5 Associates, 1959. — 72 p.
Sculptured in crystalline granite by ancient glaciers that are now bright streams, Yosemite Valley is one of the great gestures of the earth. It lies deep in the heart of the Sierra Nevada, yet millions come to it on pilgrimage from across the world. There is not only beauty here but magic, and an exaltation, and a sense of continuous revelation....
Steidl, 2016. — 136 p. — ISBN10: 3869309008, ISBN13: 978-3869309002. The open American West is nearly gone. A longstanding classic of photobook publishing, The New West is a photographic essay about what came to fill it-freeways, tract homes, low-rise business buildings and signs. In five sequences of pictures taken along the front wall of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Robert...
Graphic Arts Center, 1980. — 84 p. The three-ton bull elephant seal opened his sleepy eyes and watched fearlessly as a ranger at Ano Nuevo State Park led our group of visitors within 20 feet of his sprawling body. Beyond the bull lay a cluster of 30 smaller, female seals, several nursing pups in January, preparing the offspring for the nine months of the year they would live in...
Graphic Arts Center, 1980. — 84 p. — (Portrait of America Series). This is another great addition to the portrait of series this is also another great ray atkeson book so I would recomend this book for anybody who thinks washington is beautiful or a fan of ray atkeson.
Harry N.Abrams, 1998. — 104 p. — (Art of the State). Abrams announces a new series ot lively pictorial books that capture the authentic spirit of each of the fifty United States. Every volume has a vivid gallery of images—fine and folk art, architecture, crafts, photos of places and people—and describes what's exceptional about the state: its natural and manmade wonders,...
Skyline, 1985. — 104 p. It is difficult to see such a country as a whole and, if only in terms of physical endurance, it is even more difficult to make a portrait of Alaska single-handed. Yet that is what Hans Blohm has done. The images in this book result from years of Alaskan travel, including many expeditions by private bush planes and special journeys to photograph the...
McClelland & Stewart, 1991. — 344 p. Together, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon account for roughly 3,855,000 square kilometres, almost 40 per cent of the total area of Canada. Yet, less than 85,000 people live in the north land: Inuit and Inuvialuit. Dene and Yukon Indians, and other Canadians of all races and colours. The two northern territories can also offer other...
Barron's, 2001. — 248 p. For tourists, family campers, and serious lovers of the outdoors, here is a big, beautiful, color-illustrated book that describes more than 50 national parks, sites, and seashores that stretch from Cape Hatteras on the Atlantic coast to the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Yosemite in California, Haleakala in Hawaii, and Glacier Bay in Alaska. More than 400...
Arcadia Publishing, 2016. — 96 p. — (Images of Modern America).
The Columbia River Gorge is a land of scenic wonder, revered by tourists for its beauty and by recreationalists for its fishing, windsurfing, hiking, and rafting. The region is also a major transportation corridor, home to two vital east-west railroad routes: Burlington Northern Santa Fe on the Washington side of...
McLennan House, 1986. — 184 p. Caleb Pirtle III, who lives in Waxahachie, Texas, has become one of the nation's most published writers. The Texas Outback is his fifteenth book. He is former travel editor of both Southern Living and Southern Outdoors Magazines, and Pirtle has written numerous film scripts, including the screenplay for one motion picture. Gerald Crawford, of...
Hastings House, 1956. – 116 p. At the western extremity of Massachusetts is a verdant succession of rolling hills and lush valleys known to countless native New Englanders, musicians, artists, writers, skiers and summer colonists as The Berkshires. The unaffected, down-to-earth charm of this wooded land has endeared it to a multitude ol loyal enthusiasts, the most ardent of whom...
Voyageur Press, 1995. — 100 p. This city of many nicknames from "the city that works" to "Paris on the prairie" is brought to life in text and 170 color photographs in Chicago. The extended introduction is an entertaining tour of the city from a life-long resident. The chapters consist primarily of photos, with detailed captions detailing principal facts along with notes of...
KC Publications, 1972. — 36 p. Bill Clark is a career employee of the National Park Service. He holds a B.S. in geology from Tufts University. He entered the Service as a seasonal ranger-naturalist at Wind Cave National Park. South Dakota, and has since served as a district ranger at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Monument, Maryland, and as a park naturalist at Death...
Longstreet Pr, 1990. — 134 p. There is a mystical sense about St. Simons Island that is enchanting. Here, surrounded by vast tields ot watery marsh and the sea. there is a feeling ot being outside reality, buffered trom pressures and demands, as it removed trom the confines ot time. Like a wonderland, the island seems magical. Its beauty is mesmerizing. Its past is enthralling....
Randy Collings Productions, 1980. — 204 p. To the Indians she was known as "Land of the Smiles of God." Spain christened her California after a legendary female empress who ruled as absolute monarch over her wealthy island kingdom "wherein not a single man could be found." To the forty-niners she became El Dorado—Land of the Golden Dream. From all corners of the globe men,...
A.R. Collings, 1985. — 116 p. Written, Designed and Edited by Randy Collings. Featuring the photography of Ed Cooper and William Neill. The book is an entralling journey of exploration through these famed Alps of California, celebrating the beauty, uniqueness, and crucial importance of preserving this high country legacy. A welcome addition to the library of anyone anyone who has...
Beautiful Amer Pub Co, 1977. — 76 p. Some of the contemporary commentators on Alaska get all flushed and shivery when they talk about the 49th state. Thev make ecstatic announcements about the coming of the "day ol the Arctic" because Alaska has been found to be enormously rich in many forms of natural wealth. Popular books and magazines are moved almost to tears over the...
Beautiful Amer Pub Co, 1977. — 76 p. An ancient and tired joke says that it is not a state but a state of mind. The name, "California," has probably stirred more emotion in the breasts of Americans than has any other except "America" itself. For almost a century and a half those emotions have been largely positive, pleasurable excitement at the thought of a land wholly new,...
University of Michigan Press, 2004. — 64 p. If you've never seen a Cynthia Davis photograph before, you'll be surprised and delighted by her evocative hand-altered Polaroid photography. Here, Davis brings her vision of the world to Ann Arbor. The town that's home to Zingerman's, the Michigan Stadium, and the Michigan Theater takes on a contemplative, at times moody look through...
C.H. Belding, 1976. — 136 p. As occasionally happens, the weather was gray and cloudy, one May evening on Molokai. With nothing better lo do, I decided to drive to a lookout above Kalaupapa peninsula, just to find a vantage point for photography later, when wealher improved. I feel extremely fortunate to be able to experience, firsthand, some of these wonders of the nalural...
Thomasson-Grant, 1988. — 104 p. Florida Rediscovered explores the pervasive beauty of the Florida Floridians love. C. Douglas Elliott and Jeffrey B. Trammell have carefully selected photographs which carry us beyond the expected tourist sites to often-overlooked scenes of natural beauty and historic importance. Florida Rediscovered gets to the essence of Florida life. These pages...
Westcliffe, 1985. — 168 p. California: Images of the Landscape is a coffee-table book loaded with some superb photography by John Fielder. The book's 170 color images capture a wide swath of California's natural wonders, and are proof that the state's best sights have not, yet, been overcome by asphalt jungles. Fielder has a penchent for the quiet natural moment. There are lots of...
Portfolio Books, 1999. — 168 p. There's something about Sussex County that captivates me. Maybe it's the beaches or the acres of farmland. Or the history and small towns. Whatever it is, I know I'm not alone. People are talking about Sussex. They're visiting on the weekends and staving for the summers. They love it here and so do I. From the time I was a young boy, I have spent...
Chronicle Books, 2020. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1452180885 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1452181608 (EPUB,MOBI). In 2017, professional runner Rickey Gates ran 3,700 miles across the continental United States with just a small backpack and an anthropologist's curiosity to discover the divided America in which we live. In the book Cross Country, Gates documents this epic experience from...
Rand McNally, 1978. — 136 p. As the work of David Muench comes to the admiring attention of more and more serious sludents of photography and lovers of the outdoors, it becomes increasingly apparent that he belongs in the forefront of America's landscape photographers in addition to such well-received full-color photographic books as THE NATIONAL PARKS and COLORADO, he is noted...
Globe Pequot Press, 1982. — 162 p. What is Nantucket really like after the tourists have left? Boston Globe photographer Stan Grossfeld has worked among the scallepers and selectmen, the dunes and the moors, to create this striking and graceful answer to that oft-asked question. Grossfeld combines sensitively written portraits and anecdote with his acclaimed feature photography to...
Purple Coyote, 2005. — 182 p. The myth & dream of the American cowboy--man, woman & child--as they are today, their tradition & their role in shaping the American character. Horses have always been a part of the cowboy image & are still a vital part of ranch work. They and the awesome land they inhabit are beautifully portrayed in all moods & in all seasons.
Crescent Books, 1990. — 72 p.
The Spanish who explored and named Colorado couldn't find any reason to stay. The first American expeditions sent there concluded that the Rocky Mountains were unfit for cultivation and would never be any thing more than a wasteland. Westbound pioneers found them a barrier. But as you'll see in these pages,the mountains have endured and the state...
Chronicle Books, 2005. — 127 p. With more than a million visitors a year, Nantucket is a famed getaway, but only a few natives can attest to its mystic beauty in the fall and winter months. Among them is Cary Hazlegrove, whose Nantucket: The Quiet Season is the stunning follow-up to her celebrated Nantucket: Seasons on the Island. With Hazlegrove's signature photographs and...
Louisiana Press, 1980. — 160 p. This book is a will, the testimony of a bygone age, killed by the hurricane Katrina. Hermann is well known as a jazzman photograph. Some of his photo black and white are very famous (Dexter Gordon and the cigarette smoke) and belong to the jazz mythology. The subtitle of the french edition is strong: in the black New Orléans disappeared. Nothing...
Crescent Books, 1999. — 70 p. Striking images by historical photographer Carol Highsmith, supported by the informed text of writer-reporter Ted Landphair, take the observer into the individual hearts of such a great American city. This book provides a souvenir of a memorable visit or can be a wish book for those who have yet to experience Texas' particular pleasures.
Crescent, 1998. — 136 p. — (Photographic Tour). North Carolina is one of America's most temperate, scenic, and historic states. It is the home of exquisite colonial mansions, Civil War battlefields, and energetic midsized cities. It is one of the nation's most modern and distinct states, and many localities have been rated among the nation's top-ten places to live. In North...
3rd Edition. — Graphics Art Center, 1984. — 168 p. What a perfect way to enjoy this vast northernmost state of ours—through Nancy Simmer man's beautiful photographs and Hilary Hilscher's lively narrative! The only better way would be to see all of it for yourself, but then you would need a lifetime to cover all of Alaska. Having made visits since 1940 and having been a resident...
Crown Publishers, 1976. — 264 p. Throughout the book, you will find specific capsules of photographic data that, taken together with the pictures themselves, give a short course in personal photography. Remember that many of the pictures here are the work of serious amateur photographers. Not only are these good technically, but they have special qualities of spontaneity, humor,...
Profile Books, 2013. — 246 p. England's views are remarkable for their beauty and variety. With his usual insight and authority, bestselling author Simon Jenkins picks one hundred of the very best from the white cliffs of Dover to Hadrian's Wall -- and explains the fascinating stories behind them. Jenkins' entertaining and erudite entries provide the rich historical, geographical,...
Durrell Publications, 1970. — 118 p. The most refractory westerner was willing to grant the proud boast of Massachusetts, that it had surpassed many empires in its contributions to progress and in its great men; and the nation could not forget New England, could not let the subject drop.—Americans could do everything but leave it alone. They liked to tease New England, but they...
5 Associates, 1964. — 110 p. Our book is only an introduction to the islands. We have intentionally avoided discussion and treatment of ihe vast contemporary enterprise—cultural, financial and industrial — for such would comprise the subject of a separate literary and pictorial effort. The intent of the photographs and words herein is to move the reader to seek for himself the...
Viking, 1998. — 40 p. In the ideal follow-up to his stunning Caldecott Honor book Alphabet City, Stephen T. Johnson turns his talents towards numbers. Wordless spreads featuring impressively photo-realistic paintings of New York City invite readers both young and old to search for the numbers zero through twenty-one hidden in the images. From a sweeping 4 found in the span of...
Fodor's Travel Publications, 2001. — 104 p. Let this book inspire and guide you as you plan to explore the American desert in all its gritty magnificence. Each of the 17 experiences and sites described inside is a perfect gem - as you'll see in more than 135 incisive color photographs. Discover arid landscapes and oases from southern California, New Mexico, and Arizona to Las...
Graphic Arts Center Pub, 1992. — 152 p. Professional photographer Robert Kaufman, a Massachusetts native, combines a love of his subject, a broad scope and an excellent eye. Well known for his crumpitous "Edibles" calendar, Kaufman's work has been exhibited in galleries from coast to coast. Massachusetts is his first book for Graphic Arts Center Publishing. Robert Hate's text...
Texas A&M University Press, 2017. — 240 p. — (Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Texas photography series; no. 10). Fresno Ranch, an abandoned horse and mule operation located in a remote stretch of the Rio Grande River bordering Mexico, gives evidence of a human presence spanning centuries. The ranch saw a period of entrepreneurial mule breeding and ranching, and ownership by Texas...
Thomasson-Grant, 1986. – 112 p. Korah's photography is paired with an introduction by critically acclaimed author Elmore Leonard, who has lived in Detroit since childhood. In his own blunt style, Leonard reminisces about the changes that have taken place in Detroit since it was founded. He speculates about Detroit's horizons as the city changes from an aging industrial giant to a...
Harry N.Abrams, 1998. — 104 p. — (Art of the State). Abrams announces a new series ot lively pictorial books that capture the authentic spirit of each of the fifty United States. Every volume has a vivid gallery of images—fine and folk art, architecture, crafts, photos of places and people—and describes what's exceptional about the state: its natural and manmade wonders,...
Beautiful America, 2001. — 84 p. – (Beautiful America). From a group of the West's best photographers, we compiled a collection of scenic vistas that cover the "Gem State" from one end to the other. Scenes from Coeur d' Alene to Preston, Nampa to the Selway Bitteroot Wilderness; everything is her in this new publication. With the dynamic photography comes a brand new, delightful...
Dover Publications, 1978. — 148 p. Harry Lapow's Coney Island is not just a place: it is more a state of mind. For over twenty-five years the fascination and mystery of those few miles of sand and boardwalk have drawn his back, and back again, to record the images of the human form in its various attitudes of repose, of passion, of energy, of escape. He has, in the momentary click...
First Choice, 1983. — 76 p. Superlatives are unavoidable when describing California. It is the most populous, most fertile, most geographically diverse state in the USA — and to many, the most beautiful. With an astoundingly diverse collage of colors and textures in nature, and almost as much cultural diversity. California is known throughout the worlds as "The Golden State"....
Sunbelt, 1997. — 88 p. A stunning new portfolio of the land of Knott's Berry Farm, Disneyland and the Newport Beach lifestyle; quintessential Southern California with rural retreats, sweeping vistas, and pockets of wilderness charm, yet headquarters to many of America's largest corporations. Like the other books in this series, the five language format of English, French, Spanish,...
Sunbelt, 1990. — 80 p. With the imposing San Jacinto Mountains to the northwest, the rocky wonderland of Joshua Tree National Park to the north, Santa Rosa Mountains National Monument to the west , and the watery expanse of the Salton Sea on the south, the Coachella Valley incorporates an amazing variety of ecosystems.
Life, 2007. — 150 p. — (Life (Life Books)). We are living in a land rich with beauty and wonders. "Life" is fortunate that these stunning settings have attracted many of the country's - indeed, the world's - most talented scenic photographers. From the awe- inspiring work of Ansel Adams to the jaw-dropping photography of Galen Rowell to the serene pastorals of Joel Meyerowitz and...
Legacywords Pub, 1979. – 88 p. Robert Llewellyn has been photographing trees and landscapes more than forty years. His photographs have been featured in major art exhibits, and more than thirty books featuring his photography are in print. His book, Washington, The Capital was an official diplomatic gift of the White House and State Department.
Thomasson-Grant, 1981. — 128 p. Whot will be here in 2,000 years'? In 5,000 years? Will new cities be layered on top ol this one? Will Washington endure os Damascus in Syria — the oldest surviving national capital — has done; or will the tidal Potomac River rise with melting glaciers to submerge the city we know today. Let us dream great visions like our founding lathers. Let us...
Sierra Club, 1965. — 164 p. The wilderness ot the North Cascades is a national resource of the future, not merely a local commodity, and we need it all, as a nation. We need a number of protected wildernesses along the Cascade range—the Cougar Lakes Wilderness to help take care of the overflow from the Rainier Rock, the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, the North Cascades.
Voyageur Press, 2003. — 104 p. Our Boston not only pays homage to this historic city, it brings it to life. Packed with 166 fabulous, full-color photos, it's a visual treat that's also loaded with tons of interesting, little-known details and fascinating trivia. Whether they're tourists planning a trip to Boston or natives looking for unusual, delightful facts about this city,...
Voyageur Press, 1998. — 104 p. — (Citylife Pictorial Guide). Boston not only pays homage to this historic city, it brings it to life. Packed with more than 175 fabulous, full-color photos, it's a visual treat that's also loaded with tons of interesting, little-known details, including an engaging sidebar on why Bostonians talk the way they do. Brimming with an extended...
Thunder Bay Press, 2002. — 147 p. — (Then & Now). America's oldest major city, Boston has adapted to the modern age while still retaining an old-world charm. With many of her streets tracing original ox-cart paths to historic waterfronts, Boston is "America's Walking City." This volume documents the amazing changes that Boston has undergone during the last 150 years. Seventy...
Wyndham Publications, 1995. — 328 p. The very word "Alaska" tends to evoke images of a remote and mysterious land; a world of vast size, untamed wildlife, and unrivaled scenic splendor. But Alaska modern is much more. A treasure-house of both natural and human resources, it is a diverse and progressive state, on the leading edge of 21st-century business, industry, and technology....
Amberley, 2015. — 128 p.
The port of New York has been a centre for trade since the eighteenth century, when it was involved in trade between Europe, Africa and North America. However, its real expansion came in the nineteenth century when increasing industrialisation and the development of canals and then railways caused a huge expansion in the port. At the start of the...
Beautiful West Pub, 1975. — 80 p. David Muench is a revered landscape and nature photographer known for portraying the American western landscape for half a century. Known as the "Ansel Adams of color photography", he is the primary photographer for more than fifty books and his work appears in many magazines, posters, and private collections. For him, every photograph is a...
Rand McNally, 1973. — 128 p. This is Colorado as captured in David Muench's dramatic photographs and N. Scott Momaday's poetic text. It is unending vistas where the viewer is dwarfed by the magnitude of the sky. Revealed in Muench's photographs is the grandeur of the progression of the four seasons which roll down from the mountains with a majesty that is Colorado's own. The...
Graphic Arts Center, 2001. — 152 p. This book is about the reality of Colorado: not just the pretty images of postcards and promotions, but a varied, vibrant land. Muench's insightful photography captures a Colorado both rare and elemental. David Muench is a revered landscape and nature photographer known for portraying the American western landscape for half a century. Known...
KC Publications, 1977. — 68 p. Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is administered by the National Park Service in St. Louis, Missouri, for two centuries the "Gateway to the West". There the soaring, 630 foot Gateway Arch honors those who pioneered the West; the immense Museum of Westward Expansion tells their story. The photo-murals with which this book is concerned are a major...
Skyline Press, 1984. — 104 p. Santa Barbara, California, sheltered between the Islands of its channel out to sea and the mountains of the Santa Ynez Range inland, is one of the loveliest places in America, with a rich and fascinating heritage that spans more than two centuries of Spanish and American settlement. "There is a grace," says Fr. David Temple, "that stems from the age...
Alaska Northwest Books, 1994. — 56 p. A Child's Alaska is a visual feast for young adventurers who want to see for themselves what makes the Last Frontier so special. From totem poles to summer berry-picking from sled dog racing to wild animals they may see, this educational book will give readers an unforgettable Alaskan experience. Here in words, photographs, and illustrations,...
Twin Lights Publishers, 2003. — 140 p.
Massachusetts: A Photographic Portrait conveys a delightfully innovative vision of the Bay State as seen thorugh the eyes of dozens of talented professional and amateur photographers alike.Stroll through the pages of this colorful and lively portfolio and take in the images of seashore and mountains, historic buildings and shimmering...
Mutual Publishing, 2007. — 56 p. Reminisce about Waikiki’s sentimental history and imagine its peaceful, quaint rural eras sans cars, highrises, and crowds in this collection of images. From the days when Waikiki was just a sprawling marshland sprouting farmlands, coconut groves, and duck ponds to the early 1900s when dramatic change came to Waikiki and roads and businesses began...
Crescent, 1978. — 72 p. — (A Picture Book To Remember Her By). California has the largest, richest and fastest growing population of all the American States. For over two hundred years people have been attracted by one of the finest climates, some of the most beautiful scenery and acres of the most productive farming land in the world, not to mention large deposits of gold and...
The Viking Press, 1971. — 88 p. Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director. He is best remembered for his photographic essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film. Beginning in the 1960s, Parks branched out into literature, writing The Learning Tree (1963). He authored...
Р. Франк, Дж. Керуак, 1958. — 84 с. Роберт Франк (Robert Frank) – американский фотограф швейцарского происхождения, оказавший существенное влияние на развитие документальной фотографии. Франк стал первым фотографом из Европы, кто был удостоен стипендии Гугенхейма. Он получил широкую известность благодаря своему проекту «Американцы» – книге, в которой было собрано более...
Twin Lights Publishers, 2003. — 131 p.
As you browse through these images of rocky coasts and rolling hills, one theme rings true…the very spirit of New England lives through its ever-changing and captivating beauty.
Welcome Books, 2002. — 168 p. As America stands to the rest of the world, so stands California to America - a shining promise of endless possibility. This exquisite celebration of the Golden State has been updated with a new introduction, new cover design, and an enlarged size to suit the grandeur of its subject. California the Beautiful is both a portrait of the state's diverse...
Emerald Point Press, 1995. — 72 p. These views of Seattle and Puget Sound were all produced by Seattle area photographers who captured perfect moments in time through the lens of a camera. Featuring city and landscape photographs from Bill Brookster, Dan Carrow, John S. Chao, Adrienne DeLiso, Joe Faulkner, Neal Herbert, Chris Jacobson, S.H. Marti, Joe Poehlman, and John Rizzo.
Graphic Arts Center, 1996. — 100 p. Oregon Coast contains the stunning professional photography of Oregonian Rick Schafer. The ruggedly beautiful, endlessly fascinating 362 miles of the Oregon coast is one of the premier recreation destinations in North America. One of the most scenic and accessable coastlines on the Pacific Ocean; its bays, dunes, beaches, headlands, and coves...
Mercer University Press, 1996. — 116 p. My photographs of Piedmont Park challenge the traditional view of the region and offer a fresh look at life in today's South. These images are not meant to be documentary or definitive, but instead, evidence of a deeply personal odyssey.
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2000. — 202 p. In 120 exquisitely reproduced black-and-white images, Minnesota in Our Time: A Photographic Portrait showcases the work of twelve photographers who sought to capture the essence of the state and its people at the new millennium. The photographs, drawn from the Minnesota 2000 Photo Documentation Project, provide a multifaceted look...
Voyageur Press, 1998. — 104 p. Whether you're a life-long resident of Seattle, a recent transplant, a visitor, or an armchair traveler, you'll cherish this tribute to the Emerald City. Covering everything from the people to the mountains and parks, from the boat locks to the skyscrapers, Our Seattle combines readable text and first-rate photos to capture the spirit of this...
Crescent Books, 1979. — 70 p. Majestic, snow-capped mountains, crystal clear lakes and streams, huge forests of conifers and dazzling waterfalls are just part of the magnificent scenery of the Northern Rockies, where vast National Parks and Forests teem with an abundance of wildlife and a profusion of flowers. This is also the land of the "Wild West" - pioneer country - where...
Graphic Arts Center, 1977. — 168 p. Mark's ability to capture the energy and essence of a scene or a life is incredible. His pictures are definately worth more than a thousand words. Sites of NYC captured in this book are great, even for someone who lives in the city. Sometimes I marvel at how did he get that shot or even "Where is it?". A book this beautiful must have been...
Yankee Publishing, 1984. — 136 p. Wherever I traveled throughout South Carolina in my quest to produce the photography for this hook, I was serenaded by the melodious mockingbird. Their cheerful song was magic on the dreariest of days. I only wish the images within these pages could he accompanied by the dazzling performance of that little creature's musical notes. You'll just...
3rd Edition. — Arizona Highways Books, 1989. — 138 p. The three authors, with roots deep in the Arizona soil, describe twenty back-road tours for the whole family.
DK Publishing, 2003. — 152 p. America 24/7 is a wonderful coffee table sized photo book that provides a somewhat whitewashed look at the American way of life (circa 2003). The pictures in the book were mostly taken by "normal" people of everyday life events and cover everything from the most mundane to most profound events. This is the book I let my friends from Europe and South...
Dk Pub, 2004. — 200 p. A collection of digital photographs provides a visual time capsule of life in California, capturing a diversity of people, cultures, and accomplishments across the state.
Collins, 1990. — 260 p. Collins, impresario of the popular "Day in the Life" photo books, has published a stunning new volume of aerial views of California. Shot by Morrison, it documents the state's diverse panorama as few of us ever see it--the thin line of the San Andreas fault, curvilinear rice fields near Merced, and, yes, even Liberace's piano-shaped swimming pool. While the...
Universe, 2003. — 136 p. This handy format showcases Chicago’s greatest sites and views, including four gatefolds of breathtaking panoramic beauty that capture the visual paradoxes and triumphs of this famous city by the lake. Visalli photographs the architectural masterpieces famous throughout the world?from Louis Sullivan’s ornamental facades to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s sleek...
Gibbs Smith, 1989. — 100 p. The California desert is an acquired taste. Driving through it, with thoughts fixed on Mammoth's slopes or the tables of Las Vegas, one is often more attracted to the tacky gas station-fast food stops than to the bleached landscape. But anyone who has stepped away from the highways, even just to stretch and yawn, knows how quickly rapture can set in....
The History Press, 2014. — 168 p.
The ruins of Philadelphia’s grandest structures show the city’s dramatic evolution. Smoke no longer spews from the Philadelphia Electric Company’s hulking riverside power plants. Nature long ago reclaimed the rusted steel bones of the Frankford Arsenal. Graffiti artists tag the Beury Building, while Philadelphia’s Gilded Age elite rest beneath...
Chicago Review, 1985. — 102 p. Wisconsin is much more than the cheese and beer that have made the state worldfamous. Perhaps more than any other state, Wisconsin is a microcosm of America. Wisconsin's history under five flags is the American story of a kaleidoscopic tide of immigrants conquering a frontier. Wisconsin geography offers replicas of a variety of continental...
Aperture, 1975. — 112 p.
Brett Weston's photography is marked by a Strength of form. Whether it is an Alaskan glacier miles away or shards of broken glass in San Francisco inches from the camera, his images seize exhilarating patterns in the natural and man-made world. In the foreword to Weston's famous "White Sands" portfolio, Nancy Newhall writes, "Instead of abstract...
Voyageur Press, 1995. — 150 p. Finalist, Minnesota Book Awards. The spirit of Minnesota lives in many things. It is a radiant dawn breaking through the pines of the North Woods. It is the unceasing pounding of waves on the rocky North Shore of Lake Superior. It is the delicate fragrance of prickly wild roses in the Heartland. It is the timeless flow of the Mississippi River...
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