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Bennerstrom (b.1949) is an artist who has exhibited consistently in the Pacific Northwest since 1981, and nationally for the past ten years. With this volume readers can savor her stunning pastel paintings in 64 color plates, with three interpretive essays by Updike (an independent art critic) and two other art critics (Rod Slemmons--photography, U. of Washington; and Sarah Clark-Langager, Western Washington U.). c. Book News Inc.

"More than a hundred years ago (1899), photographer Frank Bennett Fiske (1883-1952) began photographing members of the Standing Rock Sioux in his studio at Fort Yates, North Dakota. He was 16 years old when he took over the studio from S.T. Fransler. The men and women Fiske photographed were his friends and neighbors, Native Americans who had lived on the reservation for more than 20 years. Fiske lived there nearly all his life. Made with a large studio camera on glass plate negatives, the resulting images are stunning in their clarity and composition, and have rarely been seen in public and never published in book form until now. Dakota native, photographer and graphic designer Murray Lemley has curated a selection of Fiske's work for the world to see for the first time."--Back cover

"Typologies features the work of nine contemporary artist-photographers. Influenced by issues of structuralism rather than appropriation or fabrication, each artist has focused almost scientifically on recording a very specific genre or type. (Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lynne Cohen, Judy Fiskin, Candida Höfer, Roger Mertin, Thomas Ruff, Edward Ruscha, Thomas Struth)"--Publisher's description.

Sex creates odd cultural conventions everywhere, but nowhere has an institution quite like the Japanese love hotel. To be rented by the hour for amorous liaisons, the theme rooms revealed in this provocative collection of photographs are steeped in fantasy, their elaborate dcor ranging from simulated subway cars to religious bondage with much kink in between. These brash rooms are fascinating in themselves, but also present a window into a very classified aspect of this society. The foreword by best-selling author Natsuo Kirino and passages from hotel guest books lend humor and context to these 80 haunting room portraits, creating an astonishing document of sex and romance, public and private space in Japan.

Published in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London.

Published in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago.