Photoessays & Documentaries

Ever-changing Las Vegas, Nevada, a capital of casino gambling and showgirl entertainment, contains an astonishing array of neon signs. They light up the night sky in endless displays of color and motion. With 235 brilliant color images and engaging text,...

Paul Mobley has taken his camera on the road again to photograph America s bravest citizens. In this collection of intimate and powerful photographic portraits, we get a glimpse of what it means to answer the call and run toward danger. Stunning...

The story of life and death in America as told through beautiful cemetery art photography accompanied by meaningful epitaphs from cemeteries up to 300 years old. View 68 cemeteries in 170 beautiful photographs that breathe life into existence of those...

Cuba is one of the most enticing, exotic, and romantic places that photographers can hope to find. The lucky ones get to spend a week or two just in Havana, while others go on day-trips to the tobacco farms in the Valle de Vinales, or take a tour to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899235346Author Martin ParrFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 365g

In 2002, the same year that Edelstein had discovered Minna's photograph, she was commissioned to photograph the South African Sangoma shamans, whose rituals employ the intermediary healing powers of their ancestors. A shaman told Edelstein that her own...

From the Golden Gate Bridge and the Palace of Fine Arts to Salesforce Tower and the Transbay Transit Center's elevated rooftop park, from Point Reyes and Muir Woods to Napa and Sonoma wine country, the San Francisco Bay Area has long been celebrated as...

Stalking the streets of New York City at night alongside police detectives and barflies, the tough-talking, fedora-wearing, cigar-smoking photographer who called himself "Weegee" was ready at a moment's notice with his Speed Graphic to respond to the...

A photography project charting 100 weeks in the life of Scotland, and the people who live there. The photos are of all aspects of Scottish culture - politics, art, social issues, sport, energy and anything else that catches the eye. It is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593579718Author Tomesha FaxioFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

The Insta Grammar series explores the best of the best in amateur photography, focussing on the immensely popular social media site, Instagram. After Cats, City and Nordic, Green is the fourth and latest title in this series, which closely follows online...

Like Invisibles and Snapshots of Dangerous Women, Outsiders is an accessible visual tour through life experienced on the margins of mainstream society. Squired through the social turmoil of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s by artists like Diane Arbus and Nan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736984727Author David J BookbinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Transformations PressPublisher Transformations PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904563853Author George OsodiFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Trolley BooksPublisher Trolley BooksWeight(grams) 260g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986304514Author George S W DuboseFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Wonderland PublishingPublisher Wonderland PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917860829Author Judy CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.Publisher Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.

Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the Mutter Museum, founded in 1858, is part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. This book features over 100 photographs by a select group of...

The Poetry of Being expresses the photographers response to the fragility and perseverance of nature. Images of what was, things still hanging on, the effects of climate change, and the cycle of life make up this ever relevant monograph. The included...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911306979Author Paddy SummerfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm)...

Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places in Belgium. The ultimate visual reference in Belgian urban exploration. These outstanding photographic reports aim to draw attention to the often dramatic fate of a country's abandoned heritage and its...

Ever since the landmark publication of Susan Sontag's On Photography, it has been impossible to look at photographs, particularly those of violence and suffering, without questioning our role as photographic voyeur. Are we desensitized by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262514392Author Collectif ArgosFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 178mm * 23mm

"On the eve of Christmas Eve..." Paul Auster writes, "Tyler Kobe Nichols collapsed onto the sidewalk with three knife wounds in the front of his torso and one in the back." His death soon followed. With it, the twenty-one-year-old joined the ranks of...

"Her stunning images push boundaries and feature portraits of a wonderfully diverse selection of strong, bold people of all ages, races, and body types." - Loeidela Photographie "Inspirational, feminine and colourful..." - Flair Mode Magazin "...[pays]...

From New England to the Deep South, photographers Susan Daley and Steve Gross have captured more than 100 forgotten buildings along America's old auto routes. Isolated in full-color and black-and-white portraits, the roadside cafes, feed stores, grange...

The history of humankind has always been marked by natural catastrophes, migrations, discoveries, revolutions, and wars. But there have also been speeches that marked an era; instilling hope in crucial moments, reawakening the collective conscience of a...

The third literary anthology in the series that has been called 'ambitious' (O Magazine) and 'strikingly international' (Boston Globe), Freeman's: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and scope, with stunning new pieces from emerging writers...

Taryn Simon's earliest body of work, The Innocents (2002), documents the stories of individuals who served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit. The series centres on the question of photography as credible witness and arbiter of...

In American Power, Mitch Epstein investigates notions of power, both electrical and political. His focus is on energy - how it gets made, how it gets used, and the ramifications of both. From 2003 to 2008, he photographed at and around sites where fossil...

From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world.Fueled by the...

No_Code is an intersectional project conceived by the Italian luxury group Tod s that examines changes in contemporary society. It is a hybrid idea that fuses emerging technology with Italian craftsmanship. Tod s No_Code has commissioned the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788898437481Author Massimo MorelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint PadplacesPublisher PadplacesWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 11mm

Frank Stewart s Nexus presents an overview of the career of this noted photographer, who since the 1960s has captured spontaneous and sensitive portrayals of African American culture in many forms, including art, food, dance, and music especially jazz...

Can film capture what our eyes can't see? There are many examples both historical and contemporary of photographs of spirits or ghosts. These images have been both derided as hoaxes or, at the other extreme, held up as irrefutable proof of the otherworld...

diCorcia's curation of "disparate photographs," from his early career to his first solo shows "The disparate photographs assembled here were made over the course of twenty years. None of them were originally intended to be used in this book. By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741924781Author Henning ChristophFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Koenemann.Com GmbHPublisher Koenemann.Com GmbHWeight(grams) 1188gDimensions(mm)...

A speech on the radio. A high school literature class. A promise made to a mother. Activism begins in small ways and in unexpected places. In this inspiring book, over forty activists from Billie Jean King to Bernie Sanders and Angela Davis to Edward...

Gustave Le Gray's life was as romantic as any novel. A young painter in Rome, then a fashionable portrait photographer in Paris, Le Gray received commissions from Napoleon Ill, and astonished viewers with his painterly landscapes and ravishing seascapes...

Pictures made by a lens are inextricably linked to the real world-the world the photographer not only sees but lives in and thinks about. The most ambitious photographs (in an earlier time one might confidently have said the greatest photographs)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879221Author Archibishop Desmond TutuFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1216g