A listing of my books that I've cataloged in the excellent app Handy Library for Android.

Across the Ravaged Land

By Brandt, Nick

Across the Ravaged Land is the third and final volume in Nick Brandt’s trilogy of books documenting the disappearing animals of eastern Africa. The book offers a darker vision of this world, still filled with a stunning beauty but now tragically tainted and fast disappearing at the hands of man. In...

Aelbert Cuyp

By Jr., Arthur K. Wheelock

Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) was one of the foremost Dutch painters and draftsmen of the seventeenth century. His prolific artistic career spanned the years between 1640 and 1665, the greatest period of Dutch painting, and his idyllic views of the Dutch countryside have entranced collectors and connoiss...

America: Icons and Ingenuity

By Winters, Dan; McNeil, Courtney A.; Grzywacz-Gray, John

Published by the Telfair Museums of Savannah, Georgia, to coincide with a major exhibition, Dan Winters’s America is the first museum survey of the career of this talented artist. Winters has spent more than two decades creating memorable photographs for such publications as the New York Times Magaz...

Andy Gotts: The Photograph

By Gotts, Andy

"Andy's contact-sheets give us what feels like a VIP pass to spend time with his subjects. We see their beauty, their flaws, charisma, humanity and even a glimpse into their thoughts and process. We see the person in these people and are touched by their being." – Kylie Minogue "Above all Andy Gotts...

Annie Leibovitz

By Leibovitz, Annie; Martin, Steve; Carter, Graydon; Obrist, Hans Ulrich; Roth, Paul

This incredible collection is now available in an accessible XXL book format. Leibovitz drew on more than 40 years of work, starting with the photojournalism she did for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s through the conceptual portraits she made for Vanity Fair and Vogue. She selected iconic ima...

Before They Pass Away

By Nelson, Jimmy

Text in English and German This is a small format edition of the global bestseller that showcases tribal cultures around the world. With globalization, these societies are to be prized for their distinctive lifestyles, art and traditions. They live in close harmony with nature, now a rarity in our...

Bruce Davidson: Survey

By Davidson, Bruce; Gierstberg, Frits; Zanot, Francesco; Gollonet, Carlos; Cotton, Charlotte

Bruce Davidson is a pioneer of social documentary photography. He began taking photographs at the age of ten and continued to develop his passion at Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University. Later called upon for military service, Davidson met Henri Cartier-Bresson in France and was int...

CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed

By Chaubin, Frédéric

Frédéric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed features 90 Soviet buildings throughout the former USSR, each built between 1970 and 1990. It is a journey through time. With local exoticism, outlandish ideas, and a puzzle of styles, these weird and wonderful buildings are unearthly re...

Declutter Your Photo Life: Curating, Preserving, Organizing, and Sharing Your Photos

By Pratt, Adam

Turn your photo chaos into precious memories to be enjoyed and shared! Now more than ever, we hold our photo collections dear. They are often some of our most prized possessions. Wouldn’t it be great to finally have all your photos organized, safe, accessible, findable, and shareable? With Declutt...

Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

By Arbus, Diane; Arbus, Doon

When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influence—even something of a legend—for serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known at the time. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in...

Edward Hopper

By Goodrich, Lloyd; Hopper, Edward

A volume on Edward Hopper, whose images of 20th-century America made him one of our best-known and best-loved artists. A look at the life and work of Edward Hopper features more than two hundred full-page plates of Hopper's works. ...

Ernst Haas: New York in Color, 1952-1962

By Prodger, Phillip; Haas, Alex

The first book on master photographer Ernst Haas's work dedicated to both his classic and newly discovered New York City color photographs of the 1950s and 60s. Ernst Haas's color works reveal the photographer's remarkable genius and remind us on every page why we love New York. When Haas moved fr...

Escuchando a los árboles

By Cabrera, Albarrán

Albarrán Cabrera’s poetic universe invites us to immerse ourselves in nature, in the land of trees and on what trees can teach us about life. The idea for the book comes from a text written by Hermann Hesse that can be described as one of the most beautiful love letters to trees. Hesse tells us th...

Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs

By Adams, Ansel

A MASTER CLASS WITH AMERICA’S MOST CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPHER   "How did you make this photograph?"   This is a question that Ansel Adams was asked repeatedly throughout his lifetime. In Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Adams shares the circumstances surrounding the creation of many of his m...

Exiles

By Milosz, Czeslaw; Koudelka, Josef

This powerful document of the spiritual and physical state of exile now contains 10 new images by master of photography Josef Koudelka. The sense of mystery that fills these photographs mostly taken during Koudelkas years of wandering through Europe and the United States since leaving his native Cze...

Ezra Stoller: A Photographic History of Modern American Architecture

By Serraino, Pierluigi

A captivating history of 20th-century Modern American architecture, as seen through the eyes of a legendary photographer It is impossible to overstate the importance of photography's role in shaping the world's perception of architecture. And towering above the ever-growing crowd of image-makers i...

Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir

By Ho, Fan

Fan A Hong Kong Memoir, completes the trilogy Fan Ho began with Hong Kong Yesterday and The Living Theatre. In his previous monographs, viewers were introduced to Hong Kong during the 1950s and 1960s. Through his brilliant eye for light, composition, and his patience for the 'decisive moment,' Fan H...

Fan Ho: Hong Kong Yesterday

By Ho, Fan; Bennette, John A.

Hong Kong Yesterday presents a singular vision of this enigmatic city by award winning photographer, Fan Ho. Black and white images capturing life in mid-century Hong Kong range from quiet voyeuristic tableaus to chaotic crowds, most focusing on the citys inhabitants. Businessmen, families, dockwork...

Fan Ho: The Living Theatre

By Ho, Fan

The 2nd book: ‘The Living Theatre’ by Fan Ho continues the story Mr. Ho began in his first book, ‘Hong Kong Yesterday’. Focusing on the people of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s this book takes a closer look at his beloved city. This is a unique series of images with no image duplication between th...

Far from Dull : And Other Places

By Greyer, Dominic

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Fred Herzog: Modern Color

By Herzog, Fred; Koetzle, Hans-Michael; Wall, Jeff

The most comprehensive book yet published on the Canadian color-photography pioneer Fred Herzog is best known for his unusual use of color photography in the 1950s and 1960s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black-and-white imagery. In this respect, his photographs...

Genesis

By Salgado, Sebastião; Salgado, Lélia Wanick

“In Genesis, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.” —Sebastião Salgado On a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26-year-old Sebastião Salgado held a camera for the first time. When he looked through the viewfinder, he experienced a revelation: suddenly life made sens...

Helmut Newton: Portraits

By Honnef, Klaus

A stunning--and shocking--collection of celebrity portraits, including an interview with Helmut Newton as an introduction. Among those portrayed are Andy Warhol, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren and many more. 23 color and 169 black-and-white photographs. ...

Helmut Newton: Sumo

By Newton, Helmut; Newton, June

SUMO was a titanic book in every respect: a 480-page tribute to the 20th century’s most influential, intriguing and controversial photographer, it broke records for weight,  dimensions, and resale price. Helmut Newton (1920–2004) always demonstrated a healthy disdain for easy or predictable soluti...

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer

By Cartier-Bresson, Henri

This book offers an outstanding retrospective collection of the master of 20th-century photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Reproduced in exquisite black and white, the images in this book range from Henri Cartier-Bresson's earliest work in France, Spain, and Mexico through his postwar travels in Asi...

Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

By Bichler, Lorenz; Bichler, Lorenz

A dazzling reprint of Hiroshige's views of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), one of the masterpieces of the ukiyo-e woodblock printing tradition and a paradigm of the Japonisme that inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art Nouveau artists, from Vincent van Gogh to James McNeill Whistler. ...

Historien bak bildet

By Schandy, Tom; Næss, Baard

De anerkjente naturfotografene Tom Schandy og Baard Næss har opplevd mer enn de fleste. De har ikke bare trålet vår hjemlige natur, men også fjell, skoger, ørkener og savanner under eksotiske himmelstrøk. Hele tiden har de vært på jakt etter det gode bildet og den gode historien. Om dyr, fugler, lan...

In Our Time: The World As Seen By Magnum Photographers

By Manchester, William; Lacouture, Jean; Ritchin, Fred

From the grandly historic to the poignantly human, from battlefield violence to the gentle pleasures of peace, In Our Time captures the past fifty years of the world in over three hundred memorable photographs, including many in color.As the distinguished historian William Manchester explains in his...

Jeff Bridges: Pictures Volume Two

By Bridges, Jeff; Brougher, Kerry

Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges is widely adored asa jewel of American cinema, with dozens of leading credits to his name. For more than 30 years, on numerous film sets, Bridges, with his specialized panoramic camera, a Widelux F8, has captured behind-the-scenes views of the creative world ...

Lartigue: Album Of A Century

By D'Astier, Martine; Bajac, Quentin

A sweeping photographic retrospective of the artist's life and work presents the best of Lartigue's entire catalog of photography--from his first photograph to his last--accompanied by six essays covering various aspects of his art. 10,000 first printing. ...

Lartigue: Life in Color

By D'Astier, Martine; Ravache, Martine

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) was the best-known “amateur” in the history of photography, famously discovered by the art world and given an exhibi­tion at MoMA in New York when he was in his late sixties. He began by recording the pastimes and customs of his wealthy Parisian milieu, indulging h...

Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen

By Lee, Friedlander; Joel, Coen

"I found it a daunting task to choose just a few images from Lee Friedlander's vast career. Where to start...?" -Joel Coen In his selection of 70 photographs by Lee Friedlander, acclaimed filmmaker Joel Coen focuses on Friedlander's beautifully strange sense of composition, in which images are off k...

Liam Wong: After Dark

By Wong, Liam

From Liam Wong, the author of TO:KY:OO, an evocative, cinematic exploration of global cities after midnight.  No matter how different or far apart, cities at night share particular features: neon lights and lonely figures, quiet train stations and taxi drivers, empty buildings and streets. In Afte...

Magnum Contact Sheets

By Lubben, Kristen

Available for the first time in an accessible paperback edition, this groundbreaking book presents a remarkable selection of contact sheets and ancillary material, revealing how the most celebrated Magnum photographers capture and edit the very best shots. Addressing key questions of photographic pr...

Mark Seliger Photographs

By Seliger, Mark

Mark Seliger’s extraordinary portfolio is 30 years in the making. In 1987 Seliger began shooting small assignments for Rolling Stone; in 1992 he became their chief photographer, a position he kept for 15 years. During the course of his time at the magazine, he photographed more than 125 covers. He h...

Moriyama Daido T-82

By Daido, Moriyama

In 2006, Powershovel Books initiated a public art event by handing out -toy cameras- to anyone and everyone who would take one, and exhibiting a selection of the resulting photographs. (The -toy camera- in question was a Polga, a hybrid Holga camera that used Polaroid film.) One of the participants ...

Norsk naturfotografi i et historisk perspektiv

By Hermansen, Pål

Mennesket har fra første stund måttet forholde seg til naturen, som alle andre arter. Men vi er den eneste arten som også har vist evne og trang til å avbilde våre omgivelser. Fra de tidligste hulemaleriene og gjennom en mer enn tusenårig kunsthistorie er naturen blitt tolket i bilder. Likevel, -før...

NORTHERN 3

By Moriyama, Daido; Nagasawa, Aiko

A photograph collection by Daido Moriyama, a leading Japanese photographer, "Northern 3 Himart of Light and Shadow". This book is the exhibition "Hokkaido Preface" which was held at the Sapporo Miyanomori Museum of Art and other places in Hokkaido in 2009, and "Hokkaido Chapter 2 / Development" held...

Philippe Halsman: Astonish Me!

By Archive, The Halsman; Stourdzé, Sam; Lacoste, Anne

This massive retrospective volume profiles the work of Philippe Halsman, one of the world’s most revered photographers. Salvador Dali’s flamboyant moustache, Richard Nixon jumping in the West Wing, Grace Kelly’s amazing profile—these are just a few of the images that achieved iconic status and helpe...

Photo Icons: 50 Landmark Photographs and Their Stories

By Koetzle, Hans-Michael

From Nicéphore Niépce’s 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop pictures to the horror of Nick Ut’s “napalm girl,” the 50 photographs in this collection have defined eras, made history, or touched something so fundamentally human that they have become resonant icons around the world. Each image goes under ...

Photographic Syntax

By Cabrera, Albarrán

In 'Photographic Syntax', ALBARRÁN CABRERA explains why they produce their own images using different photographic processes, why they use the medium of photography as a learning tool, and the thoughts behind images, many of them previously unpublished. ...

Pictures by Jeff Bridges

By Bridges, Jeff

For more than twenty years, on dozens of film sets, Bridges has perfected his own photography, shooting between takes and behind-the-scenes with a Widelux F8 camera. This fascinating, surprisingly candid body of work began as a personal project, as he recorded the arduous, emotionally intense, evane...

Play

By Dybvik, Lars Andreas

Fine art photographer Lars Andreas Dybvik has published his first “coffee-table” book . PLAY is a photography-book in the world of visual abstractions and music. The book is a composition. It is composed like a piece of music, visual music. Lars Andreas Dybvik has chosen images and layout to creat...

Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs

By Carroll, Henry

Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs is ideal for the new wave of snapshooters using DSLR, compact system and bridge cameras, looking for top photography tips. • A bestselling photography book with over 300,000 copies sold! • Learn top photography tips from 50 famous photographers • A...

Robert Doisneau

By Gautrand, Jean-Claude

An empathetic lens: Robert Doisneau's eye for human experience As sensitive to human suffering as to the simple pleasures of life, Robert Doisneau is one of the most celebrated exponents of the humanist photography that swept through the 1950s. Cherished in particular for his soulful portraits of Pa...

Robert Mapplethorpe

By Holborn, Mark; Levas, Dimitri; Smith, Patti; Sullivan, Andrew

A revised and updated edition of the most comprehensive survey published of Mapplethorpe's photography Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the twentieth century's most important and influential artists, known for his groundbreaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Br...

San Francisco: Portrait of a City

By Unterberger, Richie; Golden, Reuel

Starting with an early picture of a gang of badass gold prospectors who put this beautiful Northern California city on the map, this ambitious and immersive photographic history of San Francisco takes a winding tour through the city from the mid-19th century to the present day. Enjoy eye-catching ...

Stephen Shore: American Surfaces: Revised & Expanded Edition

By Shore, Stephen

An updated edition of Shore's groundbreaking book, now with previously unpublished photographs and a new introduction Stephen Shore's images from his travels across America in 1972-73 are considered the benchmark for documenting the extraordinary in the ordinary and continue to influence photograp...

Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works

By Shore, Stephen; Shore, Stephen; Tillman, Lynne

Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shores legendary Uncommon Places has influenced a generation of photographers. Among the first artists to take colour beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, Shores large-format colour work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the roo...

Tales from the Loop

By Stålenhag, Simon

1980-talets Sverige befolkat av fantastiska maskiner och märkliga varelser. En träffsäker skildring av en barndom bland lovikavantar och Televerket-bilar kombinerad med främmande maskiner. ...

The Americans

By Frank, Robert; Kerouac, Jack

Originally published in 1958, "The Americans" was part of a series of books that presented foreign countries through words and pictures. Frank personally supervised this latest edition that features a new cover as well as digitally enhanced images. ...

The Art Book

By Press, Phaidon; Melick, Tom

Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, The Art Book has been an outstanding success and has become a well‐known landmark in the art book world. Now published in over 20 different languages and in mini, midi and hardback formats, it has received rave reviews from numerous ne...

The Camera (Ansel Adams Photography, #1)

By Adams, Ansel; Baker, Robert

This is an attractively priced photography classic made accessible to a wider, new audience. It covers everything from "seeing" the finished photo in advance, to lens choices. It is illustrated with many of Ansel Adams most famous images. ...

The Family of Man

By Sandburg, Carl; Steichen, Edward

The most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at New York's Museum of Modern Art in January of 1955. The permanent embodiment of Edward Steichen's monumental exhibition, this book reproduces all 503 images he described as "a mirror of the essential oneness of...

The Negative (Ansel Adams Photography, #2)

By Adams, Ansel; Baker, Robert Hardy

Ansel Adams (1902-1984) produced some of this century's truly memorable photographic images and helped nurture the art of photgraphy through his creative innovations and peerless technical mastery. This handbook - the second volume in Adams' celebrated series of books on photographic techniques - ha...

The Print (Ansel Adams Photography, #3)

By Adams, Ansel; Baker, Robert Hardy

Ansel Adams (1902-1984) produced some of the 20th century's most iconic photographic images and helped nurture the art of photography through his creative innovations and peerless technical mastery. The Print--the third volume in Adams' celebrated series of books on photographic techniques--has ...

The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs by Alex Webb. Alex Webb, Geoff Dyer

By Webb, Alex; Dyer, Geoff

Gathering some of Alex Webb's most iconic images, many of which were taken in the far corners of the earth, 'The Suffering of Light' brings a fresh perspective to his extensive catalogue. ...

The Unseen Saul Leiter

By Erb, Margit; Partillo, Michael

Now widely acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923–2013) remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s, and his work has been drastically re-evaluated over the last two decades. Leiter’s images evoked the flow and rhyt...

Use This if You Want to Take Great Photographs: A Photo Journal

By Carroll, Henry

Discover a whole new way of seeing the world while honing your photography skills across composition, exposure, lighting, lenses, and observation. Use This if You Want to Take Great Photographs is packed with fun photography prompts and inspiring images by master photographers so you can get crea...

Vanity Fair: The Portraits: A Century of Iconic Images

By Hitchens, Christopher; Carter, Graydon; Friend, David

Vanity Fair: The Portraits brings together 300 iconic portraits from Vanity Fair’s 95-year history in a remarkable book that captures the image of modern fame — the magical thing that happens when individual talent and beauty (and sometimes genius) is caught in the spotlight of popular curiosity and...

Vivian Maier: The Color Work

By Maier, Vivian; Westerbeck, Colin

The first definitive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier. Photographer Vivian Maier’s allure endures even though many details of her life continue to remain a mystery. Her story—the secretive nanny-photographer who became a pioneer photographer—has only been...

Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective

By Meyerowitz, Joel; Westerbeck, Colin

Where I Find Myself is the first major single book retrospective of one of America's leading photographers. It is organized in inverse chronological order and spans the photographer's whole career to date: from Joel Meyerowitz's most recent picture all the way back to the first photograph he ever to...

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