To prove his point, Makarov offers this: Plus One Collection, a 200-page photography book representing work from 53 countries on four continents.

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The kit includes a travel journal and a stunning photography book edited by Nikki Ridgeway featuring work by Mark Borthwick, Robert Polidori, and Elliot Erwitt.

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Guibert offered to draw the things that Lefevre didn't capture -- such as the scenes that featured Lefevre himself -- creating an unusual book merging photography and art that was published in 2009.

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Those shows are now on "They All Played for Us, " a lavish 4-CD set with a hardbound book of commentary and colorful photography, released by the label last month.

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The book form is basic to photography.

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Kennerly just fell back on his experience: He sent Jerry Seinfeld a proposal, along with a book detailing 30 years of his photography.

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Smolan had planned to do just this one book and then return to his photography career, but so much media attention was generated, he began receiving invitations from top government officials in Japan, Russia, Vietnam, Spain and other countries.

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The focus of each chapter, and of the book as a whole, is the brilliant photography of David R.

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Today Myhrvold announced that The Photography of Modernist Cuisine will debut this fall, finally placing coffee in a coffee-table book.

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The book was slow to have an impact but eventually changed the course of 20th-century photography.

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