This book covers the 20 years that transformed Philadelphia into a city of neighborhoods, from Kingsessing to Wissahickon. At the turn of the 20th century, Philadelphia was the ”workshop of the world,” with builders toiling tirelessly to fill the staggering demand for housing. This golden age of…
New York surfing is mad. Breaks are hard to access, waves are inconsistent, winter (which produces the best waves) is brutal. You might risk almost anything just so you don’t hear those famous words, “You should have been here an hour ago.” Follow dedicated wave hunters to the end of the A-train and beyond and peek…
Join photographer and skater Andréanna Seymore on her fearless journey through the world of roller derby, beginning with her serendipitous introduction to the sport in 2008. Modern roller derby is a vibrant, empowering, and revolutionary movement transitioning from obscure subculture to mainstream pastime on both a…
Roy Kemp’s previously unpublished burlesque portfolio presents thirty-nine dancers performing in authentic clubs and backstage settings in 1950s New York. This nostalgic collection includes nearly 250 never-before-seen black and white and color photographs of well-known dancers, including Tempest Storm, Liz…
Wright’s photography has been featured in National Geographic Society publications, Smithsonian, Outside, Time, Islands, and The New York Times, as well as a number of books. The recipient of the Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography for covering child labor in Asia, and a two-time recipient of the…
Travel along the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego and visit the many pleasure and fishing piers just waiting to be discovered and enjoyed. Approximately 500 color photos take you to 51 piers in the coastal areas of San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and more. Revel in…
Finally, a book that takes you beyond the beautiful Art Deco buildings of Miami’s South Beach to the glamorous twenty-first century people who build them, work in them, love and live in them. These beautiful people come to South Florida from all over the world, yet they share a surprisingly consistent vision of…
Yosemite National Park is an American treasure best known for its thunderous waterfalls and enormous granite mountains. It is also where preservationists, humbled by its sheer beauty, worked to protect the land in bold new ways that would eventually influence the creation of the national park system. The enduring…
This photographic tour of Carlisle and its surrounding communities captures the beauty of its architecture, monuments, and gardens throughout the four seasons. More than 200 color images trace the town’s founding and the events that shaped it. Meet historical figures with ties to the town, including James Wilson, a…
South Beach and Miami Beach, Florida, have dozens of whimsical, colorful, and sometimes wacky lifeguard stands that have become media stars in their own right, including the ”Lighthouse Guardhouse,” the ”Surfboard,” and the ”Putting Green Guardhouse.” In 64 brilliant color photos,…
Not just another pretty coffee table book, this information packed reference work will help you define South Beach, Florida\nIt is a step-by-step guide to this unique architectural and cultural wonder. Besides a variety of walking tours of the Art Deco architecture, this rich guidebook offers insight into the tempo,…
The Ditch skildrar historien om en bortglömd försvarslinje som byggdes på Öland under andra världskriget. Det grävda diket skulle fungera som ett hinder för pansarvagnar och kom att dela ön i två delar i höjd med byn Föra. I boken samsas Cederqvists fotografier med dokumentationsbilder ur krigsarkivet, ett material som…
Ghost signs hold the secrets of businesses and products that vanished decades ago. Clues to our jobs, schools, places of worship, cafés, and concert halls are hidden in their stories. New York City’s neighborhoods, from 14th Street to its northernmost point, contain scores of timeworn ads that have improbably…
New York is filled with forsaken buildings, each ravaged by the exploits of modernization, each having fascinating histories. This photographic essay explores over 40 of the most evocative abandoned sites in the Empire State and puts their individual stories in the larger context of New York’s historical legacy.…
This fascinating lexicon examines the quixotic architectural expressions
found on select mid-20th-century modern commercial
buildings in South Florida. Showcasing the work of 13 noted architects from Miami Beach to Fort
Lauderdale, it highlights the playful decorative details
and gestures—swooping overhangs,…
Recover the stories of long-overlooked American women who, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home, became commercial photographers and shaped the new, challenging medium. Covering two generations of photographers ranging from New York City to California’s mining districts, this study goes beyond a broad…
In good times and bad, our best friends are there for support, therapy, and unconditional love. Especially now—where would we be without our dogs? Although the so-called modernists of Palm Springs embrace the serenity of life in post-WWII America, the sometimes-harsh realities of contemporary life are impossible to…
Welcome to the fantasy-made-flesh that is Jamie Mahon’s imagination. Weaving together sublime locations, superb photography, and striking models, this award-winning photographer has created true artwork of the alternative subculture. He and a clique of extraordinary creators have labored to produce images of beautiful…
Put on a pot of your favorite coffee, perk up, and enjoy
nostalgic black-and-white photos that celebrate screen icons from the Silent
Era through the eighties, making and drinking their own cups of joe, java,
pour-overs, and percolated brews. Hollywood Café bridges the vibrant
coffee culture of right-now with the…
Award winning international photographer Robert Herman elevates the practice of street photography in The Phone Book. With the iPhone™, he has created compelling images from his travels around the world. Inspired by the new Hipstamatic App™, The Phone Book compendium is a creative labyrinth that invites the viewer to…
Built in 1883, the Hotel Chelsea, on 23rd Street in New York City, quickly became the most famous and notorious hotel in the world. From day one, it has been a center of artistic and bohemian activity, with notable residents like actor Ethan Hawke, painter Phillip Taaffe, magazine editor Sally Singer, filmmaker Milos…
Join physician and landscape photographer Mohan Bhasker on a round-the-world journey to some of Earth’s most exquisite sites. Vicariously traverse a Laos jungle, kayak among Antarctica’s icebergs, trek through Nepal’s Himalayan mountain range and Brazil’s scorching sand dunes, and come upon…
Walking down the street in the heart of New York City is an experience that can’t be duplicated anywhere else in the country, perhaps even the world. One merges into the impromptu flow and is carried along by the ongoing current of migratory souls. Harvey Stein documents the iconic areas of Midtown and Downtown…
Recognized by the New York Times as one of the Best Photography Books. Immerse yourself in the visual stream created over the first 50 years by Kamoinge, a pioneering photographic collective founded in 1963 in New York City, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Kamoinge’s members include many of the nation’s…
Over 200 beautiful color photos provide a detailed look at a wide variety of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. An engaging text delivers a unique look at tobacco sheds from a historical, personal, and an agricultural perspective through the changing seasons. Readers will enjoy an overview of the tobacco…
No other American city dazzles during the winter holidays like New York, with its magical store windows, larger-than-life street decorations, and brilliant, tree-lit plazas. New York City photographer Betsy Pinover Schiff has gone uptown to Harlem, downtown to the 9/11 Memorial, and to all the boroughs—on foot, by…
This book is the follow-up to the groundbreaking Chocolate Cheesecake, and is a new collection of modern black pin-up photography. Modern black pin-ups are becoming more popular as more photographers and models seek to expand the genre of pin-up photography beyond its historical limitations. This second book showcases…
Dozens of beautiful photos, both vintage and contemporary, draw us into the fascinating world of Shaker communities’ accomplishments, their progressive views, and their still-resonating impact on American life. This book focuses specifically on two Shaker villages, Hancock and Mount Lebanon, which were close neighbors…
In this ode to Connecticut’s Naugatuck River Valley, vibrant photos and moving poetry relate the region’s legendary industrial history and ponder its legacy. The story begins in 1802, when two metalworking families joined forces to manufacture brass. Business soared during the War of 1812 with the demand for buttons,…
This collection of 240 photographs depicts 224 of the twentieth century’s top studio craft artists and designers working in fiber, clay, glass, metal, and wood. The photographs are by Paul J. Smith, Director Emeritus of the Museum of Arts and Design. Drawing on Smith’s career of over fifty years as an arts…
From the recognizable Bourne and Sagamore Bridges stretching across the canal, to rarely seen broken down docks and piers reaching out from the sands of Provincetown, this book chronicles Cape Cod in a way that few people stop to notice and even fewer take the time to photograph. In this entirely new perspective on an…
A. Aubrey Bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sunday Sun feature photographer from 1924 to 1970. He left an archive of photographs, chronicling mid-twentieth century American life, of people doing all kinds of work. Bodine’s images of heavy industry document an…
Celebrity photographer and model Bunny Yeager picks the best of her mid-century beauties, each sporting an enviable hair-do. You’ll get nostalgic as you enjoy the images of pin-up girls sporting the glorious bouffants that were all the rage in the 1960s and ’70s. Sporting bikinis, lingerie, or nothing at…
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Många har skrivit om poeten Edith Södergran. Otaliga har tolkat hennes dikter, läst hennes brev och dragit slutsatser om hennes liv. Att hon var en ambitiös fotograf är inte lika omskrivet, och hennes bilder har inte fått den uppmärksamhet de förtjänar. Fotografier från alpresor och hembygd, på kvinnor, katter och…
The most precious natural resource on our planet, water has the power to soothe, hydrate, and heal. World-renowned film photographer Michael Kahn invites us into this meditative realm with more than 60 black-and-white images of pristine waters in North America, Italy, and England, capturing the mists, movement, and…
In over 60 handmade, black-and-white photographs, renowned film photographer Michael Kahn renders Martha’s Vineyard beachscapes in exquisite detail. Produced in his darkroom, these masterful, curated images depict the diversity and intense beauty of this enchanting island. Scenes of Edgartown, South Beach, Zack’s…
How do we engage with places that once played a pivotal role in our communities? Memories of Australia explores this question by documenting abandoned buildings across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Witness how nature is leading a successful takeover of old convents, power plants, textile…
Through evocative images, insightful descriptions, and companion personal stories, Joe Coca guides us on a global journey, weaving together place, people, craft, and story with the human thread that connects us all. Each section of the book features an array of remarkable photographs that shows a region’s…
260 beautiful color photographs capture the beauty and charm of historic and recently designed boathouses at private residences, rowing clubs, preparatory schools, and colleges. Together they provide an historical appreciation and architectural inspiration of this classic building form.
In the United States, boathouses…