Abandoned Ireland 2
In Abandoned Ireland 2, photographer Rebecca Brownlie travels further off the beaten path to explore and showcase Ireland's forgotten buildings before nature or the demolition man claims them forever. Through her evocative photography, we cross the threshold of deserted mansions, cottages, convents and hotels, mills and shopping centres, wandering through once-lively rooms that have now fallen silent, where only mementos of the past stand sentinel. Amid the decay, tables are elaborately set for tea, coats hang by the door and well-thumbed books lay poised and open, as if their owner will be back at any moment. From a castle where King James II stayed before the Battle of the Boyne to a manor house whose occupants mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night, the arresting and poignant photography on every page is a love letter to Ireland's buildings abandoned to time.
How to Photograph Gardens
Learn how to take spectacular photographs of every type of garden with this definitive guide. Written by award-winning professional Jason Ingram, whose work has been regularly commissioned by HM The King Charles III Whether you want to create professional images of your own garden, snap Instagram-worthy shots with your iPhone, or learn the best ways to showcase your landscaping business or hobby, this book has it all. Using techniques developed through 25 years of professional success, award-winning photographer Jason Ingram will teach you how to understand light, stabilize photos and skillfully edit images that truly showcase the essence of any garden. ESSENTIAL GEAR AND EQUIPMENT: Gain an overview of the best camera, lenses and accessories to pack in your bag. MASTERING LIGHT: Explore the methods for manipulating natural light, from beginner to advanced. COMPOSITION TIPS AND TRICKS: Combine styling hacks and camera skills for sensational compositions. iPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY: Dive into on-the-go, accessible tips for taking the best shots with your iPhone. ACCESSING PUBLIC GARDENS: Learn how to gain permission to the most magical garden's for photography. POST-PROCESSING AND EDITING: Be introduced to photo editing software that enhance your favorite shots. With clear, concise, and comprehensive instructions suitable for every skill level, this book will guide you through every stage of creating extraordinary garden photographs.
Cincinnati Dreaming
Cincinnati Dreaming captures the stunning beauty of Cincinnati as seen through the eyes of photographer Mike Poggioli. Having spent four years living in Cincinnati, Poggioli brings a unique point of view to his images. Focusing on Cincinnati's rich history, architectural significance, and natural scenery, the images capture the magic of the city, creating a contemporary and updated portrayal of Cincinnati.Through a series of breathtaking images, readers are invited to explore the city's iconic landmarks, including Cincinnati Union Terminal, Carew Tower, Roebling Suspension Bridge, and Fountain Square, as well as lesser-known corners of the city that are equally captivating.Cincinnati Dreaming features stunning shots that offer a new perspective on the city's urban landscape, rolling hills, and picturesque vistas. With striking visuals and thoughtful commentary, this photography book is a must-have for anyone who loves Cincinnati or wants to experience its beauty from a new perspective.
The Cloud Factory
In 2014, photographer Chris Donovan began documenting his hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick on Canada's east coast--a small, heavily industrialised city which is home to Canada's largest oil refinery, one of the country's wealthiest families, and one of its highest rates of child poverty. His photographs show the vibrant neighbourhoods and their inhabitants living in close proximity to and in the shadows of polluted industrial sites, and 'the cloud factory'--an undefined industrial site which references both the refinery and large pulp mill in the city. Driven to explore environmental classism and injustices perpetrated on the city by others, Donovan's aim is to expose the culture of censorship which has controlled the environmental narrative and tightened its grip on the community for decades.
Critical Issues in Photojournalism
Drawing on original research and industry experience, this book studies the historical debates and controversies underpinning photojournalism and those facing it today.Beginning with the origins of photography and the close-knit relationship between journalism and the Image, this book goes on to consider the theories that have sought to unpick photography and photojournalism and how these translate to contemporary practice. Hadland examines the present and potential roles of photojournalism in society and reflects on how technological advances such as Artificial Intelligence may impact the profession. Ethical considerations and certain immeasurable dimensions of photography, including concepts of power, truth, and meaning, are brought into question alongside ongoing issues of exclusion and homogeneity amongst professional photojournalists.Critical Issues in Photojournalism is an ideal primer for students seeking a solid historical, ethical, and reflective understanding of the discipline.
Tall Socks
Photographs taken in New York over 50 years ago by Mark Cohen will be published for the first time in Tall Socks. In July 1973 Cohen spent a month living in a dorm room at NYU while taking part in a film production workshop. His daily classes were short so he used his free time to walk around the city with his camera. Only a few of the images were printed at the time and the vast majority remained unseen, except as negatives, until now.
Like a Lake
A vivid, imaginative response to the sensual and erotic in postwar American photography, with attention to the beauty of the nude, both male and female When photographer Coda Gray befriends a family with a special interest in a young boy, the motivation behind his special attention is difficult to grasp, "like water slipping through our fingers." Can a man innocently love a boy who is not his own? Using fiction to reveal the truths about families, communities, art objects, love, and mourning, Like a Lake tells the story of ten-year-old Nico, who lives with his father (an Italian- American architect) and his mother (a Japanese-American sculptor who learned how to draw while interned during World War II). Set in the 1960s, this is a story of aesthetic perfection waiting to be broken. Nico's midcentury modern house, with its Italian pottery jars along the outside and its interior lit by Japanese lanterns. The elephant-hide gray, fiberglass reinforced plastic 1951 Eames rocking chair, with metal legs and birch runners. Clam consomm矇 with kombu, giant kelp, yuzu rind, and a little fennel--in each bowl, two clams opened like a pair of butterflies, symbols of the happy couple. Nico's boyish delight in developing photographs under the red safety light of Coda's "Floating Zendo"-- the darkroom boat that he keeps on Lake Tahoe. The lives of Nico, his parents, and Coda embody northern California's postwar landscape, giving way to fissures of alternative lifestyles and poetic visions. Author Carol Mavor addresses the sensuality and complexity of a son's love for his mother and that mother's own erotic response to it. The relationship between the mother and son is paralleled by what it means for a boy to be a model for a male photographer and to be his muse. Just as water can freeze into snow and ice, melt back into water, and steam, love takes on new forms with shifts of atmosphere. Like a Lake's haunting images and sensations stay with the reader.
Bertrand Cavalier: Permanent Concern
Using the average smartphone, Cavalier transforms familiar situations or ordinary objects into uncanny scenesOn the streets of Amsterdam, Bertrand Cavalier (born 1989) photographs ordinary occurrences--from a plastic table to a brick wall or a girl skipping rope--on a smartphone in full zoom, rendering them in monochrome laser prints as "foreign objects" amid the mishaps of urban planning.
Jasmine Benjamin: City of Angels
A vibrant photographic portrait of Los Angeles' dynamic population by one of the city's foremost stylistsAmerican photographer and costume designer Jasmine Benjamin is a California girl. She represents the ease of Northern California, where she was raised, and the cosmopolitan pace of Hollywood, where she lives, and has brought her ever-creative spirit, considerable talent and infallible eye to music industry titans and anonymous citizens alike. City of Angels features more than 120 portraits of daring, expressive Los Angeles creatives shot in locations across the length and breadth of this vast metropolis. The book features iconic streetwear creators, free spirits from Topanga Canyon, surf and skate kids in Venice Beach, edgy Echo Park hipsters, Los Feliz vintage aficionados, shop girls and guys working at boutiques on Melrose, Chicano punks, K-Town cuties, Hollywood royalty, LGBTQIA+ fashion designers, Laurel Canyon bohemians, Black musicians and artists from South Central and Inglewood as well as from the affluent suburbs of Baldwin Hills and historic Leimert Park.With photographs exclusively by Benjamin, this book also features a unique illustrated map of Los Angeles by the artist Isaac Escoto, also known as Sickid, adding an additional artistic dimension. City of Angels is both a tribute to and an in-depth exploration of the essence of LA street culture. It celebrates the rich and diverse style scene of Los Angeles, highlighting a blend of celebrities, local figures, and everyday residents who embody the city's authentic spirit and fashion. Notably, approximately 80% of the individuals featured in the book are native Angelenos or hail from the greater California region, offering an intimate, homegrown perspective that enhances the project's authenticity. This body of work perfectly juxtaposes beauty with edginess, glamour with urban rawness.Jasmine Benjamin has worked as a stylist and sometime creative director for Miguel, Anderson .Paak, Donald Glover, Vince Staples and Chaka Khan, as well as a costume designer for commercials by Nike, the WNBA, Apple Music and Google. Benjamin has been featured in Vogue and Billboard and was named "Top Stylist of 2016" by i-D magazine.
Danny Lyon: Junk
A portrait of once-beloved, now-decaying cars in junkyards across America, from one of the New Journalism's key figuresBrooklyn-born photographer Danny Lyon (born 1942) is one of the most influential photographers of the last six decades. His immersive and groundbreaking works include The Bikeriders (1968), The Destruction of Lower Manhattan (1969) and his 2024 memoir This Is My Life I'm Talking About.When he was 21, Lyon's father passed on to him a 1953 Oldsmobile. He discovered the ecstasy of speeding along Georgia highways during the civil rights movement, with red dirt fields of peanuts and cotton flying by. In the excitement of driving, he realized his own mortality. Lyon's Junk: America in Ruins features approximately 86 American cars, mostly from the 1950s and 1960s, in junkyards across the western United States. The pictures were taken in Nebraska, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma.This is a work of pure visual photography. The premise behind the work is that many things--sculptures, monuments, buildings--take on a new and added beauty as they deteriorate and become ruins: a certain pathos is added to their original beauty. This is true of the automobiles in this series: once the beloved machines of people and families who owned and drove them, they now evoke a terrible beauty and sadness.
Andr矇as Lang: A Phantom Geography
Lang's sites and landscapes of Central Africa conjure the phantoms of the colonial era, in limbo between reality and fictionBased on the research of his great-grandfather, photographer and video artist Andr矇as Lang (born 1971) sets out to discover a lost chapter of German colonial history in Central Africa: a frontier expedition to take possession of the territory of the French Congo.
Clark Winter: Here to There
Winter's perceptive photographs of cars across the decades--and around the world--revel in nostalgia while revealing the subtleties of our relationship with automobiles, drivers and the things we see along the waySince their invention, cars have been one of the driving forces behind America's constantly changing culture. Not only have they helped shape the country's sprawling cities and suburban society, but they have inspired films (from American Graffiti to The Fast and the Furious) and songs (from the Beach Boys' zippy Fun, Fun, Fun to Bruce Springsteen's anthemic Thunder Road) and an endless parade of road-trip books.Over the course of half a century, Clark Winter captured images of the car as a symbol of Americana. More intriguingly, he also found a global spirit in this form of transportation in countries such as Spain, Italy and China. Winter's photographs, made in both color and black and white, are not simply focused on the vehicles but rather on the way people physically relate to cars, turning each image into a stage upon which a drama quietly (and sometimes comically) unfolds between owner, passenger and passerby. And because these dramas are universal--eating ice cream in the back seat, waiting for a pump at the gas station, stuck in traffic, busted for speeding--Winter's wide-eyed, often lighthearted pictures invite us to recall and relive our own days of adventure, romance and speed.Clark Winter is a trustee of several cultural institutions, including the June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation in New York. His previous photobooks include Birds and Free Air.
Above and Across San Francisco
Above and Across San Francisco captures the stunning beauty of San Francisco as seen from the sky. Showcasing the city's diverse architecture, bustling streets, notable landmarks and buildings, and gorgeous coastline, the images capture San Francisco's vibrant character and historical significance. The photographers featured in the book share their unique perspectives to create a contemporary portrayal of the city, in all its breathtaking beauty.Through a series of stunning images, readers are invited to explore the city's iconic landmarks, including the Transamerica Pyramid, Coit Tower, the Presidio, the Ferry Terminal, and the iconic Bay and Golden Gate Bridges, as well as lesser-known corners of the city. Above and Across San Francisco features stunning aerial shots that offer a bird's-eye view of the city, capturing its natural scenery and urban landscape in an entirely new light. With its striking visuals and thoughtful commentary, including a foreword by Stacy Williams, Executive Director of The American Institute of Architects - San Francisco, this photography book is a must-have for anyone who loves San Francisco or wants to experience its beauty from a new perspective.Featured photographers include: Cocu Liu, Diane Bentley Raymond, Howard Kingsnorth, Jack Landau, Jay Huang, Jeffery Xin, John Montoya, Kris Kuganathan, and Lichao Liu.
The Complete Works Volume II
Discover the Intersection of Art and the Human Journey Nomad Monad 2K: Fine Art & Photography (Volume 1) invites you into a world where storytelling meets visual transcendence. In this coffee table book, explore the raw beauty of diverse landscapes and intimate human experiences captured through the lens. Each page is a gateway to a narrative that stretches across time and place, offering an immersive journey that transcends the ordinary. This collection of images is a visual dialogue between fine art and photography, where each frame speaks to the spirit of exploration and the essence of being. From quiet moments to dramatic scenes, Nomad Monad 2K reveals the connection between our shared humanity and the vast world we inhabit. Whether you're an art lover, photography enthusiast, or simply someone seeking inspiration, Nomad Monad 2K will transport you, challenge you and ignite your imagination. About the Artist: Nomad Monad 2K is a photographer and visual artist known for his innovative approach to capturingthe intricacies of the human experience and the natural world. With years of exploration and creative expression, Nomad Monad 2K brings a distinctive style to his work, merging fine art with photography in a way that is as thought-provoking as it is breathtaking.
How to Photograph Absolutely Everything
This practical guide from photography expert, Tom Ang, will help you achieve the best shot possible in every scenario - from creating a silhouette to impromptu still lifes. In our online world, taking a good photograph has become an essential life skill. Full of essential advice, hints, and tips, How to Photograph Absolutely Everything gives you straightforward step-by-step guidance on what equipment you will need, the best approach for each subject, how to think about composition and find the right light, and how to frame each shot effectively. Checklists allow you to focus on what is important, while "tricks of the trade" show you how to turn a good picture into an amazing one. From cityscapes to landscapes, and tackling children's parties to capturing the magic of seasonal celebrations, How to Photograph Absolutely Everything is the essential guide to improving your digital photography skills and getting the most out of your digital camera (or smartphone).
The Silk Road: A Living History
The Silk Road: A Living History is a vibrant visual journey from renowned travel photographer and writer Christopher Wilton-Steer, allowing readers to explore the cities, landscapes, and communities along the storied Silk Road with the turn of a page. In 2019, Wilton-Steer left London for the trip of a lifetime. Armed with his camera, he followed the historic trade route from one end of Eurasia to the other, traversing 16 countries between England and China. As he zigzagged over 40,000 kilometers, crossing borders via car, bus, train, ferry, horse, and camel, his lens captured the essence of the Silk Road, from the Renaissance masterpieces of Venice to the bustling bazaars of Iran and the serene landscapes of Kyrgyzstan. The resulting collection of 160 photographs offers an intimate glimpse into the richness of cultures and the enduring legacy of connectivity that define the legendary trade network. Featuring thoughtful essays by the photographer and a preface by Oxford historian and bestselling author Peter Frankopan, The Silk Road: A Living History tells the story of one journey across Eurasia. It is a celebration of diversity, the traditional practices and customs that live on today, and the flourishing connections that endure along this historical, human network.
Here Down on Dark Earth
Discover New York's poignant memorials through powerful photographs capturing everything from fleeting tributes to enduring monuments The photographs in Here Down on Dark Earth document the many ways New Yorkers express their intertwined feelings of loss and remembrance. The famous and the unknown, the rich and the poor, meet the same fate, but how they are mourned and remembered varies greatly. New York City's monuments and memorials are large and small, civic and personal, traditional and vernacular, planned and spontaneous. Some commemorate a significant event such as the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, others the death of a single child hit by a stray bullet. A memorial of stone and steel dedicated to deceased WWII veterans from a church parish may outlast a painted Rest-In-Peace (RIP) memorial wall for a slain teenager. Still, both grow out of the feeling of loss and a desire to preserve the memory of departed loved ones. As Racioppo traveled throughout New York City, he became increasingly aware of the impermanence of these memorials. The paint eventually peels, and the image gradually disappears. Sanitation workers remove the rotted toys and flowers. Small and personal, or large and communal, created by professionals or amateurs, the memorials in Here Down on Dark Earth express a powerful sense of loss and connection. Throughout the book, the author's contextual notes accompany the poignant photographs depicting these expressions of remembrance.
The Great American Eclipse of 2017
A Syzygy is a nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies in a gravitational system, such as the alignment of the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth during a solar eclipse. The Great American Eclipse is the prequel to Syzygies-capturing the Hiding Sun, released in March 2025. The Syzygies series of books features in-depth tutorials and metadata so that you may learn to shoot eclipses like a professional astrophotographer. Syzygies is the first book of its kind in that it reveals the actual settings used to capture every shot in the book.
The Great American Eclipse of 2017
A Syzygy is a nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies in a gravitational system, such as the alignment of the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth during a solar eclipse. The Great American Eclipse is the prequel to Syzygies-capturing the Hiding Sun, released in March 2025. The Syzygies series of books features in-depth tutorials and metadata so that you may learn to shoot eclipses like a professional astrophotographer. Syzygies is the first book of its kind in that it reveals the actual settings used to capture every shot in the book.
Visual Journalism and Verification at War
Considering the visual coverage of the war in Ukraine, this book provides critical insights into how newsrooms make use of visual materials, how visuals partake in journalistic storytelling in a modern wartime context, and how visual journalism practices affect the news media's role as arbiter of accuracy and ethics.Based on a mixed-methods study, including analyses of selected visually driven news stories and interviews with media professionals in Norwegian and Swedish national media outlets houses, this book examines the news media's approach to the visual coverage of the war in Ukraine following Russian invasion in 2022. The work is theoretically underpinned by ongoing boundary work within journalism, and editorial negotiations over issues such as verification, source criticism, and trust; witnessing and ways of seeing; and ethical gatekeeping in photojournalism. At a juncture of rising concerns over AI, public distrust, and propaganda, this study adds a real-time aspect to these debates and reveals challenges as well as emerging strategies in the unfolding coverage. Furthermore, the comparative Scandinavian context serves to highlight points of tension between the global and the local; between those newsrooms relying on global image brokers and those conducting their own in-house reporting.Written for researchers and advanced students of Visual Journalism and Conflict Reporting, this book is a timely intervention.
People, People in Places, Haiku
Susan Anawalt is particularly attracted to photographing people, whether in a portraiture setting or as part of a place or landscape. She seeks natural lighting whenever possible with its evanescent quality underscoring a fleeting aspect of time. She finds lighting, additionally, does much to create the mood or expression of the person at the moment of the click of the shutter button. With people there may be times for her where only a few snaps may be taken or there are those opportunities to manage multiple shots. Whichever occurs she loves those singular moments with another human being where there is a meaningful exchange.
Revere Beach Stories
In Revere Beach Stories, a collaborative effort between poets Kevin Carey, Jennifer Martelli, and photographer Stephenie Young, words dance with images across the pages, complexly figured and comparative, yet easy to read. Take, for example, the winter imagery of Carey's "The Recipe", where "sea smoke dances off the ice packs," and recollects "the first chill of stepping into the icy blue water in April." Young's accompanying photo features a woman and child, standing in the imperfectly blue shallows of Broad Sound, the Nahant skyline in the background. The light blues of the water compared to the woman's red swimsuit combine to form an off-kilter vignette of the beach proper, familiar immediately to anyone who's ever been there, the gulls dipping and swerving, couples overhearing the occasional raucous conversation over the breeze.The "Veiled Women," Martelli presents us with a scenario familiar - before, now, and after - to anyone who is learning to live with a parent's Alzheimer's, a place where "walking along Broadway from the bakery and sometimes, the new burqa store, got my father nervous." Mentioning the burqa store and the reader's possible explanation complicates the narrative and compels a reader's interest. Young's photo foregrounds a woman in a burqa wading in the shallows, the subdued lighting giving the impression of early dusk. Martelli expertly wins a reader's approval with words sharp enough to become mottoes: "if you live here long enough, no one will meet your gaze."Revere Beach Stories will show you just what it means to be a recorder of lives in this seaside haven, first public beach in America and a microcosm of the larger New England community.- Rusty Barnes, author of On Broad Sound
The Art of the Snl Portrait
The electric spirit of Saturday Night Live as captured by longtime resident photographer Mary Ellen Matthews Andy Samberg in a giant martini glass. Billie Eilish peeking out of a pile of snow. Kevin Hart writing his own cue cards. Paul Rudd as Paul McCartney. Sarah Silverman dusting the NBC marquee. Alec Baldwin as the Godfather. These are just a few examples of Matthews's bold, dynamic, and playful celebrity portraits that for over two decades have artfully highlighted the hosts and musical guests who help bring the show to life. Week after week, photographer Mary Ellen Matthews makes magic happen on Saturday Night Live with her inventive, irreverent, and truly original photography for the "bumpers"--portraits of the host or musical guest that transition the show to and from commercial breaks. Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of SNL and exquisitely designed by Pentagram, this book is the first collection of Mary Ellen's remarkable body of work as well as a celebration of America's longest-running comedy TV show. Includes: * More than 200 color portraits and behind-the-scenes photographs * A foreword by SNL founder and executive producer Lorne Michaels * Mary Ellen Matthews in conversation * A thumbnail index of all the images with captions by the photographer
Watching the River Run
Join celebrated author and photographer Tim Palmer as he takes us down one of America's most magnificent rivers. From the Youghiogheny's lofty headwaters to its quiet ending only a dozen miles from Pittsburgh, the river he reveals shines with splendor and beckons to all who walk, bike, paddle, or simply pause to appreciate the natural wonder awaiting those who live nearby or visit from near and far. A companion to Palmer's earlier book--Youghiogheny: Appalachian River--this elegant photo essay shows us the remarkable beauty of a river that has become enormously popular. With a sharp eye to all things wild, Palmer also presents an engaging narrative and features opportunities for enjoying and exploring Ohiopyle State Park in Pennsylvania, Swallow Falls State Park in Maryland, and elsewhere along this river's rapid descent through America's oldest and most biologically rich range of mountains. Watching the River Run is a book for all who visit and cherish this extraordinary waterway.
