Photo Essays category: 258 books
Rediscovering Jacob Riis
Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Before publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Lives—a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York’s tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city’s population—Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the United States as an immigrant and itinerant laborer,...
Bordered Lives
Transgender Portraits from Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A richly evocative collection of photographs by internationally renowned photographer Kike Arnal, Bordered Lives seeks to push back against the transphobic caricatures that have perpetuated discrimination against the transgender community in Mexico. Despite some important advances in recognizing and...
Eurasia Express
cronache dai margini
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Sei mesi in cammino, da Fano all’Estremo Oriente, dall’Estremo Oriente alla rotta balcanica, portando con sé taccuino, macchina fotografica ed empatia. Eurasia express è il racconto lungo del progetto “Il volto dell’altro”, un lento viaggio, condotto a piedi o con mezzi di terra, alla...
A Toronto Album
Glimpses of the City That Was
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Mike Filey's collection of pictures of Toronto from the earliest days of photography had gained a reputation as one of the most interesting visual archives of the city's history. This classic look at old Toronto portrays scenes of public life from 1860 to 1950, illustrating how dramatically the urban...
Tsunami: Images of Resilience
Honoring the Tenth Anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
They say an image speaks a thousand words—these images speak millions. The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, which devastated the shores of 11 countries and took the lives of over a quarter of a million people, burned through the world’s consciousness for months afterwards. Just...
Whitney
Tribute to an Icon
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Whitney Houston’s extraordinary voice made her a star. Her beauty, style, and spirit made her an icon.
In this magnificent collection, more than twenty of the world’s top photographers have joined together to celebrate the brilliant woman they were privileged to capture through their camera...
by Henry Rollins, Henry Rollins
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
For the past 25 years, Henry Rollins has photographed the most desolate and inhospitable corners of the Earth, and his powerful vision has been harnessed in this photographic essay. Though he is known for the raw power of his expression, Rollins has shown that the greatest statements can be made...
by Richard Melzer
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Tuberculosis, also known as consumption, the White Plague, or simply TB, was the number-one killer in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many physicians of the era advised their patients to chase the cure for tuberculosis in the Southwest, where the region�s clean, dry, fresh...
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's professional photographers.
The Shoshoneans
The People of the Basin-Plateau, Expanded Edition.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
First published almost fifty years ago and long out of print, The Shoshoneans is a classic American travelogue about the Great Basin and Plateau region and the people who inhabit it, never before—or since—documented in such striking and memorable fashion. Neither a book of journalism nor a work...
by Kevin Macdonald, Mark Cousins
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins (The Story of Film) offer an expanded, revised edition of their 'definitive, inspirational' (Independent) compendium...
by Pamela Church Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Nothing defines a person like their hairstyle – and what a century it has been for hair! Bangs, bobs, buns, beehives and bouffants have vied with pixie cuts, pin curls, perms and pageboys for ascendancy in an ever-changing parade of ladies' looks and trends, and amongst the men we've seen caesers,...
Let Freedom Ring
Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the March on Washington
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A bestselling author and legendary photographer present an illuminating look at a pivotal moment in our nation's history: The March on Washington
Despite the heat and humidity, people came in droves from across the country and around the world, heading for the towering spire of the Washington...
Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare
Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Offering readings of the use of photography...