Living Shrines of Uyghur China
Photographs by Lisa Ross
Written by Lisa Ross
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $35.00
Lisa Ross's ethereal photographs of Islamic holy sites were created over the course of a decade on journeys to China's Xinjiang region in Central Asia, historically a cultural crossroads but an area to which artists and researchers have generally been denied access since its annexation in 1949. These monumental images show...
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The Book of Happiness: Africa
Written by Joseph Peter
Foreword by Ndaba Mandela
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $25.00
Discover the book that puts a face on happinessIn 2009, photographer Joseph Peter traveled through fifty African nations in seventy-five days and shot 150,000 images—mostly portraits of joyous, proud, glorious faces. He photographed presidents and heads of state, soldiers and workers, and children of all ages. He captured their smiles, their...
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The Book of Happiness: Africa
Written by Joseph Peter
Foreword by Ndaba Mandela
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $14.99
Discover the book that puts a face on happinessIn 2009, photographer Joseph Peter traveled through fifty African nations in seventy-five days and shot 150,000 images—mostly portraits of joyous, proud, glorious faces. He photographed presidents and heads of state, soldiers and workers, and children of all ages. He captured their smiles, their...
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Cancellations
Afterword by Geoffrey Batchen
Photographed by Thomas Barrow
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $75.00
Thomas Barrow's
Cancellations is a series of photographic prints of desolate spaces—empty lots, construction sites, deserted industrial areas—that all show the presence of mankind without showing a single living human. Compiled in the 70s and 80s, Barrow's beautiful sepia-toned images show their age in their sheer physicality. These are clearly prints...
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The American Nurse
Written by Carolyn Jones
Format: Hardcover, 180 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $60.00
2012 Nautilus Silver Award, Photography/Art category
2012 Indie Book Next Generation Award, Coffee Table Book/Photography
Foreword Reviews 2012 Book of the Year, Social Sciences, Finalist
This extraordinary book of 75 portraits, interviews, and biographies is the result of the American Nurse Project, an endeavor launched by Fresenius Kabi, a worldwide leader in infusion...
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Everyday Heroes
50 Americans Changing the World One Nonprofit at a Time
Written by Katrina Fried
Photographed by Paul Mobley
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $45.00
IPPY 2012 Outstanding Book of the Year, Most Likely to Save the Planet (Independent Publisher Book Awards)
Nautilus 2012 Gold Grand Winner, General Adult
Foreword Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Finalist, Social Sciences
Two years ago, photographer Paul Mobley and author and editor Katrina Fried set out to find fifty Americans...
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Out My Window
Photographed by Gail Albert Halaban
Introduction by Vernon Silver
Format: Hardcover, 92 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $50.00
Alfred Hitchcock's
Rear Window comes to mind when looking at Gail Albert Halaban's book of photographs of city dwellers peering into their neighbors' windows,
Out My Window. The photographs capture the vast city landscape, and within the landscape, floating high above the ground, are portraits of strangers caught in private moments...
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Here We Are
Written by Panos Kokkinias
Contribution by Regis Durand, Alexandra Moschovi and Susan Kismaric
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $50.00
Here We Are is an anthology of Panos Kokkinias’ widely exhibited fine-art photography, from 1994 through 2007. The monograph consists of four sections, each representing different bodies of work linked by a common theme: Kokkinias’ personal, ongoing obsession with existential subject matter.
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Home (1994-1995), was produced during a difficult personal period...
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Vivian Maier
Street Photographer
Written by Vivian Maier
Edited by John Maloof
Contribution by Geoff Dyer
Format: Hardcover, 136 pages
On Sale: November 16, 2011
Price: $39.95
Please note that all blank pages in the book were chosen as part of the design by the publisher.
A good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an eye for detail, light, and composition; impeccable timing; a populist or humanitarian outlook; and a tireless ability to constantly shoot, shoot, shoot...
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Ocean Soul
Written by Brian Skerry
Foreword by Dr. Gregory Stone
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $50.00
Ocean Soul is a love story. It is a story of discovery. It is a story of hope.
The story begins when a boy who loves the sea attends an event with underwater photographers and has an epiphany: “I had always wanted to explore the oceans, but I now understood how...
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New New York
Written by Jake Rajs
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $75.00
New New York celebrates the newest landmarks of New York—Time Warner Center, Hearst Tower, Brooklyn Bridge Park, The High Line, and more—placing them in the context of the famous and beloved highlights of the city—Rockefeller Center, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Times Square.
Award-winning photographer...
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Idols
Written by Gilles Larrain
Contribution by Ryan McGinley
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $35.00
“I can’t remember when I first saw the book
Idols by Gilles Larrain. All I know is that ever since I got it, it’s been a huge influenceon me.
Idols is one of the best photographic books I’ve ever seen. It was published in 1973 and is a collection of studio...
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Bacalaitos and Fireworks
Contribution by Miguel Algarin and Lois Elaine Griffith
Photographed by Arlene Gottfried
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $39.95
New York City has been home to a Puerto Rican population since the mid-1900s, with the most noticeable migration boom beginning in the 1950s. As Puerto Ricans settled in New York over the years they stamped the city with their culture, indelibly altering neighborhoods like the South Bronx, the Lower East Side, Williamsburg, and downtown Brooklyn with...
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Bobby Fischer
Written by Harry Benson
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $39.95
Harry Benson’s rare, exclusive photos of the elusive and controversial chess genius Bobby Fischer taken during the historic World Championship chess match in Iceland in 1972 in which Fischer solidly defeated reining champ, Russian Boris Spassky, are collected here for the first time, in
Bobby Fischer.
Photographer Harry Benson was one of...
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American Studies
Photographed by Jim Dow
Introduction by Ian Frazier
Format: Hardcover, 136 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2011
Price: $39.95
Jim Dow’s
American Studies presents a vision of America at once familiar and foreign; a country constantly reinventing itself visually, both discarding and preserving elements of its past, in a relentless, unplanned process of change. In
American Studies, Dow gives us unpeopled spaces, each resonating with a unique and telling history. A landscape, for Dow, is fashioned...
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Chicago's Nelson Algren
Written by Art Shay
Foreword by David Mamet
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
They met in 1949 when Art was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didn’t pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends. Algren gave Shay’s camera entrance into the back-alley...
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Vivian Cherry's New York
Text by Julia Van Haaften
Photographed by Vivian Cherry
Format: Hardcover, 114 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $29.95
“Dancer-turned-photographer Vivian Cherry has been capturing the quirks of New York City for nearly 70 years, and has yet to grow tired of it.” —
New York Daily News New York City is characterized by its sheer diversity, as well as the substantial level of open-mindedness consistently...
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Thomas Struth
Photographs 1978-2010
Written by Thomas Struth
Edited by Tobia Bezzola, James Lingwood and Anette Kruszynski
Format: Hardcover, 282 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Price: $75.00
“Thomas Struth’s photographs are about making order visible. And with the help of these images, the viewer finds him- or herself better able to grasp some of the many and varied faces of reality.”Photographer Thomas Struth is one of the most acclaimed artists to emerge from Europe in the late twentieth...
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William Albert Allard
Five Decades
Written by William Albert Allard
Foreword by William Kittredge
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $50.00
This gorgeous gift book reveals nearly 50 years of photography by seasoned National Geographic photographer Bill Allard. Allard was a pioneer of color photography with a style that called for entering people's homes and hearts; by winning their confidence he was able to capture "off guard" moments, and reveal the depth...
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Chasing Beauty
Edited by Alfredo Paredes
Designed by Alfredo Paredes
Photographed by Richard Phibbs
Foreword by Michael Cunningham
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $50.00
“I’m in constant search of chasing beauty, chasing hope—I’m not interested in the dark.”
The celebrated photographer Richard Phibbs, known for his celebrity portraits and iconic ad campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, and more, has an unwavering eye for beauty. Many theorists argue that beauty is subjective, a product...
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Haunted Houses
Written by Corinne May Botz
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $40.00
“When I was between the ages of five and eight, my sister and I slept in a large attic bedroom. At nightfall the room was filled with gypsies who glided around in clusters. They wore colorful thin flowing dresses and rummaged greedily through my drawers and books as if they would...
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The Oxford Project
Text by Stephen G. Bloom
Photographed by Peter Feldstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $29.95
The Alex-award winning
The Oxford Project is back in an abridged paperback edition. Less expensive, more portable, and retaining all the drama of this extraordinary true tale of a seemingly ordinary Midwestern town through the pictures and words its residents. Equal parts art, American histroy, cultural anthropology, and human narrative -...
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Through the Eyes of the Vikings
An Aerial Vision of Arctic Lands
Written by Robert B. Haas
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $50.00
Continuing the aerial photography that gave such visual command to his previous National Geographic titles,
Through the Eyes of the Gods: An Aerial Vision of Africa and
Through the Eyes of the Condor: An Aerial Vision of Latin America, Haas now trains his lenses on the regions that transect the Arctic...
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