Robert Delpire, when he was the Director of The National Center of Photography, conceived the first large exhibition in France dedicated to Joel-Peter Witkin. For the last 2 years, he has been working with Witkin to achieve this book of 304 pages that is not a simple monograph bu...

26.03.2012[ read full story ]

Ramadan in Yemen (Bessard) is the Australian photographer Max Pam’s new book. He introduces his work as follows: What could I say about Yemen that did it justice. I tried in my journal to work it honestly. I tried with 60 rolls of black and white 120 film to translate the experience. That h...

21.03.2012[ read full story ]

Born in Hong Kong in 1925 to a Chinese mother and English father, Morley spent much of the war in a Japanese internment camp, before being repatriated to England.

03.04.2012[ read full story ]

Atlas Monographs is a compression of eight travel journals, beginning with Pam’s most recent work (Karakoram 2006) and shifting back through the decades to his first journals begun in 1970. The journals map, through text, photo and marks on paper his engagement with the cultures he has travelle...

03.04.2012[ read full story ]

The portrait has become the icon of our times. Where we once venerated gods and saints, we now elevate ourselves to the object worthy of beholding, worthy of veneration—by ourselves, our loved ones, or by perfect strangers. The portrait is a means of recording that one moment in time as a uni...

22.03.2012[ read full story ]

South Pole, book published by Prosper and Martine Assouline, with a preface written by Prince Albert of Monaco and Princess Anne of England.

19.03.2012[ read full story ]

Arbeit / Work showcases Chris Killip’s photography from 1969 to 2005, and is a retrospective of a photographer who has influenced an entire generation of younger documentary photographers. Arbeit / Work presents several of Killip’s long- term projects, ...

19.03.2012[ read full story ]

In 1996 Steidl published Roni Horn’s Haraldsdóttir, the tenth book in her “To Place” series about the connections between identity and location. Haraldsdóttir contained portraits of the same Icelandic woman in water; each pose was similar to emphasise the infinite number of potential facial ex...

15.03.2012[ read full story ]

Jakob Tuggener’s Fabrik, published in Zurich in 1943, is considered to be a milestone in the history of photography books. The series of 72 photographs in this Photo Epos of Technology is oriented toward the expressionist aesthetic of the silent movie. It imparts a sceptical view of the destru...

16.03.2012[ read full story ]

This book tells the remarkable story of the Kodak Girl, one of the most durable and successful marketing campaigns in advertising history. Created by George Eastman, inventor of the inexpensive hand-held camera, the Kodak Girl traces the intersection of American culture with photography as ...

14.03.2012[ read full story ]