Publications - Books
 | New TopographicsNew Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape was one of those rare exhibitions that permanently alters how an art form is perceived. Held at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York, in January 1975, it was curated by William Jenkins, who brought together ten contemporary photographers: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel, Jr. Signaling the emergence of a new approach to landscape, the show effectively gave a name to a movement or style, although even today, the term "New Topographics"--more a conceptual gist than a precise adjective--is used to characterize the work of artists not yet born when the exhibition was held. Although the exhibit's ambitions were hardly so grand, New Topographics has since come to be understood as marking a paradigm shift, for the show occurred just as photography ceased to be an isolated, self-defined practice and took its place within the contemporary art world. Arguably the last traditionally photographic style, New Topographics was also the first Photoconceptual style. In different ways, the artists thoughtfully engaged with their medium and its history, while simultaneously absorbing such issues as environmentalism, capitalism and national identity. In this vital reassessment of the genre, essays by Britt Salvesen and Alison Nordström accompany illustrations of selected works from the 1975 exhibition, with installation views and contextual comparisons, to demonstrate both the historical significance of New Topographics and its continued relevance today. The book also includes an illustrated checklist of the 1975 exhibition and an extensive bibliography.ISBN 978-3-865-21827-8 cloth $75 |
 | John Gutmann: The Photographer at WorkJohn Gutmann (1905 - 1998) was one of America's most distinctive photographers. Born in Germany where he trained as an artist and art teacher, he fled the Nazis in 1933 and settled in San Francisco, reinventing himself as a photo-reporter. Gutmann captured images of American culture, celebrating signs of a vibrant democracy, however imperfect. His own status as an outsider - a Jew in Germany, a naturalized citizen in the United States - informed his focus on individuals from the Asian-American, African-American, and gay communities, as well as his photography in India, Burma, and China during World War II. This handsome book acknowledges Gutmann's place in the history of photography. ISBN 978-0-300-12331-9 cloth $50 |
 | Milton Rogovin: The Making of a Social Documentary PhotographerBorn in New York in 1909 to a Russian-Jewish immigrant family, Milton Rogovin was radicalized by the widespread deprivations he witnessed and experienced during the Depression, and he dedicated himself to working for social and economic justice. His activism led him to be called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and after refusing to testify, he was dubbed "Buffalo's Number One Communist." His political voice silenced, he turned to photography as a way to speak about social inequities. In the years that followed, Rogovin devoted himself to chronicling the lives of people in New York, Appalachia, Scotland, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Mexico, France, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Germany, and China. Scholar Melanie Herzog locates Rogovin within a tradition of social documentary photography that began when nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century sociologists took up the camera, or, more often, enlisted the service of photographers to advocate for social reform through visual representations of the plight of the poor. This richly illustrated retrospective features Rogovin's own narrative of his development and life as a documentary photographer, amplified by an account of the historical events and circumstances that shaped his politics and social consciousness. Milton Rogovin has dedicated his life's work-as an optometrist, an activist, and a photographer-to enabling people to see more clearly. Published in association with University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-98634-4 paper $30 |
 | Harry Callahan: The Photographer at WorkHarry Callahan was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. A master of modernist experimentation, he explored a range of themes-"nature, buildings, and people," as he put it in 1975-throughout his career, using a variety of techniques and approaches. Drawing upon the rich contents of the Harry Callahan Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, this book examines how Callahan expressed his visual ideas through deliberate and improvisational processes, and how such processes might be revealed in archival materials such as negatives, transparencies, proof prints, and contact sheets. This close investigation of Callahan's individual and experimental approach to materials in turn leads to a larger consideration of his relationship to seemingly contradictory strains in American visual culture of the twentieth century. Reproducing a host of previously unpublished images and documents, Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work offers a rare glimpse into the creative process of an important and fascinating artist. Introduction by John Szarkowski. Foreword by Douglas R. Nickel. Essay by Britt Salvesen. Description of Callahan Archive by Amy Rule. Published by the Center for Creative Photography in association with Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-11332-2 cloth $50 |
 | Robert Heinecken: A Material HistoryThe Robert Heinecken Archive at the Center for Creative Photography--a comprehensive record of the life and work of the artist as well as a pop-culture time capsule of post-WWII America--represents one of the most compelling chapters in modern photographic and art history. It contains baby pictures, snapshots, birthday cards, letters, scribbles on napkins and envelopes, production materials, teaching notes and objects, videotapes of interviews and lectures, negatives, and documentary slides, as well as more than 500 art works. Drawing on these varied sources, artist and writer Mark Alice Durant reevaluates the career of this controversial and influential photo-artist and reconsiders the Heinecken legacy from our twenty-first century perspective. CCP archivist Amy Rule contributes an overview of the archive that is both ordered and improvisational, much like Heinecken's approach to his work. With 80 reproductions of unique art works and archival material. ISBN 0-938262-36-X paper $30
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 | Winogrand 1964Garry Winogrand's photographs of public life epitomized the indigenous pulse and social complexity of the urban scene after World War II. In 1964, with the support of the first of three Guggenheim Fellowships, he traveled for five months to seventeen states, recording an America in transition, while expanding his dominance of street photography to include a brilliant on-the-road aesthetic. Winogrand: 1964 gives cohesive form to Garry Winogrand's America, in over 200 photographs made in a single year, the majority previously unpublished. From Arena Editions in association with CCP. ISBN 1-892041-62-6 cloth with dust jacket $175 |
 | Original Sources: Art and Archives at the Center for Creative PhotographyA guided tour of one of the most extensive and eclectic photography collections in the world, covering the careers of such luminaries as Ansel Adams, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Lee Friedlander, Aaron Suskind, W. Eugene Smith, Paul Strand, Edward Weston and Garry Winogrand among others. With more than 300 reproductions and essays by 32 authors. ISBN 0-938262-37-8 cloth $40 ISBN 0-938262-38-6 paper $25 |
 | Arizona Photographers: The Snell and Wilmer CollectionRepresenting a wide range of photography styles, this exhibition catalogue highlights the regional work of forty-seven contemporary artists who live and work in Arizona. Essay by Terence Pitts. Foreword by Edward Jacobson. ISBN 0-938262-19-X paper $15 |
 | Art Museum: Sophie Calle, Louise Lawler, Richard Misrach, Diane Neumaier, Richard Ross, Thomas StruthMany contemporary artists have approached the art museum not only as an exhibition space and source of inspiration, but also as a subject in itself. The six artists included in Art Museum use photography to explore and critique the nature of the museum, its traditions of presentation, and the common expectations for the character and posture of art it proposes. Essay by Trudy Wilner Stack. ISBN 0-938262-26-2 paper $17 |
 | Central Arizona Project Photographic SurveyFour Arizona photographers-Mark Klett, Lawrence McFarland, Ruthe Morand, and Ann Simmons-Myers-document the construction of a mammoth system of canals, pumping stations, and pipelines that carry precious water from the Colorado River to Tucson. Preface by Terence Pitts. Overview by Robert Walsh. Essay by William Jenkins. ISBN 0-938262-12-2 paper $8 |
 | Contemporary Photography in MexicoThis catalogue highlights the work of nine contemporary Mexican photographers: Graciela Iturbide, Pedro Meyer, José Angel Rodríguez, Jesús Sánchez Uribe, Lázaro Blanco, Colette Alvarez Urbajtel, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Rafael Doniz, and Antonio Reynoso Castañeda. An essay by René Verdugo emphasizes the native vision of these photographers as a product of Mexico's unique cultural heritage. ISBN 0-938262-00-9 paper $3.50 |
 | Decade by Decade: Twentieth-Century American PhotographyJames Enyeart, then-director of CCP, invited a diverse group of curators, historians, and authors to write about individual decades in the development of twentieth-century photography. The result is an overlapping commentary revealing "the layered nature of history." Includes essays by Estelle Jussim, Helen Gee, Van Deren Coke, Terence Pitts, Martha A. Sandweiss, Charles Desmarais, Naomi Rosenblum, and Nathan Lyons. ISBN 00-8212-1721-6 cloth $40 ISBN 00-8212-1722-4 paper $25 |
 | Edward Weston: Color PhotographyIn 1946, after being invited by Eastman Kodak to photograph Point Lobos in color, Edward Weston wrote to Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, "I have not much new to offer but color. I'm really interested for the first time." Color Photography is a look at this little-known and rarely seen portion of Weston's work and includes Weston's original essay, "Color as Form" (1953), a personal commentary by Nancy Newhall, and an essay by Terence Pitts. ISBN 0938262149 cloth $15.00 ISBN 0-938262-5-7 paper $8.95 |
 | Far East and Southwest: The Photography of Kozo MiyoshiThirty of Kozo Miyoshi's large-format black-and-white photographs from Japan and the southwestern United States are represented in this catalogue. His straightforward visual approach to people and their surroundings unites the two cultures through a sense of common experience and subject matter. This bilingual volume includes an essay by Trudy Wilner Stack, an artist's biography, and a checklist of the exhibition. English/Japanese ISBN 0-938262-25-4 paper $12 |
 | Four Spanish PhotographersSpain's rich photographic legacy, stifled for years by insular politics, is evidenced by the strong and varied work in Four Spanish Photographers. Included are works by Christina García Rodero, Koldo Chamorro, Marta Sentis, and Joan Fontcuberta. Essay by Terence Pitts. ISBN 0-938262-18-1 paper $8 |
 | Henry Holmes Smith: Collected Writings 1935-1985For nearly forty years, educator and artist Smith was photography's irreverent critic-at-large. His essays, articles, and notes probe the nature of photography as an art form and the validity of various approaches to photographic education. ISBN 0-938262-10-6 cloth $25 ISBN 0-938262-08-4 paper $15.95 |
 | Joyce NeimanasThis catalogue is a ten-year survey of Neimanas's work, highlighting her use of mixed media. Neimanas challenges the notion of the "pure medium" and proposes a vision both layered and cohesive. Essay by Sarah Moore. ISBN 0-938262-11-4 paper $7.95 |
 | Photography in the American Grain: Discovering a Native American Aesthetic 1923-1941Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Barbara Morgan, and Walker Evans are artists who recognized a distinctive American "rhythm" and explored it in their work. Terence Pitts discusses their work in the context of an America searching for an artistic identity. ISBN 0-938262-16-5 paper $10 |
 | Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary PhotographyThis catalogue accompanied a CCP-organized exhibition and includes full-color reproductions by each of the nineteen artists represented in the show. Incorporating a wide spectrum of photographic methods, these artists use photography to update our classical and romantic notions of the sea, creating contemporary renderings of this traditional subject. Contains essays by James Hamilton-Paterson and Trudy Wilner Stack as well as brief artist profiles and a selected bibliography. ISBN 0-938262-32-7 hardcover $25 |
 | Sommer: Words/ImagesThis two-volume set captures the diversity of Frederick Sommer's art and life. Images includes photographs, musical scores, and drawings. Words contains a variety of Sommer's essays and poetry. Sommer was an active participant in both the content and design of these books, and the dramatic sequencing adds to our understanding of his work. Two volumes in slipcase. ISBN 0-938262-09-2 paper $40 |
 | W. Eugene Smith: Chronological Bibliography Parts 1, 2, and AddendumBy William Johnson paper $15 |
Robert Frank: Bibliography, Filmography, and Exhibition Chronology, 1946-1985By Stuart Alexander paper $25 | |
A. D. Coleman: A Bibliography of His Writings on Photography from 1968 to 1995ISBN 0-938262-34-3 cloth $30 ISBN 0-938262-35-1 paper $22
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