Erica Ackerberg

Bookshelves, typewriters, pills and booze: Writing spaces can evoke romance, glamour and despair at once.

“Coming and Going” is the photographer Jim Goldberg’s visual memoir of three generations in his family, from 1980 to today.

Archival photos of children’s reading rooms at the New York Public Library over the years.

Nearly six decades ago, a German-born photographer, Evelyn Hofer, created beautifully crafted shots of the city and its people.

A posthumous release from the famed photographer Ruth Orkin casts a female gaze on subjects both ordinary and iconic.

“Contemporary Art Underground” showcases hundreds of artworks commissioned by the M.T.A., by artists like Alex Katz, Kiki Smith and Vik Muniz.

Taken in the late 1960s and early 1970s, these long hidden photographs by Barbara Ramos have just been published in “A Fearless Eye.”

A new book collects paintings and photos of some of the most familiar names in English literary history.

In the transporting monograph “Tyler Mitchell: Wish This Was Real,” the gifted young photographer traces a path from high fashion to his Georgia roots.

In 10 minutes or less, this mom-and-pop London institution produced stylish snapshots for some of the world’s biggest stars.