Photography Books

German photography pioneer Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) photographed plants so beautifully, and with such originality, that his work transcends the medium itself. Over more than 30 years, he took thousands of photographs, revealing a formally rigorous talent whose precision and dedication bridge the 19th- and 20th-century worlds of image-making and bring a distinctly sculptural aspect to a firmly two-dimensional art form....

"In the good or successful colour photograph, the definition or the meaning of the picture will somehow arise through the use of colour." - Joel Sternfeld Joel Sternfeld entwines two personal stories in this book that together reveal the roots and evolution of colour theory in his work over the past five decades. In the summer of 1975, facing surgery...

With its fairy-tale yet matter-of-fact title, Grace and Beauty reveals Jim Dine's unquenchable enthusiasm for re-imagining his iconic personal motifs—here the Classical torso, hearts and tools—in experimental combinations of media. The book contains his most recent works, all from 2022: mixed-media assemblages, and monumental bronze and stainless-steel sculptures—"an army of sculptures: flowers, machines, and primitive skulls at once"—which he often...

Between May and September 2012, Jerry Spagnoli photographed the myriad faces of people transfixed by an enormous electronic billboard above New York's Times Square. Regard, the result of this ambitious documentary undertaking, is a visual chronicle presenting almost 500 faces of great cultural and individual diversity. The particular billboard in question was set up to periodically display an image of...

While working on his book The Circle in 2005, focusing on the capricious Maremma area in Southern Tuscany, Jan Jedlicka came across a short coastal strip of immense diversity at Principina a Mare near Grosseto. The constant atmospheric transformations of its landscape under the spell of the sky's play of light instantly caught his attention and inspired him to return...

With ATACAMA, Jamey Stillings again shares his distinctive aerial perspective to examine dramatic large-scale renewable energy projects, the visual dynamic of enormous mining operations, and the stark beauty of the Atacama Desert, so often scarred by human activity. Chile produces a third of the world's copper and has the largest known lithium reserves, and we utilise these resources daily in...

Greece. Fifty years ago, James Klosty travelled among its islands, across its mainland, and through its northern mountains. He had no idea where he was and didn't particularly care. Fifty years later, Klosty rather regrets not taking notes but feels strongly that he, personally, has nothing to say about Greece that has not already been said many times. Thus, there...

The cinema of Nigeria, often referred to as Nollywood, is a term coined in the mid-1990s to describe Nigeria's vibrant film industry. It consists of movies produced in the country but watched all over Africa and largely by Africans in the diaspora. The history and development of the Nigerian motion picture industry is sometimes generally classified in four main eras:...

The first monograph showcasing the pop and glossy universe of young Hollywood's favourite photographer Considered young Hollywood's favourite photographer, Vijat Mohindra has created a unique and colourful style that he's brought to the covers of the world's hippest magazines. His ultra-modernist and hyper-synthetic aesthetic appeals to millennials, and the dazzling anti-vérité style of his work has attracted celebrity clientele such...

Polaroids occupy a special place in the hearts of many photo enthusiasts who remember a time when "instant photography" meant one-of-a-kind prints that developed within minutes of clicking the shutter. What was once a crucial tool for photographers to test their shots before shooting on film has now become obsolete in the face of digital photography. Luckily for us, legendary...

The photography of German artist Hans Georg Berger has always focused on investigating identity, whether personal or cultural. Here it is represented through 145 fine quality black and white photographs, printed using the silver gelatin process on baryta paper, starting with the negatives from the artist's Berlin archive. The title Discipline and Senses brings together in a single theme the...

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of this classic, the indelible work of the now-iconic Farm Security Administration photographers. Featuring the work of the 11 photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration—perhaps the finest photographic team assembled in the 20th century—A Vision Shared: A Classic Portrait of America and Its People 1935–1943 was first published in 1976 to great acclaim, and...

Beauty, life's triumph, is fleeting. It heightens the body's sublime aspect, but beneath its effigy lies the spectre of passing time, and so the figure beauty has within it the spectre of decay. Gastel, the great fashion photographer who has been portraying and exalting beauty for years, challenges himself in this work by confronting one of the deepest philosophical and...

Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth is both a retrospective and an investigation into the subject of wealth over the last twenty-five years. Greenfield has travelled the world — from Los Angeles to Moscow, Dubai to China — bearing witness to the global boom-and-bust economy and documenting its complicated consequences. Provoking serious reflection, this book is not about the rich, but about...

Returns to Beirut by Gabriele Basilico, in the words of curator Giovanna Calvenzi, is the book that should be "definitive" to remember a deep and passionate relationship that has linked Gabriele Basilico to the city of Beirut. Over the years, Beirut has also become one of the central cornerstones of his commitment to photography. In addition to a long work...

A new collection of Saul Leiter's work, much of it published here for the first time. Saul Leiter remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s, and his work has been drastically re-evaluated over the last two decades. Leiter's painterly images evoked the flow and rhythm of life on the mid-century streets of...

In Fine Art Inkjet Printing: The Craft and the Art of the Fine Digital Print, photographers learn all they need to know to be able to create beautiful prints worthy of building a print portfolio, selling to clients, or hanging in a home or gallery. In an era of digital capture, digital darkrooms, and online galleries, serious photographers still have...

Dining Alone: In the Company of Solitude is a fine art photography book that highlights the experience of being alone in public. Scherl uses peopled restaurant interiors as a metaphor to explore the complexities of the subject of solitude. The subtle nuances of her lone diners visually define their experience. This long-term project, spanning three decades, culminated during the Covid-19...

Didier Vermeiren marks the occasion of Didier Vermeiren’s eponymous solo exhibition at WIELS in Brussels, illuminating the recurrent strategies of repetition, reversal, doubling, and inversion that the artist explores in his work. Published to coincide with his exhibition, Double Exposition takes its name from a photograph by Vermeiren that refers to its own double exposure ("exposition" in French, which also...

Mortes presents Diana Michener's reflections on the mystery of death. In three visual chapters focused on different themes, Michener explores her complex relationship to her subject: one of terror and wonder, of scientific fact and the inexplicable, of reverence and acceptance. The first chapter, "Heads," shows the heads of cows slaughtered at an abattoir. Fascinated by the ambivalent relationship between...

Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. In more than 100 photos that span Maisel's career, Black Maps presents a hallucinatory worldview encompassing both stark documentary and tragic metaphor, and exploring the relationship between nature and humanity today....

A must-have for beginner photographers. Filled with detailed how-to steps and full-colour illustrations, David Busch's Nikon D3500 Guide to Digital SLR Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for the Nikon D3500 camera, the company's most compact and easy-to-use entry-level dSLR. Taking and sharing pictures is easier than ever, thanks to the D3500's enhanced Guide Mode and SnapBridge Bluetooth...

Danny Clinch has established himself as a premier photographer of the popular music scene, photographing a wide range of artists from Johnny Cash and Tupac Shakur to Björk and Dave Matthews. His photos have appeared on hundreds of album covers, as well as in publications such as Vanity Fair, Spin, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker, and his ad campaigns...

Beautiful photographic-psychological processing of a divorce Danielle Goldstein began this project thirteen years ago at a time of relative innocence. Both in her own life and, in retrospect, in the world. Transience began in an ancient hotel room in Spain. The room felt haunted, and Danielle started thinking about the many souls that may have inhabited that room. She wanted...

This book follows the phenomenal rise of Daniel Cottier (1838–91) from an apprentice coach painter in Glasgow to the founder of Cottier & Co., a fine and decorative arts business with branches on three continents. This gifted designer and brilliant art entrepreneur keenly spotted one of the key aspects of late 19th-century bourgeois culture—its focus on family, home, and church—and...

This is the first publication on American artist Curtis Moffat, who is known for his dynamic abstract photographs, innovative colour still lifes, and some of the most glamorous society portraits of the early twentieth century. Moffat was also a pivotal figure in Modernist interior design and furniture. Living in London throughout the 1920s and early '30s during the era of...

"Gerhard's like a Communist. You have to go into the salt mines with him. If you're willing to go there then you're like brothers in arms and he'll do what needs be." — Robert Polidori In August 2008, Monte Packham began taking notes of events unfolding around him during a typical working day as an editor at Steidl Publishers. Until...

I wanted to show the manufacturing process as clearly as I could, and to do so in this factory meant it would have to be lit. Ironically, my stubbornness in trying to avoid lighting would now have its own unexpected rewards. Because of the desperate amount of time that I had spent there, I knew in a visual way the...

Place, History, and the Archive provides a forty-year survey of Catherine Wagner's photographic work. This is the first volume to contain Wagner's major bodies of work, dating from 1974 to 2016, in one compelling publication. Wagner's incisive photographs move seamlessly and elegantly between different approaches and content following her interest in the ways in which knowledge is transferred. This expansive...

This intimate book explores Broy Lim's realisation of his homosexuality in his hometown of Singapore, where it still remains illegal. Combining personal texts and photos, and now they know narrates Lim's sexual identity and his nine-year relationship with his partner, while also representing the broader struggle of many youths who navigate their sense of self in conservative heteronormative societies. Lim...

Photography provides us with indispensable reserves of ore for our memories, which can be smelted and cast again. - Ai Weiwei Robert Frank carefully entwined his life and work, yet the man behind the camera always remained enigmatic. Goin' Down the Road with Robert Frank is a rare insider's look at Frank's world by his longtime friend and assistant, both...

A book of deeply personal and lush photographs, drawings, and writing, Blue Violet is Cig Harvey's celebration of the natural world and the senses. Blue Violet is a vibrant meditation on the procession of seasons, sensory abundance, and the magic in everyday life. Part art book, botanical guide, historical encyclopedia, and poetry collection, Blue Violet is a compendium of beauty,...

A close look at the work, relationship, and shared influences of two masterful 20th-century artists “The camera,” said Orson Welles, “is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.” It was the camera and the circumstances of the Second World War that first brought together Henry Moore (1898–1986) and Bill Brandt (1904–1983). During the Blitz, both artists produced...

This winter, in the wake of a pandemic, global protest movements, and a dramatic presidential election in the United States, Aperture releases Utopia, an issue that shows that other ways of living are possible when the collective will exists. In Utopia, artists, photographers, and writers envision a world without prisons, document visionary architecture, honour queer space and creativity, and dream...

Born in 1939, Antanas Sutkus learnt of the mass killing of the Jews already during World War II from his grandparents. He felt bitterly opposed to the humiliation and human destruction that occurred in his homeland Lithuania, experiencing shame and guilt for the atrocities committed behind the Vilijampole ghetto gates and the Ninth Fort. During the "Sonderaktion 1005" between 1942...

From November 2013 to April 2014, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain showcased América Latina 1960-2013, organised in collaboration with the Amparo Museum in Puebla (Mexico). The exhibition offered a new perspective on Latin American photography from 1960 to today, focusing on the relationship between text and the photographic image. Bringing together more than seventy artists from eleven different countries,...

The setup is classic and familiar: a table draped with a white cloth, a dish of fruit, a sugar bowl. Yet instead of the meal awaiting an unseen viewer's consumption, as in a classic still life, Laura Letinsky photographs what remains on the table after the food has been eaten, leaving only crumbs, melon rinds, a cantaloupe pocked with rot...

The American photographer Abe Frajndlich has close connections with New York. He describes the city as his muse and repeatedly records it and its people in haunting photographs. This volume shows selected, highly personal images which are very different from the ubiquitous postcards and poster views, which is lavishly illustrated in this book. Abe Frajndlich (born 1946, Frankfurt am Main)...

Ylla (1911-55) devoted herself exclusively to animal portraiture at a time when no one had thought of only photographing animals. Driven by her symbiotic relationship with animals, she created a new genre in animal photography: the expression and personality in animals. Ylla: The Birth of Modern Animal Photography recounts the eventful odyssey of a "New Woman" par excellence, fearless and...

A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph. At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honour what is greater and more interesting than we are.

While it has traditionally been seen as a means of documenting an external reality or expressing an internal feeling, photography is now capable of actualizing never-existed pasts and never-lived experiences. Thanks to the latest photographic technologies, we can now take photos in computer games, interpolate them in extended reality platforms, or synthesize them via artificial intelligence. To account for the...

The first major book in two decades by the pioneering underwater photographer, beloved as the 'Audubon of the sea'. The ocean covers more than seventy percent of our planet, and yet we rarely glimpse its depths and especially its exquisite beauty as documented by legendary photographer David Doubilet. His work in and on water has set the standard for decades....

A new manga from the creator of the acclaimed A Silent Voice, featuring intimate, emotional drama and an epic story spanning time and space... Now a hit anime! To Your Eternity 22 is a gripping narrative filled with suspense and adventure. Kaibara has captured Tonari and Bon, holding them behind security so tight that not even Fushi can break in....

This text examines Vilem Flusser's philosophy of photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science, and politics provided him with new ways of understanding both the cultural crises of the past and the new social forms nascent within them. Flusser showed how the transformation of textual into visual culture and of industrial into post-industrial society went hand...

A curated collection of 100 stunning black and white images from some of the world's more unique locations. In a world of staggering colour, it's a bold choice in the modern age to strip colour out of the equation and present visuals of the planet in time-honoured black and white. In Tones of Grace, Canadian photographer, author, speaker, and educator...

The Year That Changed Our World is the definitive, visual history of the Covid-19 Pandemic. With more than 400 photographs, this ambitious publication traces the arc of the Pandemic from China in early 2020 through to the vaccine breakthroughs of Spring 2021. Behind the relentless nature of the daily news since the events in Wuhan in early 2020 first broke,...

Now available as a paperback: the history of a disturbing image, now iconic, that expressed the turmoil of the 1970s and race relations in the United States, with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Ted Landsmark. In 1976, Boston was bitterly divided over a court order to desegregate its public schools. Plans to bus students between...

"A vivid reminder of the shared history that connects us all." - Jasmine Bager, Arab News The Silk Road: A Living History is a vibrant visual journey from renowned travel photographer and writer Christopher Wilton-Steer, allowing readers to explore the cities, landscapes, and communities along the storied Silk Road with the turn of a page. In 2019, Christopher embarked on...

In this book, popular Fuji Rumors X-Pert Corner columnist Rico Pfirstinger teaches you about the little-known capabilities of the Fujifilm X-T3, which he's discovered through months of in-depth research and experimentation with the camera. After a brief overview of the camera's basic functions, Rico cuts to the chase and provides a plethora of tips and practical instructions not found in...

Scott Kelby, the world's number one best-selling author of photography technique books, presents a new concept in photography and flash books. This book is designed from the ground up to get you straight to whatever it is you need to do with a flash right now, providing instant answers so you can get back to shooting. Thanks to inexpensive flashes...

Featuring photographs and video stills made over more than a decade, The Distance Within reflects on Nicola Brandt's German and Namibian inheritance and deconstructs certain established ways of seeing Namibia. Brandt travelled the country extensively, documenting landscapes and people, structures and encounters, to reveal ensnared histories of German colonialism, National Socialism, and apartheid. Markers of these histories range from the...

The must-have guidebook for creating great food photographs! The Complete Guide to Food Photography is a visually stunning, eminently useful, and comprehensive resource for creating fantastic food photographs. In this book, professional food photographer Lauren Short teaches you her entire image-making process, as she covers lighting, composition, styling, storytelling, editing, and processing great food photographs. In the first part of...

Create gorgeous boudoir photographs with this handy deck of cards! The Boudoir Posing Deck is full of high-quality posing examples to help guide and inspire photographers and models to create the perfect boudoir session! In this deck, which is presented as a beautiful set of 4x6 cards in an attractive case, photographer and bestselling author Lindsay Adler provides 50 unique...

‘Here Mofokeng and Goldblatt's works are entangled, sometimes wrested from customary projects, chronologies, labels and oeuvres so that each image can be viewed anew, providing the possibility for unlikely synergies and slippages to emerge.’ - Tamar Garb This is the second publication in The Walther Collection Books series at Steidl, focusing on a dialogue between two of the most important...

The artist Stefan Hunstein brought magical photographs of untouched landscapes back from his journey to the Arctic in 2012. In their majesty and beauty, their immensity and their deadly cold, they echo the visions of ice in painting and literature, especially during the Romantic era. The publication shows a selection of these breathtaking photographs which are being presented in public...

On one of Spencer Ostrander's early visits to Times Square, the rain began to fall. The people in the crowd, suddenly draped in plastic, were transformed into abstract, brilliant reflections of the massive advertising that surrounded them. Designed to entrap the consumer with illusions of status, the good life, and happiness by product, the vast LED light boards turned visitors...

In Soviet Seasons, Kotov's photographs reveal unfamiliar aspects of the post-Soviet terrain. From snow-blanketed Siberia in winter to the mountains of the Caucasus in summer, these images show how a once powerful, utopian landscape has been affected by the weight of nature itself. This uniquely broad perspective could only be achieved by a photographer such as Kotov. Singularly dedicated to...

In the summer of 1971, Michael Lesy and a friend found most of the snapshots in Snapshots 197177 in a dumpster behind a gigantic photo-processing plant in San Francisco. The photos were in the trash because the machines that printed them made them so fast—duplicates, triplicates, quadruplicates—that the people on the processing line couldn't stop them. Week after week, Lesy...

Jenny Sampson's follow-up to her acclaimed collection of tintype skateboarder portraits (Skaters, Daylight 2017) focuses on female skateboarders. Although historically a male-dominated sport, there have always been girls in the skateboarding landscape. By turning her lens on these members of the community all over California, Washington, and Oregon, Sampson hopes to increase visibility and honour these girls, young and older,...

A revelatory look at the photography that shaped the American Jazz Age. In this book, Alan John Ainsworth considers the work of a range of American jazz photographers from the turn of the twentieth century through the Jazz Age and into the 1960s. Drawing on extensive archival research, Ainsworth examines jazz as a visual subject, explores its attraction to different...

An ideal introduction for anyone looking to explore the medium of film - Black & White Photography In a world where we are bombarded with visual imagery, making your photos stand out from the crowd is getting harder by the day, but film will give you that edge - and let you discover a whole new way of shooting in...

Shakespeare by McBean collects 300 images, many never before published, taken by the renowned photographer Angus McBean. Incorporating images from every one of Shakespeare's plays performed at the RSC, with some from the Old Vic, between the years 1945-62, it is a veritable who's who of the British stage. Richard Burton, Vivien Leigh, Robert Donat, Alec Guinness, Michael Redgrave, Peggy...

An economic and cultural revolution has shaken the photobook world in the last five years: self-publishing. An army of photographers operating as publishers have had an instrumental role in today's photobook renaissance. Self Publish, Be Happy offers a do-it-yourself manual and a survey of key examples of self-published success stories, as well as a self-publishing manifesto and list of resources....

The debut monograph of Sebastian Sabal-Bruce showcases a mesmerizing collection of portraits and landscapes, elegantly woven together in a cinematic and poetic sequence. Primarily featuring the diverse places and faces Sabal-Bruce has encountered throughout his career, this work blurs the lines between fiction and documentary. It subtly weaves a narrative centered on a female protagonist emerging from the confining urban...

The book features hundreds of previously unseen images of bands including: Faith, Rites of Spring, Dinosaur Jr, Embrace, Opal, Galaxie 500, Beat Happening, Sonic Youth, Scratch Acid, Pussy Galore and early Nirvana. Interviews by key band members make this an essential resource for any fashion or music enthusiast. Following on from the success of A Scene In Between, revised edition,...

AUTOPORTRAIT is the first comprehensive survey of Samuel Fosso's multifaceted oeuvre. Since the mid-1970s, the artist has focused on self-portraiture and performance, envisioning variations of identity in the postcolonial era. From Fosso's early self-portraits in black-and-white from the 1970s to his recent, continually inventive exercises in self-presentation, highlights include the vibrant series "Tati" (1997), in which he playfully inhabits African...

Remains to be Seen explores a disappearing but still tangible American landscape, from the rust-belt towns of the Midwest to the borscht-belt resorts of the Catskill mountains. Using drone photography with documentary candour and precision, Travis Fox creates a visually sumptuous record of former industrial sites and abandoned neighbourhoods that persist as incisions on the landscape and scars in the...

Prophetic Kingdom is an ongoing photographic investigation exploring scenes of the everyday and overlooked. The images give an allegorical nod towards a prophesied postlapsarian world.

Conquer portable strobes and hot shoe flash to create extraordinary portraits! Whether you use small, portable strobes or hot shoe flash, flash photography has always been daunting for most photographers. Without a system and workflow for thinking about and working with flash, you can easily end up feeling stuck, or you end up flailing—randomly changing settings, positions, and modifiers—and hoping...

In Photography After Frank, former New York Times writer and picture editor Philip Gefter narrates the tale of contemporary photography, beginning at the pivotal moment when Robert Frank commenced his seminal works of the 1950s. Along the way, he connects the dots of photography's evolution into what it is today, forging links between its episodes to reveal unsuspected leaps. Gefter...

In Photographing Ina, Philip Trager, renowned for his black and white images, embraces colour for the first time. These striking and intimate photographs reveal Trager's sophisticated, complex use of colour, presenting an unanticipated and layered reality. The images are as much about the act of photographing, perception, colour and light, as they are about his subject, whose presence is a...

Written intimately and in the first person, Persimmon and Frog reveals a less familiar story from World War II. Born in America to immigrant farmers, Kimura was visiting Japan as a 10-year-old when the US entered the war. She was stranded in Japan and spent her preteen and adolescent years in that foreign country, an American who looked completely Japanese....

Taken between 2008 and 2013 in New York, Lisbon, Paris and Berlin as well as in the French and Portuguese countryside, these photographs by Paulo Nozolino bear his usual dark symbolic syntax. Still using 35mm film and occasionally a flash, this tight sequence of vertical pictures shows us, once again, his everlasting concern for the state of the world and...

"Each photograph is like a diary entry of my life." —Patti Smith This captivating selection of 70 intimate black and white photographs conveys Patti Smith's singular experience as a photographer as it relates to many facets of her fascinating life and career. Exquisitely designed and produced, Patti Smith: Camera Solo accompanies the first museum exhibition of the artist's photography in...

Outer Boroughs: New York beyond Manhattan continues the tradition -- actually the several traditions -- of photography in New York City. The predecessors of William Meyers worked almost entirely in Manhattan, but he worked in the other four boroughs -- Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Most of his pictures were taken on anonymous streets where the people of the...

Blurred landscapes, falling trees, and the lofty peaks of the Pyrenees — the extraordinary aesthetics of Ori Gersht's work seduce the viewer. But beneath the beautiful first appearances lie the sites of historical events; in this way, the artist makes visible what is no longer plain to see. Ori Gersht (b. 1967) views the landscape as the location of past...

On the Move features three different groups of nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralists in three vastly different regions - the Central Sahara in Africa, the Arabian Gulf, and the Central Eurasian steppes. It highlights crosscutting themes relevant to contemporary concerns about the human condition and our planetary future. The book shares lessons we might learn from the ways of pastoral nomads,...

"Photography is just another way to feel wrong. Like poetry, like food, like hatred." So say twin brothers Fabio and Damiano D'Innocenzo in this beautiful, fun and surreal book. Night Pharmacy illustrates the D'Innocenzo brothers' hunger to see, drawing on their need to express themselves in a multiplicity of artistic languages from drawing to film to photography. The subjects of...

In Mtindo, award-winning photographer Daniele Tamagni captures a new young generation of creative minds—so-called "style movers"—who are today on the main scene of Africa. From musicians to artists and filmmakers, the aim of this photographic project is to present to the rest of the world the power of such a continent through arts and fashion. The African trend is now...

An anthology of the four seminal photobooks that form the foundation of Daido Moriyama's photographic career: Japan, A Photo Theater, A Hunter, Farewell Photography and Light and Shadow. Once regarded as the most challenging and radical of the photographers to emerge from Japan in the post-war period, Daido Moriyama is now accepted as an international figure. His stream of publications,...