Photography

Keisha Scarville has spent much of her life tracing routes of movement between the Caribbean and America in order to investigate her own lineage. Attempting to understand how notions of belonging and identity are formed and structured, her image-making...

"A hymn to unsolved mysteries discovered in the dead of night" -Diane Keaton Actress Diane Keaton's fascination with the photographs of county coroner Robert H. Boltz began when a car crashed into a telephone pole outside her grandmother's house,...

A-Z of Southend delves into the history of the Essex coastal town of Southend-on-Sea. Originally Southend was a small collection of buildings at the south end of the village of Prittlewell, but in the late eighteenth century the area became popular as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857232751Author Rossella MenegazzoFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1300g

The tenth edition of The Manual of Photography is an indispensable textbook for anyone who is serious about photography. It is ideal if you want to gain insight into the underlying scientific principles of photography and digital imaging, whether you are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869305851Author Robert FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 360g

Warrington is a new town with a long history but throughout it has remained an important commercial centre and a vital nodal point on the national communications network. Warrington Through Time traces a town in transition: from its traditional...

Own composition, use composition, and make composition your own in your photographs! Of all the magical elixirs that make up a successful photograph, composition is perhaps the most fundamental, and at the same time the most elusive. What makes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958296091Author Mitch EpsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 2600g

When Clementine and Edouard's last child leaves home, the cracks in their marriage become impossible to ignore. Her work as a perfumer is no longer providing solace and her sense of self is withering. Then, her former lover resurfaces, decades after...

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...

Soon after Alexander Gardner's "Photographic Sketch Book" was published, in 1866, it became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers, then and in subsequent generations, would come to know the war. Gardner's classic also...

How do we learn? We learn by asking questions. But what if we don't know what questions we should be asking? Thanks to the digital revolution, photography has never been so popular, and whether you shoot on a phone or a top-spec DSLR or CSC camera, the...

Comet presents the amazing story of the Rosetta space probe and its interstellar voyage to the comet Tchoury. Its mission - to find clues to the origins of our solar system and the emergence of life on Earth. Following a ten-year voyage and a journey...

This handsome, unique package -- containing a stereoscopic viewer, 34 3D photographic cards, and a photo-packed paperback book -- offers a rare view of Paris, the world's most beautiful city, during an era when art, literature, poetry, and music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741920769Author Gabriele BoiselleFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint KoenemannPublisher KoenemannWeight(grams) 3084gDimensions(mm) 335mm * 279mm * 33mm

This new collection of images traces some of the changes that have taken place in and around this vibrant community over the centuries. It is a town with a long and surprising history, which began with the imposing Norman castle in the control of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783829601313Author Helmut NewtonFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbHPublisher Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH

Born in the Ukraine, photographer Jack Delano moved to the United States in 1923. After graduating from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1937, Delano worked for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) as a...

For half a century, Angelika Platen has been photographing mainly black and white portraits of artists, including Georg Baselitz, Josef Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Bridget Riley, Marina Abramovi?, Katharina Grosse, and Andy Warhol. Platen's third monograph,...

Over nearly eight decades, Louis Stettner (1922-2016) defined a singular poetic vision in photography, honing a style influenced by both American street photography and French humanism. Stettner began working in the 1930s, becoming a member of the...

Bas Meeuws' photographs are of an old-fashioned beauty and at the same time radically contemporary. Flower by flower he composes his still lifes, but digitally: the basis for Meeuws' monumental works are digital photographs of individual flowers. They...

Aperture issue 229 will explore photography as it relates to transgender lives, histories, and communities. Guest edited by Zackary Drucker, the artist, activist, and producer of the television series Transparent , the issue will feature archival...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264585Author Max BlecherFormat HardbackPage Count 165Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressWeight(grams) 135g

Featuring more than 200 intriguing images taken by space probes travelling billions of kilometres from Earth, The Solar System is an exhilarating exploration of the mysteries of our local planetary space.Within the span of a human lifetime, our...

The book is concerned with photography in a professional context - images that are to be used in the fulfilment of a brief, rather than those created solely for self-expression. Creativity is important, but must be focused on meeting the client's needs...

Published for the first time in book form, this startling and intimate collection of late images by the great twentieth-century photographer comprises the series Private Scenes and Letters from Journeys. One of the most important Japanese photographers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869307824Author Donovan WylieFormat HardbackImprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 2370g

"Ed's photos take us behind the scenes and in the middle of the action. I always felt like I was being transported to the location of the shot, and was experiencing it all first hand. The Stooges Funhouse sessions are my favorite rock photos of all time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527225527Author Peter BlairFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint P3DB PublishingPublisher P3DB Publishing

Discover the signature sartorial and literary style of fifty men and women of letters, including Maya Angelou; Truman Capote; Colette; Bret Easton Ellis; Allen Ginsberg; Patti Smith; Karl Ove Knausgaard; and David Foster Wallace; in this unique...

In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue...

I'm Looking Through You is an expansive, visual poem celebrating the glamorous surface of Los Angeles and its reach. Animating Davis's wry observations and mesmerizing, color-pop geometry of the images is his decades-long gimlet-eyed meditation on making...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958297487Author Miles AldridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1900g

Entertain Me! features the most popular influencers and celebrities from Schoen! magazine, a biannual English language publication and online platform with a cutting-edge aesthetic. This book presents a visual explosion of talent in film, music, TV,...

Calling all mamarazzis! Every camera-toting mom will want this guide! Moms, if you can't seem to take enough great photos of the children in your life, this is the book for you. Now you can learn how to photograph children with the style, clarity,...

Faversham has always been a hard-working town. Its very name, which was derived from Latin and Old English, means 'the metal workers' village', and in Saxon times the area was a centre for the manufacture of jewellery. Its town market has been in...

Woking is a mixture of the very old and very new. What is now known as 'Old Woking' was mentioned in the Domesday Book but it now forms a suburb of Woking. The modern town grew up around the Basingstoke Canal and the railways that arrived in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912339648Author Dorothea LangeFormat PaperbackImprint MackPublisher Mack

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526563Author Jim MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press