Photography:

Whitewash

Photographed by Nicholas Alan Cope
Foreword by Rick Owens

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $65.00

LA is a city of contrasts—the famous and unknown, blinding light and impenetrable shadow, wealth and poverty, massive success and bitter failure. The promise of fame, fortune, sun, and beauty have lured millions to its beaches, hills, and valleys crammed with low slung buildings and palm-tree-lined boulevards. But beneath this thin... Read more >

Laundromat

Afterword by D. Foy
Photographed by Snorri Bros.

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $40.00

Laundromats are a quintessential part of the New York City landscape: an indispensible element to many city dwellers' lives, they're an ersatz utility room shared with dozens of strangers at any given time, a moist environment of humming machines and strange clothes. No other public facility gathers so many people under... Read more >

Capital Views
Historic Photographs of Washington, DC, Alexandria and Loudoun County, Virginia, and Frederick County, Maryland
Written by James M. Goode

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $39.95

Metropolitan areas change over the time. These changes come together and create a city's character and personality. Renowned Washington, DC, historian James Goode has assembled an incredible collection of images that look back at a Washington before it developed into the international metropolitan city it is today. The impactful historic photography... Read more >

New New York

Written by Jake Rajs

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $75.00

New New York celebrates the newest landmarks of New York—Time Warner Center, Hearst Tower, Brooklyn Bridge Park, The High Line, and more—placing them in the context of the famous and beloved highlights of the city—Rockefeller Center, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Times Square.
 
Award-winning photographer... Read more >

Newspaper Titan
The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson
Written by Amanda Smith

Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $37.50

From the author of Hostage to Fortune; The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy ("Superb" —Michael Beschloss; "Remarkable" —Arthur Schlesinger), the galvanizing story of Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson, celebrated debutante and socialte, scion of the Chicago Tribune empire, and the twentieth century's first woman editor in chief and publisher of a major... Read more >

Newspaper Titan
The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson
Written by Amanda Smith

Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $21.99

From the author of Hostage to Fortune; The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy ("Superb" —Michael Beschloss; "Remarkable" —Arthur Schlesinger), the galvanizing story of Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson, celebrated debutante and socialte, scion of the Chicago Tribune empire, and the twentieth century's first woman editor in chief and publisher of a major... Read more >

The Brooklyn Navy Yard

Photographed by John Bartelstone

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $50.00

New York City’s largest and oldest industrial facility, the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard occupies 250-acres on the East River between the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges, and is presently one of New York City’s major industrial sites. One of the last remnants of Brooklyn’s industrial supremacy, the Yard has experienced tremendous change: functioning from the age of wind... Read more >

White on White
Churches of Rural New England
Afterword by Robert Campbell
Photographed by Steve Rosenthal
Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg

Format: Hardcover, 136 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $85.00

The early churches of New England hold a special place in the American consciousness, revered for their physical beauty, simplicity, and elegance and for their role in the early history of this country. Places of worship they were and are, but they are also icons of a particularly American sensibility and... Read more >

New York Deco

Photographed by Richard Berenholtz
Introduction by Carol Willis

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $19.95

New York Deco profiles the architecture of the city during its most stylish and dazzling decades: the 1920s and early 1930s. New York City landmarks were born in this age - the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and the Waldorf-Astoria - as well as dozens of lesser-known office... Read more >

House Calls With William Carlos Williams, MD

Written by Robert Coles
Photographed by Thomas Roma

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2008
Price: $29.95

“When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.”
—William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams made his mark on the world... Read more >

The Electric Image

Text by Martin Lister
Photographed by Chris Kitze

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $40.00

In The Electric Image, Chris Kitze explores the transformation and globalization of culture by digital technology. Investigating urban centers where store windows and monumental advertising images are a worldwide phenomenon and a part of modern mythology, Kitze reveals how the numerical representation of imagery makes it possible for everything and anyone... Read more >

In Plane View
Abstractions of Flight
Photographed by Carolyn Russo
Foreword by Patty Wagstaff
Introduction by Anne Collins Goodyear

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $39.95

In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight, by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum photographer Carolyn Russo, redirects our attention to the often-overlooked simple beauty of aircraft design. With precedents in the work of Robert Delaunay, Charles Sheeler, and Arshile Gorky, among others, Russo uses fine art photography to bring out new... Read more >

On Three Pillars
Torah, Worship, and the Practice of Loving Kindness, The Synagogues of Brooklyn
Text by Phillip Lopate
Photographed by Thomas Roma

Format: Hardcover, 136 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $60.00

On Three Pillars: Torah, Worship, and Practice of Loving Kindness, The Synagogues of Brooklyn is not meant to be a complete visual inventory of Brooklyn synagogues, past or present, but an evocation of that history into the present day.

Roughly half the photographs in this book are of synagogues functioning today... Read more >

Pleasure Palaces
The Art and Homes of Hunt Slonem
Text by Vincent Katz
Illustrated by Hunt Slonem

Format: Hardcover, 204 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $60.00

Artist Hunt Slonem creates his magical paintings and sculptures of flora, fauna, saints, and other subjects with inspiration that he draws not only from his sense of spirituality, but also from his environment in a “self-created world” filled with myriad exotic forms, vivid colors, and mystical essences. While the public can... Read more >

New York 2000
Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium
Written by Robert A.M. Stern, David Fishman and Jacob Tilove

Format: Hardcover, 1520 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2006
Price: $100.00

Touted by Publisher's Weekly as "an unprecedented record," the new book in the New York series, New York 2000, is indeed an exceptional survey of this great city's architectural heritage. As the world's financial and cultural capital, New York demands the best in architectural design and balances the constant pressure to... Read more >

The Destruction of Lower Manhattan

Photographed by Danny Lyon

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2005
Price: $50.00

“I came to see the buildings as fossils of a time past. These buildings were used during the Civil War. The men were all dead, but the buildings were still here, left behind as the city grew around them...The passing of buildings was for me a great event. It didn’t matter... Read more >

American Monument

Written by Lynn Davis
Foreword by Witold Rybczynski

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2004
Price: $50.00

Lynn Davis records the natural and architectural monuments of the world. In this collection of 100 duotone photographs she presents a series of architectural images throughout the United States, ranging from icons of modern and contemporary architecture to the Hoover Dam, a series of lighthouses, the Very Large Array in New... Read more >

Autrefois, Maison Privee

Text by Bernard Fall
Photographed by Bill Burke

Format: Hardcover, 184 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $75.00

Photographer Bill Burke has taken annual trips to Indochina ever since he first traveled to Asia in 1982. Although he usually photographed the people, Burke became aware of how the architecture absorbed as much as reflected the region’s history. Transfixed by buildings like the municipal offices built by the French in... Read more >