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Presents two volumes that include "The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler", which about a neighborhood populated by ambassadorial residences, embassies, and the lavish private homes of those who are in positions of power in Washington; and the "Map of Babylon", that features photographs ranging from Washington, to Germany, to China and places in-between.

For more than 20 years Kai Wiedenhofer has been taking photographs in the Middle East, a place where many journalists and photographers have covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

Roni Horn was born in New York where she continues to live and work. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Musee dArt and Moderne de la Ville de Paris. This title comprises of fifteen pairs of portraits collected from throughout a lifetime.

The author has discovered a new species of plant that he calls new trees - cellular phone antennae of steel, fibreglass and plastic, camouflaged as trees. He has photographed these trees in the US, South Africa and Europe, creating a peculiar arboretum where reality and illusion are blurred.

A meditation on one of the most intense yet simultaneously subtle human states: loneliness.

Takes in the full range of Fazal Sheikhs work, from his earliest portraits taken in African refugee camps, through long-term projects in Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan, Somalia and Kenya, to more recent work in South America and in India.

"Pull My Daisy" is a 1959 short film that typifies the "Beat Generation". Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished titled "Beat Generation". This book interweaves a transcript of Kerouacs narration from the film with film stills.

Robert Frank's father, Henry, was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich, and a keen amateur photographer. This work features a selection of Henry Frank's photographs including landscapes, family portraits, still-lifes and cityscapes.

In 1997 I had what I refer to as my oil epiphany. It occurred to me that the vast, human-altered landscapes that I pursued and photographed for over twenty years were only made possible by the discovery of oil and the mechanical advantage of the internal combustion engine. It was then that I began the oil project.

As Paris and its shopping arcades were to the 19th Century, Dubai and its wondrous malls may be to the new millennium. In this work, the author uses his iPhone camera to get past mass media images of the Emirate as Disney World on the Persian Gulf, and find a human component.

Presents a selection of David Bailey's photographs spanning from 1962 to 2008. Mostly black-and-white, some in color, this work features influential directors, artists, fashion designers and musicians, including Andy Warhol, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Yves Saint Laurent, John Huston and Ellsworth Kelly.

This work is about the phenomena of appearance and disappearance. The book shows 36 head-shots of a clown. If mutability of appearance is integral to the phenomenon of the cloud - since dissolution or erasure is inevitable - the converse is proposed for the clown.

Writing from New York in March 1949, Robert Frank sent home to his mother in Switzerland a birthday gift of a book maquette of a series of photographs he had made during a visit to Peru. This book presents the complete sequence of images, based on the original book Frank had conceived and realised under his direction.

Investigates notions of power, both electrical and political. This work focuses on energy - how it gets made, how it gets used, and the ramifications of both. It illuminates the intersection between American society and American landscape.

David Bailey, born in London in 1938, is one of the most successful photographers of his generation. By the 1960s his work, especially for "Vogue", had already made him a cult figure. This title features 130 photographs of Damien Hirst taken by Bailey during a single shoot lasting eight minutes.