Whether exploring the reclusive communities of the Amish and Hutterites, probing the gritty existence of the American cowboy, or revealing the quiet beauty of the Minnesota lakes, William Albert Allar
For centuries, painters have used their brushes to turn female nudes into their most famed masterpieces. Now a New York-based, award-winning photographer does the same in this phenomenal homage to wo
Irving Penn is one of the twentieth century's most distinguished practitioners of the time-honored genre of still life. Following the venerable tradition of Chardin and other great still life painters
The art of action photography and portraiture is displayed in this stunning collection of Neil Leifer's best color and black-and-white images. Covering subjects from sports to politics and from celeb
Bruno Engler was born in Lugano, Switzerland, in 1915. He came to Canada in 1939 and spent over 60 years photographing the Canadian Rockies. The last of the Swiss mountain guides hired by Canadian Pac
Internationally acclaimed nature and wildlife photographer Art Wolfe has long had a love affair with California. Along its coastline he finds iconic vistas and light playing upon water in ways that cr
Part testimony, part invention, this remarkable group of pictures constitutes a visual poem to New York City. These images probe the very meaning of contemporary urban life. Brutal and humorous, narci
Published in conjunction with the spring 2001 American retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York of Gursky's work from 1984 to the present. The photographer's color images capture the wor
The result of the 1997 discovery in Karl Blossfeldt's estate of sisty-one previously unknown collages, a treasury of the art professor's botanical collages reveals the inner structures of the organic
Ernie: A Photographer's Memoir was first published by a small Santa Barbara press in 1985. By all accounts, Ernie was a phenomenon, selling an estimated 100,000 copies. Photographer Tony Mendoza had
Presents the studio work of photographer Albert Arthur Allen, whose career, from 1916 to 1930, focused on female nudes. Daile Kaplan's introduction discusses Allen's legal difficulties with obscenity
Robert ParkeHarrison creates constructed photographs which tell stories of loss, struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use. He attempts to metaphorically
In these striking color images, photographer Letinsky invites the viewer into the private world of everyday life, capturing ambiguities of intimacy, love, family, and sex. Over the course of seven yea
Haunting in their mystery and beauty, Keith Carter's horses fill the frame like spirits in a dream--but without ever ceasing to be real horses. Whether he's photographing thoroughbreds preparing for t
When it first appeared in 1971, Larry Clark's groundbreaking book Tulsa sparked immediate controversy across the nation. Its graphic depictions of sex, violence, and drug abuse in the youth culture o
Three years ago, photographer Greg Gorman created for powerHouse Books the most personal work of his career. This epic artist’s project features carefully selected young men—not
The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie
