Photojournalism Books
GOST Books Glad Tidings of Benevolence
Book SynopsisTwenty years ago, Moises Saman was working in Iraq as a photojournalist during the US-led invasion and occupation. Glad Tidings of Benevolence combines his photographs taken during this period and the following years with disparate documentation and texts. Collectively, these materials raise questions about the complex representation of war, competing narratives and the truths buried within the clamour—at a time when the war begins to recede from global public memory. ‘My photographs are not meant to represent an objective account of the Iraq war against which to compare the textual references. Rather, the book grapples with my own role and power as a narrator - particularly one with access to foreign publications - and the biases and limitations inevitably embedded in my work.’ Saman began working as a newspaper photographer in Iraq just before the invasion. He has covered the US occupation and withdrawal, displacement, ethnic cleansing and other human rights and humanitarian crises, governance issues and the rise and fall of ISIS.
£58.50
GOST Books Thatcher's Children
Book SynopsisThatcher’s Children was born out of a series first made in 1992 focusing on two parents and six children living in a hostel for homeless families in Blackpool, England. The project was made in response to a speech by Peter Lilley, then Secretary of State for Social Security, in which he announced his determination to ‘close down the something-for-nothing society.’ French newspaper Libération dispatched a journalist to northern England to find out what this society looked like, and Easton was commissioned to take the accompanying photographs. His resulting monochrome images of the overcrowded two-bedroom council flat in Blackpool sparked a reaction by both the public and the press. His images attached human faces and nuanced realities to a group of people casually maligned by politicians and media as an ‘underclass of scroungers.’
£42.75
D Giles Ltd PyeongChang 2018: The Olympic Games Through the
Book SynopsisThis fourth volume in a series celebrating the Olympic Games presents stunning photographs from the Winter Games in PyeongChang 2018. Photographers John Huet, David Burnett, Jason Evans and Mine Kasapoglu were granted access to the training zones and accompanied the athletes as they prepared for their events before the arrival of the crowds.
£10.40
Dewi Lewis Publishing War Is Only Half The Story
Book SynopsisWar is Only Half the Story is a ten-year retrospective of the work of the groundbreaking documentary photography programme, The Aftermath Project, which for a decade has supported post-conflict storytelling by some of the world's best photographers.
£31.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing Grozny: Nine Cities
Book SynopsisProvides extraordinary insight into the complexity of rebuilding the life of the city after such an extensive period of devastation.
£28.80
GOST Books Here and There: An expedition of sorts
Book SynopsisIn 2002, the same year that Edelstein had discovered Minna's photograph, she was commissioned to photograph the South African Sangoma shamans, whose rituals employ the intermediary healing powers of their ancestors. A shaman told Edelstein that her own ancestors were in conflict, fuelling her growing determination to untangle her family's hidden history. Thus Edelstein began a journey that took her from her home in London to the heartland of the Ukraine, and to her grandfather’s birthplace in Latvia. In turn the journey led her to the shores of Lesvos, the West Bank, the Jungle in Calais, to the boat graveyard on the island of Lampedusa. In Here and There, Edelstein refracts images and stories of displaced people through the lens of her family’s own mystery—reaching the refugee history we all have in common, whether its details are known or not. ‘And that’s the theme that runs through my family. A veritable diaspora. South Africa, Israel, Canada, Colombia, United States, Australia, Italy, Mallorca, Ukraine. How many continents can one family possibly inhabit? … I wonder how I would feel if, from the age of my late teens, I never got to see or hear of my siblings ever again.’ Edelstein’s grandfather, two brothers and their sister Minna had grown up in Sassmacken, Latvia, were separated as teenagers and never saw each other again. Minna’s life was a series of escapes from Germans in World War I, the Red Army in the Russian Revolution and during World War II from Ukraine to Uzbekistan where she died, the same year that Edelstein was born.
£42.75
GOST Books Silent Witness German edition
Book SynopsisIn Silent Witness, photographs of private houses and public buildings in which war crimesspecifically rapes of women of all ethnic groups living in Bosnia and Herzegovinawerecommitted during the Bosnian War (1992-1995) are combined with testimonies from the womenwho survived.
£38.00
GOST Books The Group for Mutual Improvement
Book SynopsisThe black and white photographs in The Group For Mutual Improvement were taken in a vacant lot behind photographer Jordan Baumgarten's home in Philadelphia. Over a period of 10 years, Baumgarten and his neighbours spent much of their time together in this lot. His book is a document of these gatherings.
£38.00
GOST Books Say Less
Book SynopsisOver the course of three years, Greg Gulbransen photographed Malik, a set leader of the violentstreet gang, the Crips. Malik was shot and paralysed in 2018 by the bullet from a rival gang, and as aresult his world now centres around his small Bronx apartment in New York.
£42.75
GOST Books Tarrafal
Book SynopsisJoão Pina draws upon his family history to tell the story of the Portuguese concentration campat Tarrafal, Cape Verde which operated between 1936 and 1974.
£58.50
GOST Books To the Ends of the Earth
Book SynopsisThe photographs in To the Ends of The Earth span 12-years and depict the underrepresented and often unseen dynamics of the relationships between a lesbian, her straight mother, and her girlfriend.Jeanette Spicer initially began the project in 2012 when working towards her thesis and was interested in the boundaries and rules?particularly from a western perspective?of the interactions between children and their adult parents. She began to stage photographs and videos interacting with her mother in strange, intimate, disturbing and sometimes humoros ways. A few years later, it became clear to her that she was a lesbian, inspiring her to make the work from another perspective. Spicer felt that visual representations of lesbians interacting with straight parents were missing and she wanted to show what this relationship could look like.
£42.75
GOST Books Body Copy
Book SynopsisBody Copy is a photo-text series exploring the performance of queer masculinities in digital culture.
£51.00
GOST Books Route de la Belle Etoile
Book SynopsisShot across four continents, Route de la Belle Etoile (Route of the Beautiful Star) is the first photobook to document the world of amateur astronomers who have an outsized impact on professional astronomical research.
£38.00
GOST Books Some Worlds Have Two Suns
Book SynopsisEvery three months a space rocket carrying three astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. At around the same time, to the north-east in remote grasslands, three other astronauts fall back to earth. The photographs in Some Worlds Have Two Suns document these comings and goings of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and the local community whose lives are accidentally intertwined with this portal to space.
£54.00
GOST Books Pillar to Post
Book SynopsisPillar to Post focuses on the vibrant and resilient Traveller and Gypsy communities across the UK and Ireland.
£38.00
GOST Books Death and Other Belongings
Book SynopsisDeath and Other Belongings is a story about a personal journey at home.
£38.00
GOST Books North North South
Book SynopsisAyda Gragossian made the photographs in North North South by walking rather aimlessly' andtaking pictures in different neighbourhoods to create a narrative of Los Angeles that reflectsthe socioeconomic marginalisation she encountered on a daily basis.
£42.75
Jonglez Forgotten Heritage
Book SynopsisRediscovering our forgotten heritage No Entry'; 'Dangerous Site Keep Out; Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted': common sights on walls or perimeter fences around many of the world's abandoned sites. These warnings allude to potential dangers and prove an ineffective deterrent against thieves and vandals. To the urban explorer/photographer these signs simply serve to whet the appetite for the promise of hidden wonders that may lie beyond. For those who ignore the warnings and climb the fences, what awaits is usually worth the risks. Vast industrial spaces that feel more like an alien landscape or poignant residential settings, which are slowly surrendering to the inexorable advance of nature. Places once alive with sound and movement, now silent and still, but no less sensory. Immense and powerful beauty resides in these forgotten places. For some, just getting inside a location to experience this alternative form of sightseeing is enough to satisfy a desire to simply go where one shouldn't. But for some there is a need to capture the essence of a location in words and pictures, giving others a metaphorical leg-up over the fences, to walk them through the remaining ruins. Matt Emmett falls into the latter of these groups, travelling regularly to places in the UK and across Europe. He seeks out vast power stations and their cooling towers, steel works, mines, bunkers, tunnels, schools, engine sheds, hotels, castles and a myriad of other buildings. All have their own stories to tell in a variety of voices and without the distraction, sounds and people who inhabited them, those stories are clear and strong and the character of each location is laid bare. Architectural Digest: "Photographer Matt Emmett has made a name for himself by pushing the boundaries to capture epic imagery of Europe s most forgotten ruins." International Business Times: "Matt Emmett's 'Forgotten Heritage' photography project uncovers the brutal beauty of abandoned buildings and derelict industry."
£26.99
Jonglez Abandoned USSR
Book SynopsisBeautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places in the USSR. Once thriving buildings now ravaged by nature and time are the subject of this fascinating, coffee-table book. Relics of the Soviet conquest of space, Moscow Pioneer camps, remnants of propaganda along a journey sparsely dotted with statues of Stalin or Lenin, from traditional Moldovan houses to ghosts of the Caucasian wars, by way of petro-chemical factories in the Donbass ... this report invites the reader to relive, through its striking pictures, more than a hundred years of history, from the beginnings of the Soviet period to the legacy of a communist era now fast fading from memory. Terence Abela has spent nine years travelling across the former USSR unearthing fragments from its past. His love of history, of photographing relics of the past and discovering the unknown, have combined to create this work. Driven by a desire to preserve the heritage abandoned by states that lurch between the threat of nationalism, dictatorship, wars and the will to invent a new history for themselves, he appeals to us through his pictures to protect these mementos which are at risk of disappearing in the not too-distant future.
£23.99
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 Últimos Testigos: The Last Rebellion of the Maya
Book SynopsisBetween 1847 and 1935 the Maya on the Yucatán peninsula rebelled against their oppression and were eventually defeated by Mexican troops. The Canadian photographer Serge Barbeau has visited the descendants of those Maya rebels. This volume reproduces in oversize format his expressive portraits documenting their desire for independence. Serge Barbeau, who has lived in Mexico for many years, visited the descendants of those militant Maya. They continue to experience the consequences of the dispute to this day and lead a life full of economic, social and cultural disadvantages. The full-page portrait photos are full of detail and show in a moving way the traces of life which have become engraved in the faces of the portrait subjects, the oldest of whom was 107 years old. Their tales remind us of the exploitation, forced labour and the confiscation of land at the time and document the desire for independence which remains unbroken to this day. They also tell of their deep roots in their faith, which unites the Maya heritage and the Christian religion. An impressive act of homage to the Maya of Yucatán.
£999.99
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
