Photography

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by Susan Meiselas (Author)Compiled by Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas, Eyes Open is a sourcebook of photography ideas for kids--to engage with the world through the camera. Twenty-three enticing projects help inspire a process of discovery and new ways of telling stories and animating ideas. Eyes Open features photographs by young people from around the globe, as well as work by professional artists that demonstrates how a simple idea can be expanded. Playful and meaningful, this book is ...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Landau (Author), Alan Hess (Contribution by)Art Deco Los Angles is a stunning photographic tour through one of the most glamourous architectural eras of the City of Angels. From the iconic Hollywood Bowl, where the world's biggest acts dazzle under the evening sky, to the majestic Wiltern Theater, a timeless beacon of architectural grandeur, each photograph encapsulates the essence of Art Deco glamour. With meticulous attention to detail and an artist's ...

Justine Kurland: Highway Kind - Hardcover

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by Justine Kurland (Photographer), Lynne Tillman (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Following in the photographic lineage of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, and Joel Sternfeld, Justine Kurland's work examines the story of America--and the idea of the American dream juxtaposed against the reality. Her deep interest in the road, the western frontier, escape, and ways of living outside mainstream values pervade this stunning and important body of work. Since 2004, Kurland and her young son, Casper, have tr...

Deer, Elk & Moose: Grand and Majestic Creatures - Paperback

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by Stan Tekiela (Author)Get Up Close and Personal with Deer, Elk, and Moose From the Alaskan wilderness to the Florida Keys, Stan Tekiela has spent 30 years in pursuit of deer, elk, and moose in order to study and photograph them. Now, he shares his fascination with these grand and majestic creatures, providing you with a naturalist's point of view. Stan presents the lives of these intriguing mammals through headings and concise blocks of text paired with gorgeous images that only he could ca...

My Life as a Potter: Stories and Techniques - Hardcover

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by Mary Fox (Author)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 life of a studio potter. A potter since the early 1970s, Fox is recognized for creating exquisite forms and distinctive textured gla...

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by Tanya Lloyd Kyi (Author)At 2.7 million residents, Chicago is the most populous city in the American Midwest. The dense skyline is home to some of the tallest buildings in the world. Yet despite the imposing towers, the city remains open and welcoming with its broad avenues, parks, and promenades. This city has inspired schools of architecture, regional cuisine, and styles of literature. Works by Chagall, Miro, and Picasso are among Chicago's famous pieces of outdoor public art. Its citizen...

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by Michael Kenna (Photographer), Sandro Parmiggiani (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Discover Venice anew through Kenna's signature long-exposure photographyBritish photographer Michael Kenna's (born 1953) practice is characterized by long exposure times of up to several hours. This technique allows him to capture the unseen details hidden between the serene canals and stately brick houses that constitute the Venetian landscape. His lens captures a wide array of subjects: mist-shrouded chapels and ...

Napoleon Sarony's Living Pictures: The Celebrity Photograph in Gilded Age New York - Hardcover

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by Erin Pauwels (Author)Napoleon Sarony was once one of the most famous names in American photography. During the Gilded Age, his grand portrait studio with its one-story-high marquee reproducing the photographer's signature in golden letters was a New York City landmark visited by celebrities such as Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mark Twain. Sarony's story represents a central chapter in the history of photography. Napoleon Sarony's Living Pictures documents Sarony's career as New York C...

Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People: (Learn Top Photography Tips and How to Take Good Pictures of People) - Paperback

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by Henry Carroll (Author)Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People is one of the best photography books to read if you want to learn how to take good pictures of people. This straight-talking guide will give you top portrait photography tips and is ideal for users of any camera who have a basic knowledge of photography. - Learn top portrait photography tips from 50 famous photographers - Take great portrait photography and pictures of people - A must-have guide for amateur ...

August Sander: People of the 20th Century: A Cultural Work in Photographs - Hardcover

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by August Sander (Photographer), Die Photographische Sammlung/Sk Stiftung (Editor), Gabriele Conrath-Scholl (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A landmark in the history of modern art, People of the 20th Century presents the fullest expression of the German photographer August Sander's lifelong work: a monumental endeavor to amass an archive of twentieth-century humanity through a cross section of German culture. Sander photographed subjects from all walks of life, capturing bankers and boxers, soldie...

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by Richard Sharum (Author)In Spina Americana (American Spine in Latin), Sharum attempts to determine what the people, and their land, of the Central US have to do with contributing towards what he considers to be the 'national character' of the US.In this current political climate, where seclusion and division have gained the upper hand in the national psyche, it is Sharum's aim to find the unifying elements not only as Americans, but as a people.He wantedto see if this region could hold the ...

Store Front NYC: Photographs of the City's Independent Shops, Past and Present - Hardcover

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by James Murray (Photographer), Karla Murray (Photographer)This collection of hugely popular and critically acclaimed photos celebrates New York City's unique history and culture--from long-disappeared icons to still-thriving favorite haunts. For decades, husband-and-wife photography duo James and Karla Murray have been on a mission to document and preserve on film the various small shops of New York City--many of which are quickly disappearing--and a culture of authenticity that is hanging b...

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by Mike Poggioli (Author), Mike Poggioli (Photographer)Blue Ridge Dreaming celebrates the magic and drama of one of the most breathtaking landscapes in the United States. When New York native Mike Poggioli moved to Asheville, North Carolina, he traded in cityscapes for the towering peaks, lush forests, and sparkling rivers of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His moody, dreamy landscapes follow golden light and delicate fog through the changing seasons with his distinctive color palette of oranges an...

Ebony: Covering Black America - Hardcover

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by Lavaille Lavette (Author)In 1945, Ebony's legendary founder John H. Johnson set out to create a magazine for Black America much like that of the trailblazing Life Magazine, and that he did. For the African American community, Ebony has been a breath of fresh air, speaking on issues and events from the Black perspective, celebrating Black standards of beauty and elevating heroes of Black America--athletes, entertainers, activists, elected officials, or some combination thereof. Ebony: Cover...

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by Maria Morris Hambourg (Author), Jeff L. Rosenheim (Author), Alexandra Dennett (Contribution by)The definitive book on the work of a virtuosic and revered American photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the 20th century. Over the course of a nearly seventy-year career, he mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous attention to composition, nuance, and detail. This indispensable bo...

Endurance: The Discovery of Shackleton's Legendary Ship - Hardcover

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by John Shears (Author), Nico Vincent (Author)This is the amazing story in words and images of the historic discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, deep beneath the ice of Antarctica. In March 2022, an international polar expedition team made an astonishing find: the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Endurance, lost in 1915 after being crushed by ice and then swallowed by the Weddell Sea. The harrowing story of Shackleton's survival and rescue of all 27 men aboard is wel...

Wayward: Stories and Photographs - Hardcover

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by Chris Burkard (Author)Breathtaking photographs and deeply personal stories from a leading surfing and nature photographer, conservation advocate, and social media force Wayward is a collection of striking photographs and the revealing personal stories behind them by one of the leading surf, nature, and adventure photographers of our time. At remote beaches and locales in places like Russia, Norway, Iceland, and the Aleutian Islands, Chris Burkard suffered from hypothermia, destroyed thous...

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Kainen (Author), Carol Kaufmann (Author)A magical journey. A safari in your hands. And a national bestseller. Animals in living motion, as real as if you were there. The cheetah bounds, the lion charges. The African elephant snaps its ears. Using an innovative lenticular-based technology, precision sliding lenses, and four-color video imagery, each image is like a 3D movie on the page, delivering a rich, fluid, immersive visual experience. It's the adve...

Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour - Hardcover

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by Elton John (Author), David Furnish (Foreword by)In this lavish retrospective authored by the icon himself, Elton John shares his fondest memories, most unforgettable moments, and previously untold stories from his record-breaking final tour. Farewell Yellow Brick Road is a full-color celebration of Elton John's record-breaking, globe-spanning farewell tour--from the first show in Allentown, PA in 2018, to the final show in Stockholm in 2023. Featured concerts include Elton's dazzling perfo...

Emily Bloom: Top Models of Metart.com - Hardcover

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by Isabella Catalina (Author)Youthful and tender, Ukrainian model Emily Bloom looks just like a fairy out of our fantasy. And what a sexy fairy she is! Anda very flexible one too - as a former gymnast she can do spectacular exercises with her body. When Emily came into the picture all in the crew at Metart were just stunned. She got everybody with her bright smile and deep blue eyes. Emily is a classic combination of naturally sexy and adorably cute. Her sweet face and sensational figure, par...

Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection: The Essential Collection - Hardcover

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by Shawn Waldron (Author), Slim Aarons (Photographer), Getty Getty Images (Photographer)The ultimate and most comprehensive collection of Slim Aarons's photography ever released, featuring more than 100 previously unpublished images Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection gathers the very best of Slim's spectacular collections, including hundreds of iconic black-and-white and color photos, along with more than 100 rare and previously unpublished works. This beautifully produced book, a tribute...

Push: J. Grant Brittain - '80s Skateboarding Photography - Hardcover

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by Grant Brittain (Photographer), Tony Hawk (Foreword by), Miki Vuckovich (Introduction by)The dynamic images from the analog era found in PUSH demonstrate why Grant Brittain has become one of the most widely-recognized skateboard photographers on the planet. Brittain has been at the epicenter of California skateboarding since landing a job at Del Mar Skate Ranch in 1978. Brittain started shooting Kodachrome at Del Mar in 1979, and within a few years he was submitting photographs to TransWorl...

Cold War Photographic Diplomacy: The Us Information Agency and Africa - Hardcover

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by Darren Newbury (Author)The emergence of newly independent African nations onto the world stage in the mid-twentieth century precipitated a contest for influence among Cold War superpowers, leading the United States to mount an international campaign of photographic diplomacy underpinned by a faith in the medium's capacity to cross cultural boundaries. However, the increasing global visibility of racial injustice undermined US claims that the nation had transcended colonial racism.Drawing o...

America and Other Myths: Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb, 1955 - Hardcover

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by Lisa Volpe (Author), Susan Straight (Afterword by)Robert Frank's and Todd Webb's parallel 1955 projects to photograph America are considered in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture In 1955 two photographers were awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to embark on trips across the United States. Robert Frank (1924-2019) drove coast to coast, photographing the highways, bars, and people that formed the basis for his widely admired publication The Americans...

The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification - Paperback

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by Julian Montague (Author)A taxonomy we didn't know we needed for identifying and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist and photographer Julian Montague. Abandoned shopping carts are everywhere, and yet we know so little about them. Where do they come from? Why are they there? Their complexity and history baffle even the most careful urban explorer. Thankfully, artist Julian Montague has created a comprehensive and well-documented taxonomy with The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North...

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by Paul Freeman (Author), Paul Freeman (Photographer)Ian is Paul's first book of photos of just one man. It is also remarkable as it was photographed on just two summer days, a year apart, in between Covid lockdowns in Australia. The first shoot is centered around the 1976 Bedford Van that Ian travelled and lived in, which he had largely re-built himself, and depicts his beachside lifestyle, while the second shoot on location in the outback focuses on Ian's job as a mechanic and some of his h...

Almond Garden: Portraits from the Women's Prisons in Afghanistan - Hardcover

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by Gabriela Maj (Photographer)Over four years, photographer Gabriela Maj traveled across Afghanistan collecting portraits and stories from inside the country's numerous women's prisons. Almond Garden pays homage to these individuals and provides a window into Afghanistan's shocking gender inequality and a reassuring portrait of the resilience of these powerful women.--Vice UK Gabriela Maj grew up in Poland, Germany, and Canada. Her photography and writing has been published by the New York Ti...

Hail Murray!: The Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982-1995 - Hardcover

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by Murray Bowles (Author), Anna Brown (Editor), Aaron Cometbus (Foreword by)Murray Bowles was the most influential and beloved photographer of the Bay Area punk scene. For more than four decades he captured the excitement, energy, creativity, and tenderness of a thriving community. Collected here for the first time are Bowles' classic images shot in basements, warehouses, and nightclubs where people of all ages gathered to celebrate community. Featuring hundreds of images of bands such as Gre...

Speed, Style, and Beauty: Cars from the Ralph Lauren Collection

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Report copyright infringementby Beverly Rae Kimes (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Winston S. Goodfellow (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Ralph Lauren (Contribution by)A perennial favorite returns to print in this sumptuous volume celebrating six decades of automotive design genius, from Bugatti to Bentley, Alfa Romeo to Aston Martin, Mercedes to McLarenBugatti and Bentley, Alfa and Aston, Mercedes and McLaren--these are not merely cars, they are some of the most exquisite automobiles ever assembled,...

Style on the Street: From Tokyo and Beyond - Hardcover

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by Rei Shito (Author), Scott Schuman (Contribution by), Chitose Abe (Contribution by)A new guide to Tokyo street style, documenting looks from Japan and beyond, featuring endless inspiration, tips, and tricks to put together that killer look. A veteran of Fruits magazine, Rei Shito is a pioneer of the Harajuku street-style scene. Known for her unique ability to capture the unexpected, Rei's collection of street snaps offers a local girl's look into Tokyo's inimitable style--one that is honest...

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by Ryan McGinley (Author)Yearbook represents a decade's worth of Ryan McGinley's nude studio portraits documenting his vibrant community of artists and creatives. An exploration of personal identity and expanded notions of beauty, this is McGinley's work at its most powerful. Known for his outdoor photography of young people cavorting in the nude, McGinley ventures into the artist's studio, creating more intimate portraits of his models in Yearbook. Continuing the approach of previous bodies ...

The Wellness Bucket List: 1000 Escapes and Experiences to Enrich Your Mind, Body, and Soul - Hardcover

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by Nana Luckham (Author)This inspirational volume on wellness showcases ideas for replenishing the mind, body, and soul and is the latest addition to the bestselling Bucket List series. For anyone seeking calming and therapeutic wellness respites, this aspirational guide contains 1,000 travel ideas organized geographically. Every aspect of wellness and self-care is covered: rid yourself of negative energy in a sweat lodge in Mexico; unwind with yoga in a tree house cabin by the Caribbean in T...