Photography

"I have always been inspired by what was happening on the street - and anyway, I couldn't afford the high fashion price tags." -Caroline Baker "Featuring an array of - now - infamous covers and high fashion editorials crafted by Baker, readers are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960700715Author Matthias HarderFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hartmann BooksPublisher Hartmann Projects

Situated at the mouth of the River Deveron on the Moray Firth, the Royal and Ancient Burgh of Banff grew up round a royal castle. Most of the historic town is Georgian, filled with the townhouses of the gentry who came from miles around to the county...

A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) began his long and colourful career in Southern California. Among the more than fifty prints gleaned from the Getty Museum's important collection of approximately 240 works that...

Over the last few years Bristol has received many accolades such as the UK's 'happiest city', 'most desirable location to live', 'kindest and most selfless people', and 'most artistic city'. Although such titles can be subjective, there's no doubt that...

Diss is a town in Norfolk close to the border with the neighbouring East Anglian county of Suffolk. The town lies in the valley of the River Waveney, around a mere that covers 6 acres. The mere is up to 18 feet (5.5 m) deep, although there is another 51...

One of the most significant photographers of our time, Stephen Shore has often been considered alongside other artists who rose to prominence in the 1970s by capturing the mundane aspects of American popular culture in straightforward, unglamorous images...

World-renowned Rock photographer, one of the originals at Rolling Stone Magazine and its first chief photographer, an author of multiple photographic books, Baron Wolman recently began posting what he calls his "InstaMusicMemories" on Instagram and...

Road to Repeal: 50 Years of Struggle in Ireland for Contraception and Abortion opens in 1970 when the Irish Women's Liberation Movement burst onto the streets and screens of a society bewildered by women demanding equal status in the home and in the...

The early history of Hayes, alongside its neighbouring village of Harlington, is one of agricultural activity. The Industrial Revolution brought the Grand Union Canal in 1794 then the Great Western Railway in 1864. A steady growth of industry followed in...

In 2008, Christopher Niquet, a well-known French stylist, spotted the 1960s supermodel Peggy Moffit in a Beverly Hills restaurant. Never an autograph chaser, he nonetheless felt compelled to ask for hers. This candid moment ignited an obsessive, ...

'A dazzling talent' Malcolm GladwellWhen Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868289152Author Toby BinderFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

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,...

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The most colorful and complete book published on the most enduring souvenir ever invented: the Hawaiian shirt. Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of images, this book recounts the colorful stories behind these marvelous shirts: as cultural icons,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960981671Author Wolfgang TillmansFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

William Henry Fox Talbot is celebrated today as one of the English inventors of photography. He made early photographic experiments in the 1830s, released the details of his photogenic drawing process in January 1839, and introduced important innovations...

As one of the Wonders of the World and the most iconic national park in America, the Grand Canyon enthrals six million visitors each year. Only a small fraction of those people, however, have the privilege of experiencing the canyon by rafting down the...

This project grew out of the artist's fervent desire to live in close contact with the sea. To this end, Pradelli chose to move to these islands off the Sicilian coast (Lipari, Vulcano, Salina, Filicudi, Alicudi, Panarea, Stromboli) during the winter,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931885935Author William Eggleston, IIIFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Twin Palms Publishing,U.S.Publisher Twin Palms Publishing,U.S.

In Bloodflowers W. Ian Bourland examines the photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), whose art is a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803372914Author Cara JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 12Imprint Make Believe IdeasPublisher Make Believe IdeasDimensions(mm) 186mm * 186mm * 17mm

Since its founding in 1947, the legendary Magnum Photos agency has been telling its own story about photographers who were witnesses to history and artists on the hunt for decisive moments. Based on unprecedented archival research, The Decisive Network...

Bold, retiring, serious, sparkling, quirky, or lovable-the dogs in Traer Scott's remarkable photographs regard us with humor, dignity, and an abundance of feeling. Scott began photographing these dogs in 2005 as a volunteer at animal shelters. Her...

Ganga Ma is the result of a ten-year photographic journey along the Ganges by Giulio Di Sturco, documenting the effects of pollution, industrialisation and climate change. The project follows the river for over 2500 miles, from its source in the...

What would an animal look like if it were a human? The question is actually a contradiction in terms, and Tein Lucasson's answer is as humorous as it is creative. With digital photo technology, he combines pet portraits with human poses, celebrating each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969990087Author Dayanita SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 470g

The New York curator Marvin Heiferman characterized Lewis Baltz's landscape photography as a "topography of the emptiness of random, damaged, remote places". The images in his 1989 series Candlestick Point show Californian fallow land, where piles of...

Follow the Sun will guide you through all aspects of architectural photography, from the genre's rich history to the exciting new approaches brought by the advent of the digital age. It explains how to use the powerful tools of digital photography while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621641155Author Grzegorz GornyFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 1157gDimensions(mm) 262mm * 198mm...

Photo Techniques Magazine stated: "All our readers need to know about this very useful book." Indeed, there is no other compendium that is as in-depth as this for the beauty and magic of fine-art black-and-white photography. With 560 pages and over 1,000...

The unique and picturesque village of Cheddar has a long and ancient history, from world-famous landmarks to local myths and ghost stories. From as early as 1130 the beauty of Cheddar Gorge was recognised as one of the 'Four Wonders of England'. It is...

Stevie Louise is an entrepreneur (that's like a business person), an entertainer (obviously), and an extrovert on the inside (wait, is this a thing?). Stevie and the Brooke Street crew are hard-up for cash. Going viral doesn't last forever, you know, ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782851173140Author Taryn SimonFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Cahiers d'artPublisher Cahiers d'artWeight(grams) 3300g

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.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645112351Author Mark GrimsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Mary River Press ServicesPublisher Mary River Press ServicesWeight(grams)...

The extraordinary fecundity of the photographic medium between the first and second world wars can be persuasively attributed to the dynamic circulation of people, of ideas, of images, and of objects that was a hallmark of that era in Europe and the...

The World According to Roger Ballen, co-authored with Colin Rhodes, looks at Ballen's career in the wider cultural context beyond photography, including his connections with and collections of Art Brut. It features photographs selected from across...

California Locos brings together over 40 years of LA culture, presented through the eyes and hands of the artists who shaped it. Featuring three generations of legendary LA artists, this book chronicles the life and work of the five original locos, Chaz...