Women Seeing Women
Women have been making photographs since the medium's invention, for scientific purposes, to make a living through portraiture or journalistic activities and for artistic expression. For almost that long, they have been turning their cameras on other women: at first taking the easiest models available to them - their mothers, sisters, daughters, friends and servants - and later choosing feminist standpoints or investigating the conditions of femininity in their own cultures. This compendium of c...
Banaras is a city on the banks of the river Ganges. It is the holiest of the seven sacred cities in Hinduism and Jainism, and played an important role in the development of Buddhism. It is regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It is portrayed beautifully through Majumdar's captivating perspective on different walks around the city. Banaras witnesses thousands of devout Hindus who journey to the banks of the Ganga to wash their sins away. The ghats and the riot...
Puerto Rico Mio is an extraordinary collection from two series of photographs: the first taken when Delano first went to Puerto Rico with the Farm Security Administration in 1941-42 and the second when he rephotographed those same places in the 1980s.
The Interaction of Nature and Urban Environment. Urban Environments (The Interaction of Nature and Urban Environment, #2)
by William Quagmire
World Famous Round Here
by Jack Hulme, Richard Van Riel, Olive Fowler, and Harry Malkin
"Erich Hackl's subjects are all actual events, fates and biographies. Often with considerable research and effort, he digs deep into the histories of people whose destiny very often have to do with Nazism and / or with Judaism. In his new collection of short [non-fiction] stories Three tearless histories, two of which are already published in Austria in newspapers and anthologies, Hackl tells of Jewish people and their destinies. [...] These stories get under one's skin." - Winfried Stanzick, To...
This is a stunning collection of photographs that capture the heart & soul of Cuba, from its sporting heroes to children playing in the street. In 1999, internationally renowned photographer Sandro Miller travelled to Cuba to photograph some of the country's finest boxers during their training for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In 2001, he returned to Cuba with a special invitation from the Ministry of Athletics to compile photographs of the nation's most decorated sporting heroes of the past half ce...
Internationally acclaimed for the beauty and technical quality of his compositions, Sunil Janah's photographs are significant in their historical content as well as their emotional connect. This book is a rare collection of his photographs taken between 1942 and 1978 in India, as well as in post-9/11 America. The photographs in this volume are of great historical importance as they capture various facets of pre- and post-Independence India the freedom movement, the Partition, famines, riots, and...
More Necropolises of New Orleans (Book II) (Travel Photo, #3)
by Laine Cunningham
