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From Chocolate Gramophones to MP3s: The History of Sound in Images
The Art of Sound: A Visual History for Audiophiles by Terry Burrows is an illustrated history of recorded sound, from gramophones to the rise of digital.
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A Photographer's Infrared Journey to the Island of the Colorblind
Photographer Sanne de Wilde's The Island of the Colorblind investigates a Pacific atoll where an unusually high percentage of the population has total color blindness.
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A Graphic Designer's Love Letter to the Endangered Signage of Barcelona
Graphic designer Louise Fili photographed the distinctive signage of Barcelona, as a design inspiration, and argument for preservation.
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A Mysterious 17th-Century Artist Who Saw Visions in Firewood's Rings
In What Heaven Looks Like art historian James Elkins imagines the artist behind a series of 17th-century visions painted from the ends of firewood logs.
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If These Books Could Talk, This Is What They’d Say
In a collection of one-page graphic stories, anthropomorphic books and imaginative characters take on God, museums, and identity crises.
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The Stories of 100 Midcentury Chairs
Midcentury modernism continues to inspire our desire to sit on something beautiful and fashionable.
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Stan Brakhage Defines His Filmmaking Practice with Metaphors
Metaphors On Vision, Stan Brakhage’s first book, is highly peculiar for a fully fleshed out credo on cinema, for it contains prose poetry, scripts, script fragments, sketches, and letters.
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A Cartoonist's Dazzling History of NYC
Julia Wertz's new black-and-white book of comics, Tenements, Towers & Trash, is a stirring ode to America’s most densely populated metropolis.
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Literary Luminaries Respond to a Painter's Dark Scenes of Maine
In a new book, fifteen major contemporary authors respond to Linden Frederick's series of nocturnal paintings of small Maine towns.
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Vivian Maier, the Photographer Who Wanted to Go Unobserved
Maier didn’t want people to know where she lived, and often lied about her personal history.
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The Arrest of a Turkish Photographer in the Encroaching Night
Erdoğan’s book Control depicts an imaginary night out in Gazi, one of the most dangerous districts of Istanbul, commonly viewed as an autonomous zone of underground activity.
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The Rise of Paleoart, and the Artist's Role in Our Visions of Dinosaurs
Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980 argues for the art history importance of dinosaur illustrations, as they shape our understanding of this extinct world through the visual culture of the present.