Scott Michaelsen

Louis Kaplan

Art Clokey

The first and only authorized, full illustrated book devoted to Gumby, the delightful animated clay figure whose popularity is at an all-time high. 125 color and black-and-white illustrations.

The Authorized Biography of the World's Favorite Clayboy

Gumby

Offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist's multifaceted life and work.

Biographical Writings

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Pedro Meyer

Presents a collection of more than two hundred photographs along with critical essays and information on the steps taken to create an image.

The Digital Photography of Pedro Meyer

The Real and the True

In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghostsa or so he claimed. Faint images of the dearly departed lurked in the background with the living, like his well-known photo of the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln comforting Mary Todd. The practice came to be known as spirit photography, and some believed Mumler was channeling the dead. Skeptics, however, called it a fraudulent trick on the gullible, taking advantage of the grieving at a time of suffering and loss. Mumlera s insistence that his work brought back the dead led to a sensational trial in 1869 that was the talk of the nation.

The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer

"American Exposures sheds light on photographs, from Arthur Mole's propagandistic 'living photographs' of American icons and symbols to the exploration of contemporary subcultural communities by the Korean-born photographer and performance artist Nikki Lee, and asserts that the depiction of community is a central component to photography. Louis Kaplan deploys a number of critical concepts and theories developed by Jean-Luc Nancy in The Inoperative Community, as well as other philosophers, and applies them to the field of photography studies. With an original approach to photography from Edward Steichen's Family of Man exhibition to Pedro Meyer and the rise of the digital image, Kaplan points to a new way to think about the intimate relationship among photography, American life, and the artistic imagination." -- Back cover.

Louis Kaplan

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