Photography - Individual Photographers - Essays

The much-anticipated new book by artist and New York Times bestselling author Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process "Erudite, frank, and funny." --Amor Towles, bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway Art Work, by...

The first English-language collection of Takuma Nakahira's influential writings on photography.At the Limits of the Gaze collects the writings of photographer and critic Takuma Nakahira in English for the first time. A crucial figure within the history of Japanese photography, Nakahira is best known...

Collaboration is a groundbreaking publication, by five great thinkers and practitioners in photography, in collaboration with hundreds of photographers, writers, critics, artists, and academics. This collection uses the lens of collaboration to challenge dominant narratives around photographic history and authorship. Working with an accumulation...

Star photographer Anouk Masson Krantz's strongest collection to date covers both American continents. This inspiring tribute to the enduring legacy of the cowboy is an authentic portrait of real ranch life including children, families, working cowboys, and rodeo. In Anouk Masson Krantz's most expansive...

"Settle in and listen. It'll be worth it."--Heather Cox Richardson A master storyteller's intimate visual portrait of Maine, on land and sea--opening the door to a world few outsiders ever see. To a casual visitor, the coast of Maine is paradise--a place of summer...

Photographer Josie Iselin, author of Abrams' very popular Beach Stones, has put together a magical collection of 100 heart stones, and each one expresses a universal feeling. A heart stone is one of nature's gifts. Heart stones are not rare or precious in the...

Henri Cartier-Bresson's writings on photography and photographers have been published sporadically over the past 45 years. His essays--several of which have never before been translated into English--are collected here for the first time. The Mind's Eye features Cartier-Bresson's famous text on "the decisive moment"...

Revised EditionThe classic in a fresh new design: an expanded and updated new edition in larger size The new edition of the classic "Iconic New York" surprises with previously unpublished photographs of the world-famous metropolis on the Hudson River, now in an even larger...

JR, a globally renowned artist, transforms public spaces into universal galleries through large-scale participatory projects, cinematic collaborations, and striking installations, with this book highlighting his impactful work in New York City. JR uses the street as a canvas for his monumental photographic collages. His...

We seldom get a full sense of Louisiana's landscape from the ground. The horizon can elude us, as foliage and structures often obstruct our view. From above though, the landscape opens up, revealing a broad sweep with remarkable depth. Louisiana from the Sky focuses...

Celebrated royal photographer Jackson unveils an intimate and visually striking new collection that offers a rare look at the evolving British monarchy. For nearly two decades, Jackson has held a singular position: Getty Images' most trusted lens on the British monarchy. In Modern Majesty,...

Elliott Erwitt: The life's work of the photography legend The Revised Edition of the bestselling book containing the best and most personal images of New York photography legend Elliott Erwitt is now available in a practical softcover format. Each black and white photograph in...

The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Book Series--featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. Created and coedited by Drs. Sarah Lewis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis, the series reexamines...

An ecologically minded collection of essays in the vein of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag, covering everything from the equipment of photography to the difficulties of perception itself. In The Picture Not Taken, the photographer and writer Benjamin Swett considers the intersections between photography,...

An entertaining walk through the thrilling and glamorous history of traditional yet modern skiing This lively illustrated volume features legendary ski racers such as Jean-Claude Killy and Rudi Sailer and charismatic contemporary athletes such as Lindsey Vonn and Felix Neureuther Breathtaking ski resorts such...

A book-length essay about photography's unique ability to ease the ache of human mortalityDrawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens, Marilynne Robinson and other poets, artists, musicians and thinkers, Brooklyn-based photographer Tim Carpenter (born 1968) argues passionately--in one main essay and a series of...

Give the gift of the National Parks with this beautiful coffee table book: the most complete photography book about all the 63 US National Parks, and the only one with location notes for each photograph. Winner of 12 national and international awards. Treasured Lands:...

In this volume of The Photography Workshop Series, Vik Muniz--known for his playful pictures that complicate what is understood as a photograph, sculpture, or painting--offers his insight into thinking creatively and seeing the familiar in new and surprising ways. Aperture works with the world's...

100 women bare all in an empowering collection of photographs and interviews about Womanhood. Vagina, vulva, lady garden, pussy, beaver, cunt, fanny... whatever you call it most women have no idea what's 'down there'. Culturally and personally, no body part inspires love and hate,...