In the 1960s Morocco was a hot destination for hippies who tripped out on the magic of North Africa. Today, the international jet set meets in Marrakech. The old-world charms of Morocco and a modern lifestyle are perfectly compatible, as this stunning volume proves. Featured interiors showcase living areas that […]
Photography
ART ARKTIS explores the fragility and variety of a majestic, untouched world through a collection of fine-art photography. Dietmar Baum and Tini Papamichalis embarked on a three-week expedition, capturing landscapes otherwise guarded from the sights of mankind by ice with the help of Hasselblad’s latest camera technology. Using their trained […]
What happens to buildings when they are no longer needed or have outlasted their original purpose? They are either lovingly restored so they can be used for something else-or they fall into ruin, where they remain as silent witnesses of a bygone era. French photographer Aurélien Villette has made it […]
How can a photographer of internationally known stars create iconic portraits that linger in the memory-especially since these actors have already been photographed and filmed millions of times? Vincent Peters-who has been working since 1995 for magazines such as Vogue and GQ and fashion brands including Dior, Louis Vuitton, and […]
“How long can an entire country live in an isolated time capsule, in a parallel universe? These photographs open a window into a society that we cannot begin to imagine. They are like a conversation between the North Korean people and ourselves.” Julia Leeb North Korea certainly wouldn’t come first […]
In his landmark project entitled Before They Pass Away, Jimmy Nelson captures the lives and traditions of the last surviving tribes who have managed to preserve their traditional ways, art, and customs within our increasingly globalized world. The British photographer’s epic portraits-shot with a large-plate field camera-present these dignified inheritors […]
Harold Feinstein, A Retrospective, is the first career-spanning monograph showcasing the brilliance of a small camera master of black-and-white photography. Feinstein began his career in photography in 1946. Within four short years, Edward Steichen, an early supporter, had purchased his work for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern […]
Damiani publishes A Portrait of Ice a book of photographs by Caleb Cain Marcus with text by Marvin Heiferman, Robin Bell and Caleb Cain Marcus. A Portrait of Ice is the second monograph by Caleb Cain Marcus. His first monograph included a foreword by Robert Frank. These new photographs are […]
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents DIY. Photographers & Books an exhibition on view August 11–December 30, 2012 in the museum’sPhotography Gallery. Gomorrah Girl (2nd edition), 2011. Valerio Spada (Italian, b. 1972). 40 pages + 40 pages, 8.9 x 13.1 in + 9.4 x 8.3 in. Cross Editions, November 2011 […]
The 2012 Kraszna-Karusz Best Photography Book Award was given to Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs (Getty Publications, $195.00, hardcover) at the Sony Photo Awards in London on April 26. The extraordinary body of work produced by photographer Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) between 1858 and 1891 constitutes one of the longest […]