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In this work, Patrick James Michel captures the five natural elements. He takes the viewer on an initiation trip from the Ganges (water) in India to the Touaregs (fire) in Northern Africa, through the Indian Shamans (air) of North America, and the Samburu (earth) around Lake Turkana, Africa.

Displacement, Flight, Isolation, Fragmentation. Fleeting disassociation. These are the groundbreaking photographic tropes established by Robert Frank in his landmark book The Americans. Now, more than four decades later, the same ground is rediscovered - again from an immigrant's status, but more tightly focused: that of the all too well known city of cities, New York. Polish-born Zulawinski came to these shores shortly after the Wall fell and began shooting. He dived head first into the rushing...

Eugeni Pons was born in Barcelona in 1964. His interest in photography began when he was only thirteen. With his first serious camera, a Canon AE-1, he took up experimental, architectural and landscape photography. After creating his own advertising photography studio with a colleague, he decided to go on his own and oriented himself towards his authentic matter of interest: architectural photography. He started collaborating with architecture and design magazines and introduced himself to the m...

Tucked away in the dusty halls of the Smithsonian archives and nearly forgotten by most historians, black culture is a vast, complex, interconnected web of different people, trends, and lifestyles. Deborah Willis has dug through the archives and hunted down the remnants that tell the wonderful and tragic history of a people. Tackling all subjects with bravery and frankness, Deborah Willis's work is a true treasure to behold. Black: A Celebration of a Culture presents a vibrant panorama of twenti...

Still Modernism offers a critique of the modernist imperative to embrace motion, speed, and mobility. In the context of the rise of kinetic technologies and the invention of motion pictures, it claims that stillness is nonetheless an essential tactic of modernist innovation. More specifically, the book looks at the ways in which photographic stillness emerges as a counterpoint to motion and to film, asserting its own clear visibility against the blur of kinesis. Photographic stillness becomes a...

Bound figures huddle in strangely orderly rows. Soaking wet, robed acolytes sweep a staircase. A naked man, chained, faces an endless horizon. Oddly serene, a head bursts into flames. Does Misha Gordin point his camera outward to the existing world or turn it inward toward his soul? Is he taking photographs of existing reality, or creating his own world? Where do these dark, disturbing, utterly haunting images come from, and what can they tell us about out innermost selves? Gordin describes hi...