Individual photographers

In Of Gardens and Graves Suvir Kaul examines the disruption of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarization in 1990.

An illustrated account of the life and work of the pioneering photographer The Photographic Legacy of Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) draws on original papers and photographs from the Library of Congress to document the extraordinary life and nearly seventy-year career of this pioneering photographer.

He was a trailblazing twentieth-century British photojournalist but George Rodger lived in the adventurous tradition of nineteenth-century explorers.

National Outdoor Book Award, History/Biography CategoryDan's Cave looks like the entrance to the underworld.

You have potential, even if it's hidden.

Mary O'Connor and Katherine Tweedie tell the story of a dedicated artist in difficult circumstances whose working life spanned a Victorian upbringing in Hamilton, Ontario, and the witnessing of the first Soviet Five-Year Plan.

In 1947 Leonard and Reva Brooks left for Mexico where Leonard planned to study painting for a year.

John Bramblitt makes his living as a visualartist.

LeRoy Neiman was arguably the world's most recognizable contemporary artist until his passing in June 2012.

This is a guide to the sights of Yosemite National Park, an exploration of rock in its many forms as found in the park.

A breathtaking visual celebration of the award-winning landscape photographer's work, accompanied by candid commentary.

A New York Times Notable Book A Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionNew York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan reveals the life story of the man determined to preserve a people and culture in Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis.

This biography follows the remarkable life of Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, whose portraits of European royalty and nobility hang in many of the world's most important galleries.

Best Books of 2018The Guardian [a]fascinating and indispensable book.

Essays by Beckett''s biographer and friend and hitherto unknown photographs by one of the leading theatre photographers in the field.

Celebrating Anne Truitt's centenary, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in her remarkable series of journals "e;Impressive .

Der Düsseldorfer Fotograf Carl August Stachelscheid und die Mitarbeiter seines Pressebilderdienstes belieferten seit 1945 verschiedene Zeitungen des Rheinlands mit Bildern aus allen Bereichen des täglichen Lebens: von der Politik und der Wirtschaft über die Lebens- und Arbeitsverhältnisse der Bevölkerung bis hin zu Brauchtum, Kunst, Kultur und Sport.

The award-winning actress reveals love all around us: ';Barrymore's photographs are upbeat, sincere, andneed we say it?

The ';astonishing' (People) and definitive biography that unlocks the ';riveting' (Vogue) story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life.

Las Vegas Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the city's history with the same view today.

Jazz photography has attracted increasing attention in recent years.

Jazz photography has attracted increasing attention in recent years.

Examines Aleister Crowley's 30-year-long intimate association with Paris*; Investigates the tales of Crowley ';raising Pan,' going mad, and working gay sex magick in Paris*; Uncovers Crowley's involvement in the Belle poque with sculptor Auguste Rodin and other artists and in the 1920s with Berenice Abbott, Nancy Cunard, Man Ray, Andr Gide, and Aime Crocker*; Reveals Crowley's ';expulsion' from Paris in 1929 as a high-level conspiracy against CrowleyExploring occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley's longstanding and intimate association with Paris, Tobias Churton provides the first detailed account of Crowley's activities in the City of Light.

Follow Aleister Crowley through his mystical travels in India, which profoundly influenced his magical system as well as the larger occult world *; Shares excerpts from Crowley's unpublished diaries and details his travels in India, Burma, and Sri Lanka from 1901 to 1906 *; Reveals how Crowley incorporated what he learned in India--jnana yoga, Vedantist, Tantric, and Buddhist philosophy--into his own school of Magick *; Explores the world of Theosophy, yogis, Hindu traditions, and the first Buddhist sangha to the West as well as the first pioneering expeditions to K2 and Kangchenjunga in 1901 and 1905 Early in life, Aleister Crowley's dissociation from fundamentalist Christianity led him toward esoteric and magical spirituality.

An exploration of Crowley's relationship with the United States *; Details Crowley's travels, passions, literary and artistic endeavors, sex magick, and psychedelic experimentation *; Investigates Crowley's undercover intelligence adventures that actively promoted U.

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.

A biographical history of Aleister Crowley's activities in Berlin from 1930 to 1932 as Hitler was rising to power *; Examines Crowley's focus on his art, his work as a spy for British Intelligence, his colorful love life and sex magick exploits, and his contacts with magical orders *; Explores Crowley's relationships with Berlin's artists, filmmakers, writers, and performers such as Christopher Isherwood, Jean Ross, and Aldous Huxley *; Recounts the fates of Crowley's friends and colleagues under the Nazis as well as what happened to Crowley's lost art exhibition Gnostic poet, painter, writer, and magician Aleister Crowley arrived in Berlin on April 18, 1930.

Diane Arbus was one of the most brilliant and revered photographers in the history of American art.

The first full biography of legendary East Village artist and gay activist David Wojnarowicz, whose work continues to provoke twenty years after his death'Carr's biography is both sympathetic and compendious; it's also a many-angled account of the downtown art world of the 1980s .

Experience the wildlife of Texas, up-close and personal, through the eyes of one of the country's most talented nature photographers.

"e;[The] successful writer for TV, movies, and comics makes his debut as a memoirist with a stunning chronicle of survival"e;-introduction by Neil Gaiman (Kirkus).

The first definitive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier.

Get lost in the timeless beauty of a country in transition.

Original, amusing, and brilliantly documented, Shake is a heartwarming collection of sixty-one beguiling dogs caught in the most candid of moments: mid-shake.

With more than 130 raw and revolutionary photographs, The Dirty Side of Glamour showcases Tyler Shieldss unrestrained creative spirit and offers a visual commentary on fame, excess, youth, the trappings of celebrity, and the power of letting go.

The first book by astronaut Tim Peake - a mesmerising collection of over 150 of Tim's stunning photographs taken on board the International Space Station, many of which have never been seen before.

After the sexual revolution came the sexual explosionThe six years between 1968 and 1973 saw more sexual taboos challenged than ever before.

In the early 1960s, Richard Avedon was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar to create Observations, a column that consisted of a series of nine photographic essays.

John Mellencamp is one if the true Renaissance men of popular music.

Discover healthy and simple vegetarian recipes to tempt both vegetarians and meat-eaters alike.

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.

In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E.

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The word 'northern' conjures plenty of stereotypical images; men in flat caps, cobbled streets, pies and rain.

Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's Intellectuals as a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind.