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This is the first single-authored book in English on the photographer Claude Cahun, whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. Doy moves beyond standard postmodern approaches, instead repositioning the artist, born Lucy Schwob, in the context of the...

Delve into the lives of owls with this collection of photographs and information by award-winning author and wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela. They are silent and beautiful. They symbolize knowledge and mystery. Owls are among the most popular and...

100 Churches of Venice and the Lagoon is a photographic project started by Merizalde in 2014, alongside a broader body of work that began in the city in 2008. The color photographs in this book document religious temples from every "sestiere" of Venice,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914171496Author Patrick RemyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Edition MennourPublisher Edition Mennour

A taxonomy we didn't know we needed for identifying and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist and photographer Julian Montague. Abandoned shopping carts are everywhere, and yet we know so little about them. Where do they come from? Why are they...

Emotionally resonant photographs of everyday life in the Jewish Lodz Ghetto taken during WWII From 1941 to 1944, the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910-91) was a member of an official team documenting the implementation of Nazi policies in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868285314Author Hans PielerFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 630g

In The Intimacy of Making Swiss French photographer Helene Binet takes us on a visual journey through a world of stone, walls and gardens that define and celebrate the Korean art of making. In pure and calm photographs we discover traditional Korean...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960700449Author Oswald EggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Hartmann BooksPublisher Hartmann Projects

'I may pay rent to a friend for my place in Greensboro, but the South's my landlord; and I'm trapped in its stomach trying to get to its brain. Here, I see butterflies with Confederate flag-grown wings and minstrel vestiges of Daddy Rice collecting dough...

This landmark book offers a synthesis of celebrated Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas's views on her work and the role of the documentary photographer. Through text drawn largely from exclusive interviews with editor Mark Holborn, she offers a...

Our ever-increasing demand for energy, rapidly changing eating habits and rampant consumerism are rapidly leading to the degradation of our planet. Industrial Scars reveals unseen views of the effects of such production on our environment, exposing the...

Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a single-camera system that led the way to cinematography...

Easton's photographs, alongside texts by writer, poet and social researcher Abdul Aziz Hafiz, aim to confront stereotypes and question the dangerous over-simplification of the challenges facing such communities. They do so by presenting the...

This book offers a discovery: for the first time a comprehensive monograph explores the entire oeuvre of photographic artist Jan Groover (1943-2012), whose personal collection in 2017 was transferred to Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne. Published to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994700995Author Marilyn NanceFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Fourthwall BooksPublisher Fourthwall Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869309590Author Chris KillipFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1080g

"Tom's committed career has captured images that will serve as pieces of history for generations to come." - Steve McCurry "... The fascinating images are not only beautiful, they are also a reminder about how important it is to protect our planet's...

Photographer Anders Petersen was hanging out at a dive bar on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in 1968 when someone grabbed his camera from the table where he was sitting and started taking pictures. Petersen used the opportunity to photograph the culprit-and...

David Noton: The Vision analyses, in a detailed and logical progression, the ways in which a successful photograph comes to be, from the formation of an idea to the moment of exposure. David Noton: The Vision explains how a photographer can translate...

"The photographs of William Claxton define the essence of cool." - Jason Ankeny (AllMusic) "Claxton's innovative choices and airy style, which he called 'jazz for your eyes', worked sublimely to document and promote the rise of trumpeter and...

Thatcher’s Children was born out of a series first made in 1992 focusing on two parents and six children living in a hostel for homeless families in Blackpool, England. The project was made in response to a speech by Peter Lilley, then Secretary of State...

With his trusted 35mm camera, Ron Hoffer plunged into the turbulent post-Soviet world of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In a myriad of images, he captured the beauty as well as the daily challenges, friends and strangers alike had to face in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911306191Author Simon RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1520g

Despite Prohibition, the 20s was the decade of jazz, flappers and hip flasks. While some took their vote and joined the Woman s Christian Temperance Movement, others, well, took liberties. Compiled here for the first time are more than 200 publicity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170793Author Peter RichardsonFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

For decades the prominent image of a ballet dancer has been a white body with pale clothing. It took 75 years for American Ballet Theatre to have its first African American female principal dancer, Misty Copeland. When TaKiyah Wallace-McMillian went to...

Today, waste management - especially plastic - on a global scale is more worrying than ever. The Democratic Republic of Congo stands among countries most affected by the lack of accountability of manufacturers relocating and outsourcing huge landfills on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911306481Author Paddy Summer fieldFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914424168Author Stephen MarkesonFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint ArtCircus BooksPublisher YouCaxton Publications

Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) is one of the most important photographers of the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Daughter of the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, she was photographed by Lewis Carroll as a child, along with her close...

This book is a reproduction of an artwork, bearing the same title, by Santu Mofokeng. The work, which is as much a research project as it is a work of art, is comprised of private photographs collected, scanned, and retouched over a number of years by...

Andre Kertesz (1894-1985) was one of the most inventive, influential, and prolific photographers in the medium's history. This small volume, first published in 1971, became one of his signature works. Taken between 1920 and 1970, these photographs...

The Congo Basin in Central Africa harbors approximately one quarter of the world's rainforest. In the heart of this forest is Odzala-Kokoua National Park, an ecological wonderland that is home to untold numbers of rare gorillas, forest elephants, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299663Author Chris MarkerFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 241mm * 27mm

The political collages of John Heartfield (1891-1968) have earned him a reputation as one of the most innovative graphic artists of the Weimar Republic. His photomontages and book covers based on collages which had their origins in Berlin's Dada scene...

An expansive look at portraiture, identity, and inequality as seen in Dorothea Lange's iconic photographs Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) aimed to make pictures that were, in her words, "important and useful." Her decades-long investigation of how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957699816Author Adam DantFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini PressWeight(grams) 285g

Andy Summers, former guitarist and composer of the legendary band The Police, has built a unique photographic body of work to parallel his musical oeuvre. According to Summers, these photographs constitute the mental and visual counterpart of his music,...

Frank Habicht's iconic black-and-white photographs reflect the spirit of the Swinging Sixties in London. After the conservative post-war years followed a period of upheaval, with the younger generation dreaming of an unconstrained life, one full of free...