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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911306917Author Bruce GildenFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis Publishing

The Colour of Ireland: County by County 1860-1960 is a photographic celebration of the history, culture, people and places that make up a century of life in Ireland. Covering all 32 counties, this beautiful, meticulously researched collection takes a...

Ruth Orkin (1921-1985) was only 17 when she got on her bicycle and began a "bike trip" across the United States in 1939, from Los Angeles to New York. Her crossing and her audacity, quite unusual for the time, aroused the curiosity of people and the...

In contemporary fashion photography, Erik Madigan Heck is something of an anomaly - a very successful anomaly who steers his own path. His work is elegant and unashamedly beautiful, exploring the intersections of fashion, painting and classical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960700937Author Gerbrand BrakkerFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Hartmann BooksPublisher Hartmann Projects

When winter snows cover Iceland in a sea of white, this volcanic island is transformed into an enchanting visual masterpiece that precariously rests on two tectonic plates in the North Atlantic just below the Arctic Circle. Ironically, the white blanket...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068809Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 244mm * 13mm

"By taking a look at themes which span the globe, such as ancient rituals, rites of passage, business, pain, perfection and sacredness, this is a book which manages to encompass what it is to be human." - Amateur Photographer "Astounding" - Aesthetica...

Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (1822-1865) produced over eight hundred photographs during her all-too-brief life. Most of these were portraits of her adolescent daughters. By whisking away the furniture and bric-a-brac common in scenes of upper-class...

Mysterious, introspective, fiercely private, and self-taught, street photographer William Gedney (1932-1989) produced impressive series of images focused on people whose lives were overlooked, hidden, or reduced to stereotypes. He was convinced that...

Social and cultural transition is often hard to gauge. New York in the 1980s and the first half of the '90s was clearly a different place than it is now: the city was more violent, the street stranger, and Times Square still wonderfully sleazy. Andrew...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960700715Author Matthias HarderFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hartmann BooksPublisher Hartmann Projects

World-renowned Rock photographer, one of the originals at Rolling Stone Magazine and its first chief photographer, an author of multiple photographic books, Baron Wolman recently began posting what he calls his "InstaMusicMemories" on Instagram and...

Tibet has suffered extreme political turmoil and upheaval over the last 50 odd years. Occupied in 1950, Red Guards destroyed thousands of official buildings and holy places during the Cultural Revolution, and religious freedom and traditional education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971219588Author Catherine J. MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Forum for Contemporary ArtPublisher Forum for Contemporary Art

The extraordinary fecundity of the photographic medium between the first and second world wars can be persuasively attributed to the dynamic circulation of people, of ideas, of images, and of objects that was a hallmark of that era in Europe and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753304571Author Christopher WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

The art of HR Giger (1940-2014), Swiss-born creator of the legendary monster in Ridley Scott's movie Alien, is currently experiencing a renaissance and is featured in exhibitions as well as in magazines around the globe. This lavish large-format volume...

Keisha Scarville has spent much of her life tracing routes of movement between the Caribbean and America in order to investigate her own lineage. Attempting to understand how notions of belonging and identity are formed and structured, her image-making...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857232751Author Rossella MenegazzoFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783829601313Author Helmut NewtonFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbHPublisher Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH

Bas Meeuws' photographs are of an old-fashioned beauty and at the same time radically contemporary. Flower by flower he composes his still lifes, but digitally: the basis for Meeuws' monumental works are digital photographs of individual flowers. They...

Published for the first time in book form, this startling and intimate collection of late images by the great twentieth-century photographer comprises the series Private Scenes and Letters from Journeys. One of the most important Japanese photographers...

William Helburn was the go-to photographer for many of the top advertising agencies in New York in the 1950s and 1960s. Shock value and an unrelenting hunger for success helped Helburn to a pioneer's share in the revolutionary era of advertising and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912339648Author Dorothea LangeFormat PaperbackImprint MackPublisher Mack

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969991541Author Stefan JensenFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1060g

Winner, Lucie Photo Book Prize / Photography Book of the Year, 2019Recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," Dawoud Bey has created a body of photography that masterfully portrays the contemporary American experience on its own terms and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960700876Author Peter BialobrzeskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hartmann BooksPublisher Hartmann Projects

Anna Reivila (b. 1988, Helsinki) is a land artist and photographer living and working in Porvoo, Finland. In her book Nomad she studies the relationship between humanity and nature by referring to the Japanese bondage tradition. She explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959856652Author GruenholtzFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint SalzgeberPublisher SalzgeberWeight(grams) 1520g

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A Poor Imitation of Death is a complex and collaborative narrative: the youth’s own writings, drawings and words combine with my photographs to create a unique and authentic ‘voice’ that speaks about the realities of youth in prison. It tells a harsh...

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...

Since moving from Amsterdam to the rural Uckermark region in north-eastern Germany, artist Marieken Verheyen has undertaken small sensory expeditions into the fascinating forest areas just a short walk from her atelier. She searches for traces of their...

For more than 25 years, Genevieve de Manio has worked in the world’s finest venues, photographing events in Boston, New York, the Southeastern United States and Europe. A storytelling professional, with a keen photojournalist's eye and warm sensitivity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783961715145Author Olivier FollmiFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Te Neues Publishing CompanyPublisher Te Neues Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 28g

Since her first photographs in the late ’70s, Bettina Rheims has defied the predictable. From her series on Pigalle strippers (1980) to her cycle on the life of Jesus in I.N.R.I. (1998), from Chanel commercials to Gender Studies (2011), her work has...

Bringing the city’s history to life.Internationally renowned photographer Michael Wesely captures time and life in his photographs. In Doubleday, he explores the archaeological dimensions of photography by superimposing his own photographs precisely over...

Archaeoastronomy is a relatively new field of study that examines the astronomical knowledge of prehistoric peoples.These sophisticated sky-watchers cannily created observatories to help them understand the turning points in the year. Knowing when spring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783939583509Author Lisa RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag