Monographs

Internationally renowned as an exciting guide to unknown peoples and places, Norwegian Carl Lumholtz was a Victorian-era explorer, anthropologist, natural scientist, writer, and photographer who worked in Australia, Mexico, and Borneo. His photographs of...

Best known for his modernist paintings and prints, the multitalented artist Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) maintained a deep and intensive interest in photography throughout his career, using the camera as a tool of both documentary and artistic expression...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171264169Author Margot WallardFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Bokforlaget Max StromPublisher Bokforlaget Max StromWeight(grams) 1140g

Over the course of a decade, photographer Bonnie Briant collected everything she saw, resulting in an extensive catalogue of photographs. Her first monograph, Lump Sum Lottery is quiet and subtle selection of images produced during those ten years. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958296541Author Caryl EnglanderFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869307992Author Philipp KeelFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1280g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868287677Author Pablo E PiovanoFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907893100Author Phillip ToledanoFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1045g

Rodrigo Moya is a prominent Mexican documentary photographer who began as a photojournalist in 1955. He covered the convulsive period that shook Latin America during the 1950s and 1960s, including the guerrilla movement in Guatemala, the invasion of...

A magnificent volume and a journey through time: This is Christine Turnauer's black and white photo series from 1986, first published in book form. North American indigenous peoples travel thousands of miles to participate in traditional dance contests...

In March 1985, the National Museum of Luxembourg unexpectedly received a generous bequest from the estate of Edward Steichen, the Luxembourg-born and world-renowned American photographer. The bequest comprises a total of 178 prints, including 175...

Beauty, life's triumph, is fleeting. It heightens the body's sublime aspect, but beneath its effigy lies the spectre of passing time, and so the figure beauty has within it the spectre of decay. Gastel, the great fashion photographer who has been...

For more than 20 years, photographic artist Tobias Madorin has been working on his series Topos. Metropolises like Barcelona and Sao Paulo, a Swiss mountain resort like Grindelwald, or foreign countries like Uganda, Indonesia and Japan: with his large...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782490952205Author Olivier JolyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint HemeriaPublisher Hemeria

The Holocaust as history ended seventy-five years ago, about the span of a full human life; the Holocaust as culture is very much of the present, its meanings and lessons still actively in formation. For twenty-five years, Jason Francisco has wrestled...

From rockstars, pop icons, soul singers to jazz musicians - Michael Putland has photographed them all. Over his 50 year-long career, he has captured some of the world's most famous singers and bands. Now he brings them all together in one fulminant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783716517437Author Luca ZanierFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Benteli VerlagPublisher Benteli VerlagWeight(grams) 1290g

'Seamlessly woven together, the book explores their [father and son] shared passion for humanism and social activism, using the photograph as a means to foster intimate connections and explore meaningful truths -- a lesson Steve learned studying with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870708169Author Richard BensonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 890g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857242644Author Joao SilverioFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1560g

From 1839 when it was invented, photography has served to create portraits of individuals, and soon thereafter portraits of families, later placed in photo albums. Photography, collected and archived, entered the intimate sphere, enabling people to...

Scottish-born Alexander Henderson (1831-1913) arrived in Montreal in 1855 at the age of twenty-four, eager to explore the Canadian wilderness. Photography, his observation tool, would also reveal a remarkable artistic sensibility. Little-known among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857236155Author Reiner OpokuFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868285635Author Newsha TavakolianFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 1095g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701829Author Joshua Jelly-SchapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 270g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958295643Author Roni HornFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 220g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969991763Author Kathy Leonard CzepielFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1120g

Hometown collects a series of suburban landscape photographs taken on Long Island between 1973-1980 by Joseph Szabo. Sharing the same DNA as his Teenage and Almost Grown series, Szabo's Hometown images conjure up an instant nostalgia, recalling fond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788840026Author Ed CaraeffFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Acc Art BooksPublisher Acc Art BooksWeight(grams) 1542gDimensions(mm) 305mm * 244mm * 23mm

A grand panorama of race and civil unrest in America's past and present Carrie Mae Weems has often confronted the uncomfortable truths of racism and race relations over the course of her nearly 40-year career. In The Shape of Things she focuses her...

In the "Curiosity" issue of Aperture magazine, Sarah Bay Gachot writes that Robert Cumming's interest in photography spawned from his interest in perception: "Cumming wanted the viewer to get to know, personally, the process of perception-perhaps to ward...

A Kind of Prayer presents the first-ever survey dedicated to the late Cree artist Kimowan Metchewais and his singular body of work on Indigenous identity, community, and colonial memory. After his untimely death at age forty-seven in 2011, Metchewais...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597115230Author ShikeithFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint AperturePublisher ApertureWeight(grams) 279g

Ratatouille was yesterday Under the sign of the rat Surreal, refined, disturbing: Roger Ballen has made a name for himself with his special eye for what is usually considered minor or outside, yet is nevertheless profound and touching. In his hands, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868284829Author Nancy BaronFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 905g

Phil Borges, a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work is aimed towards social justice and preservation of different cultural heritage, from over 25 years has been documenting indigenous and tribal cultures, striving to create an understanding...

Profile is a highly personal selection of Jan's work from the early '90's to 2018. Jan's defining images cross all kinds of fashion barriers. His respect for the models he works with is evident. His models are raw, sometimes slighty unconventional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911306078Author Piotr ZbierskiFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1429g

Louis Alphonse Poitevin was an outstanding inventor, chemist, engineer, scientist, artist and photographer. This publication provides a unique opportunity to cast a wide-ranging gaze at the life and work of the famous pioneer of photography on the basis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907893872Author Celine MarchbankFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 671g