Arts / Photography / Individual Photographers

The Book of Happiness: Africa

by Joseph Peter & Ndaba Mandela

Discover the book that puts a face on happiness

In 2009, photographer Joseph Peter traveled through fifty African nations in seventy-five days and shot 150,000 images—mostly portraits of joyous, proud, glorious...

Thoreau's Maine Woods

by Dan Tobyne

Beginning in 1847, Henry David Thoreau made three trips to the mostly unexplored Maine woods. Along the way he recorded his observations on the wildlife (flora and fauna), the weather, terrain, and on the nature...

Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr.

by Burt Boyar

Sammy Davis, Jr. will forever be remembered as one of America's finest entertainers. An all–around performer who could sing, dance, and act, Davis broke racial barriers in the entertainment world and became...

Photography, Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame

by Morton & Edwards

As current research rethinks the relationship between photography and anthropology, this volume will serve as a stimulus to this new phase of research as an essential text and methodological reference point...

Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico Portrait

by Craig Varjabedian & Hampton Sides

This collection of ninety elegantly composed black-and-white images by one of New Mexico’s most accomplished photographers, celebrates the state’s captivating physical variety and enduring allure.

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

by Timothy Egan

How a lone man’s epic obsession led to one of America’s greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American...

Occupants

by Henry Rollins

For the past 25 years, Henry Rollins has photographed the most desolate and inhospitable corners of the Earth, and his powerful vision has been harnessed in this photographic essay. Though he is known for the...

Golf's Finest Par Threes: The Art and Science of the One-Shot Hole

by Michael Bartlett, Pete and Alice and Alice Dye & Tony Roberts

Striking photography and fact-filled profiles combine to reveal the distinct character of the world’s best par-three golf holes in this gorgeous collection. A list of the 100 greatest holes are at the heart...

Available Light: Exile in Mexico

by John Howard Howard Griffin

Culled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his most famous...

Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story

by Ruth Gruber

With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of...

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

by Caroline Alexander

In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the...

Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50

by Michael Cunningham & Claudia Craig Marek

Photographer Michael Cunningham (coauthor of Crowns) and author Connie Briscoe, a New York Times bestselling novelist, profile 50 women over the age of 50 who have been remarkably successful--whether in reaching...