In this unique book influential garden designer Dan Pearson, weekly columnist for The Observer, discloses his personal inspirations. Dan uses his own distinctive photographs as reference points giving the reader a direct and intimate insight into where and what he draws upon when working on his own projects.

Wydawnictwo: FUEL Publishing

Smoking youths have traditionally had an air of rebelliousness about them. In the ten years that he has been following and recording youth culture, the Dutch documentary photographer Martijn van de Griendt (1970) has attempted to capture this phenomenon.

Wydawnictwo: Schilt Publishing

An-my Le was born in Vietnam in 1960 and came to the United States as a political refugee at age fifteen. She received a grant to return to her homeland just after U.S./Vietnamese relations were formally restored.

Wydawnictwo: Aperture Foundation

This easy-to-use, inexpensive text introduces students to the fundamentals of photography and suggests ways in which they might create photographs that have meaning.

Wydawnictwo: Prentice Hall

Wydawnictwo: STEIDL VERLAG

Artist Josie Iselin celebrates the diversity and beauty of nature with her exquisite portraits of seashells. Like her extremely popular "Beach Stones" and "Leaves & Pods", "Seashells" is not a field guide but an artful and informative portrayal of a beloved part of our natural world.

Wydawnictwo: Harry N. Abrams

Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs and computer imaging--and the bodily access they imply--to reveal their limitations.

Wydawnictwo: University of Minnesota Press

Roger Ballen (b.1950) challenges the ways in which we perceive the ?reality? of photography. His striking, ambiguous images of people, animals and objects posed in mysterious, cell-like rooms occupy the grey area between fact and fiction,

Wydawnictwo: Phaidon

First published in 1998 to mark the occasion of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, this book is arranged into eleven thematic sections. The images capture the sights and smells of street life, monuments, and pilgrims, creating a picture of daily life in India.

Wydawnictwo: Phaidon

Raghubir Singh (1942--1999) was one of the finest documentary photographers. He was born in Rajasthan, India, and for thirty years made countless personal journeys across the vast subcontinent.

Wydawnictwo: Phaidon

Here, in well over 500 extraordinary photographs, is the story of our new century: moments that changed the world; trends that touch all our lives; challenges that will shape our future.

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson

Reuters photojournalists are continually bearing witness to events as they happen across the globe. They submit some 1,500 photos a day, creating an annual archive of over half a million images.

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson

Between the end of World War II and the election of John F. Kennedy there was a tremendous shift in Hollywood film: a fresh wave of actors (with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Paul Newman, and James Dean) whose talent and lives seemed to be inseparable in their work, came to the forefront of film-making.

Wydawnictwo: ASSOULINE

Wydawnictwo: Schilt Publishing

Rainforests are the most complex, productive, dynamic and diverse places on Earth. In this stunning volume these largely unexplored ecosystems are revealed through the spectacular photography of Thomas Marent, a self-taught photographer who has dedicated half his life to capturing images of rainforest life.

Wydawnictwo: PENGUIN

Rineke Dijkstra - ein großer Name in der Fotoszene - fand nach anfänglichen Auftragsarbeiten für Magazine schnell internationale Anerkennung mit ihren eindringlichen, farbigen Portraitserien von Teenagern und jungen Erwachsenen.

Wydawnictwo: SCHIRMER/MOSEL

Terry Hope takes a selection of international photographers images of people and examines composition, tone, texture, contrast, mood, techniques, printing, processing and even how to finish and exhibit your work and incorporate it in website.

Wydawnictwo: RotoVision

In 1962 Schumacher began to add stories and travelogues to his photographs in order to appeal to a bigger market. In 1964 he became a full-time photo-journalist.

Wydawnictwo: Dutch Art & Media House

In September 1939, the German invasion of Poland propelled the world into war. By the spring of 1946, Poland was beginning to recover from five years of cataclysmic destruction.

Wydawnictwo: Smithsonian Institution Press