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Edouard Boubat: The Monograph 4 reviews
Edouard Boubat
Harry N. Abrams, 2004
far away from all modern disturbances ...
+ Excellent
+ The Most Beautiful Collection I Have Seen
+ Edouard Boubat; The Monograph
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William Wegman : Fashion Photographs4 reviews
Ingrid Sisch
Harry N. Abrams, 2000
Runway Models-- Look Out For Some Heavy Competition!
+ Fun, Fashion, and Photography: Putting on the Dog!
+ Wonderful photographic blend of comedy with fashion insights
+ Gotta love this guy's work!
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Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture Monograph)5 reviews
Robert Coles
Aperture, 1998
Photographs of a Lifetime
+ a beautiful collection
+ Dorothea Lange
+ Photographs of a Lifetime Book
+ Beautiful Photographic Collection
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In Focus: Hill and Adamson: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (In Focus)
David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson
Getty Publications, 1999
Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium. During their brief but prolific association (1843-1848), Hill and Adamsom experimented with some of the earliest calotype processes, creating hundreds of portraits, ...
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Lewis W. Hine: Children at Work (Photography)3 reviews
Vicki Goldberg
Prestel Publishing, 1999
This book makes history alive and real.
+ Lewis W. Hine, Children At Work
+ A very Good Book
This book is wonderful. You gaze at the pictures and the children seem to stare back at you wanting to tell you their story. I teach social studies and wanted to show my students what child labor in factories and mills was actually like.It is disturbing to witness these barefoot, dirty children ...
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Julia Margaret Cameron's Women4 reviews
Sylvia Wolf
Yale University Press, 1998
Not merely an expensive coffee table book.
+ a splendid collection!
+ An Often missed Pre-Raphaelite Vision
+ An Often missed Pre-Raphaelite Vision
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Harry Callahan (Aperture Masters of Photography)1 review
Jonathan Williams
Aperture, 1999
A Concise Compilation
Harry Callahan was the most influential and important figure in photography throughout the last half of the 20th century. This edition of his work shows chronologically how Callahan's approach to the medium evolved and changed, while his vision remained ever faithful to modernity. The book ...
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Paris 6 reviews
Robert Doisneau
Flammarion, 2005
Robert Doisneau's Paris
+ His work is great, too bad the production of this book doesn't match
+ Doisneau's Paris Riveting
+ Amazing book!
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Flowers8 reviews
Robert Mapplethorpe
Bulfinch, 1993
Perpetual Spring Provides Creative Inspiration!
+ Beautiful Photographs Beyond Words
+ Not quite the best available
+ just plain beautiful
+ Stunning
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Ansel Adams 2007 Wall Calendar18 reviews
Ansel Adams
Bulfinch, 2006
Beautiful Calendar
+ Simply breathtaking...
+ One of my favorite calendars of all time
+ Incredible photographs
+ a CALENDAR review?!
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Room to Play 1 review
Simen Johan
Twin Palms Publishers, 2003
Haunting, cinematic & wonderful.
Why he hasn't made the apparent splash loretta lux has had is beyond me. Whole worlds of mystery and intrigue are created here. These are like Crewdson children but with power.
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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph16 reviews
Aperture, 1997
You Must Change Your Life
+ Exactly what I expected. . .
+ "Cast A Cold Eye On Life, On Death. Horseman, Pass By!" Epitaph of W.B. Yeats
+ Our World in the Eyes of Diane Arbus
+ Very Intriguing!
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Other Realities7 reviews
Jerry Uelsmann, Peter C. Bunnell, ...
Bulfinch, 2005
Excellent book!
+ good deal
+ Latest by Jerry Uelsmann
+ Visual Realities
+ This book rocks!
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ABC7 reviews
William Wegman
Hyperion Book CH, 1994
Great for the little one, great for Mom and Dad
+ sublime
+ Dog gone entertaining
+ A new approach to the alphabet
+ Humorous for children AND adults
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Herb Ritts: Work16 reviews
Herb Ritts
Bulfinch, 1996
Beautiful coffee table book & conversation piece
+ RITTS
+ the right stuff
+ The Best of A Pioneer.
+ A Mixed Bag of Photographs
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Photographs Annie Leibovitz 1970-19908 reviews
Annie Leibovitz
Harper Perennial, 1992
Layers of Meaning Like the Brush Strokes of Old Masters
+ fantastic photo book
+ One Of The Most Celebrated Photographer of the 20th Century!
+ The human face of celebrity
+ Got Milk?
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New York 1954.554 reviews
William Klein
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1996
Fundamental
+ This is not old at all.
Fundamental book on photography. No more needed to say
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Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography)2 reviews
Aperture, 1997
Alfred Stieglitz
+ Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz really had an eye for the art of photgraphy. he new what was needed in order to dreate good pictures, this book really captures the essence of that eye.
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Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary3 reviews
John T. Hill
Steidl, 2006
A uniquely fresh look at the photographs of Walker Evans
+ An Essential Walker Evans Book
+ "Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary" by John T. Hill
This is the only book I know of that contains Evans' own account of his aesthetic genesis with illustrations of his visual sources. Excellent essay by John T. Hill, who was a colleague of Evans at Yale University. Particularly noteworthy are the very finely reproduced plates of the seminal work ...
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New York 1954.554 reviews
William Klein
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1996
Fundamental
+ This is not old at all.
Fundamental book on photography. No more needed to say
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