Photoessays & Documentaries

  • Gordon Parks: Segregation Story

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    An expanded edition of Parks’ classic account of race relations in America, with previously unpublished images and texts

    This expanded edition of Gordon Parks: Segregation Story includes around 30 pre

    • Author: Parks, Gordon
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: September 27, 2022
    • ISBN10: 3969990262
    • Language: English
  • The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification

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    A taxonomy we didn’t know we needed for identifying and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist and photographer Julian Montague.

    Abandoned shopping carts are everywhere, and yet we know so little

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    • Author: Montague, Julian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: October 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 0226829103
    • Language: English
  • Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

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    First published in 1986, Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes as h… [more below]

    • Author: Goldin, Nan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 31 2012
    • ISBN10: 1597112089
    • Language: English
  • Wisconsin Death Trip

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    First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 191

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    • Series: Wisconsin
    • Author: Lesy, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 148
    • Publish Date: January 01 2000
    • ISBN10: 0826321933
    • Language: English
  • Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978

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    One afternoon in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland drove up Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles and encountered skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of the canyo

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    • Author: Holland, Hugh
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 84
    • Publish Date: May 01 2012
    • ISBN10: 193442983X
    • Language: English
  • Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

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    “Many people today, despite the evidence, will not believe–don’t want to believe–that such atrocities happened in America not so very long ago. These photographs bear witness to . . . an American ho

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    • Author: Allen, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 212
    • Publish Date: November 01 1999
    • ISBN10: 0944092691
    • Language: English
  • Voguing and the Ballroom Scene of New York 1989-92: Photographs by Chantal Regnault

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    Harlem’s gay ball subculture of the late 1980s is superbly documented in this trove of previously unseen photographs.

    In 1989, Malcolm McLaren had his only number one hit with a single called “Deep in

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    • Author: Regnault, Chantal
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: December 31 2011
    • ISBN10: 0955481767
    • Language: English
  • Los Angeles. Portrait of a City

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    From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city’s cultural, pol

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    • Author: Ulin, David L.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 572
    • Publish Date: September 15 2009
    • ISBN10: 3836502917
    • Language: English
  • New York City on Instagram

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    From gorgeous skylines and jaw-dropping aerials to hidden treasures, this timely collection showcases 300 striking images of NYC by more than 40 acclaimed Instagram photographers. New York City has be… [more below]

    • Author: Kurtzman, Dan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 24 2017
    • ISBN10: 1599621398
    • Language: English
  • The Male Nude

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    While the female nude has long played a conspicuous role in western iconography, the male nude has not always enjoyed such attention, or acceptance. This ode to the male physique celebrates the evolvi

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    • Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
    • Author: Leddick, David
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 576
    • Publish Date: August 21 2015
    • ISBN10: 3836558017
    • Language: English
  • Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life

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    A photographic celebration and exploration of Black identity and experience through the twentieth century from the founder and curator of the hit multimedia platform Black Archives.

    “Browsing the book

    • Author: Cherlise, Renata
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: February 14, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1984859293
    • Language: English
  • Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans Over Fifty

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    An unapologetically bold, stimulating, and inspired collection of photographs and profiles celebrating the style of African Americans age 50+

    Long inspired by mature adults daring to express their crea

    • Author: Briscoe, Connie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 05, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593236114
    • Language: English
  • Tulsa

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    When it first appeared in 1971, Larry Clark’s groundbreaking book Tulsa sparked immediate controversy across the nation. Its graphic depictions of sex, violence, and drug abuse in the youth culture of

    • Author: Clark, Larry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: October 27, 2000
    • ISBN10: 0802137482
    • Language: English
  • Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

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    Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America’s abandoned state mental hospitals.

    For more than half the nation’s history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent featur

    • Series: Mit Press
    • Author: Payne, Christopher
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 209
    • Publish Date: September 04, 2009
    • ISBN10: 0262013495
    • Language: English
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