Barren red deserts dotted with post-colonial ghost towns, dilapidated inner city factories, discarded country homesteads and a succession of dormant, soot-filled power stations are just a handful of the desolate, yet visually rich narratives that form part of the abandoned Australia landscape.
Digging beneath the sun-baked soil, Shane Thoms uncovers the modern ruins scattered over this arid continent and reveals a series of beautifully broken abodes hiding in the crevices of the Great Southern Land.
Whispering of both long-gone happy family moments and human darkness, of working lives and the everyday pursuits of living, these atmospheric scenes allow us to reconstruct the stories of the past. Prompting conversations about a growing, diverse country with a complicated history, these abandoned places both connect as well as contrast the past and the present and chronicle the hidden remnants of the evolving Australian story.
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the political slogan “Black Is Beautiful.” This monograph―the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite’s remarkable career―tells the story of a key, but under-recognized, figure of the...
His white teacher tells her all-black class, You'll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know? Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he...
Amazingly detailed and gracefully beautiful, Alasia''s tempera-on-papyrus paintings meld the stunning style of ancient Egyptian art with the mysteries of the Tarot. To shape the interpretations, Alasia relied on the conceptions of Jean-Baptiste Pitois, who linked the Tarot tradition to...
Lucifer is a collection of influential essays and writings by H. P. Blavatsky, originally published in the late nineteenth century in the Theosophical journal of the same name. Far from the popular misconception of evil, Blavatsky uses the figure of...
Isis Unveiled, Volume I is the first part of H. P. Blavatsky's groundbreaking work that laid the foundation for modern Theosophical philosophy. In this volume, Blavatsky presents a powerful critique of orthodox science and dogmatic religion while unveiling the existence...
Rocky Mountain National Park: A Century of Majesty & Mystery Step into a breathtaking journey through time—from ancient geological forces to modern conservation—in this richly illustrated celebration of Rocky Mountain National Park's first 100 years. Explores a billion years of...