Kategoria BISAC: Photography >> Individual Photographers - Monographs

Beth Lilly uses the camera in her cell phone as a mode of fortune-telling. Her project is open for participation to everyone calling her on a certain day, date, and number that can be found on her website. Once a seeker gets in touch with her, she intuitionally finds and shoots three photographs in rapid succession. She emails these to the seeker who only then reveals his question. Each combination of question and photos creates surprising results that range from humorous to profound. This book compiles the most interesting results from hundreds of calls Lilly received from people around...

For over four years, award-winning Ukranian photographer Mila Teshaieva has documented the transformation of the three former Soviet republics on the shores of the Caspian Sea: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. The battle for control of the region's vast oil and gas reserves and the search for a national identity have led to far-reaching changes for the population, the environment, and general social values. Teshaieva's images reveal an atmosphere of insecurity, where people pin their hopes and expectations on a transformation whose direction remains uncertain.

This series...

What was once, still is, and will forever remain is Jessica Backhaus's infallible instinct for pictorial composition, a deftness she continues to take to new heights. Her views of ostensibly prosaic scenes open up to us a cosmos of unforeseen meanings while evoking a mood of affectionate familiarity.

Backhaus is regarded as one of the most distinguished voices in contemporary photography today. Her work is exhibited internationally and is found in important collections.

This new edition of her successful publication Once, Still and Forever (2013) is limited to one...

Grown up as a typical car-obsessed American kid, Jory Hull explores the primitive, fascinating elegance of racing vehicles from a bygone era.

The artist frames these machines as the colorful, handmade tools that they are, often abstracting their details into almost pure graphic compositions. This series of photographs, taken over the course of a decade, capture the surfaces and inner workings of these objects at rest, revealing unusual details of these machines designed for fierce competition, created to live at high speed. The quiet beauty of these cars at rest, one imagines the...