This book proposes a counter-narrative of the city of Oxford, England, that resists the visual imperatives of its venerable university. Over five years, Mexican photographer Arturo Soto explored the long-standing division between the town and its academic history through a careful selection of spaces and objects. His visual narrative is loosely structured around a few themes: notions of home and homelessness, the looming presence of Brexit, the conflicted local economy, and the diversity of t...

Volker Hinz (1947 - 2019) is one of Germany's great photographers and photo journalists. After starting out at Sven Simon’s agency in Bonn, he switched to the magazine stern in 1974, for which he produced legendary photo and travel reports, portraits of artists, politicians, and celebrities in the following decades. Never seen without a camera, he left his mark with his pictures - not only on colleagues, friends, and the many people he portrayed, but also in German photojournalism, whose "g...

((Please scroll down for English version)) In Anlehnung an den Ausspruch des französischen Filmregisseurs Robert Bresson »Mach sichtbar, was vielleicht ohne dich nie wahrgenommen worden wäre«, fotografierte der Berliner Fotograf Günter Steffen zwischen 1984 und 1989 einen beeindruckenden Zyklus über Ostberlins Mitte in der er damals lebte und arbeitete. Meistens in den frühen Morgenstunden streifte er durch scheinbar unberührte und leere Straßen, Plätze, Hinterhöfe, Ruinen und an d...

A book of travel photography and a visual introduction to the life of the historical Buddha, featuring more than 240 photographs of Buddhist culture across Asia.

'Ellen Thorbecke – From Peking to Paris' vertelt het verhaal van Ellen Thorbecke (1902-1973), die een unieke positie in de internationale fotografie innam. Het boek toont een zeldzaam beeld van het dagelijks leven in Beijing, Shanghai, Hongkong, Parijs en het Midden-Oosten in de jaren dertig en veertig. Plekken waar Thorbecke gedurende haar leven heeft gewoond en gewerkt en die de leidraad vormen van het boek.

In 1931 vertrok Ellen Thorbecke naar China. Voor deze reis schafte ze haar eerste...

Hades was a powerful god in classical Greek mythology. His ‘Helmet of Darkness’ enabled him and the other gods to be invisible during their sometimes-ambiguous quests. Therefore, the helmet became proverbial for those who conceal their true nature... Digital platforms such as Uber, Amazon, Tinder and Airbnb, with their invisible Hades-esque algorithms, have drastically changed social structures and human behaviour — and not always for the better. They have given a completely new mea...

Flisvos is a Greek word meaning “the soft sound of a small wave gently hitting the shore”. When visiting the Greek island of Corfu in the winter of 2015, Mergaerts (BE) noticed that, in spite of the cold, many people were swimming at various places along the shoreline. She was impressed that the bathers — all adults, some of them retired — seemed to find peace in the Ionian sea. During the following years, Mergaerts learned more and more about the lives of the winter swimmers....

For 12 years, photographer Jon Kolkin traveled to Buddhist centers across Asia, capturing the everyday life of monks and nuns on camera. Text in English and German.

The fifth edition of this indispensable history of photography spans the history of the medium, from its early development to current practice, and providing a focused understanding of the cultural contexts in which photographers have lived and worked throughout, this remains an all-encompassing survey. Mary Warner Marien discusses photography from around the world and through the lenses of art, science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media and individual photographers. Professional, amateur ...

This book tells the extraordinary story of what later became known as the “CIA’s Secret War” in the Asian country of Laos in the 1960s and 1970s. It was the largest clandestine CIA operation to this day. A guerrilla army of Hmong people fought against the North Vietnamese communist-supported Pathet Lao. While the war in next-door Vietnam was widely covered by the media, the Secret War was decidedly not. Reporters who came to investigate rumors about a war were turned away at gunpoint—...