One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress ...
Continue Reading →A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography ...
Continue Reading →One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography—so good at representing a building’s lines and planes—a necessary way to promote ...
Continue Reading →This book makes available for the first time in English and for the first time in its entirety in any language an important ...
Continue Reading →Following the invention of the daguerreotype and calotype processes in 1839, views of ruins, classical statuary, and the antiquities of the Mediterranean and ...
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