Recommended Books
Girl Pictures
The North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom. At the same time, it’s a profoundly masculine myth—cowboys, outlaws, Beat poets. Photographer Justine Kurland reclaimed this space in her now-iconic series of images of teenage...
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Hiroji Kubota Photographer
Over the course of a career spanning more than 50 years, Magnum photographer Hiroji Kubota has spent his life traveling extensively and documenting the world around him. From his coverage of the Black Panther Party in the mid-1960s to his...
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Kids in Love
Olivia Bee is celebrated for her dreamy, evocative portraits and landscapes rich with implied narratives of intimacy, freedom and adventure. Olivia Bee: Kids in Love showcases two bodies of photographic work, including the series "Enveloped in a Dream" that first brought...
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After Dark
From Liam Wong, the author of TO:KY:OO, an evocative, cinematic exploration of global cities after midnight. No matter how different or far apart, cities at night share particular features: neon lights and lonely figures, quiet train stations and taxi drivers,...
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Richard Misrach on Landscape and Meaning
In the sixth installment of The Photography Workshop Series, Richard Misrach—well known for sublime and expansive landscapes that focus on the relationship between humans and their environment—offers his insight into creating photographs that are visually beautiful and contain cultural implications....
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Triple-Flavoured Fish
“We want people to be able to see us from afar.” Ironic, given the fact that most of them — the owners and workers — want to stay invisible. This photobook is a tribute to Tom Yam restaurants, known locally...
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New Arrivals
Chewing Gum and Chocolate
One of Japan's foremost twentieth-century photographers, Shomei Tomatsu has created a defining portrait of postwar Japan. Beginning with his meditation on the devastation caused by the atomic bombs in "11:02 Nagasaki," Tomatsu focused on the tensions between traditional Japanese...
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Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition
This classic monograph, first issued as a hardcover in 1965, began its life in 1958 as a monographic issue of Aperture magazine published in celebration of Weston's life. Drawing on a decades-long collaboration between the photographer and Nancy Newhall, Aperture...
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Masters of Photography: Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) documented rural poverty for the federal Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1939. Her powerful images--from migrant workers in California fleeing the "dustbowl," to struggling Southern sharecroppers-- became icons of the era. She later...
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