Photography

Famed as much for their love of the drink as they are for their prosperous or tumultuous reigns, Britain's monarchs have always indulged in their favourite choices of ales, liquors and spirits. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the members of the House...

'Until the last Oak falls' is a collection of powerful, compelling and important photographs, many never seen before, that I made documenting the early days of the British direct action environmental movement from 1995 - 1999. This was some of the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980667592Author Paul FreemanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Paul Freeman Pty LtdPublisher Paul Freeman Pty LtdWeight(grams) 1542gDimensions(mm)...

When you look at an image, what do you see, think, and feel? How do you want your audience to react when they view your work? For over 30 years the late Richard Zakia helped photographers enrich their creative vision through his classic book, Perception...

There are few things more fascinating than the diversity of the animal kingdom - and it's a wonder under immense threat. The latest figures estimate that 60 percent of all animal populations on our planet have been wiped out in the last 50 years. Pedro...

In a career spanning more than four decades, Berlin-born Sibylle Bergemann created an extraordinary oeuvre ranging from fashion and portrait photographs, literary reportages and artistic documentary series. Alternating between commissions and work of her...

The definitive primer on the world's most popular shoe: the basketball sneaker. Basketball shoes have a long and storied history both on and off the court. Back in the 1930s, a basketball sneaker was created for straight-up performance. Today, hoops...

Warwickshire, often known as Shakespeare's County, has a host of strange and mysterious tales ranging from ancient legends and stories of the supernatural to more modern documented cases. Curious beliefs and customs were once widespread in Warwickshire's...

"For its sheer excellence, diversity, and cultural impact, Paul Hirsch's filmography speaks for itself. They say a film is made in the editing room, and this book is easily the most comprehensive, revelatory, and illuminating account of this essential...

Mysterious, introspective, fiercely private, and self-taught, street photographer William Gedney (1932-1989) produced impressive series of images focused on people whose lives were overlooked, hidden, or reduced to stereotypes. He was convinced that...

The magnificent ruins of Furness Abbey are now in the care of English Heritage and attract thousands of visitors every year. Dating back to the twelfth century, the abbey was one of the wealthiest Cistercian monasteries in the country. Over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999470923Author Charles BrackenFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Deep-Sky PublishingPublisher Deep-Sky PublishingWeight(grams) 240g

The Indian subcontinent, home to one-sixth of the global population, is a vastly diverse, naturally vibrant, and culturally rich region of the world. Award-winning author-photographer Clive Limpkin travelled extensively thoughout India to capture this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958296268Author Massimo VitaliFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 2860g

East Lothian, a unitary authority area including the old county of Haddingtonshire, is one of Scotland's most historic places - John Knox was born in Haddington in the early years of the sixteenth century; important links were forged with the Low...

Burnbanks Village near Aberdeen has been in existence for over 200 years but from the 1950s onwards it lay in various states of dereliction and was finally abandoned in 1980, leaving roofless shells and shattered ruins. It was resurrected in 1992 with a...

Pioneering Edinburgh photographers David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) and Robert Adamson (1821-1848) together formed one of the most famous partnerships in the history of photography. Producing highly skilled photographs just four years after the new medium...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958293083Author Harold EdgertonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1460g

Stuart Franklin (*1956 in London), a member of Magnum Photos and a geographer, travels around the world as a photojournalist, capturing historical events-from the massacre at Tiananmen Square to the Intifada-on film. But a trip to the region of More og...

Fans of bird watching will rejoice with Backyard Bird Photography, a guide for learning how to set up your backyard in order to take the best photographs of your local birds. In addition to guiding you through the first steps of setting up your plantings...

Duke Ellington was the undisputed father of the American songbook. A prolific writer and consummate performer, Ellington was the author of such standards as Solitude, Prelude to a Kiss, and It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got that Swing). With a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914424168Author Stephen MarkesonFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint ArtCircus BooksPublisher YouCaxton Publications

In the spring of 2017, Carla van de Puttelaar developed a new and timely series devoted to prominent and promising women in the art world, Artfully Dressed: Women in the Art World. While working on this ongoing project, Van de Puttelaar became even more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385352239Author Gail BucklandFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1805gDimensions(mm) 267mm * 249mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958291102Author Paola de PietriFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1360g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576878934Author Jaime BernsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

David Levi Strauss is a writer whose visual and intellectual sensibilities are both acute and expansive. His trenchant writings on photography and photographers have been collected for this volume from a broad range of magazines, including Aperture,...

Published to coincide with a career-defining retrospective at Hastings Museum and Gallery in January 2022, In Sussex: Bob Mazzer is a far-reaching collection showing Mazzer doing what he does best in the town he came to call home. Hastings, St...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578527116Author T Eric MonroeFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint T Dot Eric LLCPublisher T Dot Eric LLCWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 279mm *...

Swim out into the Pacific and look back to the shore. To the couple kissing in the hot afternoon, and the young girl rollerskating along the front, and the family setting up camp on the soft, warm sand. To the blues and yellows and pinks of fierce,...

Famous as the home of the British Army, the small village of Aldershot in the north-east corner of Hampshire grew rapidly around the garrison that was established on the heath there for the British Army during the Crimean War in 1854. This was the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958299672Author Mitch EpsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1500g

"It is thought provoking when you look at people's eyes and the things they have seen and the places they have been...there's so much to consider when looking at Anna's work." - Today Australia "To photograph an eye is to see into another world, a...

Although Liverpool's history goes back to the Middle Ages, the opening of the port to the Atlantic trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries allowed it to grow rapidly. It became one of the richest cities in the country and as a port city...

To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the...

Andre Kertesz (1894-1985) was one of the most inventive, influential, and prolific photographers in the medium's history. This small volume, first published in 1971, became one of his signature works. Taken between 1920 and 1970, these photographs...

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...

Take a photographic journey around Ireland's coast and explore the landscape, history, heritage and wildlife of the offshore islands. Photographers Carsten Krieger and Richard Creagh have a deep love for and knowledge of these special places. From rugged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958298750Author Timm RautertFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 580g