From one of America's most acclaimed photographers: stunning images of an extraordinary and endangered landscape. The countryside south and east of Rome around the ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct is an artist's paradise. Its rare light, its evocations of ancient Roman civilization enchant the camera just as they attracted such painters as Claude, Turner, and Corot. Writers, too, have fallen under its spell - from Horace and Pliny the Elder to Goethe and Henry James. "Few other scenes on earth combine in one glance such a myriad of mighty associations," wrote one nineteenth-century chronicler. As for the great aqueduct, its "broken and disjointed arches" suggest "the vertebrae of some mighty monster." The rolling plain of the Campagna was only marginally occupied during the height of the Roman Empire: one lived either within the protective walls of Rome or in the cooler and more defendable hill towns a few miles away. After the fall of Rome, the countryside grew even more desolate. Except for a few castles and towers built in the Middle Ages and an occasional farmhouse built in the nineteenth century, the area remained barely populated for 1,400 years, haunted by its past. Then, in the late 1800s, after Italy became a nation and Rome its capital, the Campagna changed dramatically. Railroads began to weave in and out of the arches of aqueducts; suburbs began to intrude on the plain. Now the Campagna is increasingly threatened by rapid and uncontrolled urban sprawl. Sternfeld's magnificent color photographs capture poignant juxtapositions of past and present: ancient tombs, villas, arches, temples coexisting with apartment houses, malls, and the blight of the modern city. Much of the area that Sternfeld documents has been proposed as a large archaeological park, but unless legislation is enacted immediately, what little remains of the historic Campagna will be lost forever. Campagna Romana, the only modern photographic study of this legendary place, captures its wonders for all time and pleads for its preservation.

Campagna Romana: The Countryside of Ancient Rome

Richard Brilliant

Joel Sternfeld

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.

KNOPF

This new book surveys Edward Weston's work more comprehensively and exhaustively than any previous work. A combination of biography and critical analysis, it offers more than 320 meticulously reproduced duotone images, nearly a quarter of which have never been reproduced in books before. The selected photographs trace Weston's career from his early days, through formative years in Mexico, and on through the balance of his career, which ended because of the onset of Parkinson's disease ten years prior to his death in 1958. Treated chronologically and emphasizing Weston's creative preoccupations in each period, the book includes work that he created in 1938 and 1939 with funds from the first two Guggenheim Foundation grants ever awarded to a photographer. To illustrate the book vintage prints have been selected from the copious Weston Archives at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the highly important Lane Collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Nearly 10,000 photographs have been examined in order to select those reproduced in the book.

Edward Weston: Forms of Passion

Arts & Photography

Terence Pitts

Trudy Wilner Stock

Alan Trachtenberg

Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams

Analyzes Church's stylistic progression, his use of sketches in the creation of finished studio paintings and his changing style

Close Observation: Selected Oil Sketches by Frederic E. Church

Smithsonian Inst. Pr.

Charles Sheeler: The Photographs

Explores Sheeler's (1883-1965) seminal series on Doylestown (Penna.) house, Chartres Cathedral, NYC, the River Rogue auto plant. Splendid plates cover his work from 1916 to 1950. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Norman Keyes, Jr.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY

To tie-in with The New York Historical Society's exhibit currently traveling across the country through 1996, this lavish volume reproduces, in the original colors, all 470 of Audubon's rarely seen watercolor paintings (not the usual prints found in other books) of birds of America.

John James Audubon: Watercolours for the " Birds of America " (Ornithology)

John James Audubon

Annette Blaugrund

History & Criticism

Herbert Press Ltd

Tells the forgotten story of the influence of the British writer and critic John Ruskin on a group of American painters and collectors during the late 19th century.

The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle

Virginia Anderson

Harvard University Art Museum

Harvard university Art Museums

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