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Robert Adams' 'The New West' signalled a shift in photographic representation of the American landscape. Eschewing a romanticized Western landscape, Adams focused instead on the man-made environment: motor-homes, malls, highways. Rendered in middle-grey scale, these pictures depict a despoiled Colorado landscape

Helen Levitt’s photographs are celebrated for their beauty and perceptiveness, creating a unified view of the world that serves as a subtle yet powerful manifesto of observation. Renowned for her iconic black-and-white street photography, Levitt also had a lesser-known archive of color work, now compiled for the first time in this monograph. In the late 1950s, she received Guggenheim grants to capture color images on the streets of New York, where she had previously worked in black-and-white. Unfortunately, many of her best color photographs were stolen in 1970, forcing her to restart her efforts. In 1974, her new work was showcased as a continuous slide projection at the Museum of Modern Art, marking one of the first exhibitions of serious color photography. This collection features over one hundred photographs, including eight from the original 1959-60 series, with more than half never before exhibited or published. This remarkable monograph stands as a worthy successor to her earlier works, including her extensive color collection in "Crosstown" and her intimate black-and-white volume, "Here and There," which highlighted previously unknown images taken over six decades.

Winogrand's zoo, even if true, is a grotesquery. It is a surreal Disneyland where unlikely human beings and jaded careerist animals stare at each other through bars, exhibiting bad manners and a mutual failure to recognize their own ludicrous predicaments.--John SzarkowskiThe Animals is a classic photo book by the incessant, masterful photographer Garry Winogrand, reissued in a new edition by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, which first published the book in 1968. In it, Winogrand leaves the streets of the city for the caged aisles of the real urban jungle, the zoo, where he captures some of the more humiliating and strange moments in the lives of God's creatures. See a lion stick its tongue out between chain-link fencing, an orangutan pee into another's mouth, a hippo give a great big yawn, two lions lamely going at it, and seals watching lovers kiss.

"In celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ansel Adams, Little, Brown and Company publishes the most significant book yet on his work - an oversized Centennial volume edited and with a text by the curator John Szarkowski. Szarkowski has selected what he considers Adams' greatest work - 114 images - and has tracked down the single best photographic print of each. This is the first serious effort to recognize Adams' achievements as an artist since his death in 1984. Szarkowski presents an unexpected and sometimes unfamiliar body of work. His critical essay speaks to his judgment of the importance of Ansel Adams as a modern artist."--BOOK JACKET.

A new edition of the author's classic, long-out-of-print, photographic study of the work of architect Louis Sullivan is accompanied by excerpts from Sullivan's own writings, contemporary critical analyses of the architect's work, new duotone reproductions, and a new introduction assessing Sullivan's influence on the history of modern architecture. 15,000 first printing.

This volume presents the essence of the work of the French photographer, Eugene Atget, in one hundred carefully selected photographs. John Szarkowski, an acknowledged master of the art of looking at photographs, explores in this book the unique sensibilities that made Atget one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and an influence on the development of modern and contemporary photography. Szarkowski's introductory text and commentaries form an extended essay on the remarkable visual intelligence displayed in these subtle, sometimes enigmatic pictures.

One of the most distinguished practitioners of portrait and fashion photography of the mid-twentieth century, Irving Penn's work is identified by its refinement of craft, by the wit and grace of its formal invention, and by its sensitivity to the quality and character of light. Backed by Vogue magazine, Penn brought a classic economy and concentration to the overblown world of fashion photography, to portraits of artists, writers, and theater people, and to ethnographic studies of style and ornament in little-known corners of West Africa, Nepal, Peru, and New Guinea. This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, is the first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work. The essay by John Szarkowski follows a brilliant career, from its art-school beginnings to the provocative still lifes, photographs of cigarette butts and street detritus--works of eloquence and classical rectitude, made from the least consequential of subject matter.--From publisher description.

Profuse black-and-white plates & full-page illustrations reproducing photographs by Harry Callahan. Edited and with an introduction by John Szarkowski. Published in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York on the occasion of an exhibition held at the museum from December 2, 1976 to February 8, 1977.

Features new duotone reproductions of one hundred landmark photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art that chronicle the historical evolution of the photographic arts in works by Adams, Weston, Stieglitz, Steichen, and other notable photographers. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.