ABC Picture book. Patience Mason finds Litter Critters hiding in the woodlands wherever she goes. The Critters, made from acorns to pinecones to thistledown come to life on their way to watch the sunset at the shady river in their Woodland home. As these natural and impish figures gather to watch the sunset, young readers are introduced to the alphabet. The Litter Critters were made by Patience Mason, photographed in acton by Robert Mason. 8.5"x11," 32 pages, hardbound. Patience Press.

Volume Q of Matador is entirely devoted to photography and pays tribute to one of the greatest photoeditors in history: Robert Pledge, founder of the renowned agency Contact Press Images. Pledge selected for this issue 12 spectacular works by photographers such as Sebastiao Salgado, Catherine Leroy, Edward Burtynsky, Stephen Dupont, Annie Leibovitz and Sammy Baloji. Alongside these works, Matador Q presents a sketchbook by Joan Fontcuberta which includes 14 unpublished photographs from the Gastropoda series.

Hi, my name is Malik Frank and I was born to be a Digital Media Artist. As a kid, when I was 5 years old, my kindergarten teacher told my parents that I would never be able to function as a normal child and that I will be incapable to do anything. My mom cried a river because she thought the world was over for me. However, my dad was determined to make sure that I'll be successful no matter what. So, as my dad learned different ways on how to teach me, he noticed that I can learn things through pictures. My dad noticed that I loved cameras because I would always talk about them. I took great pictures and showed a passion for it. My dad helped me to make sure that I would be successful as a Digital Media Artist. He helped me with my craft of using a professional camera by learning how to better enhance my eye, looking at artwork, and helping me with my classes using cue cards. As a result of the skills I've developed, he assisted with making those connections over the years of being at High School of Graphic Communication Arts, that would help me achieve. Today, I am a successful Teen Digital Media Artist who is determined to begin the greatest journey of my life Throughout this book, I will display photos over the years of being a high school student, creating my imagination on camera and turning my photos into a masterpiece.

This series of portraits by Isaac Hernandez honors social, cultural and sustainability leaders, ranging from community activists to internationally known figures. They share a universal drive to make a difference, with unique expressions. These portraits, an ongoing passion project spanning more than a decade, were taken to accompany published interviews with these fascinating champions. This collection of inspiring leaders is an open and expanding investigation of contribution, an offering to acknowledge the possibly infinite. Ordinary people accomplish the extraordinary, including those who formed an integral core for the birth of a global movement: Selma Rubin, Paul Rellis, Marc McGinnes, and Bud Bottoms, who participated to launch Earth Day in Santa Barbara, protect the last stretch of empty coastline in California (the Gaviota Coast), develop the concept and study of environmental law, and create a host of nonprofits. These sustainability pioneers share pages with leaders like Andy Lipkis (TreePeople), Michael Pollan (author, Food Rules), Sylvia Earle (oceanographer), Paul Erlich (author The Dominant Animal), Roberta Salazar (Birds and Rivers), and Harold Powell (Telios Environmental), as well as better known personalities, like authors Amy Tan, Isabel Allende, and Gore Vidal, actors Javier Bardem, Antonio Banderas and Will Smith, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Momazine takes you through Spring with beautiful spring photo-shoots, vintage hollywood, farm to table, taking time for family, teaching gratefulness and more.

The Texas hot rod scene encompasses the exhaust, speed, rust, and chrome beloved not just by greasers and gearheads but also by families and pinup girls, bikers and rockabilly dolls, rockers and regular Joes. The Lonestar Rod & Kustom Round Up, one of America's premier car shows, attracts hot rod and custom car fans from around the world, bringing them to Austin every spring. George Brainard began photographing the Round Up in 2003 on behalf of the show hosts, The Kontinentals Car Club. Finding himself interested as much in the crowd and the culture as in the cars, he began taking pictures of people at the show. All Tore Up presents portraits of these people, who are as distinctive as the cars they love. As Brainard observes, "Hot rods and customized cars are works of art. You take an old car, cut it into pieces, and put it back together following your own vision. You bring something to life that previously existed only in your imagination." The people who do this "are drawn to aesthetic expression, and they materialize it in their own selves, their clothes, and their bodies." Allowing his subjects to pose themselves against a plain white background and write their own captions for their photographs, Brainard cuts through the visual spectacle of the car show and finds the essence of the people who are a part of it, capturing a fascinating pop subculture of American life.

Another volume in the series of the Soper kids. Lots of fun moments in full color.

This is a stunning overview of more than 20 years of images from noted jazz photographer Esther Cidoncha. Esther Cidoncha's camera has been present in jazz clubs around the world - from New Orleans to Madrid, New York to London - for more than twenty years. Capturing the heart and soul of not only the countless jazz musicians she has seen, but of jazz itself. When Lights are Low (which takes its name from a track by Art Blakey) presents a magnificently illustrated overview of her work in chronological order, from the early 1990s to the present day, with rare photographs of jazz legends such as Art Farmer, Kenny Barron, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton or Joe Lovano among more than 150 musicians.

Axle Contemporary has assembled an exhibition which includes many of the most compelling photographers working now in New Mexico. The participants include photographers known for diverse genres: Landscape, portraiture, architectural, commercial, fashion, environmental, conceptual, journalism, abstract, and wedding photography. We've invited these artists to exhibit works of self-portraiture. Process ranges from 8x10 view cameras to smartphone photos, from split-toned waxed callotype to digitally manipulated inkjet prints, collage, and monoprinting. For many of the artists, this exhibition has provided an opportunity for experimentation and reflection, outside of the artist's established oeuvre. The result is a rich portrait of a community of artists-photographers working in New Mexico at this time, by the photographers themselves. Photographers are: V. Amore, Henry Aragoncillo, Laurie Archer, Phillip Augustin, Brad Bealmear, Jonathan Blaustein, Gay Block, Iscah Hunsden Carey, Matthew Chase-Daniel, Carola Clift, William Clift, Eric Cousineau, Guy Cross, Ungelbah Davilla, Antone Dolezal, Dianne Duenzl, Jennifer Esperanza, Steve Fitch, Patricia Galagan, Kirk Gittings, Lydia Gonzales, Sondra Goodwin, Meggan Gould, Lauren Greenwald, James Hart, Sol Hill, Megan Jacobs, Jen Judge, David Michael Kennedy, Lisa Law, Willis F. Lee, Louis Leray, Patti Levey, Tamara Lichtenstein, Herbert Lotz, Jessamyn Lovell, Richard Lowenberg, Helen Maringer, Gabriella Marks, Elliot McDowell, Nick Merrick, Philip Metcalf, Lia Moldovan, Duane Monczewski, Delilah Montoya, Sarah Moore, Jonathan Morse, Joseph Mougel, Teresa Neptune, Nic Nicosia, Clay Peres, Jane Phillips, Daniel Quat, Dave Reichert, Meridel Rubenstein, Janet Russek, Kate Russell, Ward Russell, Tara Raye Russo, Key Sanders, Celia Luz Santos, Suzanne Sbarge, David Scheinbaum, Jennifer Schlesinger Hanson, Andrea Senutovitch, Frances Seward, Laura Shields, Brandon Soder, Catie Soldan, Nancy Sutor, Anne Staveley, Sharon Stewart, Jamey Stillings, Robert Stivers, Dianne Stromberg, Jim Stone, Martin Stupich, Carrie Tafoya, Laurie Tumer, Lisa Tyrrell, Marion Wasserman, Melanie West, Will Wilson, Baron Wolman, Francesca Yorke, Joan Zalenski, and Zoe Zimmerman. Introduction by Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Type 42 presents 120 works from an extraordinary archive of work by an anonymous artist. The archive is composed of black-and-white polaroids showing headshots and close-ups of actresses taken from the television screen beginning in the late 1960s. They are mainly distorted, slightly blurry and occasionally pixelated, but a strong emphasis on the science fiction or B-movie genres pervades. In some of the photographs the television screen can be seen as a framing device, but for the most part the television's borders are absent from the picture - one of the many remarkable aesthetics of this collection.'Type 42' refers to the type of Polaroid film used. The entire body of work was found intact in New York in 2012 by artist Jason Brinkerhoff; his attempts to trace the origins of the polaroids have remained unsuccessful.All but a handful are inscribed. In most cases the name of the actress is written across the bottom of the photograph; in some cases the title of the film or TV series she appears in is written across the top of the photograph; and in a few cases both sets of information are written on top and bottom accordingly. There are also 31 photographs where the artist has written the women's measurements across the top along with her name across the bottom.

Whether you are a visitor or a resident, Pittsburgh celebrates families. You can take boat rides on the three rivers -- or tour the city on a trolley or duck. You can take the Duquesne Incline to see the Golden Triangle from atop Mt. Washington. There's North and South Park and all kinds of sporting facilities. You can enjoy the many different area libraries. There are theaters and farms designed to educate and entertain kids. Pittsburgh is home to the National Aviary and a great zoo. There are bridges, bridges, and bridges There's the Heinz History Center and the Carnegie Museum of Natural Sciences (dinosaur bones). You can play at the Carnegie Science Center and the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. "Fun Days in Pittsburgh" is a picture book of Pat McGrath Avery's glorious photos of Pittsburgh aimed at children and the adults that love them.

Today the use of photography (and its extension, video) in psychiatry is a common practice. But in the 1850s, when pioneering medical photographer and psychiatrist Dr. Hugh W. Diamond was behind the camera, this technique was an innovative application of art to science, reflecting and expanding the contemporary interest in physiognomic characteristics. In "The Face of Madness," notable scholar Sander Gilman has curated a unique exhibition of 54 of Dr. Diamond's photographs and commentary.

Diamond's photographs are eloquent portraits of the insane-the melancholy, the depressed, the deranged, the alcoholic-whom he cared for at the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum. In addition to their psychiatric significance, these photographs are notable works of art since Diamond was a pioneer in experimenting with and refining photographic techniques.

Diamond's paper "On the Application of Photography to the Physiognomic and Mental Phenomena of Insanity," is included in this printing. This discourse discloses three functions of photography which are still relevant to the practice of psychiatry today: Photography can record the appearance of the mentally ill for study; it can be used for treatment through the presentation of an accurate self-image; and it can record the visages of patients to facilitate identification in case of later readmission.

In addition to Diamond's paper, notes and analysis by Dr. John Conolly are also included in this volume. Dr. Conolly, one of Dr. Diamond's associates, was widely considered to be the leading British psychiatrist of the mid-nineteenth century. His patient case studies accompany 17 of Diamond's photographs. These reports include clinical information as well as diagnoses based on the theories of the physiognomy of insanity accepted at that period.

"The Face of Madness" is a book to be treasured not only by psychiatrists, but also by photographers and medical historians. As Eric T. Carlson writes in the Introduction: "Until now these photographs have been known only through the sketches made from them. Professor Gilman has performed a great service in locating them and by giving us their history."

Sander L. Gilman, PhD, is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A respected educator, he has served as Old Dominion Visiting Professor of English at Princeton; Northrop Frye Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto; Mellon Visiting Professor of Humanities at Tulane University; Goldwin Smith Professor of Humane Studies at Cornell University; and Professor of the History of Psychiatry at Cornell Medical College. He has written and edited several books including "Sexuality: An Illustrated History" and "Seeing the Insane."