[2] D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers was founded in New York in 1990 (and incorporated in 1992) by Sharon Helgason Gallagher (B.A., Yale University; M.A.

Columbia University), who had previously worked as rights director and managing editor at Abbeville Press.

[4] Gallagher remains the president and publisher of the firm she created with the goal of bringing international art books to North American readers.

[4] One of the firm's publishing imprints is Metropolis Books, which focuses on urban design and architecture.

[4] Recent publications and co-publications include Doug Aitken’s Idea of the West, a reprint of Otto Neurath's The Language of the Global Polis, and Robert Rauschenberg's Photographs.