Photography

Forming the northern gateway to Gloucestershire's picturesque north Cotswolds, Moreton-in-Marsh stands on two busy roads: the ancient Roman Fosse Way and the main route from Oxford to Worcester. In the nineteenth century up to seventy coaches rattled...

Great Torrington, or Cheping Torrington as it was once known (Chipping being the old name for market) was a considerable town, even in medieval times. It grew steadily from its agricultural roots through an industrial phase and was at the centre of road,...

"Bob Tabor's images of horses are simply amazing. Striking. Gorgeous. And incredibly unique. I would say impossible, but here they are before my eyes" - Joe Camp, Author of the best seller The Soul of a Horse: Life Lessons from the Herd. ...

Witney History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this Oxfordshire town, its well-known streets and famous places, and explains what they meant to local people throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Readers are...

The county of Staffordshire holds many delights, such as the gentle beauty of Cannock Chase. It also boasts more than its fair share of heritage and history, from the world-famous Potteries Musuem to Lichfield's medieval cathedral, as well as many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683839262Author Art WolfeFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Earth Aware EditionsPublisher Earth Aware Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869304342Author Joel SternfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1080g

Created in collaboration with Dronestegram, the world-leading drone photography website, and Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, a highly renowned photography editor, Dronescapes is the first book to bring together the very best photographs taken by quadcopters around...

This book offers a discovery: for the first time a comprehensive monograph explores the entire oeuvre of photographic artist Jan Groover (1943-2012), whose personal collection in 2017 was transferred to Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne. Published to...

Trentham History Tour offers an insight into the fascinating history of this town in the Potteries in Staffordshire. Author Alan Myatt guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they have...

Workington has long been a producer of coal and steel. The huge Cumbrian iron ore field lies to the south of the town and with the local coalfield providing energy for steel production, the world's first large-scale steelworks was opened in the Moss Bay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467127721Author John TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

The Black Country in the West Midlands currently covers the four metropolitan boroughs of Dudley, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Sandwell. The area became famous as a centre of manufacturing following the birth of the Industrial Revolution but there is much...

Kent has one of the most diverse and rich military histories of any county in England. The nearest point to continental Europe, it has been a natural target for invasion from Roman times and has been heavily defended through the centuries. Evidence...

Strong images only come about through a combination of technical excellence and thorough composition. While there is plenty of technical advice, photographers often turn to fine-art sources for the so-called 'rules of composition'. This book, however,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for IACP Crystal Whisk Award (Food Matters) 2011. Short-listed for James Beard Foundation Book Awards (Reference Boty) 2011.Book InformationISBN...

In "No Caption Needed", Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subsequent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565237179Author Photoplus MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint Fox Chapel PublishingPublisher Fox Chapel Publishing

Witney grew up as the result of deliberate planning on the part of successive Bishops of Winchester, a spacious, wedge-shaped market area being laid out parallel to the river Windrush. The whole area was surrounded by a drainage ditch known as Emma's...

The Somerset town of Bridgwater was an important port on the River Parrett in the Middle Ages, linked inland during the Industrial Revolution with the construction of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. Bridgwater became the main manufacturing town in...

This superb collection of over 200 mostly unpublished historic photographs shows the London Borough of Brent from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s and documents the massive changes that occurred over that period. Postcards, photographs and some...

How a generation of women artists is transforming photography with analogue techniques. Beginning in the 1990s, a series of major artists imagined the expansion of photography, intensifying its ideas and effects while abandoning many of its former...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587958Author Michael HessFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 719g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958294882Author Donovan WylieFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 720g

San Francisco based photographer Michael Jang spent nearly four decades working as a successful commercial portrait photographer. Unbeknownst to the world, however, he was simultaneously assembling a vast archive of thousands of remarkable images...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869309590Author Chris KillipFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1080g

The significant historical and social differences between these two neighbouring towns are vividly brought into focus by the variation in pubs and other hostelries that have existed, or still exist, in each. Harrogate is a relatively new town which...

The most comprehensive survey of Weems' genre-defying oeuvre yet published One of the most influential American artists working today, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated narratives around family, race, gender, sexism, class and the consequences of...

If the year 2020 has resembled a disquieting sci-fi plot or a sinister speculative work, this year has also shown us that other ways of living are possible-if the collective will exists. But is it naive to speak of utopia today? In this issue, artists,...

At the top of Carlotta di Lenardo grandparents' house in Italy there is a room which houses the library. A hidden door amongst the bookshelves opens into a secret attic, a large room dominated by an enormous model railway, which her grandfather built and...

A collaboration between a master nature photographer and a botanist that celebrates the astonishing varieties of leaves. Leaves are everywhere, appearing in an abundant variety of shapes, colours and textures. They are the unappreciated gifts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907893346Author Brian GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1090g

Amersham Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of Buckinghamshire. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of the well-known streets and famous faces, and what they meant to the people of this area...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955866609Author Dae SasitornFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Last Refuge LtdPublisher Last Refuge Ltd

Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice is a two-part book on gum bichromate written by the medium's leading expert, Christina Z. Anderson. Section One provides a step-by-step description of the gum printing...

About Exiles, Cornell Capa once wrote, Koudelka's unsentimental, stark, brooding, intensely human imagery reflect his own spirit, the very essence of an exile who is at home wherever his wandering body finds haven in the night. In this newly revised and...

What is the place of Critical Realism today, given the fact that both realism and commitment in art have become highly problematic notions since at least several decades? Realism in the first place appears to be relegated to the museum of pre-modern...

New paperback edition of this fascinating look at cosmopolitan Egypt in the "golden years" of travel under the last kings. A tourist perched on a camel, a Bugatti at the foot of the pyramids, high tea served in jasminedraped gardens ... these are the...

Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As the author of this study aims...

"Tom's committed career has captured images that will serve as pieces of history for generations to come." - Steve McCurry "... The fascinating images are not only beautiful, they are also a reminder about how important it is to protect our planet's...