Art and Photography
Here you will find books in the genre of of art and photography. Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Intense
This collection of color photographs of women is distinctive and striking. The women are beautiful fashion models, and they appear nude or topless, so t…
Tropical Blend
Tropical Blend is an unchallenging collection of photographs of nude and partially clothed young women in a tropical location. We get sun, surf,…
Photography Reborn
Lipkin’s Photography Reborn is a nicely illustrated survey of the use of digital photography in art. The text accompanying the pictures is straig…
With
Ken Ohara’s black and white portraits in With are exposed for an hour. So, especially for the indoor photographs, the background is clear and we…
American Alphabets
Wendy Ewald is a well-known and much-praised conceptual artist who works in photography. She won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992, and she has published s…
Surrealism
Surrealism is a large format 300-page book full of full color images of surrealist art work and thoughtful discussion. It is divided into three m…
Angel’s World
Angel’s World is a book of 88 black and white photographs by Angelo Rizzuto taken between 1955 and 1964, together with the story of how Michael Le…
See Me Feel Me
Richard Murrian has already established himself in his first book Reanna’s Diaries…
Illumine
Garry Fabian Miller’s photographs are breathtakingly beautiful in their simplicity and rich colors. Many of his more recent works bring to mind the pain…
The New Life
According to the press release from the Yossi Milo Gallery, in 2003 French photographer traveled on the west coast and some southern states of the USA, t…
Disasters of War
Disasters of War is a collection of images from Henry Darger’s work. It has about 200 pages of color reproductions of his mammoth illustrations o…
The Valley
Like Jeff Burton’s recent book The Other Place (reviewed in Metapsychology…
51 Months
Carrie Levy is a young photographer whose book 51 Months documents the period that her father Glenn went to jail and was then released. She was j…
Alive with Alzheimer’s
Alive with Alzheimer’s is a collection of photographs in black and white by sociologist Cathy Stein Greenblat of residents, their caregivers and s…
Light in the Dark Room
It is often said that if a person’s house is burning down among the things of highest priority to be rescued, after pets and children (or maybe before, I…
Smile of the Buddha
As Jacqueline Baas demonstrates in this slowly constructed book, the impact of Buddhist philosophy, and particularly a Buddhist aesthetic, has been very…
Young Photographer
Young Photographer contains 26 four-color plates by artist Amy Adler. According to the UCLA Hammer Museum description of her series of pictures o…
A Child’s Life and Other Stories
This collection of illustrated stories by Phoebe Gloeckner seem to draw on her own experience as an abused and delinquent teenager growing up in San Fran…
Alive
It seems presumptuous to assume that the life’s work of Seiichi Furuya is largely defined by his relationship with his wife Christine. Indeed, he starte…
Night Fisher
Night Fisher has a lovely cover and it says on the back that it is a graphic novel telling a "compassionate, hard-nosed coming-of-age story,&…
On City Streets
In the Introduction to On City Streets, Bob Thall of the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago explains how Gary Stochl turned up one…
Optic Nerve #9
Adrian Tomine has become one of the best-known comic book artists working today, with work appearing not just in comics but also in respected magazines s…
The Clouds Above
The Clouds Above is a fantasy graphic novel for children. It is vigorously drawn and colored, with one drawing per page. A little boy Simon and…
The Push Man and Other Stories
As Adrian Tomine explains in his Introduction to The Push Man and Other Stories, these short stories in comic form by Yoshihiro Tatsumi were origi…
Stripped Bare
Stripped Bare is a magnificent assortment of contemporary photography, painting and sculpture, organized around the theme of the body. All works…