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An important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themesAlthough pictures of the West have dominated our perception of 19th-century American landscape photography, many photographers were working in the eastern half of the United States during that period. Their pictures, with the exception of Civil War images, have received relatively scant attention. Redressing this imbalance is East of the Mississippi, the first book to focus exclusively on the arresting eastern photographs that helped shape America’s national identity. Celebrating natural wonders such as Niagara Falls and the White Mountains as well as capturing a cultural landscape fundamentally altered by industrialization, these works also documented the impact of war, promoted tourism, and played a role in an emerging environmentalism.  Showcasing more than 180 photographs from 1839 to 1900 in a rich variety of media and formats—from daguerreotypes, salted paper prints, tintypes, cyanotypes, and albumen prints to stereo cards and photograph albums—this volume traces the evolution of eastern landscape photography and introduces the artists who explored this subject. Also considered are the dynamic ties with other media—for instance, between painters and photographers such as the Bierstadt and Moran brothers—and the distinctive development of landscape photography in America.Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Exhibition Schedule:National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.(03/12/17–07/16/17)New Orleans Museum of Art(10/05/17–01/07/18)

A timely reconsideration of the history of photography that places Black studio photographers, and their subjects, at the centerFrom photography’s beginnings in the United States, Black studio photographers operated on the developing edge of popular media to produce affirming portraits for their clients, as well as a wide range of photographic work rooted in their communities. Called to the Camera offers a comprehensive history of this work, from the nineteenth-century daguerreotypes of James Presley Ball to the height of Black studios in the mid-twentieth century, and considers contemporary photographers responding to Black studio traditions today. In addition to showcasing famous photographers such as Ball, James Van Der Zee, and Addison Scurlock, this volume brings attention to dozens of other artists across the country, including Florestine Perrault Collins, Austin Hansen, and Henry Clay Anderson. The book features more than one hundred extraordinary vintage photographs, many of them unique objects and some, like those by the Hooks Brothers Studio, published here for the first time. Highlighting Black subjects on both sides of the camera, Called to the Camera presents a broader and more inclusive history of photography.Distributed for the New Orleans Museum of ArtExhibition Schedule:New Orleans Museum of Art(September 15, 2022–January 8, 2023)

A career retrospective of a singular voice in contemporary American art, featuring six decades of artwork that chronicles his vision of the Black American experience New Orleans–based artist, community organizer, and cultural provocateur Willie Birch (b. 1942) has dedicated his career to storytelling. His incisive work across a wide variety of media—including paintings, large-scale drawings, wood and papier-mâché sculpture, and public works—explores his unique vision of Black America and draws on sources as diverse as Egyptian numerology, American folk art, and jazz music. This book showcases more than one hundred of Birch’s artworks alongside essays by eminent scholars and curators. Russell Lord provides an introduction to the artist’s life and work; Lowery Stokes Sims writes about Birch’s use of papier-mâché, for which he garnered acclaim during his time in New York City, and situates Birch within the New York art scene of the 1980s and ’90s; Grace Deveney considers the ways Birch gives visual form to the complex relationship between Black Americans and mass media; and Leslie King Hammond discusses how the city of New Orleans—its history and its communities—has shaped Birch’s work. Published in association with the American Federation of Arts Exhibition Schedule: California African American Museum, Los AngelesMay 5–October 4, 2026 New Orleans Museum of ArtMarch 20–September 5, 2027 Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, University of North FloridaOctober 28, 2027–May 14, 2028 Hudson River MuseumSeptember 22, 2028–January 14, 2029

Teachers should constantly be engaged in the art of teaching - applying confirmed knowledge and theory to ever-changing situations, solving unique challenges in real-time contexts.Human Development in Education increases readers' factual knowledge, theoretical sophistication, and insight about instruction. This text will serve as a value-added function. Human Development in Education Features:Chapter OutlinesKey terms bold throughout and reinforced at the end of chaptersChapters contain Scenarios designed to guide the reader with further thinking