s best-known living photographers. Soon after settling in Montre......more
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During the first two decades of the twentieth century, the St. Louis Street Department generated one of the most extensi......more
The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame is considered to be one of the finest university art museums in ......more
Naomi Rosenblum’s classic history of photography traces the evolution of this young art form chronologically and themati......more
A milestone work that examines the democratic idea of photography and its expansion in common culture, particularly in t......more
On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this fascinating visual history explores the relics abandoned wh......more
Rediscover the world through some of the earliest travel photographs ever taken in this unrivaled collection of images t......more