"Photographs of joyful moments from around the world that transcend time and culture"-- Provided by publisher.

"In The Hunt, Céline Bodin creates a brief encyclopedia of female hairstyles across various periods in time, within the framework of Western culture." -- Publisher's website

THREE is Radius Books' third in an ongoing series of limited edition photography projects. Like ONE and TWO, the book combines signed photos with pieces of text, all of which respond to a unifying theme. We think of these as a sketchbook or collection of thoughts on a chosen topic: an opportunity to pair a single image with a short text, to inspire something new. The theme of this edition is Voice. A voice is a necessary component of all dialogue,...

Sandy Skoglund has been in the forefront of contemporary art in the United States and abroad for nearly two decades, bridging the boundaries between sculpture, installation art, and photography. She has consistently delighted and astonished audiences with witty, puzzling, and intriguing room-sized environments, sometimes peopled with human models or mannequins and often filled with animal sculptures, which also appear in her photographs and prints....

"The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Series-featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. Created and coedited by Drs. Sarah Lewis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis, the series reexamines and redresses historical narratives of photography, race, and justice. Edited by Marvin Heiferman, Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images examines the...

Ansel Adams, a classical pianist as well as renowned photographer, compared the photographic negative to a musical score that can be interpreted/printed in numerous ways. John Cage, the avant-garde composer, compiled scores by numerous composers and artists and presented them as graphic art in the 1969 publication Notations. It is the merging of these two ideas, from these unlikely sources, that form the foundation for this project. Since 2006, coinciding...

"Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format eight-by-ten-inch view camera, Renaldi encounters the subjects for his photographs in towns and cities all over the United States. He pairs them up and invites them to pose together, intimately, in ways that people are usually...

The ongoing photography series 'Eyes as Big as Plates' by Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen started out in 2011 studying personifications of nature and folkloric explanations of natural phenomena. A decade later it has evolved into a continual search for modern human's belonging in nature, taking the Norwegian-Finnish artist duo to fifteen countries on a quest to understand our relationship with our surroundings. This second book in the series features...

Body of photographs by Yasumasa Morimura. In these self-portraits, the artist reimagines Diego Velázquez's 1656 Las Meninas by assuming the role of each character in the renowned work. Morimura photographed Velázquez's painting in situ at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, using the museum as a stage for his study. - website of Luhring Augustine Gallery.