Arts / Photography / Photoessays & Documentaries

Mama

by Maria Perez-Brown

Latina daughters finally have a chance to honor their mothers and inspire readers -- by paying homage in Mamá to the strong women who have sacrificed and struggled, laughed and cried, and fought hard to create...

Shalom Y'All: Images of Jewish Life in the American South

by Alfred Uhry, Bill Aron & Vicki Reikes Fox

The kitchen of Henrietta Levine in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where chopped liver is sautTing. Ben and Betty Lee Lamensdorf's farmland in Cary, Mississippi, where cotton, wheat, and pecans are harvested. The New...

A Toronto Album 2: More Glimpses of the City That Was

by Mike Filey

A companion edition to A Toronto Album, this is a photographic journey through bustling Toronto from the late 1930s to the early 1970s.

Tokyo Megacity

by Donald Richie & Ben Simmons

Modern Tokyo is a city of strata, in which the patchwork of villages that make its surface so varied are matched by the slices of the past that remain. The city combines the old and the new, and is both traditional...

Nature Calls: The History, Lore, and Charm of Outhouses

by Dottie Booth

The crunch of leaves under your feet, the sounds of nature around you, the smell of . . . well, never mind. In this engaging volume, Dottie Booth answers the call with a one-of-a-kind photographic tour of outhouses...

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...

Speed Duel: The Inside Story of the Land Speed Record in the Sixties

by Samuel Hawley

The quest for the land speed record in the 1960s and the epic rivalry between two dynamic American drivers, Art Arfons and Craig Breedlove.

"Interesting and complex. . . .The best job I've seen done on the subject...

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...