A collection of images that brings together the work of over 30 photographers, spanning a 30-year period. The pictures chart the history of popular music in the latter half of the 20th century, and include such illustious subjects as The Clash, Madonna, Jimi Hendrix and the Spice Girls.
Winky Lewis and Susan Conley, a photographer and a writer in Portland, tried an experiment. At the start of every week for a year, Winky sent Susan a photograph: of their children, of the street where they live as neighbors, and of other green places in Maine. By the end of that week Susan sent a tiny story back that talked to the photograph. Stop Here, This Is The Place tells the story of a year in which children's arms and legs get longer, and traces of babyhood fade--a year that feels intermi...
FunkyTown digs into British photographer Dean Freeman's archive--it goes way beyond Beckham--to gather published and unpublished portraiture, fashion and reportage spanning three decades of youth culture, from the 1980s to the present. His star portrait subjects include Liz Hurley, Sandra Bullock, Rachel Weisz, Dennis Hopper, Harold Pinter and Guy Ritchie. But beyond glamour and stardom, beyond Freeman's understanding of and comfort with the models, pop stars and writers for whom he has been a t...
David Douglas Duncan presents a photographic record of the life which Picasso and Jacqueline shared together in their home. The author was a friend of the couple and records the time he spent with them, from his first visit in 1956 to Picasso's death in 1973 and afterwards, until Jacqueline herself died in 1986. He portrays their everyday domestic life, their leisure time and intimate moments and also shows Picasso at work on his paintings. Duncan recalls "The three of us enjoyed a life so close...
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016
by Richard McClure and Nicholas Cullinnan
This book provides a unique opportunity to see an inspiring range of portraits from contemporary photographers selected from thousands of submissions. The works included are not only about the sitters but also reveal the outstanding skill of the photographers, in capturing a moment in time, and conveying something of the spirit of those photographed. This year’s In Focus display, the second in the competition’s history ,features previously unseen photographs by Cristina de Middel that will be ex...
The M.I.L.K. collection of photographs aims to depict the joy, heartbreak and love that shape and make up our lives. Introduced by Maeve Binchy, this second volume expresses the sweetness of true friendship - the laughter and happiness in sharing life's pleasures with another. The photos were selected by Elliot Erwitt from 1000s entered by professional and amateur photographers to explore the idea of friendship.
For the first time ever, "Playboy" has collected together every single Centerfold from every single issue. That's over 600 beauties. In this luxurious volume, we've reproduced these Centerfolds exactly as they appeared in the magazine (one foot by nearly two feet tall). Housed in a handsome linen-covered clamshell art box carrying case, this colossal, chronological collection is the ultimate indulgence for any passionate "Playboy" aficionado. With an intro from Hugh Hefner and chapter openers fr...
When considered as an object the photograph exists physically in the world, it belongs to someone; it gets held, it has weight, value. I've been interested in this concept for some time. It was this interest plus the recurrent use of my images online without my permission that motivated the creation of the series Little Romances. I have always made very personal work, my current emotional state and interests get translated directly into my images. Most all these images reflect questions and...
Who are we?' asks Susan Sontag. The 'we' encompasses a broad spectrum. The women in this book include the anonymous, chief justices, strippers, aerospace engineers, athletes, scientists, and the First Lady. It is an anthology of women which culminates in a great portrait of women of all races and religions, at the end of the century. It is part of the story of how women are presented and how they think of themselves.
Annie Leibovitz's extraordinary career took off in San Francisco in 1970 when she first submitted a portfolio to Rolling Stone magazine. By 1973 she was the magazine's chief photographer. Since 1983 Annie Leibovitz has worked closely with Vanity Fair, who will be producing a special music issue to coincide with the book. Her subjects include Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Dolly Parton, Marvin Gaye, Chuck Berry and even Philip Glass. She has cre...
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...
Women: South Africans of Indian origin 150 years of struggle
by Devi Rajab and Ranjith Kally
Examining the placement of Indian women in South African society, this engaging history features profiles and photographic portraits as it imparts a rich cultural milieu beyond aromatic spices and glittering jewelry. Arguing that postapartheid freedom has allowed for a renaissance among women achievers in the Indian community, this book not only charts the areas where this development has occurred but also shares the hopes of the women too often ignored in public discourse. A story of resilience...
White Women (Schirmer art books on art, photography & erotics)
by Helmut Newton
This book reveals an overlooked, playful and bizarre side of Philippe Halsman, one of the most innovative photographers of the 20th century. Most of the images in this distinctive volume which include private and experimental photographs, decontextualized advertisements, outtakes from famous sittings, contact sheets and family snapshots have never been seen as a body of work in their own right. One of Philippe Halsman's many aphorisms, The way a photographer sees is an extension of his character...
A nationally recognized artist and photographer (1924-1999), Rita Hammond was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. ""Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman"" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's longtime collaboration with Lynn Moser. Juxtaposing images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman twenty years la...