Dogs are only human, aren’t they? This irresistible dog book by Sandra Müller combines refined canine portrait photography with a fun and loving look at our four-legged friends outfitted in different costumes to uncannily reveal their humanlike personalities — whether a giant schnauzer or pug, pedigree dog or characterful cross-breed. For every dog portrait, there is a humorous accompanying text about their chosen outfit. Pug Gisbert, for example, would certainly be a medic in the human world: y...
Each of these five books is taken from Phaidon's '55' series, which represents photographers in 55 key photographs taken from their life's work, giving a chronological overview of some of their most important compositions.
While we marvel at trees and plants, at nature’s vitality and growth, we also treasure the longevity of rocks and stones. We feel a sense of eternity among mountains, handling stones on the beach, or wandering the desert or high plains. Time seems to stand still. In Stones of the Earth, Tomáš Míček’s images show us geology at its most awe-inspiring. Taking in the shapes, sizes and colours of these diverse environments and monoliths, we feel both enlivened and calmed. Many of the rocks and their...
Fazal Sheikh /Eyal Weizman : the Conflict Shoreline
by Fazal Sheikh and Eyal Weizman
While technology and urban sprawl have transformed much of our country in the last half of the twentieth century, Jack Leigh has been quietly documenting the people and the landscape of the Southeastern coast, a region steeped in history and tradition. The Land I'm Bound To is the photographer's tribute to the richly diverse culture of his native region. His subjects range from solitary oystermen working the fog-shrouded salt marshes of South Carolina to shrimp fishermen at sea to the swamps and...
