Garrett White Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

For an entire year--whenever he was at home--Robert Weingarten photographed the view from his bedroom window overlooking Santa Monica Bay each morning, just after dawn. Every shot was taken from the same camera position, using the same lens, and focusing on the same frame of view, yet the reduced motif has a different look in every one of the atmospheric photographs reproduced here. The small sliver of land between Santa Monica Beach, Los Angeles International Airport, and the ocean undergoes amazing transformations under the influences of the changing seasons, weather, and visibility conditions. In a formal sense, Weingarten's magnificent, vividly colored images are reminiscent of abstract realism paintings. These systematic, focused observations of nature in the tradition of Claude Monet prompt viewers to stop and consider what wonders they may have passed by without really looking.

On V.J. Day in Times Square, ?a sailor kissing a pretty girl ?he's never met before is caught ?in the act. Newly arrived European immigrants at Ellis Island gaze at the camera with ?a mix of apprehension and hope. A groundbreaking still life artfully eroticizes the curves ?and shadows of a twisted bell pepper. These are a few of the more ?than 150 photographs collected in American Photography that document a century of our ?national experience. Whether viewed as a purely artistic medium, a tool for influencing ?public opinion, or a recorder of events both public and personal, photography has been a ?powerful and intimate vehicle for ?communicating our values and our dreams. Focusing on one or more images for each ?year, this companion book to the PBS series considers some of the century's best-known ?photographs as well as everyday snapshots, examining the diverse roles photography ?has played in shaping our lives. From the one-dollar Brownie snapshot of a baby in 1900 ?to ?the awesome potential of computer-enhanced images at the brink of the millennium, ? American Photography covers a range of styles, formats, and subjects as diverse as the ?nation they sprang from. Richly detailed, authoritative, and abundantly illustrated, ? American Photography is a landmark look at the pictures we have taken, and where they ?have taken us.