Photography

Iran - known as Persia until 1935. The country is among the most loaded with history in the entire Asian continent. The cradle of ancient civilisations, it was the scene of events and changes that irreversibly modified the history of humanity. This...

Over the past few decades, the long tradition of street photography has been wholly transformed by the proliferation of digital cameras, the Internet, and smartphones. A new generation of photographers have embraced this modern technology to capture the...

This illustrated history portrays one of England's finest counties. It provides a nostalgic look at Dorset's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs are taken from the Historic England...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399529535Author Mary Lou AndreFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171265272Author Alexander PetrosyanFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Bokforlaget Max StromPublisher Bokforlaget Max StromWeight(grams) 1360g

The historic town of Colchester has a long history stretching back over 2,000 years to when it was the capital of Roman Britain, and before that a prominent centre during the Iron Age. Throughout the centuries the inhabitants of the town have engaged in...

The fashionable, eccentric pedestrians of Tokyo are captured with hundreds of portrait photographs in this fun guide to Tokyo street fashion. Tokyo is considered one of the world's style capitals for its vibrant youth fashion culture. Part guidebook,...

'I wanted to do something so absolutely different, and physical, and in a certain way, kind of ill-conceived... I took my camera and went underwater in a bunch of pools. And made pictures.' Between 1978 and 1982, in a departure from the collaborative...

Curated by the founders of Scopio, a community-based image marketplace, a stunning and unforgettable visual history that captures the world's response to major events that defined 2020: the COVID pandemic and the sweeping movements for racial and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957044791Author Andrew WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Unity Print and Publishing LtdPublisher Unity Print and Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places is indisputably a canonic body of work-a touchstone for those interested in photography and the American landscape. Remarkably, despite having been the focus of numerous shows and books, including the eponymous 1982...

Friedlander's social landscape is a who's who of postwar American photography In the 1960s and '70s, Lee Friedlander (born 1934) developed his signature approach to documenting the American "social landscape": deadpan, structurally complex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897802168Author Rudolf HillebrandFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Hove BooksPublisher Hove Books

"Clive could always come up with a psychedelic vision to suit the current mood of far-out fantasy in fashion. In one sitting, he was able to capture not only the romance of a Dior coat but the futurism of Pierre Cardin." - Grace Coddington quoted from...

This book has been written for photographers who want to switch their camera off automatic mode and take control of its image-making potential. With visual examples throughout, it explains how to use the camera's settings and functions to take better...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969000465Author Anton KustersFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

In 1900, as the first metro rolled from west to east across Paris, from Porte Maillot to Porte de Vincennes, photography had already been around for half a century. Turnofthe- century technological advances had created smaller, lighter cameras--the first...

Drawing on more than 100 unpublished photographs, including unseen images of some of the most famous and infamous Berlin clubs of the 1920s, Party! Party!! Party!!! depicts the Weimar Republic through the people who partied and the places they partied...

From sea to shining sea, from Yankee Stadium to Yosemite National Park, Mathew Tekulsky turns his lens and commentary on the greatest topic of them all, the United States of America, in his new book Americana: A Photographic Journey. Following on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991180455Author Jack PiersonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint DoPe PressPublisher DoPe Press

This book considers the film stills of Ernst Haas, one of the most accomplished photographers of the twentieth century, transgressing the borders between still photography and the moving image. Haas worked with a variety of eminent directors- from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399582264Author Emily NathanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press

From vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the bounty of life they sustained, the work of early twentieth-century explorers and photographers fed the public's...

Olympus launched the OM-D E-M1 camera with a specific purpose in mind: to create a Micro Four Thirds camera for professional and advanced enthusiast photographers. As the flagship Micro Four Thirds camera, the E-M1 is the peak of the Olympus digital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524762117Author Abby Clawson LowFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

A visual and conceptual conversation between two leading US photo-artists famed for their mutual explorations of race, class and power Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems met in New York in the late 1970s, and over the next 45 years these close friends...

Foreword by Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize for Economics, 1998) Afterword by Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Prize, 2014)In 2005, Nick Danziger began to create an archive of photographs documenting the lives of women and children in eight of the world's poorest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964987562Author Alexander S. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint White Knight PressPublisher White Knight PressWeight(grams) 303g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733576017Author Qt LuongFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint Terra Galleria PressPublisher Terra Galleria PressWeight(grams) 3606gDimensions(mm) 257mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545570Author Herlinde KoelblFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953494668Author John QuigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint J & L QuigleyPublisher J & L QuigleyWeight(grams) 308g

The pages of Harper's Bazaar have been a stage for fashion's biggest supermodels for generations and remain so today. Harper's Bazaar: The Models features all of them-from Suzy Parker, Dovima and Lisa Fonssagrives to Linda Evagelista, Naomi Campbell,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869659300Author Ivor PrickettFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint ContrastoPublisher ContrastoWeight(grams) 880g

Between 1978 and 1981, Sophie Calle went on a clandestine exploration of the then abandoned Hotel du Palais d'Orsay. She selected room 501 as her home and without any pre-established method, set about photographing the abandoned hotel over 5 years. As...

"NO POLITICS whatever." Walker Evans made this emphatic declaration in 1935, the year he began work for FDR's Resettlement Administration. Evans insisted that his photographs of tenant farmers and their homes, breadlines, and the unemployed should be...

The cathedral city of Lincoln offers a wealth of history dating from the first-century BC settlement of 'Lindon'. In successive centuries, the Romans, Vikings and Danes all made their mark here. The city has many faces, from Steep Hill leading to the...

This fall, Aperture magazine presents an issue exploring the idea of cosmologies-the origins, histories, and local universes that artists create for themselves. In an exclusive interview, Greg Tate speaks to Deana Lawson about how her monumental staged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907893636Author Martin ParrFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316227704Author Seth CasteelFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm)...

From the 1850s to the 1950s, photography was one of the most open avenues for Jews in Britain to make a living, as well as to contribute to mainstream culture. If one's picture was snapped for a price in Britain, the person behind the lens was more than...