Construction workers, railroad men, factory workers, miners, Empire State Building construction. 69 photos in all.
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Cruickshank’s Photographs of Birds of America by Allan D. Cruickshank Great ornithologist, photographer presents 177 closeups, groupings, panoramas, flightings of about 150 different birds. Expanded Wings in the Wilderness. "The most magnificent bird photographs in the world..." — Commonweal.
Genthe’s Photographs of San Francisco’s Old Chinatown by Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen 130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California.
Old Washington, D.C. in Early Photographs, 1846-1932 by Robert Reed 224 rare photos: Lincoln's inauguration, Ford's Theater in 1865, Frederick Douglass, Women's Suffrage Parade, Georgetown in 1893, more. Stunning views by Brady, Bishop, Peale, others. Pre-Civil War to modern era.
Eadweard Muybridge: The Father of the Motion Picture by Gordon Hendricks Fascinating, profusely illustrated biography of Muybridge, whose groundbreaking work in photography unfolded against a backdrop of controversy and murder. Details his stormy relationship with Leland Stanford and influence on Remington, Duchamp other artists.
The Male and Female Figure in Motion: 60 Classic Photographic Sequences by Eadweard Muybridge Sixty of the best, most representative sequences from original 5,000 prints. Taken at speeds up to 1/6000th of a second, incredibly precise images show undraped male and female subjects in many activities.
