Photography
L.A. River Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 138
ISBN: 9781938086649
Pub Date: 15 May 2019
Illustrations: 72 ambrotypes (including six foldouts) by the author, three historic photographs, and one map
Description:
Three centuries ago, the Los Angeles River meandered through marshes and forests of willow and sycamore. Trout spawned in its waters, and grizzly bears roamed its shores in search of food. The river and its adjacent woodlands helped support one of the largest concentrations of indigenous peoples in North America, and it also largely determined the location of the first Spanish Pueblo and ultimately the city of Los Angeles.
Florida’s Changing Waters Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781938086618
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2019
Illustrations: 130 color photographs by the author
Description:
Lynne Buchanan began photographing Florida’s inland waters to create artistic records of her connection with those waters and to learn lessons from being in the present moment and aligning with the flow of life. The more time she spent photographing waterways in her native Florida, the more she noticed what was being damaged and lost due to human impact. She resolved to draw attention to the situation through her photography and to work with water-quality and environmental advocates, from members of the Water-keeper Alliance to Native American citizens fighting to preserve the integrity of their ancestral lands and drinking water.
Lost in Vietnam Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781938086571
Pub Date: 19 Jan 2019
Illustrations: 112 photographs
Description:
Vietnam is an ancient and beautiful land, with a deep history of occupational conflict that remains an enigma in Americans’ collective memory. It is still easy to forget that Vietnam is a country and not a war, even as America’s role in Vietnam inflamed and divided the American citizenry in ways that are still evident today. It is as if Vietnam’s civil war resurrected our own.
Break Boundary Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9781938086595
Pub Date: 19 Dec 2018
Illustrations: 34 color photographs by the author
Description:
“Break Boundary” refers to the transformative point at which any system suddenly and irrevocably changes from its original state into something new. Coined by Kenneth E. Boulding in 1963, the term serves as the underlying metaphor for the photographs of Jenee Mateer.
Emily Andersen – Portraits: Black & White Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9781910221174
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2018
Illustrations: c. 70
Description:
Emily Andersen has been making photographic portraits of the international avant-garde since graduating from the Royal College of Art in the early 1980s. Having started out by finding her way into some pretty cool-sounding private parties in London and New York, she began convincing artists and musicians to pose for her – from Nan Goldin to Nico. Over the past thirty-five years, she has built up a remarkable and beautiful portfolio that includes many high-profile writers, poets, film directors, actors and architects, with Peter Blake, Michael Caine, Derek Jarman, Zaha Hadid, Arthur Miller, Helen Mirren, Michael Nyman and Eduardo Paolozzi among those featured in this new publication devoted to her black-and-white portraits.
Vanishing Vernacular Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9781938086601
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2018
Illustrations: 119 color photographs and 11 color illustrations, including 2 gatefolds
Description:
Steve Fitch is among America’s most well-known chroniclers of the American West since the days of Easy Rider. He has been photographing examples of the West’s changing vernacular landscape and vanishing roadside landmarks for more than 40 years. In his new book, he presents both the ancient and the modern by way of petroglyphs, neon motel signs and hand-painted business signs, drive-in movie theater screens, and radio and cell towers.
Sin Sombras / Without Shadows Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 188
ISBN: 9781938086588
Pub Date: 31 May 2018
Illustrations: 82 color photographs by the author
Description:
Ever wish you could push the "reset" button on the world in which you live as well as the one you carry inside your head? Are you tired of a culture that seems infatuated with wealth and the superfluous, where people can become famous simply by being outrageous or otherwise well known?If that world is not working for you, perhaps you should consider a trip to the desert, just as holy men, mystics, prophets, and eccentrics have done for thousands of years, seeking solitude and inspiration, wisdom and direction in a land of extremes.
Portable Studio Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 608
ISBN: 9781861543806
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2017
Description:
Portable studio documents contemporary British youth culture, and was created in collaboration with the young people Appleson met and photographed on the streets of Birmingham in 2014. Inspired by the way identities are now curated online, the project works with a wide range of individuals to create an 'archive' of found and commissioned material, exploring identity and experience as expansive, multimedia portraits. Portable Studio inverts the traditional idea of the studio portrait/street photograph - the 'snapshot' is now just the starting point.
RRP: £35.00
Tidal Rhythms Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781938086458
Pub Date: 25 Jan 2017
Illustrations: 116 color photographs
Description:
Tidal Rhythms: Change and Resilience at the Edge of the Sea is a collaborative effort by photographer Stephen Strom and award-winning essayist Barbara Hurd. Strom’s images, taken along beaches in the Gulf of California and the Northern California and Oregon coasts, document a world teeming with ancient life-forms, clinging to rocks and finding nourishment but revealed for only a few hours before the tidal waters return. The primitive flora and fauna together create transient marine landscapes whose complex patterns resonate with what we humans perceive as beauty.
East Coast Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781938086441
Pub Date: 05 Jan 2017
Illustrations: 185 color photographs and 1 color map
Description:
The East Coast of North America is a wondrous, intriguing, yet threatened coastline. It zigs and zags for more than 5,500 miles and assumes a multifaceted, jigsaw shape from the Arctic Circle and Greenland across the Canadian Maritimes, then southward into Maine, Cape Cod, New York Harbor, the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, along the Outer Banks to Charleston Harbor and on to Cape Canaveral. It ends at the Dry Tortugas on the western tip of the Florida Keys near the Tropic of Cancer.
Take Me to the River Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781938086427
Pub Date: 16 Dec 2016
Illustrations: 185 ambrotype plates (including 10 foldouts), 2 duotones, and 2 color photographs by the author, 4 historic photographs, and 4 black-and-white maps
Description:
Take Me to the River explores four post-industrial rivers that flow into the Atlantic Ocean—the Androscoggin (Maine/New Hampshire), Schuylkill (Pennsylvania), James (Virginia), and Savannah (Georgia/South Carolina)—as they emerge from two centuries of use and neglect. With vastly improved water quality in each river since enactment of the 1972 Clean Water Act, public affection has gradually increased as memories of foul smells and fetid water fade. Today, these rivers still carry the legacies of longstanding pollution in their currents and sediments, yet they have become waterways, renewed and rediscovered, that our grandparents never could have envisioned.
America's Endangered Coasts Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9781938086434
Pub Date: 06 Dec 2016
Illustrations: 168 color photographs
Description:
America’s Endangered Coasts: Photographs from Texas to Maine is a pioneering and thought-provoking photographic survey of coastal areas of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States that are already threatened by a rising sea. Using a topographic aesthetic that combines straightforward, highly detailed color photographs with GPS locations and elevations above sea level for each site, this book photographically responds to low-lying areas that are frequently over-developed and vulnerable to high tides and storms such as Hurricanes Katrina, Irene, and Sandy. This book contains 168 color photographs and two essays, one by Liz Wells, a prominent British writer who offers a photo/art perspective of the work, and one by Dr.
Backscatter Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9781938086380
Pub Date: 24 Oct 2016
Illustrations: 78 color photographs
Description:
"Backscatter is the reflection of particles, waves, or signals back to the direction from which they came: in underwater photography, back to the lens. The reflection, however, is diffuse, as opposed to clear like a mirror, thus softening images and even making them obscure.For this book, Tom Young has embraced backscatter as both subject and metaphor to render spaces below and above the water's surface—between here and there—in highly original ways.
The Power of Belief Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781938086397
Pub Date: 21 Oct 2016
Illustrations: duotone photographs by the author
Description:
Winner of the 2017 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Literature award for photography.The rural American South has no grand cathedrals or other wonder-of-the-world monuments to religious belief. Nor has it ever been the site of religious wars or large-scale religious persecutions we see throughout the world.
Across the Threshold of India Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781938086175
Pub Date: 06 Sep 2016
Illustrations: 32 duotone and 167 four-color photographs by the author, 7 drawings, and 1 color map
Description:
An important and strikingly beautiful book about the sacred Hindu practice of threshold drawing!In the Hindu world-view, threshold is a profoundly important concept that represents a passage between one space and place and another, creating a visual bridge between the secular and the sacred. Accordingly, the literal threshold a person crosses when entering and exiting a home or business symbolizes the threshold one crosses between the physical and spiritual realms of existence.
RRP: £60.00
Out of Season Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 226
ISBN: 9781861543783
Pub Date: 21 Jun 2016
Description:
Exceptional colour photographs of the mid-twentieth-century motels of Wildwood, New Jersey, USA, the largest concentration of the exuberant architectural style sometimes known as 'doo wop' complete with neon signs and plastic palms. The images in this book are the result of a ten-year project by Mark Havens to capture the essence of these vanishing treasures. A number of the motels were photographed at the end of their last season, just prior to demolition.
RRP: £30.00