The Dutch are bicycle crazy. Nowhere else in the world is bicycling so ingrained in the culture as it is in the Netherlands, and never before has anyone captured its essence quite like American photographer and author Shirley Agudo, a long-time resident there. Depicted in this enlightening and amusing book are young, old and even naked cyclists in a country with more bicycles than inhabitants, transporting 'anything and everything' on their bikes from tables and mattresses to four or five childr...
Unprecedented, behind the scenes photography and anecdotes of six American Presidents and their administrations, from Gerald Ford to George W.Bush. SPECIAL BEHIND-THE-SCENES ACCESS: Diana Walker obtained special access to photograph the daily lives of the Carters, the Reagans, the Fords, the Clintons, and the Bushes. She spent time with them at public events, private meetings, in off hours, and on vacation, establishing a special rapport that led to emotional and insightful pictures of astoundin...
“When we lift every voice, we forge a deep and enduring connection to the past—and carve a tunnel of hope to a brighter future for us all.” -Oprah Winfrey “This book, above all else, is a reminder of where we have been and the debt we owe to those who came before. These Americans have not passed the torch, but are clasping it with us, urging us to continue the work alongside them,”-Nikole Hannah-Jones More than 50 elders share their remarkable experiences of being Black in America in a coll...
Doreen Spooner was a pioneer.The story of Fleet Street's first female photographer is a remarkable journey of glamour, heartbreak and loss. This is a book about adventure, success and a working mum's determination to make it in a man's world.Starting as a photographer in the 1940s, Doreen ended up in the male-dominated world of Fleet Street in the early sixties, when a personal crisis forced her to take her camera back out to work.This memoir recounts, in her own words, her struggles with marita...
Only Ernest Withers, a key figure in the civil rights movement, could have delivered such iconic photographs—and the kind of information the FBI wanted . . . Renowned photographer Ernest Withers captured some of the most stunning moments of the civil rights era—from the age-defining snapshot of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., riding one of the first integrated buses in Montegomery, to the haunting photo of Emmett Till’s great-uncle pointing an accusing finger at his nephew’s killers. He was trust...
In the 12 years that the National Socialist Party was in power in Germany, upwards of 15,000 concentration and labour camps were established in the Greater Reich and the occupied countries to incarcerate all who were deemed enemies of the state.�Contents includes: GERMANY Dachau, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, Flossenburg, Neuengamme, Ravensbruck, Niederhagen/Wewelsburg, Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora-Nordhausen, Arbeitsdorf.�AUSTRIA Mauthausen. BELGIUM Breendonk, Mechelen: Case...
Month by month year by year the Chronicle of the 20th Century provides an outstandingly vivid comprehensive record of the age we live in. More than 5 000 articles describe all the major events of the century as they happened backed up by clear and concise chronological summaries. Illustrated with over 3 500 of the century's best news photographs Chronicle of the 20th Century covers key developments in politics technology art fashion and sport. This entertaining and informative book will...
Starting at the age of nine, Basil Hyman (b. 1936) has taken hundreds of photographs of everyday life in Britain. In Photographs Found he looks back to the swinging sixties' of his youth with an array of images that capture everything from sports to travel to leisure and beauty contests--as well as previously unpublished informal shots of his friend and relative Brian Epstein, an iconic 60s figure and the Beatles' first manager, widely credited with shaping their early success.'
Portrait of Britain
by Hoxton Mini Press and British Journal of Photography
