
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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