Photoessays & Documentaries

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,...

The Boston-based photographer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist documented his family s relief work overseas and world events as they unfolded post 9/11. Beginning in 2001, Bobby, Elaine, and their two young children lived among earthquake victims in...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944669014Author Matthias HochFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580935227Author Stanley GreenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Monacelli PressPublisher Monacelli Press

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771001154Author Darren CalabreseFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

"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...

The Tshokwe are a major people of Central Africa who have been present for six centuries on the borders of Zambia, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their structured social organisation gave them a military and commercial advantage. Thanks to...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417975333Author Misha VallejoFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863949Author Stewart Dean EbersoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 903g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873658706Author Robert GardnerFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of...

First published almost fifty years ago and long out of print, The Shoshoneans is a classic American travelogue about the Great Basin and Plateau region and the people who inhabit it, never before-or since-documented in such striking and memorable fashion...

A bittersweet cross-cultural friendship and the richness and melancholy of modern Cheyenne life are unforgettably recorded in the words and photographs of The Road to Lame Deer. In the 1970s photographer and writer Jerry Mader was drawn into the...