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Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent Of the vast amount of media coverage that shocked the nation and caused a moral outcry of conscience at governmental mismanagement and inaction after Hurricane Katrina, the images by photographer Mario Tama were among the best. When the catastrophe waned and other journalists went away, Tama stayed with the support and encouragement of his colleagues at Getty Images and continued to document the process of recovery (and some of its terrible failures). His constancy has resulted in a large and moving body of work that displays the resilience of the human spirit even amid such immense struggle, creating an optimistic portrait of New Orleans rather than one of only destruction. PHOTOJOURNALISM 2010, 9 x 12 inches, 128 pp, color images Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1–884167–02-7 code: umb back F-4 ADD TO CART +

Conversations: Interviews with Contemporary Photographers This landmark series on photography features in-depth conversations on aesthetics, craft, and culture between living masters and major international critics from Australia, France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, the United States, the U.K, and other countries. The book traces the medium through discourses on topics ranging from the personal to the political, covering intimate detail and theoretical background alike. Complete with biographies and self-portraits of each featured artist, it is both a vital record of contemporary photography and an engaging read. PHOTOGRAPHY 2005, 6 x 8.5 inches, 288 pp, b&w images Softcover, ISBN: 978-1-8841674-85 code: umb conv G-3 ADD TO CART +

Eddie Adams: Vietnam *PLEASE NOTE: Mature content This book features work by one of the world’s legendary photojournalists. Eddie Adams’ 1968 Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph cemented his reputation in the public eye and stands forever as an icon for the brutality of our last century: the image of Nguyen Ngoc Loan, police chief of Saigon, firing a bullet at the head of a Vietcong prisoner. The photograph fueled antiwar sentiment that ultimately changed the course of history. In his 45-year career, Adams has covered thirteen wars and amassed some 500 photojournalism awards. Through never-before-seen pictures, articles written by Adams, pages from journals and other artifacts, one great journalist’s experience of Vietnam is recounted in gripping detail. The books was edited by Alyssa Adams, and includes an essay by AP Bureau Chief Hal Buell, and by Peter Arnett, Tom Brokaw, David Halberstam, George Esper, David Kennerly, and more. PLEASE NOTE: contains graphic images. PHOTOJOURNALISM 2008, 9 x 12 inches, 240 pp, b&w photographs Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-884167-96-6 code: umb adams G-4 ADD TO CART +

Flesh and Spirit: Photographs by Claudio Edinger For the past thirty years, Brazilian photographer Claudio Edinger’s roving eye has taken him down many alleyways of life, searching for the spirit in the flesh, or the body of the soul. He has captured the Hasidim in Brooklyn, the inhabitants of the notorious Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, the insane in asylums in Sao Paolo, the parading denizens in Brazil`s carnevale, and the twisting streets of Calcutta. Although he has been featured in eleven books, this is the first ever anthology of the photographer`s work, which Peter Howe, former photo editor of Life, described as combining “the keen observation of a brilliant photojournalist with the true insight of an artist.” PHOTOGRAPHY 2006, 9 x 11 inches. 217 pp, color images Softcover, ISBN: 978-1-8841676-38 code: umb eding A-3 ADD TO CART +

Inconvenient Stories: Portraits & Interviews With Vietnam Veterans In searing and intimate photographs—both historical and contemporary—presented with voices of pride and honor, grief and pain, instability and rage, photographer Jeffrey Wolin remembers a war through the lives of the men and women who lived it. Inconvenient Stories and the traveling exhibition the catalogue accompanies are about those veterans, and the ways in which their lives today are informed by their past. In collaboration with Indiana Senator Richard Lugar’s Veterans History Project, Wolin began interviewing and making portraits of veterans in 1992. The results of his 15-year odyssey across America are not only presented in this book and exhibition, but will be archived by the Library of Congress. Wolin’s other photographs are in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum in New York, among many others. The catalogue contains a preface by Senator Richard Lugar and an essay by Rod Slemmons, former Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography. PHOTOGRAPHY 2006, 9 x 11 inches, 112 pp, color images Hardcover, ISBN 1-884167-61-6 code: umb incon H-5 ADD TO CART +

Pandemic: Facing AIDS This comprehensive book features images by over 100 international photographers, as well as essays by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer; Editor and Curator Nan Richardson; and noted global economist Jeffrey Sachs and his wife, public health specialist Sonia Erlich Sachs. Published in conjunction with a major public information campaign (which included an HBO documentary and a traveling international exhibition), the book is part of a call to action and a challenge to each of us: to work toward a world without AIDS. The images gathered in this volume bring us face-to-face with the epidemic. Indeed, they have been used over the last 20 years to document and to educate, to agitate and to protest, to salute friends lost and to mourn the deaths of family and strangers alike. Artists such as Alessandro Balteo, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Gran Fury, Nan Goldin, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gary Schneider, Cindy Sherman, David Wojnarowicz, and many others cover a broad range of approaches to the topic, from documentary to portraiture, conveying the despair, anger, courage, and ultimately, hope, with which the photographic community has faced the AIDS pandemic. PHOTOJOURNALISM 2003, 10.5 x 11.5 inches, 256 pp, color and b&w images Harcover, ISBN: 978-1-8841671-71 code: umb pand B-4 ADD TO CART +

Paul McDonough: New York Photographs 1968-1978 Paul McDonough’s photographs from the period between 1968 and 1978 are characterized by the spontaneous aesthetic of street photography wherein both the photographer and the subjects are often in motion. However, there is an intimacy in this body of work; McDonough seems to yearn to know his subjects. After moving to New York City in 1967, he worked as a freelance photographer, paste-up mechanical artist and photography teacher at Pratt Institute, Yale University, Cooper Union, Marymount College, Parsons School of Design and Fordham University. The book contains an essay by Susan Kismaric and an interview with the artist by Albert Mobilio. PHOTOGRAPHY 2010, 10 x 10.5 inches, 90 pp, b&w images Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-884167-99-7 code: umb nyph H-5 ADD TO CART +

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