Photography
Discover the best photography books, including top titles and cool photography guides for photographers of all levels.
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Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge: The Snows of VeniceAmerican author Ben Lerner and German filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge come from two different generations but share a single passion: an interest in the long-term effects of things. A line from Lerner's poem The Sky Stops Painting and Turns to Criticism, which Kluge...
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Erik Van Der Weijde: This Is Not My BookIn the last ten years, the Dutch photographer Erik van der Weijde has been responsible for over fifty publications: these include not only slim photozines and simply produced brochures but also voluminous cloth-bound books -- many of them distributed via his own publishing house...
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Anastasia Samoylova: FloodzoneFloodZone is Miami-based Russian photographer Anastasia Samoylova's (born 1984) account of life on the knife-edge of the Southern United States: in Florida, where sea levels are rising and hurricanes threaten. But this book is not a visualization of disaster or catastrophe. These beautifully subtle...
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Sory Sanlé VOLTA Photo"Rich people, poor people, religious people, artists, musicians, everyone could become a hero at Sanle's] Volta studio." --Florent Mazzoleni, The New York TimesThe studio photographs of Sory Sanl and his participation in the vibrant music scene in Bobo-Dioulasso give us a picture of a...
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John Gossage: Jack Wilson's WaltzJack Wilson's Waltz is, in the words of its author, a book "with a particular context, of photographs to settle the feeling that I did not understand about my home. To do that I set out, starting in 2003, to see what clarity my...
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Martin Schoeller: CloseAn informal anthropological study of the faces of our timeClose presents 120 portraits of the world's most famous and influential people across the arts and entertainment industries, politics, business and sport--from Julia Roberts and Adele, to Frank Gehry and Marina Abramovic, Barack Obama, Julian...
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Orhan Pamuk: BalkonIstanbul panoramas from the author of My Name Is RedIn the winter of 2011 Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk took 8,500 color photographs from his balcony with its panoramic view of Istanbul, the entrance of the Bosphorus, the old town, the Asian and...
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Jake Verzosa: The Last Tattooed Women of Kallinga: Steidl Book Award Asia 2017The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga presents a series of portraits by Filipino photographer Jake Verzosa (born 1979) that lament and celebrate a dying tradition of tattooing in villages throughout the Cordillera mountains in the northern Philippines.For nearly 1,000 years the Kalinga women have...
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Mitch Epstein: Rocks and CloudsIn his newest series, Mitch Epstein investigates permanence and impermanence by photographing rocks that last millions of years and clouds that evaporate before our eyes. These large-format black-and-white pictures, taken in New York City, examine society's complex relationship to nature, a theme Epstein has...
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Lee Friedlander: Chain LinkLee Friedlander is celebrated for his ability to weave disparate elements from ordinary life into uncanny images of great formal complexity and visual wit. And few things have attracted his attention--or been more unpredictable in their effect--than the humble chain link fence. Erected to...
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Jongwoo Park: DMZ: Demilitarized Zone of Korea, Steidl Book Award Asia 2017This book is Korean photographer Jongwoo Park's (born 1958) photo-documentation of the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ of Korea, the strip of land dividing North and South Korea.About 154 miles long, 3 miles wide, and 37 miles from Seoul, this buffer zone between the two...
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Joel Sternfeld: Rome After RomeIn his 1992 book Campagna Romana: The Countryside of Ancient Rome, Joel Sternfeld (born 1944) focused on the ruins of grand structures with a clear warning: great civilizations fall, ours may too. Now in Rome after Rome, containing images from the previous book as...
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The Life and Work of Sid GrossmanSid Grossman (1913-55) and his work were largely forgotten after his untimely death in 1955. Labeled as a communist by the FBI after the war, his hard-earned reputation as a free-thinking photographer quickly fell into oblivion for the rest of the century and beyond....
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Tomasz Gudzowaty: Beyond the Body: In the Eyes of Nan GoldinHere, Nan Goldin draws on Tomasz Gudzowaty's archive to create her own narrative from his work. The people in the photographs--flying, floating, upside down--strive to liberate themselves from their corporeal limitations. As Goldin puts it, they are breaking the rules of how we are...
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Karl Lagerfeld: Villa NoaillesBuilt at the beginning of the 20th century by the Bauhaus-inspired architect Rob Mallet-Stevens in Hyères in Southern France, the Villa de Noailles is a place of timeless modernity. Despite its incredible charm, the building was abandoned and fell into oblivion, but was rediscovered...
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Josephine Pryde: Lapses in Thinking by the Person I Amlapses in Thinking By the person i Am presents documentation and texts from Josephine Pyde's eponymous exhibition shown at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. In this body of work, Pryde...
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SitAn extraordinary and unique insight into the personality of man's best friend. Through patience and compassion, photographer Matt Karwen has accomplished unprecedented, expressive dog portraits, which depict the animal's personalities in various facets. In the absence of outside influences, their faces reveal moods and...
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Cary Loren: PolaroidsIn Polaroids, Michigan-based artist, musician, writer and bookstore owner Cary Loren (born 1955) interweaves snapshots of his 1970s Detroit entourage along with photographs of his elaborately staged collage assemblages of prints, TV stills, magazine covers, stickers, movie posters and other ephemera. This particular medium...
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Piotr Uklanski: Real NazisIn the fall of 1999, Edition Patrick Frey published Piotr Uklanski's artist book, The Nazis, which quickly went out of print and became a highly coveted cult book. Whereas The Nazis collected stills of actors playing Nazis in various Hollywood movies, Uklanksi's new book,...
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Golden Days Before They EndThey still exist, these little cafes, inns, Branntweiner small drinking places that open early in the morning], bars or as the customers refer to these places dens, where time seems to have stopped. Klaus Pichler (photos) and Clemens Marschall (text) went on a mission...
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