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Grit and Grace

By Alison Wright

$39.99

Powerful images and stories of women who are rising above their circumstances in developing countries, by award-winning photographer Alison Wright, who has spent a career documenting the human condition around the world. From tea...

Coney Island People

By Harvey Stein

$50.00

174 beautiful and visually strong black-and-white photographs of Coney Island and its inhabitants, by well-known and respected New York photographer Harvey Stein. Coney Island is an American icon celebrated worldwide, a fantasyland of the...

Lost Places

By Heribert Niehues

$34.99

A rare fascinating look at the powerful forces that have shaped small towns and the rise and glory of a "lost" America. Heribert Niehues's award-winning photographs of gas stations, diners, motels, houses, and cars...

METRO / New York / London / Paris

By Herb Robinson and Edited by Eve Sandler

$60.00

Subways are a great equalizer that supersede social barriers separating people in the aboveground city. In his microcosmic portrayals of everyday human dramas and performances, renowned photographer Herb Robinson profoundly captures the interconnection and alienation...

Healing Power of Water

By Michael Kahn

$24.99

The most precious natural resource on our planet, water has the power to soothe, hydrate, and heal. World-renowned film photographer Michael Kahn invites us into this meditative realm with more than 60 black-and-white images of...

Loaded

By Suzanne Ramljak

$30.00

Works by nearly 100 of today's most prominent artists—including Willie Cole, Mark Dion, Mona Hatoum, Peter Saul, Yinka Shonibare, and Laurie Simmons—raise questions about the many issues that firearms trigger, leaving answers up to the...

Atlas of Flowering Plants

By Ingeborg M. Niesler and Angela K. Niebel-Lohmann

$39.99

Flowers come in an unbelievable array of shapes and colors. Yet, their leaf and fruit forms surpass even their floral splendor. From Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae, this book features magnificent color portraits of 200 flowering-plant families...

Backroads Buildings

By Steve Gross and Susan Daley

$39.99

From New England to the Deep South, photographers Susan Daley and Steve Gross have captured more than 100 forgotten buildings along America's old auto routes. Isolated in full-color and black-and-white portraits, the roadside cafés, feed...

Poster Man

By Seymour Chwast, Foreword by Steven Heller, and Introduction by Shepard Fairey

$39.99

This collection of over 140 curated posters by the revolutionary graphic artist Seymour Chwast provides context and insight into not only his five-decade career, but the poster genre itself. Since founding Push Pin Studios alongside...

Rugged Style War—Rome

By Mirko Di Giovanni and Andrea Ventura and Photographs by David Petrini

$50.00

With their softened camouflage, sun-faded stencils, and well-worn insignia patches, this collection of more than 100 iconic WWII American military jackets will wow even the most hardcore connoisseurs and collectors. The cult-status jackets come from...

Renaissance Realm

By Michael Fishel

$24.99

A celebration of the work of internationally acclaimed Russian contemporary painter Olga Suvorova, whose Byzantine style evokes jewel-toned mosaics. Russian painter Olga Suvorova is internationally known for her brilliant reinterpretations of English Pre-Rafaelite art,...

Manhattan's Hotel des Artistes

By Robert Hudovernik

$65.00

More than 600 archival color and black-and-white photos take readers inside the magnificent Hotel des Artistes on Manhattan's West Side. This is the well-researched, untold story of the artists, returning from stints in Paris in...

Women in the Dark

By Katherine Manthorne

$45.00

Recover the stories of long-overlooked American women who, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home, became commercial photographers and shaped the new, challenging medium. Covering two generations of photographers ranging from New...

Birds in the Barnes Foundation

By The Barnes Foundation

$14.99

These high-quality boxed notecards feature reproductions of 6 of the most beloved works of art from the book Birds in the Barnes Foundation . Includes 12 folded cards and 12 envelopes.[AuthorName]By The Barnes Foundation[/AuthorName][AuthorBio][/AuthorBio][NumIllustration][/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]12 Folded...

Icons & Symbols of the Borderland

By Diana Molina

$45.00

Wall or no wall? View the US-Mexico borderland saga through the eyes of artists who’ve lived it, including some of the children held in detention camps. More than 100 artworks represent a variety of mediums,...

Birds in the Barnes Foundation

By Julie Steiner

$19.99

Winner of the MSA Buyer’s Choice Award A playful room-by-room "bird-watching" guide to the Albert C. Barnes galleries. Rumor has it that Dr. Barnes put a bird in every room of his famed collection....

Lost and Found

By Amy Heller and Gail Browne

$34.99

Tools, pipes, pottery, scavenged wood, and doll parts are among the startling artifacts that have been exposed by the retreating tides in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the oldest continuous art colony in the US. Until the 1930s,...