Mark Laita has put together a spectacular book of snake photography called Serpentine ($39). Serpentines photographs span the beautiful and the dangerous in a collage of color and danger. Accompanying the photographs is an essay written by William T. Vollmann. The snakes covered in the book include such beauties as the black mamba, pit viper and the candy-cane-striped albino Honduran milk snake. The images in Serpentine will, at the same time, haunt and amaze.
The SuicideGirls: Hard Girls, Soft Light ($32) is a collection of over 2,500 pin-ups of girls that are devoted to changing perceptions of what makes women beautiful … oh and they’re all naked. Started by Missy Suicide and friends back in 2001 in Portland, Oregon the SuicideGirls broke the mould when it came to the […]