Visual chronicles of art collections and private homes.
Artbook Press takes pride in creating eloquently written books recording the beauty and history of significant art works and of domestic architecture. Such volumes are rewarding as examples of fine bookmaking, and as a means for sharing enthusiasms of artists and collectors, architects and homeowners.
The photograph at left is by Douglas Sandberg, whom we have retained to guarantee privacy and client ownership of all rights for their books. His work has appeared in major books, art and architectural magazines, and catalogs for leading auction houses.

Aid and Comfort to the Enemy is the story of the 934th Forward Surgical Team's remarkable journey in Iraq during the first and second phases of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Through superb photographs and eloquent diary entries and personal narrative, the unit's orthopedic surgeon provides an intimate view of the lives and events during the early, conventional stage of the war, while examining issues of morality, patriotism and duty.
"At one farmhouse a piece of flying shrapnel from a bombed MIG struck an adolescent boy.... [While] Hal Walker, a flight surgeon, looked after the boy...the various uncles and aunts, the patriarch and matriarch, all seemed like people who only wanted to live their lives.... I'm sure their most pressing concerns involved the welfare of their children - food, water, clothing, shelter and education. They were good people and reminded me of a typical American family."

Robert Jones writes, "In the late '80s I began hitting the road in my beat-up 1977 Toyota, documenting the remnants of a roadside civilization along the old U.S. highways on the East Coast of the United States. I wasn't very familiar with Walker Evans – the great Depression-era photographer – at this point, although I was unconsciously taking photographs similar to his works. Rather, I took my cue from movie directors of the 1980s' depictions of small-town and backroads America: Tim Burton (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure), Robert Harmon (The Hitcher) and David Lynch (Blue Velvet). Instead of a "formal education," I picked up technical advice and darkroom technique by picking the brains of hobbyist shutterbugs, newspaper photographers and photo lab technicians."

Artbook Press has assisted preparation of a new book by the prominent impressionist painter Howard Behrens. Known as a master among American palette knife artists and celebrated with more than 200 one-man shows, Behrens' subjects include sun-drenched coastal areas of the United States, the Caribbean, Mexico, the Italian Riviera, southern France and the Mediterranean. His book features superb reproductions of his finest work, as well as a ground-breaking illustrated index of all Behrens limited editions created since 1980. The Best of Behrens includes a perceptive introduction by Julie Keller, President of Keller Art Services and former editor in chief of Art Business News.