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Book SynopsisJohn Hinde was a pioneer of colour photography and one of the most successful postcard publishers in the world. His largest collection of postcards celebrated Ireland. He portrayed an island brightened by his imagination, a place where children were red-haired and freckled, the sun always shining, and the sky forever blue. His idealistic images were to become the stereotypical portrayal of Ireland for many years, and to this day elicit feelings of nostalgia from viewers worldwide.Return to Sender pairs Hinde's iconic, instantly recognisable postcards from the 1950s, 60s and 70s with corresponding contemporary photographs. The side-by-side contrast of these then-and-now photographs, wonderfully captured by photographer Paul Kelly, illustrates the ways Ireland's rural and urban landscapes have changed over the decades or, in some places, not changed at all.

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Book SynopsisA visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists. The works of art included in this volume have all emerged from a distinctive milieu that has nourished the creation of powerful visual expressions, statements that are both universal and indigenous.Trade ReviewAlabama artists have helped contextualize the state as a place that is embracing its past while visualizing its future. Artists such as the internationally hailed quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, public artist Rick Lowe, painters Jack Whitten and Thornton Dial, and photographer Carolyn Sherer have portrayed a richer understanding of Alabama that is appreciated not only by those of us who live here but also by the nation in general. Alabama would not have the exposure or the expanded worldview that are so apparent without the work of the visual artists who have helped us reveal the complexity, diversity, and multifaceted nature of our populations and our state. Alabama artists help us define who we are and what home is."" - From the introduction by Gail C. AndrewsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Preface by Al Head Introduction by Gail C. Andrews Part I. Prehistory to 1868 Chapter 1. William Frye Chapter 2. John Lehman Chapter 3. Nicola Marschall Chapter 4. S. Phillip Romer Chapter 5. William Carroll Saunders Chapter 6. Edward Troye Part II. 1869–1918 Chapter 7. Lucille Sinclair Douglass Chapter 8. Anne Goldthwaite Chapter 9. Louise Lyons Heustis Chapter 10. Mary Morgan Keipp Chapter 11. Giuseppe Moretti Chapter 12. Clara Weaver Parrish Chapter 13. Lois Slosson Sundberg Chapter 14. Maria Howard Weeden Part III. 1919–1968 Chapter 15. Frank Hartley Anderson Chapter 16. Frank Woodberry Applebee Chapter 17. Virginia Barnes Chapter 18. Richard Blauvelt Coe Chapter 19. Frank Engle Chapter 20. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Chapter 21. John Kelly Fitzpatrick Chapter 22. Crawford Gillis Chapter 23. Isaac Scott Hathaway Chapter 24. Draffus Lamar Hightower Chapter 25. Carrie Hill Chapter 26. John Lapsley Chapter 27. John Roderick Dempster MacKenzie Chapter 28. James ""Spider"" Martin Chapter 29. Geneva Mercer Chapter 30. Carlos Alpha ""Shiney"" Moon Chapter 31. Charles Moore Chapter 32. Ann Weaver Norton Chapter 33. Prentice Herman Polk Chapter 34. Alvin Conrad Sella Chapter 35. Charles Shannon Chapter 36. William Spratling Chapter 37. Arthur Stewart Chapter 38. Maltby Sykes Chapter 39. Bill Traylor Chapter 40. John Augustus Walker Chapter 41. Kathryn Tucker Windham Chapter 42. Richard Zoellner Part IV. 1969–2019 Chapter 43. Butch Anthony Chapter 44. Arthur L. Bacon Chapter 45. Pinky/MM Bass Chapter 46. Mozell Benson Chapter 47. Cal Breed Chapter 48. Jerry Brown Chapter 49. Roger Brown Chapter 50. Gay Burke Chapter 51. Richmond Burton Chapter 52. Gary Chapman Chapter 53. William Andrew Christenberry Jr. Chapter 54. Chip Cooper Chapter 55. Thornton Dial Chapter 56. Casey Downing Jr. Chapter 57. Nora Ezell Chapter 58. Howard Finster Chapter 59. Frank Fleming Chapter 60. Robert Lawrence ""Larry"" Godwin Chapter 61. Darius Hill Chapter 62. Lonnie Holley Chapter 63. Dale Kennington Chapter 64. Bettye Kimbrell Chapter 65. Janice Kluge Chapter 66. Simmie Knox Chapter 67. Cam Langley Chapter 68. Dale Lewis Chapter 69. Rick Lowe Chapter 70. Charlie Lucas Chapter 71. Kerry James Marshall Chapter 72. Dean Mosher Chapter 73. Nall Chapter 74. James Emmette Neel Chapter 75. David Parrish Chapter 76. Stephen Rolfe Powell Chapter 77. Noah Purifoy Chapter 78. Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend Chapter 79. Sonja Rieger Chapter 80. Guadalupe Lanning Robinson Chapter 81. Carolyn Sherer Chapter 82. Jerry Siegel Chapter 83. Charles Smith Chapter 84. Melissa Springer Chapter 85. Scott Stephens Chapter 86. Jimmy Lee Sudduth Chapter 87. Nina Gail Thrower Chapter 88. Mose Tolliver Chapter 89. Craig R. Wedderspoon Chapter 90. Yvonne Wells Chapter 91. Myrtice West Chapter 92. Jack Whitten Chapter 93. Hugh O. Williams Chapter 94. Evan Wilson Contributing Authors Where to see Visual Art in Alabama Resources to Learn More about Alabama Visual Arts and Artists Books and Exhibition Catalogues

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Book SynopsisThis is the first full critical study of the work of the popular documentary photographer SebastiãoSalgado. Nair explores all the stages of Salgado's work, including the recent more ecological subjects, showing its planetary commitments.Trade Review“Through exhaustive research on Salgado's work, Nair raises critical questions on ethics, politics, history, photography, and aesthetics. . . . Particularly poignant are the intimate conversations among Nair, Salgado, and his wife, Lélia, which add tremendous clarity to Salgado's worldview. Highly recommended for fans of Salgado's work and for those interested in photojournalism, documentary photography, and global humanitarian issues.” - Shauna Frischkorn, Library Journal“[A]dvance[s] a perceptive, penetrating understanding of social and natural discord encoded in the photographs.” - Giovanna L. Costantini, Leonardo Reviews“[T]his treatise is useful for its focus on Salgado and its contribution to the search for answers about the ongoing presence of what often seems an unsolvable but significant concern. Nair's book highlights another central core within Salgado's ongoing visual investigation: the varying relationship(s) between humans and the land. . . . Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.” - C. Chiarenza, Choice“This work constitutes, to my knowledge, the first book-length study of the Brazilian documentarist’s work, and as such it represents a significant contribution to Latin American scholarship on photography and beyond—to visual cultural studies writ large. The author effortlessly ranges across aesthetic theory, Latin American historiography, and postcolonial criticism, as well as theories of photography, in addressing her subject.” - Jorge Coronado, The Americas“One need not be familiar with photographer Sebastião Salgado in order to uncover something innovative about visual studies within Parvati Nair’s biography. . . . . Nair effectively compares and contrasts Salgado to other influential photographers across time and place . . . while at the same time confronting both his detractors and fans through a theoretical lens.” - Bree Akesson, Visual Studies“The importance of Salgado as a photographer is indisputable, he is the curator of chiaroscuro, and it is remarkable that Parvati Nair’s A Different Light is the first full-length study of him to appear in print. Her book offers an interdisciplinary overview of his work.” - Sean Sheehan, Dublin Review of Books“A superb book on the most important photographer in the world today, A Different Light cuts a very wide swath: critical photojournalism, humanitarian documentation, political aesthetics, visual epistemology and historiography, representational theory, documentary ethics, the colonial gaze, the Frankfurt School, Latin America, Africa, the place of still photography in a rapidly moving world, ecology, art, profit, and concern. This is the book that the photography of Sebastião Salgado deserves.”—John Mraz, author of Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity“An excellent study! Parvati Nair simultaneously places the work of Sebastião Salgado within broader contexts and illuminates contemporary debates on aesthetics, ethics, and photodocumentary, with welcome emphasis on perspectives from the Global South. A must-read for all those concerned with photographs as visible evidence.”—Liz Wells, Plymouth University, United Kingdom“[A]dvance[s] a perceptive, penetrating understanding of social and natural discord encoded in the photographs.” -- Giovanna L. Costantini * Leonardo Reviews *“[T]his treatise is useful for its focus on Salgado and its contribution to the search for answers about the ongoing presence of what often seems an unsolvable but significant concern. Nair's book highlights another central core within Salgado's ongoing visual investigation: the varying relationship(s) between humans and the land. . . . Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.” -- C. Chiarenza * Choice *“Through exhaustive research on Salgado's work, Nair raises critical questions on ethics, politics, history, photography, and aesthetics. . . Particularly poignant are the intimate conversations among Nair, Salgado, and his wife, Lélia, which add tremendous clarity to Salgado's worldview. Highly recommended for fans of Salgado's work and for those interested in photojournalism, documentary photography, and global humanitarian issues.” -- Shauna Frischkorn * Library Journal *“Nair's study is excellent because of its documentary quality. She interviews Salgado and his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado, as to their projects and the contexts of their work and she is careful to discuss in depth the controversies surrounding his work and the museological issues associated with the privileged exhibition of misery and poverty. Because it is so meticulously documented, the reader has access to an excellent understanding of the Salgado project.” -- David William Foster * Luso-Brazilian Review *“With English language studies on Brazilian photography and photographers relatively scarce, A Different Light makes an important and very welcome contribution to the field.” -- Alice L. Allen * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Photo-Trajectory 1 1. The Moving Lens: Abiding Concerns and Photographic Projects 49 2. Engaging Photography: Between the Aesthetic and the Documentary 119 3. Eye Witness: On Photography and Historiography 167 4. Just Regard: On Photography, Aesthetics, and Ethics 217 5. The Practice of Photography: Toward a Polity of the Planet 264 Notes 315 Bibliography 341 Index 351

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Book SynopsisThe Land of the Anka Bird: A journey through the Turkic heartland is a reflective visual essay introducing the powerful photographs of Ergun Çagatay. The book explores the cultural landscape and geography of the vast Turkic-speaking lands, from the mercantile cities of Uzbekistan to little-explored pockets of the Baltic. It is clear that while divided by distance, the diverse Turkic share far more than a linguistic heritage. Deep cultural connections highlight great mobility across many landscapes and centuries. Spanning both the nomadic and settled worlds, this book challenges assumptions about an intriguing swathe of our planet while celebrating its wildly varied traditions and environment.Table of Contents6 Map 7 List of photographs 8 Why the Anka Bird 8 Peoples of the Turkic heartlands 10 Introduction by Caroline Eden 14–151 The photographs 146 Acknowledgements 147 Bibliography 148 Index

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Book SynopsisThe winner of the 2017 Ernest Cole Award is Daylin Paul for his project, Broken Land. The project explores the other side of power. Set in Mpumalanga, home of 46% of South Africa's arable soil, it is also the area where nine power-burning coal stations are active.

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Book SynopsisHow did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen''s sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony Armstrong-Jones often humiliated Princess Margaret, yet he was compassionate to the causes he cared about. Since his death in 2017, Snowdon still hasn''t escaped the limelight, as more and more is revealed about his wild and intriguing life.Written with exclusive access to Snowdon and the people closest to him, this book uncovers the real man and his times. Addressing the facts behind the myths - the secret courtship of Margaret, the love child born just weeks after the royal marriage, the affairs on both sides, the suicide of one mistress and the birth of an illegitimate son to another - this is a balanced yet no-holds-barred account of Snowdon''s life.Trade ReviewThe most sensational book on the Royal Family in recent times * Sunday Telegraph *Offers a fascinating insight into not just his life but the social mores of the day * Evening Standard *An onslaught of revelation, a dizzyingly switchback ride of mixed emotions, pomp and sleaze ... very true to life -- Duncan Fallowell * Daily Telegraph *How refreshing to read a biography in which the author is half in love with her subject. There are none of the usual patronising putdowns, envious backbiting or mean-spirited cavilling in Anne de Courcy's portrait of the Earl of Snowdon -- Richard Davenport-Hines * Sunday Times *[A] juicy biography ... it is impossible here to convey the combination of high society and low morals, of firghtfully good taste and awful cheese that de Courcy has managed to dish up * Observer *Step forward, Snowdon. You're nicked ... Full of eye-popping revelations * Mail on Sunday *Has anyone not slept with Lord Snowdon? The priapic Earl's multi-layered love life is the dominant theme of this chatty and penetrating biography, packed as it is with love affairs, love-children ... and love-struck mistresses, often several at one time ... Snowdon makes a glamorous, capricious, selfish and surprisingly philanthropic subject for this lively account of a man and his era * Daily Mail Summer Reading *[A] commendably unvarnished portrait of a charismatic, contradictory individual * Good Book Guide *Offers unprecedented insight into the life of Princess Margaret's husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones. Anne de Courcy spoke with Lord Snowdon for the book (along with several others close to him), and it's a no-holds-barred look at both his art and his often-scandalous relationships * Town & Country, 18 Books About the Royal Family *

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Book SynopsisWhile James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive reach of his work has been overlooked. From the major role his studio played for decades photographing ordinary people and events in the Harlem community to the inclusion of his photographs in the landmark Harlem on My Mind exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969, Van Der Zee was a foundational Black photographer whose work illustrates the shifting ways photography serves as a constitutive force within Black life. In A Nimble Arc, Emilie Boone considers Van Der Zee’s photographic work over the course of the twentieth century, showing how it foregrounded aspects of Black daily life in the United States and in the larger African diaspora. Boone argues that Van Der Zee’s work exists at the crossroads of art and the vernacular, challenging the distinction between canonical art photographs and the kind of outTrade Review“In her innovative and timely revisiting of the work of America’s most iconic Black photographer, James Van Der Zee, Emilie Boone reinvigorates the practice of this singular artist through a careful and considered unpacking of the social function his images served as quotidian objects. A Nimble Arc takes readers on a captivating journey into the social life of Van Der Zee’s photographs in ways that allow us to see iconic images anew and recognize the enduring value of photography as a community-building project that exceeds the intentions and aspirations of any individual photographer.” -- Tina M. Campt, author of * A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See *“This is a truly exceptional work. Exquisitely written, researched, and argued, A Nimble Arc is the most comprehensive study of James Van Der Zee’s practice in almost thirty years. I predict a long and fruitful life for this book.” -- Kellie Jones, author of * South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s *"A Nimble Arc broadens James Van Der Zee’s legacy amid a savvied history of twentieth-century Harlem." -- Meg Nola * Foreword Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. To Pivot Lightly: Adding the Vernacular to Art History’s Sight Line 1 1. “More, Many More”: Van Der Zee’s World of Harlem Renaissance Studio Photographers 29 2. The Newspaper and Ubiquity: 1924 Photographs as Moving Objects of the African Diaspora 71 3. A Reframing of Value: Van Der Zee’s Restoration Work of the 1940s and Beyond 113 4. Black Quotidian Experiences: Revisiting the Met’s Harlem on My Mind Exhibition of 1969 153 Coda. To Nimbly Rewind: Fixing a New Constellation of Ideas circa 1994 199 Notes 213 Bibliography 241 Index 259

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Book SynopsisDark Waters, Kristine Potter’s second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies. In this dark and brooding series, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic landscape as evoked in the popular imagination of “murder ballads” from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her seductive, richly detailed black-and-white images channel the setting and characters of these songs, capturing the landscape of the American South, and creating a series of evocative portraits that stand in for the oft-unnamed women at the center of their stories. In the American murder ballad, which has taken on cult appeal and continue to be rerecorded even to this day, the riverscape is frequently the stage of crimes as described in their lyrics. Places like Murder Creek, Bloody Fork, and Deadman’s Pond are haunted by both the victim and perpetrator of violence in the world Potter conjures, reflecting the casual and popular glamorization of violence against women that remains prevalent in today’s cultural landscape. As Potter notes, “I see a through line of violent exhibitionism from those early murder ballads, to the Wild West shows, to the contemporary landscape of cinema and television. Culturally, we seem to require it.” Dark Waters both evokes and exorcises the sense of threat and foreboding that women often grapple with as they move through the world. Author Rebecca Bengal contributes an evocative short story that underscores the sense of anxiety and foreboding that Potter infuses into each of her images; a deliciously compelling, if chilling, combination. Copublished by Aperture with Images Vevey and The Momentary

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Book SynopsisPao Houa Her’s first major monograph, My grandfather turned into a tiger … and other illusions, explores the fundamental concepts of home and belonging: illusion, desire, and loss.Pao Houa Her’s work draws inspiration from a myriad of sources: apocryphal family lore; portraits of the artist’s community and self; and reimagined landscapes, with Minnesota and Northern California standing in for Laos. The compelling and personal narratives are grounded in the traditions and contemporary metaphors of the Hmong diasporic community. My grandfather turned into a tiger brings together four of the artist’s major series, including the title work which reimagines her family’s history before leaving Laos. Other work deals with a scandal within the Hmong community in which hundreds of elders were swindled as part of a fraudulent investment scheme built around the promise of a new Hmong homeland. In another series, tonally rich black-and-white still lifes of silk flowers collected by her mother are presented alongside images of flowers that adorn the digitally manipulated, hyper-colored popular backdrops used in Hmong photo studios and on dating apps. This beautifully designed monograph showcases Her’s keen eye on the line between ersatz and authenticity; as the artist has stated, photography is “a truth if you want it to be a truth.” My grandfather turned into a tiger is the result of the Next Step Award, a partnership between Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, in collaboration with the 7 G Foundation. Each cover is unique, featuring up to thirty-two jacket iterations, but is anchored by the same sticker on the front and back.

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Book Synopsis"Subtle yet incandescent rage shimmers everywhere in Susiraja’s output. It’s just one of the many reasons why her art—so mesmerizing, terrorizing, gnarly, monstrous—is incredibly beautiful." –Alex Jovanovich, Artforum Over the past 15 years, Iiu Susiraja has taken photographs of herself in domestic settings, most often in her home in Turku, Finland. Simultaneously seductive, abject, stylized and vulnerable, Susiraja’s works are grounded in unabashed yet private performances for the camera. In these stagings, household objects—tablecloths, umbrellas, hot dogs, bananas, treadmills, rubber duckies and dead fish—become co-conspirators in her confrontations with the lens. Situated between the slapstick and the deadpan, Susiraja’s works locate uneasiness in the comfortable, and vice versa. Published on the occasion of the artist's first US museum exhibition, Iiu Susiraja: A style called a dead fish traces the trajectory of Susiraja's practice from her earliest photographs (circa 2007) to the present. The publication also features poems by Susiraja and an essay by curator Jody Graf. Iiu Susiraja (born 1975) earned an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. She was featured as the cover story for ArtForum’s February 2022 issue. Her recent solo exhibitions include MoMA PS1, Ramiken Gallery, SKMU Museum, KIASMA, Kadel Willborn Gallery, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, PS2 Gallery, VB Photographic Centre, Ramiken Crucible and Fotogalleriet Format. Her work is in public and private collections worldwide, including at the Adam Lindenmann Collection, the University of Chicago, the Rubell Family Collection, the Finnish Museum of Photography collection, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and the Finnish National Gallery.Trade ReviewStrange, suggestive and semi-ironic...Instead of heavy-handed commentary, she deploys her signature deadpan. -- Christina Elia * i-D *She subverts our notions about domesticity and sexuality, health and beauty, becoming an object of her own debasement and glorification, a vision you cannot look away from. -- Jerry Saltz * New York Magazine: Vulture *

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Book SynopsisFor years, when traveling, I found myself getting in conversations with people when I took their pictures, and started to consult with them—showing them the digital shot, then retaking it until we had one they were happy with. It gave us a reason to interact, and a way to do so, even when we shared no language in common. These portraits are the result of those extended sessions, those moments of accidental intimacy on the road. Readers of my three travel books (Drinking Mare’s Milk on the Roof of the World, And the Monkey Learned Nothing, and The Kindness of Strangers) may recognize some of the people, because a number of them feature in those stories. But each stands on its own—each a testament to the human ability to connect across the fault lines that keep us precariously divided. And each is a tribute to the accidental intimacy of the road.Trade Review“Portraits is one of those photo books you want to look at again and again, a world tour of humanity, and proof that Tom Lutz is not only skilled with a pen but a camera. To have earned the kind of trust that enabled him to make such revealing portraits, in such disparate cultures, is no small thing.”—Judith Freeman, author of The Long Embrace and The Latter DaysPraise for Tom Lutz"A smart and propulsive wild ride from the genteel mansions of Hartford Connecticut to the more louche corners of Asia. Lutz's debut is a technicolor noir, a smart, literary and literate thriller—like love child of Elmore Leonard and Graeme Greene. Original and deft and not to be missed."—Ivy Pochoda, author of Wonder Valley and Those Girls“To read And the Monkey Learned Nothing is to experience the thrill of visiting new places coupled with the pleasure of personal and cultural reflection. The sensitivity and moral intelligence that Tom Lutz brings to his writing allows us to discover the unity to be found in our wondrously diverse world.”—Laila Lalami, author of The Moor’s Account, finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction One would assume that Tom Lutz, esteemed head of a university creative writing department and patriarch of a West Coast cultural journal, lives in a world built of words. But when he morphs into a serial solo vagabond he is a rapt visualist stalking the killer image, and his primary prey is the human face. His book of photographs transports you to virtually every corner of earth, not to take in scenery or local treasure but to meet — emotionally, poetically — the people with whom we share a planet. The tour he gives us is mesmerizing, and in infinite ways. How uncanny a seducer he must be to have won so many over to submit to his camera’s loving gaze, and with such alacrity. In the bracing close-up encounters of Portraits, Lutz renders humanity as a beguiling family album.

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Book Synopsis“Architects are trained to see a space before it’s realised, so I think photography helps me with that. But I’d also say it’s the other way around. My training helps me with the way I photograph. I look at space with a more symmetrical eye, and you see a lot of symmetry in my photos.” ~ Vivien Liu Vivien Liu studied architecture at the University of Waterloo and then attended Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the prestigious Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design. As an architect, she has worked for nearly a decade in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, China and Hong Kong, where she now resides and first took up photography. As a photographer, she quickly developed a strong sensibility portraying space as seen through the first person, which now defines her style. What began as a weekend pastime has transformed Vivien into one of the most prolific urban photographers in Hong Kong, attracting over 240,000 followers on Instagram. Her first book, Being There explores the dialogue and tension between people and spaces through portraiture, landscapes, and street photography, from the urban density of Hong Kong and Tokyo to epic natural landscapes like Zhangjajie, China. With an architect’s artful eye, Ms. Liu captures this juxtaposition in the most beautiful way, sharply highlighting her eye for patterns and symmetry across settings.

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Book SynopsisA beautifully somber photographic meditation on an ancient Jewish ritual The Jewish tradition of leaving a stone or pebble at the gravesite of a loved one is an ancient custom of remembering the departed by means of a humble natural object. Minneapolis-based photographer Vince Leo (born 1949) began taking photographs of these “visitation stones” after several people close to him died in quick succession, and he found himself enacting the ritual of grief over and over. Placing a stone is a simple but powerful gesture that connects the living to the dead. Remembered as a Blessing contains 30 of Leo’s black-and-white photographs, which honor these stones as the complex objects they are: simultaneously hard, durable pieces of matter and embodiments of ineffable spiritual relationships, often among many generations. Each of Leo’s photographs fuses light, focus, viewpoint, reflection and magnification into a moment in which the ordinary and the symbolic coexist. Daniel Mendelsohn, acclaimed author of The Lost, contributes an essay.Trade ReviewRenders remembrance and grief. * The New York Times Book Review *An aesthetically robust and spiritually poignant reflection on Jewish visitation stones. * Kirkus Reviews *

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Book SynopsisJesuit priest and amateur photographer, Fr Francis Browne is renowned for his images of the Titanic. However, much less well-known are the pictures that Fr Browne took of Irish country houses over a decade from 1946 onward. At the time, these buildings were still private properties, mostly in the hands of their original families and not open to the public. Somehow, this gentle-mannered priest gained the confidence of owners and thus unique access to their homes, free to roam with his camera around the buildings and record their interiors, at the time when they were filled with treasures accumulated over generations.Fr Browne photographed more than 50 such houses, providing us with a record of how they looked on the cusp of change. Since then, some of the buildings he visited have been entirely demolished, giving a particular poignancy to his images. Others have been sold, along with their contents, and their family histories forgotten. Only a handful continue to be owned

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Book Synopsis"There are very few books about photography that achieve the status of essential reference, maybe even seminal. Well, I believe this is one of them. Enjoy it!" — Gilles Decamps, The Eye of Photography "...the book itself will surely go down as one of the most vivid visual documents of what were arguably the most transformative one-hundred years in human history." — Ken Scrudato, BlackBook "These photographs encapsulate the range of images that capture Fetterman’s imagination, from anonymous photographs to iconic masterworks, all with an underlying humanist spirit."—photograph “When I photograph, I project what I’m not. What I would like to be.” — Lillian Bassman "What makes the book so enjoyable is the same as the email: It is one great image after another, with personal commentary." — Tom Teicholz, Forbes "Although many of the images have standalone intensity, it is Peter’s direct encounters with the artists themselves that allow us to see them in a new light." — Eva Clifford, WhyNow The power of photography lies in its ability to ignite emotions across barriers of language and culture. This selection of iconic images, compiled by pioneering collector and gallerist Peter Fetterman, celebrates the photograph’s unique capacity for sensibility. Peter has been championing the photographic arts for over 30 years. He runs what is arguably the most important commercial photography gallery in the world. During the long months of lockdown, Peter ‘exhibited’ one photograph per day, accompanied by inspirational text, quotes and poetry. This digital collection struck a chord with followers from around the world. The Power of Photography presents 120 outstanding images from the series, along with Peter’s insightful words. This carefully curated selection offers an inspiring overview of the medium while paying homage to masters of the art. From the bizarre Boschian fantasies of Melvin Sokolsky to the haunting humanity of Ansel Adams’s family portraits; from Miho Kajioka’s interpretation of traditional Japanese aesthetics of to the joyful everyday scenes of Evelyn Hofer; from rare interior shots by famed nude photographer Ruth Bernhard to Bruce Davidson’s wistful depiction of young men playing ballgames on a street; this book gathers some of the most unique and heartening photographs from the 20th century. Each image is a time capsule, offering us a glimpse into days gone past. Yet each photograph also speaks of tranquillity, peace, and hope for the future. Trade Review"For every one image I think seriously about, I discard hundreds that don’t quite have that haunting quality. Most images are immediately forgettable. The art is to find those images that nourish and sustain you." - Peter Fetterman interviewed by Karen Rosenberg, 1st Dibs"A new book brings together 120 photographs from the gallerist’s collection. Together, they tell the story of 20th century photography." - Mee-Lai Stone, The Guardian"...the book itself will surely go down as one of the most vivid visual documents of what were arguably the most transformative one-hundred years in human history." - Ken Scrudato, BlackBook"The Power of Photography (May 2022, ACC Art Books), presents 120 outstanding images from the series, along with the AIPAD gallerist’s insightful words." - The Eye of Photography"These photographs encapsulate the range of images that capture Fetterman’s imagination, from anonymous photographs to iconic masterworks, all with an underlying humanist spirit." - photograph"A thoroughly satisfying and enlightening journey through the history of photography." - American Illustration - American Photography"...a new coffee-table book collects some of the last century’s most enduring photographs..." - Airmail"What makes the book so enjoyable is the same as the email: It is one great image after another, with personal commentary." - Tom Teicholz, Forbes"Fetterman believes all collecting is autobiographical and a journey of self-discovery: “You react to a certain image because it reminds you of a memory or a personal time."" - Claudia Eller, Variety"Although many of the images have standalone intensity, it is Peter’s direct encounters with the artists themselves that allow us to see them in a new light." - Eva Clifford, WhyNow"…fantastically diverse collection." - Lilly Subbotin, Daily Mail"The strength of the book, and of the images within, comes from Fetterman’s particular eye for new and old talent alike." - Blind Magazine"In his new illustrated book, the gallery owner explains and collector Peter Fetterman numerous backgrounds to masterpieces of photographic art." [Translated via Google Translate from German] - GQ Germany"The Power of Photography showcases 120 classic pictures he has collected over the last 30 years." - Black + White Photography"In his new book "The Power of Photography", Peter Fetterman presents 120 images that are particularly close to his heart and which he calls "almost autobiographical."" [Translated from German via Google Translate] - Monopol Magazine"A new collection of photography from ACC Art Books and famed collector Peter Fetterman features several of the most striking portraits you’ll ever see." - The Daily Beast, and Yahoo"Gallerist Peter Fetterman’s incredible collection comes into focus in a new book." - Maxim Magazine"Seeing the pictures currently on display at Peter Fetterman’s gallery is a revelatory experience." - The Eye of Photography"The Power of Photography (Acc Art Books) collects 120 photographs and includes endless iconic works ranging from Ansel's family portraits to the daily life of Evelyn Hofer and images of classics such as Ruth Bernhard, Bruce Davidson, Melvin Sokolsky, Kurt Markus or David Bailey." - Vanity Fair Spain"Fetterman is a collector and dealer in photographs, mainly from the 20th century, and this is a peep into his extraordinary collection, with work by both acknowledged masters and people you have never heard of." - Daily Mail"The Power of Photography presents 120 outstanding images...along with Peter's insightful words...this book gathers some of the most unique and heartening photographs from the 20th Century." - Arts & Collections"Each image is a time capsule and offers a glimpse into days gone by." - Photo Weekly

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Book Synopsis"And now David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me is out in the world — perhaps the closest you’ll get to being on tour with Bowie in that era without a time machine and a backstage pass." — InsideHook "His photographic memoir reveals untold stories and nearly 150 candid photos." — The Guardian "Intimate and full of references so specific you can almost smell the pub carpets and stage make-up" — HuckMag "Go on tour with David Bowie in an all-new photographic memoir" — Yahoo! Entertainment David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me is Geoff MacCormack’s remarkable photographic memoir, charting his lifelong friendship with David Bowie. Images bring MacCormack’s stories to life, showing the places he and Bowie inhabited, the people they met and the adventures they shared. Beginning at Burnt Ash Primary school in the mid-1950s, the years go by in a whirlwind of discovering and making music. The book contains nearly 150 photos taken by MacCormack throughout the years, some never seen before: from touring the Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane shows and sailing to New York on a world tour, to Bowie’s first major film The Man Who Fell to Earth and the recording of Station to Station and his Thin White Duke persona. David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me is an incredible story, told with wit and candour. A must for all Bowie fans, it sheds a rare insight into a friendship where two men shared their love for music from the moment they met to their final goodbyes. Trade ReviewPosted on Instagram stories by the official DavidBowie.com site and 'liked' by >10,000 within 4 hours. - DavidBowieInstagram"His photographic memoir reveals untold stories and nearly 150 candid photos." - The Guardian"Intimate and full of references so specific you can almost smell the pub carpets and stage make-up" - HuckMag"David Bowie's Lifelong Friend Revisits '70s Adventures with Rocker in Rare and Never-Before-Seen Photos" - People, Yahoo UK Finance, KSLX Phoenix, Willmar Radio Minnesota"There’s even a witty and heart-warming afterword written by Bowie himself in 2007, which makes it all the more poignant." - Daily Mail"The songwriter and producer, who shared a friendship with Bowie for over 60 years, is now unveiling over 150 rare and unseen photos of the late star in a 'photographic memoir.'" - Fox News, Yahoo News"MacCormack recently discovered more never-before-seen photographs of his time with Bowie, capturing the Star Man in tender, unguarded moments." - Ultimate Classic Rock"Unseen David Bowie: Rock icon's childhood friend reveals intimate never-before-seen behind-the-scenes photos in memoir charting star's rise to fame and beyond." - Daily Mail"Go on tour with David Bowie in an all-new photographic memoir" - Yahoo! Entertainment"Geoff MacCormack's new book peeks behind the scenes of a lifetime's friendship." - Mojo4Music"Very close to David Bowie from the end of the 1960s, photographer and musician Geoff MacCormack immortalized the rocker's first hours of glory." - Vanity Fair France"Geoff MacCormack Looks Back on His Lifelong Friendship with David Bowie." - Interview Magazine"David Bowie remains a household name all over the world; in this interview, his childhood friend Geoff MacCormack dives into their friendship and beyond." - Reader's Digest UK"[MacCormack's] new book is about what the rock star was really like behind closed doors in an intimate memoir, which contains 150 images of their adventures, some of which are published for the very first time." - WGN9 TV Chicago"MacCormack was snapping photos the entire time, and those images form the centerpiece of his new book." - Rolling Stone"A photographic memoir like no other, David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me published by ACC Art Books chronicles MacCormack’s sixty years of friendship with Bowie, told with wit, humor, and candor." - Eye of Photography"Photography was purely a hobby for me for about five minutes - it just happened to be the right five minutes." - Kathimerini.gr"Geoff MacCormack’s candid photographs seen for the first time in new book." - The Times"an amazing story told with humor and candor..." - Viva Moda"And now David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me is out in the world — perhaps the closest you’ll get to being on tour with Bowie in that era without a time machine and a backstage pass." - InsideHook"Expect loads of candid backstage photos and early snapshots in this book." - Vera Magazine Virgin Airlines"Celebrating a lifetime of friendship with David Bowie, Geoff MacCormack - aka Warren Peace - looks back on his childhood and early years with the late music icon, as he rose to become one of the biggest stars on the planet." - Retropop"In MacCormack's remarkable photo memoir from ACC Art Books, he charts his lifelong friendship with Bowie, showing the places he and Bowie inhabited, the people they met and the adventures they shared, beginning at Burnt Ash Primary School in the '50s." - Music Connection"David Bowie: Rock ’n’ Roll with Me, recalls his relationship with Bowie (that lasted from their meeting at eight years old until Bowie’s death in 2016) in text and gorgeous, intimate photos." - Rock Cellar Magazine"From life to on the road to just life, MacCormack’s photographs affirm the poignant moments shared by a man venerated by the world but, to a close few, was first and foremost, a dear friend." - Robb Report Singapore"This week on Rockonteurs we welcome lifelong friend of David Bowie, Geoff MacCormack to the podcast….the stunning photographic memoir ‘David Bowie: Rock n Roll with Me’ – which includes a wonderful afterword from David." - Rockonteurs Podcast"Alongside his memories, MacCormack opens up his archive of photography, sharing never before seen images of his adventures with the music legend." - Independent"David Bowie’s photographic memoir like no other." - US Times Post"…an incredible story, told with wit and candour." - Antique & Collectors Trader"Geoff MacCormack’s remarkable photographic memoir charts his lifelong friendship with David Bowie." - Arts & Collections"Bowie fans will enjoy the graphic display and especially to see the Londoner in his day-to-day life, sometimes posing with a Kansai Yamamoto model and other times looking scared in the Soviet Union, when MacCormack, Bowie and a few other friends meet." - El Pais"Rare photos of David Bowie’s train travels through 1970s-era Soviet Union are now on view." - L A timesGeoff MacCormack was interviewed by NPR's Press Play on July 3rd 2023. - NPR.org"The intimate memoir, David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me, reveals rare insight into a friendship where two men shared their love for music from the moment they met to their final goodbyes." - The Independent"For readers seeking a slightly more domestic portrait, Geoff MacCormack’s Rock’n’Roll With Me offers the perspective of a lifelong friend who’d shared Bowie’s Wimpy Bar childhood in Bromley, then enjoyed a professional relationship with him during the mid-1970s." - The Critic MagazineGeoff McCormack was interviewed by Angellica Bell on the BBC's The One Show on 6th October 2023. - BBC The One Show

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Book SynopsisRenowned for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering photographer. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodrama, including a near-fatal stagecoach accident, a betrayal and a murder trial. Marta Braun's new biography traces the sensational events of Muybridge's life against his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, high-minded researcher and showman. Muybridge's opportunity in photography came in the 1870s, when his skills were enlisted by a racehorse breeder to prove the 'unsupported motion controversy' - the theory that during a horse's stride, there was a moment when all four of its legs left the ground. The resulting collection 'Motion Studies' gave Muybridge a taste for the scope of his trade; photography could be more than landscapes, and he went on to apply it to the realm of scientific research. He invented the 'zoopraxiscope' as a means of capturing movement too quick for the human eye to record.Simulating motion through a series of stills, his pioneering use of sequence photography served as a forerunner to the introduction of cinematography in the 1890s, and his work has gone on to influence the worlds of art, science and photography. Featuring newly discovered information about the photographer and his masterpiece Animal Locomotion this illuminating study examines the character of the man whose influence has resounded through generations. In Eadweard Muybridge, Braun considers why he was and is so central to the history of art, science, photography and motion pictures.Trade Review'Braun's meticulous study is rich in detail' - Guardian 'tells [Maybridge's] story with clarity and economy and is particularly good on the battle between science and art in his photographs' - The Art Newspaper 'Braun's detailed study of the life and work show a complicated man, a combination of "technical wizard, show-business pioneer, popular scientist and artist", whose work transformed or understanding of the human form.' - New Statesman 'Marta Braun has a grasp of enormous amounts of detail concerning the history of photography, as well as a lively understanding of the social and cultural history in which her subject existed. Her slim book punches above its weight.' - Literary Review of Canada 'Marta Braun's engrossing account of Eadweard Muybridge offers a new perspective on his life and work. Her detailed analyses provides rich insight and correct previous misinterpretations of Muybridge's locomotion photography. Braun offers us an intriguing account of the first person to record photographic evidence of movement in split-seconds. A valuable first-rate work that's a pleasure to read.' - Edward Burtynsky "As one might have expected from her definitive "Picturing Time", Marta Braun"s book on Eadweard Muybridge will be a fundamental contribution to the history of the photographic representation of locomotion." - Jonathan Miller

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Book SynopsisA legendary musician’s intimate vision of a great photographer’s profound, exquisitely somber oeuvre Bringing together the sensibilities of two remarkable artists, Peter Hujar Curated by Elton John provides striking proof of how one artist’s eye can shed light on another. Though known worldwide as one of the most revered performers of our era, Elton John is also a seasoned collector of photographs, with an acute and personal understanding of Hujar’s achievement. Through a selection of 50 photographs, the book presents a wide-ranging survey of Hujar's career. John writes: “Hujar's humanity, depth and sensual insights aren't for everyone, and don't need to be, but once his pictures get into your bloodstream they are impossible to shake.” The publication includes works spanning nearly two decades, featuring portraits of Hujar's eclectic circle of friends, his landmark nudes, atmospheric landscapes, portraits of performers (Stevie Wonder, Peggy Lee and Edgar Winter) and a moving image of the artist with his mother. Peter Hujar (1934–87) was born in Trenton, New Jersey and moved to Manhattan to work in the magazine, advertising and fashion industries. He documented the vibrant cultural scene in downtown New York throughout the 1970s and 1980s, photographing artists, musicians, writers and performers. Hujar died of AIDS in 1987. Elton John (born 1947) is one of the most enduringly successful solo artists of all time. In 1992 he founded the Elton John AIDS Foundation, which funds programs to end the AIDS epidemic. Since the 1990s he has avidly collected photography. In 2016, Tate Modern organized the exhibition The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection.Trade ReviewElton John is a seasoned collector of photographs, with an acute and highly personal understanding of Peter Hujar's achievement. * Guardian *John’s impeccable eye, honed over decades of collecting and curation, offers a fresh take on Hujar’s oeuvre, showing the ways in which queer culture, male erotica, portraiture, pets, and landscapes blend together in a frisson of poignant beauty and solace. -- Sara Rosen * Blind *“Once his pictures get into your bloodstream they are impossible to shake,” John said of the photographer. -- Taylor Dafoe * Artnet *Though not a duet, Elton John's latest project is a harmony of sorts. -- Samuel Anderson * T Magazine *

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Book SynopsisThis is the first portfolio in the series not tangibly "located" in place or time as is San Francisco, White Sands, and New York; rather, it is, in effect, a retrospective exhibition because Weston selected the photographs from his entire oeuvre going back to 1934, when he was just twenty-three. The fifteen pictures include macrocosmic landscapes with recognisable deep space and horizons, microcosmic landscapes, or "elegant bits" of nature, as Brett was fond of calling them, and man-made subjects that are usually close-ups. This portfolio also contains a number of renditions of virtually flat subjects that can rightly be called abstractions.

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Book SynopsisWerner Bischof was a singular post-war photographer. His focus on showing the poverty and despair around him in Europe was tempered with a desire to travel the world, and convey the beauty and humanity waiting to be discovered through his lens. Tragically his inspirational life was cut short by a car accident in Peru, but his legacy lives on, and here his son Marco presents 70 of his father's photographs, never before published. In 1916, with the Great War reducing northern Europe to a treeless, shattered void, a boy was born to the prosperous director of a pharmaceutical firm in Zurich. He was named Werner. It was not an auspicious time to be born and, indeed, his mother died soon after. As a child, young Werner sought order in his life by dissecting snails and photographing, in the limpid light of his creation, the elegant whorls revealed. He did not become the physical training instructor (a compromise) his father wanted him to be. He did not become the painter he had once wanted to be in Paris in 1939, on the brink of another devastating conflict. He became Werner Bischof, the man, and a photographer of incalculable artistry who found in both order and the chaos he confronted and experienced a sublime beauty, a humanity that was singularly his own. His photographs of the post-war Europe in poverty and despair expressed infinite hope for the human condition; yet he was only 29. Less than 10 years later he was dead, leaving behind among his last photographs that of a Peruvian child playing his flute on the edge of a ravine. It is now an iconic photograph, and has a fatal allure. Bischof died when his jeep plunged over a ravine in the Andes on a quest for the faces, the lives, of harmony there. Fifty years later his son Marco has gathered together 70 previously unpublished photographs by Werner Bischof. They powerfully reiterate the man his father was, the nature of his humanity and his search for a benign and beautiful cognisance of the brief and terrifying world he lived in.

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Book SynopsisWhile still in school, photographer Shelby Lee Adams was exposed to the images of the Farm Security Administration and its depiction of the crippling effects of the Depression in the American South. Adams immediately connected with the images and related to the subjects. He was later driven to create the work in From the Heads of the Hollers, a project he began in 1973. From the Heads of the Hollers is a collection of images of the people and culture of the secluded mountain life of Appalachia. ‘In the Eastern Kentucky mountains, I try and create a strong connection with those I’m drawn to. I find the most generous, direct and transparent people live in the hollers (a ‘holler’ is a narrow valley, usually with a single lane road, found in isolated mountainous areas). I learn from my subject’s habits and we work collaboratively, the photographs made are of subjects sitting or standing in a way that feels natural to them. In this manner, we make pictures. Folks get to know me and we communicate in many ways, again and again, over time. Mountain folks are generally modest and may seem somewhat shy; many are strongly devoted to their religious beliefs. Most are kind, sharing and patient. Each is unique.’

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Book SynopsisKiss it! is the result of a long-term collaboration between photographer Abbie Trayler-Smith and Shannon, a young woman living with obesity. Over the course of 12-years, Trayler-Smith documented Shannon’s journey from teenager to adult—navigating friendships, family, firstboyfriends, prom nights, holidays and jobs. Shannon has been the central inspiration for Trayler-Smith’s long-term project, ‘The Big O’ examining the issue of obesity in school-age children and young adults.

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Book SynopsisNever-before-seen colour photographs of London's East End showing a time just before great change.

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Book SynopsisAs a young man, living in Manhattan in the 1970s and ‘80s, Frank Rispoli was drawn to the New Wave and Punk club scenes. Recognising the inherent performance of sexuality and desire in both fashion and club culture, he documented the intertwining of the two. Always with a camera strapped around his neck, he frequented Danceteria, Tier 3, Max’s Kansas City, Studio 54 and many other clubs in Soho, Chelsea, the Lower East Side, and Midtown. Rispoli asked female clubgoers, bar patrons, singers, and band members if he could photograph their shoes, utilising the staged sets, props, and bathrooms of the clubs, and the taxis, sidewalks, and rooftops of the city, as his backdrops. A selection of these photographs forms the basis of his first book – High Heels. Rispoli attributes his interest in women’s shoes to his inability, as a teenager, to look women in the eye and, due to his shyness, focusing on their feet instead. He drew further inspiration from the work of Guy Bourdin, and his advertising photography of the period. Rispoli continues, in his photographs, to capture the fun, freedom, and performance found in other outsider communities and events, such as Wigstock, and the burgeoning art scene in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

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Book SynopsisThe mention of ‘Faith in The City of London’ conjures up images of ceremonial events in St. Paul's Cathedral, but there are over 40 other Anglican churches, as well as Jewish, Dutch, Catholic and Welsh places of worship squeezed in between The Square Mile's towers of commerce. Intrigued by this incongruity, highly acclaimed London photographer Niki Gorick has gained unique access to capture the day-to-day workings of these ancient buildings and discovered a vibrant, diverse spiritual life stretching out into many faiths. This is a book about London and Londoners from a completely new angle, revealing a rich mix of characters, traditions and human interest stories. From weddings, communions, evangelical bible studies and Livery company carol services, to Knights Templar investitures, huge wet fish displays, Afghan music and vicars wielding knives, the photographs show an extraordinary range of spiritual goings-on and charismatic personalities. For the first time, it's possible to get a real insight into a side of London's Square Mile not dominated by money-making, where City workers are trying to connect to life's deeper meanings and where religious traditions and questions of faith are still very much alive.Trade Review"I am delighted that this book reveals and celebrates the city of London's very active and diverse spiritual life. It is an unheralded side to London's financial center that deserves to be better known and appreciated."--The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor Alderman William Russell

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Book SynopsisFor the Erie Canal's 200th anniversary, López-Jensen's series centers the unseen labor that keeps the waterway operationalThe debut photobook The Work and the Water: Labor and Landscapes along the Erie Canal by Matthew López-Jensen (born 1980) is a work of environmental social practice centering the unseen labor required to keep the Erie Canal, a 524-mile inland waterway in upstate New York, operational. Over 40 photographs are accompanied by commentary from the more than 400 employees who work on the canal year-round, often out of view and in hazardous conditions. As the first artist-in-residence with the canal in its 200-year history, López-Jensen visited every lock in the system from Buffalo to Albany, from Whitehall to Seneca Falls. The archive of images he created helps communicate the potentials of the canal as a site for environmental restoration while also conveying the scale of this colossal piece of infrastructure that transformed the region in ways that are still felt today.

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Book SynopsisArchive, Matrix, Assembly: The Photographs of Thomas Struth 1978-2018 presents the first comprehensive, systematic theory of contemporary German artist Thomas Struth's main body of photographic work from its beginnings in the late 1970s until his most recent work in 2018. The book presents a unique, evolutionary understanding of the work, proposing that it has established three stages of production: archive, matrix, and assembly. Together the three stages form a developmental system that characterises the individual photographs, their relation to their subject matter, and how they form larger, significant collections of images. In covering all phases of the artist's work, it also develops a comprehensive critical reading of the work, serves as a monograph of the artist, and provides an extensive analysis of the photographs at all stages, including the less discussed, more recent photography, which is placed on par with his earlier work for which Struth first became internationally renowned.

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Book SynopsisEvery photographer knows the moment of truth, and every picture tells a story. Over the past four decades, Paul Natkin has had a front-row seat for music history, attending over 10,000 shows and concerts to chronicle the excitement and excess of the music industry.Since the 1970s, he has photographed most of the major music stars of the last half of the 20th century, shooting album covers for Ozzy Osbourne and Johnny Winter and countless magazine covers, including Newsweek, People, Spin and Ebony. The Moment of Truth is Natkin’s documentary as a witness to the music industry during his illustrious 40-plus years as a photographer and fan.Trade Review"[Natkin's] images have appears in so many publications and on so many album covers that music fans have almost certainly seen his work, whether they know it or not. The Moment of Truth collects some of his favorite photos and the stories behind them." - Chicago Reader "The interesting thing about Paul, he was just always there. We never really had to officially organize things with him, but he always was just there anyway taking great shots of us—from the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s to today. And it's always been great material. He's a part of rock history." – Rick Nielsen, Cheap Trick “When you’re talking about Paul and you’re talking about photo shoots and he’s showing you some old stuff and then you see a photo of Sinatra in between images of Guns N' Roses and Slaughter, you’re like, who is this guy? We recognized he’s not entering our world, we’re entering his. And that’s just the thing, as time went on and we understood what Paul had already done and how great he is at what he does, it was always a pleasure to know he was still hanging around.” – Steve Gorman, The Black Crowes "I've always liked working with him because, with most photographers, they come to you and ask for one photo and then they take 1,000. Paul would just do a few clicks on his camera and say, 'I've got it.' I like the way he does his work and he doesn't need to take all day to get one great photograph. To be honest, I haven’t seen anything yet of Paul's work that I don’t like. I think he’s such a great professional that when he takes the pictures, his camera takes exactly what he sees and he has a sharp eye." – blues legend Buddy Guy "In conversation, Natkin is self-effacing, wickedly funny and laid back. Though he will tell you there are other photographers better than him, that’s his modesty talking. There is a reason for his success. Just look at a Natkin photo and you will feel a powerful intimacy."– Rick Kogan, Chicago TribuneTable of Contents Metal Folk Classic Rock Next Wave Soul + R&B Jazz Blues Country Gospel Rap + Hip Hop Adult World

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Book SynopsisChicago in Color offers a new minimalist and colorful perspective of Chicago.  In 2019, photographer Judit Prat Martí left behind her hometown of Terrassa, a city near Barcelona, and moved to Chicago to accept a position as part of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department at the University of Chicago. Upon arriving in Chicago, she endeavored to explore and understand Chicago from all its perspectives through her photography. Chicago in Color is the result of this exploration and a love letter to Chicago and to the people she has met in the city. The book presents a new collection of photographs taken in 32 different neighborhoods, showcasing 17 neighborhoods on the South Side. Each photo has been artfully edited to highlight a specific color or color combination, offering a new way to see the city that will inspire readers to appreciate the beauty in the small things that are present in all neighborhoods of Chicago. 

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