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Walker Evans: American Photographs by Walker Evans 9780870708350
RRP: $60.30Booksplease Price: $33.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870708350Author Walker EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Walker Evans: The Interview: With Leslie George Katz by Walker Evans
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.62Walker Evans in his own words: the legendary interview, back in print In 1971, Art in America published an interview with Walker Evans conducted by Leslie George Katz, writer and publisher of the... -
Walker Evans - Signs by Andrei Codrescu 9780892363766
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.52"Walker Evans: Signs" traces one particular theme - signs of all kinds - through the long career of this master photographer. The book brings together images from the era and place most closely... -
Telling About Society by Howard Saul Becker
Booksplease Price: $22.45One of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, "I Remember", consists of 480 numbered paragraphs - each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a... -
Photographs by Eudora Welty 9781496821232
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $46.77Eudora Welty's Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer's photographs. Her camera's viewfinder captured deep compassion and her... -
Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments by Virginia Heckert 9781606061381
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $23.03This is a superbly illustrated look at the evolution of the photographic work of Ed Ruscha - the quintessential Los Angeles artist. Los-Angeles based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for... -
Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt by Ad Reinhardt
RRP: $30.75Booksplease Price: $21.87The renowned American artist Sherrie Levine engages her ongoing practice of appropriating artworks from the Western art historical canon-this time taking Ad Reinhardt's Blue Paintings as a point of... -
Capturing the South: Imagining America's Most Documented Region by Scott L. Matthews 9781469646459
Booksplease Price: $46.55In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth-century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including... -
After Art by David Joselit 9780691150444
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $33.78Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed... -
Subjective Objective: A Century of Social Photography D. Gutstafson 9783777429533
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.21Generously illustrated with photographs from early twentieth century reformers to contemporary artists, this collection of essays re-examines the genre of social documentary photography through the... -
Advice for Young Artists Alec Soth 9781915743763
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $52.39Between 2022 and 2024, Alec Soth visited twenty-five undergraduate art programmes across the United States. Advice for Young Artists comprises work he made there. Its title - perhaps like the visits... -
Allan Sekula, Art Isn't Fair: Further Essays on the Traffic in Photographs and Related Media by Sally Stein
Booksplease Price: $54.66Art 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... -
Fred Herzog by David Campany
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $39.80Fred Herzog is known for his unusual use of colour in the fifties and sixties, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. The Canadian photographer... -
Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy J. Schoenberger 9780306811876
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $25.59You can see her dark-eyed beauty in photos by Walker Evans, and her bewitching figure in paintings by Lucian Freud. She is the mermaid of whom poet Robert Lowell writes in The Dolphin (and he was... -
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration... -
Hurry Up and Wait Maira Kalman 9780870709593
Booksplease Price: $13.67Hurry Up and Wait, the second volume in a new series of collaborations between artist Maira Kalman, author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is a... -
Helen Levitt by Jean-Francois Chevrier
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.07Brooklyn-born photographer Helen Levitt (1913-2009) was an assistant to Walker Evans and a friend of Henri Cartier-Bresson, but forged her own path with fierce independence and endless curiosity... -
Eugene Atget. Paris by TASCHEN
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.34A flaneur and photographer at once, Eugene Atget (1857-1927) was obsessed with walking the streets. After trying his hand at painting and acting, the native of Libourne turned to photography and... -
Cuban Palimpsests by Jose A. Quiroga
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17Four decades ago, the Cuban revolution captured the world's attention and imagination. Its impact around the world was as much cultural as geopolitical. Within Cuba, the state developed a strictly... -
The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs Geoff Dyer 9780857864017
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Great photographs change the way we see the world. The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. With characteristic perversity and trademark originality, The Ongoing Moment is Dyer's unique... -
American Geography: A Reckoning with a Dream by Matt Black
RRP: $60.30Booksplease Price: $42.28American Geography is the visual record of Magnum photographer Matt Black's five-year, 100,000-mile road trip across 46 states of the United States, plus Puerto Rico. It examines the conditions of... -
New Deal Photography. USA 1935-1943 Peter Walther 9783836537117
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $25.18"Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way." - Jack Delano Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm... -
New York. Portrait of a City by Reuel Golden 9783836505147
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $61.96This book presents the epic story of New York on nearly 600 pages of emotional, atmospheric photographs, from the mid-19th century to the present day. Supplementing this treasure trove of images are... -
Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization by Steven High 9780801474019
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process, but a social and cultural one as well. The rusting detritus of our industrial past-the wrecked hulks of factories, abandoned machinery too large... -
The Foot of Clive by John Berger 9781838859589
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Introduced by Benjamin MyersIn the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die before he can be hanged... -
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the... -
Collecting the Simpsons by Warren Evans
RRP: $48.23Booksplease Price: $26.83The Simpsons Merchandise Guide for all Simpsons Lovers#1 New Release in Antiques and CollectiblesThis quirky book unleashes the entire story of all Simpsons merchandise, spanning over decades. Warren... -
Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America by Chris Arnade
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $26.34Once or twice a generation, an author reveals what life is like for the truly needy and disenfranchised. Chris Arnade cuts through the jargon and abstractions to expose the reality of our current... -
Chaos in the Green Zone: My Time As an Iraq War Strategist Tom Mowle 9780700641314
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.07An American officer offers an explosive memoir from inside coalition headquarters in Baghdad. With raw honesty and exhilarating detail, Tom Mowle shares how policy and strategy were built at a time... -
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company by Alice Driver 9781668078822
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, an explosive expose of the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America and the immigrant workers who had the courage to...