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At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women

10 best books like At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (Sally Mann): Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa, Women, Francesca Woodman, Eudora Welty: Photographs, Francesca Woodman, Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light District of New Orleans, Diane Arbus: Untitled, In the American West, Nan Goldin: The Other Side 1972-1992, Witkin

Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa
AuthorHans W. Silvester
ISBN0500543585
Really wonderful photographs featuring body art one could spend hours looking at, but I really wish there'd been more text -- it's a few pages of text at the beginning, and then page after page of photographs without so much as a caption. There's enough at the beginning to call one's attention to artistic...
Women
AuthorAnnie Leibovitz
ISBN0375756469
The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon,...
Francesca Woodman
AuthorChris Townsend
ISBN0714844306
This is the only book available on the legendary American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), an artist who has attracted a devoted worldwide following, despite a career of less than a decade, cut short by her tragically early death at the age of 23. With over 250 photographs, some of which...
Eudora Welty: Photographs
AuthorEudora Welty
ISBN0878055290
Reynolds Price, in the introduction of this luminous book of Eudora Welty's "snapshot" photographs, quotes her as revealing:

"...my wish, indeed my continuing passion, would be not to point the finger in judgment but to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the...
Francesca Woodman
AuthorFrancesca Woodman
ISBN3931141969
Published in 1992 in Europe and distributed in the U.S., the first book with photographs by Francesca Woodman immediately created great respect for this enigmatic artist. David Levi Strauss writes in his essay: "The constitutive facts of Francesca Woodman's life are by now well known. We know that...
Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light District of New Orleans
AuthorE.J. Bellocq
ISBN0679449752
An expanded and revised edition of the famous book of portraits of prostitutes in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, the inspiration for the Louis Malle film Pretty Baby. This new edition includes 52 tritone photos printed in a large format. The text from the original edition--by John Szarjowski,...
Diane Arbus: Untitled
AuthorDiane Arbus
"Untitled" may well be Arbus's most transcendent, most romantic vision. It is a celebration of the singularity and connectedness of each and every one of us. It demands of us what it demanded of her: the courage to see things as they are and the grace to permit them to simply be. For Diane Arbus, this is what...
In the American West
AuthorRichard Avedon
ISBN0810911051
The 120 full-page photographs in this book depict people at country fairs, rodeos, mining camps, drilling sites, and even a slaughterhouse - men and women of the American West who work at hard, everyday jobs. Richard Avedon introduces the volume with an essay on his working method and portrait philosophy,...
Nan Goldin: The Other Side 1972-1992
AuthorNan Goldin
ISBN3908247349
Nan Goldin's seminal second book The Other Side is finally back in print. Ever since the early 1970s Goldin has lived with and among drag queens, documenting both their glamour and their struggles. The Other Side is her very personal declaration of love and gratitude to these drag queens, who showed...
Witkin
AuthorJoel-Peter Witkin
ISBN1881616207
Witkin is incredible. One can see how much his stuff has been plagiarised by mass culture. Take the Nine Inch Nails Closer video; the bondage, the crucified monkey, the aviator goggles. He is a photographic master blending the beautiful with the grotesque. Examples include: "a severed head on a plate,...
Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye
AuthorGilles Mora
"A major figure in American photography, Walker Evans stands among Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand as an artist of the first rank. Evans documented the look and feel of much of his native country in a notably distinct way throughout the majority of the twentieth century. This definitive...
Once
AuthorWim Wenders
ISBN1891024256
Wim Wenders ranks among the greatest artistic minds of contemporary film: over the past thirty years his films have displayed such wisdom, creativity, and sensitivity that they have transcended boundaries of language and nationality. Wenders brings to this collection of photographic essays the...
The Architect's Brother
AuthorRobert ParkeHarrison
ISBN0944092845
I want to make images that have open, narrative qualities, enought to suggest ideas about human limits. I want there to be a combination of the past juxtaposed with the modern. I use nature to symbolize the search, saving a tree, watering the earth. In this fabricated world, strange clouds of smog float...
Naked City
AuthorWeegee
ISBN0306812045
For Naked City, his first collection, Weegee cruised the teeming streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. His photographs were lewd, louche, and licentious but always brimming with life (except when they were brimming with death).
Weegee's profound influence on...
William Eggleston
AuthorHervé Chandès
ISBN0500974969
Born in 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee, where he currently resides, William Eggleston is considered one of America's most important photographers. His 1976 exhibition, Photographs by William Eggleston, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, marked a turning point in the history of photography: this...
The North American Indian: The Complete Portfolios
AuthorEdward S. Curtis
I was fortunate enough to examine several extremely early editions of Curtis's portfolios, and I must confess that they are quite breathtaking when viewed full-sized. The devotion that Curtis exhibited toward the cause of creating a reverent, informative, and thorough visual history of North American...
Discoveries: Henri Cartier-Bresson
AuthorClément Chéroux
ISBN0810998262
Born in 1908 in France, Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. Early on he adopted the versatile 35mm format and helped develop the popular “street photography” style, influencing generations of photographers that followed. In his own words, he expressed...
A History of Women Photographers
AuthorNaomi Rosenblum
ISBN0789206587
Women have made vital contributions to photography both as a profession and as an art form from the very beginning. In every aspect of the medium -- portraiture, social and scientific documentation, advertising, photo-journalism, personal expression -- women have been highly active creators....
Workers
AuthorSebastião Salgado
More then those of any other living photographer, Sebastiao Salgado's images of the world's poor stand in tribute to the human condition. Salgado defines his work as "militant photography" dedicated to "the best comprehension of man"; over the decades he has bestowed great dignity on the most isolated...
The Photograph
AuthorGraham Clarke
ISBN0192842005
In a series of brilliant discussions of major themes and genres, Graham Clarke gives a clear and incisive account of the photograph's historical development, and elucidates the insights of the most interesting critics on the subject such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. At the heart of the book...
The Body: Photographs of the Human Form
AuthorWilliam A. Ewing
ISBN0811807622
The sensual curve of the shoulder, the disturbing line of a scar, the magnetic pull of a lashed eye -- since the birth of photography, images of the human body have attracted, disturbed, fascinated, and obsessed us. The body has been scrutinized by medical and anatomical photographers; it has been celebrated...
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