It is a fabulously illustrated look at the latest series of images from award-winning photographer Susan S. Bank. "Piercing the Darkness" is the second monograph of award-winning American photographer Susan Bank, who studied under the tutelage of renowned photographers Graciela Iturbide and Constantine Manos. It is taken in Cuba between the 1999 and 2009, Bank's choice of black-and-white film in a place so full of colour allows her to capture the heart and soul of her subjects - from the beautif...
Internationally acclaimed fine-art photographer Ella McBride (1862–1965) played an important role in the Northwest’s photography community and was a key figure in the national and international pictorialist photography movements. Despite her many accomplishments, which included managing the photography studio of Edward S. Curtis for many years and being an early member of the Seattle Camera Club, McBride is little known today. Captive Light: The Life and Photography of Ella E. McBride reconsider...
These pieces show the regenerative power of nature and human beings’ insatiable appetite to expand, explore, conquer and transform nature into civility,” Van Ort states. In Minescape, the photographs range from images of the mines themselves, set on stark white backgrounds, to landscapes that are unusable until meticulously cleared and images of prosthetic limbs. Brett Van Ort was born in Washington D.C. and raised and schooled in Texas. He moved to Los Angeles, California after obtaining an u...
Roland and Sabrina Michaud, now in their eighties, have spent most of their lives together exploring Africa and Asia. Their travels have taken them to far-flung places, including Yemen, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey. Throughout their journeys Roland and Sabrina photographed and wrote about what they saw. This breathtaking account of their travels features nearly 500 color images that capture, with sensitivity, curiosity, and delight, the people they met and the landscapes they traverse...
Following his death in January 2004, Helmut Newton's position as one of the world's most celebrated and distinguished fashion photographers is assured. For many, however, he was much more than that. His controversial and innovative portraiture broke down taboos, documenting and shaping society's changing attitudes to sex and female empowerment. Indeed author JG Ballard has argued that Newton was in fact nothing less than 'the world's greatest visual artist'.
Expedition Svalbard:Lost Views on the Shorelines of Economy
by Tyrone Martinsson
In September 2011, a group of scientists, artists and writers embarked on an expedition to North-West Svalbard, the northern extremity of Norway. Traveling on a ship, the M/S Stockholm, each of them recorded the event from their own professional and personal perspective. The aim of the expedition was to discuss the discourse of the voyage regarding the environment and our relation to the land and nature. As such, this book turns out as an artistic account integrated by scientific documentation....
Photographer Sarah Stolfa shot the series "The Regulars" while working as a bartender for nine years at McGlinchey's, an old tavern in downtown Philadelphia. Her portraits are both stark and resonant, tender and alienating, and they capture something deeply specific to the place yet relevant to watering holes everywhere. The series launched her career as an artist, winning awards and appearing in the pages of the "New York Times Magazine", the New Yorker, and several gallery shows. "The Regulars...
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.
Jeff Wall
by Yilmaz Dziewior, Hripsime Visser, and Camiel van Winkel
Photographer's Paradise is a career retrospective of Jean-Pierre Laffont, one of the most celebrated photojournalists working today and a fresh look at the history of the United States during the pivotal era of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The photographs that make up this first book by renowned photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont serve as a powerful and provocative examination of the American dream. For nearly three decades, Laffont travelled the breadth of the United States, a true embodiment...