All Photos © Estate of Guy Bourdin

A new book, Guy Bourdin In Between, looks at the provocative imagery of the influential French fashion photographer in its original context: the double-page magazine spread. Published by SteidlDangin, the book includes 300 of his images, and reproduces many of the page layouts from British and French Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar where the work first appeared.  Several prints of Bourdin’s work are also being exhibited through FACE (French Cultural Exchange) and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City through December 10.

All this attention might have surprised Bourdin. As we noted in PDN’s September “End Frame,”  in his lifetime Bourdin refused all requests to sell his prints or publish a book. For Bourdin, the magazine spread was his medium. See: End Frame: Nathaniel Goldberg on Guy Bourdin.

All photos © Larry Malvin. Above: Just before sunset over the Panamint Mountains in the Mesquite Dunes area of Death Valley.

Larry Malvin is an architectural and editorial photographer based in Chicago. He also specializes in landscape photography, traveling to stunning locations all over the West and Southwest in the United States. These images were taken in Death Valley National Park. To see more of Malvin’s work click here.

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All photos © Brian Skerry.

While on assignment, photojournalist Brian Skerry has lived on the bottom of the sea, spent months aboard fishing boats, and traveled in everything from snowmobiles to canoes to helicopters to get the picture. Skerry, who specializes in underwater and marine-related subjects, pursues stories that will increase awareness about the sea. He was recently named runner-up in the British Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photojournalist of the Year competition for his work on the collapse of the world’s fisheries. His latest assignment, for the November issue of National Geographic magazine, took him to the waters off the coast of Japan. Because the water varies from frigid to temperate to tropical, the range of marine life he found is astonishing. – National Geogrpahic

Above: Aptly called a sea angel, this translucent creature is a snail whose foot has been modified into a pair of swimming wings. About an inch long, sea angels are an important food for whales and fish in the frigid waters off Japan’s northern coast.

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© Achim Lippoth

Hindu rituals of self-purification and salvation may be a shock to western eyes, but in Sri Lanka they remain a part of everyday life. Achim Lippoth had the opportunity to observe Hindu priests perform one of the rituals at a family ceremony for this young Hindu boy. The image is part of a series that Lippoth made on a trip through South Asia. To see more of Achim’s work click here.

All Photos © My Country by Melanie Dunea / CPi. Published by Rodale Books.

Country music has always played a huge role in the story of American culture, but never has country music—in all its forms—been more of-the-moment than right now. In Melanie Dunea’s new book, MY COUNTRY: 50 Musicians on God, America & The Songs They Love, she features country music icons shot in locations from the Gran Ole Opry to a decommissioned prison in Tennessee to the shores of the Caribbean.  Alongside each portrait are a series of questions which explore the artist’s musical roots and inspirations, their defining moments, and what makes country music the heart and soul of America to them. The answers offer a revealing, highly personal look at these iconic subjects. To see more of Melanie Dunea’s work click here.

Above: Barbara Mandrell in Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee.

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