National Geographic: The Photographs
Written by Leah Bendavid-Val
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $16.95
This stunning volume was the gift book of the year when it first published, and the images that grace its pages remain iconic. From the famous Afghan girl whose haunting green eyes stare out from the book’s cover, and her poignant story that captured the world’s interest, to award-winning photography culled...
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Hubble
Imaging Space and Time
Written by David Devorkin and Robert Smith
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $50.00
In the spirit of National Geographic’s top-selling
Orbit, this large-format, full-color volume stands alone in revealing more than 200 of the most spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope during its lifetime, to the very eve of the 2008 final shuttle mission to the telescope. Written by two of the world’s...
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A Photographer's Life
1990-2005
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz
Format: Hardcover, 472 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $75.00
“I don’t have two lives,” Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990—2005. “This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.” Portraits of well-known figures–Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion...
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The Oxford Project
Text by Stephen G. Bloom
Photographed by Peter Feldstein
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $50.00
In 1984, photographer Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every single resident of his town, Oxford, Iowa (pop. 676). He converted an abandoned storefront on Main Street into a makeshift studio and posted fliers inviting people to stop by. At first they trickled in slowly, but in the end, nearly all...
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The Photographer's Handbook
Written by John Hedgecoe
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1992
Price: $25.95
A classic, bestselling photographer's manual is issued for the first time in paperback, revised and updated. More than 600 separate entries illustrated with 1,250 photographs, diagrams, and charts cover the entire range of subject matter, from choosing a camera to storing finished prints.
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The Endurance
Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Written by Caroline Alexander
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 3, 1998
Price: $29.95
In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a...
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