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Watching the River Run

A Photographic Journey Down the Youghiogheny
Format: Hardback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9780822948414
Pub Date: 11 Feb 2025
Description:
Watching the River Run, A Photographic Journey Down the Youghiogheny, is the perfect photographic companion to Palmer's classic Youghiogheny, Appalachian River

Their Kindred Earth

Photographs by William Earle Williams
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781880897348
Pub Date: 04 Feb 2025
Illustrations: 10 color photos, 80 halftones
Description:
Evocative new photographs of Connecticut by celebrated photographer William Earle Williams provide insight to the stories of Black American historyTheir Kindred Earth gathers images of Black Connecticut's historic sites by celebrated photographer William Earle Williams. A series of connected essays illuminate how these sites connect to the larger national and international narrative of Black American history. Over the past forty years artist William Earle Williams (born 1950) has made sites of African American history more visible through his exquisite photographs.
Andrea Morales Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781913645724
Pub Date: 16 Oct 2024
Illustrations: 65
Description:
This vibrant catalogue showcases a decade’s work by Memphis-based Peruvian- American photographer Andrea Morales (b. 1984), whose camera sympathetically delves into community life and activism in the American South. It accompanies her first major exhibition at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, represents the first scholarly publication on her work, and the first major museum exhibition dedicated to movement journalism.
The Long Ride Home Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781960521026
Pub Date: 24 Sep 2024
Illustrations: 133 photographs (99 color and 4 black-and-white)
Description:
The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America is the first book to tell the story of the Black cowboy experience in contemporary America. Although Black cowboys have been a fixture on the American landscape and frontier since the nineteenth century, few people are aware of their enduring contributions to the history of the West and how their unique culture continues to thrive today in urban as well as rural areas all over the country.The book features Ron Tarver’s beautiful, compelling, and often surprising contemporary images of African-American cowboys that not only convey the Black cowboy’s way of life and its rich heritage, but also affirm a thriving culture of Black-owned ranches and rodeo operations, parades, inner-city cowboys, retired cowhands, and Black cowgirls of all ages, too.
Roger Mayne: Youth Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9781913645717
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2024
Imprint: Courtauld
Illustrations: Approx 80 illustrations
Description:
Self-taught and influential in the advocacy of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about representing human life as he found it – most famously, in his street images of low-income communities in West London. Capturing children at play and the emerging phenomenon of the ‘swaggering teenager’, Mayne discovered in the young a defining energy that perfectly embodied both the scars and the vitality of post-war Britain.The exhibition of more than sixty photographs brings together a selection of Mayne’s iconic London scenes with later, almost entirely unknown intimate portraits of his own family in rural Dorset.
Children in Iceland Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9781938086526
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2024
Illustrations: 47 color photographs by the author
Description:
Iceland is best known for its stunning scenery and majestic landscapes. When photographer Nancy Libson first visited Iceland for a hiking trip some twenty years ago, she immediately fell in love with the country and its dramatic landscape. She vowed to return again, camera in hand.
13 Stories of War Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9789152793886
Pub Date: 21 May 2024
Imprint: Ukrainian Warchive
Illustrations: Colour and black and white
Description:
"The stories and testimonies in this book are not only photographs. They are beautiful, brutal, present, and personal – photographic adjectives, filled with content that is deeper and more relevant than most news photography can ever hope to be. But, perhaps most importantly, they are historical documents, visual evidence to be presented in a future where the fog of war has cleared.
RRP: £45.00
Street Cat Tales and Tangled Times Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9781938086984
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2024
Illustrations: 210 color illustrations: 125 photographs and 85 digital montages by the author
Description:
In his award-winning book, American/True Colors, Stephen Marc presents one of the most comprehensive photographic surveys ever conducted about America and Americans. For his efforts–the survey includes both the Obama and Trump presidencies–or his artistry, and for his unique African-American perspective, the Independent Publishers Book Awards gave American/True Colors its 2021 Gold Medal for the Best Book of the Year in Photography.But Stephen Marc was not finished with telling the American story.
More than Scenery Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781938086953
Pub Date: 31 May 2023
Illustrations: 166 photographs, 4 maps, and 1 historic illustration
Description:
Janet Pritchard’s romance with the American West began with horseback riding, watching movies, and hearing her dad’s dreams of being a cowboy. When she began to spend adolescent summers in Wyoming during the 1960s, her world changed forever, as she fell under the spell of natural wonder in the shadow of the Grand Tetons. Only later did she recognize her feelings as a response to what nineteenth-century Romantics called the sublime.
Park Place Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9781938086946
Pub Date: 31 May 2023
Illustrations: 64 photographs
Description:
The National Park Service was established by an act of Congress in 1916 to “preserve unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations.” This directive to protect wilderness yet provide accessibility to it without somehow compromising the integrity of the natural resources seems to be a self-fulfilling contradiction and an arena for conflicting priorities.In Park Place, photographer David Heberlein explores the tension between access and enjoyment and preservation of America’s public lands.
Varanasi Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781938086960
Pub Date: 31 May 2023
Illustrations: 110 color photographs
Description:
Varanasi, also known as Kashi and Banaras, is a city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh dating to the 11th century B.C.E.
The Uyghurs Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781938086991
Pub Date: 15 May 2023
Illustrations: 128 illustrations: 116 duotone and 8 color photographs by the author and 4 historic maps
Description:
In 1998, Kevin Bubriski was fortunate to spend time with the Uyghurs in Kashgar, their ancient city on the Silk Road in Xinjiang, China. While there, he made unforgettable photographic portraits and street scenes that reveal a haunting beauty and sense of the past in old Kashgar. Bubriski was drawn to the faces of ordinary people and their daily lives, with the intent that through photographs mutual understanding between people might be fostered.
Oceano Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 156
ISBN: 9781938086922
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2023
Description:
Climate change is the great existential reality of our time. How we approach this crisis will affect life on Earth for present and future generations. In spite of our collective ideals, irreversible damage to the environment is imminent and represents urgent local and global concern.
Travels across the Roof of the World Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9781938086939
Pub Date: 20 Oct 2022
Illustrations: 228 color photographs, 18 line art maps, 1 full-spread map
Description:
Travels across the Roof of the World provides a sweeping yet intimate view of the breathtaking peaks, splendid valleys, and extraordinary people of this vast region, from the Pamir Mountains in Kyrgyzstan through Afghanistan's fabled Hindu Kush, the Karakoram in Pakistan, and the Great Himalaya Range that stretches across northern India, Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan. Unique in scope among photo books on the Himalaya, Travels across the Roof of the World chronicles William and Anne Frej's more than twenty pilgrimages throughout the area spanning forty years and 3,000 miles through some of the world's most remote and difficult-to-reach country. Inspired by the devotion to the practice of Tibetan Buddhism they encountered in the villagers they met on their first trek to Nepal in 1981, they set out on a quest to document Asia’s highest peaks as well as the lives of the resilient people living in these remote mountain communities.
Inland Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9781938086915
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Description:
The Schuylkill River flows more than 100 miles from the mountains of the Pennsylvania Coal Region to the Delaware River. It passes through five counties - Schuylkill, Berks, Chester, Montgomery, and Philadelphia - and its valley is home to more than three million people, yet few are aware of the hidden ruins and traces left by a pioneering 200-year-old inland waterway: the Schuylkill Navigation. Some of it is literally buried in their own backyards.
Occupying Massachusetts Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9781938086892
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Description:
Occupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land is an art book that engages with history. Featuring photographs of dwellings and vernacular structures found in rural Massachusetts, the book is a meditation on the human occupation of land, with an emphasis on the long presence of Indigenous people and the waves of settlement by people from other countries that began during the early 1600s and continues today.Utilizing a muted colour palette, Matthews's photographs of both structures and historical markers are subtle and haunting.