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Workers from KwaNdebele catch buses in the early morning, some as early as 2:45 am, in order to be at their workplaces in Pretoria by 7:00. This title takes you on their bone-jarring journeys through the night, which is a metaphor for their arduous struggle toward freedom itself.

Set in California, Mexico and New York City, during the 1960s and 1970s, this title uses fiction and images from the author's photographic diaries to create a first-person account of Kip, an artist who wanders back and forth between farm workers and poets between California and New York seeking the meaning of his mothers death.

Presents portraits of young British soldiers who have suffered life-changing injury in Iraq and Afghanistan or during training. This book includes images that reveal the sheer grit and bravery of the victims who, despite personal sacrifice, live each day with continued vim, vigour and dignity.

Part of a series, this title is composed of polaroids, that continues the journey into Frank's realm and imagery, showing us snapshots from his travels, of his friends and everyday curiosities.

Includes five comprehensive volumes: New YorkEarly Work, The American Scene, Deep Woods, Greenwich Village, and, The Americans.

Rolls-Royce is a world-renowned iconic brand and symbol of all that is British. The author goes behind the scenes and examines in detail the making of the car that is the first choice of film stars and heads of state. Given carte blanche by Rolls-Royce, he photo documents the painstaking craftsmanship that goes into the creation of these vehicles.

Inspired by a semi-autobiographical book by the mid-20th century German printmaker HAP Grieshaber, the author has used Grieshaber's idea to create a story of fifty years as a printmaker. He includes interviews with his printers and memories of his life around the prints he made at that time.

Erwin Blumenfeld was one of the most sought-after and best-paid fashion photographers of his time, shooting for Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Life. Influenced by the surrealists and the artistic avant-gardes, he challenged the genres conventions in his early fashion photographs with fascinating originality and perfection.

Nancy Rubins lives and works in Topanga, California near Los Angeles. Rubins has installed monumental sculptures across the United States and Europe, and significant public and private collections hold her work. This book takes you on a visual journey through forty years of the her sculptures and drawings.

Originally published in 1986 to accompany a retrospective exhibition of the same name organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and has long been out of print. The chronology and personal spirit of Frank's complex career as a photographer and filmmaker are evoked with previously unpublished letters, pictures, reviews and letters.

Robert Frank's film "One Hour" is a single-take of Frank and actor Kevin O'Connor either walking or riding in the back of a mini-van through a few blocks of Manhattan's Lower East side. Shot between 3:45 and 4:45 pm on 26 July, 1990 the film presents the curious experience of eavesdropping involuntarily on strangers. This book deals with the film.

Early in his career, James Karales (1930-2002) began a photo-essay documenting Rendville, Ohio, an important stop on the Underground Railroad during the Civil War and one of the few racially integrated communities in America in the late 1950s. This title features the pictures he took.

Hashima is a small island located off the extreme southwest coast of Japan, about ten miles from Nagasaki. Its dark warship-like silhouette earned it nickname of Gunkanjima (battleship island). During the wave of industrialisation in nineteenth century, a coal seam was discovered on the island and the Mitsubishi corporation opened a mine there.

Teen Tribe is a series of intimate portraits of Martine Fougeron's two adolescent sons and their tribe of friends growingup in New York and France. Begun in 2004, Fougeron has followed the lives of her sons Nicolas and Adrien from theages of thirteen and fourteen respectively as they entered adulthood. The book pictures adolescence as a transformativestate, caught between childhood and adulthood, between the feminine and masculine, between innocence andburgeoning self-identity. As both mother and photographer, Fougeron combines a tender transparency for her subjectwith a more distanced view of the world of teenagers. Teen Tribe is a visual diary of her sons' domestic lives arrangedchronologically, capturing the different rites of passage and personal challenges they encounter over time. Inspired byDutch paintings of domestic scenes particularly those of Vermeer, as well as by cinematic compositions, Fougeron'swork is both a sensual biography of two boys, and a depiction of the universal process of growing up to which all canrelate.Martine Fougeron was born in Paris in 1954 and studied at Wellesley College and l'Institut d'Études Politiques deParis. For the past fourteen years she has lived with her two sons in New York. After a successful career as creativedirector of a perfumery, Fougeron turned to photography, studying at the International Center of Photography in NewYork. Her work on her two sons has been exhibited internationally and is held in major public and private collectionsincluding the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fougeron is a regular contributorto The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.

From 1998 to 2005, the author worked, lived and travelled in Central Asia, traversing Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. This title addresses what was left behind when the Soviet Unions ideological superstructure was stripped away, eliminating the grand narrative that imposed meaning on peoples lives.

A survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. In more than 100 photos, it presents a hallucinatory worldview encompassing both stark documentary and tragic metaphor, and explores the relationship between nature and humanity.