Lewis Baltz: The Tract Houses; The Prototype Works; The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California (3 ...1 review Lewis Baltz Ram Pubns & Dist, 2005 Anonymous in Irvine. The fifty-one black and white photos in this nicely designed book will not be to everybody's taste. The photos could not be more stark and minimalist, mostly eye level, straight on, images of almost plain walls of commercial premises in Irvine, Los Angeles. The only concession is (photo ...             Witness Number One (Witness, #1)1 review Stephen Shore Nazraeli Press, 2007 Buy it! Stephen Shore is one of the pioneers of the new color (though it's not so new now). Anything by him, or his students, is recommended.             Gabriel Orozco: Photographs Mia Fineman, Phyllis Rosenzweig, ... Steidl/Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2004 Gabriel Orozco is renowned for creating work that highlights the elegant and lyrical beauty found in the everyday. His art has taken the form of sculpture, installations, drawing, photography, and video. Orozco photographs things as he finds them, "self-arranged" on the streets, or in found situations in which he has gently intervened. Previous publications of his work have highlighted the ...             Ed Ruscha And Photography Sylvia Wolf, Ed Ruscha Steidl/Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2004 Since the beginning of Ed Ruscha's career in the late 1950s, photography has been both an inspiration and a source of discovery. This volume thoroughly traces Ruscha's engagement with photography and reveals how his photographic works shed new light on his career as a whole. In preparing this volume and the related exhibition, the artist has worked closely with Whitney Museum curator Sylvia Wolf ...             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             Neighbors/Nachbarn SteidlMack, 2006 The American photographer Collier Schorr has been working on and off in Southern Germany for the past 12 years, compiling a documentary and fictional portrait of a small town inhabited by historical apparitions. For Schorr, the German landscape is a map of her own history, both imagined and inherited. Combining the overlapping roles of war photographer, traveling portraitist, anthropologist 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!             Hans-Peter Feldmann: Buch/Book No. 9 Inka Schube, Martin Hochleitner Walther Konig, 2007 Dusseldorf-based Hans-Peter Feldmann is a passionate collector of images and stories, an original thinker and one of the first conceptual artists. This is Feldmann's most personal book, a racy parcours through images before and behind the retina: clouds and strawberries, women in graceful poses, pants that don't fit, the longing of retired civil servants, flying people, Christmas decorations, ...             The Devil's Playground3 reviews Nick Cave, Richard Price, ... Phaidon Press Inc., 2008 Nan Goldin's Magnum Opus + Great Purchase + Devil's Playground DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND is a lap-heavy, huge tome of the creative photographs of Nan Goldin, many of which have never before been published. Goldin is know throughout the museums of the world as a photographer who knows no barriers for her subject matter: AIDS victims, mental patients, transvestites, ...             Araki by Araki: The Photographer's Personal Selection5 reviews Nobuyoshi Araki Kodansha International, 2003 Not for readers unfamiliar with Araki's work + Araki's personal offering. Fascinating, but not the place to start for new viewers. + crazy smorgasborg + Not for timid viewers + Photo-Maniac             Witness #2 (Witness, #2) Daido Moriyama, Emi Anrakuji, ... Nazraeli Press, 2007 This is the SECOND installment in the Nazraeli Press "Witness" Series. The first title by Stephen Shore was hugely successful, and is followed up with this work by the photography master Daido Moriyama. The book is filled with an incredible selection of Moriyama's work, and includes works by Emi Anrakuji and Ken Kitano. It is a brilliant work.             A Short History of Photography4 reviews Gerry Badger Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008 Another perceptive photo book from Harvey Benge + A thoughtful meditation on photographic style + A delicious irony + 40 photos: can you name the photographers?             Witness #3, Martin Parr (JGS) (JGS Witness Series, #3) Joy of Giving Something, Inc., New York, NY, 2007 This is the THIRD installment in the Joy of Giving Something, Witness Series. The first title by Stephen Shore was hugely successful, and was followed up with the second Witness Issue by the photography master Daido Moriyama. This Issue is filled with a nice selection of Martin Parr's work, and includes works by several other Parr-selected rising-star Artists. It is another brilliant work.             Richard Prince2 reviews Nancy Spector, Glenn O'Brien, ... Guggenheim Museum, 2007 A princely catalogue Since I will not be lucky enough to see the exhibition at the Guggenheim, I am very happy to be able to say that this is one of the best art books I have ordered so far. It lists and illustrates the bulk of Prince's major series (the original ad pictures from the 1970's, stripped of all text, the ...             Sugimoto2 reviews Hiroshi Sugimoto Fotofolio, 1999 A modern classic + Art and Intention I was first introduced to Sugimoto about five years ago when I saw his Theatre series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His photos captured a kind of ghostly emptiness - white screens framed by the darkened outlines of seats. To capture the exposures he would leave the camera ...             Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonne 1978-2004 Jean-Francois Chevrier Steidl, 2005 Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonne 1978-2004 traces the gradual evolution of Wall's pictorial concept. In an allusion to Charles Baudelaire's dictum on Manet, Wall describes his work as the "painting of modern life," and that life is one fraught with tension but also with luminescent beauty. In 1978, Wall produced The Destroyed Room, which depicted a vandalized space, his first work in the format for ...             Wolfgang Tillmans: Manual Walther Konig, 2007 At just over 430 pages, this monumental and beautifully designed new monograph presents the most comprehensive view of the London-based photographer Wolfgang Tillmans' work to date, featuring many photographic works and abstract "paintings" from the past five years that have never been published before. When he is working on an exhibition or a publication, Tillmans displays and combines pictures ...             A Story Book Life6 reviews Philip-Lorca diCorcia Twin Palms Publishers, 2003 I love it. + Lorca Di Corcia is brilliant!!! + A wonderful book, a beautiful object + A VERY POWERFUL AND PERSONAL COLLECTION OF IMAGES             John Baldessari: While Something Is Happening John Baldessari, Thomas Weski, ... Verlag De Buchhandlung Walter, 2000             Dog Days Bogota1 review Steidl, 2007 Amazing images! I am so clearly biased, as my wife and i adopted a baby girl from Bogota, Colombia in February of 2007. These images were part of our journey, adn speak to us on a very personal level. But, having shared the book with many non-adoptive friends and aquaintences, I know they speak to them as as ...