Product Description: This book presents over 100 unique handmade African American dolls made between 1850 and 1930 from the collection of Deborah Neff, a Connecticut-based collector and champion of vernacular art. It is believed that African Americans created these dolls for the children in their lives, including members of their own families and respective communities as well as white children in their charge...read more

Product Description: Developer Trays is master photography printer John Cyr's tribute to the craft and art he has spent his career perfecting. As sure as the age of silver has come to an end, there remain few but extraordinary and dedicated darkroom practitioners such as Cyr who continue to work with chemistry and processes more or less unchanged since the early days of the medium...read more

Product Description: From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. Now available in an affordable paperback edition, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography...read more

Product Description: “My material is light,” says Helsinki School photographer Niko Luoma (born 1970), and “my process is a combination of ... calculation and chance.” Inspired by mathematics and geometry, and elaborating on the rich tradition begun by August Strindberg’s celestographs, Luoma creates elaborate and marvelously evocative photographic abstractions, in compositions of lines and geometric shapes...read more

Product Description: Luca Campigotto (born 1962) has been photographing dramatic natural settings since the 1980s, from the indian deserts to the white vistas of Lapland, and historical sites from Angkor to Easter Island. Gotham City presents the photographs Campigotto has taken in and of New York...read more

A visual introduction to the culture and evaluation process of outsider art showcases numerous works, including several previously unpublished pieces by such artists as Henry Darger, William Hawkins, and Adolf Wölfi, in a volume complemented by discussions on the rising influence of outsider art and the role of mental illness in its creation. Original. 12,500 first printing.

Presents fifty works by the young autistic artist that represent his portrait and creative works, in a collection complemented by an analysis of his achievements and how they challenge the stereotypes of savant artistry.

Product Description: Book by Lyle Rexer

Featuring more than 240 photographs capturing the excitement and danger of exploration, a chronicle of the history of New York's famous museum recounts the expeditions and discoveries of its great anthropologists and geologists. BOMC Div. Natural Science Main.

One hundred American self-taught painters of the twentieth century--including Victor Duena, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Henry Darger, and Freddie Brice--are captured in a collection of 260 full-color reproductions of their extraordinary artworks.