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I carry Her photo with Me by Lindokuhle Sobekwa 9781915743312
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $70.64This deeply personal first book from South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa reflects on the life and disappearance of his sister, assembled in a scrapbook aesthetic with handwritten notes.Book... -
Quitting Your Day Job: Chauncey Hare's Photographic Work by Robert Slifkin 9781913620073
Booksplease Price: $48.91Quitting Your Day Job: Chauncey Hare's Photographic Work is the first critical biography of the American photographer Chauncey Hare (1934-2019). Although Hare received a significant, if fleeting,... -
Troubled Land Paul Graham 9781913620608
RRP: $107.10Booksplease Price: $105.12An iconic project made at the height of the 'Troubles', Troubled Land deals with the small but insistent signs of political division embedded in the landscape of Northern Ireland. At the heart of the... -
Terminus John Divola 9781913620080
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $71.35Since 2015, John Divola has been making photographic projects in an abandoned air force housing complex in Victorville, California. By intervening in the buildings' disused interiors with spray paint... -
Good Hope Carla Liesching 9781913620424
Booksplease Price: $59.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913620424Author Carla LieschingFormat PaperbackImprint -
Close-ups from Afar: Selected Short and Longer Essays on Social Uses of Photography by Sally Stein 9781915743640
RRP: $95.20Booksplease Price: $90.56Sally Stein has long investigated the role of photography in relation to broader questions of culture and society. This first collection of her selected essays, Close-ups from Afar, brings together... -
Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife by Amelia Abraham 9781917651523
RRP: $119.00Booksplease Price: $109.15Sex, Clubs, Dissent charts an expansive visual history of queer nightlife through the lens of photographers, filmmakers, and artists. Edited by author Amelia Abraham, the book explores how... -
My Center is Not in the Solar System: Tributes to Etel Adnan by Etel Adnan 9781917651530
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.22'Etel. Her name has a talismanic quality. We heard about her in California, met her in Beirut, ate ice cream with her in Paris. [...] We wrote down everything she said because it had the... -
Niagara by Alec Soth 9781912339259
Booksplease Price: $148.54In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turned his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. As with his photographs of the... -
The Camera: Essence and Apparatus Victor Burgin 9781912339068
Booksplease Price: $41.08Victor Burgin is one of the most influential artists and writers working today. He came to prominence as a key figure in the Conceptual Art of the late 1960s. After turning to photography in his... -
Gathered Leaves Annotated Alec Soth 9781913620783
RRP: $107.10Booksplease Price: $105.12Following on from the bestselling box set Gathered Leaves, published to accompany Alec Soth's touring exhibition which opened in London in 2015, this unique publication brings together five of Soth's... -
Trophy Lives: On the Celebrity as an Art Object by Philippa Snow 9781915743121
RRP: $33.32Booksplease Price: $32.18We know that celebrities can make great muses: think of the work of Richard Phillips, who has painted an entire series of works inspired by Lindsay Lohan, Robert Pattinson, and Miley Cyrus, or of Urs... -
White Shoes by Nona Faustine 9781913620516
RRP: $107.10Booksplease Price: $105.12White Shoes is a collection of self-portraits taken in locations around New York that were central to the city's once pivotal - and now largely obscured and unacknowledged - involvement in the slave... -
a Handful of Dust by 9781910164969
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $71.35a Handful of Dust is David Campany's speculative history of the last century, and a visual journey through some of its unlikeliest imagery. Let's suppose the modern era begins in October of 1922. A... -
Short Form: 40 Years of Music Videos, Ads, and the Art of Moving Images by Academy Films 9781917651165
Booksplease Price: $133.88Short Form is a thrilling new publication that seeks to reframe how we see the practice of filmmaking. Focusing on some of the most memorable short-form works across music videos and advertising,... -
Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI Victor Burgin 9781917651349
Booksplease Price: $36.75Walter Benjamin's essay of cultural criticism 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' has become a 'classic' text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond. In it,... -
Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works, 1973-1983 by Allan Sekula 9781910164495
Booksplease Price: $92.18Long out of print, this seminal collection of essays and photographs are by artist, theorist and filmmaker, Allan Sekula. Originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984, in... -
Architecture from Below: An Anthology by Sérgio Ferro 9781915743374
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $56.03The highly anticipated first English-language publication from Brazilian architect and theorist Sergio Ferro gathers essays from 1967 to 2019 considering architecture from the perspective of the... -
Allan Sekula, Art Isn't Fair: Further Essays on the Traffic in Photographs and Related Media by Sally Stein
Booksplease Price: $97.08Art Isn't Fair is the title of the last video completed in 2012 by Allan Sekula (1951-2013), a work commenting on the rise of art fairs as yet another international gathering of moneyed elites. This... -
At Home in London: The Mansion Block by Karin Templin 9781915743022
RRP: $119.00Booksplease Price: $117.88Housing is the basic building block of any city, dictating its character, scale, and structure. London is often associated with terraced houses and garden squares, but is also significantly... -
Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh by Amber Husain 9781915743039
RRP: $33.32Booksplease Price: $32.18In an era of climate catastrophe and corporate agribusiness, meat has been decisively made over. Urbanites across the West are called upon to look at the animals we eat, and by looking, learn to... -
Songbook by Alec Soth 9781910164020
Booksplease Price: $105.12"This is the closest we have to an Americans for our time... CAPOLAVORO!... already hailed critically as a classic... One of the best photo books in a lonnnnng time" Known for his haunting... -
Archive by Sofia Coppola 9781915743138
RRP: $130.90Booksplease Price: $130.61Archive is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential career in film. Constructed from Coppola's personal collection of photographs and ephemera, including... -
At Home in London: The Mews House Ellis Woodman 9781915743664
RRP: $130.90Booksplease Price: $126.81Set behind the grand houses of Georgian and Victorian London, intimately scaled mews originally served as accommodation for coaches and horses. After the advent of the motorcar in the early twentieth... -
Collected Works: Volume 3 2010-2020 by Caruso St John 9781917651394
RRP: $202.30Booksplease Price: $193.87Between 2010 and 2020, Caruso St John expanded its reputation for sensitive and characterful architecture through a remarkable range of projects. Major buildings in the heart of Swiss, German, and... -
Uneasy Listening: Notes on Hearing and Being Heard by Anouchka Grose 9781913620776
Booksplease Price: $34.56What makes a good listener? There are a number of commonsensical ideas about what constitutes doing it well - patience, tolerance, availability, responsiveness, lack of moral judgement - but is it... -
Incoming by Richard Mosse 9781910164778
Booksplease Price: $83.40The major humanitarian and political issue of our time is migration and with his latest video work, Irish artist Richard Mosse has created a searing, haunting and unique artwork. Projected across... -
Anchor in the Landscape by Adam Broomberg 9781915743688
Booksplease Price: $126.81With this collection of portraits of olive trees in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, photographers Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez reflect on the tree's totemic relation to Palestinian... -
Shirley Baker by Shirley Baker 9781912339518
Booksplease Price: $83.40Shirley Baker developed her first photograph as a young girl 'from the darkness of the coal shed' in her hometown of Salford, Northwest England. From this moment, she developed a lifelong interest in... -
Ravens by Masahisa Fukase
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $170.27"Ravens is one of the defining bodies of work in the history of photography and a high point in the photo book genre. This accumulation of accolades, and the passing of time, have obscured much of... -
Pictures from Home by Larry Sultan
RRP: $119.00Booksplease Price: $115.98First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan's pendant to his parents. Sultan returned home to Southern California periodically in the 1980s and the... -
Grundkurs: What is Architecture About? Pier Paolo Tamburelli 9781913620950
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $66.97In this collection of idiosyncratic lessons, architect and teacher Pier Paolo Tamburelli engages with the very foundations of arch-itecture, proposing a series of new and open-ended perspectives on... -
The Complete Essays 1973-1991 Luigi Ghirri 9781910164143
Booksplease Price: $43.24The Complete Essays 1973-1991 is a long-awaited collection of short, allusive texts on the curiosities of photography written by the great Italian artist, Luigi Ghirri. Ghirri's writings spiral... -
Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-'90s Britain by Joy Gregory 9781913620752
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $139.59Shining Lights is the first critical anthology of Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, providing a richly illustrated overview of a significant and overlooked... -
Art Applied by Inside Outside 9781915743343
RRP: $166.60Booksplease Price: $161.29This vast and dazzling book provides an authoritative retrospective of the oeuvre of Dutch designer and architect Petra Blaisse, encompassing landscapes, interiors, buildings, and exhibition designs... -
The Shabbiness of Beauty by Moyra Davey 9781913620202
RRP: $83.30Booksplease Price: $81.49The Shabbiness of Beauty is a visual dialogue that crosses generational divides with the easy intimacy of a late-night phone call. Multidisciplinary artist Moyra Davey delved into Peter Hujar's... -
Fragments of Fietas David Goldblatt 9781917651080
Booksplease Price: $83.40Between 1948 and 2016, David Goldblatt returned periodically to Fietas, a suburb west of Johannesburg's city centre, to photograph the impact of punitive segregation and ethnic cleansing wrought by... -
David Armstrong Contacts by David Armstrong 9781917651332
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $141.49American photographer David Armstrong (1954-2014), best known for his intimate black-and-white portraiture, is recognised as a member of the 'Boston School' of photography, a group of artists who... -
April Dawn Alison by April Dawn Alison 9781912339433
Booksplease Price: $83.40Made over the course of some thirty years, the photographs in this book depict the many faces of April Dawn Alison, the female persona of an Oakland, California based photographer who lived in the... -
Material Reform by Amica Material Cultures 9781913620813
Booksplease Price: $43.24This book, the first by the design and research practice Material Cultures, assembles a series of short essays and conversations exploring the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the...