Photography

Laura Wexler presents an incisive analysis of how the first American female photojournalists contributed to a ""doctrine vision"" that reinforced the imperialism and racism of America around the dawn of the 20th century. These women photographers, white...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911374084Author Lasse HoileFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Flood Gallery PublishingPublisher Flood Gallery Publishing

Untitled is the third volume of Diane Arbus's work and the only one devoted exclusively to a single project. The photographs were taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1969 and 1971, in the last years of Arbus's life. Although she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789490800918Author Paul KooikerFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint APEPublisher APE

In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The resultant photo book, The Americans, represents a seminal...

Montana native Gordon Sullivan will take you to postcard-perfect venues in what is arguably America's most photogenic national park. Sullivan is the photographer/author of calendars and coffee table books about Glacier, and here he shares his secrets and...

This project began in America, 2013: authors Erika Z. Figabomba and Alessandra Tisato drove from Nevada to the Bay Area, via San Diego, taking over 10,000 photos of beautiful, powerful women and non-binary people. These photographs do not only celebrate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958296145Author Manfred HeitingFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 3120g

This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC). Paganini analyses the diffusion,...

This searing collection of photographs by LIFE photographer Bob Adelman takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through Americas Civil Rights Movement. These unforgettable photographs of Americas dramatic journey through racial conflicts include...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771001154Author Darren CalabreseFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892363247Author . NaefFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher Getty Trust PublicationsWeight(grams) 264gDimensions(mm) 196mm...

Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he...

City Lust is a timely dialogue between words and images about a crucial moment in our recent history: the apotheosis of globalisation and its current unravelling. In this book, Charlie Koolhaas - an artist, photographer, and writer - takes us to London,...

Alfredo Boulton (1908-1995) is considered one of the most important champions of modern art in Venezuela and a key intellectual of twentieth-century modernism. He was a pioneer of modern photography, an art critic, a researcher and historian of...

These 250 photographs capture Sicilian Ferdinando Scianna's (born 1943) work for young Dolce & Gabbana; portraits of luminaries such as Roland Barthes, Saul Bellow, Jorge Luis Borges, Isabelle Huppert, Milan Kundera and John Lennon; plus his anecdotes of...

Award winning international photographer Robert Herman elevates the practice of street photography in The Phone Book. With the iPhone (TM), he has created compelling images from his travels around the world. Inspired by the new Hipstamatic App (TM), The...

Sale History Tour offers an insight into the fascinating history of this town in Greater Manchester. Author Steven Dickens guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they have changed over...

Nature is full of fleeting wonders. This breathtaking collection of nature photography reveals rare creatures, transports us to distant landscapes, and captures uncommon moments of drama and beauty in the natural world. From a heart-pounding shot of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800991057Author Glan DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

The pickle is a recurring figure in Erwin Wurm's work. In 2008, he created an installation titled 'Selbstportra?t all Gurken' (Self-portrait in pickles). To compose the piece, he emptied a jar of pickles, encapsulating each one with painted resin, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958290976Author Robert AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863949Author Stewart Dean EbersoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 903g

In the acclaimed first edition of Hopper's Places, Gail Levin paired paintings by Edward Hopper with her photographs of the subjects of paintings done in New York and environs, Maine, Gloucester, and Cape Cod to demonstrate how Hopper made art of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789053308622Author Wendy WatrissFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Schilt Publishing b.v.Publisher Schilt Publishing b.v.Weight(grams) 1660g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868289251Author Vladimir AntakiFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500545126Author Brigitte LardinoisFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson LtdWeight(grams) 1179gDimensions(mm)...

In Halldor Laxness' novel Under the Glacier, the protagonist travels from Reykjavik to the mythical volcano at the Snaefellsjoekull glacier, a place in whose shadow "words cease to have even the slightest meaning." This could be a leitmotif for Jurgen...

The race to space between the United States and the Soviet Union captured the popular imagination. On April 12, 1961, the USSR launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on a one-orbit flight, making him the first human in space. Three weeks later, American...

Inspired by the strong and full-of-fire Carolina Herrera woman, Wes Gordon partners with Elizaveta Porodina on painterly images merging bold colors and timeless beauty in a cinematic style. The sophistication and modern femininity of the American...

"In the beginning, there was no real plan, just a road trip that became a journey." In the years 1986 and 1987, Keith Carter and his wife, Patricia, visited one hundred small Texas towns with intriguing names like Diddy Waw Diddy, Elysian Fields, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931885973Author John SchabelFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Twin Palms Publishing,U.S.Publisher Twin Palms Publishing,U.S.

Between 1999 and 2011 David Goldblatt created personal photography in color for the first time. While Goldblatt had employed color extensively in his professional work since 1964, it was only with the new political dispensation and the advances of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788419233318Author Txema SalvansFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SLWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 335mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576877623Author Jessica FerberFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1084g

The Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne, one of the most renowned photography museums in Europe, has awarded the Prix Elysee biannually since 2014. Young photo artists are invited to submit a photo book project with the prize being the realisation of the...

Cabinet cards were America's main format for photographic portraiture throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Standardized at 61/2 x 41/4 inches, they were just large enough to reveal extensive detail, leading to the incorporation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047845Author Thierry GervaisFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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This book is dedicated to Inge Morath (Graz, 1923 - New York, 2002), an exceptional photographer and refined intellectual, as well as the first woman to be admitted to the famous Magnum Photo agency. Over 150 photographs and documents retrace the main...