The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume "Air Guitar" trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops and hot-rod stores, as restlessly on the move as the America they dep[...]

This updated and expanded collection spans the career of renowned American photographer Michael Childers, including many photographs published for the first time. Working mostly with black-and-white film, Childers has captured the icons and legends of popular culture and the art world for decades. H[...]

Los Angeles painter Albert Contreras (born 1933) first won public acclaim in the early 1960s, with monochrome paintings featuring a central disc motif. By the early 1970s, with the "dematerialization of art" in the air, Contreras' pursuit of extreme reduction led him to cease painting altogether, an[...]

David Levinthal, a central figure in American postmodern photography, has staged tableaux using toys and miniature dioramas for nearly 40 years. This book features his photo series on the subject of war: Hitler Moves East (1975-77); Wild West (1987-89); Mein Kampf (1993-94); I.E.D.(2008), among othe[...]