Photo Essays category: 258 books
Capturing Camelot
Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the Kennedys
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A bestselling author goes behind the lens of a legendary photographer to capture a magical time
A consummate photojournalist, Stanley Tretick was sent by United Press International to follow the Kennedy campaign of 1960. The photographer soon befriended the candidate and took many of JFK's...
something to food about
Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In somethingtofoodabout, drummer, producer, musical director, culinary entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author, Questlove, applies his boundless curiosity to the world of food.
In conversations with ten innovative chefs in America, Questlove explores what makes their creativity...
by Walker Evans, James Agee
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2001
This portrait of poverty-stricken Southern tenant farmers during the Great Depression has become one of the most influential books of the past century.
In the summer of 1936, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine...
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!
Lens on Life
Documenting Your World Through Photography
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Mostly candid and spontaneous, documentary photography serves to preserve a moment in time. In Lens on Life, celebrated documentary photographer Stephanie Calabrese Roberts inspires you to explore, shoot, and share documentary photographs, guiding you as you define your own style.
Illustrated...
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Is your child constantly asking you about things they see on TV? Such as "mom, dad, who is that guy on that TV show?", or, "mom, dad, why are these people always on TV?". A 50 Famous People of the World Picture Book will enable them to understand why some of those people are on their television sets,...
Photography on the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called “the problem of the twentieth century.” Du Bois’s...
by Dewitt Jones and the Facebook Celebrate Tribe
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Dewitt Jones has chosen over one hundred of the most inspiring posts from the Celebrate What's Right with the World Facebook Page and combined them into an amazing collection of personal celebrations, artful noticings, and quiet visual prayers. Each page will fill you with joy and gratitude. This book...
Fearless Genius
The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
An award-winning documentary photographer delivers a stunning visual history of the Silicon Valley technology boom, in which he was witness to key moments in the careers of Steve Jobs and more than seventy other leading innovators as they created today’s digital world.
An eye-opening chronicle...
Detroit: The Dream Is Now
The Design, Art, and Resurgence of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Detroit: The Dream Is Now is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Design Brooklyn. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories and images of shuttered, empty buildings—the emblems of...
One Place
Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Though artistic and ambitious, Paul Kwilecki (1928-2009) chose to remain in Bainbridge, Georgia, the small Decatur County town where he was born, raised, and ran the family's hardware store. He had always been interested in photography and taught himself how to use a camera. Over four decades, he...
by Joe Holley
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Joe Holley has an active column in the Houston Chronicle
Peter Brown's previous books published by Norton
Great regional Texas appeal: Pictures include Ivanhoe State Bank in Lipscomb, Galveston-Bolivar Ferry, Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Marathon, Rio Grande, Davis Mountains,...
Witness in Our Time, Second Edition
Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Witness in Our Time traces the recent history of social documentary photography in the words of twenty-nine of the genre's best photographers, editors, and curators, showing how the profession remains vital, innovative, and committed to social change. The second edition includes a new section of interviews...
The Photographer's Eye
100 intimate portraits of photographers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
A series of 100 intimate portraits photographs of talented photographers from North-America and Europe.Those portraits are accompanied by comments about how they see and make photographs.For each portrait, I have tried to capture the eyes, the intensity of the look, the depth that awakens our curiosity. To...