Gingko Press Inc., October 2023. Hardcover. NOGA, or Nation of Graffiti Artists was the utopian vision of Jack Pelsinger, who begged the city for a studio where kids of all talent levels could further their interests in the arts. The 1970s were a time in New York's history where a...... More
Steidl, June 2022. Hardcover. An expanded edition of Parks' classic account of race relations in America, with previously unpublished images and texts This expanded edition of Gordon Parks: Segregation Story includes around 30 previously unpublished photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks' original color transparencies; newly discovered descriptions..... More
Bantam Books, June 1997. First Edition. Cloth. Award-winning artist Whelan has illustrated the work of almost every major author in speculative fiction. Here are featured all the artist's major recent paintings, as well as a series of 25 never-before-seen works produced especially for this book. Over 100 full-color reproductions. Square..... More
Chicago Review Press, April 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. The period between the World Wars the era of sexual liberation, was also the classic era of American pulp magazines. This book displays their art and tells their history, capturing the original magazines in all their glory. Quarto in very good jacket..... More
Prestel Publishing, January 2012. Oversize Softcover. From crowded dance halls to smoky cabarets, this vibrant collection of posters from the Belle Epoque explores the birth, development, and continued popularity of a graphic genre. Thanks to innovations in color lithography, the streets of fin-de-si cle Paris were punctuated with brightly hued..... More
Ansel Adams, October 1995. Soft Cover. This beautifully printed paperback original collects Ansel Adams' finest images of the place closest to his heart, Yosemite National Park. I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite, wrote Adams, who first visited the park at the age of fourteen and returned every..... More
Immie Corp, 1966. First Edition. Paper Back. {5 & 3/8' x 8 & 1/2'} Soft cover with foixing and marginal darkening. Likewise spine darkening. No printing upon spine. Book design by Jack Levine. Photography by Mike Smith. [96 pages]. More
Abrams, 1968. Oversized Hardcover. Tipped-in color plates throughout. More
Zephyr Press, June 1983. Hardcover. More
Taschen, March 2001. Soft Cover. More
Taschen, January 2008. Hardcover. Gil's girls: The seminal pin-up artist Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique--which earned him..... More
Chronicle Books (CA), May 2014. Oversize Softcover. Now in paperback! Behind-the-scenes hero to anyone who's thrilled by giant monsters duking it out over Tokyo, Eiji Tsuburaya was the visual effects mastermind behind Godzilla, Ultraman, and numerous Japanese science fiction movies and TV shows beloved around the world. The first book..... More
Dey Street Books, October 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. **Time magazine most anticipated books of 2023** **Parade magazine must-read books by celebrities 2023** "I went through so many emotions reading this book. Reconnecting to one's ancestors and truly feeling, not only hearing, their stories are fertile ground for true ecstatic embodiment..... More
Center Street, October 2023. Hardcover. Discover the inspiring, unknown, against-all-odds story of how the classic animated holiday special A Charlie Brown Christmas almost never made it on to television. Professor and cultural historian Michael Keane reveals much in this nostalgia-inducing book packed with original research and interviews. Keane compellingly shows..... More
Rizzoli Electa, May 2023. Hardcover. A fresh look at one of America's best-known and beloved artists at a pivotal but little-known moment in his life that profoundly shaped both his art and career. Edward Hopper & Cape Ann tells the largely ignored but significant origin story of Edward Hopper's years..... More
Ecco, July 2023. Hardcover. An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and inspired both because of his work and his legendary..... More
ABRAMS, September 1998. Oversized Hardcover. The most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of twentieth-century architecture ever published, this volume presents a global perspective on some of the most significant works, ideas, and directions over the past one hundred years. With more than three hundred illustrations covering the major landmarks and architects..... More
Phaidon Press, October 1997. Oversized Hardcover. With this collection of photographs, interspersed with an anthology of evocative quotations about sleep and dreaming, Scianna takes us and himself on a fascinating journey inside a dimension of life that is natural and mysterious, necessary and disturbing, everyday and universal. Often the camera..... More
Universe Publishing, 1977. Oversize Softcover. More
Circle Books/Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, October 2023. Paper Back. Previously unpublished interviews with some of America's leading postwar artists--including Frankenthaler, Johns, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Stella and Warhol--originally conducted for TV in the mid-'60s by famed curator Alan Solomon This substantial volume publishes for the first time a series of..... More
Wallflower Press, October 2023. Paper Back. Cinema has always engaged with the experiences, hopes, fears, and anxieties of-and about-adolescents, teenagers, and young people. This book is a comprehensive and accessible history of the depiction of teenagers in American film, from the silent era to the twenty-first century. Timothy Shary explores..... More
Columbia University Press, November 2023. Hardcover. Transfigured New York presents conversations with iconic, genre-bending artists who shaped the sounds of experimental movements like no wave, avant-jazz, and electronic music. As an undergrad in the 1980s, Brooke Wentz hosted the show Transfigured Night on Columbia University's WKCR-FM, discussing art and ideas..... More
Princeton University Press, February 1991. Trade Paperback. Charles Maland focuses on the cultural sources of the on-and-off, love-hate affair between Chaplin and the American public that was perhaps the stormiest in American stardom. More
Harvard University Press, June 2004. Trade Paperback. Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and '50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism. Edward Dimendberg compellingly demonstrates how..... More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, October 2023. Hardcover. Bestselling author of Capote's Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his legendary movies at the center of the story. Alfred Hitchcock was fixated--not just on the dark, twisty..... More
