travel Photography

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages. Combines photography with the writings of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author to create a portrait of contemporary Vietnam healed from the war and replete with lush landscapes, customs, villages, traditions, and cities.

Hardcover. US, Ullmann Publishing, 1st, 2010-01-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Over a foot square, color photographs. 320 pages. Photographer Stefan Schutz spent many months traveling through Africa in an all-terrain vehicle. During that time he passed through a variety of countries, landscapes, and seasons, diverting from the beaten track in his search for something different. He often found it in the everyday life of villages, which he experienced at close quarters among large communities of men, women, children, and animals. The result is a fascinating collection of [contemporary] images that depict people and landscapes in a different way from anything we have seen before.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart Tabori & Chang , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages. Ortner's astonishing photographs portray his love and devotion for the Asian countries he has traversed over a 20-year period. This grand tour of spiritual lands includes natural and architectural sites in Nepal, India, Cambodia, Java, and Bali. The artist's fascination with majestic mountains and remote temples is beautifully captured throughout the book. In his best work, he portrays bizarre Hindu and Buddhist statuary and the faces of disheveled religious mendicants.

Hardcover. Dubai, Taj Hotel /New Arabian Heritage, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 145 pages, beautifully illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear/rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Vintage, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Throughout his travels, writer Bruce Chatwin took thousands of photographs. They demonstrate his legendary "eye" at its best, showing a sense of color and surface, an ability to find beauty in the most mundane of objects or prosaic of places.

Hardcover. NY, Hobart Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in orange and black. Three introductory pages of text; balance of book consists entirely of 77 black and white photographs with descriptive captions. Plates showing temples, traditional Japanese residences and businesses, Japanese people at work and at play, a karuma carriage, Yokohama Bay, etc. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 196 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In Yamuna Walk, photographer and multimedia artist Atul Bhalla documents a five-day trek along the sacred Yamuna River as it passes through his home city of New Delhi, India. Through his vivid and haunting photographs, Bhalla explores the myriad ways that modern life along the Yamuna is shaped by water, from the rural outskirts of the city to the polluted landscape of urban Delhi. Climbing over fences, crossing concrete overpasses, and navigating between blooming fields and piles of waste on his journeys, Bhalla also shows the diverse marks of human development that can be read in the image of the river.