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Jews in America: From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage

Stephen D. Corrsin, Amanda Seigel, and Kenneth Benson, The New York Public Library; introduction by Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University

This richly illustrated book tells the fascinating story of the Jewish presence in America, from the earliest expeditions to the New World and the arrival in 1654 of the first group of Jews in the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam (New York). Jonathan D. Sarna’s introduction traces pivotal changes in American Jewish life beginning in the colonial era. The volume draws from The New York Public Library’s remarkable holdings of American Judaica and other key collections, featuring rare books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps, documents, and posters.

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160 pages, with more than 100 illustrations, primarily in color. Published by The New York Public Library in association with D Giles Limited, London., 2012.

Hardcover. $39.00.
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The New York Public Library: A Beaux-Arts Landmark

Ingrid Steffensen

New edition! Revised, updated, and with new illustrations In this lavishly illustrated NYPL classic, art historian Ingrid Steffensen traces the history of Carrère & Hastings’s architectural masterpiece, including the recent restoration of its monumental marble facade and decorative embellishments — fountains, attic figures, and pediment groups — to their original Beaux-Arts glory. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965, The New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street is a defining presence in New York City.Read More ›

64 pages, 80 images, primarily in color. Published by The New York Public Library in association with Scala Publishers Ltd, 2011.

Paperback. $10.95.
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Divas! The Fabulous Photography of Kenn Duncan

Stephen M. Silverman. Foreword by Bette Midler.

For more than 20 years, Kenn Duncan's photographs energized such seminal New York arts publications as After Dark, Dance Magazine, and Opera News. Renowned for his ability to capture the distinctive styles and personalities of his subjects, frequently dancers, he gained widespread acclaim for his gift of celebrating a specific type of performer: the woman whose phenomenal talent and charisma make her more than a star, more than an icon; she is a Diva. Duncan adored the glamorous, larger-than-life personalities that defined American popular culture in the 1970s and 1980s, and they, in turn, adored him. Until his untimely death in 1986, Duncan's camera was like a disco ball illuminating

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228 pages, 150 illustrations in color and black and white. Published by Universe Publishing, a division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., in association with The New York Public Library, 2008.

Hardcover. $35.00.
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Afghanistan or The Perils of Freedom

Photographs by Stephen Dupont; with essays by Stephen Dupont and Jacques Menasche; edited by Stephen C. Pinson

In Afghanistan, award-winning Australian photographer Stephen Dupont has covered everything from civil war and the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s to the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom and the ongoing war on terrorism. This book features selections from his portfolio Afghanistan, 1993-2008, as well as photographs from the series Axe Me Biggie, whose title is a phonetic rendering of the Dari for “Mister, take my picture!”  Dupont made these portraits during the course of one day (March 13, 2006) with a Polaroid camera in a makeshift studio in the streets of Kabul.

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48 pages, Black and white photography throughout. Published by The New York Public Library, 2008.

Paperback. $22.50.
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Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City

Eminent Domain features selections from recent photographic projects by five contemporary New York-based photographers: Thomas Holton's The Lams of Ludlow Street, an empathetic account of one family's daily life in Chinatown and a photographer's personal quest to better understand his own heritage; Bettina Johae's borough edges, nyc, a digital project exploring the edges of the city's five boroughs, which the photographer traversed as a way of "remapping" the supposedly well-known city; Reiner Leist's Window, a series of views taken each day over an 11-year period that capture a slice of Manhattan including One Penn Plaza, Madison Square Garden, and, until September 11, 2001, the

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80 pages, 68 color and black-and-white photographs. Published by The New York Public Library, 2008.

Hardcover. $22.50.
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The Midtown Y Photography Gallery, 1972-1996 Image

Making the Scene: The Midtown Y Photography Gallery, 1972-1996

Stephen C. Pinson

While photographs are exhibited widely today, their acceptance into the mainstream art world has been a long process, periodically fraught with controversy and debate. One of the more recent manifestations of this debate occurred in the late 1970s, when the rise of postmodern theory led to a reevaluation of the medium and a critical scrutiny of the museum's role in the promotion of photography's status. Until recently, less attention has been paid to the role of alternative spaces, particularly those devoted to the exhibition of photography.

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32 pages, black-and-white and color photographs. Published by The New York Public Library, 2007.

Hardcover. $6.00.
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Graphic Modernism from the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935

S. A. Mansbach, with Wojciech Jan Siemaszkiewicz, with an essay by Robert H. Davis, Jr., and Edward Kasinec.

In this visually stunning companion volume to a New York Public Library exhibition, art historian S. A. Mansbach offers an overview of the progressive eastern European graphic artists and writers who, in the first four decades of the 20th century, redefined and reshaped culture and its social meanings as they sought to comprehend and interpret the dynamics of a modern, postwar age. Illustrated in color with more than 50 examples of modernist publications, it includes works on paper by such artists as El Lissitzky, Laszla Moholy-Nagy, Karel Teige, Niklavs Strunke, Victor Brauner, and others, all drawn from the Library's extensive holdings of eastern and southeastern European materials.

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80 pages, 63 illustrations. Published by The New York Public Library, 2007.

Hardcover. $25.00.
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Top Cats: The Life and Times of The New York Public Library Lions

Susan G. Larkin

The magnificent marble lions flanking the entrance to The New York Public Library are familiar and beloved icons for New Yorkers and visitors to the city alike. Modeled by sculptor Edward Clark Potter and carved from pink Tennessee marble by the Piccirilli brothers in 1911, they have endured for nearly a century. Called "New York's most lovable public sculpture" by architecture critic Paul Goldberger, the Lions have witnessed countless parades, have been bedecked with wreaths and crowned with all manner ofheadgear, and have been featured in children's books and The New Yorker.

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80 pages, approximately 90 color and black-and-white images. Published by Pomegranate, 2006.

Hardcover.
This title is out of print.

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Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan

Roger S. Keyes

Ehon--or "picture books"--are part of an incomparable 1,350-year-old Japanese tradition. Created by artists and craftsmen, most ehon also feature essays, poems, or other texts written in beautiful, distinctive calligraphy. They are by nature collaborations: visual artists, calligraphers, writers, and designers join forces with papermakers, binders, block cutters, and printers. The books they create are strikingly beautiful, highly charged microcosms of deep feeling, sharp intensity, and extraordinary intelligence. In this elegant, richly illustrated volume, renowned scholar Roger S. Keyes traces the history and evolution of these remarkable books through seventy key works, including many 

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320 pages, illustrated. Published by University of Washington Press and The New York Public Library, 2006.

Hardcover. $49.95.
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Treasures from the Schomburg Image

Black Art: Treasures from the Schomburg

Artists of the African Diaspora have made monumental contributions to the world of art, producing an influential body of work informed by the black experience.  This book of thirty postcards celebrates the work of artists from Ethiopia, Dahomey (Benin), and Haiti, their names now sadly lost, as well as some Americans who are known worldwide – Hale Woodruff, Augusta Savage, Charles Alston, Archibald Motley Jr. – and others who aren’t but should be. The works reproduced here are all from the collections of the Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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Published by Pomegranate, 2006.

Hardcover. $9.95.
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