Alone Together
Photographs by David Graham
Text by Nicols Fox

Just after World War II, Arthur and Nan Kellam left a life in the secretive world of California defense contractors for the quiet of Placentia Island. They spent decades together in a small cabin, their refuge from civilization. Rarely did they have visitors and rarely did they visit. They kept a life that was both close to the land and close to each other. They chose to live a life without technology and to leave behind "the burden of abundance" for the simplicity of nature, tides, and windswept island forests.

American Series

Photographs by Neal Rantoul
Neal Rantoul (Photographer) Jeffrey Hoone (Introduction)

In his first monograph Rantoul presents sumptuous black-and-white duotones of his Series Work, narrative photographs from various locations around the United States, from Massachusetts to California.

This work, extensively exhibited, but never before published, features contemporary architecture and housing developments contrasted with natural forms and rural scenes. Rantoul shares his perceptions of our surroundings with wit, compassion, humor and genuine insight, helping to lead us to a better understanding of the relationship we all have to the natural and to the man made.

Declaring Independence
Photographs by David Graham
Introduction by Peter Wilkinson

Declaring Independence is the fourth in David Graham's trilogy of photographic books about the American cultural landscape. Unable to stop searching the country for the odd, unusual and colorful, Graham has continued on his quest to find out how Americans express themselves through their environments, whether they be roadside, backyard or even in the bathroom. The result of his latest journey is this book of photographs which delves further into the complex of weave of image, symbol and reality that we see as America at its finest. From coast to coast, from dinosaurs to diners, Graham has put together an engaging and joyous collection of photographs that show what it means to be Amercian.

Creatures
Henry Horenstein

Creatures is a collection of haunting images of animals from both land and sea by photographer Henry Horenstein. Horenstein, "like photographers from Weston to Mapplethorpe, makes quasi abstractions out of living forms... His carp and jellyfish are weightless and oddly graceful, suspended in warm and diffuse atmospheres." —The Boston Globe

These haunting images explore the ritualization of death in various countries including India, Mexico and Brazil.

Ghosts is a wondrous look at our relationship with death. In her quest, Tuckerman has traveled to India, Mexico, Brazil and everywhere that “spirit demons relentlessly snap at our souls.” Along the way, Ghosts explores half-memories, night shadows and ancestral myths in a style that encompasses literal, mystical and metaphorical elements.

This wrenching photo essay by Jack Lueders-Booth provides a rare and intimate view of the personal lives, dwellings and struggles of families who live and work in the garbage dumps of Tijuana, Mexico.

Lueders-Booth’s penetrating photographs, made over a six-year period, are further illuminated in a personal way with an essay by prize-winning writer Luis Alberto Urrea. Author of the current bestseller The Devil’s Highway: A True Story, Urrea worked as a missionary in the 1980s in the dumps that Lueders-Booth depicts in Inherit the Land.

The Paperback Covers of Robert McGinnis
Complied by Art Scott and Dr. Wallace Maynard
Foreword by Richard S. Prather

Robert McGinnis is one of the most admired, influential and prolific illustrators working today. Though he has done advertising work, magazine illustration, gallery art and movie posters, he is best known for his work as a paperback cover artist.

Racing Days
Brendan Boyd
Photographs by Henry Horenstein

In an evocative blend of ninety striking black-and-white photographs by Henry Horenstein and seventy trenchant essays by Brendan Boyd, Racing Days captures the gritty yet elegant essence of a fascinating closed universe—the Thoroughbred racetrack.

"Neither Horenstein nor Boyd sentimentalizes the racetrack. Instead of taking the route of so many books that believe Damon Runyan still runs things and that racetrackers are either cigar-chomping ne'er-do-wells with a heart of gold or aristocratic bluebloods still trying to improe the breed, these men—with a clarity seldom seen in brokerage houses or insurance companies or in other arenas where gambling is the key component—see the track as a place where certain dramas are played out."
—Michael Blowen, The Boston Globe

Taking Liberties
Photographs by David Graham
Introduction by Robert Venturi

A colorful and joyous book of photographs by one of America's most important contemporary photographers, documenting Americans' love of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. From folk artists in Maine to dentists in California, Graham documents the people who take their liberty seriously and who aren't afraid of expressing themselves. There's the hamburger stand on Lover's Lane in Dallas with a full size statue of Lenin, the roadside attractions of Route 66, and the exuberance of Hollywood. From sea to shining sea, Graham has embraced the efforts of those Americans we love.

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