Britta Jaschinskis exquisite photographs owe their inspiration to portraiture rather than documentation, creating an atmosphere rather than making a statement. The animals in these photographs have a shadowy, almost enigmatic presence that excites our curiosity and draws us in. Our glimpses of them tend to be partial, fragmentary from a furry hand gripping an iron bar to dolphins floating just below the surface of a pool.

Wydawnictwo: Phaidon

Louise Bourgeois, Andreas Gursky, Zaha Hadid, Shirin Neshat, David Lynch, Omar Sharif, Sting and Naguib Mahfouz--these and other notables from the worlds of art, film, music and literature have posed for Egyptian photographer Youssef Nabil's camera over the past two decades. Born in Cairo in 1972, Nabil took his first portraits of friends after he finished studying literature in the early 1990s.

Wydawnictwo: HATJE CANTZ

Organized chronologically and illustrated with more than 150 photographs, Life Year in Pictures 2005 is a pictorial encyclopedia of the year gone by. Revisited in classic images and insightful text are the most notable people, places, and events of 2004. Also remembered are a years work of fashions, trends, films and foibles.

Wydawnictwo: Time Incorporated Home Entertainment

A unique and acclaimed collection of stunning images from the world's most acclaimed landscape photographers —now available in paperback. The World’s Top Photographers: Landscape is packed with shots of beautiful landscapes.

Wydawnictwo: RotoVision

The accomplishments of ordinary women in developing and war-ravaged countries who have broken through the barriers of oppression to make a positive difference in their communities is brilliantly told through radiant photography and riveting profiles.

Wydawnictwo: Rizzoli International Publications

From his apartment window which has a view of downtown Manhattan in particular of the World Trade Center site one photographer documents the changing patterns of life in New York City before and after September 11, 2001.

Wydawnictwo: TROLLEY

Since the early 1960s, William Christenberry has plumbed the regional identity of the American South, focusing his attention on Hale County, Alabama, from which he hails. Although Christenberry is most often associated with and recognized as a pioneer in the field of American color photography, his vision is multifaceted and rendered through an unorthodox mix of media that includes sculpture, drawing, painting, and found-object assemblage.

Wydawnictwo: Aperture Foundation

Wydawnictwo: ACTAR

Bernadó creates projects to express his keen eye and spirit. Despite his having explored American spaces and cities in Japan and Europe, Bernadó has always maintained his focus on Spain, attentive to the evolution of its landscape and the d�cor of its interiors that is linked to very different worlds.

Wydawnictwo: ACTAR

Warhol Look

Wydawnictwo: SCHIRMER/MOSEL

Laurie Simmons is one of the first contemporary American photographers to have created elaborately-staged narrative photographs.

Wydawnictwo: Aperture Foundation

Is every picture worth a thousand words? And what words should they be? "Verbalising the Visual" explores the ever-changing relationship between language, objects, and meanings, and considers how we translate the experience of visual culture into written and spoken words.

Wydawnictwo: Ava Publishing

The idea of sexy Dutch underwear may seem like an oxymoron, but it will only take one glance at this remarkable book to convince you otherwise.

Wydawnictwo: Schilt Publishing

Inside the covers of this incredible, colourful collection are hundreds of the world's most powerful optical illusions. Some of the mind-boggling images seem to spring into action, vibrating, pulsing, and spinning like a hula hoop.

Wydawnictwo: Sterling

Presents a collection of photographs of the World Trade Center taken over thirty years, featuring views of the skyline from throughout the region, closer looks at the buildings at different times, and shots of the tragedy.

Wydawnictwo: Princeton Architectural Press

Jordi Bernado, with his formidably acute humour, describes unknown places of the United States depicted by suggestive names such as Paradise (Texas), Utopia, and Eden.

Wydawnictwo: ACTAR

'On assignment in Havana, Cuba, I heard music. It was across the street and far away. I couldn't track down the source. As I got closer, the echo was bouncing off the tall buildings. It was amazing.

Wydawnictwo: FOCAL PRESS

They wind their way through the landscape like a snake. Men in colourful clothing, testing themselves to the limit. Followed by cars that leave an amazed and equally enthusiastic public in a cloud of dust.

Wydawnictwo: Schilt Publishing

Industry insiders and advertisers of all categories looking for the most authoritative guide to today's world-class ad agencies will find it here. Ten of the most successful and innovative advertising firms around the globe are profiled, offering a detailed look at campaigns mounted for a diverse portfolio of clients.

Wydawnictwo: Graphis Press Inc