Anders Petersen City Diary 5

"To me, it's all about people ... what they do, what they believe, their dreams, hopes, visions and virtues." -Anders Petersen Since the 1960s, Anders Petersen (born 1944) has traveled extensively and photographed life beyond the margins of polite society for his acclaimed City Diaries. The first of this series received the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year Award in 2012.

Petersen discovers the gritty in the beautiful and the beautiful in the gritty This is the sixth installment in Anders Petersen's (born 1944) acclaimed series. Petersen's world of prostitutes, transvestites, alcoholics and night-time lovers indicates his passion to identify and engage with subcultures and "life in the shadows."

As many can attest, the prevalence of sexual imagery has increased in modern society over the past half century. In this timely new study, Kenneth Kammeyer traces the historical development of sexual imagery in America and society's preoccupation with it, all within a firm theoretical and sociological framework.

World renowned phoptographer Anders Petersen explores the fringes of society with these haunting, documentary-style black-and-white photographs. The photographs found in this collection exude the poetic sadness, restlessness and sense of urgency that is characteristic of all of Petersen's work. The images are a raw, brutal and sometimes disturbing portrait of society set against the stunning backdrop of the south of France.

Artwork by Jonas Mekas. Edited by Patrick Remy. Contributions by Jerome Sans.

A sexy, bohemian photobook following Kate Bellm's muses across the globe This fabulously produced photobook is the culmination of British photographer Kate Bellm's (born 1987) 10 years of travels with friends and lovers swimming, kissing and skateboarding. Bellm's pure and atmospheric photography seduces into an otherworldly psychedelic paradise--with offbeat colorful landscapes, crazy cacti, hot hazy vistas, flickering palms and colossal rock forms. Her beautiful nudes build intoxicating narratives that radiate a romantic and bohemian alchemy. Like a young and female Helmut Newton, Bellm portrays femininity with fascination, aligning elegance, sexuality and female empowerment. In friends and lovers, Kate finds her models and muses--this allows her to work with a sense of spontaneity and ease, which takes on the charm of youthful freedom. Each image takes the reader on a new sun-drenched road trip or adventure.

Ocean Bound Women is an intriguing first-hand narrative of circumnavigating the globe in the 1880s. Based on family documents stored in a seaman's chest, this book provides a scholarly account of the history of the Swedish sailing-ship Atlantic (1876-1911) and her crew.Part of the book is based upon a diary written by a Scandinavian woman, which stands as the uniting text for the years 1885-1887, connecting the reader to all events in the chronicle. Other sources consist of manuscripts, documents and accounts collected from family descendants along with oral traditions and personal memories—all hitherto unpublished.This is a touching life story of two motherless sisters who took on a ship in their teens: a book about life on the oceans and meeting with people of many different nations.