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.
The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone
The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone is a beautifully constructed picture book for young children. The first thing that strikes you is the cover, when…
Bright Earth
The world is a brightly colored place, full of variations, shading and patterns. All the hues of the color wheel surround us – blue sky, brown earth…
Girl Culture
Photographer Lauren Greenfield makes clear her perspective in her essay at the end of Girl Culture. She writes, “Most of all, I am interested…
Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene
Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene is a curious collection of photographs, short fiction and poems by a wide variety of fifty distingu…
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Beg the Question
Beg the Question is a black and white graphic novel about Rob, a skinny guy in his early twenties living in Brooklyn. He works as a graphic artist…
Dead End
Dead End combines two stories by Thomas Ott, The Millionaires and Washing Day. Ott tells his tales with pictures only, with no accom…
Here Is New York
It’s hard to know how to approach this massive collection of photographs of New York City taken on September 11, 2001 and the days and months follow…
Burn, Bitchy, Burn
This is a collection of Roberta Gregory’s comic book stories for the Bitchy Bitch series that originally appeared in the long running alternative bo…
Nightswimming
Nightswimming is an extraordinary book of black and white photographs. Stephen Barker took these pictures in a park, mostly at night, of men with…
Spectral Evidence
Orson Welles once said that photographs are not so much a reflection of our own world, but seem to come to us from another one. This new book by Ulrich B…
Willie Doherty
False Memory is an excellent introduction to the installation art and photography of Northern Ireland artist Willie Doherty. Born in 1959, Doherty…
Amazing Women
This little book (79 pages) features black and white photographs of female firefighters accompanied by their own words, or poems, or short descriptions o…
The September 11 Photo Project
The September 11 Photo Project is a collection of nearly 200 pages of both color and black and white photographs by more than one hundred photogra…
Czech Photographic Avant-Garde, 1918-1948
This important book gives us the history of Czech avant-garde photography from the founding of the independent Czechoslovak state after the First World W…
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House of Java
Mark Murphy’s House of Java Volume 2 is a collection of short stories in black and white comic book format. Murphy draws with economy using s…
Mass Observation
Gillian Wearing is a British artist who works mostly in video. Born in 1963, she won the prestigious Turner Prize in 1997. Mass Observation has be…
Attitude
In Attitude, Ted Rall has collected together 20 like-minded artists to create a state-of-the-art introduction to political cartoons. Probabl…
Conceptual Art and Painting
Charles Harrison (1942- ) has long held an interest in art and its criticism and this most recent book proves his continued commitment through its rich,…
Enduring Creation
This book does not belong on your coffee table – that is, unless you would like to have people stop and catch a look at it, or wonder what you are u…
I’ll Be Your Mirror
This large book (492 pages) documents some of the large body of work of photographer Nan Goldin, and was published on the occasion of a major exhibition…
Louis Faurer
This wonderful collection of photographs by Louis Faurer focuses on his images of New York and Philadelphia from the late 1930s to the 1950s, but also in…
Questions without answers
Questions without answers is an oddly naive collection of photographs and text by Duane Michals. The questions are universal: What is langua…
Satan’s Sex Book
The idea behind this adult graphic novel is that demons are attempting to take over the world through the power of an ancient book created by Satan. This…
Darger
Henry Darger was obsessive. He wrote a six-volume weather journal for ten years, with an entry every single day, an autobiography of more than 5,000 page…
Just Between Us
Just Between Us is a collection of black and white photographs by Greg Gorman of one model, Greg Knudson. In his Introduction, Gorman explains how…