Robert Adam spent a lifetime recording the vast open spaces of the American west and the slow steady encroachment of humanity. The homes and signs and gas stations seem like unwelcome interlopers in the desert landscape, which always appears to be deeper and more permanent than anything mankind can conjure up.
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Amazonia
For four decades Sebastiao Salgado has been documenting the human and natural world, from gold mines in South America to migrants in Africa his images have shown parts of the world rarely seen by most humans. His latest gigantic work is Amazonia, which takes us on a journey through an Amazon basin threatened by climate …
Lost Not Found
Elliot Erwitt is 93. That’s a lot of time to take photos. Some of his images are the most iconic of the twentieth century but some never made it into print before the book ‘Found Not Lost.’ It gathers unseen shots from his vast portfolio. Many have all the trademark wit and lightness of touch …
Legacy
Anyone interested in photography probably recognizes a Helmet Newton photo. The statuesque, amazonian women, the graphic classic styling, and the biting wit often missing from most fashion images. The book ‘Legacy’ is an attempt to collect some of the best images from a career that spanned decades and prove that style will always triumph over …
The Station
Chris Killip is known for his superb book ‘Sea Coal,’ which showed the desperate side of eighties England. Yet Killip also took pictures of the anarcho-punk scene in the north-east of England. His son discovered some old forgotten contact sheets lying in a cardboard box and so ‘The Station’ was born. Named after the venue …
The Sound I Saw
Roy DeCarava documented the great days of jazz. His book ‘The Sound I Saw’ has some of the most iconic images of the medium. Perhaps even more famous for his collaboration with Langston Hughes, ‘The Sweet Flypaper of Life,’ DeCarava is now enjoying something of a revival thanks to ‘Light Break’ a retrospective of his …
The Pillar
Stephen Gill hammered a wooden stake into the ground and then placed a motion-sensor camera nearby. What he uncovered were closeup shuts of wild birds landing and taking off in the Swedish countryside.
Ex-Voto
Alys Tomlinson booked herself a ‘pilgrim package’ tour to Lourdes, France capturing visitors to the site, and the ex-voto, or religious offering left behind by worshipers as a show of devotion. Soon she expanded her study to include the Christian sites of Ballyvourney in Ireland and Grabarka in Poland. What emerges is a strange parallel universe of people, who …
In My Room
Saul Leiter was trained as a painter and overtime began to use his painterly eye to create some beautifully abstract new York street photos which are among the finest of the genre. He also created some stunning images of artist models in his apartment and studio, very much int he style of 19th century French …
Dubliners
Legendary street photographer, Martin Parr, described Eamonn Doyle’s photos as the best he’d seen in years. It’s hard not to agree with that statement. Taken on the streets of Dublin, they are graphic and raw and like all good examples of the genre hint at the lives of their subjects. A book featuring a sample …
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