A collection of black and white male nudes taken between 1940-1970 by Bruce of Los Angeles.
At the vanguard of fashion, design and art, AnOther Magazine has, over the past decade, become known for its signature fusion of fashion photography and classic portraiture. Another Portrait Book includes a stellar selection of these celebrity shots—Nicole Kidman, Jodie Foster, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow among them, as well as portraits of figures from the worlds of music, literature and art, such as Gore Vidal, Björk, Lucian Freud, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithful and Kate Moss, captured by the world’s most iconoclastic photographers.
The first book of images from Champion Studios, famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early '60's. This book brings together 345 photographs of scantily athletes - packed with amusing props and costumes.
Alexander Honory belongs to the category of artists, whose work is based on the ability of gathering people – utilsing found photography and installation to provide an anthropological review of people from different parts of the globe. The work in this book is part of a series called Rekonstruktionen XII. It is described as a catalog containing photographs and texts related to Honory's work between 1990 and 1992.
Born in 1929 in Ghana, James Barnor has left an incisive mark on the history of photography. From the establishment of his Ever Young photo studio in Accra in the 1950s, to international assignments for the influential magazine Drum, he captured societies in transition: a burgeoning Ghana, marching toward independence, and Swinging Sixties London growing into a multicultural metropolis. This book is the first monograph of his work – from the late 1940s to his pioneering work in colour of the 1970s.
First Son is an extraordinary collection of photographs by C.D. Hoy (1883-1973), a Chinese-Canadian photographer whose startling, evocative portraits of First Nations, Chinese, and Caucasian subjects in small-town British Columbia, taken between 1909 and 1920, form an important historical and cultural document about the roots of "otherness" in Canada.
Herbert List was fascinated by the ”artificial humans“—life-size figures moulded in wax—on display at the Panoptikum in Vienna’s Prater. In 1944, he photographed these waxworks, depicting them as “corpses set in position and daubed with make-up—frozen in poses of the utmost intensity, they are inhabitants of a Sleeping Beauty castle.” List took a string of fairytale scenes, historical tableaux, and medical subjects and combined them with a trenchant text to create an illustrated book published here for the first time, more than seventy-five years later, in a bibliophile edition based on List’s original draft.
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A collection of self portraits by 60 female artists and photographs, offering a glimpse into the (caucasian) female experience and concerns in the late 1970s after the Women's Liberation Movement.
In 1925 the Siberian immigrant Anatol Josepho had an idea for a small curtain-enclosed booth where people could take affordable portraits anonymously and automatically. The photobooth was born. Within 20 years there were more than 30,000 in the United States alone, an explosive growth due largely to World War II, as soldiers and loved ones exchanged photos. Photobooth presents over 700 photographs taken in the photobooth from the last 75 years – images that are spontaneous, inhibited, and touching. It is a captivating portrait of every day people and a testament to the ongoing fascination with the process and the photography.
The portrait is central to Fazal Sheikhs work. Often these have been people in crisis: displaced from their homes and their countries, at risk from violence, poverty and prejudice. This book takes in the full range of Fazal Sheikhs work, from his earliest portraits taken in African refugee camps, through long-term projects in Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan, Somalia and Kenya, to more recent work in South America and in India.
A collection of archival memorial photography in America – a popular postmortem practice to remember the dead, a form of mourning and memorialisation. This book presents a chronological arrangement of postmortem photography from 1840 - 1930, presenting the image of death from the Puritan journey for a sinner to the late Victorian beautifaction of death and its interpretation as the soul's restful sleep.
Early in life, American fashion photographer George Platt Lynes developed a close friendship with the publisher Monroe Wheeler and with writer Glenway Wescott. This collection presents the photographs the three took travelling together over seventy years ago, and a glimpse into their intertwined intimate three-way relationship. A travel album of their trips around Europe.
A collects portraits of talented, glamorous, controversial, or influential women such as Margot Fonteyn, Princess Anne, Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Iris Murdoch.