Arts / Photography / Individual Photographers

Re-creating Paul Bowles, the Other, and the Imagination: Music, Film, and Photography

by Raj Chandarlapaty

This work underscores the true brilliance and timelessness of colonial metaphors of authorship that extend into the postmodern Age. The emphasis is upon both re-invention and comprehensive scholarship on music...

The Essence of Photography: Seeing and Creativity

by Bruce Barnbaum

There is a lot more to photography than simply picking up a camera, pointing it toward something, and tripping the shutter. Achieving a great photograph requires thought and preparation, an understanding of...

Photography as Meditation: Tap Into the Source of Your Creativity

by Torsten Andreas Hoffmann

For many people, photography serves as a form of meditation; a way to separate themselves from their stressful lives. In this book, Torsten Andreas Hoffmann explores an approach to artistic photography based...

The Command to Look: A Master Photographer¿s Method for Controlling the Human Gaze

by William Mortensen, George Dunham, Michael Moynihan & Larry Lytle

William Mortensen’s irreverent and revolutionary book on photography and psychology is available again after a sixty-five-year banishment.

From my Land to the Planet

by Sebastião Salgado

From my land to the Planet is the first book that brings together the reflections written in the first person by Sebastião Salgado: a long story driven by the Brazilian photographer's ecological sensitivity, in...

Our Beautiful, Fragile World: The Nature and Environmental Photographs of Peter Essick

by Peter Essick

Our Beautiful, Fragile World features a career-spanning look at the images of photojournalist Peter Essick taken while on assignment for National Geographic magazine. In this book, Essick showcases a diverse...

Texas: Portrait of a State

by Laurence Parent

Photographer Laurence Parent showcases the remarkable geographic diversity of the Lone Star State. In an elegantly designed gift format with more than 100 photos, all of Texas is on spectacular display, from...

Stefan Lorant: Godfather of Photojournalism

by Michael Hallett

Stefan Lorant's work as a visual and literary editor allowed him to pioneer and develop the genre of picture-based journalism at a period that saw the emergence of modern mass communications. Lorant became a...

David Muench's National Parks: Native Ceremony and Myth on the Northwest Coast

by Ruth Rudner & David Muench

David Muench's stunning landscape photography depicts the wonders of America's most precious national resources in this updated bestseller.

The Dirty Side of Glamour

by Tyler Shields

With more than 130 raw and revolutionary photographs, The Dirty Side of Glamour showcases Tyler Shields’s unrestrained creative spirit and offers a visual commentary on fame, excess, youth, the trappings of...

Shells: Nature's Exquisite Creations

by Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson,s detailed photographic studies of luminous sea shells adrift on a velvet-soft background remind us that startling beauty exists even in the most ordinary places. These surprising images give...

Thoreau's Maine Woods

by Dan Tobyne

Beginning in 1847, Henry David Thoreau made three trips to the mostly unexplored Maine woods. Along the way he recorded his observations on the wildlife (flora and fauna), the weather, terrain, and on the nature...

Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr.

by Burt Boyar

Sammy Davis, Jr. will forever be remembered as one of America's finest entertainers. An all–around performer who could sing, dance, and act, Davis broke racial barriers in the entertainment world and became...

Water: shapes and energy

by Fabio Nicotera

They have always taught us at school that water takes the shape of the container that contains it. Nevertheless, if we leave it free floating in the air ... Never a shape equal to another and only for an infinitesimal...

My American Dream

by Angela Martin

In her debut book, My American Dream, southern photographer, Angela Martin, shares a selection of her provocative photographs of abandoned places in the American mid-South. She also candidly relates her personal...

Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous

by Christopher Bonanos

The first comprehensive biography of Weegee—photographer, “psychic,” ultimate New Yorker—from Christopher Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid.

Arthur Fellig’s ability to arrive at a crime...

Enliven Emotions

by Asyla Holt

These writings are long focuses on intuitive and real events which is time, according to this female author, to make the writings in a line up publishing after many years studying, writing and polishing prose....

Photography

by Gloria Golden

You'll love Photography: An Intimate Approach, not merely for the wonderful presentation of Gloria's images but because they will grasp your attention. Visit her web site at: www.ggoldenimages.com

Exploring the Light

by Bryan L. Davies

Bryans lifelong passion to create extraordinary photographs has become an inner journey leading him to adventures in exotic places and allowing him to cross paths with fascinating people who teach him significant...

The Search for Authenticity

by Cara Brewer

Caras first book, Point and Shoot Poetry, Image and Verse for Better or Worse, runs the gamut. In it, she opens up and shares a vast array of emotions. In her new work, The Search for Authenticity, we are taken...