San Antonio College Library

"A complete guide to mounting, framing and hanging prints, designing albums, assembling slide shows, and ideas for unusual displays to get the most out of your photgraphs"--from page [4] of cover.

Presents a comprehensive collection of one hundred black-and-white images of Native American leaders made by Frank A. Rinehart from 1898 to 1900, and includes fourteen essays which reflect upon those photographs from writers, educators, and descendents of those individuals.

This new book surveys Edward Weston's work more comprehensively and exhaustively than any previous work. A combination of biography and critical analysis, it offers more than 320 meticulously reproduced duotone images, nearly a quarter of which have never been reproduced in books before. The selected photographs trace Weston's career from his early days, through formative years in Mexico, and on through the balance of his career, which ended because...

"The Whitney Museum of American Art, which possesses the most comprehensive collection of twentieth and twenty-first century American art, has in recent years concentrated on expanding its photography holdings. Drawn from the Whitney's permanent collection, Visions from America offers portraits, landscapes, street-scapes, and genre subjects from both emerging and well-known photographers, including Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Larry Clark, Chuck Close,...

"This richly illustrated book documents the 1973-75 photographic work of Greek-born American artist Lucas Samaras. The PHOTO-TRANSFORMATIONS made with the Polaroid SX-70 camera represent the extension of his unique self-referential surrealist imagery into the medium of experimental photography. This new series of tableaux, catalogued here for the first time, demonstrates Samaras' versatility in the artistic exploration of the human condition, through...

Eighty-three photographs presenting W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Ruby Dee, Lena Horne, James Baldwin, and others, demonstrate Van Vechten's intent to enlighten white America about black culture.

This volume is a biography and comprehensive, annotated listing of all the known works of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879). Cameron became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary or heroic themes. Although her style was not widely appreciated in her own day, her work has had an impact on modern photographers, especially her closely cropped portraits. In addition...