For the first time, complete access has been granted to the Mark Shaw Photographic Archive. Reel Art Press expands Shaw’s classic 1964 work, The John F. Kennedys: A Family Album. Over fifty percent of the material in this lavish book has never been seen before and it features the finest ever r...

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Doug Rickard appeared alongside Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson, Viviane Sassen and Zhang Dali in the 2011 edition of the annual “New Photography” exhibition at MoMA last winter. Rickard’s new book, A New American Picture (Aperture), responds just as mu...

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The collection of four hundred vintage prints from the 1960s — taken by Dennis Hopper and recently rediscovered — documents the social, political, and creative highlights from a tumultuous era. Lying hidden away in Dennis Hopper’s home until their discovery months after ...

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Moments Before the Flood, is a visual and photographic investigation into how we will handle a possible flood. Within the text Carl De Keyzer wonders how Europe is preparing itself for a possible rise of our sea levels and how insufficient these measures appear to be....

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Twenty years after the death of the French pop icon Michel Berger, a new French-language book is being released in honor to his life and work. It brings together hundreds of classic and unreleased photographs of Berger, featuring remembrances from his wife, the singer France Gall. ...

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Anne Golaz’s photographs deal with the fundamental and fragile relation with nature, animals and death. In "Metsästä" (From The Woods) she invites the viewer to meet with a suggested world vacillating between common and extraordinary sceneries related to Finnish cultur...

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In his newest photographs from the series entitled "Beautiful Distasters", David Drebin develops saucy-seductive stories around the voyages of his desirable protagonists. Inapproachable, unattainable and likewise irresistible, the women in these photographs ...

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In 1909, Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944) set out on a journey to capture all of Russia in color on behalf of Czar Nicholas II. One of the early pioneers of color photography, Prokudin-Gorskii systematically documented the vast empire wit...

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Brian Finke turns his attention to New York City building sites for his third monograph, Construction. As with his previous series (which focused upon such subjects as flight attendants and high school cheerleaders and football players), the new work examines a grou...

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Salah Benacer, an independent photojournalist, has released his first book, Inclose. The work takes the form of a photographic essay presenting three reports on the theme of confinement. These images of daily life focus on relationships with space and time imposed by the condit...

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A Moment. Master Photographers: Portraits by Michael Somoroff is a body of work Michael Somoroff made thirty-five years ago. He took it upon himself to photograph in-depth his heroes and mentors, the master photographers of the twentieth century. Michae...

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Alec Soth‘s photobook "Looking for Love, 1996", including his photo series of the same name, looks back to the time of the beginning, the time when everything is still open and exciting, when everything gently fall into place. It‘s the phase of the beginning that forms the b...

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The historian of photography Helmut Gernsheim (1913 – 1995) owned the largest photography collection in the world. For the first time in half a century, both its sections are being reunited for an exhibition: the historical part housed in the Harry Ra...

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American photographer Wendy Paton allows herself to disappear in order to let her subjects emerge from the night. In "Visages de Nuit" (Faces Of Night), Paton’s eye is that of the celebrant as well as a voyeur, and in graphic compositions of black and white that ...

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TBW Books announce the continuation of work with the SF Jazz Center. SF Jazz 2012 is an extension of last year's book produced to accompany the groundbreaking for the new SF Jazz Center in 2011. This year through a second commission, TBW Books is thrilled to bring the work of many a...

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Ken Schles says this book is a “photographic book about images, memory and the metaphor of light.” It is so much more. The level of abstract thinking required is so great that Ken includes his own exegesis at the end. It could easily be part of a course in hermeneutics at the Sorbo...

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Jim Lee – often referred to as England’s answer to Guy Bourdin – made himself a name with his fresh and illustrious take on fashion; the original wild child of fashion photography. Arrested is the biography of London-based photographer and film director Lee and traces his photographic devel...

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Robert Kennedy was the most imposing politician he ever met. And Johnny Depp is incredibly photogenic. Steve Schapiro (*1934 in Brooklyn) ought to know, because he has actually photographed them all: his expressive portraits of Martin Luther King, Jr., Muhammad Ali, Barbara Streisand, Mar...

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