Masterworks of Modern Photography 1900–1940: The Thomas Walther Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Masterworks of Modern Photography 1900–1940: The Thomas Walther Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

by Sarah Hermanson Meister

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Our most recommended books

My Journey as a Witness by Shahidul Alam

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Soweto by Peter Magubane

Still Life With A Bridle by Zbigniew Herbert

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My Journey as a Witness
by Shahidul Alam

Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets
by J. D. McClatchy

Ba-ra-kei
by Eikoh Hosoe

The London County Council Bomb Maps
by Laurence Ward

Soweto
by Peter Magubane

Still Life With A Bridle
by Zbigniew Herbert