Iconic photographs and the stories of the men, women, and children who work California's farms and orchards to feed America.

Every year twelve million Americans are arrested and photographed by the police. In many ways, mug shots are our history. Using a dazzling selection of mug shots that are arrestingly raw in their starkness and strangely eloquent in their simplicity, this absorbing, and humorous, often bewildering collection sheds a whole new light on our rebellious century. From political icons Martin Luther King Jr. and Angela Davis, to A-list celebrities Hugh Grant...

A book designed to equip and improve beginner Photographer's ability in terms of knowing how to choose the right DSLR Camera, understanding how the camera sees the dynamic range, understanding the exposure triangle, motion blur, and image noise. This book will teach you how to successfully master the shooting modes, metering mode, exposure compensation and when to use the aperture priority mode, how to deal with white balance and how to shoot golden...

Hotel Mariachi is a unique lens through which to view the history and culture of Mexicano California, and provides touching insights into the challenging lives of mariachi musicians.

Barbara Taylor Bradford has written more than a dozen best-selling novels that have sold over 50 million copies worldwide. Filled with strong heroines, books such as Everything to Gain captivate readers with their exotic settings and thrilling romance. After a childhood of parental neglect, Valentine Denning has finally found happiness through her career as a war photojournalist-and through the love of fellow photographer Tony Hampton. But when Tony...

A magnificent gallery of images from the vault of the Capitol Hill's best insider news source From the splendor of the architecture to historic moments in our nation's history, scenes of pomp and circumstance to intimate, human, eccentric, and sometimes humorous moments at the world's most important seat of government, Roll Call's photography shows why The United States Capitol Dome is more than a symbol of American democracy. This book stars presidents,...

A sampling of photographic images 1975-2015, using the various instruments in vogue at the time, whether 35mm or iPhone, black & white or digitally manipulated. Ecology is both the art and the science of an element in its environment, or humans in their community. When you look at a photograph and you are moved, you become an integral part of the ecology of the photograph.

When I saw Frank Kessler's collection of photographs I was struck by how different they were from the movie-camera views I see on television. No public relations pictures here, intended to glorify battle and rally support. These were up-close snapshots of the dirty, damp, and disheveled men in the rifle companies and tank units. It was the war as they endured it, as they struggled through it from the beaches of France to the streets of Berlin until...

An illuminating portrait of young LGBTQ people in China, the latest addition to the acclaimed photobook series celebrating LGBTQ communities around the world Same-sex relationships have been an accepted part of Chinese culture for centuries. It was only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, under the influence of the West, that homophobia became more prevalent; and under Mao, homosexuality was criminalized. By the turn of the last millennium,...

Dissident Cuban writer, photographer, and pioneering blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo presents a collection of surreal, irony-laden photos and texts from his native city. His "diary of dystopia"-an unexpected fusion of images and words-brings us closer to Havana's scaffolded and crumbling facades, ramshackle waterfronts, and teeming human bodies. In this book, as beautiful and bleak as Havana itself, Pardo guides us through the relics and fables of...