Eudora Welty: Photographs
10 best books like Eudora Welty: Photographs (Eudora Welty): Cape May : A Novel, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, Jabari Jumps, Feast Your Eyes, Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Apex Hides the Hurt, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye, William Eggleston, Uncommon Places: The Complete Works
A mesmerizing debut novel by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by sophisticated New England urbanites.
Late September 1957. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia,...
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
From the author of the novel, The Clasp, hailed by Michael Chabon, Heidi Julavits, and J. Courtney Sullivan. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays from Sloane Crosley is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory.
From despoiling...
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
| Author | Susan Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0449902927 |
Dynamic and inspirational, FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY is filled with concrete techniques to turn passivity into assertiveness. Dr. Susan Jeffers, teaches you how to stop negative thinking patterns and reeducate your mind to think more positively. You will learn: the vital 10-Step Positive Thinking...
| Author | Gaia Cornwall |
| ISBN | 0763678384 |
Working up the courage to take a big, important leap is hard, but Jabari is almost absolutely ready to make a giant splash.
Jabari is definitely ready to jump off the diving board. He's finished his swimming lessons and passed his swim test, and he's a great jumper, so he's not scared at all. "Looks...
| Author | Myla Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1501197843 |
2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Finalist
The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Bee Season—a compelling and wholly original story about a female photographer grappling with ambition and motherhood,...
| Author | Nan Goldin |
| ISBN | 0893813397 |
A photobook classic, and perhaps the work for which New York photographer Nan Goldin remains best known, "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" is a visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends and lovers collectively described by Goldin as her "tribe." Her work...
From the MacArthur and Whiting Award–winning author of John Henry Days and The Intuitionist comes a new, brisk, comic tour de force about identity,history, and the adhesive bandage industry
When the citizens of Winthrop needed a new name for their town, they did what anyone would do—they...
"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...
| Author | Hervé Chandès |
| ISBN | 0500974969 |
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...
| Author | Stephen Shore |
| ISBN | 0500542872 |
When I elbowed through the pink David LaChapelles and the anal-retentive Ansels (always the Ansels) I discovered this at the local B&N today, its dust jacket beaten-up and sliced a little on the back, by an incautiously wielded box cutter probably. Usually these defects alone would dissuade me...
| Author | Lauren Greenfield |
| ISBN | 0811837904 |
Renowned photographer Lauren Greenfield has won acclaim and awards for her studies of youth culture. In Girl Culture, she combines a photojournalists sense of story with fine-art composition and color to create an astonishing and intelligent exploration of American girls. Her photographs provide...
William Eggleston's Guide
| Author | William Eggleston |
| ISBN | 0870703781 |
William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of color photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with color photography,...
| Author | Robert Frank |
| ISBN | 3931141802 |
Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a...
The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in 1966, the book has long been out of print. It is now available...
The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
| Author | Henri Cartier-Bresson |
| ISBN | 0893818755 |
Henri Cartier-Bresson's writings on photography and photographers have been published sporadically over the past 45 years. His essays--several of which have never before been translated into English--are collected here for the first time. The Mind's Eye features Cartier-Bresson's famous text...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Masters of Photography Series
| Author | Photo Poche |
| ISBN | 0893817449 |
Henri Cartier-Bresson reveals--as only a few great artists have done--the variety and richness of human experience in the twentieth century. This second volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series confirms the genius of the photographer who--with the new, smaller, hand-held cameras and...
A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
| Author | Annie Leibovitz |
| ISBN | 0375505091 |
"I don't have two lives," Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990--2005. "This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it." Portraits of well-known figures-Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards,...
The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos
| Author | Michael Freeman |
| ISBN | 0240809343 |
Design is the single most important factor in creating a successful photograph. The ability to see the potential for a strong picture and then organize the graphic elements into an effective, compelling composition has always been one of the key skills in making photographs.
Digital photography...
| Author | Ansel Adams |
| ISBN | 0821221841 |
Ansel Adams has a dry and terse style, I think I haven't read technical books with so much content per word, very little is wasted. This book is relatively small, but there is so much information that it must be read carefully.
Much of the book seems out of date, and it is, but even the things most...
