""In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation."--Frederick Sommer This stunning book—published in the artist’s centenary—chronicles the extraordinary life and work of Frederick Sommer (1905–1999). One of the great masters and key innovators in the history of art photography, Sommer was a complex and highly creative individual. His work in photography is unconventional and fascinating for its wide range of methodologies an ..."
Multitude, Solitude(1st Edition) The Photographs of Dave Heath by Keith F. Davis, MichaelTorosian Hardcover, 324 Pages, Published 2015 by Nelson Atkins ISBN-13: 978-0-300-20825-2, ISBN: 0-300-20825-1
"The work of American photographer Dave Heath (b. 1931) stuns with its emotional potency. Exploring themes of loneliness and alienation in modern society, Heath’s photographs depict strangers riding the train, watching a Thanksgiving parade, staring pensively at their dining room table, or kissing on the side of a street. Entirely self-taught, Heath stretches the boundaries of the medium and explores the potential of the photo-narrative— ..."
"Over the past twenty-five years, the internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places where human activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His astonishing large-scale color photographs of the landscapes of mining, quarrying, railcutting, recycling, oil refining, and shipbreaking uncover a stark, almost sublime beauty in the residue of industrial "progress." The implicit soci ..."
Anatomy by MichaelTorosian Paperback, 93 Pages, Published 1993 by Carleton University Art Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-7709-0360-2, ISBN: 0-7709-0360-6
"Bell's essay focuses on Torosian's reference to the work of Stieglitz and Weston in his development of an individual approach to the nude. Torosian pursues several issues, such as the potential and complexity of photography, the nude in 20th-century photography and his own attempt to reconcile its "factious" state."
Black Star The Ryerson University Historical Print Collection of the Black Star Publishing Company : Portfolio Selection and Chronicle of a New York Photo Agency by MichaelTorosian Hardcover, 84 Pages, Published 2013 by Lumiere Press ISBN-13: 978-0-921542-18-6, ISBN: 0-921542-18-6
"The collection is the legacy of both a picture agency and a legion of talented and influential photojournalists."--Page [11]."
Dave Heath(1st Edition) Korea Photographs 1953-1954 by Dave Heath, MichaelTorosian, David Heath Hardcover, 59 Pages, Published 2004 by Lumiere Press ISBN-13: 978-0-921542-13-1, ISBN: 0-921542-13-5
"Korea by Dave Heath
Reviewing an exhibition of Dave Heath's photographs from Korea, Jacob Deschin of the New York Times, wrote, in 1958, "Mr Heath is a relatively new photographer and truly a discovery. His pictures reveal compassion and understanding, penetration and a masterly use of the medium." Heath had photographed his fellow soldiers in the winter of 1953/54--the early months of a tenuous truce--producing a suite of introspectiv ..."
Breast Cancer(Reprint) A Guide to Detection and Multidisciplinary Therapy (Current Clinical Oncology) by Md Michael H. Torosian, Humana Press Paperback, 346 Pages, Published 2010 by Humana Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61737-216-2, ISBN: 1-61737-216-1
"Michael H. Torosian, MD, and a panel of physicians and clinical researchers critically synthesize the wide variety of treatment options available to create a state-of-the-art reference for the management of breast cancer patients. Writing from a multidisciplinary perspective, these authoritative contributors review in the light of the most recent findings the major clinical aspects of breast cancer, including, epidemiology and risk fact ..."
Edward Burtynsky(1st Edition) Residual Landscapes, Limited Edition (with Print) by Burtynsky Edward, MichaelTorosian Hardcover, 51 Pages, Published 2001 by Toronto: Lumiere Press ISBN-13: 978-0-921542-12-4, ISBN: 0-921542-12-7
"First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 20 copies (Second Variant Edition issued for the Charles Cowles Gallery consists of copies numbered 161-180/200), with an original giclée print on Arches paper. The print is mounted in a custom quarter-bound cloth and paper-covered presentation folio. Hardcover. Quarter-bound in black cloth and paper-covered boards with title stamped in gray on cover; with printed, tipped-on label on spi ..."
LEWIS HINE(1st Edition) ELLIS ISLAND - MEMORIES AND MEDITATIONS ON THE LIFE & WORK OF AN AMERICAN ARTIST - LIMITED EDITION WITH TWO GELATIN-SILVER PRINTS by Walter Rosenblum, Lewis Wickes Hine, MichaelTorosian Hardcover, 39 Pages, Published 1995 by Lumiere Press ISBN-13: 978-0-921542-09-4, ISBN: 0-921542-09-7
"A Quartet of Photographs & Contemplations by Aaron Siskind, Orchestrated and Edited by Michael Torosian. With two original silver prints, both portraits of the photographer. Small 4to, gray paper over cloth with a paper title label. One of 190 copies signed by Siskind.
The Siskind Variations presents a series of four monologues (predicated on the examination of four photographs from each decade of the 1940s to the 1970s) in which Siski ..."
Orgeval(1st Edition) A Remembrance of Paul Strand by Naomi Rosenblum, MichaelTorosian Hardcover, 29 Pages, Published 1990 by Lumiere Press ISBN-13: 978-0-921542-05-6, ISBN: 0-921542-05-4
Harlem Gordon Parks. the Artist's Annotations on a City Revisited in Two Classic Photographic Essays. (Homage Volume 8) by Gordon Parks, MichaelTorosian Hardcover, Published 1979 by Lumiere Press ISBN-13: 978-0-921542-10-0, ISBN: 0-921542-10-0