Photography
The Instant and Its Shadow
Jean-Christophe Bailly
Translated by Samuel E. Martin
Via the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly’s The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of photography to time itself.
ISBN: 9780823287444
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Like a Lake
Carol Mavor
A vivid, imaginative response to the sensual and erotic in postwar American photography, with attention to the beauty of the nude, both male and femaleWhen photographer Coda Gray...
ISBN: 9780823289325
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In the Shadow of Genius
Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York TimesIn the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author...
ISBN: 9780823280452
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The Blind Man
Robert Desjarlais
The Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while...
ISBN: 9780823281114
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Last Things
Jacques Khalip
Last Things explores lastness as a formal structure in romantic and post-romantic literature and art as something other than either a privation or a conclusion. It touches on the unthinkable dimensions of our life and world, and reads the fate of romanticism as a limit of the human.
ISBN: 9780823279555
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A Call to Vision
Don Doll
Fifty years of award-winning photography is celebrated in A Call to Vision: A Jesuit’s Perspective on the World, the final book in the Vision series by Jesuit photographer Don Doll, S.J.
ISBN: 9780578109909
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Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker
Dorothy Day
Edited by Kate Hennessy
A portrait of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement in New York City through photographs taken in 1955 by Vivian Cherry, a documentary photographer, accompanied by excerpts of Dorothy Day’s writings selected and edited by her granddaughter, Kate Hennessy.
ISBN: 9780823271368
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The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side
Gerard R. Wolfe
The classic book on the Lower East Side’s synagogues and their congregations, past and present—now back in print in a completely revised and expanded edition
ISBN: 9780823263851
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Athens, Still Remains
Jacques Derrida
Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas
Athens, Still Remains is an extended commentary on a series of photographs of contemporary Athens by the French photographer Jean-François Bonhomme. But in Derrida’s hands commentary always...
ISBN: 9780823232062
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Lost Waterfront
For more than a century, the Hudson River piers in Greenwich Village bustled with the maritime commerce that made New York the greatest port in the country. By the 1960s, after years of economic...
ISBN: 9780823228454
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