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America 1900. A Portrait in Color. 45th Ed.

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:32:57 +0000

These rediscovered Photochrom and Photostint postcard images from the private collection of Marc Walter were produced by the Detroit Photographic Company between 1888 and 1924. Using a photolithographic process that predated the autochrome by nearly 20 years, they offered people the very first ..

Price: $30.00

Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes. 45th Ed. (Bi-Lingual Edition)

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:31:15 +0000

At the dawn of the Victorian era in her open-air laboratory in Halstead, Kent, Anna Atkins embarked on a radical experiment to document botanical species using a completely new artistic medium. The inimitable cyanotype photograms of algae and ferns she created were made into the first books to ..

Price: $30.00

Photography and Its Origins

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:47:26 +0000

Photography and its Origins reflects on photography’s beginnings in critical and specifically historiographical terms, rethinking the historical moments, contexts, discourses, and actors that populate stories about the origins of photography.

Price: $233.99

20th Century Photographers (Interviews on the Craft, Purpose, and the Passion of Photography)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:52:19 +0000

This book is a compilation of interviews and essays that cover a broad range of photographers and photographic disciplines.

Price: $249.99

LIFE. Let's Dance

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:02:05 +0000

When publisher Henry R. Luce founded Life magazine in 1936, its aim was: “To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events.” Life dedicated its sixth issue to the world of dance, recognizing its importance, not just as a source of joy, but as an expression of community an..

Price: $50.00

Muybridge. The Human and Animal Locomotion Photographs. 45th Ed. (Bi-Lingual Edition)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:50:09 +0000

English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) is a pioneer in visual studies of human and animal locomotion. In 1872, he famously helped settle a bet for former California governor Leland Stanford by photographing a galloping horse. Muybridge invented a complex system of electric shutter ..

Price: $30.00

Marvin E. Newman. Photographs 1949-1983

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:06:22 +0000

In 1952, after becoming one of the first-ever recipients of a Master of Science degree in Photography at Chicago’s Institute of Design, native New Yorker Marvin E. Newman returned to his hometown. Like many artists before, he set about chronicling the city. Unlike his predecessors, Newman chose..

Price: $80.00

Rome. Portrait of a City (Bi-Lingual Edition)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:53:54 +0000

This hefty photographic portrait of Rome brings together hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through to today to explore the extraordinary history, beauty, and art of this incomparable cultural capital.

From sepia and black and w..

Price: $70.00

Romania (Landscape, Buildings, National Life in the 1930s)

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:43:50 +0000

This remarkable collection of over 300 pristine photographs from the 1930s rescues a vanished European world from obscurity. Kurt Hielscher’s masterwork stands as a crucial visual record of Romania’s traditional peasant life, breathtaking landscapes, and architectural heritage just moments..
Price: $59.99

Photography and Ontology (Unsettling Images)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:39:51 +0000

This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication, as a means of social and political provocation, as a mode of surveillance, as a narrative of the self, and as an art form.
Price: $233.99