Product Description: The Swiss collaborators Fischli & Weiss have said of this early series of color and black-and-white photographs, "Balance is most beautiful just shortly before it collapses." Indeed their tense arrangements of household miscellany often look on the verge of falling, or are caught in the process...read more

Product Description: Niels Dietrich and Richard Deacon shot these black-and-white photographs of Deacon's maquettes on the streets in London near Deacon's studio, or the streets in Cologne, near the ceramic workshop where Dietrich has moulded, glazed and fired Deacon's sculptures for years...read more

Product Description: Whether in the heart of Asia or a farm in the American heartland, the Buddha image never seems out of place. As a reminder to stop and live in the moment, it is as appropriate as a charm around the neck of a young Thai soldier as on a car dashboard...read more

Product Description: Keiichi Tahara describes himself as "a sculptor of light." This book is a magnificent retrospectie of the many exhibitions and outdoor installations throughout the world which have earned his art increasing recognition over the past 30 years...read more

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Product Description: This title examines the complex ways that sculpture and photography have intersected, historically, aesthetically, and theoretically. Exploring the important role that images of sculpture have played in the history of photography, this volume also considers the impact that photography has had on the creation and interpretation of sculpture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From the publisher: "That the camera can give uncanny life to inanimate objects is something recognized and explored by photographers since the invention of the medium more than 150 years ago. Through forty-one photographs of sculpture, The Kiss of Apollo examines aspects of the photographer's enlivening gaze and the ways in which new meaning can be created when one artist observes the work of another...read more

Photographs of more than one hundred gargoyles that decorate America's cities are accompanied by the popular novelist's commentary on the horrific world of awe and terror these grotesques inspire and represent