This September edition of CMYK begins with The Art of Charley Harper, a work that offers a retrospective of one of America’s most beloved artists. Next up are a volume looking at the career of Nancy Rexroth, a photographer who came to prominence in the 1970s, and And They Laughed at Me, which covers the early work of Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian. We continue with a look at country house architecture around the world and restaurant architecture in New York during the COVID pandemic before concluding with Designing Imaginative Environments, a guide to creating digital art for the entertainment industry.
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This exquisite new volume presents 148 color plates by the iconic American printmaker, painter, and illustrator Charley Harper. A longtime resident of Cincinnati, Harper developed his “minimal realism” style in the 1940s and 50s, stripping down nature to its essentials in elegant, engaging, vivid designs that breathe life and personality. As an ardent advocate of wildlife conservation and climate activism, Harper is a favorite artist of nature organizations across the United States, including the National Park Service and the Audubon Society, for whom he designed many eye-catching illustrations and posters.
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The first major study of Nancy Rexroth, Secrets of My Power presents an account of her life, work, and career as she established her artistic voice in the experimental 1970s and challenged prevailing approaches to photography. Tracing Rexroth’s career from her first photographs and discovery of the Diana camera to her exploration of digital tools in the early 2000s, this volume presents numerous works which have never previously been made public and places Rexroth’s work in a period associated with Diane Arbus, Francesca Woodman, and the early work of Sally Mann.
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Newsha Tavakolian is an Iranian photographer, visual artist, and educator known for her work that captures the human condition. Her photography focuses on women’s issues and often combines artistry with documentary works, blurring the lines between the real and the imagined. For And They Laughed at Me, Tavakolian has trawled through her archives not to pick her best work, but instead to dig up what she refers to as her “eyesore” photos from the early days of her career, when, at the age of sixteen, she started to work as a photojournalist in Tehran.
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Country houses have long served as places of retreat. Set within forests, fields, or coastal landscapes, they provide refuge and opportunities to reconnect with the rhythms of nature. Images of both new houses and sensitively converted barns and farm buildings demonstrate how contemporary architecture can blend harmoniously with the landscape. Together, the featured projects showcase the diversity of contemporary rural architecture.
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Penny Hardy is a creative director and founder of PS New York, a multidisciplinary design studio, and Pandemic Architecture is a photo essay that captures a singular moment in time when restaurants were forced onto the streets of New York City to survive. Freed from conventional building regulations, a wildly varied landscape of outdoor dining structures emerged. Owners’ personalities, tastes, fantasies, and construction skills were on display in a return to old-school and DIY values.
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Designing Imaginative Environments offers a deep dive into designing imaginative art for the entertainment industry using light, color, composition, and perspective to create landscapes and locations that immerse the viewer. With a mix of theory, tutorials, and insightful anecdotes from his career, author-artist Nathan Fowkes makes this challenging subject accessible for artists of every skill level. Fowkes is a veteran movie industry artist whose credits include The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, and the Shrek franchise.
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| Looking for more visual books? Peruse our Fall 2026 art & design catalogs on Edelweiss and iPage.
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This newsletter was compiled and written by Bill Richter, without the use of AI.
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