Photography - Built Environments

Photographer Robert Burley has traveled the world documenting the abandonment and destruction of film-based photography, namely, the factories where film was produced and the labs that developed it. The atmospheric large-format photographs transport viewers to rarely seen sites where the alchemy of the photographic...

In recent years, the images shot by the Cologne-based architectural photographers Hugo (1879-1938) and Karl Hugo Schmölz (1917-1986) have been winning wide acclaim and are receiving more and more attention. After completing his photography training and working in various positions, Hugo Schmölz set himself...

This is the first comprehensive overview about a talented 20th-century writer, photographer, and “builder” of books who greatly impacted architecture appreciation in America and beyond. George Everard Kidder Smith (1913–1997) produced a remarkable corpus of beautifully illustrated books, primarily about modern buildings and sites. His...

This is a photographic journey into London’s often overlooked advertising history exploring how the capital’s businesses of old made use of hand-painted signs to inform, advertise and appeal to consumers. This intriguing book profiles hand-painted advertising from across the city and investigates the companies that...

The book presents 170 images, mainly shop window displays, shot by artist David Hlynsky during the final years of the collapsing Soviet empire in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany and Moscow, using a Hasselblad camera to capture the slow, undramatic moments of...

No Man's Land is a surreal and terrifying place, a world at once horrific and hilarious. It consists entirely of strange, often sinister, interiors: spas that look like forensic laboratories; classrooms so clinical that they fill us with vague, unsettling fears; offices; target ranges;...

Rare & Collectible Thomas Barrow’s Cancellations is a series of photographic prints of desolate spaces—empty lots, construction sites, deserted industrial areas—that all show the presence of mankind without showing a single living human. Compiled in the 70s and 80s, Barrow’s beautiful sepia-toned images show their...

This newly published book pairs Marisa Culatto's 12 Untitled photographs with 12 haiku by Yuzo Ono written in response to the images. These works were originally commissioned by MOCA London as part of their 2020 WE (Web Exhibitions) program. Marisa Culatto Marisa Culatto spent a whole...

John Riddy’s photographs are distinguished by a combination of poetic delicacy and formal precision which has been evident since his earliest pictures made in London in the late 1980s. Working consistently in series, Riddy has created collective studies of urban architecture and rural landscapes...

In 2007, Candida Höfer selected some of Philadelphia's highly symbolic and venerable institutions that tell a story about the city's 300-year history, and explored them with her tried-and-tested approach to photography. The interiors of the Fisher Library, the Girard College, the Pennsylvania Academy of...

Rare & Collectible This is a beautifully produced large-format catalogue published to accompany the exhibition Matthias Hoch at Rocket, London in 2008. Matthias Hoch photographs the backs of buildings, empty plazas and parking garages – anonymous places devoid of people where there is nothing obvious to...

Robert Voit has discovered a new species of plant that he calls “new trees”―cellular phone antennae of steel, fibreglass and plastic, camouflaged as trees. This unusual new life form can be found all over the world. There are pine trees, palm trees, cypresses, cacti...

The Minimalist view uncovers the aesthetics of everyday life and transforms them into something extraordinary and inspiring. Here the works of fifteen selected international photo artists reveal the multifaceted range of a global movement. With their reduction to the essentials of geometry, colour, and...

Having left South Africa at the age of four as a political refugee with his parents, photographer Koto Bolofo returned to his home country with his wife in 1992, two years after Nelson Mandela had been released from prison. Bolofo got free access to...

28 photographs of manhole coverings and grilles randomly encountered on drifts through the urban landscape. With his characteristic interest in words and lines, Downsbrough applies his own playful minimal artistic grammar, system and precision in another work of his usual spareness and restraint. With...

This book examines standards that should be applied when photographing buildings to ensure that they will be useful documents in the record of the historic environment. Writing about photography tends to verge towards the technical, but the intention with this book is to keep...

Café Royal Books, established in 2005, is a small family-run publisher based in England, focussing on documentary photography linked to Britain and Ireland, printed and bound locally by a small 170 year old printing company. In 2022 Café Royal Books received the Royal Photographic...

Rare & Collectible Willi Dorner's projects include pieces for the stage, site specific performances and installations. He is also active in the field of short films, visual arts and stages photography. Most works are created in collaboration with artists and scientists from various fields....

Rubi Lebovitch is an Israeli artist whose photographs deal with domestic scenescharacterised by mystery, vagueness, and absurdity. His photographs show scenes that are inscrutable to viewers and difficult to identify; their relationship with the world around them seems senseless. The restlessness characterising his work...

Masterworks of Industrial Photography: 2018 addresses the history and evolution of photography in the world of industry and business through the work of the great modern and contemporary masters and new generations of artists. Over 800 pages of photographic masterpieces are published in large...