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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955161022Author Julie BlackmonFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius Books

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...

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...

R.J. (Ron) Buckley's photographs illustrate the locomotive scene in Scotland, witnessed across his long career on the railways. This evocative collection of images commemorates the age of steam and reveals the changes wrought across that era, from the...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620522533Author Stan EngelbrechtFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Day One PublishingPublisher Day One Publishing

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...

A comprehensive survey of Arnold Genthe's legendary photography of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fireWhen disaster struck San Francisco on April 18, 1906, photographer Arnold Genthe grabbed a pocket camera and ventured out to document the...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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

Tegel Airport, opened in 1974 in West Berlin, was not only finished under budget and on time but today also remains an impressive work of art. For their design of the terminal, the architects chose the figure of a large hexagon with edges of 120 metres...

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...

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...

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...

San Francisco based photographer Michael Jang spent nearly four decades working as a successful commercial portrait photographer. Unbeknownst to the world, however, he was simultaneously assembling a vast archive of thousands of remarkable images...

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

For over 30 years, Nan Goldin has created photographs that are intimate and compelling: they tell personal stories of relationships, friendships and identity, while chronicling different eras and exposing the passage of time. Eden and After is a new...

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...

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...

A photographic study of the land that served as the main testing site for American nuclear devices for four decadesMore nuclear bombs have been detonated in America than in any other country in the world. Between 1951 and 1992, the Nevada National...

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...