Photographs: portraits books

Explores the changing role of photographic portraiture in India, tracing photography's various purposes and goals...  Read More >>

Explores the changing role of photographic portraiture in India, tracing photography's various purposes and goals...  Read More >>

Bachelor and spinster balls have been a part of the nation's social landscape since the 1920s. This book is primarily...  Read More >>

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An intimate look at the joys and challenges of living in mixed-race families.  Read More >>

The Civil War presented the first major opportunity for Americans to photograph fighting men and the places they...  Read More >>

""George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile"" chronicles Bush's life and career, beginning with his childhood,...  Read More >>

Louie Olsen, a child molester living in California during the first half of the century, describes his obsession...  Read More >>

A photographic celebration of the women of the American burlesque stage.  Read More >>

A powerful combination: this album contains dramatic black-and-white nude photographs and portraits of men, women...  Read More >>

From Italy comes this magnificent and sexy muscle photo collection. Geri Pozzar's work is aimed at fellow gay men...  Read More >>

Featuring 60 photographs of African Americans, this book documents contemporary black hairstyles and their role...  Read More >>

Through a series of photographs Southern Writers affords readers an opportunity to peer into the personal and professional...  Read More >>

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A collection of portraits of 70 turn of the century prisoners that were discovered in a small California town. Each...  Read More >>

Lagerfeld's mysterious landscapes and exteriors and interiors take the viewer on an intimate journey through the...  Read More >>

"From his early personal appearances and TV performances to his movie career and concert tour era, this work captures...  Read More >>

The 1920s oil boom changed every aspect of life in the sleepy town of Breckenridge, Texas--employment, social activities,...  Read More >>

A sample of the work of press photographers which captures the experience of Scottish childhood throughout the 20th...  Read More >>

In this unique and startling collection of photographic diptychs, we see average New Yorkers first clothed, then...  Read More >>

Unmasked and stripped of makeup and hairdos, what do the human face and head tell us? This striking book provides...  Read More >>

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What does it mean to face a life prison sentence? What have ""lifers"" learned about life-from having taken a life?...  Read More >>

"This work comprises one man's personal and highly idiosyncratic view of gay history since the invention of the...  Read More >>