124 b/w illustrations

"Skillfully crafted gleaming white and colored monkeys

the author examines the main types of gardens throughout history: from the humble medieval enclosure as a site for sacred or secular devotions

Jackson Pollock

Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road african american 124 b/w illustrationsAnne Lacoste With an essay by Fred Ritchin In recent years Felice Beato (1832 1909) has come to be recognized as one of the major photographers of the nineteenth century, yet until now there has been no general survey of his singular life and work. Born in Venice, Italy, Beato came of age in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. As a young apprentice in 1856, he photographed the sites of the Crimean War, thereby launching a long and remarkably