Books in the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography series

Features platinum prints of women bathers in Budapest and Istanbul. This book take us inside spaces intimate and public, austere and sensuous, filled with water, steam, tile, stone, ethereal sunlight, and earthly flesh.

Fire is an essential element of the ecosystem. Every spring, the expanses of tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of east-central Kansas undergo controlled burning. This photo-book documents and captures the essence of fires and their personalities - ranging from calm and lyrical to angry and raging.

Portrays the manmade landscape of the western United States. This title shows the surreal intersection of the American appetite for suburban development and the resistant, rolling, arid country of the desert West. It takes us into the contemporary reality of sprawling suburbs reconfiguring what was once vast, unpopulated territory.

Powerful and arresting colour photographs of Iraq in conflict, taken over a six-year period through Humvee windows and military-issue night vision goggles

Nadia Sablin's lyrical and evocative photographs in Aunties capture the small details and daily rituals of her septuagenarian aunts in a small Russian village.

In Test of Faith Lauren Pond, Winner of the Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, documents a Signs Following preacher and his family in rural West Virginia, offering a deeply nuanced, personal look at serpent handling that invites a greater understanding of a religious practice that has long faced derision and criticism.

Features a collection of photographs, which portray contemporary rural Iowa. These photographs show what is happening in many rural and out-of-the-way communities all over the United States, where people find ways to get by in the wake of closing factories and the demise of family farms.

Legendary features Gerard H. Gaskin's radiant color and black-and-white photographs of house balls, underground pageants where gay and transgender men and women, mostly African American and Latino, come together to see and be seen.