Leah Bendavid-Val

A treasury of 350 full-color photographs from the archives of the National Geographic shares a stunning array of work, reflecting the themes of The Land, Underwater, Science, The United States, and The World--by some of the world's finest photographers. 50,000 first printing.

The Photographs

National Geographic

Song Without Words. The Photographs and Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy

This book is a revealing portrait of two countries, embodying the fantasies, ideals, and grim realities of an era. But this book is also about today, about how we get information and arrive at opinions about our own times.

Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US

Propaganda & Dreams

Filled with unforgettable images of Siberia's people and landscape, this fascinating, panoramic book reflects its subject's rich and complex culture. The word Siberia brings to mind a series of extremes--vast, bleak, harsh, alluring, wild, and beautiful. Our imagined notion of this largely unknown territory is so strong that the name itself has become a metaphor for things remote or undesirable. The reality, however, is that Siberia surpasses any singular idea. Not only does it span numerous time zones and feature enormously varied geography, but its inhabitants range from nomads herding reindeer and shamans communing with spirits to scientists in state-of-the-art laboratories and urbanites surrounded by boutiques, museums, and opera houses. Spanning some 130 years, this collection of images by more than 50 Russian photographers conveys as never before Siberia's enormity and diversity while bringing the region into concrete, human focus. It draws from rarely visited collections in Russian museums as well as the work of established and emerging photographers. This beautiful volume is at once a groundbreaking photographic event and a sublime introduction to one of Earth's most intriguing places.

In the Eyes of Russian Photographers

Siberia

Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡

Spanning from 1885 to 1910, a collection of never-before-seen personal photographs and journals offers an intimate journey inside the lives of Countess Sophia Tolstoy and her famous husband, Leo, and brings to life the glittering world of literary Russia on the eve of World War I and the Russian Revolution. 50,000 first printing.

The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy

Song Without Words

This landmark book which is the inspiration for and companion to the exhibition of the same name will feature the work of thirty-eight of the Soviet Union'sfinest photographers. Bendavid-Val writes that the new photographers are searching for truth and in so doing are redefining reality. 123 black-and-white photographs.

Recent Soviet Photography

Changing Reality

Two hundred color and black-and-white photographs spanning nearly a century showcase the stellar careers of four legendary National Geographic photographers who created a visual record of the history, science, culture, and people of an era, in a volume celebrating the work of Maynard Owen Williams, Volkmar Wentzel, Luis Marden, and Thomas Abercrombie. 15,000 first printing.

Leah Bendavid-Val

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