Photographs taken by MacArthur fellow Robert Adams since the late 1960s have decisively changed the ways many think about the American West. As we enter the 21st century, it is no surprise that environmental urgencies, including his own very deeply felt concerns, have shaped thinking about Adams's art. This volume surveys Adams's work since its beginnings to offer a new, thematic approach to its layered meanings and complexities and includes previously unpublished photographs.

Sunlight, Solitude, Democracy, Home: Photographs by Robert Adams

Arts & Photography

Fillin-Yeh, Susan

Rubinfien, Leo

ADAMS, ROBERT

Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery

Individual Artists

Douglas F Cooley Memorial Art

Japan’s brilliant and influential postwar photographer Shomei Tomatsu (b. 1930) has created some of the most dramatic images in the history of photography. Many of his photographs have become icons of the twentieth century. This important book is the first in-depth English-language study of Tomatsu’s work. Richly illustrated and handsomely designed, it features more than one hundred plates representingin ten thematic sectionsthe full range of his career.
Tomatsu emerged in the 1950s with his sensitive pictures of postwar Japan. In the 1960s the artist turned his camera to the aftermath of the atomic bomb and the lingering presence of the U. S. military in his homeland. In subsequent decades his lens has captured the elation of Japan’s economic boom and the problems inspired by his culture’s increasing westernization. Throughout, Tomatsu’s pictures have consistently resonated not only with Japanese society but also with American culture. Included in this book are essays by distinguished scholars on all aspects of the artist’s life and career as well as a selection of brief excerpts from Tomatsu’s own writings, many of which have never appeared in English.
Skin of the Nation (the book’s subtitle) is both a literal and metaphorical reference to the surfaces that have appeared in countless pictures throughout Tomatsu’s career. For the artist, skin is more than just a surface, it is a kind of map in which one can read the story of Japanits essence and its future.

Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation

Dower, John W.

Phillips, Sandra S.

Shomei Tomatsu

Photography & Video

Yale University Press

Widely regarded as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, Garry Winogrand (1928–1984) did much of his best-known work in Manhattan during the 1960s, becoming an epic chronicler of that tumultuous decade. But Winogrand was also an avid traveler and roamed extensively around the United States, bringing exquisite work out of nearly every region of the country.
This landmark retrospective catalogue looks at the full sweep of Winogrand’s exceptional career. Drawing from his enormous output, which at the time of his death included thousands of rolls of undeveloped film and unpublished contact sheets, the book will serve as the most substantial compendium of Winogrand’s work to date. Lavishly illustrated with both iconic images and photographs that have never been seen before now, and featuring essays by leading scholars of American photography, Garry Winogrand presents a vivid portrait of an artist who unflinchingly captured America’s swings between optimism and upheaval in the postwar era.

Garry Winogrand

Greenough, Sarah

Papageorge, Tod

O'Toole, Erin

Collects over one hundred photographs of Japan, China, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Burma, Hong Kong, and Vietnam, representing modernity's annihilation of tradition in these regions.

Map of the East

Norton*(ww Norton Co

Collects over one hundred photographs of Japan, China, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Burma, Hong Kong, and Vietnam, representing modernity's annihilation of tradition in these regions.

David R. Godine, Publisher

In this illuminating book, featuring 105 color photographs, Rubinfien defines the character and idiosyncrasies of the Orient.

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Sunlight, Solitude, Democracy, Home: Photographs by Robert Adams

Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation

Garry Winogrand

Map of the East

Map of the East

Map of the East