Individual photographers Books
Daylight Books Encounters: Portraits of Americans
Book SynopsisUsing his camera as a passport, Encounters is Tom Bowden’s (known as TBow) portrait diary of human life in America. Known for his inimitable style, TBow somehow turns potentially unwilling subjects into compliant participants in his portrait making. Encounters is a unique look at people, documented through the lens of an ambitious observer of the human condition. In her essay in the book, the renowned documentary photographer Maggie Steber writes: “Nowadays, much of street photography is detached. Not TBow’s. He is a visual minstrel and troubadour. People are comfortable with him and they reveal their stories." Interspersed throughout the book are short texts that tell stories about some of his subjects. For the portrait of “Scott with His Pistol, Austin Texas, 2016,” TBow writes: “This photograph was made the day ‘open carry’ was legalized in Texas. I asked Scott what he thought about gun control and he told me, “Gun control is knowing where your gun is pointed at all times.”
£23.99
Daylight Books Two Way Street
Book SynopsisA love letter to New York City, Two Way Street merges two bodies of Gretchen Grace’s street photography revealing the iconic moments of the everyday. Gretchen Grace is an American photographer living in New York City. Two Way Street combines early black and white film work from the 1990s/early 2000s, and more recent street abstractions captured digitally. Through candid portraits of the people of New York and found compositions from the fabric of the city, the combined work tells the timeless story of the everyday in the city that never sleeps. With essays by Julia Coddington and Carin Berger.
£23.99
Daylight Books Done Doing Time
Book SynopsisHinda Schuman documents life after prison for two women, Linda and Concetta. Done Doing Time illuminates their courage and determination to walk past the dealers, to re-unite with family to overcome the obstacles stacked against them. As Concetta and Linda work towards their individual goals, they have welcomed Schuman into their homes, shared their lives and their extended families. Both women have faced real tragedy and upheaval, but remain true to their own hearts.
£28.24
Daylight Books Trapped: Troubled Souls in Eerie Times
Book SynopsisThe pandemic serves as background to this story of human life and dynamics in a period of great individual and global uncertainty. From self portraits taken at the height of the lockdown to street photography in New York, Europe and Argentina, Trapped seeks to capture human feelings during these challenging times of social disruption and personal anxiety.
£32.39
Graphis US Inc Graphis Journal Magazine 381
Book SynopsisGraphis Journal quarterly brings you the best from the world''s creative elite of contemporary design, advertising, illustration, photography, product design and architecture including: Armando Milani, Fallon, &Walsh, Henry Leutwyler, Victo Ngai, and more.Take a deep dive into the minds of some of today''s renowned designers, photographers, art directors, and more inside the Graphis Journal 380. A quarterly print and digital magazine we hope inspires your creativity — The Journal is filled with thought-provoking, intimate, meaningful interviews and stories that take you inside the minds, work, and spaces of top designers, agencies, photographers, artists, and other outstanding creatives around the globe.
£22.49
Radius Books Julie Blackmon: Midwest Materials
Book SynopsisA photographic fever dream of America’s Midwest, from the author of Homegrown and Domestic Vacations For her third monograph, Midwest Materials, Julie Blackmon has created a new body of work that sparkles with the wit, dark humor and irony for which the photographer has gained such renown. Finding insight and inspiration in the seeming monotony of her “generic American hometown” of Springfield, Missouri, Blackmon constructs a captivating, fictitious world that is both playful and menacing. “I think of myself as a visual artist working in the medium of photography,” Blackmon notes, “and my assignment is to chart the fever dreams of American life.” Midwest Materials follows Domestic Vacations (Radius Books, 2008) and Homegrown (Radius Books, 2014). Julie Blackmon (born 1966) pursued studies in art education and photography at Missouri State University. Her photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Toledo Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and numerous others. She is represented by Robert Mann Gallery, Haw Contemporary and Fahey Klein, among others. Blackmon lives and works in Springfield, Missouri.Trade ReviewHer book is a welcome departure from reality, and for a moment, a reminder of our own, carefree inner child. -- Kim Bubello * TIME *Julie and her daughter make Springfield look beautiful and otherworldly at the same time, and their careers illustrate that a city far from the cultural capitals may offer the necessary brain space and inspiration for working artists. -- Steven Kurutz * New York Times: Style *
£40.50
Te Papa Press A Man Holds a Fish
Book SynopsisHAUNTING PORTRAITS BY ONE OF NEW ZEALAND'S FINEST PHOTOGRAPHERSSelected by the legendary photographer himself, the 79 extraordinary images in Glenn Busch's A Man Holds A Fish cement and celebrate his reputation as one of New Zealand's most important photographers. Almost other-worldy, and striking in their humanity and emotional affect, the images in this resonant book bear returning to again and again.Busch's work secured public notice in 1984 with the publication of Working Men. As art writer Peter Ireland observes in his essay, In the early 1970s . . . the social documentary tradition was the reigning, respectable approach, and Busch's work remains foundational, even after half a century retaining a vividness and force in its resistance to any tendency to idealise in his portraiture, as this book so clearly attests.'A handsome, large-format book, beautifully designed by Seven, this book serves as both an introduction to the work of a hugely influential and widely regarded figure in photography in Aotearoa New Zealand and a celebration of his place in our art history.
£46.39
Les Fugitives Selfies
Book SynopsisTaking selfies is not the exclusive preserve of millennials. In Selfies, the niece of French philosopher Simone Weil, also daughter of one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th c., gives a playful twist to the concept of self-representation: taking her cue from self-portraits by women artists, ranging from the 13th c. through the Renaissance to Frida Kahlo and Vivian Maier, Weil has written a memoir in pieces, that is yet unified. Each picture acts as a portal to a significant moment from Weil's own life (as schoolgirl, writer, daughter and mother) and sparks anecdotes tangentially touching on topical issues (from the Palestinian question to the pain of a mother witnessing her son's psychotic breakdown, to the subtle manifestations of anti-Semitism, to ageism, genetics, and a Jewish dog...). Switching from poignant to light-hearted, with Weil's trademark irony and self-deprecating humour, Selfies is a sophisticated, `delightful read', with heartwrenching tendencies. (Front cover photograph: VIVIAN MAIER, Self-portrait, New York, NY, 1955 copyright Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. End page photograph of the author by Marc Riboud, courtesy of Catherine Riboud, Paris.)Trade Review'A beguiling series of vignettes, by turns wry, amusing and disturbing, inspired by self-portraits by women artists and reflecting on the images they provoke. An illuminating survey of the author's various identities, in a fractured world, as mother, lover and writer.' - Michele Roberts. 'A new genre is born: the short selfie collection! Lively, inventive, compassionate, aching, morally complex and troubling, I loved these self-portraits more than anything I've read lately.' - Lauren Elkin. 'In Selfies Sylvie Weil uses a work of an artist to set the theme for a snapshot of a past episode in her life. These selfies are exquisite vignettes - intelligent, witty, observant, sometimes poignant, and beautifully written - the elegance of the original French apparent in this fine English translation.' - Piers Paul Read . 'If yesteryear's painted self-portraits were as concerned with pose and presentation as are today's phone selfies, Sylvie Weil is the ideal analyst of what may lie behind the image. In a sequence of transpositions of the work of women portraitists from the Renaissance onwards, she applies their appearance to her experience, and implies a continuity in women's self-presentation. Like them, Sylvie Weil has an illustrious heritage (daughter to Andre a brilliant and renowned mathematician; niece to Simone, a brilliant and renowned philosopher). Unlike them, she moves from the visual to the verbal, expressive of both profound truth and imagination.' - Amanda Hopkinson.Reviews of Sylvie Weil's 'At Home with Andre and Simone', published by Northwestern University Press, USA, 2010 : `...an elegant and witty memoir-cum-reflection.' -The Spectator. 'Sylvie Weil's memoir is simply one of the best books I've read in the past decade. At turns poignant, poetic, and deeply personal' - Paul LeClerc, president, The New York Public Library. 'The missing link in the story of Andre and Simone Weil is Sylvie Weil, daughter of the great mathematician, niece of the legendary philosopher. In her memoirs... the 'merely' personal is transformed into something rich and strange.' -Palle Yourgrau, author of A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Goedel and Einstein.Table of Contents13 chapters including Self-portrait at the organ, Self-portrait as a capital letter, Self-portrait with postcard, Self-portrait as a visitor, Self-portrait with portrait of my son, Self-portrait as a Chinese mushroom, Self-portrait with dog, Stabat mater, Self-portrait as an author, Self-portrait on the beach, Self-portrait as a maker of idols, Self-portraits in fugitive mirrors, Photobomb selfie.
£10.80
Jonglez Abandoned Australia
Book SynopsisBarren red deserts dotted with post-colonial ghost towns, dilapidated inner city factories, discarded country homesteads and a succession of dormant, soot-filled power stations are just a handful of the desolate, yet visually rich narratives that form part of the abandoned Australia landscape. Digging beneath the sun-baked soil, Shane Thoms uncovers the modern ruins scattered over this arid continent and reveals a series of beautifully broken abodes hiding in the crevices of the Great Southern Land. Whispering of both long-gone happy family moments and human darkness, of working lives and the everyday pursuits of living, these atmospheric scenes allow us to reconstruct the stories of the past. Prompting conversations about a growing, diverse country with a complicated history, these abandoned places both connect as well as contrast the past and the present and chronicle the hidden remnants of the evolving Australian story.
£27.99
Editions Skira Paris Adrian Burns (Bilingual edition): Imbroglio
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£24.00
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Claudia Andujar, The Yanomami Struggle
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£28.80
Poursuite editions Before Science
Book SynopsisThis issue includes works by Todd von Ammon, Donatien Grau, Cecilia Alemani, Anthony Huberman, Michael Asher, Vincent Honoré, Ben Vickers, Pakui Hardware, Adriana Blidaru, Elizabeth Neilson, Margot Norton, Nicolas Deshayes, Piper Marshall, Liam Considine, Whitney Mallett, Arthur Fink, Loïc Le Gall and Frances Loefer.
£23.46
FLEE Project David Simpson Courir
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£21.38
JRP Ringier Hannes Schmid: Real Stories
Book SynopsisBest known as the photographer for the 1990s Marlboro Man (as appropriated by Richard Prince), Hannes Schmid (born 1946) has been active for decades in various genres of photography--principally fashion, rock and documentary. Early on in his career, Schmid blurred the boundaries between commissioned projects and personal work, and by the 1970s, was focused simultaneously on documenting cannibal folk culture in Indonesia and making classic portraits of bands such as Kraftwerk, Queen, Blondie, Depeche Mode and AC/DC. The latter body of work, done between 1978 and 1984, effectively tells the story of rock music between these years; Schmid spent the best part of a decade on tour with over 250 bands. Soon after, he entered the worlds of fashion and advertising photography, producing his famous icon--the Marlboro cowboy--in 1993, a figure that reached mass audiences and later percolated up to the contemporary art scene thanks to its adoption by Richard Prince, in the artist's later series of Marlboro appropriations. In addition to his photographic projects, Schmid's work also comprises films and installation projects. Real Stories is published to coincide with a retrospective at Kunstmuseum Bern, and includes a large selection of Schmid's photographic works--400 of which are reproduced in color--along with essays that contextualize his work and address his position as an artist working inside photography.
£35.10
Lars Muller Publishers Karl Blossfeldt: Variations
Book SynopsisIn the 1890s, Berlin artist, sculptor and teacher Karl Blossfeldt started to photograph plants, seeds and other illustrative material from nature for the purpose of teaching his students about the patterns and designs found in natural forms. His close-ups of the smallest plant parts, magnified up to thirty times their natural size, are startling as the plants appear geometric and sculptural. Published in 1928, his first collection of photographs Urformen der Kunst (later translated into English as Art Forms in Nature) became an international bestseller and remains one of the most significant photo books of the twentieth century. Karl Blossfeldt: Variations is the first book-length monograph to examine the reception of Blossfeldt’s work. Drawing on unpublished materials, it analyzes the photographs’ replication in teaching mate- rials, pattern books and art books, and also in the pages of the illustrated press. The six chapters of the richly illustrated study trace the paths Blossfeldt’s legendary plant motifs described as specimens, illustrations, patterns, analogues, models and abstractions from 1890 to 1945. Thematic excursions into the present, illustrating the rediscovery of Blossfeldt’s motifs in design and architecture over the past twenty years, offer a contemporary perspective on the famous German photographer.
£34.00
De Gruyter India Tecton: Gebautes Indien / Architectural
Book SynopsisIndien ist ein Land mit einer alten und überaus vielschichtigen Kultur. Die Vielfalt der Kulturen und Religionen manifestiert sich in einer kaum zu überblickenden Topografie von Architektur und Skulpturen. Der Fotograf Nicolaus Schmidt stellt diese Vielfalt in stark fokussierten Fotografien dar. Das Buch legt Bezüge und Verwandtschaften der Artefakte aus verschiedenen Religionen und Epochen offen. Ebenso spiegeln sich die koloniale Herrschaft, internationale kulturelle Beziehungen, aber auch die extremen sozialen Gegensätze in den Fotografien wider. Es entstehen eigene Kunstwerke, die zugleich die architektonischen Besonderheiten der Bauwerke und Artefakte von der Antike bis zur Moderne verdeutlichen. India Tecton ist ein neuartiger, visuell eindringlicher Zugang zu indischer Architektur und Kunst. Ausstellungen: India International Centre, Neu-Delhi, 4 bis 14. November 2022; Galerie der Kunststiftung K52, Berlin, 8. Dezember 2022 bis 21. Januar 2023; Goethe-Institut Bangalore in Kooperation mit dem Museum of Art & Photography Bengaluru (MAP), im Laufe des Jahres 2023
£28.50
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Thomas Ruff. Tableaux Chinois
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£71.25
Hatje Cantz Romeo Alaeff In der Fremde Pictures from Home
Book SynopsisA journey into the mystical Berlin night
£33.00
Hatje Cantz Michele Nastasi: Arabian Transfer
Book SynopsisAbu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait City, Manama, and Riyadh—as metropolises of the Arabian Peninsula, all of these cities are connected by more than just geography. They also stand for a booming economy and rapid urban development with avant-garde architecture set amid breathtaking landscapes. And last, but not least, these cities boast a bustling everyday life defined by immigrants from all over the world. Traditions meets western modernity. What is home to one person is a stopover for another. Busy working life collides with a partying mentality. As gigantic places of transit, these metropolises represent transience, but also opportunity and dazzling encounters. Michele Nastasi has captured them all with a distinctive sense of presence, shaping an engaging journey through the cultural diversity and pulsating life of these cities.
£35.20
Hatje Cantz Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit
Book SynopsisRuth Orkin is a legend of street photography – her atmospheric pictures taken in cities such as Florence, New York and London still shape the image of these metropolises today. But Orkin’s specialty not only encompassed the urban but also the personal. This is evident in her unique eye that enabled her street scenes to consistently offer penetrating insights into the time and personality of her subjects. And it likewise shows in her fantastic portraits of celebrities such as Albert Einstein, Woody Allen, and Lauren Bacall. These inimitable images seemingly combine snapshot and pose to present the star in his or her role and at the same time as an autonomous individual. Published on the occasion of the photographer’s 100th birthday, this illustrated book celebrates Orkin’s life and work with an equally extensive and fascinating overview of this exceptional artist’s oeuvre.
£30.40
Hirmer Verlag Tibetan Mustang: A Cultural Renaissance
Book SynopsisTibetan culture revives in hidden Himalayan kingdom. Photographers Luigi Fieni and Kenneth Parker document the cultural revival of Tibetan Mustang “the hidden kingdom” of the Himalayas. A restoration project of its sacred temple murals directed by Luigi Fieni over more than 20 years has reawakened Buddhist traditions. Included is Mustang’s extraordinary landscape as well as the Lobas’ spiritual and secular way of life. The kingdom of Mustang, where Tibetan Buddhist tradition continues, is emerging as a beacon of community-directed art conservation and resurgent culture. Sacred temples dominate the medieval capital Lo Monthang. Following centuries of deterioration a mural restoration project has taken place over more then 20 years, directed by conservator/photographer Luigi Fieni. This included training the unskilled Lobas in Western conservation methods. This extraordinary initiative led to a vibrant cultural renaissance in the kingdom.
£52.00
Taschen GmbH Ralph Gibson. Nude
Book SynopsisSensual and softly surreal, the nude photography of Ralph Gibson frames the female form both organically and graphically, referencing art history while also innovating in the arena of erotic imagery, at once summoning visceral sensation and calling out for tactile attention. Thumb through this exquisite tribute to the contours and curves of womanhood and experience the intimacy of the photographic lens. Reviving TASCHEN’s sold-out Collector’s Edition, this tribute gathers the best of Gibson’s exquisite nudes alongside some of his most recent works in an accessible, revised format, complete with a fresh in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously composed, and loaded with subtle provocations, the master photographer’s mysterious, dreamlike images pay homage to greats such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while continually pursuing new frontiers."A photographer once said that beauty in women is endless. Perhaps it was I who said it. [...] I love photographing women and could say that the form of the female body is absolute and perfect." —Ralph Gibson
£38.00
Taschen GmbH Herlinde Koelbl. Angela Merkel. Portraits
Book SynopsisAngela Merkel: an era ends—and with it a project unique in the world. Between 1991 and 2021 this remarkable politician was photographed year after year, with a short hiatus, by Herlinde Koelbl. Each time they came together, a headshot and a three-quarter-length shot were taken before a plain white background; images that document with authenticity the astonishing ascent of a 37-year-old political outsider to one of the most powerful politicians in the free world. This long-term photo study strikingly shows how the traces of power changed Merkel, who at the start of this extraordinary photographic ritual was still almost 15 years away from becoming the first woman chancellor of Germany. What did she have to learn, how did she have to change in order to persist, indeed to survive politically? How did politics impact her private life? The renowned photo artist succeeded in capturing Merkel’s human side through other means apart from her camera lens. Usually extremely reserved, the politician answered Koelbl’s questions with such surprising openness and intimacy that, according to the Guardian, the two women share “one of the most unusual relationships in modern politics.” Herlinde Koelbl presents a documentary portrait in words and images, of a kind that does not exist for any other global leader. It travels through time, spanning the Angela Merkel epoch—from the first year to the last. It is the portrait of an extreme physical and psychological transformation, and the written record of a unique rapport.Trade Review“[A] 30-year art project tracing how politics shaped Merkel.” * nytimes.com *“A subtly revealing 30-year chronicle of the effects of power on an individual who wields it.“ * The Art Newspaper *“In Angela Merkel: Portraits 1991–2021, photographer Herlinde Koelbl gathers three decades’ worth of portraits of the German chancellor, tracing the extraordinary arc of her political career.” * vogue.com *“A landmark study on the visible effects of power on a shy East German physicist who became the world’s most powerful woman.” * irishtimes.com *“One of the most unusual relationships in modern politics.” * The Guardian *
£42.50
Steidl Publishers Mona Kuhn: Photographs
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£23.80
Steidl Publishers Koto Bolofo: Venus
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£25.50
Steidl Publishers Kai Löffelbein: Ctrl-X.: A topography of e-waste
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£27.20
Verlag Moderne Kunst Facing Iran: Leo Kandl
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£21.00
Edition Patrick Frey Jean-Luc Cramatte: Culs de Ferme
Book SynopsisIn Culs de fermeJean-Luc Cramatte seeks to portray various forms of accumulation in a globalized landscape that is often touted as clean and orderly. His ambitious, nonconformist projects are of Promethean proportions. Well acquainted with social fault lines, Cramatte may be deemed a photographer of upheavals, one good example of which is his series on Swiss post offices (Poste mon Amour, 2001-2008). An obsessive collector of pictures, including both his own photographs and found pictures, Cramatte has been compiling a photographic inventory for twenty years now. He likes thinking and working serially, securing all sorts of evidence to stop the growing gaps in our collective memory. His examinations of the visible world, invariably based on idiosyncratic concepts, steer our gaze towards things inconspicuous and overlooked. His photographic inventories shed a humorous and critical light on the normal present-day world, thereby producing a telling ethnography of quotidian life. He sometimes takes the concept of the catalog to its limits ultimately reinventing reality, even while adhering to a strictly documentary approach without eschewing the unsightly, the bleak, the monotonous. His work culminates in a poetry of the ordinary. From the first hints of degradation to outright overgrown ruins, his pictures seize the status quo. Unvarnished and free of nostalgia, though never accusing or complaining, they offer an insightful look at the state of decline. Above and beyond his ethnological and sociological approach, Cramatte seeks above all to capture situations that remind him of real or literary events.
£999.99
Edition Patrick Frey Christian Lutz: The Pearl River
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£36.00
Verlag Fur Psychosoziale Medien Fokussiere das Wesentliche: Intuitiv und achtsam
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£11.92
Seltmann Publishers GmbH Eye Candy: Sex Sells
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£22.50
Seltmann Publishers GmbH The Art of New German Car Photography: Autoalbum
Book Synopsis- Presents 50 of the best German automotive photographers - Now in larger coffee-table format - With video integration via Youtube through QR Codes! New times require new ways of thinking and seeing. Hardly any industry is undergoing more change than the automotive industry. This book presents 50 of Germany's best automotive photographers on over 300 large-format pages. In international comparison, they are among the best in their guild. A unique and comprehensive show of work with more than 250 photographs. This high-quality coffee-table book is a real feast for the eyes for all car lovers.
£999.99
Steidl Publishers Robert Adams: From the Missouri West
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£90.00
Steidl Publishers Volksmusik: Folk Music
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£26.25
Steidl Publishers Ed Clark: On Assignment: 1931–1962
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£112.50
Steidl Publishers David Goldblatt: Ex Offenders
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£52.50
Steidl Publishers Massimo Vitali: Entering a New World: Photographs
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£67.50
Steidl Publishers Latoya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three
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£51.00
Hartmann Projects Marco Zanta: It's All One Song
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£28.50
Hartmann Projects Wolfgang Bellwinkel: Vast Land: Photographs of
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£24.00
Hartmann Projects Ingar Krauss: Sugar Beets: Bangkok, March 7-14,
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£33.75
Hartmann Projects Joerg Glaescher: Twelve Waves
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£27.20
Hartmann Projects Loredana Nemes: Gray Tree and Sky Sea
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£36.00
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Hawaii
Book SynopsisHawai''i is a place of extremes, one of the most bio-diverse and pristine regions on earth. But it is also the land of hula and surfing. Over many years, the well-known German photographer Olaf Heine travelled and documented the wonderful world of Hawaii, creating an impressive photographic oeuvre in the process. Sometimes lively and energetic, sometimes melancholic and sensual, but always monochromatic, he succeeds in capturing the intoxicating attitude to life in connection with the decisive forces of this place.The ocean is omnipresent and the secret architect of Hawaii. Hawaii is about the elemental as well as the spiritual significance of the sea. The lively, constantly changing, restless waves of the Pacific determine the rhythm of the eight islands of Hawaii and their inhabitants. They fuel life here and define the people - whether fishermen, surfers or tourists.Heine describes the interaction between man and nature and the power and values that arise from it in
£999.99
Kehrer Verlag Conversations On Photography
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£21.25
Kehrer Verlag Nemurushima: The Sleeping Island
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£28.80
Kehrer Verlag Stephen Shames. a Lifetime in Photography
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£41.25
Steidl Publishers Dayanita Singh: Let's See
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£17.00
