Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers.
These 87 black & white photographs taken by Alen MacWeeney in Dublin in 1963/5 are spontaneous images of Dublin and Dubliners in all areas of the city, a street odyssey reflecting a cross section of the people, their habits and behaviour, ten years before Ireland joined the European Union and the wider world.
Covers every corner of ever continent, from icy arctic floes to tropical forests, from the deserts of north Africa to the vertiginous peaks of Nepal. This book includes photographs that are accompanied by informative captions that illuminate what we see, and describe the environmental concerns related to each location.
Edward Burtynsky (b 1955) is one of a generation of photographers, who seek to portray the visible outcomes of a globalized economy and humankind's impact upon environments around the world. This book provides an overview of Burtynsky's work across four decades, including both iconic images and previously unpublished photographs.
Presents an account of pioneering polar photography and modern portraiture. This book examines the history and role of polar exploration photography. It features the portraits of explorers, some of the earliest photographs of the Inuit, and images from many of the Heroic-Age Antarctic expeditions.
As a passenger on the first two legs of Titanic's ill fated voyage, Father Francis Browne SJ's photographs are an immensely important record. Father Browne also assembled material such as an original deck plan, menus, letters to him from fellow passengers, contemporary newspaper cuttings and other documents, many of which are reproduced here.
Raymond Fogarty's spectacular drone photography brings a new and thrilling aerial perspective to one of the world's longest coastal touring routes - Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way.