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In Dreamlike Art & Deviation, John Bernhard takes us on this creative journey. Showing us over thirty years of transcendent, constructed images, coupled with insightful essays on different aspects of Bernhard¿s photographic art from Steven Evans, Bill Kouwenhoven, Marc Robert, and Marc Douglass, the book opens the door to the artist¿s intricate, filigreed, and dreamlike world. Arranged as a chronologicalrecord, this volume is equally ¿ if not more ¿ useful and accessible by vaulting from image to image, page to page, backwards and forwards, discovering the myriad formal, visual, and thematic correspondences that exist in the work across time, expressed through Bernhard¿s rich series.

Text by Bill Kouwenhoven, Timothy Persons.

Michael Itkoff has traveled the world since 2002 taking portraits of everyday people in the street. In his photographs a makeshift backdrop is held behind each of his subjects in London, Sydney, Hanoi, Bangkok, and New York. This technique, normally reserved for celebrity and commercial portraiture, creates a striking aesthetic isolating the subjects from their urban contexts and allowing them to exist in a shared visual space as part of the same extended family.--Publisher.

On a long odyssey across America, Guillou explores the territories situated beyond the city limits of several states

State Fairs, an annual American ritual, are a willingly accepted assault on the senses - visual, acoustic, gastric (fried beer the latest delicacy) and a voluntary yielding of personal space to strangers. Chadbourne believes they are one of America's most demographically diverse and democratic institutions and a stage upon which human idiosyncrasies play out against a background of contextual complexity and human diversity. This book brings back amazing images in Chadbourne's signature, close up style. He brings to life the crash and chaos of a fair at full frenzy.

Photographer Luca Zanier casts a look behind the curtains of the energy industry. His images open the doors to hidden universes, usually inaccessible to the public, highly protected as they are against accidents and terrorism. Abandoned worlds of concrete and steel reveal themselves to us, cathedrals of the modern age, temples of an energy-devouring society that radiate a cold logic. His images of imposing halls, endless corridors, massive floodgates and cryptic signs are as intimidating as they are fascinating. They seem extraterrestrial and surreal at times, as if taken from a science fiction movie; their aesthetics make us forget that we are looking at highly complex industrial systems. Systems that serve as well as threaten us.

Badain Jaran is a desert, more than 19,000 square miles of endless openness, with innumerable sand dunes up to 1,600 feet tall and mysterious salt-water lakes. It is part of the Alashan desert, south-west to the Gobi in the Inner Mogolia province of China. A place that has been discovered by American scientists on satellite images in the 1980s only that miraculously has been kept hidden to most people since. In 2009-12 Carlos Crespo realised a vast photo essay on the unique, spectacular, and very remote landscape of Badain Jaran.