Encyclopedia of Flowers is a visual exploration of the breathtaking floral arrangements by Makoto Azuma—encounters of unusual, sometimes exotic plants that wouldn’t typically occur in nature. With his meticulously composed photographs, Shunsuke Shiinoki exposes the flowers’ tenuous existence, their fragile forms, continuous metamorphoses, and inevitable decay. Click the pic to see more.
Publisher Laurence King has just released (in the US anyway, it came out in the UK a while back) a rather exquisite book examining the sketch books of some of the world’s most famous artists, designers and creators. Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators, and Creatives examines everything from sources of inspiration to process, [...]
Jordan Matter’s wonderful photo series captures dancers in seemingly everyday places. From walking down 5th Avenue, to crossing the road in Washington DC to sitting in the park having a picnic. There isn’t anywhere a dancer shall not be. His photo series has now been turned into a book, Dancers Among Us: A Celebration of [...]
For their collaborative project titled “The Book of Mormon Missionary Positions”, Portland-based photographer Neil DaCosta and art director Sara Phillips created a tongue-in-cheek photo series that pokes fun at religion and sexual politics. According to the Latter Day Saints Handbook, “Sexual relations are proper only between a man and a woman who are legally and [...]
Orda Cave is the most extended underwater cave in Russia, the second in Eurasia, with regards to length, and the world’s greatest gypsum cave. It has status of All-Russia natural monument. A new book with over 160 images explores this fantastic network of submerged caves and lakes, the imagery revealing a world seen less than [...]
Photographer Tim Flach’s new book More Than Human aims to show a side of our animal cousins that we’ve never really seen before. Shot in studios under professional lighting, Flach captures animals posing, looking and highlighting a side to their behaviour that we readily see in humans every day. It’s a fascinating look not only [...]
Charles Dickens was writing about revolutionary Paris when he penned the immortal opening lines “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” but the celebrated Londoner could easily have been talking about the 12 months in his home town that have been captured by American Brian Leli. The period from August [...]
Instant: The Story of Polaroid by Christopher Bonanos is a comprehensive history of Polaroid, Edwin Land’s innovative instant photography company, which rose to prominence with the introduction of the Polaroid instant camera in 1948, enjoying decades of success before a period of decline that ended in the company’s bankruptcy in 2001. Click the pic to [...]
Compiled from a collection of over 50,000 photographs, Menswear by Tom Phillips is a fascinating study of gentleman’s fashion from the first half of the twentieth century. The book – the latest to be published by Oxford’s Bodleian Library – features 200 photo postcards documenting the day-to-day wardrobes of the fashionable chaps from – everything [...]
For all our international viewers, Brits are big fans of the booze. So much so that city centres go from the genteel versions of Britain the tourist board flogs abroad to looking more like a bad night in Baghdad. Photographer Maciej Dakowicz spent five years documenting the Saturday night revellers as they spill onto the [...]
