Splashy sunset
paints the sky.
Shy moon tiptoes,
climbs up high . . .

Daylight is fading and night is drawing in. As the stars come out in the faraway vastness of the sky, a drowsy child observes the wide world settling down, coming ever closer to home until at last there are good-night hugs and kisses for this little sleepyhead. Richly painted, evocative illustrations illuminate the text, imbuing the whole with mystery and a sense of comfort and warmth, and making this a bedtime story to treasure for all time.

Today's photography is part of our own cultural moment, but it also arises from artistic traditions of the past. Seduced by Art looks at the effects of art and its history on the creation of photographs, tracing continuities in aims, visual style, and technical experimentation.

This sumptuous book shows how photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron sought to elevate the status of their work by referencing Old Masters. Similarly, contemporary practitioners look to their photographic predecessors, as well as art history, for inspiration. Among the many photographers featured are Ori Gersht, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Struth, Tom Hunter, and Helen Chadwick, and paintings from Caravaggio, Zurbarán, Delacroix, Ingres, Constable, and others.

Each chapter takes a genre—portraiture, the nude, still life, and landscape—and discusses the challenges that each poses for photographers. Interviews with Tina Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Richard Billingham, Richard Learoyd, Sarah Jones, and Maisie Maud Broadhead focus in-depth on contemporary working practices.

Ambientato in Sudafrica, di cui Hope sa restituire i colori e i sapori, questo libro è un romanzo affilato e a tratti spietatamente divertente sui diversi aspetti della corruzione e dell'ipocrisia politica sudafricana. La sua satira fuori dai denti non risparmia avvenimenti attuali, miti del passato e leggende come quella che narra dei milioni perduti di Kruger, a cui è dedicato il più grande e famoso parco naturale dell'Africa meridionale. Con questo libro Hope ha vinto il Withbread Prize for Fiction.