Individual Photographers

Andre Diniz tells the extraordinary story of Mauricio Hora, who lives in one of the most dangerous slums (favelas) in Rio, Brazil. In spite of the odds, Hora has made a name for himself internationally as a photographer. We are led from his challenging...

In some countries, they call them the "abandonados," the abandoned ones. They're the impoverished mentally ill and mentally disabled patients being warehoused in psychiatric asylums that are more run-down, more uncaring than the most brutal American...

Nor Dread Nor Hope Attend. Photographs from the Plains of Africa gathers 65 stunning black and white photographs of the icons of the Kenyan wilderness. This is David Gulden's second monograph and the culmination of seven years work. With his masterful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969000922Author Timothy EastmanFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

Inspired by John Szarkowski's 1973 Looking at Photographs, and paying homage to the concept of the one hundred images and a page of text for each, Stephen Frailey now updates this classic with significant works of photography from early 80s to the...

'These images were taken in last 5 years (some taken in military boarding schools, some in matadors schools, some in Israel) and explore the connection between "youth" and "uniforms" and dress codes: the place of the young individual in the group that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782365111362Author Josef KoudelkaFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Editions Xavier BarralPublisher Editions Xavier Barral

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587507Author Charlotte CoryFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 343g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451094Author Tess TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 80g

Between 1925 and 1938, photographer E.O. Hoppe traveled the length and breadth of Germany, recording people and places at one of the most tumultuous times in the country's history. He photographed movie stars and captains of industry, workers and...

Twenty years ago, Moises Saman was working in Iraq as a photojournalist during the US-led invasion and occupation. Glad Tidings of Benevolence combines his photographs taken during this period and the following years with disparate documentation and...

Werner Mantz (1901-1983) was a prominent architectural and industrial photographer who began his career in the 1920s. His work occupies a unique historical position thanks to his visual language, technical prowess and use of natural light. As one of the...

In a few short years, Isaac Layman (b. 1977) has established himself as an exceptional talent. In Paradise, Layman expands his practice of constructing large-scale, psychologically charged photographic-based visions of the spaces and objects found in his...

British photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black have assembled photographs and documents that confront the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible mechanisms of state control. From George W. Bush's 2001...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857232164Author Simon NjamiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1780g

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal presents a survey of the artist's prolific and extraordinary interdisciplinary career, with a particular focus on the work's relationship to the photographic image and to issues of representation and...

Singapore: small tropical island and dynamic city, where some of Asia's Tallest buildings tower over modest quayside shophouses. Few landscapes, coastlines have been transformed as rapidly as those of Singapore. Seen from the air, the island revealed as...

The first comprehensive book on the surreal, queer and humorous photographic art of Jimmy DeSana, a central figure in New York's art and music scenes of the 1970s and '80s This is the first overview of the work of Jimmy DeSana, a pioneering yet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958297920Author Irene HalsmanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1880g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956510211Author Ray LipscombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 325gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 210mm *...

Just as Andy Warhol: Red Books defined a generation of artists, Big Shots offers a collection of photos that captures the energy of the world of hip-hop and the greater worlds of music and fashion alike. Started as snaps of friends and visitors, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789053309186Author Fred BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint Schilt Publishing b.v.Publisher Schilt Publishing b.v.Weight(grams) 1580g

Over the course of his fifty-year career, American photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958) blazed a path into Photo-Modernism rendering portraits, landscapes, still-lifes and nudes. In 1902, a sixteen-year-old Weston took up photography in Highland Park,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868289220Author Arno Rafael MinkkinenFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587965Author Edmund ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1481g

Paul Strand (1890 - 1976) defined twentieth-century American photography in a prolific career that spanned more than sixty years. His photographs explore the abstract and dynamic qualities found in the natural world, search for humanity in portraits of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793604544Author Gerry BadgerFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Strandberg PublishingPublisher Strandberg PublishingWeight(grams) 1780g

Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku. Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958296985Author Emmanuel IdumaFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 2700g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578639215Author William FrejFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Peyton Wright GalleryPublisher Peyton Wright GalleryWeight(grams) 2650g

Tommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter weaves together self-portraits and classically bucolic landscapes punctuated by the traces of East Asian stories embedded in the topography of the American South. In this first major monograph, featuring almost a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958297456Author Jeurgen TellerFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 280g

Conceived as a retrospective, this book illustrates Kenro Izu's refined artistic research and the work that for over thirty years he has been carrying out, like a tireless pilgrim, in the world's most evocative holy sites: from the Egyptian pyramids and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526488Author Jim MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

This is the first ever retrospective monograph on Sune Jonsson's life work. His imagery is populated by people who appear distant, but who in fact exist only a few decades back in time. Sune Jonsson (1930-2009) spent nearly his entire life working in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047715Author Roswell AngierFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960700487Author Andreas RossFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Hartmann BooksPublisher Hartmann Projects

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527236332Author IRA CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Fulgur PressPublisher Fulgur PressWeight(grams) 1334g

Fans of punk rock and New Wave music will be impressed by this collection of never-before-seen imagesThe first-time release of this private photo collection, Zone's photo memoir will give new insight into what some might see as a saturated field, proving...

A top-rated and critically acclaimed collection, 'Towards the Horizon' won the Alfred Fried Photography Award 2014. Emil Gataullin sees what others overlook. He creates magic out of nothing. From the most banal everyday scenes he manages to form images...