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Egg & Nest
Rosamond Purcell
Linnea S. Hall
René Corado
Foreword by Bernd Heinrich
Photographer Rosamond Purcell (Bookworm; Owl's Head) has trained her lens on the tens of thousands of birds' eggs and nests in the collection of an obscure museum on the California coast. With glosses on the specimen's natural history by curator Linnea Hall, Purcell shows us the eggs and nests in their breathtaking variety of form and ingenuity of construction, from the eggs of the extinct elephantbird to a nests made of guano, lace, or fireworks.
Hardcover 2009
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
On the Surface of Things
Felice 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