Photography Books

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 - 1903) is considered the father of landscape architecture in the United States and created several renowned urban parks and park systems across the country. With a stunning black and white series of trees by Stanley Greenberg, dating to the beginnings of these parks, Olmsted Trees (Bilingual edition) offers an intimate encounter with Olmsted, his motifs,...

OBJECT: PHOTO shifts the dialogue about modernist photography from an emphasis on the subject and the image to the actual photographic object, created by a certain artist at a particular time and present today in its unique physicality. This shift is especially significant for a study of the period during which photography developed a distinctive formal language. A growing awareness...

This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera, wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography, Marilyn. TASCHEN has paired Mailer's original text with Bert Stern's photographs from the legendary Last Sitting—widely considered the most intimate photographs of Monroe ever...

Designed for photographers who haven't memorised every button, dial, setting, and feature on their Nikon Z7 II, Rocky Nook's handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the shot when you're out and about. Confirm that your camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklist. Identify every button and dial on your camera. Learn the essential modes...

In an essay here, cultural critic and curator Negar Azimi articulates a singular problem of being a photographer in the Arab Middle East. "Taswir" (or picture making), according to many Arab scholars, is prohibited by Muslim law, thus the notorious adage 'mamnous el taswir' (forbidden to photograph) exists in ubiquitous fashion, seemingly at every turn of the photographer's visual field....

National Geographic Rarely Seen is National Geographic's dazzling photography book of visual wonders, shot by some of the world's finest photographers, revealing a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. This New York Times bestseller features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade heirlooms seldom seen by human eyes. It's all here: 30,000-year-old cave...

A searing, diaristic portrayal of a city and society in revolution by Magnum nominee Myriam Boulos In her debut monograph, Myriam Boulos: What's Ours casts an unflinching eye on the revolution that began in Lebanon in 2019 with protests against government corruption and austerity – culminating with the aftermath of the devastating Beirut port explosion of August 2020. She portrays...

A gorgeous full-colour coffee table book celebrating the art of one of BC's finest potters, My Life as a Potter recounts Mary Fox's long journey to the peak of her craft. Part memoir, part coming-of-age story, and part handbook for ceramicists, Fox's narrative expresses the passion she feels for her work and the joy she has found in living the...

This book presents a simplified and practical vision of the muscular functions of the human body to help you in your drawing studies, encouraging both accuracy and movement. Bodybuilder athletes offer us an ideal repertoire of shapes and proportions for the representation of the superheroes and superheroines we find in comic books, animated films, cinema, and video games. This book...

Mona Kuhn: Works is the first retrospective by one of the most respected and widely exhibited contemporary art photographers of today. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, Kuhn's underlying theme involves humanity's longing for spiritual interconnectivity. She is renowned for developing close relationships with her subjects, resulting in images of remarkable intimacy. Kuhn employs a range of playful...

Who owns the land, by whose authority, and with what rights? These questions led Mitch Epstein to make Property Rights, a collection of photographs and short texts examining the American government's ongoing legacy of property confiscation, and how communities gather to resist. Epstein began this series in 2017 at Standing Rock, where thousands protested the installation of the Dakota Access...

"You will never look at a beetle or a moth the same way again." --WIRED "Art meets science to dazzling effect." --The Guardian Microsculpture is a unique photographic study of insects in mind-blowing magnification that celebrates the wonders of nature and science. Levon Biss's photographs capture in breathtaking detail the beauty of the insect world and are printed in large-scale...

This book is a visual biography of the legendary Swiss aviation pioneer Alfred Comte (1895-1965). Combining historical photos and documents with texts by Comte's son (also Alfred) and grandson, the photographer Michel Comte, the book is the first to comprehensively explore the aviator's extraordinary life and achievements. Alfred Comte grew up in the village of Delsberg in the Berner Jura,...

The quintessential collection of iconic photographs and poignant texts that reveal the visual and cultural legacy of American icon Michael Bolton as captured by longtime collaborator, renowned photographer, and dear friend Timothy White. In 1987, celebrity photographer Timothy White received a call from American musician Michael Bolotin’s (now Bolton) record company, inviting him to work on a photo shoot. When...

Silent Cities presents Mat Hennek's portraits of some of the world's great cities—from New York, Los Angeles and London, to Tokyo, Munich and Abu Dhabi—yet all curiously lacking people. Conceived and constructed by man as vessels for human activity, these metropolises are transformed by Hennek into monuments of silence: empty, sometimes eerie sites for rituals of work and recreation that...

Talking heads are boring! Master Shots, Vol. 2 changes all that and gives you 100 inspiring ways to shoot dialogue. Each technique is taken from a popular movie, showing how to set up your camera and move your actors to give each scene the drama, clarity, and energy it deserves. Be boring no more! Master Shots, Vol. 2 gives you...

Mastering the Nikon D850 by Darrell Young provides a wealth of experience-based information and insights for owners of the new D850 camera, exploring the features and capabilities of the camera in a way that far surpasses the user's manual. Darrell helps users navigate past the confusion that often comes with complex and powerful professional camera equipment, guiding readers through the...

In Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and Their Behavior, acclaimed bird photographer and author Marie Read shares techniques and stories behind her compelling images, offering fresh insights into making successful bird photographs, whether you're out in the field or in the comfort of your own backyard. In this richly illustrated book, you'll learn how...

From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of knowledge, learning, and imagination offers a sense of infinite possibility. It's the unrivaled realm of discovery, where every faded manuscript...

In 1952, after becoming one of the first-ever recipients of a Master of Science degree in Photography at Chicago's Institute of Design, native New Yorker Marvin E. Newman returned to his hometown. Like many artists before, he set about chronicling the city. Unlike his predecessors, Newman chose colour photography as the preeminent medium for capturing the people and energy of...

Martin Parr Portraits: Postcard Box celebrates the work of Martin Parr (b.1952), a British photographer acclaimed for capturing the essence of our times. His photography allows viewers to see the world from his distinct viewpoint, reflecting both his global travels and familiar settings. Portraiture frequently surfaces in Parr's oeuvre, provoking reflection on how we live, present ourselves, and perceive the...

Over the past two years, New York-based Mark Peterson (born 1955) has photographed American presidential candidates as they lead rallies, meet with the public, and plead for votes. He began documenting the race shortly before the government shutdown in 2013 at a Tea Party rally at the US Capitol, when politicians were railing against President Obama and the Affordable Care...

A comprehensive documentation of a special conceptual position in artistic jewellery, this is Margit Hart's first autobiography that unites her jewellery with the abstract photographic works for the first time. Austrian jewellery artist Margit Hart has created an extremely diverse oeuvre in contemporary jewellery over the past twenty-five years. Mindscapes—the name of the book now available as well as of...

This book is Margaret Courtney-Clarke's visual ode to her home country of Namibia, and describes the bare circumstances of ordinary Namibians, of women and men forced to negotiate ravaged lives. Returning to Namibia in 2009 after decades of living abroad, Courtney-Clarke encountered a changed country in the throes of unrestrained development, the Namib Desert desecrated, and peoples migrating from rural...

Making Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who worked in experimental film pushed the medium toward abstraction through a number of unconventional filmmaking practices, including painting and scratching directly on the film strip; deteriorating film with water,...

An unprecedented and eye-opening examination of the early career of one of America’s most celebrated photographers. One of the most influential photographers of his generation, Ansel Adams (1902–1984) is famous for his dramatic photographs of the American West. Although many of Adams’s images are now iconic, his early work has remained largely unknown. In this first monograph dedicated to the...

Ambitious in scope, democratic in nature, Magnum Streetwise is an unmissable tour through the photographs and practices that have helped define what street photography is and can be. Magnum photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson pioneered 'modern' concepts of street photography before the term was even coined. But their influence is far from historic. A rich seam of street photography runs...

It's no surprise that some of the world's finest photographers have worked in and around a bicycle race at some point in their careers. Cycling provides the perfect subject for reportage, social documentary, and street photography because it happens in real time and real life. It isn't a traditional stadium or circuit sport: the action happens on the street outside...

With Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky, and Jeff Wall, the exhibition spotlights four master photographers whose visual constructions call into question the possibilities and limits of human perception and the photographic medium. Both in analogue and digital form, these artists create unconventional perspectives on reality. Their spectrum of subjects ranges from fleeting scenes of daily life to enigmatic incidents...

Lake Pictures is a series of photographs of Lake Huron, one of the Great Lakes bordering the state of Michigan. The pictures—taken at the same place, during the four seasons, and at different times of day and night—explore the changing atmospheric nature of the lake through the prisms of water, sky, colour, light, place, space and time. Looking at this...

The perfect primer on American photographer Louis Stettner. Brooklyn-born Louis Stettner (1922-2016) first took up a camera as a teenager and went on to establish an extraordinary career that lasted almost eighty years. After photographing life on the streets of New York, he joined the famous Photo League and befriended Sid Grossman and Weegee. In the Second World War, he...

Looking Again is as much about photography, in a broader sense, as it is about the specific photographs reproduced within it. It is designed to provide the reader with a glimpse into both the collection at the New Orleans Museum of Art and into photography's complexity. Through 132 objects and essays, Russell Lord explores the many histories of photography, addressing...

The Unreal Real, Liza Ryan's fifth publication, surveys the last two decades of her work. Thirteen chapters, loosely organised by chronology and series, present a collection of Ryan's nuanced observations. Trained as a photographer and a student of literature, Ryan uses images as language as she moves fluidly between photography and video, collage and mixed media, to capture her diverse...

In her new book, Lise Sarfati: Oh Man, Lise Sarfati takes us back to the oddly deserted heart of the city of Los Angeles. Almost deserted ... as lonesome men walk dispassionately through the streets, as if on a mission but without any obvious destination. The sun in Oh Man is high, the unifying emptiness of the street basked in...

How Lewis Carroll's photographs of children gave visual form to evolving ideas about childhood in the Victorian era. Lewis Carroll's Photography and Modern Childhood, by Diane Waggoner, delves into how Lewis Carroll began photographing children in the mid-nineteenth century—an era when the burgeoning medium of photography was introducing new possibilities for visual representation, and the concept of childhood itself was...

In these dynamic live and backstage photos taken in London, New York, and other locations, Sid Vicious is alive and sneering, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers barely have a tattoo between them. Deborah Harry of Blondie pouts seductively, and a young DeeDee Ramone glistens with sweat. The crowds are moshing and the hairdos are tremendous. Legends of Punk captures...

László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), painter, photographer, Bauhaus teacher, and founder of the New Bauhaus and the School of Design in Chicago, is one of the most important artist personalities of the modern age. As one of the first artists to work in multiple media—practising painting, sculpture, photography, film, and design as equally valid art genres—he set standards that are still relevant...

With a power serve of 129 miles per hour and countless titles to her name (including number one in the world), Venus Williams is an amazing force in the world of tennis. She stands at 6'1" and possesses great reach, or "wingspan," and a rare mental tenacity that has put many, many trophies on her mantelpiece. It was thanks to...

Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intricate picture of how the ancient Egyptian people viewed the perilous journey to paradise, a utopian Egypt that could only be entered following the final judgment. When acclaimed...

Kimowan Metchewais: Some Kind of Prayer presents the first-ever survey dedicated to the late Cree artist Kimowan Metchewais and his singular body of work on Indigenous identity, community, and colonial memory. After his untimely death at age forty-seven in 2011, Metchewais left behind a wholly original and expansive body of photographic and mixed-media work. At the centre of his practice...

Published to mark the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's historic visit to Berlin in June 1963, Kennedy in Berlin captures the event in a series of hitherto unpublished photographs by Ulrich Mack. Technically superb, Mack's photographs feature both the great set pieces of the visit, and candid, unscripted and personal moments in stunning close-up.

The North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom. At the same time, it's a profoundly masculine myth—cowboys, outlaws, Beat poets. Photographer Justine Kurland reclaimed this space in her now-iconic series of images of teenage girls, taken between 1997 and 2002 on the road in the American wilderness. Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures is a collection...

Before the beginning of his exile, Koudelka had already produced two works of great importance. One documented the Prague Spring, while the other, on gypsies, could almost have been an ethnological study had its images not been charged with so much emotion. Unknown in 1970, he has risen to become one of the most powerful photographers of the day. This...

John Riddy's photographs are distinguished by a combination of poetic delicacy and formal precision, evident since his earliest pictures made in London in the late 1980s. Working consistently in series, Riddy has created collective studies of urban architecture and rural landscapes in countries as disparate as Japan, Italy, South Africa, and the United States, in every case exploiting the capacity...

John Gossage, the renowned American photographer and photography book-maker, presents two companion volumes and his first ever books in colour. Engaged in a dance, neither book comes first, there is no hierarchy or sequence to the pair of volumes. Gossage is one of the most literary of photographic book authors and in The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler, the narrative, whilst not...

This surreally lyrical, sexually charged book collects Jimmy DeSana's earlier work, made from 1980 to 1983. For his series Suburban, DeSana staged photos of nude subjects in various evocative poses, entwined with everyday objects and lit with gel-covered tungsten lights. Rather than constructing a space, the "suburban" was a place of examining stereotypes and norms. Of this series, DeSana told...

With painstaking care and the use of multiple exposures, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao crafts each of his images with technological precision. Shooting primarily with a large-format film camera, then scanning and digitally editing the negatives, Liao creates enormous, detail-driven panoramas of the social and urban landscape of New York. This oversized monograph includes photographs taken over the last ten years. From...

In this book, Jamey Stillings synthesises his environmental interests with a long-held fascination for the intersections of nature and human activity. In October 2010, before construction commenced, Stillings began a three-and-a-half-year aerial exploration over what has become the world's largest concentrated solar power plant, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert of California. From the stark terrain...

Iyanu: Child of Wonder Volume 4 is now a Cartoon Network/Max/Lion Forge Animation animated series! Iyanu must face her destiny and save all of Yorubaland! She has help from her friends—Biyi, a carefree adventurer; Toye, the bookworm; and Ekun, the magical and opinionated giant leopard! Iyanu: Child of Wonder Volume 4 is now a Cartoon Network/HBO Max/Lion Forge Animation animated...

Although now poised for widespread popularity in China, abstract art still has a special status compared to figurative art. Its appeal in recent years has been increased by photographic artist Xiao Hui Wang and installation artist Wang Xiaosong, who seem "Western" in China and "Asian" to the West. IntroSpection analyses the latest works by these two renowned artists.

Now available in paperback! Peter C. Bunnell has been a major force in shaping the discourse about photography. During his 30-some years as an influential professor and curator at Princeton University, he has written extensively. This classic collection of texts, available for the first time in paperback and selected from work published throughout his career, makes a significant contribution to...

In 1911, the French publisher Lucien Vogel challenged Edward Steichen to create the first artistic, rather than merely documentary, fashion photographs, a moment that is now considered to be a turning point in the history of fashion photography. As fashion changed over the next century, so did the photography of fashion. Steichen’s modernist approach was forthright and visually arresting. In...

Learn how to take spectacular shots of every type of garden, all year round, with this definitive guide. Whether you want to create professional images of your own garden, snap Instagram-worthy shots with your iPhone, or learn the best ways to showcase your landscaping business or hobby, How to Photograph Gardens by Jason Ingram has it all. Using techniques developed...

Henry Leutwyler's new book Document reveals the unseen, the humble, and the intimate within iconic moments: the first moonwalk, political assassinations, the lives of musicians, artists, and athletes. The product of twelve years of discovery and dreaming, Document is a collection of portraits of things: Mahatma Ghandi's sandal, Alan Shepard's golf club, Janis Joplin's acoustic guitar, Jack Ruby's handgun. Leutwyler...

Helmut Newton (1920-2004) lived and worked all over the world and was one of the most internationally famous and controversial photographers of the 20th century. His shots at haute couture and the beau monde are instantly recognisable, having appeared in virtually every major magazine in Europe and the United States. From his early work for Vogue to his portraits of...

In 1578, a labyrinth of underground burials was discovered in Rome, containing the remains of thousands of individuals assumed to be early Christian martyrs. The bones were disinterred and sent to many Catholic churches and religious houses in German-speaking Europe to replace holy relics destroyed during the Protestant Reformation. Reassembled by skilled artisans, encrusted with gold and jewels, and richly...

In early 1964, photographer Harry Benson received a call from the photo editor of London's Daily Express, who asked him to cover the Beatles' trip to Paris. It was the beginning of a career-defining relationship, which would both make Benson's name and produce some of the most intimate photographs ever taken of the Beatles. In Paris, Benson captured the Fab...

You know them by their first names: Christy. Naomi. Linda. Kate. Gisele. Their faces are unforgettable. They are supermodels, and the pages of Harper's Bazaar are their stage—and the stage for fashion's biggest names. Harper's Bazaar: Models gives an exclusive look at the top models that have graced the magazine for the last sixty years. Harper's Bazaar editor at large...

Harold Edgerton was an engineer, educator, explorer, entrepreneur, as well as a revolutionary photographer—in the words of his former student and Life photographer Gjon Mili, "an American original." Edgerton's photos combine exceptional engineering talent with aesthetic sensibility, and this book presents more than 100 of his most exemplary works. Seeing the Unseen contains iconic photos from the beloved milk drops...

Intimate pictures of the top artists in rap music from one of the most influential and culturally relevant photographers of his generation. Despite only being 26 years old, photographer Gunner Stahl has captured shots of some of the world's most famous rappers including Drake, Migos, Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, Childish Gambino, Gucci Mane, Post Malone, and many others. He started...

Alone Street brings together two major bodies of work by Gregory Crewdson, Cathedral of the Pines (Aperture, 2016) and An Eclipse of Moths (Aperture, 2020), in a single, elegant, and affordable monograph. Both series expand on the artist's obsessive exploration of the psychogeography of small-town, post-industrial New England and underscore the precision and depth of Crewdson's unique mode of photographic...

Celebrating 25 years of Green Day, from renowned photographer Bob Gruen. It's been 25 years since the breakthrough album Dookie put punk rock pioneers Green Day on the musical map, and renowned photographer Bob Gruen has been taking photos of the band ever since. Green Day includes behind-the-scenes photos as well as concert images from their international tours, many of...

From February to May 2022, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain will present a major exhibition of Graciela Iturbide, one of Latin America's most emblematic photographers. Working mainly in black-and-white in her native country, Mexico, Graciela Iturbide is interested in the cohabitation between ancestral traditions and Catholic rites, as well as in man's relationship with death. She also dedicates an...

In January 1944, during the height of World War II, Gordon Parks photographed Herklas Brown—the owner of the general store and Esso gas station in Somerville, Maine. Parks traveled to the state under the auspices of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) (SONJ) to record SONJ's contributions to the war effort and to document the home front in this crucial...

On 31 August 1935, Alexej Stakhanov, a jackhammer operator at Central-Irmino coal mine, mined a record 102 tons of coal in five hours and forty-five minutes (fourteen times his daily quota). The launch of an unprecedented state-run campaign for popularizing extraordinary labour achievements made Stakhanov a Soviet preeminent hero. Soon after, his portrait appeared on the cover of Time. For...

Girlhood: Lost and Found explores how females navigate the pressure of growing up and growing old under the influence of unrealistic societal stereotypes and standards. This insightful exploration by Jamie Schofield Riva delves into the multifaceted experience of girlhood, unpacking the challenges faced by young women as they confront societal expectations. Through a compelling narrative, Girlhood provides a nuanced examination...

Gillian Laub's photographs of her family from the past twenty years, now collected in one volume, explore the ways society's biggest questions are revealed in our most intimate relationships. Family Matters zeroes in on the artist's family as an example of the way Donald Trump's knack for sowing discord and division has impacted communities, individuals, and households across the country....

Gene Bride Vol. 1 is a sci-fi drama about a woman fed up with workplace misogyny and the man she just happened to be matched with in a middle school experiment. Isahaya Ichi is navigating a world where she's underestimated at work because of her gender and faces sexual harassment. She is sick of dealing with men. However, her life...

In this book, popular Fuji Rumors X-Pert Corner columnist Rico Pfirstinger teaches you all about the capabilities of the Fujifilm X Series lineup of cameras, which he's discovered through years of in-depth research and experimentation. No matter which X Series camera you own—whether it be the X-T2, X-Pro2, X-H1, X100F, or any other Fuji X Series camera—Rico cuts to the...

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In an artist's studio, often beauty is bred from mistakes, and frustrating errors lead to breakthroughs. Fractured, the name of a new body of work and the title of Jeremy Kost's first monograph of men, comes from this place. A camera malfunction led to the birth of an entirely new, unseen series of multiple exposure Polaroids of young men, a...

Its infamous circuits have played host to intense rivalries that have produced moments of tragedy and triumph that read like a film script. Since the 1950s, Bernard Cahier and his son, Paul-Henri, have been trackside capturing the drama of the Formula One Championships. Their stunning photographs chronicle both the changing face of the teams and their cars, from Lotus and...

In his latest book, Takay presents photographs that pay homage to the creative power and style of the great Japanese designer, Yohji Yamamoto. Fluence. The Continuance of Yohjl Yamamoto by Takay was shot primarily in Tokyo, Japan. In it, Takay has captured the magic and mystery of artistic forces and his native country. The images in Fluence are shot in...

Factory showcases Warhol's Factory through the lens of a young Stephen Shore, providing an insider view of this extraordinary moment and place. Stephen Shore was just 17 years old when he began frequenting The Factory—Andy Warhol's legendary studio in Manhattan. From 1965 to 1967, Shore spent nearly every day there, capturing images of its diverse cast of characters ranging from...

Did you ever want to know how to apply simple and practical work techniques to all that film editing theory? Here is an authentic How-to guide—adaptable to all tools and technologies—to make you a better editor of film or video. Pepperman's vibrant approach uses dozens of terrific sequences from a wide array of films to teach you how editing can...

With investigations into everything from black holes to exoplanets, the Hubble Telescope has changed not only the face of astronomy but also our very sense of being in the universe. On the 30th anniversary of its launch into low-earth orbit, this updated edition of Expanding Universe presents 30 brand new images, unveiling more hidden gems from the Hubble's archives. Ultra-high...

Utterly individual, yet impossible to classify, Elliott Erwitt is one of the most remarkable photographers in America today. Sudden coincidences and chance encounters with objects and situations allow him to capture glimpses of the ridiculous or the comical side of everyday events, and his visual jokes become striking and pithy observations about life. Compassionate, humorous, sinister, playful, bitter, bawdy, lyrical...

Three decades of fashion brought together in one collection, worn as originally intended by the collector herself, and developed over five years by established fashion and portrait photographer Frederic Aranda: this is Electric Fashion. But why is it electric? It is the story of how the collector, Christine Suppes, blazed an indelible trail into online fashion editorial whilst developing a...

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) dedicated his entire life to a project all his own, using a camera to preserve the cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples of North America. For three decades, he travelled to every region of the continent, through all kinds of terrain and weather. Whether it was the 50°C heat of the Mojave Desert, the -20°C chill...

Los Angeles–based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artist’s books, receiving widespread critical acclaim for more than half a century. Capturing the quintessential Los Angeles experience with its balance of the banal and the beautiful, his photobooks of the 1960s—such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Some Los Angeles Apartments,...