Individual photographers Books
Turner/Fundacion Cajamurcia/Mestizo-Nave Ka Claudia Rodríguez: Básicamente/Basically
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£20.00
The American University in Cairo Press Cities, Citadels, and Sights of the Near East:
Book SynopsisIn 1862, the Prince of Wales, eldest son of Britain's Queen Victoria, embarked on a grand tour of the Middle East, for his education and enlightenment. Accompanying the royal party was Francis Bedford, an accomplished practitioner of the still young art of photography, charged with taking views of the cities and historic places visited on the tour for the royal album. The result is an extraordinary collection of some of the best early photographs of Cairo and the temples of Upper Egypt, Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Lebanon and Damascus, Izmir and Constantinople. From timeless views of the Pyramids, the Dome of the Rock, Baalbek, and Hagia Sophia to scenes from another age of the streets of Cairo or tall ships on the Bosphorus, 120 of Bedford's most outstanding photographs are showcased here in this fascinating visual tour of ancient lands in royal company.
£23.74
Talisman Publishing India: Living in an Ornate World
Book SynopsisIndia, Living in an Ornate World explores as to why India is so rich in colour and ornamentation and why it has such a diversity of culture and architecture. There is still a large part of the population who prefer to continue living their traditional life in old-world settings. Their buildings reflect their long artistic and creative history. This can be seen in all levels of society. A modest dwelling in India can give as much an indication of this as can a palace. The lives of people in streets tend to be lived in public. The street is the extension of the house. A large part of this life is carried out on the streets and is often shared with many different animals due to the Hindu love of them. The photographs in this book aimed to catch many of these scenes.
£31.50
Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd Through the Lens of Lee Kip Lin: Photographs of
Book SynopsisIn 2009, the family of the late Lee Kip Lin donated to the National Library Board, Singapore over 14,500 slides and negatives of modern Singapore that he had taken, among other items of historical merit such as maps, rare photographs and prints, and books. Over three decades from 1965 to 1995, Lee captured the many landscapes and buildings that would eventually disappear from the island and its shores. Close to 500 photographs have been reproduced in this book to showcase the exuberance and eloquence of the different built forms - in an era when time and space in Singapore was more accommodating.
£25.54
Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd Bruno Barbey: China 1973 - 2013: From Mao to
Book SynopsisMagnum photographer Bruno Barbey first discovered China when he accompanied President Pompidou of France on an official visit there in 1973. It was a country in transition, although still under the influence of the Cultural Revolution. Most of the population still wore Mao suits and walls were covered in colourful slogans. Some years later, Barbey returned and saw the effects of Deng Xiaoping’s invitation to the people to ‘Get Rich’. Nanjing, Suzhou, Macao, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai … Barbey returned to China many times and noted on each visit, with his photos as evidence, the profound changes that were transforming the country. This book comprises a selection of the photographs he has taken over the past 40 years. It is a portrait of a country on the move – from postrevolutionary state to world economic superpower.
£22.05
Blacksmith Books How to Hong Kong: An Illustrated Travel Journal
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£16.99
The University of Hong Kong. University Museum and Art Gallery Interruptions – With Photographs by David Clarke
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£19.94
The University of Hong Kong. University Museum and Art Gallery Erich Lessing – The Pulse of Time – Capturing
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£31.19
Hong Kong University Press Shan Shui, Mountain Water
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£50.40
Hong Kong University Press The Universal Scream
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£29.70
Hong Kong University Press The City of Flowers: Dezső Bozóky’s Canton
Book SynopsisIn 1908, Hungarian doctor Dezso Bozóky left Hong Kong as an officer with the Austro-Hungarian Navy and became a witness to the end of China's imperial era. As he traveled through Canton, Fujian, Shanghai, and Beijing, he documented the countryside, numerous cities along China's coast, and his impressions of regions that were experiencing dramatic socioeconomic change. The City of Flowers shares the diary excerpts and photographs that Bozóky created during his time in Canton and Guangdong provinces to offer a glimpse of life during one of China's most transformative periods. Each image is digitized from Bozóky's hand-colored glass slides, which are held in the permanent collection of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts in Budapest. Although the Qing Dynasty ended long ago, Bozóky's interest in nature, architecture, the Qing Dynasty, and the people he met resonates with audiences today.
£22.43
Blacksmith Books Chungking Mansions: Photographs from Hong Kongs
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£15.29
Hong Kong University Press Carnival of Dreams
£45.90
Hong Kong University Press Carnival of Dreams
£31.50
Hong Kong University Press Watch with Wonder
£36.00
GHOST Editions Portobello
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£23.75
GHOST Editions Grace and John
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£17.10
GHOST Editions Complexity: At the Limit of the (Im)Possible
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£14.25
Crymogea Katrín Elvarsdóttir: Vanished Summer
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£24.00
RVB Books Cathedrales
Book SynopsisThe starting point of Laurence Aëgerter's facsimile Cathédrales, is the 1949 catalogue Cathedrals and churches of France, published by the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Tourism. The artist placed the book by the window in her studio and allowed the incidence of natural light to impact a reproduction of the façade of the Saint-Étienne cathedral in Bourges. She photographed the book every minute during two hours, obtaining 120 photographs of light variations upon this unique image. The play of shadow and light of the Gothic architecture in the orignal photograph, is superimposed by a new shadow that slowly glide on the cathedral and, imperceptibly but irreparably, swallows it up. Aëgerter's photographs contain thus three stratified layers of times : the 12th century, 1949 and 2012. Cathédrales presents a photographic sequence and as we turn the pages, we are aware of the temporal dimension of this visual exploration, a metaphor of transcience.
£39.60
RVB Books Out of Order
Book SynopsisOut of Order is a collection of images I found between 2008 and 2013 on office liquidations websites that buy the entire stock of furniture from offices going out of business. Among the offerings of used office desks for sale are the office plants whose job it was to make office employees feel more human - to give them something to care for in these synthetic modular spaces. The objects pictured in these images are the aftermath and by-products of a Modernism infused with a disparity between free market optimism and its dystopic result.
£52.20
Gwin Zegal Where the Earth Ends: Missa Maa Loppuu
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£19.00
Gwin Zegal Le Choix du Peuple
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£23.75
Gwin Zegal J'etais La
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£19.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle Acre
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£31.50
Delpire editeur Dior by Sarah Moon
Book SynopsisAn epic visual history of Dior by one of France's most iconic fashion photographersThis three-volume publication explores three distinct phases in the history of the legendary French fashion house founded in 1946. The first volume presents 33 black-and-white images of Dior's original designs, staged by French photographer Sarah Moon at the Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris during the summer of 2021. It interweaves almost abstract photographs of the Fondation with vivid portrayals of the models. The second volume contains 43 images documenting a selection of garments designed by the various artistic directors of Dior between 1958 and 2015: Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano and Raf Simons. The third and final volume presents 38 photographs taken since the arrival of Dior's current artistic director, Maria Grazia Chiuri.Sarah Moon (born 1941) grew up between France and England. As a young woman, she started working as a mod
£110.50
Five Continents Editions Verso Reverso
Book SynopsisThis volume marks the publishing debut of the Spanish-Argentinian photographer based in Milan, Patricio Reig, and introduces one of the artist’s preferred subjects: the female portrait. Patricio Reig prints and sets his images on special oriental paper, folded over and over, and finally dipped in a bath of coffee and sodium thiosulfate. He has found the result intriguing ever since his very first experiments: fortuitous coffee stains become scars that denote each photograph, and consequently every story they tell. As he himself says: “A portrait is not the recording of a single identity, but rather the layering of many elements. For this reason, the image may be fragmented, pieced back together, or even folded over, and yet it never loses its essence.” Text in English, French and Spanish.
£28.00
Marsilio Arte Alessandra Chemollo Venice Alter Mundus
Book SynopsisTwenty years of ethereal Venice photographyThis volume presents 20 years of work by Italian photographer Alessandra Chemollo (born 1963), who captures the otherworldly beauty of Venice in a way that only a true Venetian can. The images are accompanied by text by Italian philosopher and essayist Franco Rella (born 1944).
£29.75
Marsilio Paolo Pellegrin: Telling the World
Book SynopsisScenes of natural disaster and human conflict from Italy’s leading photojournalist Internationally recognized Italian photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin (born 1964) has documented many human and natural disasters. Combining the vision of the reporter with the visual intensity of the artist, Telling the World presents all the main themes covered over the course of his career.
£37.79
Marsilio Arte Robert Mapplethorpe
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£43.20
Marsilio Arte Matthias Schaller Controfacciata
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£28.80
L'Artiere We Are at War
£35.51
BookCrave Books Peter Hujar Behind the Camera and in the Darkroom
Book SynopsisIntimate remembrances of Peter Hujar from his friend, posthumous printer and sometimes subject Gary SchneiderThis suite of heartfelt accounts invites the reader firsthand into artist Gary Schneider's journeys in image making with his friend and mentor, the beloved photographer Peter Hujar (193487). Drawing from a selection of Hujar's pictures, Schneider (born 1954) takes each image as a point of departure to share his expertise as Hujar's posthumous printer. Outside the darkroom, Schneider situates his chronicle squarely within the transformative social shifts of downtown New York City in the nascent years of the AIDS crisis. Through a mix of Schneider's stories and technical prowess, he creates a rich tapestry that serves both as a historical testimony and a portrait of their relationship.Schneider also writes in captivating detail describing his experience with Peter Hujar refining his abilities as a printer, as a subject of Hujar's portraiture, as an extra hand accompanying the photographer on cruisy, nighttime shoots, and of when he turned the lens on Hujar to record him as a subject in his filmic work. Informative as it is stirring, Peter Hujar Behind the Camera and in the Darkroom is an indelible portrait of a relationship delineated by photography, desire and gratitude.
£40.50
Bookbaby Grains of Glass
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£60.21
Bookbaby Minnesota Moods
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£13.61
Bookbaby The Pear
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£31.88
Kindle Direct Publishing Making A Scene: 2020
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£8.54
Weldon Owen, Incorporated The Beatles by Terry O'Neill: The Definitive Collection
£36.00
Getty Publications Daido Moriyama
£51.54
Haymarket Books Reprise
Book SynopsisIn this innovative work of self-portraiture and poetry, Reprise looks at 2020 with an overarching question: what does it mean to grapple with an America that has let so many down and continues to?Golden meditates on Blackness, nationalism, legacy, navigating what it means to live both in the North and South, and its impacts on gender expression. We're invited to witness and learn from the interior revolution it requires to fully live. Lovers of Golden's expansive A Dead NameThat Learned How to Livefinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry, 2023will find echoes of sonic and vernacular play, with a stark vulnerability that confronts readers to look deeply at times of great and, possibly, liberatory uncertainty.
£26.25
Distributed Art Pub Daniel Case Outside Sex
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£35.70
Distributed Art Pub Matteo Di Giovanni True Places Never Are
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£42.30
Ice Plant Tim Carpenter Little
Book SynopsisAn unassuming sequence of 42 medium-format photographs depicting slivers of the semirural landscape of Central Illinois Tim Carpenter's (born 1968) Little is a visual memoir that completes a trilogy rooted in the sensibility and approach to the practice of camera he elaborated in the best-selling, book-length essay To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die (2022). In other words, he steadfastly upholds photography's capacity to bridge the gap between self and other, and to cultivate meaning in an alienating world. Less formally rigorous than Local Objects (2017) and less introspective and linear than Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road, this new installment channels the perspective of a child's meandering mind, open to possible meanings, absorbing whatever the eyes encountermarks, buildings, branches, paths, the daylight of a Central Illinois afternoonnascent symbols everywhere, fleeting images improvised of mind and matter. Adapting a style in the lineage of the New Topographics photographersRobert Adams, John Gossage and Lewis Baltzthese black-and-white photographs are affecting in their minimalism, imbuing poignance within the banal composites of the Midwestern landscape. The volume itself is beautifully produced with a flush-cut cover treatment and a foil-stamped title.
£27.20
Dementi Milestone Publishing Where The Music Was Playing In Tidewater,
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£36.79
Mirrorical Books Rian Dundon Passenger
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£34.00
Artbook D.A.P. Jimmy Desana Salvation
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£15.20
Artbook D.A.P. WenYou Cai Minnan Exit
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£31.50
Artbook D.A.P. The Harlem Book of the Dead
£20.57
