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Vineyard Days, Vineyard Nights: The Romance of Martha's Vineyard

Award-winning photographer Nancy Ellison offers an intimate glimpse of America's most fabled vacation island-Martha's Vineyard. Her romantic photographs capture landmarks such as the beautifully colored Gay Head Cliffs, the bustling farmers' market, weathered clapboard houses, haunting sunsets, and picturesque lighthouses. Ellison also explores unexpected views of the changing landscape that have often been overlooked. Accompanying the photographs is text by Cape Cod resident and renowned tr...

Athlete

In such uniquely visionary books as Water Dance, Pool Light, Passion & Line, and Nude Body Nude, Howard Schatz has established himself as one of the great photographers of the human form. Working primarily with dancers, Schatz has been particularly attracted to form shaped by function. Now, in Athlete, he reaches the zenith of his photographic paean to the human body, creating an astonishing record of the specialized forms both adapted to the wide spectrum of sport and shaped by fiercely focused...

Mitch Epstein: Family Business

Mitch Epstein was 48 and living in New York when his mother called him about the fire. On a windy August night in 1999, two 12-year-old boys had broken into a boarded-up apartment building owned by Epstein's father in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and, just for the hell of it, set it ablaze. The fire had spread, engulfing a 19th-century Catholic church, then a city block. The $15 million lawsuit brought by the church against the senior Mr. Epstein threatened to unravel his life. Faced with the family ...

Marilyn Monroe 1945 (Norma Jeane Dougherty)

Twenty, previously unpublished in full color, photographs of Marilyn Monroe (1945) taken on the beach near Santa Monica, California, for which she was paid her first modeling fee...$20. Plus a complete report by photographer William Carroll in his;"A day at the beach with Norma Jeane". A most unusual treasure for all Monroe fans....

Cracker; Florida's Enduring Cowboys

This large format duotone photography book closely chronicles the workaday life of Florida's unsung and largely unseen Cracker cowboys. Their work is similar to their Western counterparts only in that they both work with cattle. Working in swamp and hammock, Cracker shows the behind the scenes love and sweat that these caretakers of the environment bring to their lifestyle. An art photography book as much as a pictoral essay, Cracker is for anyone who loves the cowboy life. It also sh...

Solomon's House: The Lost Children of Nicaragua

A Piercing Photographic Essay on Nicaragua's Street ChildrenSolomon's House is Danish photojournalist Henrik Saxgren's harrowing account of the dissolution of the social fabric in Nicaragua in the years following the revolution. The book opens with a Preface by Nicaraguan-born Bianca Jagger, an ardent spokesperson for human rights and children's issues in Central America.Despite widespread poverty and the tensions of warfare present during Saxgren's first visits to Nicaragua in the 1980s, basic ...

Radical Rags: Fashions of the Sixties

Remember love-ins and flower-power, clogs, mini-minis and bell bottoms, Mods, Hippies, Vietnam, Janis Joplin, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Mary Quant? The product of years of research and scores of interviews, Radical Rags reflects the history of a revolutionary and controversial decade. Photographs, primarily from private collections rarely seen....

Eclipse

Zalma's extraordinary and unforgettable photographs capture the slow, distressing drift of exile and dispossession. Eclipse documents a journey through ambiguous territories-from Cuba to India, Mali to the Philippines, Indonesia to Egypt, and a return to his native Afghanistan....

The Romantic Landscape: Photographs in the Tradition of the New York Hudson Valley Painters

The Romantic Landscape journeys through the four seasons of the Hudson Valley, immortalized by the Hudson Valley Painters. Through color- and computer-enhanced photographs, photographer Stan Lichens has captured the mystique and spectacular scenery of this historic region. Sun-dappled valleys, rugged river terrain, vast mountains and forests, and gorgeous homes abound throughout the historic Hudson Valley. Among the residential portraits are The Locusts, a nineteenth-century estate in Staatsb...

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