Photoessays & Documentaries

A taxonomy we didn't know we needed for identifying and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist and photographer Julian Montague. Abandoned shopping carts are everywhere, and yet we know so little about them. Where do they come from? Why are they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969000397Author Mary BerridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

In the summer of 1971, Michael Lesy and a friend found most of the snapshots in Snapshots 1971-77 in a dumpster behind a gigantic photo-processing plant in San Francisco. The photos were in the trash because the machines that printed them made them so...

Accompanying the artist's first major US overview in 15 years, this volume celebrates over four decades of Wall's uncanny everyday dramas Vancouver-based artist Jeff Wall (born 1946) has been making arresting, conceptually and politically complex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879115Author Gregg SegalFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Curated by the founders of Scopio, a community-based image marketplace, a stunning and unforgettable visual history that captures the world's response to major events that defined 2020: the COVID pandemic and the sweeping movements for racial and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211491Author Seph LawlessFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams) 1340gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988264507Author Tod LippyFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Mirrorical BooksPublisher Mirrorical BooksWeight(grams) 295g

With their cameras and notebooks in hand, photographers Sabine Schmidt and Don House embarked on an ambitious project to document the libraries committed to serving Arkansas's smallest communities. Remote Access is the culmination of this fascinating...

Photographer O. N. Pruitt (1891-1967) was for some forty years the de facto documentarian of Lowndes County, Mississippi, and its county seat, Columbus--known to locals as "Possum Town." His body of work recalls many FSA photographers, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873513364Author Wing Young HuieFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

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...

Based on the popular and revolutionary PBS multiplatform documentary project, an inspiring and striking photographic portrait that brilliantly captures the tumultuous, historic year that was 2020, offering an intimate look at the heart and soul of our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Minnesota Book Award (History/Biography) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780873515047Author Larry MillettFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Minnesota Historical...

Words cannot adequately convey the human dimension of the devastation wreaked on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. Thomas Neff's photographs can. As a volunteer in the city in the early days after the flood, this Baton Rouge photographer witnessed first...

A photography book with a social conscience, Water Music affirms the intimate connection of water to the rhythms of our lives-and how it is something to be celebrated, revered, and preserved for today and for future generations. Water Music is first a...

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...

Based on the popular and revolutionary PBS multiplatform documentary project, an inspiring and striking photographic portrait that brilliantly captures the tumultuous, historic year that was 2020, offering an intimate look at the heart and soul of our...

A culmination of four years of photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, Sawdust Mountain focuses on the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support. Timber and...

For more than a decade, photographer Linda Dufurrena has recorded with powerful eloquence the rugged, beautiful landscape of northern Nevada and the patterns of life on the Dufurrena family ranch in the Quinn River Valley. Over 100 of her finest...

This handsome book captures in words and pictures the powerful emotions that circled around one man in Chicago in the early 1980s: Harold Washington. More than one hundred pictures, from candid shots on the campaign trail to triumphant public...

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), created in the 1930s during Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s sweeping New Deal governmental reforms, has long marked the landscape of the upper south and controlled the waterways that run throughout Tennessee and portions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771602976Author George WebberFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417975937Author Laia AbrilFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint RmPublisher RmWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816531929Author Peter GoinFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 1385g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817359867Author Bobs M TusaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University Alabama PressPublisher University Alabama PressWeight(grams) 279g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353953Author Jeff SchwilkFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947951440Author Derek MuhsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint City Point PressPublisher Creative Management Partners

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863359416Author Wolfgang TillmansFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the immediate aftermath was documented by Japanese photographers. For the most part the images they produced were censored or confiscated, but many were preserved in...

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...

On 11 August 1913, the Tsar's consul in Persia, and officer in the Lithuanian Regiment, Alexander Iyas, photographed Mamed Amin-agha, head of the Kurdish Piran tribe, in front of a wall of fierce-looking warriors from Baiz-pasha's Mangur tribe. The...

Shrewsbury Revisited contains over 200 previously unpublished photographs of the town from David Woodhouse's vast collection of postcards. The views show daily life in Shrewsbury during the first half of the twentieth century, before many of the town's...

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.

Revisit the 1970s through 100 remarkable colour photographs taken for the Environmental Protection Agency's DOCUMERICA project. These images chosen, from 22,000 files in the National Archives of the United States, highlight the fashions, trends,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916915022Author Caroline SeymourFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 700gDimensions(mm)...

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 9781899235346Author Martin ParrFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 365g

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...