Monographs

In 1997 I had what I refer to as my oil epiphany. It occurred to me that the vast, human-altered landscapes that I pursued and photographed for over twenty years were only made possible by the discovery of oil and the mechanical advantage of the internal...

Dark Waters, Kristine Potter's second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies. In this dark and brooding series, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic landscape as evoked in the popular...

Anja Niemi: In Character is the first career retrospective/monograph by one of the most exciting talents working in contemporary photography, whose work has emerged as a distinctive force within the venerable tradition of conceptual self-portraiture. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868282191Author Sol NeelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 970g

An industry insider's look at glamorous, eccentric, captivating, and storied modern homes that embody California cool For more than twenty years, globe-trotting English-born, Los Angeles-based photographer Roger Davies has shot stunning, luxurious, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958297937Author Gilles PeressFormat PaperbackPage Count 904Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 2400g

The democracy of the image in the social landscape The saturation of our social landscape by photographs and photographers is apparent from any public point of view. Photography is arguably the most democratic of mediums, even more accessible today...

The Day May Break, photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020, is the first part of a global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. The people in the photos were all affected by...

Tracing a career of more than thirty years, this celebration of the prodigiously talented Dutch photographer includes vibrantly colored portraiture, landscapes, still lifes, abstract compositions and fashion editorials. From her early African-inspired...

Mistral is a portrait of Provence seen through its legendary wind. Photographer Rachel Cobb illustrates the effects of this relentless force of nature that funnels down France's Rhone Valley, sometimes gusting to hurricane strength. The mistral is not...

Not just an ambitious restoration of a fascinating unseen archive, but a book that takes on the gargantuan task of shifting the collective memory around key moments in British youth culture history, with a mesmerizing force of honesty and humanity. By...

William Henry Fox Talbot is celebrated today as one of the English inventors of photography. He made early photographic experiments in the 1830s, released the details of his photogenic drawing process in January 1839, and introduced important innovations...

A book of deeply personal and lush photographs, drawings, and writing, Blue Violet is Cig Harvey's celebration of the natural world and the senses Blue Violet is a vibrant meditation on the procession of seasons, sensory abundance, and the magic in...

This is a beautifully illustrated tribute to one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth-century. Controversial, misunderstood, and sometimes overlooked, Minor White (1908-1976) is one of the great photographers of the 20th-century, whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958293069Author Gerhard SteidlFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 660g

Trope Publishing Company’s new Mobile Edition Series identifies fine art photographers shooting in a new way, using mobile devices as their primary tool to capture images, in a category still defining itself. Among the millions of images posted to social...

With a foreword by the Honorable Ras J. Baraka, 40th Mayor of Newark, NJ, The War Is Here is Life magazine photographer Bud Lee's dramatic, empathetic, and still shocking record of the Newark uprising of 1967-a pivotal moment in a summer of protest and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450660Author Sarah Hermanson MeisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958292406Author Edward BurtynskyFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1160g

Night time has always captivated those who see the world differently. When everything has come to rest, lights go out, phones have gone silent and doors have been locked, the nocturnal quiet is embraced to transcend the beauty of the world to its own...

"This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, there'd be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So I'm going at it this way, through photographs and quotes. And this is, I feel, a better way for me to do it." -...

Ruth Orkin is a legend of street photography - her atmospheric pictures taken in cities such as Florence, New York and London still shape the image of these metropolises today. But Orkin's specialty not only encompassed the urban but also the personal...

A substantial retrospective on one of the world's most remarkable and critically acclaimed art photographers. Separated into four parts, Ballenesque takes readers on a visual, chronological journey through Roger Ballen's entire oeuvre, including both...

Reinventing the Image of the Global Metropolis Image Cities takes us on a journey through cities the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranks highest according to their degree of "global interconnectedness." We find them in a process of...

Following in the photographic lineage of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, and Joel Sternfeld, Justine Kurland's work examines the story of America-and the idea of the American dream juxtaposed against the reality. Her deep interest in the road, the western...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931885881Author Danny LyonFormat HardbackPage Count 201Imprint Twin Palms Publishing,U.S.Publisher Twin Palms Publishing,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788797267738Author Soren SolkaerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Edition CirclePublisher Edition Circle

Italian Views is a continuation of Gail Albert Halaban's series Out My Window, featuring intimate domestic portraits against the cinematic backdrop of the city. Here, Albert Halaban shifts her focus from Paris to Italy-steadying her gaze through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944092705Author William Eggleston, IIIFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Twin Palms PublishersPublisher Twin Palms Publishers

This deluxe, oversized monograph offers the most comprehensive collection of Richard Learoyd's color studio images to date-mostly portraits, but also including a handful of exquisite still lifes. The color images are made with one of the most antiquarian...

"Duffy and aggravation go together like gin and tonic." - David Bailey As famous as the stars he photographed, Brian Duffy defined the image of Swinging London in the 1960s. Together with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, Duffy is recognised as one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907893612Author Paddy SummerfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingDimensions(mm) 205mm * 245mm *...

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

Chickens continue to be a steadily growing trend in America-and in book publishing, starting with Stephen Green Armytadge's Extraordinary Chickens (2000) and Extra Extraordinary Chickens (2005). The book appeals to a wide range of customers: backyard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958295926Author RongRongFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1360g

This surreally lyrical, sexually charged book collects Jimmy DeSana's earlier work, made from 1980 to 1983. For his series Suburban, DeSana staged photos of nude subjects in various evocative poses, entwined with everyday objects and lit with gel-covered...

"In book form, Kitchen Table is more intimate.... Unlike the experience of meandering through a museum, stepping back to appreciate the images and nearing the text panels to skim them, the pace of exploration is now in a person's hands." -Hilary Moss,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958297425Author Tenzing DapkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 580g

In MOOD/MODE, leading international photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn presents images from his extensive body of work in which he explores the crossover between photography and the world of fashion - in the broadest sense of the word. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958295636Author Evelyn HoferFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1770g