For the person who has everything — and just in time for the Holidays — here's ten gift book ideas, items they probably wouldn't think of buying for themselves...
American Farmer: The Heart of Our Country
By Paul Mobley (Photographer), Katrina Fried (Author)
Photographer Paul Mobley, setting out to capture the soul of America's farming communities, captures the "experience of hospitality and generosity" he encountered in photographing 300 farmers in 35 states. His subjects in the celebratory American Farmer are farmers who work 50 acres of organic vegetables and those who keep 3,000 acres of cherry orchards; many are barely getting by and no one says they are getting rich, although he meets men doing very well with everything from avocados to alligators in cultures defined by tradition, integrity, and hard work.
Earth Architecture
By Ronald Rael
With convincing discussion and more than 300 images, Earth Architecture showcases the beauty and simplicity of one of mankind’s most evolved and sophisticated building technologies. At the same time it perhaps overturns some misconceptions about earth architecture, providing examples of airports, embassies, hospitals, museums, and factories that are made of it. Rael also turns on its head assumptions that earth is a fragile material, while in reality some of the oldest extant buildings on the planet are made of everyday terrain. In addition, Ronald Rael touches upon on many of the ecological benefits and the politics of building with earth.
Ed Templeton: Deformer
By Ed Templeton
Artist Ed Templeton exhibits photographs, stories, and snippets from his suburban Orange County, California upbringing, giving readers an up-close and personal look at his coming of age. Interweaving religious notes from his mother and disciplinary letters from his grandfather, along with telling images and callous stories, Templeton produces in Deformer an unresolved narrative that offers more questions than answers.
Elliott Erwitt's Dogs
By Elliott Erwitt (Photographer), Peter Mayle (Author)
Wonderfully quirky plus wonderfully canine. Elliot Erwitt on man’s best friend. Oversized format. Need we say more?
Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript
By Bob Dylan (Author), Barry Feinstein (Photographer)
…send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille:
Emerging for the first time after more than 40 years, Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric is a long-lost manuscript, consisting of 23 prose poems, written by Bob Dylan in the 1960s and inspired by renowned photographer Barry Feinstein's portraits of Tinseltown. Images of such icons as McQueen, Dietrich, and Sinatra abound, while evocative photos of starlets, backlots, and SoCal sunsets evoke the timeless allure and coming attractions of all things Hollywood. And all accompanied by Dylan’s surreal quixotic text, written as if he could die happily ever after...
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