Photography Surveys

A richly illustrated look at some of the most important photobooks of the 20th century.France experienced a golden age of photobook production from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Avant-garde experiments in photography, text, design, and printing, within the context of a growing modernist...

ANIMALS presents an innovative and insightful look at our relationship with animals in the age of the Anthropocene from bestselling author Henry Carroll with original images from an innovative array of contemporary photographers. In this second book of the series, Carroll deep-dives into an...

How do the most diverse and relevant voices of contemporary photography respond to the urgent issues of today?  Henry Carroll, the bestselling photography writer of the last decade, unpacks the ideas behind images to reflect on race, gender, faith, inequality, beauty, politics, and our...

Black Masculinities explores the broad spectrum and diversity of Black masculinities through the medium of contemporary photography. Seen through the lenses of 22 Black (or) People of Colour (BPoC) from around the world, the stereotypic entanglement of Black identity and masculinity is deconstructed and...

This dynamic study examines the intersection of modernist photography and American commercial graphic design between 1930 and 1960. Avant-garde strategies in photography and design reached the United States via European émigrés, including Bauhaus artists forced out of Nazi Germany. The unmistakable aesthetic made popular...

INDIA: Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art presents 46 contemporary artists and collectives working in dialogue with the long history and emergent future of India and its people. The book focuses on the contemporary moment, and a range of approaches are included, including art...