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Play draws exclusively on Rankin s archive of photographs of the biggest names in contemporary music from the rock gods who shaped our musical landscape to the British Invasion of the 1990s and the American superstars who mix music and production to...

Pittman was not just an observer but was an active participant in the places and events that shaped pop culture as we know it the goings on at Andy Warhol s Factory, the women s liberation movements of the 1970s, the VIP room at Studio 54, and the...

The seminal volume on body painting and adornment by the world's preeminent photographers of African culture. Following the international masterpiece Africa Adorned, Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have focused on the traditions of body painting...

The United States has been shaped by mobility like no other nation on Earth. The automobile made possible almost limitless development, but there was a dark side: ghost towns and deserted regions emerged due to economic crises, cultural shifts, and...

Few forces in New York hip hop proved as historically important with past, present, and future fandom than the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC. While they burst onto the music scene and crossed over from hip hop to the mainstream in the 1980s, their popularity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447776Author Nicholas MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

A photograph lives in multiple eras at once: the time of its making, the time of its unveiling, the time of its subsequent rediscovery. -Rebecca Bengal In Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists, Rebecca Bengal considers the...

George Hurrell (1904-1992) was the creator of the Hollywood glamour portrait, the maverick artist who captured movie stars of the most exalted era in Hollywood history with bold contrast and seductive poses. This lavishly illustrated book spans Hurrell's...

The world in bold; Newfoundland in abstract."It is the landscape that endures, it is the landscape that remains in control." -- Ned PrattWith Ned Pratt, there is no nostalgia, no romance, no theatre. His interest in the Newfoundland landscape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566411Author Christian ReisterFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045773Author Clement CherouxFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451124Author Roxana MarcociFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 900g

The South of France in the Golden 1950s. The sun is shining and palm trees cast jagged shadows on a polished motor purring up the drive to the Grand Hotel. Irish photographer Edward Quinn delighted in these scenes of Cote d'Azur splendour. Like no other,...

Photography and Collaboration offers a fresh perspective on existing debates in art photography and on the act of photography in general. Unlike conventional accounts that celebrate individual photographers and their personal visions, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566442Author Polly BradenFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Post-war Paris brought a blossoming of culture and thought. The Nouvelle Vague transformed French cinema, young couturiers reinvigorated French fashion, existentialism flourished in literature and philosophy, and the city swung and swayed to a vibrant...

Still Life Photography reveals the aesthetic characteristics of what everyday people see, use and eat. It is a stark and relentless display of normality, embracing the unappreciated or negative. All aspects of ordinary life are re-discovered and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956648778Author Tony NourmandFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art PressWeight(grams) 2086g

Lieven Lefere ( Degrees1978, Roeselare) is an artist who plays with the complex relationship between the photographic image and reality. Lefere works extremely meticulously, in a particularly slow process. He carefully manipulates all the parameters that...

Photographer Serge Anton has been travelling the world for over 30 years. Emotions collects the 'character heads' that he photographed during his countless trips to Africa and Asia. Since the success of his Faces book he has made many more and has added...

The work Ratio consists of 117 images featuring the same number of naked men and women photographed from behind. Bram Van Stappen made the series as part of the exhibition Back, organised in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2021. Over six weeks, the photographer set...

Summer Blue is a field exploration. The setting is summer, the feeling is blue. Peter H. Waterschoot works his way around romantic scenery using l'heure bleue and blue neon, turning the real into the unreal. More and more exotics pop up, the aesthetic...

Mark Rietveld (1969-2022) was known in Antwerp for his photography in which he photographed the underground music scene and art world. At concerts, Mark paid equal attention to what was happening on the periphery of the stage, his camera unobtrusively at...

Watching the River Run, A Photographic Journey Down the Youghiogheny, is the perfect photographic companion to Palmer's classic Youghiogheny, Appalachian RiverBook InformationISBN 9780822948414Author Tim PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint...

In this volume of The Photography Workshop Series, Vik Muniz-known for his playful pictures that complicate what is understood as a photograph, sculpture, and painting-offers his insight into thinking creatively and seeing the familiar in new and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648818502Author Jason EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 411Imprint Bio ImagesPublisher Bio Images

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492841981Author Gabriele BasilicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica

"The dense hermeticism in Eyre's vision generates a fascinating journey for the viewer, rewarded with a glimpse into a very complex psyche. A magnificent body of work." Canadian Art Known for the theatricality of her self-portraits and the doubles...

"Erich Hackl's subjects are all actual events, fates and biographies. Often with considerable research and effort, he digs deep into the histories of people whose destiny very often have to do with Nazism and / or with Judaism. In his new collection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868284188Author Amy ChuaFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 244mm * 15mm

The follow-up to the successful Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, this book and its evocative blend of photographs and ghost stories will attract anyone drawn to the paranormal, whether in literature, television, or film. "When I was between the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868281927Author Bill KouwenhovenFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 999g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868281187Author Maziar MoradiFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 768g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868282153Author Taj ForerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 663g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772761764Author MR Joe ChowaniecFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.Publisher MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc...

A book-length essay about photography's unique ability to ease the ache of human mortality Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens, Marilynne Robinson and other poets, artists, musicians and thinkers, Brooklyn-based photographer Tim Carpenter (born...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771089432Author Len WaggFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Nimbus Publishing LimitedPublisher Nimbus Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World is a vintage classic that pairs passages by writer Henry David Thoreau with images by photographer Eliot Porter. Ahead of its time, this bestselling-and long-out-of-print-classic monograph was first...

David Levi Strauss is a writer whose visual and intellectual sensibilities are both acute and expansive. His trenchant writings on photography and photographers have been collected for this volume from a broad range of magazines, including Aperture,...

How a generation of women artists is transforming photography with analogue techniques. Beginning in the 1990s, a series of major artists imagined the expansion of photography, intensifying its ideas and effects while abandoning many of its former...