Renata Cherlise’s family loved capturing their lives in photographs and home movies, sparking her love of archival photography. Following in her family’s footsteps, Cherlise established Black Archives, which presents a nuanced representation of Black people across time living vibrant, ordinary lives. Through the platform, many have discovered and shared images of themselves and their loved ones experiencing daily life, forming multidimensional portraits of people, places, and the Black community. These photographs not only tell captivating stories, they hold space for collective memory and kinship.
Black Archives is a stunning collection of timeless images that tell powerful, joyful stories of everyday life and shed light on Black culture’s dynamic, enduring influence through the generations. The images showcase reunions, nights out on the town, parents and children, church and school functions, holidays, big life events, family vacations, moments at home, and many more occasions of leisure, excitement, reflection, and pride.
Featuring more than three hundred images that spotlight the iconic and the candid, Black Archives offers a nuanced compendium of Black memory and imagination.
The Bloomsbury Group in Focus by Maggie Humm offers an enthralling and intimate portrait of the influential Bloomsbury Group through a rich collection of personal photographs. Drawing from the extensive photo albums kept by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey, and others, this book provides a unique window into the private world of these celebrated figures.
Humm’s curated selection of images captures the everyday lives and relationships of the Bloomsbury Group with remarkable intimacy. Rather than formal portraits, these photographs depict the group in their domestic environments—engaging in pastimes, surrounded by children, clothed in distinctive styles, and accompanied by servants and pets. The collection reveals their homes, holidays, and the textures of their personal worlds, bringing to life a side of Bloomsbury that feels tactile and immediate.
Some of the photographs are blurred, suggesting moments captured in haste, while unguarded close-ups reflect the complex and deeply emotional ties between the group’s members. These are not just historical documents but testimonies to the intricate web of friendships, romances, and empathetic connections that defined the Bloomsbury Group.
By weaving these images together, Humm presents a fresh and nuanced view of Bloomsbury, portraying the group not only as intellectuals and artists but as real people living richly connected lives. The Bloomsbury Group in Focus is an essential read for anyone interested in the intersections of art, photography, and the personal histories of one of the 20th century’s most iconic collectives.
In this book, the authors explore and discuss the development of one of the most interesting and dynamic of photographic genres. Hailed as a landmark work when it was first published in 1994, Bystander is widely regarded by street photographers as the "bible" of street photography.
It covers an incredible array of talent, from the unknowns of the late 19th century to the acknowledged masters of the 20th, such as Atget, Stieglitz, Strand, Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Kertesz, Frank, Arbus, Winogrand, and Levitt to name just a few.
In this new and fully revised edition, the story of street photography is brought up to date with a re-evaluation of some historical material, the inclusion of more contemporary photographers, and a discussion of the ongoing rise of digital photography.
The Bitter Years was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Edward Steichen, and 2012 marks its fiftieth anniversary. The show featured 209 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935-41, as part of Roosevelt's New Deal. The FSA, set up to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression, included an ambitious photography project that launched many photographic careers, most notably those of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. The exhibition featured their work as well as that of ten other FSA photographers, including Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans and Arthur Rothstein. Their images are among the most remarkable in documentary photography--testimonies of a people in crisis, hit by the full force of economic turmoil and the effects of drought and dust storms. This volume includes all the photographs in the original show, in a structure and sequence that reflect those devised by Steichen for the exhibition.
Don’t miss your chance to own The Sound of Waves, the latest photo book by acclaimed photographer Tatsuo Suzuki. This stunning new work captures the essence of life and movement with Suzuki's signature style. Be among the first to experience this visual masterpiece by pre-ordering your copy through his exclusive Kickstarter campaign. Support the project today and secure a piece of art that promises to inspire and captivate!
Photographs by Stefano De Luigi: Captures the transformation of Italian TV and its influence on society and had free access to all these programmes during the renowned Bunga Bunga era in Italy.
Curated by Laura Serani: Ensures a thoughtful and engaging presentation.
The portraits, life stories, and DNA of 100 Angelenos making positive social impact in the community will be showcased in an exhibition, book, podcast, website, and more
Call Me Lola: In Search of Mother (Hatje Cantz, November 2024) is the culmination of Israeli-American photographer Loli Kantor’s extensive 20 year process retracing her own history through surveying and photographing family archives, as well as present-day places and geographies meaningful to her and her family's history such as Poland, France, Ukraine, Germany, and Israel.
Flor Garduño, photographer, passionate seeker and visionary of creativity and an outstanding representative of the richness and diversity of Mexican photography announces her long-awaited book 45 years in the making.
In 2014 and 2015, Pieter Hugo met the subjects of his photographs in San Francisco's Tenderloin and Los Angeles's Skid Row districts. The high-key lighting of the relentless California sun characterizes these outdoor portraits made in the city streets. Bold colors and chiaroscuro form the language used by Hugo to complement the expansive gestures and curving forms of his subjects—wild and unrestrained. Hugo pairs this theme of abandonment with a style that invokes Dutch Golden Age or Baroque master painters such as Caravaggio or Frans Hals.
Halloween Underground is the culmination of twenty years of photographing people dressed up in fantastical, outlandish costumes against the backdrop of the drab, gritty reality of the New York subway.
For over six years, photographer Michele Zousmer was welcomed into the Irish Traveller community while she photographed, built friendships, and learned about this unique group of people. The resulting book, Mis[s]Understood (Daylight Books, November, 2024), looks at the population as a whole but particularly focuses on the role of females within the culture. Zousmer captures the pride and tenacity of this marginalized community and the daily life struggles and discrimination that the Irish Traveller people endure in Ireland.
Drawn to the ineffable and the curious nature of the real, DeLuise works with a large-format 8x10 camera to produce luminous imagery that explores the visual complexities and everyday poetry of contemporary experience through portraiture, landscape, and still life. DeLuise is moved by the photograph’s uncanny ability to embody the depth and richness of human perception and experience. Her images reveal a great love of the medium, an embrace of light, circumstance, and the beauty and mystery of the quotidian. Emphasizing the etymological root of the word photography as drawing with light, and the collaborative nature of making photographs, The Hands of My Friends represents four decades of elegant and tender images.
