For over a decade, Bron, the mother of award-winning photographer Léonie Hampton (formally Léonie Purchas) found it impossible to empty the packing boxes which had filled her new home since the collapse of her first marriage. The boxes, along with stuffed plastic bags and accumulated artefacts from her former life, were a constant physical reminder to her family of Bron’s long-running battle with OCD and depression.

In 2007, a deal was struck: Léonie would help Bron empty the house on the condition that she be allowed to document that process.

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La photographie et l’art de raconter se rencontrent pour rendre hommage à Pompéi et à sa splendeur retrouvée.

Le livre Pompeii. Echoes from the Grand Tour réunit 53 photographies inédites de Mimmo Jodice, maître de la photographie. Images uniques et visions d’une saveur ancienne accompagnent les textes des écrivains connus au niveau international comme Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet et Jay Parini. Les auteurs se sont lancés avec beaucoup d’enthousiasme sur les traces du Grand Tour pour célébrer le site artistique de Pompéi &...

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What the future of America will be? Will the youth play the role everybody is  expecting them to? Also known as the “Millennials”, young Americans are  changing the rules of work, relationships, and the future.  The book "American Youth" examines the newest generation of 18 to 24-year-  olds in detail, observing young couples and Mormon missionaries, debutante  balls and drunken tailgate stupors, war widows and B-boys, street kids and  lobstermen. How are they different, and how are they exactly the same as the  generations that came before? On these pages are Christian rock fans, le...

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The city of Rimini portrayed by one of his beloved citizens, prematurely died in december 2001. Marco Pesaresi drives through the atmospheres, the people, the excesses and the originality of one of the most visited places in europe. From the multitude of foreigners that crowd its beaches in summer to the loneliness of its winter. The magic of a city that gave birth to Federico Fellini, to Tonino Guerra and to other famous personalities. The book is enriched by a previously unpublished text by Federico Fellini, dedicated to Rimini.

Marco Pesaresi was born in Rimini in 1964. After several trips to African countries and Europe,...

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In some respects, Horenstein’s work on animals, continues a centuries-old tradition of natural history illustration in the realm of photography. In natural history illustration, animals are often presented in shallow space with limited landscape, sometimes even against a blank page, in order to promote close examination and study of detail. But as much as these photographs promote scientific inquiry, they are more than scientific illustration. Animals were the subjects of our first art and our first metaphors; and freed from the constraints of space and time, many of Horenstein’s creatures remind us of an earlier, magical conne...

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