Media noted and received.

500 Flowers, photographs by Roger Camp. Dewi Lewis Media/72 pp./[pounds sterling]14.99 (hb).

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa, by Michael Kimmelman. Penguin Books/224 pp./$24.95 (hb).

Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference, by Katarzyna Marciniak. University of Minnesota Press/198 pp./$22.50 (sb).

Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture, by Lisa Gitelman. MIT Press/224 pp./$36.00 (hb).

The Architecture of Aftermath, by Terry Smith. University of Chicago Press/280 pp./$75.00 (hb).

Art After Conceptual Art, edited by Alexander Alberro and Sabeth Buchmann. MIT Press/240 pp./$30.00 (sb).

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Life and Work, by Susanne Lange. MIT Press/248 pp./$65.00 (hb).

The Black House, photographs by Colin Jones. Prestel/120 pp./$60.00 (hb).

C International Photo Magazine: Number Three, edited by Adam Zagajewski. Prestel/316 pp./$85.00 (hb).

The California Tour, directed by Melinda Stone Microcinema International/120 minutes/$19.95 (DVD).

Candida Hofer: Louvre, by Henri Loyrette and Marie-Laure Bernadac. Schirmer/Mosel/48 pp./$39.95 (hb).

Cats, Dogs & Other Rabbits: The Extraordinary World of Harry Whittier Frees, introduction by Sylvie Treille. Dewi Lewis Media/80 pp./[pounds sterling]12.99 (hb).

Cindy Sherman, edited by Johanna Burton. MIT Press/222 pp./$15.95 (sb).

Communities Without Borders: Images and Voices From the World of Migration, by David Bacon. Cornell University Press/248 pp./$59.95 (hb), $29.95 (sb).

Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other Side of Paradise, by Marilyn Cooper and Katherine Plake Hough. Palm Springs Art Museum/64 pp./$20.00 (sb) (exhibition catalog).

Display Devices and Lovely Academic Slaughter Houses by David Finkelstein. Lake Ivan Performance Group/52 minutes/$30.00 (DVD).

The Documentary Film Makers Handbook, by Genevieve Jolliffe and Andrew Zinnes. Continuum/560 pp./[pounds sterling]25.00 (sb).

Georgia O'Keeffe/John Loengard: Paintings and Photographs, edited by Lothar Schrimer. Schirmer/Mosel/80 pp./$29.95 (hb).

Gerrit Engel: Manhattan New York, by Jordan Mejias and Terence Riley. Schirmer/Mosel/344 pp./$99.95 (hb).

Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs, edited by Alice Rose George, Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan, and Charles Traub. Scalo/864 pp./$49.95 (hb).

I Will Never Forget You: Frida Kahlo & Nickolas Muray, by Salomon Grimberg. Chronicle Books/119 pp./$24.95 (sb).

The Impossible David Lynch, by Todd McGowan. Columbia University Press/288 pp./$69.50 (hb), $24.50 (sb).

Islands of Silence: The Photography of Donata Wenders, with essays by Siri Hustvedt and Mark Gisbourne. Prestel/128 pp./$60.00 (hb).

Journey For Peace: His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, photography by Manuel Bauer, text by Matthieu Ricard and Christian Schmidt. Scalo/296 pp./$49.95 (hb).

The Last harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South, photographs by Perry Dilbeck. University of Georgia Press/100 pp./$32.50 (hb).

Lee Balterman's Chicago, essays by Paul Berlanga and Robert Guinan. Stephen Daiter Gallery/67 pp./$25.00 (sb) (exhibition catalog).

Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam, by Suzanne Gauch. University of Minnesota Press/224 pp./$20.00 (sb).

The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text, by Garrett Stewart. University of Chicago Press/300 pp./$65.00 (hb).

Manuel Neri: Artists' Books/The Collaborative Process, by Bruce Nixon. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco/Hudson Hills Press/193 pp./$60.00 (hb).

Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries, by David Carrier. Duke University Press/328 pp./$22.95 (sb).

Neon Boneyard: Las Vegas A-Z, photographs by Judy Natal, essay by Johanna Drucker. University of Chicago Press/88 pp./$30.00 (hb).

Paradiso, photographs by Lorenzo Castore. Dewi Lewis Publishing/120 pp./$45.00 (hb).

Paterson II, photographs by George Tice. Quantuck Lane Press/131 pp./$49.95 (hb).

Photography Now: One Hundred Portfolios. Wright State University Art Galleries/$50.00 (4 DVDs).

Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg, introduction by Katherine Hart. University Press of New England/88 pp./$24.95 (sb).

The Radical Order of Things: Cultural Images of the Post-Soul Era, by Roopali Mukherjee. University of Minnesota Press/272 pp./$20.00 (sb).

Rough Beauty, photographs by Dave Anderson. Dewi Lewis Publishing/120 pp./$40.00 (hb).

Sanctum, photographs by Robert Stivers. Twin Palms Publishers/88 pp./$60.00 (hb).

Still Lives, photographs by Sam Taylor-Wood. Steidl/159 pp./$50.00 (1 hb, 1 sb).

Super Vision, edited by Nicholas Baume. MIT Press/196 pp./$34.95 (hb) (exhibition catalog).

Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl, by Ann M. Wolfe. Center for American Places/132 pp./$32.50 (sb).

This Island Earth, photographs by Andreas Hofer. Steidl/Hauser & Wirth/124 pp./$45.00 (hb).

Transitive Aspects, by Gary Richman. Blue Book Issues/24 pp./$34.00 (sb) (artist's book).

Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back), by Louise Lawler. MIT Press/192 pp./$35.00 (sb).

Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS, by Dawn Ades and Simon Baker. Hayward Gallery/MIT Press/272 pp./$38.00 (sb).

Veronica, photographs by Douglas Holleley. Clarellen/136 pp./$39.99 (sb).

Weeping Mary, photographs by O. Rufus Lovett. University of Texas Press/164 pp./$45.00 (hb).

What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America, by Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonzalez. University of Minnesota Press/288 pp./$19.95 (sb).

Zheng He: Tracing the Epic Voyage of China's Greatest Explorer, photographs by Michael Yamashita. White Star Publishers/504 pp./$39.95 (hb).