Photography - Built Environments

These photographs of every type of store - including bodegas, hardware stores, barber shops, religious article supply stores and tyre shops create a striking canvas that reflects the cultural vibrancy and creative energy of Brooklyn life. Over the years Paul Lacy has managed to capture every...

Thomas E. Rinaldi captures the brilliant glow of surviving early- and mid-twentieth century neon signs, those iconic elements of the cityscape now in danger of disappearing. This visual tour features two hundred signs, identified by location, with information on their manufacture, date of creation,...

This stunning photographic essay traces the development of Renzo Piano’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, a multifunctional complex for arts, education, and entertainment opening in 2017 in Athens. Photographer Yiorgis Yerolymbos finds intrigue and beauty in the grit of the construction site, where for...

Rare & Collectible When most people think of Los Angeles, a sprawling city steeped in diversity and multi-culturalism, trees are rarely the first things to spring to mind. But the city landscape is virtually defined by its trees - all 150 officially approved varieties....

Rare & Collectible For almost twenty years British photographer Simon Phipps has been documenting the rebuilding of Britain after the Second World War through the work of architects. His archive documents Britain's post-war modernism and new brutalism in architecture and recognises the architects' enormous...

Rare & Collectible The buildings constructed in East Germany after the Second World War are often dismissed as drab, Soviet-style, prefabricated blocks of cement. But the architecture of the German Democratic Republic was created with an eye toward modernity and efficiency, and heralded the...

Rare & Collectible Text in English & Italian Layers of torn posters, chipped and peeling stucco and plaster, ghostly images formed by time and nature, childlike sketches by an unknown hand: these images and more can be found in this volume which focuses exclusively...

Rare & Collectible An Archive of a Marsh with marginalia by Angelus Silesius and John Berger. The photographer Lukas Felzmann was fascinated by the very thing that some driving past would find boring, flat, and disconsolate: the vast Sacramento Valley, located just a hundred...

A new breed of urban adventurers take a savage ride through the invisible story of the North Eastern USA. From NYC to the infamous Rust Belt, once home to America's heavy industry, States of Decay brings you a glimpse of the broken, the doomed,...

In April 2020, at the height of the first lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic, the photographer Marc Krause explored Frankfurt Airport with his analogue camera to capture the strange calm of this “non-place.” Where jetliners used to take off every few minutes, nearly everything has...

Andre Govia, a pioneer of urban exploration, continues his epic adventure in search of remnants of the past. Returning for this long awaited edition, this time accompanied by other intrepid explorers who share the same passion. The pathos, magic and profound sadness of each...

Michael Kenna is regarded as one of the most accomplished photographers working today. This book charts Kenna's work in the field of architectural photography, showing how his approach to the built environment informs his style, whether he's capturing natural or human-made structures. In page...

New York Unseen is an authentic approach to the character of a world metropolis, capturing the soul of the Big Apple without focusing on tourist highlights such as the Statue of Liberty and Central Park.Instead, Luc Kordas focuses on intimate encounters with the protagonists...

Over the course of 15 years, native Londoner Paul Anthony Scane went out by bike and on foot to explore hidden corners of his city with four analogue cameras and an eye for the unusual. This book, which is devoid of the usual tourist...

In Night Watch: Painting with Light, photographer Noel Kerns brings us a glimpse into a nocturnal world of abandoned wastelands...both urban and rural.  A deserted drive-in on the edge of forever, a decommissioned military base, a small town being consumed by its own toxic...

Vivid, clear-sighted images of American vernacular signage and architecture encountered along old US highways showcase the early black-and-white work of the acclaimed photographer Jim Dow. Dow (b. 1942) is renowned for photographs that depict the built environment—he first gained attention for his panoramic triptychs of...

Ask the Dust is an epic journey through ruins from the genteel parlours of long dead haute bourgeoisie families to the sparse industrial beauty of mid-century factories as they quietly rust away. Like a vivid daydream, you find yourself absorbed in wordless reveries from...

American Industry is as much a celebration as it is documentation. Through his unique vision and privileged access, photographer Kim Steele has achieved a spectacular distillation of a variety of icons of power. Some of these places of power are literal: sources of hydro-electric energy,...

Photograpger RomanyWG broke new ground with his book Beauty in Decay – The Art of Urban Exploration in depicting the global phenomenon of Urban Exploration (Urbex) when it published in 2010. For Beauty in Decay II he tracked down dozens of new locations - a further...

Quiet Spaces: In the absence of people, the interiors Candida Höfer photographs in her characteristically austere style unfold a palpable presence of their own. Concentrating on the aesthetic of abstract structures and relying solely on the light available, she captures the unique atmosphere of...