Ilse Bing(1st Edition) Photography Through the Looking Glass by LarisaDryansky, EdwynnHouk, Ilse Bing Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by Harry N. Abrams ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-5546-2, ISBN: 0-8109-5546-6
" While Frankfurt-born Ilse Bing's 1931 Self-Portrait with Leica is an icon of modern photography, her exquisite black-and-white compositions, created mostly during her years in exile in Paris and New York, have not received nearly the attention they deserve. This first-ever monograph of the photographer (1899-1998) dubbed the "Queen of the Leica" is cause for celebration on two counts: Those with an interest in Bing's work now have an a ..."
"Mike Disfarmer is a true American eccentric. Born Mike Meyer, he changed his name to distance himself from both the surrounding farming community of his native Arkansas and from his own kinfolkâclaiming that a tornado had accidentally blown him onto the Meyer family farm as a baby. The son of a German-born Union soldier in the heart of the South, Disfarmer was an agnostic from Lutheran stock among the church-going Baptists and Methodist ..."