The notion of time has always mystified and attracted the speculation of societies and civilizations. Each major stage of our lives is delineated by a construct of time: birth, death, marriage, retirement. Olga Ast has compiled an astounding ...

This is the first full critical study of the work of the popular documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado. Nair explores all the stages of Salgado's work, including the recent more ecological subjects, showing its planetary commitments.

In the second edition of this idea-packed reader - first published to accompany the 2005 exhibition, "Soft Target. War as a Daily, First-Hand Reality" at BAK - artists, curators, theorists and others speak on the urgent subject of war in the post ...

"When Steidl recently changed its US distributor, all books in stock were initially shipped back to us in Göttingen. Among the many pallets was hidden a lost treasure: 147 immaculate copies of Lewis Baltz's Works, ten of Baltz's seminal ...

"Watanabe Yukichi's documents of the investigation of the murder and dismemberment of Sato Tadashi. A few of Sato's remains were found in an oil vat in Irabaki Prefecture, Japan and the young photojournalist Watanabe was allowed access to the ...

The idea of photographing the dead is as old as photography itself. For the most part, early death photographs were commissioned or taken by relatives of the deceased and preserved in the home as part of the family collection. Once thought ...

"In the camera as historian, the groundbreaking historical and visual anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards works with an archive of neraly 55,000 photographs taken by 1,000 photographers, mostly unknown until now." -- Inside cover.

"First published in French as Images d'Algerie by Camera Austria/Actes Sud."

Through twenty-seven serial works and four video installations, this spectacular catalog presents the recent artwork of Walter Niedermayr, mostly realized between 2006 and 2009. This new important chapter of Niedermayr's work on the exploration ...

For this in-depth examination of artist Sherrie Levine, Howard Singerman surveys a broad range of sources to assess an artist whose work was understood from the outset to oppose the values of the art world in the 1980s but who, by the end of the ...