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Thirty-four American photographers capture urban life across America from the turn of the century to the new millenniumMany of the greatest American photographers of the 20th century have the city at the heart of their oeuvre. With their revolutionary photographic perspectives, they captured the pulsating rhythm of urban life that reflected the country’s larger sociopolitical changes. Framed surveys transforming American cities including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and more, through the lenses of 34 photographers. Thematic chapters explore various aspects of the metropolis: from a case study on images of Harlem to rough sleeping, highways and city planning. The grand finale is Bruce Davidson’s complete Subway Portfolio (1980), 46 scenes from the New York subway system. An index section includes brief biographies of all featured photographers.Artists include: Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Saul Leiter, Ruth Orkin, Alfred Stieglitz, Garry Winogrand.

The volume surveys works by Norwegian painter Lars Elling (born 1966) from 2008 to the present. Elling's paintings are layered narratives told in a fragmented visual language that incorporate allusions to film and photography, sometimes also invoking nostalgia with references to private photo albums.

My Last Pictures presents photographs from Norwegian photographer Rune Johansen (born 1957), whose beloved Hasselblad camera was stolen in 2014. The snapshots of Norwegian life captured by that camera are presented in this monograph, marking the end of an era in his career.

Danish teacher, astrophysicist and amateur photographer Sophus Tromholt (1851–96) is mainly remembered today for his pioneering study of the Northern Lights—and for his striking portraits of the Sámi people in and around Kautokeino, Norway. Known to the locals of Kautokeino as "Násteolmmái," "the Starman," Tromholt abandoned his early attempts to photograph the aurora and instead produced a stunning photographic portfolio including landscape photographs, documentation of traditional Sámi dwellings and objects, and around 50 portraits of Sámi individuals. The portfolio was published in 1883. His photographic archive, held at the University of Bergen Library's Picture Collection, became part of UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2013. This is the first publication devoted solely to Tromholt and his photographic heritage.

This monograph focuses on the abstracted figural stone sculptures of Norwegian sculptor Nico Widerberg (born 1960), which resemble ancient fragments of neolithic objects. The book provides a photographic survey of his works and studio by photographer Trygve Indrelid.

Documenting Horn’s elusive light-based installation along the Norwegian Public Roads Administration Scenic RouteAmerican artist Roni Horn's (born 1955) installation in Havøysund on the coast of Finnmark in northern Norway consists of two cylindrical glass objects that reflect the light back to the spectator. The objects exude silence in a weather-beaten and beautiful corner of the world, where the variations of light constantly create new moods.

Kyllingmark's analog experiments evoke cosmic structures both large and small.Norwegian photographer Erle Kyllingmark (born 1974) works with analog cameras and multiple exposures, whose accumulation merges into one image, expressing patterns found both in the smallest and in the largest structures in the universe.

A unique portrait of Oslo’s new national museum and the people who built it Photographer Ken Opprann has followed the construction of Oslo’s new National Museum, taking over 115,000 photographs documenting all phases of the construction project. Interviews with architects, contractors, subcontractors and construction workers provide a full portrait of the labor involved.

Writers from Edmund de Waal to Judith Schalansky on an acclaimed photography collectionCelebrating the titular collection, Exposed gathers responses to some of its legendary holdings. Included are writers such as Ian Buruma, Jon Fosse, Edmund de Waal and others, on Nan Goldin, Shomei Tomatsu, Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Daido Moriyama and many more.

A conversation across time and space connecting words, images and ceramics from Edmund de Waal and Axel SaltoRenowned artist and writer Edmund de Waal (born 1964) meets acclaimed Danish ceramist Axel Salto (1889–1961), considered one of the greatest masters of 20th-century ceramic art. Salto was a poet and critic, artist and textile designer, whose work—much like de Waal's—plays on the memorial, the expressible and the intangible, and the ability or lack of language to define these feelings. Both men's multifaceted practices interact in harmony in this delicate, thoughtful book. Playing with Fire begins with excerpts from Salto's writings, including poems, design treatises and more, illustrated by archival copies of his publications from the 1930s and 1940s. In the latter part of the book, de Waal responds to Salto's life and legacy in a meditative essay, while we watch him at work in his studio. Admirers of contemporary ceramics or de Waal's bestselling memoir The Hare with the Amber Eyes will be enthralled with this moving publication.

Embedded in the land, Faldbakken's mosaic adds to rather than detracts from this scenic viewpoint in NorwayPublished with Norwegian Scenic Routes.In Rondane, the eighth stop on the Norwegian Scenic Route, artist Matias Faldbakken (born 1973) creates a mosaic work titled Skyldner (Debtor). This documentation of his subtle installation includes an essay by 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Jon Fosse.

“Den” is a cave installation by Mark Dion (born 1961) in the mountains of Norway. Dion installed a sleeping model bear on top of a pile of manmade detritus, allegorically posing the question of whether man or animal dominates the world."

Mirage is an installation by Norwegian artist Marianne Heier (born 1969), consisting of ten identical drinking-water wells equipped with hand pumps and basins. One of the wells is drilled into a mountain in Norway, and nine more are located in Malawi, Africa.

Originating from Oslo, Norway, the architectural and design firm Snøhetta has grown into an international practice, with offices in New York, San Francisco, Innsbruck and Singapore. Among Snøhetta's most influential architectural projects are the Oslo Opera House and their expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This volume explores Snøhetta's humanistic approach to architecture, its transdisciplinary processes and its eclectic oeuvre from 1989 to the present. The 300-page fully illustrated book -- including preliminary drawings, plans, and full-color photographs -- is published in conjunction with a major exhibition of Snøhetta's work at the DAC (Danish Architecture Centre) in Copenhagen.

Norwegian artist Jan Freuchen’s (born 1979) project Columna Translatlantica was commissioned for the National Tourist Routes initiative. Freuchen’s contribution, consisting of elements carved from Italian marble, is placed in the village of Vevang.

Oslo’s Fornebuporten business and residential district boasts its own sculpture park, Imprints, featuring ceramic works by the Norwegian artist and musician Magne Furuholmen (born 1962).Furuholmen has created totemic sculptures of glazed and unglazed ceramic on an incredible scale—the largest is taller than 19 feet high—and arranged them around the site, placing some in freestanding positions and installing some in granite pools. Playing with and against the sleek modern architecture of the surrounding Fornebuporten complex, the artist chose self-consciously archaic forms (like amphorae, columns and sarcophagi) and traditional materials and techniques in developing “Imprints.” The sculptures are covered with words, letters and shapes punched or pushed directly into the material surfaces. Imprints documents this amazing project.

For an exhibition at the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norwegian artist Per Inge Bjørlo (born 1952) presents drawings, sculptures, paintings and installations that explore themes of human despair.

The Security Council Chamber at the UN headquarters in New York is a symbolic meeting point for the international community. It is also a testament to the seriousness and optimism of the years immediately following World War II. Few people, however, know that this celebrated venue was created entirely by Norwegian artists and designers. This book tells, for the first time, the entire history of the 20th century's most remarkable meeting space.

Norwegian journalist Eivind Otto Hjelle (born 1927) tells the story of his friend, German printmaker Rolf Nesch (1893–1975), who fled Nazi Germany in 1933. The scenery, working life and artists such as Edvard Munch in his adopted home of Norway inspired Nesch's expressionist works.

One decade of the world’s leading award for graphic artThis book celebrates 10 years of the HM Queen Sonja Print Award, an international biannual award dedicated to promoting and honoring artists working in contemporary printmaking. Alongside the anniversary portfolio, it presents all recipients of the award from the past decade.

A meditation on a new world-heritage site from one of Norway’s foremost photographic artistsThe work of Norwegian photographer Dag Alveng (born 1953) boasts an exquisite technical quality and often depicts overlooked everyday scenes. His latest project with the Telemark Art Museum documents Norway's latest addition to the UNESCO World Heritage List, Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage (2015).

The multifaceted legacy of the Norwegian Olympian who popularized ice skating in the USNorwegian Olympic figure skater Sonja Henie (1912–69), in addition to being a successful businesswoman and Hollywood actress, was one of Norway’s first women art collectors. This book presents photos and archival materials from Henie’s life alongside new texts exploring her wide-ranging legacy.

A delightful collection of scenic routes across NorwayThis volume guides readers on 18 drives through stunning Norwegian landscapes, featuring various designated architectural and artistic viewpoints. With photographs, drawings and essays, this volume documents an innovative project that melds nature and architecture.

Pop music fans know him as the guitarist and keyboardist of the chart-topping 1980s band a-ha, but Magne Furuholmen (born 1962) has been working as a visual artist for decades, in painting, ceramics, printmaking, film and installation. All of his works suggest roughly drawn visual poems in dismantled letter shapes. This massive volume surveys his most important works.

Norwegian-born painter Kjell Torriset (born 1950) combines fragmented figuration--primarily of nudes--with abstract signs, geometric shapes and words, dispersing them across a groundless backdrop to explore a range of literary, philosophical and art historical themes. This volume provides an overview of his work from the past ten years.

The Nordic World Ski Championship, which takes place over the course of 12 days in Holemnkollen, Norway, is the largest skiing event of the year. In 2011 renowned Norwegian photographer Tom Sandberg (born 1953) documented the proceedings in black and white and color, in his inimitably majestic style. Through Sandberg’s lens, events both off and on the arenas are lifted out of the ordinary. Cross-country skiers look like ballet dancers in the snow; ski jumpers seem to disappear into the crowds; One of Norway’s most important modernist photographers, Sandberg had his first major U.S. show at MoMA PS1 in New York in 2007. Using soft color tones and isolation in the picture frame, Sandberg imbues ordinarily unremarkable objects and scenes with a sense of wonder and mystery.

Norwegian photographer Dag Alveng’s new project, Racing, has allowed him to combine his vocation of photography with his passion for car racing (specifically 1980s Italian motorcars). Alveng’s lustrous black-and-white images of these classic cars and their finely sculpted components reveal them as works of art in themselves.

In 2013, the Serpentine Gallery in London presents Fischli & Weiss’ first public sculpture in the United Kingdom, “Rock on Top of another Rock,” installed in Hyde Park, near the Gallery. This work was undertaken in tandem with the duo’s monumental rock project in Valdresflya, Norway, which was unveiled in the fall of 2012. The latter project was part of a nationwide effort by the National Tourist Routes in Norway, for which internationally renowned artists and architects have been invited to create works that dialogue with the Norwegian landscape, for each of the 18 roads spanning the country. Published to accompany this dual venture, this catalogue features essays by Patrick Frey, John Kelsey and Pernille Albrethsen as well as historical texts selected by the artists.