Los Angeles County Museum of Art

William S. Burroughs

Robert A. Sobieszek

Robert Sobieszek analyses William S. Burroughs contribution to the world of the visual arts, wherein his visions, conjured in his writings of a fragmented world, are parallelled in cut-up and fold-in collages.

William S. Burroughs and the Arts

Ports of Entry

THIS EDIFICE IS COLOSSAL.

Shadow Chamber

Roger Ballen

Tracing the modern photographic portrait over the past 150 years, this book reveals the many ways photographers have investigated, represented, interpreted, and subverted the human face and, consequently, the human spirit. 240 illustrations, 90 in color.

Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000 : Essays on Camera Portraiture

Ghost in the Shell

Deborah Irmas

Here, brought together for the first time, are great self-portraits of the masters of photography from the 1850s to the present, including Andre Kertesz, Nadar, Cecil Beaton, Edward Weston, Irving Penn, Duane Michals, and Cindy Sherman. A probing essay by Robert A. Sobieszek illuminates each of the 149 images.

Photographic Self-portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection

The Camera i

Shows examples of photographs used in advertising for automobiles, cosmetics, clothing, and jewelry, and looks at trends in advertising

A History of Advertising Photography

The Art of Persuasion

Robert Smithson

"There have been other exhibitions of his works, but Robert Smithson: Photo Works is the first to examine his use of the camera and to present the way he saw the unique landscapes in which he traveled and located his art. As demonstrated by curator of photography Robert A. Sobieszek, the photographic image was central to Smithson's art, whether in collages, montages, sequences, films, or alone. Smithson's final projects attempted a collaboration art and industry. He believed artists could assist in reclaiming such devastated areas as open-face strip mines. Our expanding presence in and impact upon the land may have become so pervasive that the boundaries between nature and culture have been all but obliterated. Now two decades after his death, Robert Smithson's lessons are all the more vital and significant."-from preface.

Robert A. Sobieszek

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