Photographs: collections Books

For more than fifty years, photographer George Lange has been obsessed with connecting with the world through his work. Whether he was shooting a movie star or a family member, he saw his own search for joy reflected in the images.While growing up in...

In 1906, Denver's Pietro Satriano and his 25-piece brass band became the first musical act to perform at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, then christened the Garden of the Titans. Over a century later, Denver is a must-stop for every nationally touring act, and...

The History of How Western States Came to BeSince its founding in 1974, Western States has been predicated on the notion that in the beginning at the first sunrise, as the run begins at 5 a.m., there must always be hope that 100 miles was within a...

When you think of Brooklyn you probably think of it as the world capital of hip, with its bars, restaurants, stores and bridges. You think of the hustle and bustle of people, traffic and construction 24/7. Do you ever imagine that there's another side to...

Before db the DJ became DJ DB, he was attempting to launch himself as a photographer. These never before been published photographs capture the punk rock spirit of London in the late 70s. Some notable appearances include Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen...

In his project Community Fire, the photographer Zhang Xiao takes a local, hometown look at Shehuo (), a Chinese Spring Festival tradition celebrated in rural Northern Chinese communities that includes temple fairs, dragon dances, and storytelling.Shehuo...

A comprehensive documentation of a special conceptual position in artistic jewellery, this is Margit Hart's first autobiography that unites her jewellery with the abstract photographic works for the first time.Austrian jewellery artist Margit Hart has...

Photoscapes and the Egg is an intimate book to be savored and kept nearby, perhaps on a coffee table because of its sheer beauty. Inside its robin egg blue cloth cover are improvised photos of objects, nature, and art, each matched with a photo of an...

In Search for Meaning is the first published book by artist-photographer Felisa Tan.This striking collection covers most of her major work for the past fifteen years, many of which were never published before. Consisting of seventy-two photographs...

So Lawrence Weschler was minding his own business, as all his stories begin, when he got a call from Gravity Goldberg. Gravity (her real name!) introduced herself as the Director of Public Programs and Visitor Experience at The Contemporary Jewish...

I Burn But I Am Not Consumed brings together photographs and an archive collated by photographer Alicia Bruce and the residents of Menie, Scotland. The project documents sixteen years of Donald Trump's impact on the coastal Scottish community from 2006...

The Poetry of Being expresses the photographers response to the fragility and perseverance of nature. Images of what was, things still hanging on, the effects of climate change, and the cycle of life make up this ever relevant monograph. The included...

Girlhood: Lost and Found explores how females navigate the pressure of growing up and growing old under the influence of unrealistic societal stereotypes and standards.

A love letter to New York City, Two Way Street merges two bodies of Gretchen Grace's street photography revealing the iconic moments of the everyday. Gretchen Grace is an American photographer living in New York City. Two Way Street combines early black...

A Sum of Oneis a compilation of photographs from nine years of travel to six continents. While the photographs (landscapes, streets, people, and abstract) are a documentation, their existence is deeply personal and contemplative to the photographer. The...

New York City subways the century-old transit system has survived two World Wars, the Great Depression, and Hurricane Sandy. It and the millions of citizens that rely on it as their daily lifeline will also survive the COVID-19 pandemic.Subwaygram...

DIning Alone: In the Company of Solitude is a fine art photography book that highlights the experience of being alone in public. Scherl uses peopled restaurant interiors as a metaphor to explore the complexities of the subject of solitude. The subtle...

Captured by the Sea is a collection of fine art photographs which documents sun-seekers interacting with the natural environment.

Prophetic Kingdom is an ongoing photographic investigation exploring scenes of the everyday and overlooked. The images give an allegorical nod towards a prophesied postlapsarian world.

The Holocaust as history ended seventy-five years ago, about the span of a full human life; the Holocaust as culture is very much of the present, its meanings and lessons still actively in formation. For twenty-five years, Jason Francisco has wrestled...

Nowhere is the human condition more apparent than in India, a window to life, a window to all. Departures presents a journey through place, life, and our preparations for departure from the material to the ethereal. To journey with India is to reflect,...

This impressive book is richly illustrated with 91 gorgeous macro photographs-of flowers, and also some of their pollinators-by John Rodrigues, an artist who has taken that time to truly see. We invite you to sit back, maybe with a cup of hot Chamomile...

Japan's capital city for over 1000 years, Kyoto is the country's cultural and spiritual heart. Picturesque temples and prewar machiya - traditional townhouses - populate its historic districts, and are what most visitors expect to see. But one of Kyoto's...

Every photographer knows the moment of truth, and every picture tells a story. Over the past four decades, Paul Natkin has had a front-row seat for music history, attending over 10,000 shows and concerts to chronicle the excitement and excess of the...

Award-winning photographer Tobi Shonibare - Tobi Shinobi to his followers - pushes the boundaries of symmetry and balance in his first book, Equilibrium. From his native London to his current Chicago home, and in far-flung locales around the world,...

Complements is a gem, an intimate book to be savoured on first readings and held near as a resource on what is real. It contains 115 luscious photos of small objects juxtaposed in ways that evoke emotions, thoughts, questions, and remembrance of beauty...

With this year's 2021 Summer Olympics hosted in Tokyo, Japan, skateboarding will make its Olympic debut; augmenting both park and street competitions for men and women. As this book is a culmination and photographic collection of the past three decade's...

This body of work is a contemplation of human beings' passage on earth and their intimate interrelation with the environment. This book attempts to bring humour to the things we are getting attached to. It points at the invisible within the...

Hailed as 'photography's new conscience,' photographer and psychiatrist Dr. Glenn Losack has spent a lifetime traveling the world, determined to extend healing, hope, and compassion. With a camera in hand, he goes places that tourists rarely visit,...

A diary for a world-wide pandemic, #ICPConcerned captures 263 days in 2020 recorded by 820 photographers curated from over 60,000 submissions. This is the book form of an exhibition at the International Center of Photography Museum (ICP) that became a...

Remains to be Seen explores a disappearing but still tangible American landscape, from the rust-belt towns of the Midwest to the borscht-belt resorts of the Catskill mountains. Using drone photography with documentary candor and precision, Travis Fox...

Jenny Sampson's follow-up to her acclaimed collection of tintype skateboarder portraits (Skaters, Daylight 2017) focuses on female skateboarders. Although historically a male-dominated sport, there have always been girls in the skate- boarding landscape...

This is the story in pictures of Atlantic City, the iconic American shore resort, as it emerges from its latest crisis.

The American Boys project is an in-depth photographic book of young Americans across the country united through their expression of trans masculine gender identity.American Boys is a book of portraits capturing the trans-masculine community across the...

The portraits in Skaters compel the subject, the photographer, and the viewer to slow down. These images, created with wet plate collodion, offer an honest glimpse into the skateboarders' core being: pensive, tough, playful, anxious, distracted, and...

The Lumen Seed sensitively depicts a cultural dialogue taking place before a backdrop of offenses against the Australian continent, as well as a history of systematic discrimination against indigenous peoples on the part of the country's white...

David Hume Kennerly On the iPhone is a series of essays, anecdotes, and tips about how and why he takes pictures. Using only the camera in his iPhone, Kennerly pursued an around the world photo-a-day mission in 2013. Along the way he discovered that...

New book by National Geographic photographer Paul Chesley. This memoir of an artist's life will highlight the best images of his career, from a geisha on a phone in a limousine, to the chromatic lifestyles of Havana, the forbidding ranks of the Chinese...

The sheer granite walls of Yosemite Valley galvanized a dedicated group of rock climbers in the 1960s, who saw the nearly holdless, glacier-polished faces as the purest form of challenge. The awesome Half Dome and El Capitan were first climbed in the...

This book features rare, once-thought-lost photos of the 1968 first ascent of the California Route on Cerro Fitz Roy, the third ascent of the mountain. With accompanying retrospective essays. Climbing Fitz Roy,1968, presents photo documentation of the...

With just a rudimentary understanding of exposure and composition, one can capture fairly competent images of attractive subjects. But is that image remarkable in any way? Does it really say anything? How does one capture, edit, and share images that...

Many think slavery ended with the demise of the trans-Atlantic trade, but sadly, that's far from true. An estimated thirty-six million live without dignity or rights and although slavery is illegal in every country, it continues to persist in all - as a...

In 2010, model-turned-fashion photographer Henry Hargreaves turned his 3-D photography hobby and the willingness of some of his model friends into the surprise hit 3DD. From CoolHunter to Gizmodo, South African GQ to Uncrate, readers discovered the book...

"Evocative images, eloquent testimony-a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness."-Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to ProzacA tree's bare limbs against a grey sky, a young...

In an essay here, cultural critic and curator Negar Azimi articulates a singular problem of being a photographer in the Arab Middle East. "Taswir" (or picture making), according to many Arab scholars, is prohibited by Muslim law, thus the "notorious...

Garry Fabian Miller's Dark Room is a photography book unlike any other. At its heart is the artist's description of a life lived making pictures between the dark and the light, a deeply personal account woven against the history of photography from the...

William Henry Fox Talbot is celebrated today as the English inventor of photography. He made early photographic experiments in the 1830s, released the details of his photogenic drawing process in January 1839, and introduced important innovations to the...

William Henry Fox Talbot, the English inventor of photography, created around 15,000 photographs in the nineteenth century, most of them attempts to produce compelling scientific documents or pictorial records of the world around him. However, among...