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Roni Horn was born in New York where she continues to live and work. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Musee dArt and Moderne de la Ville de Paris. This title comprises of fifteen pairs of portraits collected from throughout a lifetime.

"Pull My Daisy" is a 1959 short film that typifies the "Beat Generation". Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished titled "Beat Generation". This book interweaves a transcript of Kerouacs narration from the film with film stills.

Robert Frank's father, Henry, was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich, and a keen amateur photographer. This work features a selection of Henry Frank's photographs including landscapes, family portraits, still-lifes and cityscapes.

In 1997 I had what I refer to as my oil epiphany. It occurred to me that the vast, human-altered landscapes that I pursued and photographed for over twenty years were only made possible by the discovery of oil and the mechanical advantage of the internal combustion engine. It was then that I began the oil project.

As Paris and its shopping arcades were to the 19th Century, Dubai and its wondrous malls may be to the new millennium. In this work, the author uses his iPhone camera to get past mass media images of the Emirate as Disney World on the Persian Gulf, and find a human component.

Presents a selection of David Bailey's photographs spanning from 1962 to 2008. Mostly black-and-white, some in color, this work features influential directors, artists, fashion designers and musicians, including Andy Warhol, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Yves Saint Laurent, John Huston and Ellsworth Kelly.

This work is about the phenomena of appearance and disappearance. The book shows 36 head-shots of a clown. If mutability of appearance is integral to the phenomenon of the cloud - since dissolution or erasure is inevitable - the converse is proposed for the clown.

Writing from New York in March 1949, Robert Frank sent home to his mother in Switzerland a birthday gift of a book maquette of a series of photographs he had made during a visit to Peru. This book presents the complete sequence of images, based on the original book Frank had conceived and realised under his direction.

David Bailey, born in London in 1938, is one of the most successful photographers of his generation. By the 1960s his work, especially for "Vogue", had already made him a cult figure. This title features 130 photographs of Damien Hirst taken by Bailey during a single shoot lasting eight minutes.

Chuck Close immediately liked the idea of a book without words. As a child, his severe dyslexia stood in the way of reading, making images all the more important. This book is a self-portrait that emerges out of the printing process, one plate and one color at a time.

Stefan V Jonsson's paintings of Her ubrei, Icelands much-loved mountain, have found their way into the homes of Icelanders around the country making it the cultural and geologic leitmotiv and mascot of the island. This title focuses on Her ubrei and Stefan, who painted the mountain throughout his life.

The snapshot is a part of our visual culture, many photographs have been taken millions of times, with just slight variations, as the identity of the people in a family portrait. This title includes such snaps, images imbued with a sense of ease and freedom.

Juergen Teller carried out a study of the "Reichsparteitagsgelande". The results amount to a study of mortality, the process of birth, growth and death. This book combines these works with self-portraits and family photographs through the same period, adding the perspective of the personal and quotidian life cycle.