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From classics to contemporary standouts, these volumes illuminate the paradoxes and possibilities of life in the United States.

Beyond her innovations in Surrealist dress, Elsa Schiaparelli was perhaps the first designer to fully grasp how the camera could extend and refine the visual language of couture.

The thousands of amateur photographs in the Beijing Silvermine archive trace daily life in China before the ascendance of social media.

For more than half a century, the legendary Japanese photographer has explored how time etches its mark on everyday objects and surfaces.