{"title":"Photography Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eA curated collection of photography books featuring iconic photographers and innovative techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"paul-outerbridge-978-0892369614","title":"Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Martineau\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Outerbridge Jr. (American, 1896–1958) burst onto the photographic art scene in the early 1920s with images that were visually fresh, technically adept, and decidedly Modernist. He also applied his talent for composition to the commercial world, introducing an artist's sensibility to advertisements for men's haberdashery, glassware, and JELL-O® in magazines such as \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e. An early master of the technically complex carbro color process, he used it to photograph nudes, often shown with a variety of props—images that skirted the limits of propriety in their day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis catalogue was produced for the first exhibition of Outerbridge's work since 1981, held March 31 through August 9, 2009, at the J. Paul Getty Museum. It brings together one hundred photographs from all periods and styles of the photographer's career, including his Cubistic still-life images, commercial magazine photography, and nudes. The book includes an essay by the curator and a chronology of the artist's life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Martineau is assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Some of the most beautiful photographs ever made.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The Getty owns the largest public collection of Outerbridge prints, and this elegantly produced catalogue shows him to be not only a master printer but also an artist who continues to influence contemporary photographers.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e—Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cscript src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_setLanguage('en');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780892369614');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n164 pages\u003cbr\u003e 9 1\/2 x 11 inches\u003cbr\u003e 59 color and 61 duotone illustrations\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 978-0-89236-961-4\u003cbr\u003e hardcover\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Getty Publications\u003cbr\u003e Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2009\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n","brand":"GETTY TRUST PUBLICATIONS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":215613248,"sku":"9780892369614","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8502\/products\/978-0-89236-961-4.jpeg?v=1600193173"},{"product_id":"in-focus-edward-weston-978-0892368099","title":"In Focus: Edward Weston","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrett Abbott\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdward Weston (1886–1958) helped define twentieth-century American photography. Weston wed machine-age aesthetics with vernacular subjects, pursuing Modernism as a way of seeing. He produced works of art using subject matter as wide ranging as sea shells, green peppers, sand dunes, and nudes, and he set a standard for elegant composition and print technique for generations of photographers. The more-than-fifty works included here were made in Claremont, Glendale, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and other locations in California and the U.S.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book includes commentaries on all of the featured works, an introduction, a chronology, and a transcription of a colloquium on the photographer's life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrett Abbott is former associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e144 pages\u003cbr\u003e6 x 7 5\/8 inches\u003cbr\u003e61 duotone illustrations\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-0-89236-809-8\u003cbr\u003epaperpack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGetty Publications\u003cbr\u003eImprint: J. 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Highlighting the development of the photographer's aesthetic from his early encounters with Cubism to his humanistic depictions of people throughout the world, this book presents nearly forty years of Strand's far-reaching and powerful work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncluded are commentaries on all of the featured works, an introduction, a chronology, and a transcription of a colloquium on the photographer's life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Focus: Paul Strand\u003c\/i\u003e was published to coincide with an exhibition of the photographer's work at the J. Paul Getty Museum held from May 10 through September 4, 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnne M. Lyden is international photography curator at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, and former associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. 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In that time he has created a strong body of work that captures the unique architecture and natural environment of Southern California. \u003ci\u003eA Place in the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of Humble's distinctive view of Los Angeles—from the concrete channels of the Los Angeles River to the instantly recognizable cityscape through which that river winds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGordon Baldwin is a former associate curator of photographs at the Getty Museum, the author of \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/shop.getty.edu\/products\/in-focus-eugene-atget-978-0-92366019\" title=\"In Focus: Eugène Atget\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Focus: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEugène Atget\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Getty Publications, 2000) and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/shop.getty.edu\/products\/looking-at-photographs-978-0892369713\" title=\"Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms, Revised Edition\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLooking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Getty Publications, 2009), and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eNadar\/Warhol: Paris\/New York\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRoger Fenton: Pasha and \u003ci\u003eBayadère\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (Getty Publications, 1996).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cscript src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_setLanguage('en');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780892368815');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e88 pages\u003cbr\u003e12 x 12 inches\u003cbr\u003e45 color illustrations\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-0-89236-881-5\u003cbr\u003ehardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGetty Publications\u003cbr\u003eImprint: J. 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His drive to experiment with sophisticated techniques, such as solarization and composite printing, liberated a younger generation of American photographers; at the same time, his subject matter―sometimes abstract, often homoerotic, and always lyrical and poetic―opened up new areas for photographers to explore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpirit into Matter \u003c\/i\u003ewas published to coincide with the first major retrospective of Teske's work, held at the Getty Museum June 15 to September 26, 2004. The book provides an introduction and extensive biocritical essay on Teske that traces his long and varied career, from Chicago in the 1930s to Los Angeles, where the photographer took up residence in 1943. It also investigates Teske's early associations with such influential figures as Frank Lloyd Wright and Paul Strand and his later associations with iconic figures including filmmaker Kenneth Anger and musicians Ramblin' Jack Elliott and the Doors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first major study of this fascinating and influential artist, \u003ci\u003eSpirit into Matter \u003c\/i\u003e will be a dynamic source of information for students of photography, collectors, and all those with an interest in the life and culture of Southern California, where Teske worked for more than fifty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJulian Cox is former assistant curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. 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By delineating a strong contrast between light and shadow as well as placing emphasis on building details, the photographer was able to communicate the depth of a room, the surface of a wall, or the strength of a building's framework.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor too long, Hervé—the master of architectural photography—has eclipsed Hervé—the photographer—whose career began as early as 1938 and whose subject matter varied widely. Featuring more than one hundred of his photographs in every genre, this book celebrates Hervé's work as an artist, creating images that serve not simply as records but stand as works of a singular imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOlivier Beer is a poet, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e9 3\/4 x 12 1\/4 inches\u003cbr\u003e12 color and 205 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-0-89236-754-7\u003cbr\u003ehardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGetty Publications\u003cbr\u003eImprint: Getty Research Institute\u003cbr\u003e2004\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Superbly printed album which shows Hervé to be a master of composition, whether it's a close-up of the Eiffel Tower or a child silhouetted against a silvery expanse of ocean.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLA Architect\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A marvelous book to be enjoyed by architects, photographers, artists, and scholars.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Bloomsbury Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"GETTY TRUST PUBLICATIONS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44017966776512,"sku":"9780892367542","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8502\/products\/978-0-89236-754-2.jpeg?v=1598980855"},{"product_id":"in-focus-weegee-978-0892368105","title":"In Focus: Weegee","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Keller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStalking the streets of New York City at night alongside police detectives and barflies, the tough-talking, fedora-wearing, cigar-smoking photographer who called himself \"Weegee\" was ready at a moment's notice with his Speed Graphic to respond to the police radio. From the mid-1930s to 1950s, he captured hundreds of pictures of accidents, murders, arrests, fires, and natural disasters, producing works that are both empathetic and sensational. This volume presents approximately fifty of the ninety-five Weegee prints in the Getty Museum's collection, surveying the photographer's probing vision of life in New York from Harlem to Times Square, Greenwich Village, and the Bowery. Each of the photographs is accompanied by an introduction, a chronology, and commentary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also includes an edited transcript of a colloquium on Weegee's life and work that incorporates the author's comments along with those of seven other participants: David Featherstone, Michael Hargraves, Weston Naef, Miles Orvell, Ira Richer, Colin Westerbeck, and Cynthia Young.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Focus: Weegee\u003c\/i\u003e was published to coincide with an exhibition of the photographer's work at the J. 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In mid-1834 he began to experiment with light-sensitive chemistry, and in January 1839 he announced his invention of the photogenic drawing, two weeks after Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre's daguerreotype process debuted in France. Talbot's improved process—the calotype—was introduced in 1840. This invention, which shortened exposure times and facilitated making multiple prints from a single negative, became the basis for photography as it is practiced today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe J. 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He has also brought to light significant new information about the life and career of Roger Fenton, the important Victorian photographer best known for his photographs of the Crimean War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGordon Baldwin is the former associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is the coauthor of \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/shop.getty.edu\/products\/looking-at-photographs-978-0892369713\" title=\"Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms, Revised Edition\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLooking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Getty Publications, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e116 pages\u003cbr\u003e7 1\/2 x 9 1\/4 inches\u003cbr\u003e19 color and 38 duotone illustrations\u003cbr\u003e1 color foldout\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-0-89236-367-4\u003cbr\u003epaperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGetty Publications\u003cbr\u003eImprint: J. 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After devoting herself to an artistic and literary salon at her home on the Isle of Wight and raising eleven children, Cameron took up the fairly new art form of photography in her late forties. Over the next fourteen years, she produced more than a thousand images, including romantic pictures of young women and strikingly original―if often controversial―literary illustrations. Her searching portraits of her friends and acquaintances, including such eminent personalities as Alfred Tennyson and Charles Darwin, have been called the world's first close-ups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis biography of Cameron draws on scholarly insights resulting from a thorough documentation of Cameron's surviving prints. 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Herb Ritts (1952–2002) was a Los Angeles–based photographer who established an international reputation for distinctive images of fashion models, nudes, and celebrity portraits. During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts was sought out by leading fashion designers such as Armani, Gianfranco Ferrè, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Valentino, and Versace, as well as magazine editors from \u003ci\u003eGQ, Interview, Rolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, among others, to lend glamour to their products and layouts. Largely self-taught, Ritts developed his own style, one that often made use of the California light and landscape and helped to separate his work from his New York–based peers. 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Acting as social commentators, many artists also turned their attention to the subject of pleasure and entertainment, often observing how photography itself has changed the way we spend our free time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhotography and Play\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the various ways that artists throughout photographic history have turned to topics as diverse as Victorian billiard players, Parisian barflies, moviegoers, sightseers, and suburban sunbathers. The book features over eighty photographs drawn from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum that span nearly 150 years of image making. 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His work also became a powerful visual argument for environmental conservation. Trained as a medical doctor and possessing a scientist’s gift for close observation, Porter explored new ways of depicting nature, building blinds in trees so he could study his avian subjects at closer vantage and producing landscape images that capture both pristine forest and ragged river canyons with equal force and brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInitially encouraged by the groundbreaking photographers Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz, Porter went on to produce a body of work all his own. His 1962 Sierra Club book \u003ci\u003eIn Wildness Is the Preservation of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, with its images grouped by season and accompanied by quotations from Henry David Thoreau, transformed the concept of nature photography books. Ultimately, Porter’s photographs came to the attention of Congress and led to the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, the foundational law in wilderness management today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e contains 110 images from the collections of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, and of the J. Paul Getty Museum, along with an essay by Paul Martineau that discusses Porter’s life and the innovations he brought to the practice of photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Martineau is an associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum and author of \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/shop.getty.edu\/products\/herb-ritts-978-1606061008\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHerb Ritts: L.A. 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Michael Brune is executive director of the Sierra Club.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For the last several decades landscape photographers have concentrated on showing man’s depredations of nature, but their pictures only take on meaning when set against images of untrammeled beauty by artists such as Eliot Porter.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Arranged thematically, each photograph in this very fine book evolves to the next, so that the reader has a true sense of the artist’s preoccupations.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Some of Eliot Porter’s loveliest photographs of birds and fragments of the natural landscape make up this handsome sampling of his work. . . . His subjects are so subtle as to be almost invisible to a casual observer. 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Capturing the quintessential Los Angeles experience with its balance of the banal and the beautiful, his photobooks of the 1960s—such as \u003ci\u003eTwentysix Gasoline Stations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvery Building on the Sunset Strip\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSome Los Angeles Apartments\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThirtyfour Parking Lots\u003c\/i\u003e—are known for their deadpan cataloguing of the city’s functional architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication features thirty-eight Ruscha plates and an essay that traces the evolution of the artist’s thinking about his photographs initially as the means to the end of his self-published photobooks and eventually as works of art in and of themselves. Virginia Heckert contextualizes Ruscha’s photographs within the history of photographic documentation of vernacular architecture, using examples by such important photographers as Carleton Watkins, Eugène Atget, and Walker Evans, as well as contemporary photographers, many of whom have acknowledged Ruscha as an influence in their own depiction of the built environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVirginia Heckert is curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. 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Born shortly before the Meiji era (1868–1912), or period of “enlightened rule,” and educated in both the United States and Japan, Ogawa produced a range of illustrated books for the Western market. His work focused on traditional architecture, scenic views, and subjects associated with Japanese culture, such as national festivals, military tableaux, ritual customs, costumed geisha, and flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn original, deluxe edition of Ogawa’s 1896 book of hand-colored collotype prints, titled \u003ci\u003eSome Japanese Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e, in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, is reproduced here in its entirety. These beautiful photographs feature flowers native to Japan, such as the lotus, several varieties of chrysanthemum, lily, and morning glory, as well as garden scenes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to thirty-eight full-color plates, this small-format, stitch-bound book contains an 1890 portrait of Ogawa as publisher of Japan’s first photography magazine, \u003ci\u003eShashin Shimpo\u003c\/i\u003e (Photographic journal). An accompanying essay traces Ogawa’s distinguished career and describes the collotype process used to produce his exquisite flower images, collected here again for the first time since the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKazumasa Ogawa was a pioneering photographer and printer, and the foremost photography publisher in Japan during the Meiji era. 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These photographs, often made with processes and materials no longer used or easily identified, constitute an important part of the cultural and artistic heritage of the twentieth century. Today it is more important than ever to capture the technical understanding of the processes that created these irreplaceable images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn providing an accessible overview of the history and technology of the major traditional color photographic processes, this abundantly illustrated volume promises to become the standard reference in its field. Following an introductory chapter on color photography in the nineteenth century, seven uniformly structured chapters discuss the most commercially or historically significant processes of the twentieth century—additive color screen, pigment, dye imbibition, dye coupling, dye destruction, dye diffusion, and dye mordanting and silver toning—offering readers a user-friendly guide to materials, methods of identification,and common kinds of deterioration. A final chapter presents specific guidelines for collection management, storage, and preservation. There is also a glossary of technical terms, along with appendixes presenting detailed chronologies for Kodachrome and Ektachrome transparencies, Cibachrome\/Ilfochrome printing materials, and Instant films.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book will interest instructors and students in classroom settings; conservators, registrars, curators, archivists, and collection caretakers; and anyone else concerned with the long-term preservation of color photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSylvie Pénichon is a conservator of photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. She has published widely in conservation and photography journals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Expectations for this publication were high, and happily \u003cem\u003eTwentieth-Century Color Photographs: Identification and Care\u003c\/em\u003e does not disappoint. The text is well-researched, carefully structured and extremely reader friendly. The illustrations are well chosen and the charts and diagrams are useful and clear. Pénichon's book will certainly become the definitive text on the subject, and should be required reading for curators, collection managers and conservators dealing with color photographs.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eJournal of the Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Impressively encyclopedic. . . . Well-written, exquisitely researched, and an invaluable reference volume.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Online Photographer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“A masterful history of color photographic processes. . . . Terrific.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—f295\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Even readers who have worked professionally with historical photographs for many years will be greatly enriched by Sylvie Pénichon’s illuminating book. . . . 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Likewise, photography was instrumental in cultivating and maintaining Europe’s distinctively Orientalist vision of the Middle East. As new advances enhanced the versatility of the medium, nineteenth-century photographers were able to mass-produce images to incite and satisfy the demands of the region’s burgeoning tourist industry and the appetites of armchair travelers in Europe. In this way, the evolution of modern photography fueled an interest in visual contact with the rest of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhotography’s Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first in-depth cultural study of the works of European and non-European photographers active in the Middle East and India, focusing on the relationship between photographic, literary, and historical representations of this region and beyond. The essays explore the relationship between art and politics by considering the connection between the European presence there and aesthetic representations produced by traveling and resident photographers, thereby contributing to how the history of photography is understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAli Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature and chair of the English Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include \u003ci\u003eBelated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke, 1994) and \u003ci\u003eA Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke, 2005). Luke Gartlan is a lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. 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Lyden\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith contributions by Sophie Gordon and Jennifer Green-Lewis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u2028\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn January 1839, photography was announced to the world. Two years prior, a young Queen Victoria ascended to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland. These two events, while seemingly unrelated, marked the beginnings of a relationship that continued throughout the nineteenth century and helped construct the image of an entire age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Royal Passion\u003c\/i\u003e explores the connections between photography and the monarchy through Victoria’s embrace of the new medium and her portrayal through the lens. Together with Prince Albert, her beloved husband, the Queen amassed one of the earliest collections of photographs, including works by renowned photographers such as Roger Fenton, Gustave Le Gray, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Victoria was also the first British monarch to have her life recorded by the camera: images of her as wife, mother, widow, and empress proliferated around the world at a time when the British Empire spanned the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe featured essays consider Victoria’s role in shaping the history of photography as well as photography’s role in shaping the image of the Queen. Including more than 150 color images—several rarely seen before—drawn from the Royal Collection and the J. Paul Getty Museum, this volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from February 4 to June 20, 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnne M. Lyden is international photography curator at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, and former associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. She is curator of the exhibition \u003cem\u003eA Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography\u003c\/em\u003e and has written about nineteenth-century photography, including \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.getty.edu\/products\/the-photographs-of-frederick-h-evans-978-0892369881\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Photographs of Frederick Evans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Getty Publications, 2010) and \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.getty.edu\/products\/railroad-vision-978-0892367269\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRailroad Vision: Photography, Travel, and Perception\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/a\u003e(Getty Publications, 2003). Sophie Gordon is senior curator of photographs at the Royal Collection, Windsor. Jennifer Green-Lewis is associate professor of English literature at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a volume to pore over. . . . It will remain a valuable resource for scholars. Equally, however, non-specialists will relish the access to photographs from the Queen's private collection.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eHistory of Photography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Highly recommended for Anglophiles, as well as art and photo historians.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Library Journal\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“The essays are fascinating. . . . 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His photographic career began in 1938 in Portland, Oregon, with assignments for the WPA (Works Progress Administration). After serving in World War II and studying art history at Columbia University, White’s focus shifted toward the metaphorical. He began creating images charged with symbolism and a critical aspect called equivalency, referring to the invisible spiritual energy present in a photograph made visible to the viewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together White’s key biographical information—his evolution as a photographer, teacher of photography, and editor of Aperture, as well as particularly insightful quotations from his journals, which he kept for more than forty years. The result is an engaging narrative that weaves through the main threads of White’s life, his growth as an artist, as well as his spiritual search and ongoing struggle with his own sexuality and self-doubt. 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