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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...

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...

"I'm just passing through," Milton Gendel liked to say whenever anybody asked him what he was doing in Rome. Even after seven decades in the Eternal City, from his arrival as a Fulbright Scholar in 1949 until his death in 2018 at the age of ninety-nine,...

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

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...

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 9783969991541Author Stefan JensenFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1060g

An accessible monograph on the work of David Seymour (1911-56), the Polish-born American photojournalist, who used his camera to record the political upheavals and social change of the 1930s. Known by his pseudonym, Chim, Seymour was a practitioner of...

Accompanying the artist's first major US overview in 15 years, this volume celebrates over four decades of Wall's uncanny everyday dramas Vancouver-based artist Jeff Wall (born 1946) has been making arresting, conceptually and politically complex...

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...

The photographs in Hong Kong After Hong Kong are Chung-Wai’s visual lament for the city. They show the city’s contradictions—the co-existence of urban infrastructure and nature, the ancient and contemporary, and both the artificial and natural light of...

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...

"Jerry makes it look so easy. Every time I open this book, my camera gets heavier." — Daniel Arnold Legendary skateboarder and artist Jerry Hsu started his blog NAZI GOLD in 2009 as a repository for the cell phone photos he’d been collecting alongside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992776107Author Colin O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint They That DoPublisher They That Do

PETALis a photographic series by Bex Day, created in celebration of the uniqueness of the vulva. Each vulva pictured in the collection is covered by either a single petal or flower to simultaneously reflect their shared qualities and individuality in an...

As a passenger on the first two legs of Titanic's ill fated voyage, Father Francis Browne SJ's photographs are an immensely important record. As well as taking a unique set of photos, Father Browne also assembled an incredibly valuable album of Titanic...

During the 2016 US Presidential elections Japanese photographer, Fumi Nagasaka, became intrigued by the rural and southern USA. She had lived in New York City for a decade but despite travelling the world, she had yet to visit the rest of the US. All...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909208261Author Tom DingleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Arachne PressPublisher Arachne Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782369620044Author Peter FunchFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint HelloPublisher Hello

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In 1939, just before graduating from high school in the small town of Ridgeway in northeast Iowa, Everett Kuntz spent his entire savings of $12.50 on a 35mm Argus AF camera. He made a camera case from a worn-out boot, scraps from a tin can, and a clasp...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991593422Author John VigourFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint UVa School of ArchitecturePublisher UVa School of Architecture

This is the first book-length collection devoted to the extraordinary work of celebrated artist Joanne Leonard. ""Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir"" interweaves the extraordinary photography and collage work of artist...

Capturing the day-to-day life of the German-American community of Hermann during the years from 1895 to 1920, Little Germany on the Missouri is an illuminating and fascinating look at Missouri's German heritage. Featuring nearly a hundred images taken by...

Face to Face: The Photography of Lloyd E. Moore is a remarkable collection of photographs by an ex-Marine who worked as a lawyer in Lawrence County, Ohio, for around thirty-six years. As Moore himself tells us, “An attorney who practices family, jury,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911611083Author Robert A YassinFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint Tucson Museum of ArtPublisher Tucson Museum of ArtWeight(grams) 635g

While James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive reach of his work has been overlooked. From the major role his studio played for decades photographing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907893957Author Ferit KuyasFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 17g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782369620006Author Paul KooikerFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint HelloPublisher Hello

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782953350692Author Colin SnappFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint HelloPublisher Hello

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994791986Author Viacheslav PoliakovFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint OverlapsePublisher OverlapseWeight(grams) 350g

In an introductory essay to Scene Shifting, Dan Powell speaks of his father’s influence on him in his youth. He describes growing up in the 1950s and 60s in the Roza District, a spacious agricultural valley that was etched out of the sage desert in South...

In 1972 David Paul Bayles left the suburbs of Los Angeles for a summer job as a logger. Then, instead of heading off to photography school in the fall as planned, he stayed. Four years later, celebrating the end of his last day of logging with his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816636488Author Mark NeuzilFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Nicolas Savary, a Swiss photographer, fortuitously came into possession of the archive as part of a research project during an artistic residency in South America in 2014. This photobook works as a catalogue of a big exhibition at the Musée de l’Elysée...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816643288Author Mike MelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881902313Author David ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The University of Hong Kong. University Museum and Art GalleryPublisher The University...

The exhibition "Space/Sight/Self" was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues - identity, vision and place. The goal was to produce a portrait, as it were, of contemporary portraiture. This catalogue...

The Red Purse is about love, loss, and rebuilding. Shortly after the death of her husband, Rupp bought a red purse, which became deeply personal to the artists. The red purse allowed freedom in an otherwise dark and uncertain time as a young widow.Book...

What does an Alaskan look like? When asked to visualize someone from Alaska, the image most people conjure up is one of a face lost in a parka, surrounded by snow. Missing from this image is the vibrant diversity of those who call themselves Alaskans, as...