Product Description: Illustrated volume on the art photography of Victor Skrebneski from 1949 to 1999. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Ghost in the Shell takes as its premise the idea that the outer person is a reflection of the inner. Tracing the modern photographic portrait over the past 150 years, the book reveals the many ways the photographic arts have investigated, represented, interpreted, and subverted the human face and, consequently, the human spirit. Artists have used the genre not only to convey familiar emotions such as fear, love, sadness, and anger, but also to explore complex subjective states such as passionate individuality and psychological withdrawal. Different avant-garde movements have enlisted farce, masks, and masquerade in their charting of the human character, and many postmodern works employ irony and ambiguity to deal with issues of identity, gender, and dissociation.The book, which accompanies an exhibition opening at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in October 1999, is organized roughly chronologically around the traditional, modernist, and postmodernist views of the face, although the primary approach of one period often appears in the others. The artists discussed include, among others, Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Curtis, Salvador Dali, Duchenne de Boulogne, Dorothea Lange, Annie Leibowitz, Bruce Nauman, Orlan, William Parker, Irving Penn, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and Edward Weston.Published in cooperation with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Beat iconoclast turned cultural icon, William S. Burroughs has been practising a postmodern voodoo alchemy, via his cut-up and fold-in collage techniques, that accurately reflect our fragmented, postmodern society and experience. His novels, once banned and condemned, have over the years earned him membership in the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters and the title Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France...read more

Product Description: Book by (SMITHSON, ROBERT). Sobieszek, Robert. Foreword by Michael E. Shapiro

Gathers hundreds of photographs, including portraits, nudes, still lifes, landscapes, and abstracts, taken between 1839 and the present, and offers brief profiles of each photographer

Shows examples of photographs used in advertising for automobiles, cosmetics, clothing, and jewelry, and looks at trends in advertising

Product Description: First edition, first printing. Cloth and paper-covered boards, with dust jacket. Edited with text by Robert A. Sobieszek. Introduction by Kenneth Dionney. Includes a chronology, bibliography and a catalogue of the exhibition. 96 pp...read more

Product Description: Book by Sobieszek, Robert A.

Product Description: The most commonly used printing paper for photographic images during the nineteenth century was based on a prosaic medium—egg whites. The earlier salt paper print and calotype negative, while satisfying the need for inexpensive and multiplicable pictures, failed to yield precise detail...read more