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Since we imagine something intentional about a community both in its formation and its function as a new entity, there is something both baffling and attractive about the idea of a "plant community." Do plants know what they're doing? Some claim our attention: good to eat, good to smell, get stuck to your clothes. For a majority, plants or plant communities arouse a restricted admiration: lawn. A lawn can be a plant community, an atrocious one to be sure. But I'm thinking of plant communities in the eyes of God, where the plants foregather in ancient times and set out toward infinity. These deserve the word community, and the individuals who make them up are original in the extreme, as they must be: they live in a tough town.It is our luck that the eternal aspects of these daredevils have fallen to the eye of artist Lindy Smith who has used the sun in ways known best to her to reveal the souls of plants as lives, as archetypes, as semaphore. Their shapes seem to belong to dreams while for all their unexpectedness they are no more accidental than dreams. What we see emerges from the lives they've lived in deep time; their importance hangs over them as an aura. We long to say their names: milkweed, mullein, bulrush, fescue, rush, yarrow. Or, on the other hand, sumpweed, pigweed, spurge. They belong to the things we see for the first time while recognizing we've known them always, hence the longing to absorb their eternal forms. Creation--we have it by our fingertips, just. Smith's images Smith has discovered the souls of so many plants I thought I knew and left their essential signatures on my mind that I will never see them in the same way again, or more to the point, forget them again. I wish I knew enough about the process to understand what help the sun has been in finding these plants out. But here they are, seen by an artist, and what help it is.--from the Preface by Tom McGuane

A photographic tribute that highlights the stories behind remnants of Jewish communal life in post-war Poland, western Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia.In 1992 Canadian documentary filmmaker and photographer David Kaufman travelled to Poland to produce a television program about hidden child survivors of the Holocaust. A decade later, he returned to make films about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Łódź Ghetto. Kaufman was deeply moved by the quality of Jewish material culture—the physical remnants of Jewish life—that he saw on these early visits. In 2007 he set out on the first of many trips over two decades to record images of tenements, factories, synagogues, and cemeteries that were part of everyday Jewish life in pre-Holocaust eastern Europe. He also made photos of some of the places of despair and death where Jews were killed during the war.The Posthumous Landscape is more than an act of preserving memory. Kaufman brings his decades of documentary storytelling experience to bear, illuminating these places left behind. His photographs and accompanying texts describe a historic community that played a major role in the development of eastern European society and which left behind grand industrial complexes, urban neighbourhoods, architectural landmarks, beautiful synagogues, as well as vast cemeteries, and haunting memorials. The photographs also tell the stories of the afterlives of those places, many repurposed, some lovingly cared for by non-Jews who remember, and others slowly returning to the earth, but which are preserved in this book’s pages.Some readers will find here names from their own family histories. All will discover a visual landscape that bears witness to the vitality and creativity of Eastern European Jewry before its destruction.With introductory essays by political commentator Bernard Avishai and Polish journalist and heritage activist Joanna Podolska, The Posthumous Landscape is a tribute to a community that met a tragic end and a testament to how our internal landscapes are inextricably bound to the places of our past.

Experience the wild beauty of birds around the Bay.Having explored San Francisco neighborhoods in three celebrated books, Dick Evans turns here to the avian species that call the Bay Area home. With his photographer's eye, he finds art and drama in the lives of birds, from the smallest sparrows to long-legged Great Blue Herons. He captures the pockets of wilderness in our cities that make the area a birder's paradise: from a marsh full of endangered birds wading in the reeds near the Oakland Airport to the isolated refuge of the Farallon Islands, home to a quarter-million seabirds and a handful of visiting scientists; from Crissy Field, flocked with egrets, to the pasturelands birds share with cattle. His vibrant images are interspersed with text by Hannah Hindley that weaves us more deeply into relationship with our avian neighbors, introducing readers to the natural history of the region, to themes of interdependence and ecology, and to the evolving challenges for birds in a densely settled urban environment. At the heart of these images and stories is love for the living descendants of dinosaurs as they soar and parade, and awe at their ephemerality and endurance. Evans's photos highlight the wonder of a world on the wing and the rich biodiversity of Bay Area birds.

Journey through the world of California native bees, one letter at a time.National Geographic Explorer Krystle Hickman has spent a decade capturing exquisitely detailed photographs of native bees and making exciting discoveries about their behavior in the field. In her debut book of natural history, she offers an intimate look at the daily habits of rare and overlooked bees in California: those cloaked in green and black and blue, that live alone in the ground or sleep inside flowers, that invade nests and enslave other bees like infinitesimal conquerors, or that, unlike more generalist honeybees, feed only on native blooms in wild lands. A committed conservationist and community scientist who knows all too well how precarious the wellbeing of these insects is, Hickman shares her adventures in local native plant gardens and throughout the far reaches of California to bring the beauty of our diverse ecosystems into wondrous bee's-eye view. Meant for all curious readers, this collection of bee stories—one for each letter of the alphabet, matching the first letter of a bee's scientific name—will leave you both wowed and compelled to help save these fascinating beings.

Touring the traditional craft workshops and historic palazzi that help to preserve Florence's exceptional art and architecture Picturesque medieval streets, breathtaking cathedrals and legendary art: there is much to love about the city of Florence, as its droves of tourists will tell you. Yet the city is not completely overrun by visitors, and Florence's locals are eyewitnesses to today's world while also heirs to a centuries-old history of tradition, creativity and independence.Livia Frescobaldi invites readers to discover the city that lies beyond the tourist realms, in the form of the age-old craft workshops and their ability to preserve all that makes Florence one of the world's most admired cities. Together with photographers Alessandro Moggi and Eugenia Maffei, Frescobaldi charts an itinerary through which to discover the arts and crafts. We visit the botteghe, or storefronts, housing these time-honored practices: framers, stonemasons working in marble or brilliant pietra dura, printmakers and ironworkers. Meanwhile, Frescobaldi also stops to show us some of the most historic palazzi still inhabited and cared for, such as the 13th-century villa home to fashion's Pucci family, or a former monastery-turned-mansion once belonging to Henry Brewster, an American expatriate in Florence. With essays rich in anecdote and admiration, Frescobaldi offers an intimate and original view of what it means to live in Florence today.Livia Frescobaldi grew up in Florence's Oltrarno district. As an appraiser, she has produced valuations for private estates and cultural sites across Italy. She also established the Associazione Amici di Doccia--which she heads--for research into and preservation and promotion of the Ginori porcelain manufactory.

A journey through the beauty and intricacy of Venice's waterways, an endangered UNESCO World Heritage Site The second in a collaborative series between authors and photographers celebrating the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the Veneto, this lyrical guide transports readers to the exquisite yet delicate lagoons and canals of Venice.

Vicuña applies her poetic sensibilities to her hand-tinted photographs of Santiago street life under the Chilean dictatorshipRoaming the streets of 1970s Santiago with a Russian camera in hand, poet-turned-photographer Leonora Vicuña (born 1952) captured its denizens in bars, cinemas and dance halls, hand-coloring and manipulating them to create a dreamlike, imaginary world removed from an austere reality. This book was published in conjunction with Toluca; Fundacion Lariviere

The third edition of Yamamoto's much-loved photographic homage to the precarious, the delicate and the humble, complete with a sumptuously produced and redesigned coverJapanese photographer Masao Yamamoto trained as an oil painter before discovering that photography was the ideal medium for the theme that most interested him--the ability of the image to evoke memories.First released in 2015 with a second edition in 2021 and long since out of print, Small Things in Silence surveys the 20-year career of one of Japan's most important photographers. Yamamoto's portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into small, delicate prints, which the photographer frequently overpaints, dyes or steeps in tea. Edited and sequenced by Yamamoto himself, this volume includes images from each of the photographer's major projects--Box of Ku, Nakazora, Kawa and Shizuka--as well as installation shots of some of Yamamoto's original photographic installations. In the words of Yamamoto himself: ""I try to capture moments that no one sees and make a photo from them. When I see them in print, a new story begins."" Now in its third edition, the book features a newly designed linen hardback cover with embossing and a tipped-on image.Masao Yamamoto (born 1957) lives and works in Japan. He has published numerous books, including two previous editions of Small Things in Silence (RM/Seigensha, 2015 and 2021) and Tori (Radius Books, 2016). His work is held in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the International Center of Photography, New York, and others.

Delicately composed structures of pine needles invite readers to look closer at the surrounding natural world Exquisitely packaged in softcover binding sewn with vegetable thread and housed in a delicate ebony slipcase, Txema Yeste's (born 1972) black-and-white photographs of pine needles play with shadows and textures, revealing unnoticed details and substituting the needles' toughness for a serene charm.

Made to honor her grandparents, Lee's innovative photobook is a paean to family history and the allure of vernacular photographyIn rescuing photographs inherited from her paternal grandparents, Suwon Lee (born 1977) traces two lives, from youth to adulthood, in 20th-century Korea. This two-sided book functions as both a family heirloom and a shrine to the art of vernacular photography. This book was published in conjunction with Goma Editora

A deep dive into basketball's influence on contemporary cultural expression and urban identity.

Explore revered sites, from ancient temples to Gothic marvels. Discover how sacred spaces shape spiritual and architectural landscapes across continents.

Patterns, Note Note Collection n°4For this fourth opus, in collaboration with Sophie Pinet , Roe Ethridge has chosen the shell. An ideal pretext for inviting us to embark on a journey with him, beyond the clichés of popular culture and art history, to evoke memories of his tender age spent by the Atlantic Ocean. But that's not all. Through this motif, the photographer takes us to the heart of his humorous photographic work, which has never ceased to push back the boundaries between commercial commission and artistic practice, between the intimate and the collective, between a vision anchored in reality and one completely fantasized.

Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl had spent the first twelve years of his life in a small enclosure in the Central Park Zoo, unable to fly, until the night of February 2nd, 2023, when an unknown liberator cut a hole in the steel mesh of his cage and set him free. Flaco eluded the nets and traps of zoo authorities and park rangers who feared that Flaco couldn’t survive on his own, and instead, proved them all wrong, learning to hunt, fly, and make the city his home.With rich imagery and illustrations, FLACO celebrates the work of the photographers who documented Flaco in his favorite city haunts, features works by artists who were inspired by Flaco’s story, and memorializes the objects left at the base of Flaco’s favorite Central Park oak upon his tragic passing.FLACO is the ultimate tribute to the owl whose story captured the imagination and inspired millions around the world.

Life is always winking at us, calling our attention to the beauty hidden in plain sight. This book is an invitation to explore the overlooked and find magic in the mundane.Life is always winking at us, calling our attention to the beauty hidden in plain sight. And yet, we often miss what’s right in front of our noses, either lost in thought or tethered to never-ending to-do lists. This is a handbook for anyone who feels some of the shine has worn off their daily life and wants to reconnect with the beauty hidden in plain sight. In this exquisite collection of photographs, poems and creative invitations, we are reminded that we don’t need to wait for miracles to be astonished. Wonder is a state of mind, available to us every day of our lives.

A new edition of one of only two photobooks that Guibert published in his life, reissued here for the first timeThis photobook by Hervé Guibert, The Only Face, is not a novel in the traditional sense but is nonetheless filled with characters, settings and mystery. It starts with bodies--their faces either eclipsed or out of frame--before unleashing a bravura sequence of portraits: friends, lovers, family and Guibert himself. As the book approaches its finale, his subjects are obscured and then disappear completely, leaving behind the objects they touched, until even those vanish, leaving only light.Most of the photographs in The Only Face were taken on Guibert's European and American travels, but their settings are, with few exceptions, small private interiors. The effect is an inwardness that communicates Guibert's deep affinity with his subjects.The Only Face, originally published in Paris in 1984, is the second and final photobook Guibert published in his lifetime (preceded by the photo-novel Suzanne and Louise, also reissued in English by Magic Hour Press). This new edition presents Guibert's photographs in their original sequence, with his titles and introductory text translated by Christine Pichini and a new cover by the artist Marc Hundley.French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert (1955-91) was the author of 25 books, beginning with Propaganda Death (1977), a fictional memoir in the tradition of Georges Bataille, Jean Genet and the Marquis de Sade. His best-selling novel To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (1990) was inspired by his long friendship with Michel Foucault and the two men's experiences living with AIDS, which tragically ended Guibert's life at the age of 36.