Photojournalism Books
Rien Ne Va Plus (RNVP) Paris Augure
£36.00
Reimer, Dietrich Die Fotografie Und Ihre Institutionen
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£55.72
Books on Demand Amerikanische Krankenwagen
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£43.88
Books on Demand Amerikanische Feuerwehrautos
£43.42
Books on Demand Amerikanische Vintage-Züge
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£43.88
Hatje Cantz Zerheilt
Book SynopsisFollowing more than forty years of photographic storytelling of Jewish life around the world, Frédéric Brenner spent three years exploring Berlin -- a stage for a vast spectrum of expressions and performances of Judaism. In his new photographic essay he portrays individuals -- newcomers, old timers, converts, immigrants and others – who have made Berlin their home or are just passing through. Via a series of fragmentary insights into this incubator of paradox and dissonance, he reflects on conflicting narratives of redemption and gives light to an ever so present absence. Like a shattered mirror, these images offer a polyphonic, sometimes bizarre and disturbing reflection of and on a topography of displacement and estrangement in contemporary human condition, far beyond the story of Berlin or of Jews.
£46.40
Hatje Cantz Tomasz Gudzowaty: SUMO
Book SynopsisThe Polish photographer and filmmaker Tomasz Gudzowaty is actually known for his perfection – clear compositions, precisely chosen image frames, carefully considered down to the last detail. However, the approach to his Sumo series is completely different. For his photographic tribute to the Japanese national sport Sumō, Gudzowaty confronts his subject with the rebellious aesthetic of ‘are-bure-bokeh,’ which means rough, blurred, out of focus. This style developed in Japan in the 1960s as a countercurrent to the prevailing norm of photojournalism of the time. With the help of photography, Gudzowaty attempts to create a visual language that is able to capture documents beyond words. With the publication SUMO he presents his new series and shows a previously unknown side of his artistic work.
£46.40
Hatje Cantz Roj Rodriguez: Mi Sangre
Book SynopsisThe series Mi Sangre by Roj Rodriguez started as a photo documentation of a personal journey to retrace his Mexican heritage and has evolved into a fine art project aimed at highlighting Mexican culture on both sides of the US/Mexico border. It documents everyday aspects of Mexican life, the culture and popular iconography, both as they exist in México and as reimagined by Mexican Americans in the US. With each of the subjects portrayed, Roj Rodriguez engaged in sometimes casual, sometimes insightful conversations. Mi Sangre includes proud and elegant charros, beautiful and skilled escaramuzas, joyful and coy children, wise and innocent elders, vibrant and talented mariachi musicians, loving and welcoming families, and even fine art re-interpretations of Loteria iconography.
£38.40
Hirmer Verlag Kennedy in Berlin
Book SynopsisPublished to mark the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s historic visit to Berlin in June 1963, Kennedy in Berlin captures the event in a series of hitherto unpublished photographs by Ulrich Mack. Technically superb, Mack’s photographs feature both the great set pieces of the visit, and candid, unscripted and personal moments in stunning close-up.
£25.46
Hirmer Verlag Boxing Cuba: From Backyards to World Championship
Book SynopsisBoxing is the top popular sport in Cuba and part of its cultural identity. The martial arts, often represented as warlike in form, acquire here an unexpected elegance, speed and technical perfection. This publication reflects the Cuban love of sport, from youth work in the back yards of Havana to the preparations for the Olympic Games. At the same time it tells the story of this fascinating world sport. Cuba’s pride in its boxers and its sports tradition remains unbroken. Boxing schools and national boxing idols happily granted the photographer Katharina Alt access to their training facilities and private homes in order to record life in and around the sport and the contests. The photos provide an impressive record of the arduous preparations for a fight and continue until the boxers are saved by the gong in the final round. The text by author and journalist Michael Schleicher is divided into twelve rounds and shows how the sport has changed since Antiquity. Motifs, aesthetics and boxing language occur today in art and culture and are thus an omnipresent witness to the fact that “Boxing is life itself”, according to Joyce Carol Oates.
£23.80
Hirmer Verlag Subjective Objective: A Century of Social
Book SynopsisGenerously illustrated with photographs from early twentieth century reformers to contemporary artists, this collection of essays re-examines the genre of social documentary photography through the shifting lens of photographic objectivity, modes of dissemination, and the passions animating documentary projects. While the public’s acceptance of photographs as visual evidence made documentary photography possible, canny interventions employed by image makers and their editors alternately exploit and dismantle assumptions of the medium’s transparency, testing our wish to see pictures inspire social change. Among the photographers included in the exhibition and book are Berenice Abbott, Max Alpert, William Castellana, Walker Evans, Larry Fink, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lewis Hine, Boris Ignatovich, Dorothea Lange, Igor Moukhin, Gordon Parks, Alexander Rodchenko, Arthur Rothstein, Sebastião Salgado, Arkady Shaikhet, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Weegee et al.
£31.50
Hirmer Verlag Road Atlas: Street Photography from Helen Levitt to Pieter Hugo
Book SynopsisThe street has always held a particular fascination for photographers as the arena of everyday public life, the defining feature of urban living. Road Atlas contains 162 photographs on the subject of streets, covering the work of 28 photographers and reflecting 70 years of street photography.
£29.71
Taschen GmbH Gay Talese. Phil Stern. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
Book Synopsis“Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel—only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence.” — Gay Talese In the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese set out for Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to write a major profile on Frank Sinatra. When he arrived, he found the singer and his vigilant entourage on the defensive: Sinatra was under the weather, not available, and not willing to be interviewed. Undeterred, Talese stayed, believing Sinatra might recover and reconsider, and used the meantime to observe the star and to interview his friends, associates, family members, and hangers-on. Sinatra never did grant the one-on-one, but Talese’s tenacity paid off: his profile Frank Sinatra Has a Cold went down in history as a tour de force of literary nonfiction and the advent of New Journalism. In this illustrated edition, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold is published with an introduction by Talese, reproductions of his manuscript pages, and correspondence. Interwoven are photographs from the legendary lens of Phil Stern, the only photographer granted access to Sinatra over four decades, as well as from top photojournalists of the ’60s, including John Bryson, John Dominis, and Terry O’Neill. The photographs complement Talese’s character study, painting an incisive portrait of Sinatra in the recording studio, on location, out on the town, and with the eponymous cold, which reveals as much about a singular star persona as it does about the Hollywood machine.Trade Review“Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel—only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence.” * Gay Talese *“One of the greatest celebrity portraits ever written.” * GQ *
£42.50
Kehrer Verlag Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler: Light and Shadow -
Book SynopsisFirst comprehensive and historical and critical examination of the work of the German photographers Dr. Paul Wolff and Alfred Tritschler.
£54.40
Kehrer Verlag Bluhenden Landschaften
Book SynopsisDocuments industrial projects which were cancelled in a series of eery, still photographs.
£29.69
Steidl Publishers Balthasar Burkhard
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£36.00
Steidl Publishers Gilles Peress: Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
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£600.00
Steidl Publishers Dr. Paul Wolff & Alfred Tritschler. The Printed
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£73.50
Steidl Publishers Jamey Stillings: ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and
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£43.20
Steidl Publishers Richard Ehrlich: The Arolsen Holocaust Archive
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£28.00
Steidl Publishers Ken Light: Course of the Empire
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£32.00
Steidl Publishers Timm Rautert: Deutsche Geschichten 1968–1978
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£28.90
Spector Books Arwed Messmer: Berlin, Fruchtstraße on March 27,
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£36.10
Hartmann Books Turin Diary
Book SynopsisTurin Diary, February 10-February 16, 2020 February 10, 2020 After a ten-hour delay due to Hurricane Sabine, I finally arrive in the old town of Turin. The weatherman on the radio this morning claimed that this storm was not the result of climate change, but quite normal for this time of year. Whatever: the air already smells and feels like spring, even though it is still chilly. The city of Fiat Lancia, Alfa Romeo, and Juventus Turin welcomes this German visitor with an Italian dinner and a cold beer.
£19.80
Hartmann Books London Diary
Book SynopsisLondon Diary, December 1-December 8, 2022 December 1, 2022 It is has been nearly thirty years since I left the city after having lived here for almost a year. Today, the megalopolis presents itself very differently. The City, the financial and economic hub, is slowly but steadily turning into a kind of Singapore. And I keep thinking, oh yes, this is why they left the EU. They can hardly walk because of their strength. The tube stations spit out a workforce that makes just enough money to consume their takeaway lattes, followed by a Pret-A!Manger sandwich.
£19.80
Hartmann Books Kuching Diary
Book SynopsisKuching Diary, October 18 - October 26, 2023 October 18, 2023 The Malaysian Meteorological Department issued a thunderstorm warning for Kuching and other areas in southern Sarawak this morning-and yes, the rain is pouring down. First observation apart from that: unlike I was told, the city is not that quiet. On the contrary, during rush hour hardly anybody walks. Instead, fourwheelers dominate the streets, and traffic lights are rare. Pedestrians, beware!
£19.80
Hartmann Books Tbilisi
£19.80
Hartmann Books Palermo
£19.80
Hartmann Books Kigali
£19.80
Hartmann Books Donostia
£19.80
Steidl Publishers Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory
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£28.00
Steidl Publishers Deanna Bowen
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£38.40
Steidl Publishers Hans Georg Näder: Futuring Human Empowerment
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£25.50
DruckVerlag Kettler Sitara Thalia Ambrosio
Book SynopsisWith her book Fragile as Glass, Sitara Thalia Ambrosio presents a sensitive and stirring photographic essay that documents the fates of several queer people in Ukraine. The long-term project creates space for images and thoughts that are increasingly occluded in times of crisis and war.Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the political and social reformation of the country initiated by Euromaidan has been severely tested. Old priorities have shifted, taken a back seat, or are more in focus than ever. The difficult situation of the community is further exacerbated by war, homophobic and anti-trans propaganda driven by Russia, and the persecution of queer activists. The book tells their stories by way of example. Quotes and interviews complement the documentary photos from the lives of the five protagonists. In intimate, powerful, and moving portraits and statements, the fragility of their situation is exposed, and it becomes clear
£29.25
Skira Hanoi after the War
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£25.50
Skira Fulvio Roiter (Bilingual edition): High-Rise New
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£24.00
Skira On the move (Arabic edition): Reframing Nomadic
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£29.75
Skira De Nora Stories from a century of life
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£28.00
Skira Roma: Resilient Tradition
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£32.00
£38.40
Skira Genius of the Place Al Muftaha Arabic edition
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£43.20
Damiani Pierre Fatumbi Verger: United States of America
Book Synopsis"..new studies of Verger’s archive show a greater range of interest in his pictures, many of which celebrated jazz age nightlife and an emergent professional class. The rediscovered images are collected in a new book that offers a nuanced portrait of black America before the war." "Verger’s pictures offer a different perspective: thoughtful, often hopeful images of arresting individuals in black communities, full of aspirational intent and not shy of beauty." "Verger devoted his life to the study of the African diaspora across the world, always alive to human joys as well as social hardships." - The Observer "...illuminating collection of images.." "The 150 photographs – most previously unpublished – are, indeed, vibrant and full of energy, while the accompanying texts and images shine a light on this part of his life as well as his later career. This is an excellent study of a 20th-century great, for existing fans and those new to his work." - B&W Magazine Pierre Fatumbi Verger is considered one of the most outstanding photographers of the twentieth century as well as a recognized researcher in the field of African Diaspora and religion studies. Verger traveled to the United States of America in 1934 and 1937, during the Great Depression, producing a collection of stunning images that document the national symbols that configure American identity and the challenging social and economic atmosphere of the time. Verger was able to capture with great sensibility the complex cultural and racial diversity of the country where many citizens still confront segregation and poverty, while struggling to live a better life. Verger´s photographs constitute an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of the 1930´s in the U.S., and to the growth of photojournalism, documentary and artistic photography, representing the world from new and enriching perspectives.In the introduction, Javier Escudero Rodríguez frames Verger´s significant contribution to modern photography as well as the lasting relevance of this new collection of iconic images of the Great Depression. The 150 images included in the book, the majority of them never published before, were selected among 1110 negatives, after a meticulous research from Verger´s archive at the Pierre Verger Foundation in Salvador.
£39.20
The University of Chicago Press Rediscovering Jacob Riis
Book SynopsisBefore publishing his book How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the US as an immigrant and itinerant laborer, until he landed a job as a muckraking reporter. This book places Jacob Riis' images in historical context. It explores Riis' reporting and activism within the gritty specifics of Gilded Age New York.Trade Review"An evocative and valuable reminder both of one unrelenting individual's ability to make a difference and of the relevance of his revelations to the painfully familiar problems we face today." (Sam Roberts, New York Times) "A rigorous, scholarly reexamination of Riis's life and work.... Riis's lightning-flash images of social catastrophe still have the power to shock, even after 120 years." (Matthew Power, New York Times Book Review)"
£17.00
The University of Chicago Press Seeing Silicon Valley
Book SynopsisAcclaimed American photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world.Trade Review"For more than seven decades, business leaders, politicians, and would-be entrepreneurs have tried to unravel the secrets of Silicon Valley. In a little more than one hundred powerful, haunting pages, Meehan and Turner have captured a side of the Valley rarely seen: the deeply inequitable landscape of contingent and disproportionately foreign-born labor that makes its high-tech magic possible. Humane, insightful, and deeply compelling, this book tells the story of Silicon Valley in a completely new and utterly magnetic way."--Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America "It is a Silicon Valley rarely described and never shown that photographer Mary Beth Meehan sought to document. . . . Without descending into pathos, she reveals the striking contrasts between the world of start-ups and that in which their employees live. . . . But underneath, Meehan also depicts another, more subtle dissonance--between the way Silicon Valley sees itself, and the way it really is."-- "Le Monde" "Meehan's photographs provide a compelling cross section of peoples and places in the Valley, featuring hidden and untold stories. The photographs are excellent, the selection is clever and balanced, and the accompanying texts are well-written and engaging."--Phillip Prodger, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsThe Valley on the Hill Fred Turner Photographs and Stories Mary Beth Meehan Cristobal Ravi and Gouthami Victor Warren Justyna Teresa Mary Diane Abraham and Brenda Ariana and Elijah Mark Imelda Richard Leslie Geraldine Jolea Melissa and Steve Jon Gee and Virginia Branton and Shirley Konstance Aurora Erfan Ted Elisa and Family Elizabeth Afterword Acknowledgments
£22.80
Columbia University Press Residual Futures The Urban Ecologies of Literary
Book SynopsisFranz Prichard offers a pathbreaking analysis of the works wrought from Japan's intensive urbanization in the 1960s and 1970s. He maps the ways in which Japanese filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other artists came to grips with the entwined ecologies of a drastic transformation.Trade ReviewAn important and necessary book that even beyond the discussion of its immediate objects will help further thedebate on the status of the city in cultural discourse, then and today. * Journal of Asian Studies *This book will command attention from a wide range of scholars and other critically minded readers to urgent consideration of these registers, as well as of the urban space they formed and transformed. * Japanese Language and Literature *An engaging and challenging work that will attain a secure position among studies of 1960s/1970s visual and textual culture, and, one hopes, stimulate future scholarly work in these areas. * The Journal of Japanese Studies *Franz Prichard's Residual Futures is a thrilling exploration of the literary and visual remaking of the urban landscape of Cold War Japan. It offers us radically new ways to think about the interrelationship of urban ecologies, media forms, aesthetics, and politics--not only in Japan of the 1960s and ’70s, but here and now. -- Marilyn Ivy, Columbia UniversityResidual Futures traces connections between the rapidly changing cityscape of Tokyo in the 1960s and 1970s and transformations of the mediascape of literature, cinema, and photography. Prichard adroitly shows how the new mediascape strove to inhabit a strange new set of linkages inadvertently afforded by the concerted efforts to remake both city and country. Residual Futures calls attention to the unforeseen possibilities emerging from the tangled infrastructural skein of mediascape and cityscape. -- Thomas Lamarre, McGill UniversityThis original, provocative, and timely study expands the horizon of Japan studies, as well as literary and visual cultural studies, onto a complex urban terrain that is at once cosmopolitan and dystopic. Residual Futures renders a future-present that is formed in the atomic residues of the postwar planet, but also along a fault line that opens onto a future that has already come and gone. -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern CaliforniaThis book provides a deeply fascinating view into a crucial trajectory that has not received enough attention in the study of media or visual arts in general, much less of Japan. The transition of media culture from the 1960s to the 1980s is deeply consequential for our situation today, and Prichard lays it out in surprising and lucid ways, always keeping an eye on the possibilities it contained. Immensely informative, this book will make a tremendous contribution to work on visual arts and to the study of the contexts of Japan. -- Alexander Zahlten, Harvard UniversityAdvancing existing work on 1960s and ’70s Japan significantly, Prichard treats photographers like Nakahira as full-fledged intellectuals making a direct and meaningful contribution to contemporaneous discourse on the fundamental characteristics of modern urban life, further unsettling notions of the position of the artist in society as a mirror held up to certain kinds of social problems. -- Steven Ridgely, University of WisconsinHis book draws attention to a corpus of works from one of Japan's most formative eras and is an excellent addition to the current literature. * Urban History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Prelude to the Traffic War: Infrastructural Aesthetics of the Cold War2. Disappearance: Topological Visuality in Abe Kōbō’s Urban Literature3. Landscape Vocabularies: For a Language to Comeand the Geopolitics of Reading4. An Illustrated Dictionary of Urban Overflows5. Photography as Threshold and Pathway After Reversion6. Residual FuturesNotesIndex
£83.60
Pennsylvania State University Press Cold War Photographic Diplomacy
Book SynopsisExamines the United States Information Agency’s program of photographic diplomacy with Africa, locating photography at the intersection of African decolonization, racial conflict in the United States, and the cultural Cold War.Trade Review“Cold War Photographic Diplomacy’s major achievement is the way that it theorizes a large archive by showing the transatlantic interactions between the image makers, the imagery, and the audiences of the images. It is a fascinating read.”—Liam Buckley,Professor of Anthropology, James Madison University
£71.36
University of Texas Press Viewpoints
Book SynopsisA broad study of the innovations, obligations, and new possibilities in the field of visual anthropology.Trade Review"The authors in this volume include some of the best current researchers in the anthropological study of visual means of signification, communication, and representation." Thomas D. Blakely, Pennsylvania State University, Past President of the Society for Visual Anthropology and Organizer and Chair of the annual Visual Research ConferenceTable of Contents Historical Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Section I. Photography Now Chapter 1. Photographic Exploration of Social and Cultural Experience (Malcolm Collier) Chapter 2. Documentary Photography in the Field (Laena Wilder) Chapter 3. Photography and Ethnography (Richard Freeman) Section II. Images from the Past Chapter 4. Historical Photographs of North American Indians: Primary Documents, BUT View with Care (Joanna Cohan Scherer) Chapter 5. Blasting a Boulder and Building Memories (Julie M. Flowerday) Section III. Moving Pictures, Film, Video, and Computer-Generated Media Chapter 6. Reading the Mind of the Ethnographic Filmmaker: Mining a Flawed Genre for Anthropological Content (Carol Hermer) Chapter 7. Visual Anthropology in a Time of War: Intimacy and Interactivity in Ethnographic Media (Peter Biella) Chapter 8. Guestworkers: Farmworkers, Filmmakers, and Their Obligations in the Field (Charles Thompson) Section IV. Roads Less Traveled, Unusual Subfields Part I. Uncommon Subject Areas Chapter 9. Envisioning Primates (Anne Zeller) Chapter 10. Steps to an Ethnography of Dance (Najwa Adra) Chapter 11. Looking for the Past in the Present: Ethnoarchaeology at al-Hiba (Edward Ochsenschlager) Part II. Media: Beyond Camera Work Chapter 12. In Search of Live Relics in Cold Lake (Kimowan McLain) Chapter 13. Art and Mind: Working on Murals (Mary Strong) Chapter 14. Art History and Anthropology (Louly Peacock Konz and James Peacock) Section V. Epilogue Chapter 15. Elementary Forms of the Digital Media: Tools for Applied Action Collaboration and Research in Visual Anthropology (Peter Biella) Glossary Author Biographies Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press ExodusExodo
Book SynopsisJust in time for the 2008 election and the national immigration debate, this searing documentary of the largest single transnational migration in history forces us to face the tremendous human cost of a failed Mexican state and a relentlessly globalizingTable of Contents acknowledgments a short note photo section one part one. dreams and nightmares photo section two part two. what's your name? who's your daddy? is he rich like me? photo section three part three. a dream in the hole in our hearts photo section four afterword. baghdad notes bibliography extended captions
£35.10
