Photography

As an island nation, Britain is quick to celebrate its maritime history and heritage, but for most of us our relationship with the sea is through the seaside resort. We share more or less fond memories of building sand castles, splashing around in the...

A compelling and innovative reflection on the way photography captures and condenses time Two photographs, connected by a ladder, separated by a century. First, William Henry Fox Talbot photographed a faithfully realistic image of a ladder against a...

The first comprehensive book on the surreal, queer and humorous photographic art of Jimmy DeSana, a central figure in New York's art and music scenes of the 1970s and '80s This is the first overview of the work of Jimmy DeSana, a pioneering yet...

In the summer of 1969, 400,000 people from across the country came together and redefined the music scene forever. Though the legacy and lore of Woodstock lives on in the memory of its attendees, a new generation can experience the real and unedited...

Beverley, founded around AD 700 by St John of Beverley during the time of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria, was an important centre of trade from the Middle Ages onwards. Beverley developed a considerable industrial base and enjoyed yet another boom in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869308067Author Philip TragerFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1060g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526266Author Burt GlinnFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

Show baby all the wild animals in a book that's indestructible! Who flies high in the sky? Parrot! Who strolls in the grass? Giraffe! Who hangs from a tree? Snake! Indestructibles is the trusted series for easing little ones into story time. Beloved by...

For thousands of years, the landscape of Wiltshire has played host to carefully concealed hoards of material wealth; from tools to weapons, jewellery to money. Over the last two hundred years, the discoveries of these previously hidden treasures have led...

Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a single-camera system that led the way to cinematography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771621212Author Andrew ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 1516g

Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, a radical cultural scene emerged in cities across the globe, finding expression in the galleries, nightclubs, and bedrooms of New York, London, Los Angeles, and Rome. In Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall...

During a few years in the late 1940s and early 1950s Robert Longden took a remarkable set of photographs of the narrow boat community at Hawkesbury Stop - the main meeting point for those who worked the Midlands canals. The images are of a close...

With his trusted 35mm camera, Ron Hoffer plunged into the turbulent post-Soviet world of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In a myriad of images, he captured the beauty as well as the daily challenges, friends and strangers alike had to face in...

This sixth edition of The Practical Zone System by Chris Johnson updates the classic manual on Ansel Adams's landmark technique for the digital age. For photographers working digitally or with film, in color or black and white, in the studio or on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911306191Author Simon RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1520g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493066032Author Mark PotterFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946361465Author Keith WarrenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Willow Publishing,TimperleyPublisher Willow Publishing,Timperley

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804162569Author Elizabeth DowsettFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Rily Publications LtdPublisher Rily Publications LtdDimensions(mm) 230mm * 195mm *...

"... Any dog devotee will put it right on their coffee table the second they open it." -Christina Vercelletto, CNN Underscored "...a magnificent collection of photos of animals looking sweet, innocent, thoughtful, tender and sublime." -Dave Johnson,...

Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000) was born into poverty and lived his entire life in Senigallia, a seaside town along the Adriatic coast in Italy's Marche region. He purchased his first camera in 1953 and quickly gained recognition for the raw expressiveness...

Rucksack Magazine presents Deserted: In Pursuit of Drylands. Featuring stunning photography and essays about the world's most amazing deserts, including the Moab, the Atacama, Mojave, and the Namib deserts. In these pages we are introduced to landscapes...

This wonderful new book by local author Malcolm Hitt and local historian Gary Firth, takes a comparative peep into how Titus Salt's model industrial village has changed since acquiring the status of a World Heritage site. Images are brought together to...

Play draws exclusively on Rankin s archive of photographs of the biggest names in contemporary music from the rock gods who shaped our musical landscape to the British Invasion of the 1990s and the American superstars who mix music and production to...

This title offers a superbly illustrated overview of the evolution of two very different strains of modern Japanese photography. In the 1930s, Japanese photography evolved in two very directions: one toward a documentary style, the other favouring an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771604253Author Dave BroshaFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Hythe History Tour is a unique insight into the fascinating history of this attractive seaside town on the south-east coast of Kent and shows just how much it has changed during the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Readers are invited to...

This is a majestic collection of images from one of Japan's most important early photographers. Captivated in his youth by the new technology of photography, Kazumasa Ogawa (1860-1929) became one of the most enterprising and important early...

Taking professional-quality photos doesn't require a fancy camera - with the help of Yasseen and Moaz, the photographer duo behind Camera Bro, you can learn to take stunning, dramatic, unforgettable and "like-worthy" photos with your iPhone. Yasseen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170793Author Peter RichardsonFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Abingdon History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this Oxfordshire town. This is an exciting guided walk around Abingdon, its well-known streets and striking buildings, and explains what they meant to the people of this town...

In this indispensable guide to digital film-making, leading film-maker Mike Figgis offers the reader a step-by-step tutorial in how to use digital technology so as to get the best from it. Mike Figgis, with experience from films such as Miss Julie and...

This monograph is the first to collect the photographs of internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Barry McGee. Though best known for the inventive graphic sensibility of his paintings and drawings, McGee's use of photography is an essential, often...

In The Posing Playbook for Photographing Kids, Tamara Lackey covers how to read your subjects, work with different personality types, and elicit genuine engagement for great shots.Tamara Lackey has been photographing children and families for years, and...

This fascinating publication presents the roles two men have played in turning a small workshop in nineteenth-century Paris into one of the most successful and recognized brands in the world. Known for both craftsmanship and must-have high design, Louis...

Camera trapping is a powerful and now widely used tool in scientific research on wildlife ecology and management. It provides a unique opportunity for collecting knowledge, investigating the presence of animals, or recording and studying behaviour. Its...

In the middle of the nineteenth century a sympathetic relationship between art, science and technology laid the groundwork for photography to flourish, including camera obscura and the panorama. This is a lavishly produced book on the eventful first...

Today, waste management - especially plastic - on a global scale is more worrying than ever. The Democratic Republic of Congo stands among countries most affected by the lack of accountability of manufacturers relocating and outsourcing huge landfills on...

Containing unseen images, essays on Rudeboy heritage and culture as well as references to the curated spaces at the 2014 Somerset House exhibition; Return of the Rudeboy. Created and curated by prolific photographer, Dean Chalkley and creative director...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorImperial War Museums is a British national museum organization with branches at five locations in the United Kingdom, three of which are in London. Its museums...