Product Description: Walker Evans shot the photographs collected in Labor Anonymous as an assignment for Fortune magazine, which published a small selection of 20 images in its November 1946 issue, under the title "On a Saturday Afternoon in Detroit." Until now, however, the entire series of 50 photographs has never been reproduced...read more

Product Description: This resplendent volume is the most comprehensive study of Walker Evans’s work ever published, containing masterful images accompanied by authoritative commentary from leading photography historians. The name Walker Evans conjures images of the American everyman...read more

Product Description: Simone Nieweg’s latest book is a compilation of nearly every variety of agricultural cultivation, rang ing from small market gardens with vegetable beds and fruit trees to pastures, fallow land, forest fringes, arable land, and fields of grain...read more

Product Description: From the outset, the paintings of Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) were from the start defined by clear, geometric forms. An encounter with Josef Albers in the late 1930s greatly influenced Reinhardt’s subsequent approach to color, and the two artists maintained a lifelong respect for one another’s work (in 1952 Albers offered Reinhardt a guest professorship at Yale, where he was then teaching)...read more

Product Description: Since 1980, Jedlicka has been traveling to Tuscany for a long-term project in which sketches, pigment works, photography, prints, film and video play a role. This collection of 150 black-and-white photographics was created over the course of a year during which Jedlicka returned every other month with his Hasselblad Super Wide...read more

Product Description: Pia Fries (born in 1955 in Beromunster, Switzerland) studied under Gerhard Richter at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, where she developed her signature style. It is defined by her use of paint as material--rather than letting composition and coloration be the central determinants of the way her canvasses look, she uses textural patterns and crisscrosses to construct and reconstruct them...read more

Product Description: Joachim Brohm Bwas' Ruhr documents the industrial decline of the West German valley from which it takes its name--an area that was once home to Germany's coal mining and steel production centers, as well as other heavy and light manufacturing, and later became famous for its high degree of air pollution...read more

Product Description: Boxing offers those working class men who learn the sport a slim chance of realizing the American dream. But the price for social standing and above-average income is often broken bones and chronic health problems. In contrast, in Assisi, in the center of the Italian boxing world, boxing is about athletic competition and the art of the sport...read more

Product Description: Claus Goedicke, a student of Bernd Becher, takes color photographs that recall the tradition of still-life painting, with subjects featuring everyday objects like platic containers and fruit. These pictures, with their extreme color, perfect lighting, and flawless appearance, also recall the aesthetics of modern advertising...read more

Product Description: Book by Adams, Robert, Szarkowski, John, Liesbrock, Heinz, Weski, Thomas

Product Description: Contributions by Thomas Weski. Text by Heinz Liesbrock. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)