Architects category: 3350 books
Love, Fiercely
A Gilded Age Romance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The true story of the New York society couple portrayed in the John Singer Sargent painting—an architect and an heiress who became passionate reformers.
Contemporaries of the Astors and Vanderbilts, they grew up together along the shores of bucolic Staten Island, linked by privilege—her...
by Mark Strand
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Now in rich color, thirty of American painter Edward Hopper’s masterpieces with critiques from acclaimed poet Mark Strand. Strand deftly illuminates the work of the frequently misunderstood American painter, whose enigmatic paintings—of gas stations, storefronts, cafeterias, and hotel rooms—number...
by Annie Cohen-Solal
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Leo Castelli reigned for decades as America’s most influential art dealer. Now Annie Cohen-Solal, author of the hugely acclaimed Sartre: A Life (“an intimate portrait of the man that possesses all the detail and resonance of fiction”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times), recounts his incalculably...
Flash Photography Beginner Tips
Learn Photo Lighting, Flash For Cameras And All The Flash Photography Techniques You Need To Consistently Take Pictures With Proper Exposure
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Any professional photographer would understand how light is important to photography. The quality of every snapshot is judged by the light effects at play. Too much or too little light can ruin a pretty picture.
Flash photography is the art of using flash devices to balance the light requirements...
A Clearing In The Distance
Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.
We know Olmsted through the physical legacy...
The Perfect House
A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident...
by David Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
This books contain 250 anecdotes, including this one: British graffiti artist Banksy is quite the social satirist. When Paris Hilton came out with her debut CD of music, Banksy created his own version of the cover of her album. Banksy’s version featured a topless photo of Paris and the slogans “What...
by Patti Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
National Best Seller
From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.”
M...
The Inventor and the Tycoon
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography,...
by Henry Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Biography of the artist, first published in 1886, with 172 black and white illustrations. According to Wikipedia: "Randolph Caldecott (22 March 1846 12 February 1886) was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honor. He exercised his art chiefly...
Bathing Angel
Erotic Art Picture Book
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Chief Engineer
Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
"A welcome tribute to the persistence, precision and humanity of Washington Roebling and a love-song for the mighty New York bridge he built." -The Wall Street Journal
Chief Engineer is the first full biography of a crucial figure in the American story-Washington Roebling, builder...
Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Annotated drawings
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers. This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci drawings, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets...
My Paris Dream
An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
A charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar editor Kate Betts, the author of Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style
“You can always come back,” my mother said. “Just go.”
As a...