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Ideal Boy, An: Charts from India 5 reviews
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2001
Technicolor weirdness
This is an amazing document. It preserves hundreds of colorful posters used in India to teach children about health, history, animals, and good manners. All done in an array of amazing primitive styles. It's a source book that every artist and illustrator should own. Big and glossy.
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London 195859 2 reviews
Sergio Larrain
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2002
Zen in Photography
Sergio Larrain is a great photographer, something you can discover on the pages of this book. He is not only someone who takes shots. He is a person who can capture the spirit of the place, the mood of the people, the unseen of what people see without seeing everyday. London 58-59 is a beautiful small book, a gift for the people who are searching for his masterworks. A real pity that one of ...
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Small World1 review
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2007
Excellent real life photos
These photos capture exactly what it feels like to be a tourist at many places around the world. These aren't beautiful scenery or architectural portraits, but photos of real people acting and feeling like tourists in touristy places. Sometimes funny and ironic, sometimes depressing. The Great Pyramids with people posing in front of them, surrounded by local sellers of miniature trinkets. The ...
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White Sea Black Sea
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008
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Facing New York2 reviews
Bruce Gilden
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2002
The Debut Of One of Our Most Important Photographers
It's hard to describe Bruce Gilden. He's the Randy Johnson of street photography; one hand on his Leica rangefinder, the other on a flash, waiting to pounce on his next subject like a peregrine falcon. "Facing New York" was the book which made his reputation as a hard-edge street photographer of New York City life. He's as tenacious as any paparazzi, yet his photographs are more profound, more ...
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The Teds1 review
Richard Smith
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2003
The Teds "Pomp & Circumstance"
Very good book with lots of photographs that tell the "Ted" story alone without having to read the text.
The text is also great and informative telling of the Teddy Boy subculture in Europe. A great coffee table book and a must have if you happen to dig roots rock n' roll. This is the only book that has authentic photo reference
of some truly remarkable pompadour pics. After lookin' at this ...
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Landscapes: 2001-2003
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008
"Billingham's landscape photography comes out of a self-disciplined challenge to prove, once again, that as an artist he is capable of making work in the most clear and new manner until it looks like something you have never seen before!'"-Sacha Craddock Richard Billingham came to the attention of the photography and art world for his acclaimed first book- Ray's a Laugh -a portrait of his alcoholic father, which trod a delicate path between ...
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Painted Ladies
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2005
In the early twentieth century the postcard provided an immediate and direct form of communication-rather like text messaging today. Made by anonymous photographers and hand-colored by thousands of unknown women working in their studios, hand-tinted cards became one of the most popular of art forms. This extraordinary collection encompasses cards from throughout the world, including Africa and the Middle East, many raising issues of colonialism ...
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Infected Landscape: Israel: Broken Promised Land
Moshe Zuckermann
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008
The accumulation of ruins and military remnants is an important part of what defines the Israeli landscape today-wounds in landscape that correspond to wounds in the Israeli collective consciousness. Shai Kremer seeks to challenge the viewer, using the landscape as a focus to understand the overwhelming impact of the situation. Four decades ago, the historian and philosopher Yeshayahu Leibovich forewarned that the Israeli occupation was a ...
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FrenchKiss
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008
Anders Petersen is a world-renowned photographer, noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. Petersen explores the fringes of society, and his images depict a raw, and sometimes disturbingly brutal, social portrait. Taken in the south of France, FrenchKiss is characteristic Petersen, exuding the poetic sadness, restlessness, and sense of urgency that runs through all his work. Petersen first became ...
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Martin Parr: Autoportrait1 review
Martin Parr, Marvin Heiferman
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2000
Parr's a genius
For those of you - like me - gnashing your teeth trying to get your hands on all those out-of-print Martin Parr books, this one's a gem, and, thankfully, totally available. The 50 or so portraits of Parr, taken by studio photographers in exotic locales, are dripping with irony and loaded with critical comment on the role of the image in the early 21st. Parr achieves this impact in such a ...
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Afghanistan: Chronotopia: Landscapes of the Destruction of Afghanistan1 review
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2003
Great Book
This is a really good book; after viewing the images at a gallery last month, I went straight to amazon and ordered this title. To my surprise, the book was signed!!!
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Rough Beauty10 reviews
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2006
Anderson Accomplishes Delicate Balance
I was very impressed with this incredible book with quiet and poetic images. Photographer Dave Anderson is doing what the best and most important photography today does - addressing social issues in a dignified manner. The resulting portrait of Vidor is a difficult but sweet one that presses into details of quiet beauty that we might never see if we were walking through the same streets. I ...
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As I Was Dying
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008
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Gabriele Basilico Workbook 1969-2006
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2007
A first retrospective monograph by the major international photographer. Gabriele Basilico's landscapes explore the complex interrelationships between the built environment and the natural one. With more than three hundred photographs-from Glasgow to Tel Aviv, from Milan to Beirut-this is a comprehensive overview of a major figure whose career has spanned almost forty years.
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A Short History of Photography4 reviews
Gerry Badger
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008
Another perceptive photo book from Harvey Benge
Over time, I've wandered through all of Harvey Benge's books, no matter there are so many they would seem to overlap at the printers. I've spied on his development of ideas, and bent over breathless at his frenetic explorations.
It was suggested to Benge that he should not make this book, which served only to encourage him. A SHORT HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY collects many of the biggest names in ...
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For most of it I have no words2 reviews
Simon Norfolk, Michael Ignatieff
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2002
Moving subject matter, beautiful photographs
Norfolk is a brilliant photographer who has taken very difficult subject matter and made beautiful images. He photographed in places which have seen terrible events, past and present: Vietnam, Auschwitz, Cambodia, Rawanda, to name only the most recognizable. The photographs are true, just. No heartstring pulling here. Only clear vision and humane expression. The essay by Ignatieff matches ...
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Hong Kong: Hong Kong the Way It Was 2 reviews
Ed van der Elsken
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2002
Excellent
For those who grew up in Hong Kong in the late 50's and early60's, thisbook brings back all the memory of what Hong Kong was. Hong Kong's landscape had changed at least 3 to 4 times in the past thirty years. Most of the familiar street corners are now huge faceless shopping malls. This book reminds me what Hong Kong was, the one which would stay with me for the rest of my life. It is a must ...
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A People Called Palestine (Photography)
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2001
John Tordai has been photographing Palestinians (and Israelis) for close on 20 years. He was in Gaza in the early 1980s, before it became the fashionable haunt of journalists and TV crews. He returned during the exhilarating early years of the Palestinian intifada - when all seemed possible - and stuck around as the uprising sank into trench warfare of Israeli seige, Palestinian violence and political stalemate. And he was in place to watch the ...
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Shutting Up Shop: The decline of the traditional small shop1 review
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008
Past their time
John Londei presents a wonderful and loving photo tribute to what Napoleon rightly said in 1776: 'England is a nation of shopkeepers'. The sixty shops featured were photographed mainly in the 1980s and mostly show the front of the premises with the owners standing proudly in the entrance. What struck me about these photos is the richness of color (the 200dpi printing obviously helps) depth and ...
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