This lavish fourth volume in Abrams' Slim Aarons collection revels in this photographer's decades-long love affair with Italy. From breathtaking aerials of the Sicilian countryside to intimate portraits of celebrities and high society taken in magnificent villas, Slim Aarons: La Dolce Vita captures the essence of "the good life." Slim Aarons first visited Italy as a combat photographer during World War II and later moved to Rome to shoot for Life...

Ever since my teenage years, I've had a great desire to travel and find adventure. Using the camera to attain these goals, I have had some of the greatest adventures of my life. My life has been forever by the cultural influences and people I've encountered in my travels. The images I've taken are magical to me, and it is my hope that viewers will observe the uniqueness in each one. This goal is the basis for the collection, Desaturated Soul. Loneliness...

To Texans, barbecue is elemental. Succulent, savory, perfumed with smoke and spice, it transcends the term "comfort food." It's downright heavenly, and it's also a staff of Texas life. Like a dust storm or a downpour, barbecue is a force of Texas nature, a stalwart tie to the state's cultural and culinary history. Though the word is often shortened to "BBQ," the tradition of barbecue stands Texas-tall. Photographer Wyatt McSpadden has spent some twenty...

"A Pictorial History" offers a compelling visual journey through the aftermath of nature's wrath, focusing on the profound impact of a hurricane on a river and its surrounding landscape. Through imagery and insightful commentary, this book vividly captures the transformation of the serene riverbanks and the imposing presence of the dam in the wake of the storm's fury.

Subtitled "The Photographic Eye of Jack E. Thompson, Reflections Through A Special Lens is a tribute to the author's late father. Jack Thompson was a well-known photographer and newspaper editor in Parry Sound, Ontario. The author, Stephen Thompson, has assembled 50 of his father's black and white photographs of the rocks, clouds, trees, wind and water, and some birds, insects and plants, of the Parry Sound area on Georgian Bay. The photos of this...

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My Florence is a collection of striking moments drawn from the shared life of renowned Chicago photojournalist ART SHAY and his beloved wife, Florence. By turns casual and glamorous, pensive and humorous, the photographs start the day Art and Florence met in 1942, as 20-year-old camp counselors in the Catskill Mountains, and continue for seven decades. Former LIFE, Fortune, Time, and Sports Illustrator photographer, ART SHAY is famous for immortalizing...

This collection by renowned photographer, Francis Browne SJ, portays both the photographer's vision and the city's energy as it changes during the first half of the twentieth century. Father Browne focuses on the people of Dublin, at work, at play and watching the world go by. This is a city of children, window shoppers, churchgoers, canals, bridges, trams and trains. Grand houses and tenements, middle classes and poor, industry and hospitals, all...

Mike Watt: On and Off Bass is getting a lot of buzz. And for good reason, considering the author and photographer is the legendary punk bassist himself. Mike Watt got his musical start thumping the bass with legendary San Pedro punk trio, The Minutemen in 1980 and he has been at it ever since. Over the years, he's toured with Dos, fIREHOSE, his own The Black Gang, The Secondmen, The Missingmen, and others, and he has worked bass as a sideman for Porno...

ASPIRATIONS depicts the lifelong career of a "Master of Photography." The photographs and the descriptions of their creation are meant to inspire the novice practitioner. Once an individual has seriously begun working with the craft they will begin to enjoy the results of their endeavors and realize the value of the images they create. The book deals with earnings possible within the advertising field by depicting the variety of subject matter the...