Photography

In Bloodflowers W. Ian Bourland examines the photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), whose art is a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958292611Author Karine LavalFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 980g

This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket. The backgrounds range from Prague, Paris, Athens, Lahore and countrysides and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958297098Author Thomas SchirmboeckFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1200g

Woking is a mixture of the very old and very new. What is now known as 'Old Woking' was mentioned in the Domesday Book but it now forms a suburb of Woking. The modern town grew up around the Basingstoke Canal and the railways that arrived in the...

Mysterious and often inaccessible, Tibet has been a source of fascination to outsiders for centuries and a troublesome and resistant subject for photographers. Even today, photography of Tibet often remains embroiled in debates about Tibet's past,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561641314Author Kevin M McCarthyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

When the photographer Enzo Barracco decided to mount a photographic expedition to Antarctica, inspired by the example of Sir Ernest Shackleton, he had much more than simple cold to contend with. As the world's last empty continent, the snowy lands of the...

Yorkshire has been at the heart of English history for over 2,000 years and has been shaped by Roman and Viking invaders, the conflict of the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil Wars. With such a wealth of heritage to uncover, 50 Finds from Yorkshire...

Moholy-Nagy's efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as means of artistic design on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The use of artistic instruments is thus radically reformed. The Hungarian artist makes...

Emotionally evocative and painterly in execution, Rocky Schenck's photographs invite viewers to enter an otherworldly realm where reality becomes a dream landscape haunted by paranoia, isolation, longing, beauty, betrayal, fear, humor, and death. The...

Primitive Photography considers the hand-made photographic process in its entirety, showing the reader how to make box-cameras, lenses, paper negatives and salt prints, using inexpensive tools and materials found in most hardware and art-supply stores...

Woking is a rather strange place. The Saxon village of 'Old Woking' appears in the Domesday Book but 'new' Woking is a nineteenth-century town. Over the years, the town has continually reinvented itself. Demolished buildings have been rebuilt and new...

Faversham has always been a hard-working town. Its very name, which was derived from Latin and Old English, means 'the metal workers' village', and in Saxon times the area was a centre for the manufacture of jewellery. Its town market has been in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994529718Author Chris RidgwayFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 585g

True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis) is a chronicle of survival by trailblazing artist Zora J Murff. Murff constructs a manual for coming to terms with the historic and contemporary realities of America's divisive structures of privilege and caste...

The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, an ever more highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the...

A collection of Roger Mayne's intimate street and family photography. This beautiful book reassesses the work of acclaimed British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 2014), famous for his arresting street scenes capturing Britain's post-war youth. It...

Dancing to your favorite band in a sea of 100,000 people under the stars or beneath the clouds, on the grass or in the mud, is an experience like no other. This is freedom: freedom to be moved by the energy of a mass gathering, freedom to dance without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037641217Author Stuart ComerFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415691082Author Jose Ortiz EchagueFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica

An intimate photographic glimpse into the queer world behind the closed doors of modern Japanese society. The latest in a series of beautiful, affordable photo books that look at LGBTQ communities around the world, Edges of the Rainbow is a photographic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682034514Author ,Paul,J. ToussaintFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Amherst MediaPublisher Amherst Media

for Alto solo and SSATB unaccompanied This imaginative setting of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem encourages the use of evocative bird and wind noises to capture the text's natural imagery. In a fresh, a cappella style, Hawley's charismatic...

All fine artists share a common goal: to combine individual elements into a convincing, cohesive whole that tells a story or expresses an intention. Photography is especially suited to this pursuit because the photographer can create multiple, distinct...

No Man's Land is a beguiling collection of sepia-toned natural landscapes pulled from security camera feeds. Marcus DeSieno has sifted through hours of footage from various CCTV cameras to create images that remind us that we are never truly alone...

The successful history of Pierre Angenieux's revolutionary zoom and focus technologies, a world reference in optics for cinema, photography and television. This book presents the history and current challenges of the Angenieux brand, a must in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788836635870Author Paolo MontiFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Silvana EditorialePublisher Silvana EditorialeWeight(grams) 2200gDimensions(mm) 287mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788074371103Author Jiri HankeFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint KantPublisher KantWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 165mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788074370052Author Vladimir BirgusFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint KantPublisher KantWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 231mm * 15mm

Street-walkers, good-time girls, vagabonds, village fools, rastas, pimps, drunken expats, drunken locals, drunken everybody, underpaid guards, overworked bouncers, old-timers, orphans, urchins, beggars, hoodlums, hustlers, grasshopper vendors, all kinds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906803951Author Mihai BarabanceaFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Edition Patrick FreyPublisher Edition Patrick FreyWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526242Author Dagon JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art PressWeight(grams) 1467g

Portraits of families from around the world by this acclaimed documentary photographer. Seventy duotones portray people acclaimed documentary photographer Milton Rogovin met as he traveled the world. These are not glitzy celebrities seen in magazines;...

A testament to the miraculous beings that share our planet and the places that they live, The Wild in You is a deeply-felt creative collaboration between one of our time's best nature photographers and a very talented and creative poet. Inspired by the...

Twenty years ago, before the era of digital cameras, cell phones, Photoshop, and the World Wide Web, Fred Ritchin presciently outlined many of the ways in which the digital age would transform society. His groundbreaking book, In Our Own Image, the first...

In his previous book, Alpine Star, photographer and publisher Ron Jude appropriated and recast a collection of his hometown newspaper photographs as a cryptically humorous meditation on the grey area between personal history and collective memory. Jude's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Minnesota Book Award (History/Biography) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780873515047Author Larry MillettFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Minnesota Historical...

Photographer Nancy Robbins arrived in the Sierra over a decade ago to photograph people in nature. Writer David "Mas" Masumoto draws on his life as an organic fruit farmer in California's Central Valley to explore our connection to the earth. They...

In this remarkable pseudo-documentary and biography, Sara Macel followed her father, a traveling salesman, on his trips across the United States. May the Road Rise Up To Meet You evokes "a feeling of loneliness that is tangible throughout the empty...