This dynamic introduction to the world's greatest photographers from the inception of photography to today bears proof of the magic of the camera. From Félix Nadar to Nan Goldin, each of the photographers featured here represents an important aspect of photography's evolution. The artists are presented in double-page spreads that include reproductions of their most important works, concise biographies, informative sidebars, and a timeline that extends throughout the volume. The result is a fascinating overview of the way photographers continue to push the limits of their genre, offering their audiences new ways of seeing and understanding our world.

A fascinating book for followers of both architecture and photography: the first publication of a project that involved two giants of American arts, photographer Aaron Siskind and architect Louis Sullivan, called the father of modernism, and the creator of the skyscraper. In 1952, while Siskind was teaching at Chicago's Institute of Design, he and his advanced photography students undertook a comprehensive photographic survey of Sullivan's architecture, eventually shooting over 60 buildings. From hundreds of photographs, Siskind composed an exhibit of 126 photographs of 35 buildings by Sullivan, who died in 1924. Siskind's exhibit was a documentation of Sullivan's architecture unlike any other - and one that could never be repeated, because so many of Sullivan's buildings were demolished shortly thereafter. More than 50 years later, the photographs are still fresh: Sullivan's buildings are arrested in their decline, their darkened ornament luminous in Siskind's incomparable compositions. In fine accompanying texts, this book also tells the story of the exhibit, relating the Sullivan project to Siskind's documentary and abstract work and to earlier Sullivan building photographs. The use of architectural photographs was an essential part of early modern architectural exhibits and histories that sought to codify the International Style. Siskind's innovative photographs and equally innovative exhibit installation challenged the opinions of Sullivan and modern architecture by architectural historians at the time. Includes 166 black and white reproductions.

German photographer Achim Lippoth makes pictures of children that are as charming as they are creepy. His sceneries seem filled with perfectly composed calm, but at the same time with an explosive power that must detonate in the next second. Lippoth has received numerous awards, most recently Professional Photographer of the Year 2005 with Loretta Lux.

Wallacavage cut his teeth in photography shooting photos for Thrasher, Skateboard Magazine and later Transworld, Strength and Slap. Ranging from the sublime to the surreal to the silly, his colorful photos quickly began to draw attention outside of the world of skaters.

Explores the human costs and consequences of war in Bosnia, with photographs that illuminate the promises and contradictions of this post-war society. Marked by ethnic cleansing and the worst genocide since World War II, Bosnia has been quiet since the tanks rolled out and the journalists went home.