Along the Ohio (Creating the North American Landscape)1 review Andrew Borowiec The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 Photographs To Exercise The Mind Professor Borowiec's photographs are like little delicious desserts for the brain. Each one is to be savored and almost every one of them gave my imagination a complete workout. The photographs of houses and streets made my mind say "Who lives here?", "What is around the corner?", "What would it be ...             Suburbia5 reviews Bill Owens Fotofolio, 1999 Suburbia Lives On! + Looking through the picture window. + 1999 Edition Lives Up to Its Claim of "New & Improved" + Welcome Back , Suburbia! + Welcome Back , Suburbia!             No Ordinary Land: Encounters in a Changing Environment3 reviews Virginia Beahan, Laura McPhee Aperture, 1998 Hauntingly beautiful; redefines landscape photography for me + questionning + Breathtakingly beautiful and wondrous! The photos of this book have the technical excellence of Ansel Adams pictures (except they are not B+W). But they are not vistas of pristine, pretty National parks that Adams shot; here the hand of man is all too present.             People With AIDS (Imago Mundi)1 review Nicholas Nixon; Bebe Nixon David R Godine, 1994 Shocking wonderful These pictures are without mercy. They show us indeed an inconvenient truth, but wow, they are great pictures, to be looked at carefully.             Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach Anne Wilkes Tucker Bulfinch Press, 1996             THE NEW WEST: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range2 reviews Robert Adams Walther Konig, 2000 The (old) new west + New edition makes me want for more The New West is one of the most significant works of photography in the 20th century, presenting the reality of the western landscape in harsh contrast to the mythology of the other Adams... The pictures cut straight to the bone, showing the damage done to a landscape by our progress, but always ...             Industrial Landscapes Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher The MIT Press, 2002 Bernd and Hilla Becher have profoundly influenced the international photography world over the past several decades. Their unique genre, which falls somewhere between topological documentation and conceptual art, is in line with the aesthetics of such early-twentieth-century masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, Germaine Krull, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and August Sander. ...             David Hilliard1 review Aperture, 2005 Beautiful Narrative Beautiful compositions, wonderful narratives, and exquisite colors draw you into Hilliard's world that is always seductive and intriguing.             Ansel Adams at 10023 reviews Ansel Adams, John Szarkowski Bulfinch, 2001 A pioneer of photography and art + Packaging ! + Beautiful book Ansel Adams at 100 by John Szarkowski is a beautiful collection of Adam's finest work. The first fifth of this 191 page book contains a bibliography about Ansel Adams. I was able to read about the trials and tribulations of Adams' family issues, life, and his discovery of his passion for ...             Mitch Epstein: Family Business4 reviews Steidl, 2003 Outstanding. + Trade off + The End of a city and end of a Family Business Family Business by Mitch Epstein is a stunning personal and historical document. Seminal work- not to be missed.             August Sander: People of the 20th Century (7 Volume Set) Susanne Lange, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl Harry N. Abrams, 2002 Revered as a father of modern photography, August Sander (1876- 1964) so refined the art of portraiture that his moving images of his fellow countrymen have been heralded both as an important sociological document and a photographic masterpiece. But those images make up only a portion of this deluxe seven-volume set, which will stand as the definitive collection of Sander's considerable ...             Thomas Struth: 1977-20021 review Douglas Eklund, Ann Goldstein, ... Dallas Museum of Art, 2002 a great review of his work I really enjoy this book. It gives you a global point of view on the author resume. the selection is excellent, and the print too. If you love his work, you'll love this book. thanks Thomas!             Recent Terrains: Terraforming the American West (Creating the North American Landscape) Laurie Brown The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 In this book of sixty black-and-white panoramas, photographer Laurie Brown documents the changing landscape along the western edge of Southern California. These stark, compelling images reveal a world scraped and reshaped by construction equipment -- boulders pushed aside, stretches of earth flattened and then measured with surveyor sticks. High-tech housing developments rise in these places, ...             Consuming the American Landscape1 review Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2003 A moving landscape The cover of this book has the perfect image to sum up the contents, a family are perched on a rock taking in the stunning aura of South Dakota's Badlands National Park yet behind them, at the top of a gully and going down is some sort of large metal tubing, what it's for doesn't really matter ...             The New American Village (Creating the North American Landscape)3 reviews Bob Thall The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 A Remarkable Vision of the New American Landscape + Very interesting look at nondescript location + Maturing nicely Thall is a photographer and his photographs are marvelous: lucid, lovely, tonally rich, beautifully constructed. What's astonishing, though, is the way he has applied his sensibility to the least-liked spaces that increasingly dominate America and the globe: the "edge cities" of prefab ...             Humanature Peter Goin University of Texas Press, 1996 The slow growth of redwood forests . . . the annual migration of Canada geese . . . winter's first snowfall . . . things such as these persuade us that nature carries on its cycles regardless of human activities--and always will. Yet, a closer look reveals that all around us nature is becoming an illusion created by human ingenuity. As we control our rivers and shores, manage the forests, and ...             Candlestick Point Lewis Baltz R A M Publications, U S A, 1989             The Valley1 review Larry Sultan Scalo Publishers, 2004 The intimate Valley Larry Sultan's The Valley is an elegant social doumentation. He depicts a portrait of a "typical" middle-high class lifestyle through the most private point of view: the interiors of private houses. At the same time he documents the working days of a very peculiar type of professionals: actors ...             Uncommon Places: The Complete Works10 reviews Lynn Tillman, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen Aperture, 2004 a TRUE master + Great Vintage Work + I love it + Awesome             Sleeping By the Mississippi6 reviews Patricia Hampl Steidl, 2004 Spectacular!!!! + A must-have in your photography book collection + Maybe not a CLASSIC, but close Alec Soth builds on the tradition established by William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld. But Soth dramatically moves beyond these masters by presenting a more eccentric cast of characters, a stronger thematic melody and a more personal insight. Soth's photographic journey down the ...