Photoessays & Documentaries

In response to the tragic events of September 11, photographer Nathan Lyons-known for his honest and often questioning depictions of American culture-has created a poignant portfolio of images. Photographing in small towns and large cities, Lyons has...

Many psychiatric hospitals in Switzerland house a treasure trove of historical photographs that go back to the 19th century and until now have never been studied properly. Glass slides and negatives, loose paper prints, and photo albums allow fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576877371Author George CarranoFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 821g

David Byrne's play about Imelda Marcos called for the theater to be transformed into a disco. Spanish photographer Fernando Sancho found the whole idea mesmerizing, so he traipsed to a lumberyard in Calgary to capture the making of the pop-up disco,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576876787Author Thomas RomaFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 175g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981989174Author Alen SilvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Oliver Arts and Open PressPublisher Oliver Arts and Open PressWeight(grams) 460g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931885140Author Ellen Von UnwerthFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Twin Palms PublishersPublisher Twin Palms Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907893056Author Maria GruzdevaFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingDimensions(mm) 310mm * 247mm * 16mm

Discover the lives of Cuba's cats through the lens of award-winning photographer Emmy Park. This book is full of beautiful and raw images; explore the relationship between Cubans and their feline companions that roam the colorful streets, iconic...

Built in 1883, the Hotel Chelsea, on 23rd Street in New York City, quickly became the most famous and notorious hotel in the world. From day one, it has been a center of artistic and bohemian activity, with notable residents like actor Ethan Hawke,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867195279Author Charles GatewoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 397g

A New Edition of Peter Guttman's Dazzling Photographic Treasury of Holiday Lights and Celebrations Nothing reminds us of the good things in life-family, friendship, food, and good cheer-more than Christmas. With stunning images and illuminating text,...

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends, family, and lovers-collectively described by Goldin as her "tribe." Her work describes a world that is visceral, charged,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576878170Author Steve SchapiroFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879641Author Max KozloffFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Learning To Speak Bear is a book of photographs exploring the visual cues and relentless interruptions of motherhood while showing the grit that happens in caring for young children. It seeks to take the viewer through the reality that is everyday life...

Arctic ice is a daily consideration for people living above the Arctic circle. Ice is key to successful hunts, ease of travel, and the health of wildlife. This book features sweeping landscape photography of Arctic sea ice in all its forms, accompanied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989022033Author Jake MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 71Imprint New Idea PressPublisher New Idea PressWeight(grams) 394g

The first book of photography that portrays Angola as it exists today. For a place that few can pin-point on a map or in their minds, Angola is quickly emerging as the most important economic leader in Africa. After almost three decades of civil war, the...

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...

This volume presents for the first time the selected photographs of renowned British anthropologist Isaac Schapera (1905-2003). Taken between 1929 and 1934, largely during his earliest work among the Kgatla peoples of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), the...

Today, 420 million children are growing up in war zones. Since 1919 Save the Children has been protecting and promoting the well-being of children in more than 120 countries. For its 100th anniversary, this global, large and independent children's rights...

New York is filled with forsaken buildings, each ravaged by the exploits of modernization, each having fascinating histories. This photographic essay explores over 40 of the most evocative abandoned sites in the Empire State and puts their individual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576878590Author Aisha Muhammed-OyebodeFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

In the last few years we have seen a wave of activism wash across our nation and inspire unprecedented protest and civic engagement. People came together in record-breaking numbers, outspoken and persistent. With the winds of resistance at their backs,...

Standing on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 2017, photographer William Abranowicz was struck by the weight of historical memory at this hallowed site of one of the civil rights movement's defining episodes: 1965's “Bloody Sunday,” when...

On Contested Terrain is published on the occasion of the first comprehensive exhibition of An-My Le's work, organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art. Throughout her career, Le has photographed sites of former battlefields, spaces reserved for training for...

A unique, quirky view of New York City as a vast collection of urban typologies, Codex New York marks one photographer's revelatory journey through the city As a native New Yorker with a lifelong curiosity about urban infrastructure, photographer...

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

Hello Stranger is the new book by the theater group Motus, whose hybrid work has unleashed dramaturgy and artistic languages as well as produced new scenic forms since its founding in the early 1990s. Hello Stranger is an "atlas of images"...

Justyna Koeke transforms children's fantasies into wearable sculptures, morphs fashion shows into performances. As a child the artist, together with her sisters, painted her heroes "princesses and saints" which she now translates into reality as a...

In extraordinary, life-affirming photos taken around the world-from developing villages to urban centers-over the last 40 years, a photographer makes the bold case that what unites us is more powerful than the borders that divide us. A portion of the...

In the last five years, Mario Calabresi has collected a series of interviews to renow - ned international pho - tographers. The result of his meetings is this book: an exciting dive into history through the images and the words of great witnesses that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899235247Author Vicky WetherillFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis Publishing

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...

"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...

People magazine's top reason for Hope in America.Curated from a grassroots social movement, The Front Steps Project is an inspiring, uplifting portrait series capturing how people coped with living in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Front...

It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words and this is most evident in Mun Chor Seng's evocative images. Mun started taking photos in his teens and over the last six decades has captured many aspects of Singapore. These range from early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899235360Author Claudio EdingerFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis Publishing

In 2018, Israel marks the seventieth anniversary of statehood. Yet the events of 1948 are remembered very differently by the Palestinian people, who to this day carry the memory of the Naqba, the displacement of an estimated 750,000 Palestinians from...