A Meeting of Cultures is a pathbreaking work focused specifically on contemporary fashion designers and influencers in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Lavishly illustrated, it broadens the scope of scholarship on the fashion industry, which to date has focused mainly on American and European designers.  

Experimenting with light and shadow, multiple exposures, surrealist imagery, and roleplay – this is the artistic terrain of Marta Astfalck-Vietz (1901–1994). Her spellbinding photography from the 1920s stages bodies, interweaves pictorial planes, and exhibits dreamlike realities created through her own unique methods.

Delve into a collection a century in the making with 101 Legendary Selections from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA), which honors our past and points toward our future.  

It is always with us: our shadow. But when it comes to art, what role does this constant companion play? Richly illustrated and vividly narrated, this publication reveals the wide range of approaches and levels of meaning that shadow has in contemporary painting and photography, in video art and installations.  

Brownie is a collection of photographs created by photographer David Katzenstein over ten years from 1979–89. With this series Katzenstein pays homage to the famous line of Brownie cameras introduced in 1900. He used its successor, the Kodak Dualflex, which followed in 1947. The result is a colourful, personal and sensitive view of the world.

Piles of Inspiration Everywhere explores the physical space where renowned artist Barkley Hendricks worked and lived. A collaboration between photographer David Katzenstein and Susan Hendricks, this book invites readers into the space Barkley and Susan shared for 35 years, offering readers a bold, detailed study of the artist’s life.  

Authorized by The Man Ray Trust, Permanent Attraction: Man Ray & Chess, is the first and only book on Man Ray’s chess-themed works in all media. With experience in studio art, chess, photography, cartography, prototyping, and scholarly research, the author offers a comprehensive interpretation of when, how, and why Man Ray created these timeless works.  

The architect Herman Hertzberger (*1932) is the most important representative of Dutch Structuralism. This movement, which emerged in 1960, is highly regarded in modern architecture and takes as its starting point an archetypal behaviour of humankind. Consequently, buildings must satisfy both the individual and the social needs of those who use them: architecture must be “inviting”.  

The desire for colour in photography prevailed throughout the world of photography from the very beginning. What were the early techniques? And when did colour become accessible to everyone? This volume traces the exciting path from the medium’s beginnings in the nineteenth century to widely used analogue colour photography starting with the first Kodak colour slide films in 1936.  

The remarkable work of T. Lux Feininger (1910–2011) extends from aquatic worlds to the cosmos of animal and plant life to geometric abstraction. This lavishly illustrated volume provides a multifaceted new approach to the artist. Paintings and drawings, photographs, set designs and commercial graphic works offer a comprehensive view of his oeuvre and an expression of modern romanticism.