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Tracing the history of documentary photography, from Walker Evans to Xavier RibasThe medium of photography has long had tenuous ties to both the truth and the arts. This volume traces the evolution of documentary photography--from its origin as a journalistic tool through its development into a distinct artistic and aesthetic form. Beginning in the 1930s with Walker Evans' foundational influence on the genre and culminating in the 1980s with the experimental color work of Anthony Hernández and Tod Papageorge, Sculpting Reality presents a careful selection of work from 18 of the most influential figures in 20th-century North American documentary photography.Photographers include: Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, Ricardo Rangel, Garry Winogrand, Susan Meiselas, Tod Papageorge, Anthony Hernández, Mike Mandel, Lee Friedlander, David Goldblatt, Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lewis Baltz, Bleda Y Rosa, Xavier Ribas and Ian Wallace.

Rarely seen print suites and book illustrations by the Cubist and proto-Pop pioneerPublished alongside the exhibition at the Fundación Canal in Madrid, The Search for a New Order traces the artistic evolution of Fernand Léger (1881-1955), adopting an underutilized lens: the artist's print series and works for publications. Frequently employing lithographs as his medium of choice, Léger contributed illustrations to accompany others' text--be it essays, poems or stories--and also produced his own series of thematic images. This volume centers on three of his illustration projects: Cubisme (1912-47), a manifesto penned by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger; Les Illuminations (1949), the famous collection by Arthur Rimbaud; and Cirque (1950), an independently executed ode to the circus. Viewed together, these series patently convey the variations within Léger's artistic vocabulary as he endeavored to distill the spirit of the early to mid-20th century.

For this artist's sketchbook, Spanish painter, author and set designer Eduardo Arroyo (born 1937) created 20 drawings and then mailed them to 20 international artists, such as Bruno Bruni, William Klein and Peter Blake, to make pairs for them. This volume reproduces all 40 works. Text in Spanish only.

In this collaborative volume, black-and-white photographs by London-based Russian photographer Gusov (born 1960) document the shooting of Russian film director Andrei Konchalovsky's (born 1937) film The Sin.

Perrin's beautiful photographs, wrapped in black, dive into the very soul of Justo Gallego's work, into its heartbeat, and allow the mystery of the place to unfold.

A fantastic cornucopia of print propaganda by Soviet Russia's avant-garde artists and writersHoused in a printed slipcase, Avant-garde and Propaganda compiles a selection of publications--photobooks and magazines, along with other related documents--demonstrating the great flowering of typography, photomontage and photobooks in the Soviet Union in the period between 1913 and 1941. Art as applied to book and magazine production achieved its most magnificent expression through the avant-garde movements at the beginning of the 20th century and was particularly innovative in the Soviet Union, where artistic movements such as suprematism and constructivism, the partnership between Russian artists and graphic designers, and the poetic and literary circles of Ilya Ehrenberg and Vladimir Mayakovsky all made for an exceptionally fruitful print culture in the service of the new communist state. This wealth of illustrated material, drawn from the collection of the Lafuente Archive, includes work by El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, André Lhote, Natalia Goncharova, Kazimir Malevich and others.

The Soviet Century is a major and comprehensive new assessment of Soviet photography from the years 1917 to 1972. Over 500 photographs from the collection of Spain's Archivo Lafuente present a deep survey of Soviet life through depictions of political meetings, factories, demonstrations and farms, as well as portraits of political leaders, artists, peasants and workers. Photographs by both well-known and little-known artists including Max Alpert, Mikhail Grachev, Yakov Khalip, Fedor Kislov, Ivan Kobozev, El Lissitzky, Gyorgy Petrusov, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Ivan Shagin, Aleksander Ustinov and Giorgi Zelma are grouped into thematic sections surveying the 1917 Revolution, the artistic avant-garde, peasant life, World War II and more. This 600-page volume includes three historical essays that examine the complex artistic and ideological status of photography throughout the period, caught between state-led imperatives to achieve political ends and formal, artistic experimentation, especially with the 1920s avant-garde.

Wannabe is a photographic project about doll-like girls in Japanese culture, about the objectification of these women to serve societal customs that lead to android-like behaviour.

The life and work of Italian-born photographer Tina Modotti is magnificently portrayed in this generously illustrated volume by expert Margaret Hooks.

This is a unique volume in the guise of an artist's book which captures 45 years of work by an indispensable author.

Mediterranean metaphysics is the subtitle of this project by the French artist Bernard Plossu. It gathers 150 images taken over the course of 30 years in the south of France, Spain, Greece, Italy and Turkey.

Pepe Andreu is one of Spain's foremost furniture designers, famed for his reconciliation of contemporary forms with traditional artisanal materials. Andreu creates furniture with a soul that adapts itself to the personality and way of life of its owners. This book examines the work of one of Spain's foremost furniture designers.