Edward Weston Portraits is the first published collection of Edward Weston's most revealing portraits and shows the artist at his most inspired: rendering the very substance, the deeper inner image...
"Although my portraits capture the likeness of the person or pet I'm painting, I don't attempt to create portraits that look like photographs.
Mary Ellen Mark here pairs images of the world's homeless and alienated with portraits of world-famous actors, musicians, writers, and other celebrities. The differences are palpable. Studiously posed yet comfortable...
In a collection of austere portraits of personalities including Dwight Eisenhower, Truman Capote, Rose Mary Woods, and Andy Warhol, Avedon demonstrates his aim to retain the sitter's identity and solidity...
A book of portraits photographed on film, processed and printed using traditional materials, accompanied by a narrative of the author's recollections of the occasion.
This volume also contains Sartre's 'Reply to Albert Camus', which confirmed the break between the two writers on its publication in 1952.
In Portraits, he will publish unseen images of rap's most famous artists along with written contributions from rapper Swae Lee and photographer Chi Modu."--provided by publisher.
Ezanne once said, 'One can only speak properly about painting in front of paintings.' In "Portraits," Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic for "The New York Times," speaks with 18 important...
John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artists.