Photography and photographs Books
Oro Editions Fantastic State of Ruin: The Painted Towns of
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of the painted towns of Shekhawati in rural Rajasthan, India. For centuries, the painted buildings served the towns as trading houses, pleasure palaces, temples, caravansaries, and private homes. Following independence, the descendants of the merchant families left Shekhawati for India's burgeoning cities, abandoning their opulent structures. Some were left in the charge of caretakers; squatters took up residence in many; most simply remain vacant. The buildings have slowly deteriorated over time, ravaged by climate and neglect, and now lie scattered among the desert settlements as an elegiac collection of beautiful living ruins--a crumbling open-air gallery set amid the ordinary affairs of small town life. This book portrays the fascinating ruinous beauty of the painted towns, and, along the way, provides an intimate look at life and landscape on the arid fringes of Rajasthan. This world, too, is fading, and so the book's photographs, in the end, are a visual study of both place and society at the edge of time.
£28.50
Daylight Books Executive Order: Images of 1970s Corporate
Book SynopsisExecutive Order is a trenchant look at corporate America, featuring portraits and office interiors shot during the 1970s in Los Angeles and the Mountain West. A daring critique of wealth and power, Ressler wields photography with humor and insight, and her work is especially relevant today. Susan Ressler is an internationally renowned photographer, author and educator. An NEA fellow, her work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library Archives of Canada, among other important collections. Mark Rice is an award-winning author and the founding chair of the American Studies Department at St. John Fisher College near Rochester, New York.Trade Review“... recognized as an epochal and historically important record of the growth of corporate America which still resonates today.”, - Artdaily, December 19, 2018 “You can almost smell the polish and the cigarette smoke in her images, offering peeks inside board rooms, private offices and lobbies; and in doing so, opening doors into the world of the booming businesses of corporate America.”, - Creative Review, April 23, 2018 "As Executive Order proceeds, the book becomes increasingly surreal. ", - Fraction Magazine, October 2018 Also featured by The New York Times Lens Blog
£28.79
Daylight Books Dear Shirley: A True Story
Book SynopsisDear Shirley is a first-person saga of love and loss captured over more than four decades. The photographs and text contained in this diaristic account take an unflinching look at the dissolution of two marriages: Schuman’s marriage of 10 years to Jeremy, and of 27 years to Susan. Hinda Schuman an international award-winning photographer was a staff photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years Magdelena Solé is an award-winning social documentary photographer who also works on films Sunil Gupta is a photographer, artist, educator and curator focused on independent photography as a critical practice for documenting race, migration and queer issues.Trade Review“A fascinating look at coming out in the 80’s.”, - aPhotoEditor, August 10, 2018 “...a book that uses photographs, typed letters, and hand-scribbled captions to tell its intimate, harrowing tales of love and loss.”, - Philadelphia Inquirer, August 8, 2018
£999.99
Sagging Meniscus Press Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro
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£17.99
KGP MONOLITH Black Snafu
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£20.90
KGP MONOLITH Tell Me About Saigon
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£20.90
KGP MONOLITH People of the Sun
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£20.90
KGP MONOLITH Blood on the Ballast
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£20.90
KGP MONOLITH Anthem
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£20.90
Blurring Books I Hope I Break Even I Could Use the Money
Book SynopsisI Hope I Break Even, I Could Use the Money is a book of black and white photographs taken at Aqueduct Racetrack by NYC photographer Larry Racioppo. In a short accompanying essay, Larry describes a day spent there with his father and uncle who, like the majority of people at the track, were blue collar workers looking for a "score" to supplement their income.
£15.20
Blurring Books Any Sunday in Coacalco
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£17.09
Blurring Books Bowies Back
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£21.84
Blurring Books Twenty Six Luxury Brands
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£17.10
Caitlin Press Surveying the Great Divide: The Alberta / BC
Book SynopsisIn 1917, during Canadas 50th anniversary, there was little celebration in the country as it entered the fourth year of World War I. This conflict had a tremendous economic and emotional impact on the various levels of government in the country and on the lives of many people in Canada. In western Canada, despite the turmoil and uncertain outcome of the war, one of the countrys major surveying projects continued. In 1913 the Alberta, British Columbia, and Dominion governments began surveying and marking the boundary between the two provinces along the Rocky Mountains. British Columbias representative, A O Wheeler, scaled many of the peaks along the Great Divide and did the phototopographic surveying. R W Cautley, the representative for the Alberta and Dominion governments, mapped the boundary through the economically important mountain passes. During the years of 1913-1917, the Boundary Commission surveyors mainly covered the area from Kicking Horse Pass to the United States border.
£999.99
Art Gallery of Ontario Ten Years: Aimia AGO Photography Prize,
Book SynopsisThe field of photography has been described as one that exacerbates antagonisms, a permanent hotbed of contradictions. This is also an apt description for the work of the artists who have participated in the Aimia AGO Photography Prize in its first decade.From the beginning, the Prize advocated a broad idea of photography, as broad as the range of possibilities that contemporary artists continue to see for the medium. The images have run the spectrum, with some directly observed, others highly staged, and yet others culled from the family record, YouTube, a library picture collection, press photographs, tourist brochures, and textbooks. Subjects have included family relations, sports, advertising conventions, imaging technologies, urban planning, colonialism, industry, and environmental degradation. This retrospective volume brings together the winners and shortlisted works from the Aimia-AGO Photography Prize, between 2008 to 2017, including essays by Alden Hadwen, Sean O''Neill, and Sophie Hackett and biographical notes on the nominees by Sam Cotter.
£14.39
MACK My Birth
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£40.80
Jean Boite editions Book 12
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£21.60
Shelter Press Photographies du soir
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£28.80
Shelter Press Les Capes
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£19.00
Shelter Press Les rendez-vous de l’écluse
Book SynopsisA few month after his Shelter Press debut with the publication Photographies du soir' (SP095), Les Rendez vous de l'écluse' presents a new serie of polaroid by Paris-based artist Julien Carreyn. Following a serie of locks in the countryside, the book offers a derive over the course of 32 new images.
£14.25
Hello Citizen
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£999.99
Hello NEW PROMISE LAND, INC.
Book SynopsisPhotography by Peter SutherlandInterview by Lola KramerEdited and designed by Études Studio
£27.00
ÃTUDES STUDIO N28 SEEING WITH
£46.80
RVB Books ORDER
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£31.50
RVB Books Paparazzi
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£20.90
RVB Books PLAY
Book SynopsisFilled with colors and tangy memories, PLAY, Philippe Jarrigeon's first monograph, celebrates 15 years of a photography that is free of expression and deliciously deviant. Published by RVB Books under the artistic direction of Beda Achermann, the book gathers a collection of personal and editorial shots of mixed genres, between portraits, still lives and landscapes. The polysemic term PLAY is the GAME echoing with the insolence and the sense of humor that inhabit each image. It is the acting GAME evoking the major role held by the models who are staged. It is also the start of a video, a tune a new GAME. Imagine the fantasy, the colors, the attention to detail; Cher Horowitz from Clueless coexisting with Carlotta Valdes from Vertigo; Wheel of Fortune, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown's gazpacho, a TV show set mock up; all of this conversing together, and you will get a catalogue of images with, as common thread, the fabulous universe of 1990s television and cinema. All of it forms a visual library of our collective pop culture, with one peculiarity: everything seems offbeat. The sequence of images here has been thought out like a zapping session, where glam goes hand in hand with plain consumer good, the exceptional with the trivial, the beautiful with the ugly, the too serious with the too funny. The locations that have been photographed seem faker than movie sets, as the young models mimic the big stars. PLAY is the parody of a logbook, the diary of a great Hollywood studio at the teen years of Golden Age.
£31.50
RVB Books CHROMA
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£48.60
RVB Books TIME TRAVELLERS
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£12.00
RVB Books MIGRATIONS, CHERBOURG
Book SynopsisThe eighteen landscapes featured in this book were conceived in October 2020 during a photography workshop led by Alexandre Guirkinger and arranged by the art center and publisher Le Point du Jour in partnership with the non-profit organization Itinérance. Six migrants having recently settled in Cherbourg and receiving assistance from Itinérance took part in the workshop. Ahmed Agadaguib, Fahim Ahmed, Mamadou Baïlo Bah, Amine Djouadi, Abdullakh Ushurov and Abdulfahim Zahiri first identified the places having made a distinct impression on them from their arrival in the city, that they visit every day, that they especially like, or that typify France for them. Following an initial scouting phase, the landscapes were produced using an 8-by-10-inch view camera in dialogue with Alexandre Guirkinger. All of the participants printed contact sheets for their photographs and then wrote captions for them in their native languages.
£22.80
RVB Books MIGRATIONS, GIVORS
Book SynopsisThe twenty-one landscapes featured in this book were conceived in March 2022 during a photography workshop led by Alexandre Guirkinger and arranged by the exhibition space and resource center Stimultania in partnership with the CADA Le Moulin reception center for asylum seekers and the non-profit organization Forum réfugiés. Eight migrants having recently settled in Givors took part in the workshop. Ali Rahmani, Fkadu A. , Habibollah R. , Nasim Rahimi, Nicole M. , Nuhas K. , Omid M. and Souleyman N. first identified the places that made an impression on them when they arrived in the city, that they visit every day, that they especially like, or that typify France for them. Following an initial scouting phase, the landscapes were produced using an 8-by-10-inch view camera in dialogue with Alexandre Guirkinger. All of the participants printed contact sheets for their photographs and then wrote captions for them in their native languages.
£22.80
RVB Books Octopus
Book SynopsisThe British visual artist Steve Harries explores the force and fragility of our environment. In his book Octopus, he turns his attention more specifically to mountain landscapes and their glaciers. Over the last ten years, Harries has produced a corpus of photographs of mountains around the world, inspired in particular by the geological processes behind their formation and their morphological features. His experience with still life photography has also inspired him to hone in on certain geological details. Recently, his discovery of Marianne Moore's poem An Octopus (1924) changed how he views his own photographs, prompting him to organize them differently. He has therefore put together a more freely composed sequence, emulating Moore's approach by overlaying images created in differing ways and instilling a bold formal dialogue that encourages a new appreciation of mountain landscapes.
£32.40
RVB PARIS PARIS PARIS
Book SynopsisSince 2005, Corinne Vionnet has been working on mass tourism and the massive circulation of images. Paris Paris Paris follows on from the seriesthat made her famous. After studying several destinations, the artist turned her attention to one of the most photographed cities, and found numeroussites and monuments that feed an uninterrupted flow of images. The Swiss artist transforms the raw material she works with: standardized snapshots of hyper-frequented places that feed social networks. Her images, which reveal nothing of the considerable work involved in their creation (archive research, crowdsourcing and collage), question our collective memory and tourist behavior. Why do we always take and share the same images?
£30.60
RVB LES BELLES IMAGES
Book SynopsisThis year, the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie gives a Carte Blanche to multimedia artist Thomas Mailaender, dedicating to him his first major retrospective in Paris. The artist, who aims to push the boundaries of photographic experimentation by exploring a wide variety of media, will occupy the two floors of the galleries of the Parisian institution. To continue this immersive and interactive exhibition, a book titled Les Belles Images, published by RVB BOOKS, presents all the artist's works featured at the MEP and takes us behind the scenes of his studio. The book includes texts by Simon Baker and Luce Lebart.
£36.00
RVB CAP JULUCA
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£28.80
RVB Books EASTERN ORIENTAL EXPRESS
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£28.80
RVB OTHER PEOPLE
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£20.90
RVB ANDEAN EXPLORER
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£28.80
£31.50
RVB LES OISEAUX
£23.75
Note Note Editions SHELLS
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£26.10
Area Books HEAT
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£43.20
Vladislav Semenov Holy Rus
Book SynopsisHoly Rus is a photography book by Vladislav Semenov. The book contains 240 pictures taken with a film camera during trips to Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Ukraine. Some 30 years after the downfall of communism, the photographer reveals the bittersweet side of a post-Soviet world riddled withparadoxes: oscillating between hypermodernity and folk traditions, disproportionate wealth and extreme poverty, kitsch and classicism, religiosity and consumerism. With derision but not without tenderness, the photographer highlights the incoherencies and the sometimes tragicomic absurdity of everyday situations encountered by the ordinary people, whether they be revelers, old folks, tourists, fervent patriots or thehomeless. Initially begun as a travel log, the series evolves into a personal diary, summarizing the artist's both mental and physical trip through his homeland, as if he was trying to reconnect the strands of his origins.
£36.00
Yvon Lambert Distances Volume III
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£31.50
Triangle Books The Barefoot Promise
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£34.65
Triangle Books One Minute After
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£30.60
Patrick Remy Studio Sean Thomas Yearbook Vol II 2023
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£50.40
La Maison de Z Wild Grass
Book SynopsisGrowing up in a small town in southern China during the strict execution of the one-child policy in the 1980s, JT witnessed the heartbreaking reality of a newborn girl being abandoned due to economic hardships. In 2014, he encountered some left-behind children while travelling, whose resilience and vitality left a deep impression on him. Reflecting on their struggles and the uncertain future they faced, JT couldn''t help but wonder about the fate of the abandoned newborn girl from childhood memory.This experience led the photographer to embark on the Wild Grass project, documenting the lives of children in unofficial orphanages across the country. JT's visits to these orphanages revealed the challenges they face, including funding shortages and a lack of specialized knowledge in caring for physically and/or mentally disabled children. Despite these obstacles, he lived among the children, seeking to understand their daily lives and provide them with a voice through photography.
£54.00
a-platz Paris to Stockholm
Book SynopsisThis publication features a series of photographs taken during a cycle trip from Paris to Stockholm in order to explore and experience the architecture of abbeys built by Hans van der Laan. Carried out during the month of August 2019, the tour also allowed for the exploration of individual and collective housing in northern Europe. Its aim is to contribute to our architectural culture and to constitute a set of references.
£21.85
