Lauded by photographers, artists, and critics for his influence on the contemporary generation of art photographers, James Welling has created beautiful and uncompromising photographs for over thirty-five years. This book provides thorough presentation of the artists work to date.

Over a period of fifteen years the author travelled across America and took portrait photographs that form an interpretive sampling of what Americans looked like at the century's end. In this book, the author's subjects are uncannily normal: a banker having an evening meal, a teenager collecting shopping carts in a parking lot, among others.

David LaChapelle imagery has the ability no only to attract our gaze with seductive and remarkable bodies, settings and objects in every conceivable and inconceivable constellation. This title tells his story, stretching from the early 1980s to 2012. It reflects his entire oeuvre.

By establishing a dialectic between the testimonies of several generations of blind people and the photographs taken by her on the basis on these accounts, this book offers readers a reflection on absence, on the loss of one sense and the compensation of another, on the notion of the visible and the invisible.