Taking good photographs of people is a combination of many factors: What is the best light for the subject? How should they stand? What aperture should you use for maximum impact? This easy-to-follow,
In The Photography Workshop Series, Aperture Foundation works with the world’s top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography―offering the workshop ex
A latest volume of lavish photographs is a visual tribute to the American West that reflects the photographer's devotion to the land and its people, offering insight into his dedication to the preserv
Recounts the life and accomplishments of the pioneering photographer whose work left a pictorial record of the people and events of his times, most notably the Civil War, and explores the events of th
"This book chronicles the three months award-winning photographer and filmmaker Bob Demchuk spent living among the Pokot of western Kenya on the shores of Lake Baringo in 2013. His encounter begins wi
The Face Pullers documents a particularly rich period in the history of Canadian photography. These photographs of First nations people- spanning the period 1871 to 1939 - provide not only a fascinati
Revised and thoroughly updated, this practical guide to photographing people is better than ever! What is the color of skin? You may think you know, until you enter the world of digital photography an
A self-taught photographer (although you'd never know it from his work), Lanzano has spent well over a decade photographing African American church services and revivals in two rural counties of coast
Using archive photos and vintage color postcards, and photographing the same site today, Las Vegas: Then and Now: People and Places charts the rise and demise of the classic casinos on the strip; El R
Leading equestrian sports photographer Trevor Meeks has been photographing foxhunting for Horse & Hound for nearly two decades. For?many people country hunting is much more than a sport, it's a wa
Karl Koenig has been photographing Holocaust concentration camps for more than ten years. These photographs of the architecture and landscape of suffering, he believes, "may have some impact on people
Dave Naz spent eight years photographing transgender, genderqueer, gender variant, and other people from the queer community. His zine Identity has been documenting lives, poems, and stories from the
Most photographers love photographing people?but they will also readily admit that there are a lot of challenges to making great portraits. In this book, professional portrait photographer Bill Israel
Before moving to North Wales in 2003, Tom Wood had been photographing the people of his Liverpool neighbourhood for almost three decades. In these two volumes, Wood displays carefully edited photograp
Ericson was motivated to begin photographing the Roma community during a visit to the southern part of Czech Republic where he witnessed vast discrimination. He has documented the lives of Roma people
In 1978, Zofia Rydet (1911–97) began work on a monumental project that would come to be known as her “Sociological Record”: photographing the people of Poland at their homes, she produced an extraordi
Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) first visited the birthplace of jazz in 1957, and immediately set about photographing the aging pioneers of the art form. His love of the music and the people of New Orleans
Many people have the desire to travel with no fixed destination, on a road to nowhere. Martin Kers has captured that longing by photographing desolate landscapes that show a world free from technology
Don McCullin's travels have taken him to some of the most remote regions in the world. His skill in photographing people in extreme situations has enabled him to mix with tribes on the edges of civil
Limited edition of 750 sets, signed and numbered by Damien Hirst.In 2005 Damien Hirst began photographing every dispensing pharmacy in the Greater London area. Shooting both the individual pharmacists behind their counters and the exterior views of the city’s 1,832 chemists, the project has taken over a decade to complete. The images are brought together in their entirety in this extraordinary ten-volume artist’s book, which presents a portrait of the city through the people and places that prescribe the medicines we take on a habitual and daily basis.Hirst’s career-long obsession with the minimalist aesthetics employed by pharmaceutical companies―the cool colors and simple geometric forms―first manifested in his series of Medicine Cabinets, conceived in 1988 while still at Goldsmiths College. For his 1992 installation Pharmacy Hirst recreated an entire chemist within the gallery space, stating: “I’ve always seen medicine cabinets as bodies, but also like a cityscape or civilization, w
