Why photo-eye?
The explosive growth in photography book publishing has presented photo-eye with an interesting challenge along with what we think is an exciting opportunity.
How can we continue to offer an ever-increasing inventory of photography books, keep those books continuously in stock and compete with the online deep discounters on price and shipping? The answer is that we can shift much our fullfillment to the web's most efficient book operation, Amazon.com.
Now we are happy to offer you Amazon's discounts on books which are almost always in stock from either Amazon directly or Amazon Marketplace. We can also provide you with the same shipping options that Amazon provides, including on qualified orders, free shipping.
It's important to understand that you will still be supporting photo-eye if you order from Amazon or Amazon Marketplace through photoeye.com. We make it easy for you to do this by providing a dual shopping cart system with separate checkouts.
However, you may still opt to purchase a particular title from photo-eye directly even though the same book is available through Amazon at a less expensive price.
Here are some of the reasons why you might choose to purchase books directly from photo-eye...
- Diverse Selection. We carry signed books, limited editions, foreign titles, and small press titles that are not available through Amazon.
- Pristine Condition. We pay special attention to the condition of the books we send out.
- Book Advice. We cater to collectors. You can email or talk to us on the phone about a book before purchasing it.
- Customer Service. If there is a problem with an order, you can email or call our customer service department.
- Library Jackets. You may add a library jacket to most hardbound books that include dustjackets.
- Expert Packing. We care about packing your order expertly to lessen the chance that corners will be bumped.
- Biodegradable Materials. We use biodegradable shipping materials for most orders.
Here are some of the reasons why you might choose to purchase books from Amazon...
- Lowest Prices. Amazon is the leading discounter on the web.
- In Stock. Most books are constantly available from Amazon directly or through Amazon's Marketplace.
- Diverse Selection. Over 35,000 art and photography book titles are in stock.
- Free shipping. Many book orders totaling over $25 are available for free shipping.
- Shipping Costs. If not free, shipping charges are lower than most other websites.
Ari Marcopoulos was born in Amsterdam in 1957 and moved to New York in 1980, at the height of the city’s art scene. An artist, filmmaker, and photographer, his body of work includes portraits, street scenes, and landscapes from places as diverse as Tokyo, Lebanon, New Orleans, Brooklyn, and the California coast. His subjects have been musicians, celebrities, artists, and friends, as well as the anonymous denizens of the boroughs he has wandered. His images are saturated with movement and transformation, with outsiders, the underground, and the periphery, with discontinuities and amnesia.
Mahfuz Sultan in this book: "In 2017, while preparing for an exhibition titled Machine, he tried to make sense of all the through lines in his work. He struggled with the endless multiplication of images and the widespread appropriation of his style by amateurs and advertisers. He revisited all of the work from his career; he searched for patterns and affinities in the images, signs of movement and concert between them. Instead of showing less work and countering noise with silence, he showed hundreds of images, decontextualized, some xeroxed very quickly and others printed with care. He resigned himself to the idea that meaning and coherence between all the work would continuously elude him, and the only thing to do was keep going, keep shooting. This book, Entropy, is one of the books made in the aftermath of that moment, when the artist left his forty-year chronology behind and appears to do everything that he did in sequence all at once." Design: Roger Willems and Ari Marcopoulos.
