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PHOTOGRAPHY

Egg & Nest
Rosamond Purcell
Linnea S. Hall
René Corado
Introduction by Bernd Heinrich
Alongside Rosamond Purcell’s stunning photographs, Linnea Hall and René Corado offer an engaging history of egg collecting, the provenance of the specimens in the photographs, and the biology, conservation, and ecology of the birds that produced them.
Hardcover 2008
The Great Wall Revisited
William Lindesay
A journey along the Great Wall in the past and present, this landmark volume offers an extraordinary portrait of perhaps the world’s most famous structure.
Hardcover 2008
Hispaniola
Biodiversidad a Través de un Recorrido Fotográfico
Eladio Fernández
Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
Introduction by Philippe Bayard
Translated by Irina P. Ferreras
Translated by Gustavo Romero
A Dominican-based conservationist and photographer, Fernández is documenting the efforts of a distinguished team of international scientists as they unravel the workings of evolution being played out on the island of Hispaniola. What Fernández captures here so vividly is not just the amazing variety of living creatures that have erupted in evolutionary isolation, but the urgency of scientists racing to give that variety a name before it vanishes.
Hardcover 2007
Human Documents
Robert Gardner
Edited by Charles Warren
Photographs by Michael Rockefeller
Photographs by Adelaide de Menil
Photographs by Kevin Bubriski
Photographs by Christopher James
Photographs by Jane Tuckerman
Photographs by Alex Webb
In Human Documents, Robert Gardner introduces the work of photographers with whom he has worked over a period of nearly fifty years under the auspices of the Film Study Center at Harvard. Their images achieve the status of what Gardner calls “human documents”: visual evidence that testifies to our shared humanity. With photographs by Michael Rockefeller, Robert Gardner, Kevin Bubriski, Adelaide de Menil, Christopher James, Jane Tuckerman, Susan Meiselas, and Alex Webb.
Hardcover 2009
Michael Rockefeller
Kevin Bubriski
Foreword by Robert Gardner
Photographs by Michael Rockefeller
From April to August 1961, recent Harvard graduate Michael Clark Rockefeller served as sound recordist and photographer on a remarkable multidisciplinary expedition to highland New Guinea. In only five months he produced an impressive body of work, including over 4,000 black and white negatives. In this catalogue of over 75 photographs, photographer Bubriski explores Rockefeller's journey into the culture and community of the Dani people, presenting the first substantial publication of his visual legacy.
Paperback 2007
No Small Matter
Felice C. Frankel
George M. Whitesides
A small revolution is remaking the world. The only problem is, we can’t see it. This book uses dazzling images and evocative descriptions to reveal the virtually invisible realities and possibilities of nanoscience. This book considers both the benefits and the risks of nano/microtechnology—from the potential of quantum computers and single-molecule genomic sequencers to the concerns about self-replicating nanosystems.An introduction to the science and technology of small things, No Small Matter explains science on the nanoscale.
Hardcover 2009
On the Surface of Things
Felice C. Frankel
George M. Whitesides
Using innovative photographic technology, Frankel finds startling abstract beauty on the surfaces of objects all around us. Chemist George Whitesides explains each photograph, describing why and how each of these phenomena occur.
Paperback 2008
Out of Focus Nuyoricans
Adál Maldonado
Adál's artistry is neither conventional nor pleasing for the spectator, as it is acquired through the continuous questioning of the particular condition of Puerto Ricans in the United States. If there is anything we should clearly get out of these out-of-focus portraits, it is that to look fuzzy to some is not a condition to be feared or dreaded, but an achievement to be attained. This book was published as a companion to the exhibits "Auto-Portraits/Blue Bananas on Fire" and "Blueprints for a Nation" at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in 2004.
Paperback 2006
Retouched
Edited by José Luis Falconi
This book is a catalog of the exhibit organized by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University in the spring of 2006 of the recently rediscovered archive of the Ayacucho, Peru, photographer Baldomero Alejos.
Paperback