Photoessays & Documentaries

From majestic glaciers to vast frozen plains as far as the eye can see, ice is just as important to the world's ecosystems as water, air, and trees. And yet its presence and vital role on Earth is increasingly threatened by the effects of global warming...

The Lomo camera, an icon of mid-20th century design, is perceived as unable to take a bad picture, due to the unique, glass lens and capability for handling low-light levels. This antidote to all things digital and slick has found a vast international...

Larry Towell first encountered the Mennonites near his home in Ontario, Canada, and his friendship with them gained him unique access to their communities. Rather than compromise their way of life, Mennonites have continually been forced to migrate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417975937Author Laia AbrilFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL

Though Alfons Mucha, known as Alphonse Mucha, (1860-1939) achieved lasting international acclaim as an Art Nouveau painter, graphic designer and decorator, his photography is not as well known. In this new, expanded edition produced in cooperation with...

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...

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...

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

Wonder and wit meet in Templeton's unflinching photographs Tangentially Parenthetical is a selection of photographs from Ed Templeton's vast street photography archive-curated, arranged and then rearranged by the man himself. The next chapter to his...

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.

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 9783868288421Author Dotan SaguyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

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...

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 9788419233271Author Quim VivesFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL

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...

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...

Super 8: An Illustrated History is a coffee table art book showcasing the history of Super 8 filmmaking. In addition to featuring stunning photography documenting the sleek mid-century design of Super 8 cameras and projectors, the book also offers a...

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...

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 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...

A collaboration between a master nature photographer and a botanist that celebrates the astonishing varieties of leaves. Leaves are everywhere, appearing in an abundant variety of shapes, colours and textures. They are the unappreciated gifts of...

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 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 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...

"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]...

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)...

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...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868280142Author Venetia DeardenFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 1164g

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...

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...

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.

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...

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)...

Small World spotlights photographer Steve Rolfe, whose tiny scenes echo real life at an impossible scale. Sometimes witty, sometimes earnest, Rolfe’s work opens up a world within a world and reminds us that we're all part of something larger than...