Tunbjork Lars - Office Lars Tunbjork Journal, 2001 ###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################             Andreas Gursky Thomas Weski, Don DeLillo Ram Distribution, 2007 A new book from sensational artist Andreas Gursky is always a publishing event. This stunning, large-format exhibition catalog from Gursky's recent solo show in Munich is made up of works mostly created since his Museum of Modern Art show in 2001. Gursky's photos exploit the visual codes of a globalized world. They combine collective memories into rhythmic images that appear familiar and ...             Los Alamos5 reviews William Eggleston Scalo Publishers, 2003 Insanely great photography + Egglestomania + It's not about Los Alamos + No text distracts from the full-page photographs + Spectacular book!             5x76 reviews William Eggleston (Photographer) Twin Palms Publishers, 2007 Being There + ugly is the new black + An Eggleston By-way + Portraits, etc. + William Eggleston 5x7             Henry Wessel: Five Books2 reviews Steidl, 2005 Who is this Photographer? He's great! + wonderful... Thanks to an article in a recent NY times, I am now acquainted with Mr Wessel, who no doubt has had a very full and satisfying life as a photographer operating just below the radar. This is a beautiful set of 5 individual 'monographs' each devoted to a subject or theme,all in a sturdy white ...             A Road Trip Journal1 review Stephen Shore Phaidon Press Inc., 2008 If You Love Stephen Shore... Then this book is for you. It's a luxurious package, a thick, slipcased hardcover edition in full color reproducing the journals Stephen Shore kept while making some of the famous photos from the 1970's. There are notes, ephemera, and of course the photographs he took along the way. This signed ...             Friedlander11 reviews Peter Galassi, Richard Benson The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008 a major figure + This is The One + One of America's Most Prolific Photographers + Superb monograph + THIS IS A STUNNING BOOK             Drawing Restraint Volume IV1 review JMc & GHB, 2007 The Finest Matthew Barney Book Ever This is a must-have for Matthew Barney fans and collectors. Barney's first published drawings, printed in lush duotone plates, are surreal and evocative. The case bound volume is issued in the tradition of fine press printing with a limited edition of 1,000. The letters are printed in letterpress ...             Hannah Starkey: Photographs 1997-2007 Iwona Blazwick Steidl, 2007 Since 1997, Hannah Starkey has been producing photographic meditations on contemporary life. The first were staged scenarios based on the experiences of young women living in the city, meticulously constructed, with cinematic suggestions of a narrative artificially suspended in time. Her more recent work, both technically and compositionally more advanced, sets up tension between the real and the ...             Babeth Djian: Babeth Edition 7L, 2007 If Cathy Horyn of The New York Times has captured Elisabeth Djian's essence in words, Babeth, does so in pictures. Horyn wrote, "Babeth has the intimidating look of a French madam, heightened by stiletto booties, a wink of a black bra and a laugh as free as salt. I once asked Djian what her life was like in the 1980s when, as the fashion director of the influential little magazine Jill , ...             William Eggleston's Guide.4 reviews John Szarkowski Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002 An excellent re-release. + essential work + the original + Bill's artful snapshots             Los Angeles 2003-2006 Volume 1 Larry Clark Luhring Augustine, New York/ Simon Lee, London, 2007 Los Angeles 2003-2006 Volume 1. Photographs and text by Larry Clark. Published by Luhring Augustine/ Simon Lee galleries, 2007. 93 pp., 48 four color illustrations, 11 3/4 by 12 1/2 inches. A four year chronicle of the life of Jonathan Velazquez and his friends. Part of the same project that led to the film by Larry Clark, Wassup Rockers. Los Angeles 2003-2006 continues Clark's career-long ...             J.H. Engstrom: CDG/JHE Steidl/GUN, 2008 Recent world events have dramatically altered the cultural identity of airports. Where once they connoted excitement--the prospect of flight, remote destinations, encounters-- today airports are loaded with very different associations and anticipations. Armed police officers, safety regulations and restrictions only heighten our feelings of insecurity. Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport has always ...             Sleeping by the Mississippi6 reviews Steidl, 2008 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 ...             Joel Sternfeld: Oxbow Archive Steidl International Photography, 2008 In 1836, the landscape painter and conservationist Thomas Cole completed "View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow)," his iconic painting of the Connecticut River where it bends like an ox yoke. Nearly 200 years later, Joel Sternfeld walked into the field depicted in the lower right quadrant of Cole's painting--which he had first photographed in 1978 ...             Asakusa Portraits, Hiroh Kikai Hiromichi Hosoma Steidl, 2008 The Asakusa quarter of Tokyo has a shady past--it was the home of some of Japan's most notorious pleasure palaces. Today it embraces this history by remaining a steadfast holdout of independent culture, which encompasses traditional comedy theater and some of the most innovative burlesque in the world. Asakusa has long attracted bohemians who opt out of Japan's contemporary consumer society, yet ...             Saul Leiter: Early Color2 reviews Steidl/Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2006 A Master of Color Photography + An Excellent Monograph Long overdue, this give this long over-looked artist a place to shine. The color reproductions are marvelous and have a woderfule bygone era quality about them.             Quarries2 reviews Steidl, 2007 A Great Photographer + Immense book Burtynsky shoots stunning pictures. There are many great photographers (and photography books) out there but his pictures are full of color and precision and the subject matter is a wonder to behold.             Landscapes: 2001-2003 Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008 "Billingham's landscape photography comes out of a self-disciplined challenge to prove, once again, that as an artist he is capable of making work in the most clear and new manner until it looks like something you have never seen before!'"-Sacha Craddock Richard Billingham came to the attention of the photography and art world for his acclaimed first book- Ray's a Laugh -a portrait of his ...             Wolfgang Tillmans: Lighter Julie Ault, Daniel Birnbaum, ... Hatje Cantz, 2008 Since winning the Turner Prize in 2000 for his 1990s oeuvre of portraits and snapshots, German-born photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has increasingly gravitated towards the abstract and material-specific properties of his medium. Following Blushes , the Freischwimmer series and the monochromatic Silver series, his most recent abstract works--of which the creased and folded Lighter series is ...