Best known for her technique of creating photo collages by suturing together images into a grid format, American photographer Masumi Hayashi (1945-2006) trained her lens on Rust Belt landscapes, EPA Superfund sites, Japanese American internment camps from World War Two and decaying prisons.

"In Sweeping Tableaux, photographer Thomas R. Schiff presents, America's most important art museums, using breathtaking photographs that compels us to revisit historic and modern cultural institutions and their storied rooms in a genuinely new light. Schiff skillfully combines his love of photography and architecture and profiles museums of all sizes and stripes across the country, showcasing the country's most stately institutions and newer cutting-edge...

Eugene O. Goldbeck (1891-1986) is best known for his panoramic photographs and technical innovations such as expanding exposure time and shooting onto a large palette with a wide negative. Goldbeck was an active photographer well into his 90s; this book is an essential record in photographic history.