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The typical tourist snapshot rarely does justice to exotic locations or unfamiliar surroundings. Determined to put a stop to this trend, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Martin Parr guides a class of amateurs through the art of taking memorable vacation photos. Martin uses his own witty photographic observations of tourism as a starting point to show his students how to turn mundane views into extraordinary perspectives. Topics include engaging...

National Geographic's most expansive and sumptous book ever. Through the Lens is culled from an extraordinary photographic archive, which spans more than a century and houses ten million images. This is a treasure trove that showcases hundreds of unforgettable photographs from the world's finest photographers. It is a wide-ranging, vibrant collection that opens a new and wonderful window with every turn of the page.

"Castles and Islands is the fourth book of poetry/second photobook by Joshua Edwards. It collects work made during travels around Europe, Asia, and the Americas, for friends, collaborators, and ghosts"--

Beginning with early abstractions and a project on the Brooklyn Bridge, this book covers the artist's work in New England, Tahiti, Cuba, Florida, and New Orleans, and his involvement with the Farm Security Administration which led to the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

Profiles nine "adventure" photographers and examines how they are able to capture such difficult subjects as whale sharks, molten volcanoes, Mount Everest, and untouched pre-Inca tombs.