In a word--wow! If ever a project existed that bore proud witness to the vital link between our industrial past and our digital future and between art and community, it is MASS MoCA, the sprawling, ever-evolving modern-art complex carved out of a cluster of abandoned brick factories in the Berkshire-backdropped town of North Adams in western Massachusetts. Opened to international fanfare in 1999, the overnight cultural mecca was the result of a grueling, stop-and-go, 13-year collaboration among art-world principals, local and state leaders, and the architecture firm of Bruner/Cott &amp; Associates. All those involved labored to find sufficient funds and the right design approach to retrofit the 27-building, 13-acre site, most of which was built in the 19th century, into a fluid facility for 21st century art, performance, and technology. 
 This handsome volume of 100 color and black-and-white photographs, produced largely by the museum's founders, is an exhilarating documentation of a uniquely inverted design process in which a tight budget, the site's status as a national landmark, and the built-in abundance of existing light and space all demanded that the architects subtract more elements than they add. Thus, we're treated to a profusion of before-and-after photos where we can see how a few of the lesser or more far-gone buildings were demolished to create pathways and sight lines for visitors; how others had whole floors knocked out to create cathedral-like, sun-soaked galleries; and how empty, asbestos-scarred former workrooms became light-as-air hosts for massive installations by such artists as Robert Rauschenberg and Mario Merz. The volume is also bookended with essays by MoCA director Joseph Thompson and principle architect Simeon Bruner that narrate the completion of this fascinating architectural jigsaw puzzle in greater detail. 
 Several photos show the gleaming new galleries, performance spaces, and outdoor courtyards alive with museum-goers--but in so many places, the imposing, time-stained red brick and massive original posts and beams have been left untouched. Their hulking, workaday visibility makes it impossible to forget the site's industrial roots or the thousands of local residents (mostly women) who once labored there--and whose children and grandchildren accounted, fittingly, for a vast majority of the first people to step through the doors of this truly forward-looking nexus of creative and technological potential. --Timothy Murphy

Mass Moca: From Mill to Museum

Arts & Photography

Thompson, Joseph

Bruner, Simeon

Heon, John

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184 lightly ruled pages Sewn binding with ribbon bookmark Sturdy, high-capacity pocket for keepsakes, receipts, business cards, etc. Secured with an elastic band closure & shrink-wrapped An interest in the cult of celebrity and an irreverent sense of humor combine to create these famous faces pet parodies. The playful hardcover journals feature a ribbon bookmark and matching elastic closure with an interior pocket, to keep you organized and smiling.

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The 6th volume in Stern magazine's Bibliothek Der Fotografie series (Stern Library of Photography, Portfolio No. 6), devoted entirely to the work of photographer James Nachtwey and with a large selection of his images made in Afghanistan. Nachtwey is one of the best photojournalists working today and the subject of the film "War Photographer." Photographs by James Nachtwey; essays by Hans-Hermann Klare and Gabriel Gruner. Staple-bound; unpaginated [96 pages]; full-page b&w + spot color, text illustrations, and color advertising; 10.5 x 14.25 inches. Text in German.

James Nachtwey; Civil Wars (German Language)

Nachtwey, James

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This collection of work spans Annie Leibovitz's career, beginning with early shots of John Lennon for "Rolling Stone Magazine" and moving onto recent shots of Jodie Foster. The photographs range from a relaxed shot of Keith Richards to Susan Sontag modelling beachwear and from David Lynch posing with Isabella Rosellinin in black to Roseanne Barr wallowing in mud with Tom Arnold.

Annie Leibovitz: Photographs Portfolio 1970-1990 (English and German Edition)

Leibovitz, Annie

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Herb Ritts: Body Art (Stern Portfolio Library)

RITTS, Herb

This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Nan Goldin - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.

Nan Goldin (Stern Portfolio Library)

GOLDIN, Nan

"Burning Beauty" is a comprehensive summary of photographer David LaChapelle, stretching from the early 1980s to 2012. With more than 200 colour illustrations and four essays, it reflects LaChapelle's entire oeuvre. LaChapelle's imagery has the ability no only to attract our gaze with seductive and remarkable bodies, settings and objects in every conceivable and inconceivable constellation; it also has the capacity to incite reactions that charge our seeing with emotions that engender a relationship between the image and its viewer. His imagery places the viewer in the midst of the turbulent visual culture of the past quarter-century and invites us to a blend of passion, comedy, exaggeration and critical reflection. Published to accompany the exhibition "Burning Beauty" at The Swedish Museum of Photography in Stockholm, this book offers a unique insight in one of the most important contemporary artists in the world.

Portfolio (Library of Photography Number 16)

LaChapelle, David

This monograph is the definitive guide to the career of one of the most prodigious fashion photographers of our time. From his earliest work at Harper's Bazaar to his now mythic collaboration with Vogue, Patrick Demarchelier has single-handedly redefined the fashion photograph and the fashion industry along with it. His celebrity portraits have shaped the public personas of figures ranging from Princess Diana to Madonna. Demarchelier is everywhere at once, with a photographic sensibility that is as iconic, incisive and as varied as his subject matter. Featuring more than 400 of Demarchelier's most telling photographs, this volume provides an invaluable fashion reference point, all the while charting the course of our own cultural obsession with celebrity and beauty. Born outside Paris in 1943, Patrick Demarchelier relocated to New York in 1975, where he began his editorial career with Harper's Bazaar and Hearst Publications. His photographs appear regularly on the covers and in the pages of publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, among many others. He was the 2007 recipient of the Eleanor Lambert Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. He continues to live and work in New York.

Patrick Demarchelier

Demarchelier, Patrick

Original Shrinkwrap. If you are fan of celebrity, fashion and editorial photographers such as Sante D'Orazio, or a collector of Stern Portfolio editions, then this is a must for your collection and library.

Portfolio: Private Moments (Bibliothek Der Fotografie Number 18)

Dorazio, Sante

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