Kategoria BISAC: Photography >> Photoessays & Documentaries

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Foundation Award for Design and Artistic Merit

This book is a work of art from every possible angle - from the exquisite photographs, to the book's design, to its flawless printing and production process. . . . Hall has everything right in this book. There is nothing extraneous, and nothing missing. This is a complete and moving immersion in the breathtaking underwater world of the Pacific Northwest.

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The center of the art world before the war, Paris fired the Nazis' greed. The discovery of more than 1,500 prized paintings and drawings in a private Munich residence, as well as a recent movie about Allied attempts to recover European works of art, have brought Nazi plundering back into the headlines, but the thievery was far from being limited to works of art. From 1942 onwards, ordinary Parisian Jews--mostly poor families and recent immigrants from Eastern Europe--were robbed, not of sculptures or paintings, but of toys, saucepans, furniture, and sheets. Witnessing the Robbing of the...

This gathering of sixty images, along with the essays that frame them, gives us a new way to think about the too often troubled status of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The bell in the clock tower at Atlanta s Morris Brown College bears an inscription about the ideal of educational access, that it be without regard to sex, race, or color. Yet most of the Morris Brown campus has lain silent for more than a decade. Established in 1881, it was all but shut down in 2002 after years of fiscal hardship were capped by a mismanagement scandal. Pride still runs high among its...

Not everyone summits mountains and not everyone is capable of capturing the experience in stunning photographs. Daniel and Kazuya have done just that Join them in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan and view through their camera's eye the amazing scenery of Mt. Gassan (Moon Mountain). They've captured this mountain in unique photos. On both occasions that they summited, they spent the night in the hut which is available for use during the summer months and were therefore able to capture the most amazing sunset and sunrise colors that you've probably ever seen. Mt. Gassan is the highest peak in the...

Not everyone climbs mountains and not everyone can capture the experience with stunning photographs. Daniel and Kazuya, however, have done just that Join them on the northern border of Yamagata and the southern border of Akita Prefectures, Japan and view through their camera's eye their climbs of this still active volcano (most recent eruption - 1974) and second highest mountain in the Tohoku Region of Japan in unique photos. No matter where you are in the world you'll savor this one-of-a-kind armchair adventure. On a clear morning the shadow of this mountain can be seen on the Sea of...