Street Photography

So Long is a meditation influenced by the pandemic, not purely about it. Kirk Crippens began creating photographs for this project on 17 March 2020, the day the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives, went into quarantine. The last photograph was made on...

A powerful commemoration of notable moments of protest, Picturing Resistance highlights the important American social justice movements of the last seven decades. Including both black-and-white and color photographs, this important record pairs iconic and unexpected images with insightful narrative captions that contextualise the meanings behind the...

Working at the nexus of painting and photography, William Klein conceived this original series when he was in the process of reviewing other photographers' contact sheets for a film he was making. Referencing the age of film photography, when photographers selected images by circling...

Rare & Collectible In 1973, author Norman Mailer teamed with photographer Jon Naar to produce The Faith of Graffiti, a fearless exploration of the birth of the street art movement in New York City. The book coupled Mailer's essay on the origins and importance of graffiti...

This book is a collection from one of Lithuania's most influential photographers, Algirdas Seskus. His photographs are indistinct, blurred, void of any order, messy compositions; toneless, soft, reduced images, and unexciting, nonessential content. He does not title his photographs or indicate where and when...

Rare & Collectible Wailed is an intimate chronicle of a group of friends who also happen to be the vanguard of alternative comics making. In stark black and white, the lives of these young artists are illuminated. Comics are often associated with the past, but...

"Load right, aim sharp, and shoot well. The satisfaction of good pictures will be your reward." – Brownie Hawkeye Instruction Manual, 1959David Pace was given a Brownie Hawkeye on his eighth birthday in 1959. He used it to document, from a child's perspective, family, church,...

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...

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 is the first comprehensive overview of influential American photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon (b. 1942) who distinguished himself with work that emphasised intimate social engagement. In 1962 Lyon traveled to the segregated South to photograph the civil rights movement. Subsequent projects on biker...

Photographer Eugène Atget is best known as a chronicler of a romantic, if disappearing, Paris around the turn of the 20th century. This book presents a series of postcards depicting Paris’s petits métiers, or little trades, exploring another side to Atget’s oeuvre. More or...

This book was published to accompany an exhibition dedicated to the work of Eamonn Doyle (b. 1969) at Fundación Mapfre. The book presents the artist's personal view of Dublin - the drama and rhythm of the city, its light, its texture and its inhabitants...

Stephen Shore is a pioneering photographer and influential teacher. From Galilee to the Negev is an intimate portrait of a multi-faceted place, exploring the landscape of Israel and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank; its complexities and its contradictions. Shore travelled the length and breadth...

Rare & Collectible Chris Shaw (b. 1967) spent ten years working in London hotels, all the while using his camera to both document the hotels' unexpected human spectacles and keep himself awake through the long hours of his shift. Whether capturing prostitutes waiting between...

Like no other city in the world, Los Angeles encourages the observer to play with illusions - and to be played with in turn. At every street corner one wonders if they are still in ordinary life, have stepped onto a movie set, or...

The ‘Warzone Collective’ began in 1984 in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland when a few local punks decided to consolidate their efforts and get their own venue, practice and social space. In 1986 the Collective opened its first premises in Belfast called ‘Giros’....

Rare & Collectible A la plaza con Fidel (To the plaza with Fidel) is doubly rare among Cuban photobooks - relatively few photobooks were produced in Cuba after the Revolution, and A la plaza con Fidel is also notable for its unique subject matter. Photographed between...

Lost photographs of teenage street gangs in Switzerland in the 1960s from the scrapbook of gang leader Dieter Ehrlich. Includes brief history of the gangs and photographs taken behind the scenes at coffee bars and in the streets of Basel and surrounding environs. For...

Walker Evans (1903–75) was a great American artist photographing people and places in the United States in unforgettable ways. He is known for his work for the Farm Security Administration, addressing the Great Depression, but what he actually saw was the diversity of people...

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...