In today's image-saturated culture, the visual documentation of suffering around the world is more prevalent than ever. Yet instead of always deepening the knowledge or compassion of viewers, conflict photography can result in fatigue or even inspire apathy. Given this tension between the genre's ostensible goals and its effects, what is the purpose behind taking and showing images of war and crisis?
Conversations on Conflict Photography invites readers to think through these issues via conversations with award-winning photographers, as well as leading photo editors and key representatives of the major human rights and humanitarian organizations. Framed by critical-historical essays, these dialogues explore the complexities and ethical dilemmas of this line of work. The practitioners relate the struggles of their craft, from brushes with death on the frontlines to the battles for space, resources, and attention in our media-driven culture. Despite these obstacles, they remain true to a purpose, one that is palpable as they celebrate remarkable success stories: from changing the life of a single individual to raising broad awareness about human rights issues.
Opening with an insightful foreword by the renowned Sebastian Junger and richly illustrated with challenging, painful, and sometimes beautiful images, Conversations offers a uniquely rounded examination of the value of conflict photography in today's world.
Cabinet cards were America's main format for photographic portraiture throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Standardized at 6½ x 4¼ inches, they were just large enough to reveal extensive detail, leading to the incorporation of elaborate poses, backdrops, and props. Inexpensive and sold by the dozen, they transformed getting one's portrait made from a formal event taken up once or twice in a lifetime into a commonplace practice shared with friends.
The cards reinforced middle-class Americans' sense of family. They allowed people to show off their material achievements and comforts, and the best cards projected an informal immediacy that encouraged viewers to feel emotionally connected with those portrayed. The experience even led sitters to act out before the camera. By making photographs an easygoing fact of life, the cards forecast the snapshot and today's ubiquitous photo sharing.
Organized by senior curator John Rohrbach, Acting Out is the first ever in-depth examination of the cabinet card phenomena. Full-color plates include over 100 cards at full size, providing a highly entertaining collection of these early versions of the selfie and ultimately demonstrating how cabinet cards made photography modern.
Art of any medium holds the capacity to connect the dots of an idea, or translate and re-translate perceptions, opening visual doors for a wider audience. This stunning collection of 110 California-based photographers reveals a shared appreciation and alignment for all that makes the west coast state the storytelling, dream-holding place that it is. Their images are as varied stylistically as the state is geographically, and reflect the people, places, and personality that help define California.
The book is not a compilation of only one type of photographer, or of only iconic California photographers, and is not meant to be an encyclopedic collection as such. Rather, the selection of photographers mirrors some of the project's essence at conception: together they represent a particular time and place of photographers in the canon of California photography, each looking outward at the land, sky, and people that distinguish California, each photographer finding moments to pause and in doing so, to celebrate.
Collecting high-quality fine art photography can seem intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. Learn to fine-tune your senses and empower yourself to make choices you love. This compact, helpful guide will teach you the important elements of building, maintaining, and displaying a photo collection. You’ll also learn where to buy photographs and how to frame, display, and store them. You’ll gain valuable insights regarding print types, editions, appraisals, and more. Whether you’re new to collecting photographs or a seasoned collector, you’ll find easy-to-read, engaging information on these pages.
‘Chromotherapia. The Feel-Good Color Photography’ offers genuine relief from the black-and-white world. Often disparaged, not always taken seriously, color photography has nevertheless allowed artists to get out their palettes and “paint.” Many have freed themselves from the medium’s documentary status to explore the common roots of the image and the imaginary, flirting with the worlds of Surrealism and Pop.
Famed Italian visual artist and curator Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdzé offer a rereading of the history of color photography through the 20th century into the 21st, and through the works of over 20 artists who take us on a journey into vibrant, acidulous worlds. Treat yourself to sunny yellow, azure blue, bright red, bubbly orange and more, straight from the lenses of the biggest names in color photography. Artist include: Yevonde Middleton, Harold Edgerton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Walter Chandoha, William Wegman, Hiro, Guy Bourdin, Alex Prager, Juno Calypso, Adrienne Raquel, Miles Aldridge, Ouka Leele, Hassan Hajjaj, Ruth Ossai, Pierre et Gilles, Sandy Skoglund, Martin Parr, Arnold Odermatt, ‘Toiletpaper’.
n August 1993, when Nirvana was in New York to perform at the legendary Roseland Ballroom, Jesse Frohman photographed them for the London Observer’s Sunday magazine—the last formal photo shoot in which Cobain participated before he committed suicide on April 5th, 1994. Over the course of ninety photographs, Cobain seems an almost feral creature, by turns gentle, playful, defiant, suffering, or absorbed in his music. There’s a diverse range of shots of Cobain with fellow band members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl and on his own, posing, performing, and greeting fans. Jon Savage’s original interview, which appeared with Frohman’s photographs in the Observer is also reproduced, giving us Cobain in his own words. The book is a touching tribute to Cobain twenty years after his tragic demise, and following Nirvana’s recent induction in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 90 illustrations, 25 in color
Photographs by: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Lynsey Addario, Martin Adler, Richard Butler, Francesco Cito, Gary Calton, Chris de Bode, Donna De Cesare, Miquel Dewever Plana, Tiane Doan na Champassak, Colin Finlay, Riccardo Gangale, Cedric Gerbehaye, Jan Grarup, Tim A. Hetherington, Rhodri Jones, Bob Koenig, Roger Lemoyne, Zed Nelson, Peter Mantello, Heather McClintock, Olivier Pin Fat, Giacomo Pirozzi, Q. Sakamaki, Marcelo Salinas, Dominic Sansoni, Guy Tillim, Sven Torfinn, Ami Vitale, Vincent van de Wijngaard, Tomas van Houtryve, Kadir van Lohuizen, Alvaro Ybarra-Zavala, Francesco Zizola
Essay by: Jo Becker, Jimmi Briggs, Dick Durbin, Emmanuel Jal, Michael Wessells
We’re thrilled to partner with Peter Caton for the launch of his Kickstarter campaign to bring his powerful book, Unyielding Floods, to life. Set for publication in September, this book sheds light on one of the most devastating yet overlooked climate crises in the world today.
If there’s one thing that sets "WildLOVE" by Pedro Jarque Krebs apart from the myriad of wildlife photography books, it’s the profound intimacy and empathy captured in every page. A work of both beauty and boldness, the book brings us face-to-face with wildlife in a way that is rarely seen. Through Krebs’ lens, animals are not distant, untouchable beings; they become relatable, full of personality, and—most importantly—emotion.
How can you go home when a leopard is sleeping in your bed? Most of us go through life caught up in rituals so convincing that we confuse them for the real world, all tenuously tied together by the thin red line we call family. And yet we often ask ourselves, who are these people in my house?
For almost six decades, Stephen Shames has documented the world as an award-winning photojournalist. Through his photography, he uncovers the raw emotions and deeper truths behind both global, political issues and private, personal ones. From chronicling the Black Panther movement in Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers, to exposing the silent crisis of child poverty in Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America, Shames’ work consistently highlights the humanity at the heart of struggle and survival.
Terza Vita, a third life. This enchanting book delves into the rebirth of interpersonal relationships among adolescents after a two-year compulsory break. Mar Sáez photographs the reappearing residents, and, above all, the yearning young lovers, in sensual, almost dancing attitudes, reflecting the classical images of sculptures and paintings offered up by the eternal city of Rome.
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Writing in the Sand is a vibrant and deeply human exploration of life along the beaches of North East England. Through her lens, she captures the spontaneity, joy, and eccentricity of Geordie beachgoers, transforming everyday moments into something both intimate and universal.
The Raw Society Magazine is a non-profit project that aims to highlight important and compelling work from both its professional members and the wider storytelling community. It’s all about photography that goes beyond just visuals—focusing on themes like social issues, politics, culture, travel, and history. What makes it stand out is the strong emphasis on personal storytelling, allowing photographers to share deeper, more meaningful narratives.
The magazine is a space for photographers who want to bring attention to issues that matter. Instead of just showcasing beautiful images, it gives context, background, and a real sense of the photographer’s vision. It’s a mix of documentary, reportage, and artistic work, always keeping storytelling at the core.
Unable to find imagery that was relatable and authentic about a young family navigating cancer, photographers Anna and Jordan Rathkopf turned the camera on each other and themselves after Anna's diagnosis at the age of 37 with an aggressive form of breast cancer. HER2 is an ongoing visual conversation told through the utterly unique dual perspective of the experience as a husband- and-wife team, showing both the ways in which there is a deep bond in shared survival while also highlighting their parallel, isolated traumas amidst layers of grief and joy.
Emily Nkanga, photographer and filmmaker, presents Unyọñ Ufọk (translation: Going Home), a photo book exploring grief, identity, and home. Through analog photographs shot on Mamiya RZ 67 and Olympus OM2, Nkanga captures fleeting moments of everyday life in her hometown of Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. The images act as a time capsule, preserving the beauty of life’s transient moments.
