Achter Glas, translating to Behind Glass, is an early photobook by acclaimed Dutch photographer Joan van der Keuken. It presents a lyrical visual narrative tracing the coming of age of twin sisters Georgette and Yvonne. Accompanied by text from poet Remco Campert, the book blends photography and storytelling into a poetic photo novel.
This book features selections from over a dozen albums, many never-before-seen, and includes Shabazz's earliest photographs as well as images taken inside Rikers Island, all accompanied by essays that situate Shabazz's work within the broader history of photography.
Before the crack epidemic devastated inner-city families, communities thrived with pride, style, and vibrant culture. Renowned photographer Jamel Shabazz captures this vanished New York City era from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. A Time Before Crack is a powerful visual diary revealing the extraordinary people, poses, and spirit of the streets.
Back in the Days documents the emerging Hip Hop scene from 1980-1989-before it became what is today's multi-million-dollar multinational industry.
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Between 2006 and 2007, photographer Ian Macdonald lived as part of the Eton College community as an artist-in-residence. Ian taught during this placement alongside making a photographic response to his new environment. In this photobook, Ian's social documentary photography presents an insight into Eton College as well as his personal reflections on his time there.
A collection of 177 annotated photographs of Eton offering an intimate and personal insight into the school, the area and its people.
Visual and textual documentation of fans before, during and after an American Football game – including photography, text and interviews by David L. Brown.
For three years, Dennis Feldman (born 1946) repeatedly walked an eight-block stretch from Hollywood and Vine to the Chinese Theater, called the Walk of Fame, where people flocked to gaze at a sidewalk full of terrazzo stars inlaid with the names of famous (and no longer famous) entertainers. Hollywood Boulevard compiles the photographer's large-format, black-and-white portraits into a painfully human character study of social identity and performance.
The Houston, Texas, neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Third Ward and South Park have grown to be hallowed ground for modern rap culture, populated with celebrities, entrepreneurs, support networks and a micro-economy of their own. Photographer Peter Beste and writer Lance Scott Walker spent nine years documenting the most influential style in twenty-first-century hip hop and the vibrant inner city culture from which it stems. Houston Rap, edited by Johan Kugelberg, profiles noted artists such as alongside reflections on the lives of departed legends such as DJ Screw, Pimp C and Big Hawk.
This frenetic collection of satirical material by the contemporary American writer includes excerpts from his most popular novel, a candid interview with Paul Krassner, and a play recalling the Beat Generation
In his epitaph to the age of conspicuous consumption and wealth, Luxury features Martin Parrs photographs over five years of watching the rich and fabulous at international champagne-fuelled gatherings.
This book collects photographs shot by former Head of Photography at Edinburgh College of Art, in 1984 of his St Margaret’s School for Girls series.
Once a month a horse fair is held at Smithfield in north Dublin. In the almost medieval atmosphere, kids from the tough Dublin estates can buy ponies for the price of a pair of trainers. The pony kids now exist in defiance of moves to licence such trading, portrayed here in portraits by Perry Ogden.
A cult book that influenced the 'Ivy Style' craze among students in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo in the late 1960s. Take Ivy is a collection of candid photographs shot on the campuses of America's elite, Ivy League universities. An important study of classic menswear and the Prep style.
Richly reproduced colour illustrations alongside interviews that explore multiple dimensions of female sexuality. Through a blend of visual and textual material, the book offers an in-depth, reflective examination of intimacy, identity, and representation within contemporary photographic and cultural discourse.
Each summer, thousands of Juggalos from around the world congregate at a privately owned campground on the Illinois border of the Ohio River to party. This intimate portrait of the Gathering presents Daniel Cronin's images of men, women, and children sitting in tents and cars, swimming in a brackish lake, painting each other's faces and, often, staring back at the camera communicating their defiance and pride.
Photographer Chantal Regnault spent many years capturing the emergent underground gay ballroom scene in Harlem at the end of the 1980s, from where Voguing emerged. A riot of fashion, image, poly-sexuality and a radical subversion of style, sexuality and race is vividly captured in the hundreds of amazing, never before seen, photographs in this deluxe book. The book also features interviews with key figures from the movement, essays, flyers and documents from this momentous era.
In 1981, the National Western Stock Show celebrated its seventy-fifth year. It was a major cultural and economic event in Denver to stage the many people and businesses who make up the cattle industry in the United States and Canada. This book presents over five years of Sandy Hume's photographic work documenting the National Western Stock show.
The emerging 1980s hip hop and underground music scene in Bristol, UK, including members of the Wild Bunch (who later formed Massive Attack)