The temperature in New York will drop below 60F tomorrow morning, signaling the Fall edition of DART BookSightings. Following is a select list of upcoming events where you can meet the creators of exceptional illustrated books on photography, art, and design. Please check websites for information.

Left: Photo by Wayne F. Miller, courtesy of Higher Pictures. Center: Jacket, Glamour of the Gods, courtesy of Steidl & Partners. Right: Traveler 46 at Night, 2003; copyright Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz, courtesy Aperture Foundation.

NYC AND BROOKLYN
Wednesday, September 17, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Book signing for McDermott & McGough: An Experience of Amusing Chemistry (Charta 2008). Cheim & Reid, 547 West 25^th Street, NYC. 212-242-7727. Featuring more than 120 images, this volume, released on the occasion of McDermott & McGough's retrospective exhibition at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, examines two decades worth of the team's photographic work.

Thursday, September 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Book signing and opening reception for Barack Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs by Will Steacy, with text by Deborah Willis (Amistad 2008). Leica Gallery, 670 Broadway, Suite 500, NYC. 212-777-3051

Thursday, September 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Book signing and opening reception for Joshua Lutz: Meadowlands (powerHouse 2008). ClampArt, 521-531 West 25th Street, New York, 646-230-0020. Infamously known as a Mafia burial site, the Meadowlands is a 32-square-mile stretch of unreclaimed wilderness just two miles west of Manhattan. What started as a straight-ahead documentary project soon evolved into a compelling portrait of this vast and stunning landscape whose area is quickly dwindling. Exhibition continues through October 18, 2008.

Thursday, September 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Book signing and opening reception for Robert Richfield: A Pivotal Perspective (Alan Klotz 2008). Friday and Saturday, September 19 - 20, book signing continues. Alan Klotz Gallery, 511 West 25^th Street, NYC. 212-741-4764. Richfield has traveled extensively throughout the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and Mexico, producing multiple panel color panorama photographs that often show a full 360º view around his subjects. A limited edition portfolio of 10 prints and a special edition of the book, signed and slip-cased, are also available. Exhibition continues through October 25^th.

Thursday, September 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Book launch and opening reception for Wayne F. Miller 1942 - 1958 (powerHouse 2008). Higher Pictures, 764 Madison Avenue, NYC. 212-249-6100. Born in Chicago in 1918, Wayne F. Miller studied photography at the Art Center School of Los Angeles before joining the United States Navy in 1942. In the two decades following the war, Miller received two Guggenheim fellowships, taught photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago, assisted Edward Steichen on the historic MoMA exhibit, The Family of Man, and served as president of Magnum Photos. The exhibition continues through November 15, 2008.

Sunday, September 21, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm, New York is Book Country. Central Park, along The Mall from the Literary Walk to the Naumberg Bandshell. New York's signature book fair, the harbinger of crisply crackling autumn days that ran along Fifth Avenue for 26 years before literally folding its tents a few years ago, is back. The fair, in a great new location, gives New Yorkers a chance to meet favorite authors and publishers face to face. Please check the website for information.

Thursday, September 25, 6:00 pm, artist's talk and book signing for A Year In Japan by Kate T. Williamson (Princeton Architectural Press 2008). Felissimo Design House, 10 West 56^th Street, NYC. No matter how many anime books you read or films like Lost in Translation that you see, the only way for a Westerner to get to know the real Japan is to become part of it. Kate T. Williamson did just that and offers an artist's insight on some of the lesser-known aspects of the country and the quirkier sides of its culture through her shimmering watercolors and journal-istic prose.
More notable Fall books from PAP:
To Each His Home: Inspired Interiors by Bilyana Dimitrova
Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips
Forecast: Nozone X, edited by Nicholas Blechman

Friday, September 26, 4:00 - 6:00 pm. Book signing for Brooklyn Modern: Modernist Aesthetics Touching the Past (Rizzoli 2008). The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY. 212.604.9074 x123. A conversation between Diana Land, author of Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design and Jonathan Butler, popular voice of Brownstoner blog, on Brooklyn's renaissance and its emerging architecture community.
More notable Fall books from pH:
We Are Experienced: Photographs by Danielle Levitt, with interview by Mark Jacobs
Fifty Photographs by Jessica Lange, with introduction by Patti Smith.
But That's Another Story: A Photographic Retrospective of Milton H. Greene, including an entire chapter devoted to inconic images of Marilyn Monroe.

Friday, September 26, 4:00 - 6:00 pm. Book signing in conjunction with the exhibition, Catherine Opie: American Photographer (Guggenheim Museum 2008). Guggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue at 88^th Street, New York, New York, NY. Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work that explores notions of communal, sexual and cultural identity. From her early portraits of queer subcultures to her expansive urban landscapes, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms by which they are defined. The exhibition continues through January 7, 2009.

Friday, September 26, 6:00 - 7:30 pm. Book signing with Susan Meiselas for Nicaragua June 1978-July 1979 (Aperture 2008) and more. International Center of Photography Museum Store, featuring DJ sets and complimentary wine. Friday admission is by donation from 5:00 - 8:00 pm. International Center of Photography 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, NYC. 212.857.9725. Please check the ICP website for exhibitions, public lectures and upcoming book events including:
October 1, Susan Meiselas lecture: In History
October 3, book signing for New York Dolls, photographs by Bob Gruen
October 10, book signing for Library of Dust by David Maisel
October 17, book signing for Portraits of the Evangelical Ivy League by Jona Frank.

Tuesday, September 30, 6:30 pm, Women in Photography Spotlight. Panel discussion moderated by Laurel Ptak, with Robin Schwartz and Elinor Carucci as well as Cara Philips and Amy Elkins, co-founders of the website Women in Photography. Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Floor, NYC. 212-505-5555. Please check website for other book events and panel discussions including:
Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Parsons the New School for Design, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12^th Street, NYC:
Wednesday, October 15, 7:00 pm, Photography©®^TM. Panel discussion about essential issues of photography and copyright in a digital age.
More notable Fall books from Aperture:
Jonas Bendiksen: The Places We Live with an introduction by Philip Gourevitch
Michael Wolf: The Transparent City, with essays by Geoff Manaugh (Dwell) and Natasha Eagan (MoCP, Chicago).
Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz: Travelers, with short fiction by Jonathan Lethem.

Thursday, October 2, 7:00 pm. Book launch, exhibition opening and prize-giving for White House Redux. Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, NYC. 212-431-5795. Published to coincide with the opening of an exhibition of the competition's results at Storefront, White House Redux - The Book contains a compendium of documentation related to the competition and an overview of the results. It includes texts by Joseph Grima (Storefront) and Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG), a history of the existing White House and 123 selected projects as well as the four winning submissions.

Thursday, October 2, 6:30 pm. Panel discussion and exhibition opening in conjunction with the publication of Architects Draw: Freeing the Hand by Sue Ferguson Gussow (Princeton Architectural Press 2008). The Cooper Union, The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street, NYC. While the practical value of computer-aided drafting and photorealistic modeling are indisputable, you won't find the soul of architecture in the machine. Look instead at an architect's drawing hand. Architects Draw, the inaugural volume of our new Architectural Briefs series, highlights the most fundamental level of design-freehand drawing.

Saturday, October 4, 7:00 pm, artists' talk and book signing in conjunction with the exhibition Gilbert & George (Aperture/Tate Publishing 2007). Legendary British duo Gilbert & George put themselves at the center of their artwork. Identifying as "living sculptures" in art and daily life, they eliminate the distinction between artist and art. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY. 718-501-6331. Please check website for information about free admission on Saturdays, and free tickets for this event, available at 5:00 pm at the Visitor Center.

RESCHEDULED: Wednesday, October 15, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Book signing for The Cosmopolitans by Zubin Shroff (Veenman 2008). Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NYC. 212-387-8520.Through portraiture, the photographer explores the liminal spaces where our rapidly advancing global culture is continually being shaped. In doing so, Schroff questions the notion of cosmopolitanism and challenges the way in which we perceive each other and who we may consider a global citizen.

October 17, 2008 - May 2009: The Printed Picture by Richard Benson (MoMA 2008). MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, NYC. 212-708-9431. Exhibition and educational installation in conjunction with the publication of a book that traces the changing technology of picture making from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the vital role of images in multiple copies. Organized by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator, Department of Photography, and Richard Benson.

Wednesday, October 22, 7:00 pm. Book signing for Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist As A Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon 2008). Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway at 12^th Street, NYC. 212.473.1452.The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form, and how it formed him.

THE WEST
Saturday, September 20, 2008, 6 - 8 pm. Book signing for Havana Before Castro by Peter Moruzzi (Gibbs Smith 2008). La Luz de Jesus, 4633 Hollywood Blvd. 
Los Angeles, CA. 323-666-7667.Through vintage and contemporary photographs, ephemera, and artifacts, this book tells the story of the city that was the most popular exotic destination for Americans during the forty years between World War I and Castro's revolution.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 6:00 pm, artist's talk, book signing and opening reception for Library of Dust by Peter Maisel (Chronicle 2008). Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR. 503-225-0210.
More notable Fall books from Chronicle:
A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart by Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes
Inside Iran by Mark Edward Harris, Foreword by Abbas Kiarostami.

Artist talk with Hank Willis Thomas about his first monograph, Pitch Blackness (Aperture 2008). The talk will feature his highly provocative series B®ANDED, addressing the commodification of African-American male identity. Presented in association with the Aperture West Collaborative Lecture Series.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 7:00 pm. Henry Art Gallery, 15th Avenue NE and NE 41st Street, Seattle, WA, 206-543-2280.
Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:00 pm. Hammer Museum, 1089 Wilshire Blvd. Gallery Six, Los Angeles, CA. 310-443-7000.
Friday, October 3, 2008, 7:30 pm. Photoalliance at San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA. 415-781-8111.

Through October 5, Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation, an exhibition in conjunction with the publication of Glamour of the Gods (Steidl & Partners 2008). Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara CA. 805-963-4364. A survey of Hollywood portraiture from the industry's golden age, the book explores photography's central role in creating and marketing the great stars who embodied the Hollywood mystique. Garbo, Dietrich, Cooper and Bogart are among the famous faces featured and in many cases these are the career defining images of their era.

Monday, October 13, 7:30 pm. Book signing for Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist As A Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon 2008). Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA. 831-429-2399. The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form... and how it formed him.

Friday, Oct. 31, 5:00 - 7:00 pm. Book signing and opening reception for Lee Friedlander: New Mexico (Radius 2008). Andrew Smith Gallery, 203 W. San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, NM. 505-984-1234. Friedlander has been visiting the region since the late 1960s and this new volume of work presents images made between the mid-90s and the present. Exhibition continues through January 15, 2009.