New York. Portrait of a City
From the building of the Brooklyn Bridge to immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the slums of the Lower East Side to magnificent art deco skyscrapers, New York's remarkable rise, reinvention, and growth is not just the tale of a city, but the story of a nation. This beautiful book lays out the streets, sidewalks, culture, and crowds of the greatest city in the world--in all the greatness of its extremes, contradictions, energy, and attitude. With vistas of Central Park alongside Coney Island and the sleaze of Times Square, this city portrait champions the complexity and chaos of New York--its architecture, culture, fashion, and ethnic diversity. More than just a tribute to the metropolis and its civic, social, and photographic heritage, New York. Portrait of a City also pays homage to the indomitable spirit of those who call themselves New Yorkers: full of hope and strength, resolute in their determination to succeed among its glass and granite towers.
Nicola Brandt: The Distance Within
From German colonialism to the post-apartheid present, Brandt's photographs present new views of Namibia that intertwine its many historiesFeaturing images and video stills made over more than a decade, The Distance Within reflects on photographer Nicola Brandt's (born 1983) German and Namibian ancestry and deconstructs certain established ways of seeing Namibia. Brandt traveled the country extensively, documenting landscapes and people, structures and encounters, to reveal ensnared histories of German colonialism, National Socialism and apartheid. Markers of these histories range from the ephemeral and private, such as a dilapidated mound of stones as a roadside memorial, to official sites of remembrance and resistance, particularly for colonial atrocities. Alongside her images, Brandt assembles texts by scholars in photography, postcolonial cultures, memory and genocide studies, as well as archival material, to understand enduring blind spots. The result is an intersectional argument in favor of reclaiming suppressed Indigenous stories and identities, undoing romantic notions of whiteness and, ultimately, illuminating what has not been visible.
Amazing Gardens
From the gardens of the Palace of Versailles to Beatrix Potter's garden in the Lake District, from Monet's garden in France to the Tivoli Gardens in Rome, from the Japanese garden in Portland, Oregon, to city gardens in Tokyo, Amazing Gardens is a wide-ranging celebration of all types of gardens around the globe. Including formal French gardens and English landscape gardens, famous botanical gardens and little-known curiosities, Iranian and Persian gardens, grand, country house gardens and inner-city gardens, Zen gardens, strolling Japanese gardens and Chinese gardens, medicinal gardens and one poison garden, knot gardens and Roman gardens, the book explores a huge variety of the approaches and uses of gardening around the world over millennia. In telling the stories of these places, the book touches on the lives of the people who worked in them, designed them and owned them - people such as Prince Charles, Capability Brown, Gertrude Jekyll, Edith Wharton and Agatha Christie. Illustrated with more than 200 outstanding colour photographs and expert captions, Amazing Gardens not only champions the splendour of the world's most magnificent gardens but also reveals many fascinating stories about the history of these places and the people who created them.
Youth & Beauty 2026
Todd Paris' photos open the door to a world where naked bodies becomeworks of art. Young men show themselves with all of their strength, beauty andvulnerability. They invite us into a dialogue about dreams and desires, becoming one with the artistic vision of photographer Todd Paris. The images selectedfor this calendar from his photo book "Day Dreaming" are radiant compositions madeof bodies, gestures, color and light: hymns to beauty.
The Art of Endurance
Coffee table book devoted to the 2024 season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), one of the most exciting competitions in motorsport. The Art of Endurance is a coffee table book about the 2024 season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), which is one of the most exciting competitions in motorsport. This book is based on the very rich production of images that will be developed and embellished over the eight races that are held around the globe on internationally renowned circuits, including the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans. The main goal is to capture the "spirit" that characterizes these endurance races. This beautiful publication will be a perfect promotional tool for the championship, whose considerable drawing power is due to the number of competitors and manufacturers who are taking part.
Benidorm
Capturing the juxtaposition between its vibrant beach culture and towering urban landscape, Rob Ball's photographs of this famous Spanish seaside town consider the promise of the perfect package holiday - and whether it has changed since it's conception in the fifties. From sunlit palm trees to shimmering neon lights, from pastel-colored high rises to bright pink beach towels, from the greys and browns of backstreets to the pinks and reds of sunburn, this is a visual ode to all the colors of Benidorm and a testament to its irrepressible energy.
The Men of Raging Stallion 2026
RagingStallion is a major gay film studio and one of the world's largest producers ofgay entertainment films. With decades of expertise, they know their businessvery well -- and they've amassed an incredible stable of stallions! Thiscalendar has the most masculine men from Raging Stallion: a real hunky stud forevery month of the year. All your favorites in one calendar!
Men 2026
Gruenholtz'smen have the quality of myth: they are masculine but mysterious, powerful butsensual. His black-and-white images project a world unto itself, turningeveryday actions into something timeless, artistic and distinctive. Hissubjects aren't just beautiful men, but icons of masculinity. For lovers of themale form, there could be no more fitting way to celebrate the months of theyear than with the acclaimed photo artist Gruenholtz and his mesmerizing men.
The Fine Art of Erections 2026
Gruenholtz is renowned for his stunning artistic photography of the maleform. In this calendar, he turns his attention to the natural beauty of theerect penis. Even today, this subject matter is considered off-limits for"art." Gruenholtz reclaims the erection as something worthy of the artist'sattention. His timeless and elegant pictures show erections as they occurthroughout the day--spontaneously and instinctively. The photographs in thiscalendar present erections as extemporaneous events: a pure phenomenon ofnature that is artistic, unapologetic and beautiful.
Nothing to Hide. Young Men from Slovakia 2026
Natural, unstaged and beautifully unpolished: this is what makes thephotography of Phil Dlab something special. Born in Slovakia and raised inCanada, Dlab returned to the country of his birth and made its young men thefocus of his photography. His pictures capture the essence of masculinity atits purest and most authentic. Dlab's models are athletic but not glamorous, appealing but not pretentious. His photos are full of sunlight and candor andinvite us to see not just beautiful bodies, but men who are open and fearlessenough to show them. This calendar brings men to life who truly have "Nothingto Hide."
Young Men in Nature 2026
Whether it's the spontaneity of male beauty--open, fearless, young andunpretentious--or the beauty of nature itself, Phil Dlab has an eye forportraying the essence of the world around us and our place in it.Black-and-white photography masterfully rendered to accentuate the beauty ofmale bodies in natural surroundings. This is a calendar for those whoappreciate both the natural form of youth and the eternal youthfulness ofnature, unpolished and unfiltered, but always dramatic and ever alluring.
Playgirl Men 2026
Iconic. Bold. Timeless. Get ready for PLAYGIRL'Snew 2026 calendar, where every month is a reason to celebrate the beauty of themale physique. The twelve stunning models adorning this safe-for-work calendarwill spark your fantasies throughout the year. Established in 1973 as the firstmainstream publication dedicated to erotic entertainment for women, PLAYGIRLcontinues to sexually empower both women and men, expanding minds whileigniting desires.
The Men of Naked Sword 2026
When you think it doesn't get any hotter, NakedSword comes along andteaches you better: Make 2026 your hottest, horniest year ever with stunninghunks from NakedSword Originals! The studio is one of today's most popular, award-winning brands in adult entertainment. Whether you're into hunks, twinks, or both, you'll have no shortage of men to get your juices flowing with thisstunning calendar. Brace yourself for a sexy year with twelve horny hunks.
Study of Photography in Latin America
In this book Nathanial Gardner provides an insider's perspective to the study of photography in Latin America. He begins with a carefully structured introduction that lays out his unique methodology for the book, which features over eighty photographs and the insights from sixteen prominent Latin American photography scholars and historians, including Boris Kossoy, John Mraz, and Ana Mauad. The work reflects the advances and developments of the study of photography throughout Latin America with certain emphasis on Brazil and Mexico. The author further underlines the role of important institutions and builds context by discussing influential theories and key texts that currently guide the discipline. The Study of Photography in Latin America is critical to all who want to expand their current knowledge of the subject and engage more robustly with its experts.
Ken Narula and Rammy Narula: Lost and Found
Two brothers' self-reflective photography journeys: one an amateur and one a professionalContaining two distinct, back-to-back series by brothers Ken and Rammy Narula, Lost and Found encapsulates their shared love for photography, yet demonstrates a compelling duality in style and subject matter.
Hope
Cristina Mittermeier is renowned for her ability to capture the essence of our planet through her lens. Her work is a tribute to the wisdom of indigenous knowledge, the profound lessons we can learn from the people of the ocean, and the breathtaking beauty of underwater life. She takes us on a journey through the eternity of icy realms and highlights the empowering role of the feminine in our world. Moreover, her images delve into the cultural integration of death representations, offering a deeper understanding of our shared humanity. HOPE is a universal hymn that reminds us that we all are part of the same humanity and that, despite everything that divides us, we have, deep within us, the desire for communion, peace, and harmony. Across all cultures, stories and narratives, humans have always woven tales of HOPE.
Winfried Bullinger: Pastoralist Homes
An archive of a disappearing African architectural heritage, captured by the realist, reverent eye of BullingerSince 2008, German photographer Winfried Bullinger (born 1965) has traveled around Eastern and Central Africa, capturing the vernacular architecture of these regions. In this physical archive of his long-term project, Bullinger portrays a diverse array of African pastoralists' homes, including tents, open dwellings and huts. Despite their variety, the structures are all made from materials available directly on site; they are radically efficient and sustainable.Implementing a silver-gelatin technique, Bullinger shoots with a large-format camera and honors the capricious natural light of day. Although he captures few inhabitants in his images, Bullinger records their many traces. Indeed, his photographs are born from a dialogue with the inhabitants and reveal architecture as a direct response, refined over centuries, to a people's specific environment and culture. Bullinger's conscientious formal and interpersonal decisions culminate in this valuable record of rapidly disappearing African architectural heritage.
Robert Frank: Mary’s Book
Frank's artist's book and love letter for his first wife exemplifies the poetic, virtuosic approach to photobooks that would come to define his storied careerCalled "a poet with a camera" by Edward Steichen, Robert Frank (1924-2019) was one of many artists who searched for creative freedom in postwar Paris. It was while he was living in the city in 1949 that Frank produced a seminal volume in his oeuvre: a rare, personal photobook made for his then-girlfriend, artist Mary Frank (n矇e Lockspeiser). In Mary's Book, the photographer chronicled his time in the city with his poetic, insightful and inquisitive eye, and experimented for the first time with combining text and image. This singular object proved an important bookmaking exercise for Frank, and remains as evidence of his maturing artistic vision, which led to one of the most influential photobooks of the 20th century, The Americans (1958).Mary's Book reproduces this love letter in full for the first time, accompanied by insightful essays from leading scholars. This facsimile clothbound volume, inscribed "this is for you" in Frank's handwriting, re-creates the series of unbound pages nestled within one another, filled with handwritten notes and hand-cut prints. Readers can experience the Paris of the late 1940s through the visual harmonies of Robert Frank.
Black Chronicles
These striking studio portraits, curated and brought together following ten years of research championed by Autograph, constitute the most comprehensive collection of nineteenth-century photography depicting the Black subject in the Victorian era, including some of the earliest known images of Black people photographed in Britain.The historically marginalized lives of both ordinary and prominent Black figures of African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian, and mixed heritage are seen through a prism of curatorial advocacy and experimental scholarly assemblage. Black Chronicles features high quality reproductions of plate negatives, cartes de visite, and cabinet cards, many of which were buried deep in various private and public archives including the Hulton Archive's remarkable London Stereoscopic Company collection, unseen for decades. These photographs are linked with imperial and colonial narratives through newly commissioned essays and rare lecture transcripts, in-conversation and text interventions by Caroline Bressey, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, M. Neelika Jayawardane, Lola Jaye, Ren矇e Mussai and Val Wilmer, and an afterword by Mark Sealy.Built upon groundbreaking, in-depth new research, Black Chronicles opens up photographic archives to expand and enrich photography's complex cultural histories and subjectivities, offering an essential insight into the visual politics of race, representation and difference in the Victorian era by addressing this crucial missing chapter.Introduction and texts by Ren矇e Mussai, foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr., text by Paul Gilroy, text by Stuart Hall, text by Caroline Bressey, text by Lola Jaye, text by M. Neelika Jayawardane, afterword by Mark Sealy, text by Val Wilmer.Published by Thames & Hudson in partnership with Autograph.
Paolo Roversi
Arriving in Paris from Ravenna in 1973, Paolo Roversi produced his first series of photographs in 1977, which were immediately picked up by the fashion press. From then on, he devoted himself to fashion photography, working for the greatest designers and for the most prestigious magazines, simultaneously occupying a position both at the heart of the fashion world and far from its ephemeral trends.Ultimately in search of pure beauty, Roversi creates timeless and mysterious work, which is shaped by his choice of studio and use of large format and Polaroid cameras. At the heart of his photography are his close relationships with fashion designers and models, most famously with Yohji Yamamoto, as well as Romeo Gigli, Rei Kawakubo, and Dior. These fruitful collaborations have allowed Roversi to continuously challenge and renew his practice.
Awesome Birds of Costa Rica
Discover the breathtaking beauty of Costa Rica through the lens of bird watching, photography, and sightseeing in this must-have guide for nature enthusiasts. "Awesome Birds of Costa Rica: A Beautiful Collection" offers an in-depth exploration of the best bird-watching spots in Costa Rica, showcasing its diverse and colorful bird species, from the humming bird to the vibrant toucan. Whether you're an avid birder or a photographer looking to capture the perfect shot, this book is designed to elevate your experience.Each photograph in this book comes with detailed information about the location where it was taken, helping you discover hidden gems for bird watching across Costa Rica. Photographers will appreciate the inclusion of camera settings for each image, providing useful insights into how to capture stunning wildlife photos. Whether you're a professional photographer or a hobbyist, these settings will help you master the art of bird photography in diverse lighting and weather conditions.This guide not only highlights Costa Rica's incredible biodiversity but also serves as a practical handbook for anyone interested in wildlife photography and birding. It's your ultimate companion for exploring Costa Rica's natural wonders.Get ready to embark on an unforgettable journey through Costa Rica's rich landscapes, teeming with life, and capture memories that last a lifetime.
A Companion to Latin American Photography
How can photography enrich our knowledge of Latin America? Photography provides unique insights into Latin America. It acts as a witness, agent, and archive - containing a wealth of knowledge about the continent, its social classes, and its multiple ethnicities. This companion introduces the reader to the role that photography plays in Latin America, offers ways in which it can be studied, and reveals how this medium can promote a deeper awareness of the region. It reviews the history of photography in Latin America; ways in which the technology transmits distinctive information; the influence of specific photographers and their relationships with patrons, mentors, and students; the role of institutions in promoting photography; and the developing Latin American canon. The Companion to Latin American Photography also explores how the medium can shape Latin American narratives and cultural identities; assert or question power; serve as testimony and memory; and represent and empower women, children and youth, as well as marginalized groups such as the disappeared. The study is intended not only to provide an overview of Latin American photography (including dozens of images from a vast array of photographers over the past two centuries), it also discusses innovative work taking place there. Above all, this book can be viewed as a guide to the ways in which photography can enhance and expand a viewer's knowledge of Latin America.
Liberated Threads: Stories of Black Style
Exploring fashion and style as a political language and tool of resistance in the African diaspora. Aperture's Summer issue highlights image makers around the world who are exploring style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. Guest edited by the writer and researcher Tanisha C. Ford and titled after her 2015 book, Liberated Threads, this edition features photographers, stylists, and filmmakers who remix, reimagine, and in some cases, reject the aesthetic and politics of what she calls the "soul style" of the twentieth century--sparking a bold conversation about style's ability to create possibilities for solidarity and selfhood today.
From War to Creativity
From War to Creativity: A Journey of Healing Through the LensBy Wadih MoussaFrom War to Creativity: A Journey of Healing Through the Lens is a deeply personal exploration of creativity, healing, and transformation through the art of photography. This book is a reflection on how photography can serve as a powerful tool for growth and self-discovery.The story is anchored by the author's experiences, with one chapter dedicated to his journey growing up in a war-torn country. However, the focus is on the universal themes of resilience, personal development, and the healing power of creative expression. Through stunning visuals and thought-provoking reflections, the book invites readers to consider how they too can use creativity to navigate life's challenges.This book does not offer technical photography lessons or tips but instead showcases the profound impact photography can have on personal growth and well-being. It also shares lessons the author has learned along the way about how to engage with social media in a meaningful, intentional way-finding joy in the creative process while avoiding the noise that often distracts from true connection. Whether you're a photographer or someone seeking inspiration through art, From War to Creativity encourages you to embrace your own creative journey, find meaning, and express yourself with confidence.
Mythoscape
Mythoscape explores themes of transformation and self-discovery, where the journey through nature mirrors an inward journey through the psyche. It invites viewers to reconnect with the mythic dimension of nature, seeing it not merely as a backdrop but as an active participant in the human story--a space of encounter, danger, and transformation, where every element holds the potential for magic and deeper understanding.
Susan Ressler Photographs
Covering more than a half century of dramatic social and political change, Ressler's Photographs is an important document that, through vivid images and an engaging narrative, provides insight and meaning to the complex world we live in today. Global in scope, but with a focus on the Americas, the book begins in the tumultuous 1960s just one year after the Summer of Love (1967), when the author was a young college student who photographed the counterculture, street life on New York City's gritty Lower East Side, and icons such as Andy Warhol and later Nina Simone, among others. The book then catapults us into a First Nation reserve in Quebec, Canada, as we follow Ressler's trajectory from novice ethnographic image-maker to mature photographic artist--a career that parallels and comments on the growth of financial empires and consumerism as well as shifting trends in photography itself.Susan Ressler Photographs: 50 Years, No End In Sight is an impressive retrospective that traces over fifty years of artistic development. It includes six major bodies of photographic work introduced in her own words, complemented by two interpretive essays: one by Eve Schillo on Ressler's California work, and the other an afterword by Mark Rice. Although some of the images appear in Ressler's previous Daylight monographs (Executive Order and Dreaming California), many are published here for the first time. These include "At Owner's Risk" (her Canadian First Nation photographs), "From Analog to Digital" (an account of photography's transition from analog film to digital media), and "Beyond Borders" (work from Europe, Asia, and Israel). The book ends with "American Stories," including South America and the export of US culture abroad, before Ressler comes home to Taos, New Mexico, where she lives and continues to make photographs today.
Descriptive Catalogue Of Photographs Of North American Indians
Step into a world long forgotten with "Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians" by William Henry Jackson a mesmerizing journey through time, now revived after decades out of print. This rare gem, republished by Alpha Editions, is not just a book; it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure, meticulously restored for today's and future generations. Immerse yourself in the vivid imagery and rich history of North America's indigenous peoples, captured through the lens of one of the 19th century's most renowned photographers. Jackson's work offers an unparalleled glimpse into the lives, traditions, and landscapes of Native American tribes, making this edition a unique and invaluable resource for historians, photography enthusiasts, and lovers of classic literature alike. This beautifully restored edition is more than a reprint; it's a testament to the enduring legacy of a culture and a celebration of the artistry that brings it to life. Whether you're a casual reader or a dedicated collector, this book promises to captivate your imagination and enrich your understanding of a pivotal era in American history. Don't miss the chance to own a piece of the past, lovingly preserved for the future.
Ireland's Islands
Take a photographic journey around Ireland's coast and explore the landscape, history, heritage and wildlife of the offshore islands. Photographers Carsten Krieger and Richard Creagh have a deep love for and knowledge of these special places. From rugged cliffs thronged with seabirds to tranquil bays, and from quiet strands to bustling villages, their words and images bring to life the uniqueness of these small, sea-locked worlds.Over 200 magnificent colour photographs ofSherkin Island * Cape Clear * Bere Island * Dursey Island * The Skelligs * Valentia The Blaskets * Aran Islands * Inishbofin * Inishturk * Caher * Clare Island * Achill Arranmore * Tory Island * Rathlin * Dalkey Island * Ireland's Eye * The Saltees'a sumptuous book in which the magnificent colour photographs speak for themselves' Books Ireland on Ireland's Coast
Photobook Conversations
Candid yet profound meditations on photobook publishing from artists, editors, designers and critics working within the disciplinePublished by acclaimed magazine 1000 Words, twice winner of Photography Magazine of the Year at the Lucie Awards, Photobook Conversations foregrounds discussions on a range of positions, practices and politics that shape contemporary photography and publishing. Editors Ana Casas Broda, Anshika Varma and Duncan Wooldridge provide the same set of questions to each interviewee, creating a kaleidoscope of responses. Among the organizations whose activities and ambitions are represented within this volume are MACK, Hydra + Fotograf穩a, Offset Projects, Self Publish Be Happy, Goliga and the Nepal Picture Library. Speaking with hope and humility, the concerns expressed by those who work with the photobook form vary from approaches to editing and sequencing images to questions around the audience and market for photobooks and models for better ecosystems.Contributors include: Valentina Abenavoli, Daniel Boetker-Smith, Miguel Del Castillo, Bruno Ceschel, Yumi Goto, Hans Gremmen, NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Sohrab Hura, Andrea Josch, Luis Ju獺rez, Sanjay Kak, Aneta Kowalczyk, Anastasiia Leonova, Buen Lugar, Raymond Meeks, Paul Ninson, Ivan Vartanian.
Digital Expressions of the Self(ie)
The book examines the social and cultural role of selfies in India. It looks at how the selfie, unlike the photograph, which was a gesture towards an external reality, remains intimately self-referential, yet reconfigures social ordering, identity formation, agency, and spaces in curious ways.This volume approaches questions about the construction and performance of the self through the digital selfie and uses this situated, contextualized, and culturally specific phenomenon as a site to explore the themes of self-making, place-making, gender, subjectivity, and power. Highlighting the specific contexts of production, the authors examine the array of self-expressive capabilities realized in a multitude of uses of the selfie that simultaneously reconfigure the self, the space, and the world.An important study of visual social media culture, the volume will be useful for interpreting everyday media experiences and will be of interest to students and researchers of image studies, visual studies, photography studies, visual culture, media studies, culture studies, cultural anthropology, digital humanities, popular culture, sociology of technology, and South Asian studies.
Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles
Through analysis of Ed Ruscha's visionary Streets of Los Angeles Archive, this volume provides new understandings of his artistic practice, the history of L.A., and the innovative role of technology in the archive. In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove a car rigged with a motorized camera to capture Los Angeles' most iconic street: Sunset Boulevard. He created a time capsule of its famed facades, beginning a sixty-year-long commitment to documenting the changing urban landscape of postwar Los Angeles. The Streets of Los Angeles project that comprises these photographs is likely the most comprehensive artistic record of any city, with over 900,000 images of major thoroughfares. Ruscha's photographs constitute an unparalleled visual chronicle of both iconic and everyday sites in L.A., including popular music venues, neighborhood restaurants, and billboards promoting Hollywood's latest blockbusters. In this volume, scholars from disciplines such as urban planning, cultural geography, architecture, art history, and musicology explore the Streets of Los Angeles Archive as a rich repository for analyzing Ruscha's practice and the city's visual culture. Using his photographs and new data visualizations, the authors consider what it means to interpret an archive mostly accessible through digital technologies, and they demonstrate how histories of art have been indelibly reshaped since the advent of the information age in the 1960s. This publication was created using Quire(TM), a multiformat publishing tool from Getty. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/ruscha/ and includes video, data visualizations, and zoomable illustrations. Free PDF and EPUB downloads of the book are also available.
Exciting and Fun Pet Photography
Capture the spirit of your pet with every photo-no fancy camera or experience required!Whether you're using a smartphone or DSLR, Exciting and Fun Pet Photography will teach you how to take heartwarming, frame-worthy photos of your furry family members. Written in an easy, conversational style for all ages-this book is your guide to photographing pets with joy, patience, and personality.Inside you'll learn: How to photograph pets at home, in parks, and during playtimeSimple camera settings and lighting tips (without the tech talk!)Tricks to keep pets engaged and capture their unique expressionsHow to edit photos for wow-factor results-even if you've never used PhotoshopNo stress. No fluff. Just fun, easy steps and real-life advice from a professional pet photographer who knows how to make tails wag and humans smile.Perfect for pet parents, hobby photographers, and anyone who wants to create lasting memories with their animal companions
Back in Ibiza
Back in Ibiza 1998 - 2003 is photographer Dean Chalkley's epic collection of club images from the peak of Ibiza's glory days. Dean Chalkley has been taking compelling cultural photographs since the mid 1990s and his work with the likes of Oasis, Idris Elba and Amy Winehouse is widely celebrated. At the tail end of the '90s, Chalkley found himself in Ibiza, the capital of the clubbing world. For many, the turn of the millennium represents the peak of club life, when clubbers would lose themselves for days in the often-surreal abandon of their favorite Spanish party haven. Working for Mixmag, the biggest dance-music magazine in the world, Chalkley amassed a vast archive of images from this unrivaled golden era in the island's near-history. Back in Ibiza 1998 - 2003 offers a thrilling deep-dive through those images, illustrating the unfiltered and sometimes unhinged club scene from a world before Snapchat and TikTok reels. This unique collection is essential viewing for partygoers and clubbing fans, a joy to behold, and a nostalgic reminder of what a real party can look like.
Seydou Ke簿ta: A Tactile Lens
This lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive overview of the work of the great Malian photographer Seydou Ke簿ta, one of the most important portraitists of the 20th centurySeydou Ke簿ta's photographs capture Malian culture during an era of radical transformation. Working as a commercial portrait photographer, he employed backdrops and props--including cars, Vespas and European clothing and accessories--that allowed sitters to construct new identities before the camera's lens. His strikingly intimate photographs showcase his ability to draw out detail and emotion from his subjects and resonate with audiences across geographic and cultural borders.At first practicing by photographing his friends and family, Ke簿ta later opened his own photographic studio in downtown Bamako in 1948, one of the first in the city. His clientele were primarily middle-class residents. Ke簿ta kept a selection of fashionable props that customers could pose with, as if their own, against bold patterned backgrounds. At the time, Ke簿ta's portraiture was intimately connected to ideas of modernity; his studio became a place to explore new ways of fashioning the self.This groundbreaking publication, which accompanies an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, draws on photography, personal ephemera and textiles to explore the social and political realities of the period. Richly illustrated and supported with texts from leading scholars and writers, this book is the essential volume on Seydou Ke簿ta.Born in Bamako, Mali, Seydou Ke簿ta (1921/23-2001) spent his youth working as a carpenter, following in the footsteps of his father. However, after receiving a Kodak Brownie Flash camera as a gift from his uncle in 1935, Ke簿ta shifted his focus to photography. In 1948 he opened his studio in downtown Bamako, making portraits of thousands of Malians over more than a decade. After Mali gained independence in 1962, Ke簿ta was hired as the new government's official photographer. His work was not well known outside of Western Africa until 1991, when a selection of his studio portraits were exhibited, albeit anonymously, in New York City. This book was published in conjunction with Brooklyn Museum.
