Animals

By Arthur Shay

"For thousands of years, humans have pondered the difference between themselves and other animals. "Reason," say some. "Souls," say others. More philosophical folk say, "Taxes." But few can dispute...

Couples: PHOTOGRAPHS

By Arthur Shay, Art Shay

"In the 120 photographs in Couples, Shay shows us couples in love - walking, talking, kissing, embracing, dining, arguing - as well as many other pairings, human and non-human, whose relationship h...

Album for an Age

By Arthur Shay, Art Shay

"In Album for an Age, Mr. Shay puts both his words and his pictures to work. The result is a delightful, entertaining, thoughtful, and sometimes wacky sightseeing tour of many of the major personal...

Chicago's Nelson Algren

By Photographs, Text By Art Shay Foreword By David Mamet

They met in 1949 when Art was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didn’t pick up t...

Troublemakers

By Erik S. Gellman, Art Shay

My Florence

By Art Shay

Like Shaking Hands with God

By Lee Stringer, Daniel Simon, Art Shay, Kurt Vonnegut, Ross Klavan

My Florence

By Art Shay

My Florence is a collection of striking moments drawn from the shared life of renowned Chicago photojournalist ART SHAY and his beloved wife, Florence. By turns casual and glamorous, pensive and hu...

In the Spirit of Homebirth

By Bronwyn Preece

The collection gives voice to those often overlooked in birthing books, including stories from indigenous families, and families from diverse socio-economic classes, religions, and urban and rural...

My Florence

By Art Shay

My Florence is a collection of striking moments drawn from the shared life of renowned Chicago photojournalist ART SHAY and his beloved wife, Florence. By turns casual and glamorous, pensive and hu...