BOOKS

"Photographer's Life: 1990-2005" by Annie Leibovitz
"I don't have two lives", Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990-2005. "This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it".
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"Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive" by Joel Meyerowitz
After the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11th 2001, the world-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz felt compelled to visit the site. In his own words, he was 'overcome by a deep impulse to help, to save, to soothe, but, being far away, there was nothing I could do.' On his return Meyerowitz soon made his way to the scene where, upon raising his camera, he was reminded by a police officer that this was a crime scene and that no photographs were allowed.
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"Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War" by Robin Greeley
How might artistic practice offer unique insight into the cataclysmic debacle of war? Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War plumbs this provocative question through an ambitious account of a pivotal period in European cultural history.
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"Growing up Guggenheim" by Peter Lawson-Johnston
In "Growing Up Guggenheim", Peter Lawson-Johnston, a Guggenheim himself, and the board president who oversaw the transformation of the renowned museum from a local New York institution to a global art venture, shares a personal memoir that includes intimate portraits of the five people principally responsible for the entire Guggenheim art legacy.
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"Humble Masterpieces" by Paola Antonelli
An insightful collection of design marvels from everyday life, celebrated by a curator of MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design.
Every day we use dozens of small objects, from Q-tips to paper clips. If they work well, chances are we don't pay them much attention. Although modest in size and price, some of these objects are true masterpieces of the art of design.
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"De Kooning: An American Master" by Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true "painter's painter" whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism.
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