Archaeologist and award-winning photographer Gavin McGuire’s involvement with the Sissi Archaeological Project, where he conducted a seven year photographic study of the Bronze Age Minoan excavations under the auspices of the Belgian School in Athens, Université Catholique de Louvain, offered an extraordinary opportunity to capture moments of human interaction during excavations as they interconnected with an ancient Minoan culture, stretching back millennia (2600-1200 BC).
Hungarian-born 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.
For as long as I can remember, this kid from Manhattan with absolutely no Russian ancestry was told, Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
"e;All the cutting edge technology I learned in college-typewriters, film splicers, glue-is now in a museum; the one thing that hasn't changed is how to tell a visual story.
Truthfully and gracefully depicting the clannish, unconventional world of leather fringes and sacred steel, The Biker Code is a perfect gift book for the merely curious, and illuminated scripture for the true disciple.
In the 12 years that the National Socialist Party was in power in Germany, upwards of 15,000 concentration and labor camps were established in the Greater Reich and the occupied countries to incarcerate all who were deemed enemies of the state.
In the 12 years that the National Socialist Party was in power in Germany, upwards of 15,000 concentration and labor camps were established in the Greater Reich and the occupied countries to incarcerate all who were deemed enemies of the state.
Jean Paul Pallud, author of the highly acclaimed The Battle of the Bulge Then and Now, presents - for the first time through comparison 'then and now' photographs - a detailed account of the Battle of France: the forty-five traumatic days from May 10 to June 24, 1940 that resulted in one of the most remarkable military victories of modern times.
The Siege of Sarajevo remains the longest siege in modern European history, lasting three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and over a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad.
The Siege of Sarajevo remains the longest siege in modern European history, lasting three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and over a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad.
Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer, Fashioning Brazil analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures.
Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer, Fashioning Brazil analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures.
Featuring 100 of the best photographs ever captured on camera,Look At This If You Love Great Photography is a must read for anyone who appreciates the power of the image.
This book investigates the historical evolution of ''humanitarian photography'' - the mobilization of photography in the service of humanitarian initiatives across state boundaries.
This book investigates the historical evolution of ''humanitarian photography'' - the mobilization of photography in the service of humanitarian initiatives across state boundaries.
Le jeune homme en colère, a cui, nel presente lavoro, è stato dato il titolo italiano non ufficiale “Il giovane arrabbiato”, è il racconto di un’indagine su una foto che ha affascinato Michel Boujut (1940-2011) scrittore e produttore televisivo, e lo ha spinto ad andare alla ricerca del soggetto quarantasei anni dopo l’esecuzione dello scatto che ha prodotto un’immagine tra le più famose al mondo.
A sampling of photographic images 1975-2015, using the various instruments in vogue at the time, whether 35mm or iPhone, black & white or digitally manipulated.
Regarded as the "e;crown jewel of the Himalayas,"e; the Kingdom of Bhutan is the last remaining independent country to support Buddhism as the official state religion.
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.
Rarely visited by outsiders, the ranchers of the Sierra de la Giganta in Baja California Sur live much as their ancestors have for the past two centuries.
Un lugar sagrado, a sacred place where two or more are gathered in the name of community, can be found almost anywhere and yet it is elusive: a charro arena behind a rock quarry, on the pilgrimage trail to Chimayo, a curandero's shrine in South Texas, or at a binational Mass along the border.
In 1969 Roberta Price received a grant and traveled west to explore and photograph the communes that had begun to spring up in New Mexico and Colorado.
Taking California as a window into the diversity of religion in America, Golden States of Grace documents marginalized communities at prayer in their own faith traditions.
Women's Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self.
Selected by William Eggleston as WinnerThe Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in PhotographyBenjamin Lowy's powerful and arresting color photographs, taken over a six-year period through Humvee windows and military-issue night vision goggles, capture the desolation of a war-ravaged Iraq as well as the tension and anxiety of both U.
