New books... on photography

The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture, 1922-1932

NA 1188 .P37 2007

Renowned architectural photographer, Richard Pare, spent more than a decade documenting the work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union during the years following the 1917 revolution and subsequent civil war. In little more than ten years, some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were completed by a small group of architects who developed a new architectural language in support of new social goals of communal life. Rarely published and virtually inaccessible until the collapse of the Soviet regime, these important buildings have remained unknown and unappreciated until now.

The Nature of Photographs

TR 179 .S56 2007

At the age of 23, Stephen Shore became the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In The Nature of Photographs, he explores ways of understanding and looking at all types of photographs – from iconic images to found pictures, negatives to digital files. Based on Shore’s many years of teaching photography at Bard College, this book serves as an indispensable tool for students, teachers, and everyone who wants to take better pictures or learn to look at them in a more informed way.

Shanghai: A Century of Change in Photographs, 1843-1949

DS 796 .S243P36x 2000

In 1843, the great city of Shanghai was opened up as a treaty port. Like Hong Kong, that other great port on the China coast, the Shanghai portrayed in these pages represented the first door opened into China by British mercantile interests and power. A door is a meeting point, a place of encounter--in this case all kinds of encounter, between peoples and cultures, between stages of civilization, between ways of thought and ways of life. During the hundred-odd years spanned by the photographs in this book, Shanghai was an arena for encounters more varied and vivid than those experienced by any other city in the Far East.