Individual photographers

Just as the new technology of photography was emerging throughout the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, it caught hold in the scenic Adirondack region of upstate New York.

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius.

Identified as "e;the first designer of what would become known as Swedish Modern"e; by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.

The Incredible True Story of Tanqueray: From a Brutal Childhood to Becoming New York's Most Unforgettable Burlesque DancerTanqueray is the memoir of Stephanie Johnson, a woman who emerged from a troubled youth to become one of the most well-known burlesque dancers in New York City.

John Bramblitt makes his living as a visualartist.

The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New AgeWilliam Blake (1757-1827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry, painting, and printmaking.

A glimpse into the mind and life of one of the most creative and enigmatic visionaries of our time, filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky *; Retraces the spiritual and mystical path Jodorowsky has followed since childhood, vividly repainting events from the perspective of an unleashed imagination *; Explores the development of the author's psychomagic and metagenealogy practices via his realization that all problems are rooted in the family tree *; Includes photos from Jodorowsky's appearance at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and from the film based on this book, which debuted at Cannes Retracing the spiritual and mystical path he has followed since childhood, Alejandro Jodorowsky re-creates the incredible adventure of his life as an artist, filmmaker, writer, and therapist--all stages on his quest to push back the boundaries of both imagination and reason.

Since the moment William Ferris's parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world.

In 1984, Giovanni Chiaramonte photographed Alvaro Siza's building in Berlin, on whose facade some young people had written Bonjour Tristesse.

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Alltag, Karriere, Familie, Freundschaften, Versicherungen und das vorab bezahlte Sockenabo – all das lässt der Schweizer Claudio Sieber zurück, als er sein Leben als Vagabund beginnt.

In Two Minds is the first comprehensive biography of Jonathan Miller the story of one of post-war Britain's most intriguing polymaths.

In this beautiful follow-up to the bestselling Humans of New York, street photographer Brandon Stanton celebrates our shared humanity with yet more stunning photographs and stories from the lives of ordinary, extraordinary New Yorkers.

This is the definitive visual account of the gay liberation movement in New York, following the Stonewall uprising in Greenwich Village in 1969, an event that marked the coming-out of New York's gay community.

Eine alte Nation wird neu entdeckt.

Addison Mizner's Mediterranean-style mansions are much-admired Florida icons, where even today you can find many homes modeled with stucco walls and tiled roofs.

The young Thomas Eakins's most revealing letters-published here for the first timeThe most revealing and interesting writings of American artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and 1870.

In 1963, British inventor Alex Moulton (1920-2012) introduced an innovative compact bicycle.

Lena Connell was one of a new breed of young professional women who took up photography at the turn of the 20th century.

You have potential, even if it's hidden.

';A spellbinding portrait' of the tumultuous life and artistic career of one of the most creative photographers of the 1960s (New York magazine).

The first biography in English of the Japanese artist who was a central figure in the dazzling artistic milieu of 1920s ParisWhen we think of expatriates in Paris during the early decades of the twentieth century, certain names come to mind: Hemingway, Picasso, Modigliani-and Foujita, the Japanese artist whose distinctive works, bringing elements of Japanese art to Western oil painting, made him a major cultural figure in 1920s Montparnasse.

For over four decades, Richard Buswell has trained his camera on the landscape of Montana, with its abandoned and overgrown homesteads and majestic, never-ending skies.

George Heriot (1759-1839), a Scot, is best known as a skilled landscape watercolourist and as the contentious deputy   postmaster general of British North America from 1800 to 1816.

Since the moment William Ferris's parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world.

Shows how Joyce''s narrative styles and his protagonists'' perceptions are shaped by visual technologies, including dioramas, stereoscopes, mutoscopes and film.

Designed to inspire world travelers and photographers alike, this book takes you on a journey around the globe through the eyes of photographer Mario Dirks.

In words and photographs, the story of visionary architect Addison Mizner* Introduced the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles to southern Florida* Designed and developed the resort town of Boca Raton* Designed the exquisite Everglades Club in Palm BeachAddison Mizner transformed Palm Beach and South Florida with his visionary architecture.

The 'other' is a topic of great interest within and across contemporary photographic practice and theory, yet it remains neglected outside the now well-established field of postcolonial studies.

You have potential, even if it's hidden.

Artist Mark Menjivar was in an antique bookshop in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he found 4 four-leaf clovers pressed between the yellowed pages of an aged copy of 1000 Facts Worth Knowing.

For Tony Hawk, it wasn't enough to skate for two decades, to invent more than eighty tricks, and to win more than twice as many professional contests as any other skater.

Violet Oakley: An Artists Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (18741961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States, as well as an illustrator, stained glass artist, portraitist and author.

Photography, one of the most influential inventions of the nineteenth century, has been shaped by Canadian innovators.

Call Me Lola is a moving photo essay by the acclaimed Israeli-American lens-based artist and documentarian Loli Kantor.

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This is an art book on the politics of urban conflict based around artist Stan Douglas' stunning photo installation of the same name, depicting a violent confrontation in 1971 between police and Vancouver's counterculture known as the Gastown Riot.

Acclaimed photographer Kosti Ruohomaa is widely known for his photographs of hard scrabble Yankees in mid-century Maine.

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train.

How a famous painting opens a window into the life, times, and philosophy of Rene DescartesIn the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher.

Louise Larocque Serpa often said she was born ';in the wrong place, to the wrong woman, at the wrong time.

The twenty contributors to this volume offer a new perspective on the relationship between Blake's poetry and his visionary forms.