women photographers for the U.S. government, 1935 to 1944 : Esther Bubley, Marjory Collins, Pauline Ehrlich, Dorothea Lange, Martha McMillan Roberts, Marion Post Wolcott, Ann Rosener, Louise Rosskam
A collection of photographs and essays that address the issues of nation, race, and selfhood and explore how they are depicted in ways that are challenging and informative.
Contains several essays that describe retablo art, or sacred paintings on tin, from Mexico in the nineteenth century, and includes color pictures, restoration philosophy, conservation methods, and a description of the iconography present in the retablos.
Reproductions of the works of more than fifty Haitian artists are accompanied by an analysis of each work and commentary on the artist's development and on Haitian life and thought.
An in-depth examination of American photographer Robert Frank's "The Americans," with essays accompanied by over two hundred black-and-white photographs, including the eighty-three that appeared in "The Americans.".
Photographic exhibition of the ancient artifacts known as the "Gold of Troy," excavated by German amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in the late 1800s, with information on the history of the treasure which is now housed at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
