Places and peoples: general and pictorial works

The must-have classic work on early Japanese photography!This book presents a fascinating visual record of Japan and Japanese culture during its metamorphosis from a feudal society to a modern industrial nation--at a time when the art of photography was...

Collects over 175 years of key moments in the visual history of the Southern United States, with over two hundred and fifty photographs taken from 1845 to present.The South is perhaps the most mythologized region in the United States and also one of the...

A searing, diaristic portrayal of a city and society in revolution by Magnum nominee Myriam BoulosIn her debut monograph, Myriam Boulos casts an unflinching eye on the revolution that began in Lebanon in 2019 with protests against government corruption...

This fall, following acclaimed issues centered on Delhi, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and So Paulo, Aperture magazine presents "Accra," an edition that considers the Ghanaian capital as a site of dynamic photographic voices and histories that connect...

In 2022, Bronson Bigelow and Nick Hines rode their motorcycles 2,727 miles from Los Angeles to New Orleans. "LA to LA" is the true story of that adventure and the America they found along the way. Told in words and photographs, this adventure reveals...

Kyoto is the birthplace of Japanese culture - a fact that is evident in every corner of the city. Japan's ancient capital is home to 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the famous Golden Pavilion and the fortified Nijo Castle. And though Kyoto is...

Tokyo lives up to its reputation as a modern metropolis and, as this book shows, it is also one of the most exciting and diverse places on the planet. Focusing on Tokyo and its surrounding areas, photojournalist Stephen Mansfield brings this...

The Little Book of Kyoto is a celebratory visual guide to one of the world's truly unique cities. Kyoto was Japan's imperial capital for one thousand years as well as its cultural birthplace. A companion to the best-selling travel book The...

A longtime coast watcher tells the story of the beautiful and ever-changing coast of North Carolina-rich in culture, history, and landscape-with words and photographs.This gorgeous, richly illustrated book for visitors and residents alike details the...

I Burn But I Am Not Consumed brings together photographs and an archive collated by photographer Alicia Bruce and the residents of Menie, Scotland. The project documents sixteen years of Donald Trump's impact on the coastal Scottish community from 2006...

A love letter to New York City, Two Way Street merges two bodies of Gretchen Grace's street photography revealing the iconic moments of the everyday. Gretchen Grace is an American photographer living in New York City. Two Way Street combines early black...

A Sum of Oneis a compilation of photographs from nine years of travel to six continents. While the photographs (landscapes, streets, people, and abstract) are a documentation, their existence is deeply personal and contemplative to the photographer. The...

Prophetic Kingdom is an ongoing photographic investigation exploring scenes of the everyday and overlooked. The images give an allegorical nod towards a prophesied postlapsarian world.

The Holocaust as history ended seventy-five years ago, about the span of a full human life; the Holocaust as culture is very much of the present, its meanings and lessons still actively in formation. For twenty-five years, Jason Francisco has wrestled...

Nowhere is the human condition more apparent than in India, a window to life, a window to all. Departures presents a journey through place, life, and our preparations for departure from the material to the ethereal. To journey with India is to reflect,...

Award-winning photographer Tobi Shonibare - Tobi Shinobi to his followers - pushes the boundaries of symmetry and balance in his first book, Equilibrium. From his native London to his current Chicago home, and in far-flung locales around the world,...

Explore the twenty arrondissements of Paris with Raquel Puig to discover the city's most colorful, awe-inspiring, and historic doors. With more than three hundred photographs of Paris's most enchanting doorways from Raquel Puig, creator of the popular...

This is the story in pictures of Atlantic City, the iconic American shore resort, as it emerges from its latest crisis.

New book by National Geographic photographer Paul Chesley. This memoir of an artist's life will highlight the best images of his career, from a geisha on a phone in a limousine, to the chromatic lifestyles of Havana, the forbidding ranks of the Chinese...

In an essay here, cultural critic and curator Negar Azimi articulates a singular problem of being a photographer in the Arab Middle East. "Taswir" (or picture making), according to many Arab scholars, is prohibited by Muslim law, thus the "notorious...