by Roger Gastman, Darin Rowland, and Ian Sattler (2006)
"The idea that one's work could travel across the country reaching new audiences on a daily basis attracted so many writers that today freight train graffiti is a vibrant and growing art movement all on its own. This book is the definitive history of this exciting and distinct branch of the larger urban art form. Until now there has been almost no written insight into the vast subculture of freight train graffiti, a movement so massive that it can no longer be ignored." "As dazzling as the art it celebrates, Freight Train Graffiti is jam-packed with 1,000 full-color illustrations and features in-depth interviews with more than 125 train artists and writers. Hundreds of never-before-seen photographs span the decades of the style's evolution, and the authoritative text from an all-star team of authors provides unprecedented perspective on the phenomenon, including the first ever written history of monikers."--BOOK JACKET.
Patricia Janis Broder
For over 25 years, from 1878 until his death in 1903, Ben Wittick photographed the Indian world of the Southwest. Shadows on glass brings together for the first time over 200 of his images, capturing a time of cultural confusion and change.
photography by Justin Gilligan
Port Stephens Naturally is a new release book featuring the spectacular underwater, nature and landscape images as portrayed through the lens of award-winning photographer Justin Gilligan.
photographs by Marilyn Bridges
This Land is Your Land offers a unique perspective on the American landscape, making the familiar fantastic, as well as an aesthetic experience of dizzying proportions. Bridges takes us on an inspiring journey as we look down together on the fleeting moments and lasting signatures of the United States that are etched on our continent. An aerial photographer who has explored ancient cultures around the world for more than a decade, Marilyn Bridges has now focused her attention on a subject no less intriguing: the grandeur of America. In the book's Essay by acclaimed writer William Least Heat-Moon, and the Afterword by Bridges, we are given insight into the photographer's working process and the inspiration behind her images.
John Loengard
On the occasion of Georgia O'Keeffe's 80th birthday in 1966, 'Life' magazine dispatched photographer John Loengard to her home in New Mexico to document a day in the life of the pioneering American artist. Loengard's elegant black and white images capture the grand, solitary woman in the desert, and candid shots record her daily routine at Ghost Ranch. Juxtaposed here with selected O'Keeffe paintings, these photographs reveal how the austere poetry of the landscape corresponded to the artist's own painterly world. This unique marriage of paintings and photographs also includes a introduction by Loengard describing his first encounter with O'Keeffe and contemplative writings by the artist herself on her work and inspirations.