Camera Portraits: Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, London, 1839-1989
Oxford Univ Pr, December 1990. Oversize Softcover. More
Art & Architecture
Louise Nevelson
E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., August 1976. Oversize Softcover. More
The Art of Assemblage
Museum of Modern Art, January 1961. Oversize Softcover. Light foxing. Some small scuffs on the spine. More
Photo Nomad
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2003. Cloth. The legendary photographs of David Douglas Duncan explore the broad range of human nature, from the most quiet notes of life to the crashing crescendos of war. Duncan began taking pictures for newspapers in the mid-1930s, then joined the Marines, where he..... More
Inside North Korea
Chronicle Books (CA), April 2007. First Edition. Oversized Clothbound. All but closed to outside visitors and influence, its public posture guarded and combative, we see almost nothing from inside North Korea. Award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris has had rare access to this reclusive country, traveling within its borders as well..... More
Louise Nevelson: Atmospheres and Environments
Clarkson N. Potter, December 1980. First Edition. Oversized Clothbound. First edition with full number line. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering along the spine. Small fingernail sized dent on the back of the jacket. More
Sculpture Since 1945
Phaidon Press Ltd, September 1987. Oversized Clothbound. Bound in yellow cloth with bright gold lettering along the spine. Yellow endpapers. Light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Envisioning Information
Graphics Press, May 1990. Oversized Hardcover. Tiny 2mm closed tear at the bottom of the front jacket fold. Minor shelf wear. More
Victoriana
Muller, January 1971. Hardcover. More
The Twilight World
Penguin Press, June 2022. Hardcover. A National Bestseller! The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II In 1997, Werner Herzog was..... More
Fred Wilson: Speak of Me as I Am
MIT List Visual Arts Center, August 2003. Soft Cover. The United States will be represented at the 50th Venice Biennale by an artist known for questioning accepted notions of "truth" via combinations of historical artifacts, art objects, film, video, audio and altered museum labels. Fred Wilson's U.S pavilion will deal..... More
Charlie Chaplin, Director
Northwestern University Press, March 2014. Trade Paperback. Charlie Chaplin was one of the cinema's consummate comic performers, yet he has long been criticized as a lackluster film director. In this groundbreaking work--the first to analyze Chaplin's directorial style--Donna Kornhaber radically recasts his status as a filmmaker. Spanning Chaplin's career, Kornhaber..... More
Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
University Press of Mississippi, September 2013. Hardcover. A reclamation and interpretation of a once-dismissed aspect of American film history Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such..... More
The Woman Behind the Lens: The Life and Work of Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952
University of Virginia, 2000. Hardcover. Rear cover slightly soiled. Light foxing on half-title and title page only. More
The Art and History of Black Memorabilia
Clarkson Potter, December 2000. Oversized Hardcover. More
Chaplin e l'immagine
Le Mani-Microart'S. Oversize Softcover. More
Facing the Other: Charles Cordier (1827-1905) Ethnographic Sculptor
ABRAMS, October 2004. Oversized Hardcover. Under the Second Empire in France, Cordier received several assignments in North Africa and there he completed scientific busts that were just as much works of art. His busts in silver or gilt bronze, onyx and coloured marble are delicate gems, reflecting Cordier's interest in..... More
The First World War: Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front
University of Chicago Press, October 2015. Oversized Hardcover. A century after it began, we still struggle with the terrible reality of the First World War, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Due to the crude film cameras used at the..... More
The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Nelson Atkins, October 2007. Oversized Hardcover. An unparalleled survey of American photography from its genesis through the nation's coming of age? The Origins of American Photography chronicles the emergence of a new visual paradigm, from the introduction of the daguerreotype in 1839 through the Civil War and the exploration of..... More
African American Vernacular Photography: Selected From the Daniel Cowin Collection
Steidl/ICP, March 2006. Hardcover. These selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection make up an extraordinary group of images of African Americans in a variety of genres and poses, including formal studio portraits, casual snapshots, images of children, images of uniformed soldiers, wedding portraits and so-called "Southern-views" made for tourist consumption..... More
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2002. Oversize Softcover. Reflections in Black, the first comprehensive history of black photographers, is a groundbreaking pictorial collection of African American life. Featuring the work of undisputed masters such as James VanDerZee, Gordon Parks, and Carrie Mae Weems among dozens of others, this book..... More
Nazi Film Melodrama
University of Illinois Press, September 2013. Trade Paperback. Cultural productions in the Third Reich often served explicit propaganda functions of legitimating racism and glorifying war and militarism. Likewise, the proliferation of domestic and romance films in Nazi Germany also represented an ideological stance. Rather than reinforcing traditional gender role divisions..... More
Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store
University of California Press, January 2014. Trade Paperback. Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the tangible phase of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s..... More
Cut-Pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh
Columbia University Press, November 2013. Trade Paperback. Imagine watching an action film in a small-town cinema hall in Bangladesh, and in between the gun battles and fistfights a short pornographic clip appears. This is known as a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography surreptitiously spliced into the reels..... More
Shaping the Future of African American Film: Color-Coded Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers
Rutgers University Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Received the Distinction Honor for the 2016 C. Calvin Smith Book Award from the Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc. In Hollywood, we hear, it's all about the money. It's a ready explanation for why so few black films get made--no crossover..... More
