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In this volume, the Sheldon Museum of Art presents more than one hundred examples from its distinguished photography collection, which contains nearly twenty-five hundred objects. Encompassing the full range of photographic history, Encounters showcases recognized masterpieces, recent acquisitions, and rarely seen treasures by a diverse range of artists, including Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gertrude Kasebier, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Yinka Shonibare, Paul Strand, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Carrie Mae Weems.

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Sporting events as spectacle. Athletes as cultural icons. It was not always so, and The Sports Show reveals in a dramatic way how photography and film and new media transformed age-old leisure activities into the pop culture phenomena of sports in our day. Innovative early photographers and filmmakers were fundamental to this transformation, producing powerful images that put millions of people at the center of the athletic action. As it documents the work of these artists and their role in creating sports as we know it, the book spotlights the artistry and cultural significance of...

The companion to the first major photography exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London since the highly acclaimed I Am a Camera in 2001, this stunning compilation presents 37 international artists working in the medium of photography in diverse, innovative, and arresting ways. From Mitch Epstein's American Power series, which explores the ways in which energy has impacted the American landscape, to Ryan McGinley's Morrissey series and the work of such renowned practitioners as Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin from South Africa; Noemie Goudal from France; JH Engstrom from Sweden; Jonny...

Ireland is a collection of 300 contemporary images of the beauties of Ireland, covering every one of the 32 counties. The photographs are taken by two of the country's leading landscape photographers, Peter Zoller and Michael Diggin.

Features stunning aerial photographs of the Deep-water Horizon Gulf oil spill. The full scale of the disaster is revealed in these photographs where the human presence takes the form of tiny toy-like helicopters and ships. Only the billowing smoke from a great fire signals the true destruction caused.