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Webb, Michael. Modernism Reborn: Mid-Century American Houses. Universe: Rizzoli. 2001. 224p. illus. ISBN 0-7893-0535-6. pap. $39.95. ARCHITECTURE Thankfully, there is a great resurgence of interest in modern architecture, leading to [...]

Penn, Irving. Still Life. Bulfinch: Little, Brown. 2001. 144p. photogs. ISBN 0-8212-2702-5. $85. PHOTOG Penn is notable for gathering things in clumps and patterns and photographing them--something he has been [...]

An American in Europe: The Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from the Norton Museum of Art. Hatje Cantz, dist. by D.A.P. 2001. 167p. photogs. ISBN 3-7757-0973-8. $45. PHOTOG [...]

Yohannan, Kohle. John Rawlings: 30 Years in Vogue. Arena Editions, dist. by D.A.P. 2001. 267p. photogs. LC 00-135861. ISBN 1-892041-38-3. $60. PHOTOG This stunning collection of the work of Vogue [...]

Hess, Alan & Andrew Danish. Palm Springs Weekend: The Architecture and Design of a Midcentury Oasis. Chronicle. May 2001. 180p. photogs. bibliog, index. ISBN 0-8118-2804-2. $40. ARCHITECTURE Blazing with sunshine [...]

Photos That Changed the World: The 20th Century. Prestel, dist. by te Neues. 2000. 183p. ed. by Peter Stepan. photogs. LC 00-102983. ISBN 3-7913-2395-4. $29.95. PHOTOG Compiling photographs to convey [...]

Sandler, Martin W. America: A Celebration! DK. 2000. 1023p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-7894-6806-9. $50. PHOTOG Compiling photographs to convey a sense of time and place is not nearly as easy [...]

LIFE: Century of Change; America in Pictures, 1900-2000. Bulfinch: Little, Brown. 2000. 391p. ed. by Richard B. Stolley. photogs. index. LC 00-105956. ISBN 0-8212-2697-5. $60. PHOTOG Compiling photographs to convey [...]

Deruytter, Wouter (photogs.) & John Wood (text). Cowboy Code. Arena Editions, dist. by D.A.P. 2000. 147p. photogs. LC 00-132760. ISBN 1-892041-34-0. $60. Americans have constructed a mythology about cowboys and [...]

Williams, Rick. Working Hands. Texas A&M Univ. 2000. 129p. permanent paper. photogs. LC 00-037802. ISBN 0-89096-955-8. $45. PHOTOG Americans have constructed a mythology about cowboys and cowboy culture. These three [...]

Capp, Kristin (photogs.) & Andy Grundberg (text). Americana. Edition Stemmle, dist. by Abbeville. 2000. 120p. photogs. ISBN 3-908163-25-0. $65. Americans have constructed a mythology about cowboys and cowboy culture. These [...]

Conner, Lois. The Photographs of Lois Conner: China. Callaway. 2000. 151p. photogs. ISBN 0-935112-57-X. $100. PHOTOG Since 1985, Conner has hauled a 40-pound banquet camera around China. This camera produces [...]

Abbas. Faces of Christianity: A Photographic Journey. Abrams. 2000. 327p. tr. by Jack Hawkes. photogs. LC 00-38111. ISBN 0-8109-5728-0. $60. PHOTOG Iranian photographer Abbas has a special interest in religion. [...]

* Steichen's Legacy: Photographs, 1895-1973. Knopf. 2000. c.372p, ed. by Joanna Steichen, photogs. ISBN 0-679-45076-9. $100. PHOTOG Steichen left a vast body of work demonstrating innovation and creativity and a [...]

Munson, Lynne. Exhibitionism: Art in an Age of Intolerance. Ivan R. Dee. Oct. 2000. c.229p. illus. index. ISBN 1-56663-324-9. $27.50. FINE ARTS Munson, a cultural critic and researcher at the [...]

Szarkowski, John. Atget. Museum of Modern Art, dist. by Abrams. 2000. 224p. photogs. LC 00-102226. ISBN 0-87070-094-4. $60. PHOTOG Eugene Atget was a commercial photographer who spent 30 years producing [...]

Atget, Eugene. Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum. Getty Museum. (In Focus). Sept. 2000. c.144p. photogs. LC 00-022119. ISBN 0-89236-601-X. pap. $17.50. Eugene Atget was a commercial photographer who [...]

McCurry, Margaret. Margaret McCurry: Constructing Twenty-Five Short Stories. Monacelli. 2000. c.192p. photogs. LC 99-53960. ISBN 1-58093-046-8. $40. ARCHITECTURE McCurry, a Chicago architect who served an apprenticeship with Skidmore, Owings & [...]

Galassi, Peter. Walker Evans & Company. Museum of Modern Art, dist. by Abrams. Jun. 2000. 271p. photogs. bibliog. LC 00-130309. ISBN 0-8109-6206-3. $55. Walker Evans, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's [...]

Rosenheim, Jeff L. & Douglas Eklund. Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology. Scalo, dist. by D.A.P. 2000. 247p. photogs. ISBN 3-908247-21-7. $39.95. PHOTOG Walker Evans, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's catalog [...]

Evans, Walker (photogs.) & Maria Morris Hambourg & others (text). Walker Evans. Metropolitan Museum of Art, dist. by Abrams. 2000. 318p. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 99-055746. ISBN 0-691-05078-3. $65. Walker [...]

20 twenty. Fraenkel Gallery, dist. by D.A.P. 2000. 100p. ed. by Jeffrey Fraenkel. photogs. ISBN 1-881337-07-3. $45. PHOTOG To celebrate the 20th anniversary of his San Francisco gallery, a pioneer [...]

Seidner, David (photogs.) & Richard Martin (text). Portraits. Assouline, dist. by St. Martin's. 2000. 80p. photogs. ISBN 2-84323-152-3. $75. PHOTOG Seidner was 42 when he died in 1999, leaving a [...]

Nichols, Tad. Glen Canyon: Images of a Lost World. Museum of New Mexico. 2000. 176p. ed. by Kathleen Bryant. photogs. maps. LC 99-17307. ISBN 0-89013-330-1. $34.95. PHOTOG Nichols photographed and [...]

Brandt, Bill (photogs.) & Bill Jay & Nigel Warburton (text). Brandt: The Photography of Bill Brandt. Abrams. 1999. 320p. photogs. LC 99-73657. ISBN 0-8109-4109-0. $75. PHOTOG In his foreword to [...]

National Geographic Photographs: The Milestones. National Geographic. 1999. 336p. ed. by Leah Bendavid-Val. photogs, index. LC 99-29397. ISBN 0-7922-7520-9. $50. PHOTOG National Geographic has a trusted place in American life. [...]

Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography. Abrams. 1999. 120p. photogs, index. ISBN 0-8109-4358-1. $35. PHOTOG When Edwin Land invented instant photography more than 50 years ago, he offered this thought [...]

Corman, Richard. Glory: Photographs of Athletes. Morrow. 1999. 151p. photogs. ISBN 0-688-15898-6. $45. PHOTOG Athletes at work are very photogenic, but at rest they are less so, perhaps because their [...]

Summit: Vittorio Sella, Mountaineer and Photographer, the Years 1879-1909. Aperture, dist. by Farrar. 1999. c.128p. photogs. bibliog. LC 99-61711. ISBN 0-89381-808-9. $50. PHOTOG This book is a careful reproduction of [...]

Icons of Photography: The 20th Century. Prestel Art, dist. by te Neues Pub. Co. 1999. c.192p. ed. by Peter Stepan. photogs. ISBN 3-7913-2001-7. $29.95. PHOTOG The third of Prestel's 'Icon' [...]

Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory. Yale Univ. 1999. 272p. ed. by William H. Truettner & Roger B. Stein. illus, bibliog. index. LC 98-40097. ISBN 0-300-07938-9. $45. FINE ARTS [...]

We thoroughly enjoyed reading Lisa Peet's 'Author! Author!' (LJ 5/1/15, p. 26-29; ow.ly/OCQHa) on writer events at libraries. It might interest LJ readers to look at rmwritersfest.org, our Rancho Mirage [...]

Quartino, Daniela Santos. New Lobbies & Waiting Rooms. Collins Design: HarperCollins. 2008. 335p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-0-06-137486-9. $50. ARCHITECTURE Years ago, Diane Keaton photographed hotel lobbies--collected in 1980 in Reservations--lovingly, [...]

Schiffer, Nancy N. Knoll Home & Office Furniture. Schiffer. 2006. 312p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7643-2395-4. $79.95. DEC ARTS Knoll means modern furniture. Writer, editor, and art collector Schiffer (America's [...]

* Stern, Jewel. Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design. Yale Univ. 2005. c.392p. illus. ISBN 0-300-10927-X. $75. DEC ARTS Published in association with the Dallas Museum of Art, this [...]

Haas, Robert B. Through the Eyes of the Gods: An Aerial Vision of Africa. National Geographic: National Geographic Society. 2005. c.208p. photogs. ISBN 0-7922-38826. $50. PHOTOG Haas (A Vision of [...]

McCarter, Robert. Louis I Kahn. Phaidon. 2005. 512p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7148-4045-9. $85. ARCHITECTURE There is no disputing the publisher's claim that this massive survey by McCarter (architecture, Univ. [...]

Demand, Thomas (photogs.) & Ralph Rugoff & Julia Franck (text). Thomas Demand: Phototrophy. Schirmer/Mosel, dist. by te Neues. 2005. 127p. photogs. ISBN 3-8296-0171-9. $79.95. PHOTOG Munich-born contemporary photo artist Thomas [...]

Houses for the 21st Century. Periplus Editions: Tuttle. 2004. 192p. ed. by Geoffrey London. photogs. index. ISBN 0-7946-0199-5. $45. Wedlick, Dennis with Philip Langdon. Designing the Good Home: Designs of […]

Yale Univ. 2002. 160p. permanent paper. photogs. index. LC 2002005815. ISBN 0-300-09752-2. $39.95. PHOTOG This catalog celebrates 100 years of ART-news with 100 portrait photographs of artists commissioned by the [...]

Yale Univ. 2002. 216p. permanent paper. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 2001006947. ISBN 0-300-09332-2. $50; pap. ISBN 0-300-09445-0. $35. PHOTOG As Walker Evans aged, he arrived in New York City to [...]

Kittel, Gerd (photogs.) & Alexander Bloom & Freddy Langer (text). Route 66. Thames & Hudson, dist. by Norton. May 2002. 176p. photogs. ISBN 0-500-28350-8. pap. $29.95. PHOTOG The mystique and [...]

Lowry, Bates & Isabel Barrett Lowry. The Silver Canvas: Daguerreotype Masterpieces from the J. Paul Getty Museum. Getty Museum. 1998. 256p. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 97-34415. ISBN 0-89236-368-1. $80. PHOTOG [...]

Stieglitz, Alfred & Pam Roberts. Taschen, dist. by Random. 1997. c.793p. photogs. index. ISBN 3-8228-8072-8. pap. $29.99. PHOTOG For 50 issues, Stieglitz carefully gathered, composed, edited, and produced Camera Work, [...]

Peterson, Christian A. Norton in assoc. with Minneapolis Inst. of Arts. 1997. 224p. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 96-39283. ISBN 0-393-04111-5. $45. PHOTOG This book gathers and honors the work of [...]

Montier, Jean-Pierre. Bulfinch: Little, Brown. 1996. 327p. tr. from French by Ruth Taylor. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 96-77685. ISBN 0-8212-2285-6. $75. PHOTOG Montier's doctoral thesis makes up the text of [...]