Fundamentals of Photography
Written by Tom Ang

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Price: $25.00

The most comprehensive, accessible, and completely up-to-date guide available for today’s photographer: whether beginner or advanced, using a film camera or digital.

Award-winning photographer Tom Ang provides a thorough, explicitly detailed bottom-to-top understanding of modern photography, explaining all the techniques that will help anyone who uses a camera—in a professional capacity or... Read more >

Annie Leibovitz at Work
Written by Annie Leibovitz

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Price: $40.00

“The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was... Read more >

A Freewheelin' Time
Written by Suze Rotolo

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Price: $22.95

A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion...

Moving to Higher Ground
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Geoffrey Ward

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Price: $26.00

“In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and personal... Read more >

Craft in America
Written by Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Price: $60.00

For two centuries, Americans have made stunning, utilitarian objects by hand. Each tells a story—about the person who laid his or her hands to the work; about the historical moment in which it was created; and about the political mood, community, and cultural forces that gave rise to that design.

The... Read more >

With Strings Attached
Written by Jonathan Kellerman

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Price: $75.00

For thirty-five years, bestselling author and accomplished musician Jonathan Kellerman has been, as he puts it in his Introduction to this lavishly illustrated, endlessly fascinating volume, “chasing fabulous sound.” The result of that quest is a world-class collection of guitars, mandolins, and other stringed instruments that number more than 120 ... Read more >

The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll
Written by Rolling Stone Magazine

Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Price: $40.00

The ultimate illustrated history of rock & roll--comprehensive, authoritative, and fully updated with coverage of the most important new sounds and artists of the 1980s and `90s. Read more >

Tara Donovan
Written by Tara Donovan
Text by Lawrence Weschler, Nicholas Baume and Jen Mergel

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Price: $45.00

Artist Tara Donovan uses commonplace consumer materials--toothpicks, tape, pencils, buttons, paper plates, and the like--to create her dazzling sculptural installations. Often biomorphic or topographical in character, her large-scale abstract works utilize systematic arrangements of thousands or even millions of units. Visually evocative and perceptually seductive, her pieces are at once organic... Read more >

Chagall
Written by Jackie Wullschlager

Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
Price: $40.00

“When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.” As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long... Read more >

Faberge's Eggs
Written by Toby Faber

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Price: $30.00

In Stradivari’s Genius, Toby Faber charted the fascinating course of some of the world’s most prized musical instruments. Now, in this enthralling new book, he tells the story of objects that are, to many, the pinnacle of the jeweler’s art: the Fabergé imperial eggs.

The Easter presents that Russia’s last two czars... Read more >

American Visions
Written by Robert Hughes

Format: Trade Paperback, 648 pages
Price: $50.00

Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for Time magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America.

The intense relationship between the American people... Read more >

Journey of a Thousand Miles
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Price: $24.95

“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as... Read more >

Paris-New York
Edited by Donald Albrecht

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Price: $50.00

A burst of creative energy in the fields of architecture, design, and fashion characterized the years between the two World Wars. Shaping new styles of buildings and furnishings, redefining contemporary dress, and giving visual form to avant-garde performing arts, architects and designers forged a still-influential modern aesthetic. The era's most creative... Read more >

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Contribution by Kenneth Burns
Photographed by Robert C. Lautman
Introduction by David McCullough

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Price: $40.00

Specially created in collaboration with Ken Burns for his documentary film series on Thomas Jefferson, these rich photographs portray Jefferson's Palladian masterpiece, Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia, as Jefferson might have photographed it himself -- with his own refined intellectual and aesthetic vision. Jefferson died in 1826, the year photography was invented... Read more >