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Swazi craft meets digital photography in Kyle Meyer's astounding woven photos of a silenced LGBTQ communityKyle Meyer (born 1985) has worked between eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) and New York City since 2009, creating richly tactile artworks as conceptually complex as they are visually lush. In this debut monograph, Meyer's portraits from his Interwoven series fuse digital photography with traditional Swazi crafts, giving voice to silenced mem...

A new, redesigned edition of Gay Block and Malka Drucker's classic photobook documenting those who risked their lives to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. First published in 1992 to widespread acclaim, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust is a landmark photobook on the commemoration of the Holocaust. Featuring photograph portraits, archives and interviews, it was the first book (and exhibition) by Houston-born photographer Gay B...

Aerial and on-site photographs made at a classified military site in the Great Salt Lake Desert by David Maisel, author of Black MapsDavid Maisel's (born 1961) Proving Ground comprises aerial and on-site photographs made at Dugway Proving Ground, a classified military site covering nearly 800, 000 acres in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert. A primary mission of Dugway is to develop, test and implement chemical and biological weaponry and defense p...

For his notorious photos, taken at night in Tokyo's Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, Yoshiyuki captured a secret community of lovers and voyeurs. His pictures document the people who gathered for clandestine trysts, as well as the many spectators who watched--and sometimes participated in--these couplings.couplings.

In March of 2010, land artist Jim Denevan (born 1961) and his crew journeyed to the world's largest lake--Lake Baikal in southwestern Siberia--where they created the world's largest artwork on the frozen surface of the water. Enduring sub-zero temperatures and blistering winds, the seven participants used chain fencing to inscribe the ice with a series of circles based on the Fibonacci sequence (where each number is the sum of the previous two...

The authors explore the complicated relationship between art and anthropologyas it has been probed in the work of contemporary artists.

The work of photographer and Rhode Island School of Design professor Steven B. Smith (born 1963) chronicles the transition of the Western landscape into suburbia. Robert Pinsky, US Poet Laureate, wrote of his work, "Smith's images record not so much a contrast as two violent absences joining as a single force. Landfill, seedling, turnabout, heating coil collude with the sky and mountains in a triumph of disproportion: scale not so much confuse...

With Lines and Lineage, Belgian-American conceptual documentary photographer van Houtryve takes aim at America's collective amnesia of history.

Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing. Plumb traveled to over 70 zoos in the U.S. and Europe to film this behavior, and distilled her footage into a video that weaves together dozens of captive elephants, bearing the weight of an unnatural existence in their small enclosures.

100 Works presents a comprehensive overview of conceptualist pioneer Sol LeWitt's numbered 'R Series' drawings, which he created from approximately 1971 to 1979. As early as 1967, LeWitt had started making cut, folded and torn works, which he intended would always sell for $100. "His wall drawings were already selling for thousands of dollars, so he wanted to have some artwork that everybody could buy, " notes Jason Rulnick. This body of work ...

A vivid portrait of the assault on America's parks and forests this volume is a landscape photography project that captures the spirit and intrinsic value of America's threatened system of national monuments. In April 2017 an executive order called for the review of the 27 national monuments created since January 1996. In December 2017 the final report called on the president to shrink four national monuments and change the management of six o...

Coinciding with the touring exhibition Sound Speed Marker, this richly illustrated volume includes all three components of Hubbard/Birchler's newest trilogy of video installations as well as related photography and sculpture. Four essays and an interview with the artists contribute new scholarship in examining the genesis of the works.

This publication traces the arc of Hudson Valley-based artist Marcuse's work over a 15-year period. Fueled by the Biblical narrative of the fall from Eden, these projects use fantastical imagery to explore cycles of growth and decay and the dynamic tension between the passage of time and the photographic medium.

A showcase of Phyllis Galembo's extraordinary photographs of the costume, ritual and traditions of masquerade Mexico Phyllis Galembo has travelled all over the globe to sites of ritual masquerade. In Africa, the Caribbean, and now Mexico, she captures cultural performances with a subterranean political edge. Using a direct, unaffected portrait style, Galembo captures her subjects informally posed but often strikingly attired in traditional or ...

This multi-volume publication contains exhaustive documentation of each work by of one of the world's greatest living painters and sculptors.

Brad Temkin brings attention to the visual and ecological beauty of the transformation of water, by showing the structures and processes that most people do not even think about. Most storm water runoff is considered waste, yet more than 700 cities reclaim and re-use wastewater and storm water with combined sewer systems, recycling it for agricultural uses and even drinking water. As we mimic nature and separate the impurities like sludge or s...

Spanning nearly four decades of work by Santa Cruz-based sculptor David Kimball Anderson (born 1946), this monograph presents a chronology of Anderson's works, which balance the industrial and the delicate through such materials as steel, fiberglass and wood.

Design: David Benjamin Sherry, David Chickey, Montana Currie"--Colophon.

Linn Meyers is best known for her intricate line-based paintings and drawings, and her large-scale installations. This book provides a comprehensive survey of site-specific wall drawings in museums and galleries since 2000, as well as the detailed preparatory drawings and plans created by the artist for these projects, plus recent paintings that inform, and are informed by, the site-specific works. Meyers's large projects require a great deal ...

For his notorious photos, taken at night in Tokyo's Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, Yoshiyuki captured a secret community of lovers and voyeurs. His pictures document the people who gathered for clandestine trysts, as well as the many spectators who watched--and sometimes participated in--these couplings.couplings.