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Humankind has always been fascinated by the magic of the ocean, its power and unpredictability. The open sea awakens a desire to set forth and sail, but also the urge to step back in awe and fear. Today, however, our oceans are more threatened than ever...

'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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211262Author Andre GoviaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams) 1560gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Art/Photo) 2022 and Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Coffee Table Books) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781733576079Author Qt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969992289Author Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 2180g

Finding himself faced with a feeling of disconnect from his city of birth, Stephen Millar sets out on a mission to capture the heart and essence of Glasgow, engaging with the patchwork of 'tribes' which make up the fabric of the city. Meeting with...

"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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782490140190Author Caroline DesrocheFormat PaperbackImprint Poursuite editionsPublisher Poursuite editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916041295Author Daniel C BlightFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Spbh EditionsPublisher Spbh EditionsWeight(grams) 152g

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...

The Lancashire city of Preston has an illustrious history stretching back to Roman times. From the thirteenth century onwards it became renowned for its textiles and it was later one of the major towns of the Industrial Revolution. Originally at the...

This is a book for everyone who loves Swansea, this rainswept place by the sea. The town has not always lived in the full glare of history but it is a place that has made its own contribution to the world, always looking outwards. As Swansea's industry...

Chess has fascinated people for centuries. But what exactly is chess? Is it a sport, a science, or an art? Well, people think differently about that. Some Grandmasters may say it's a sport, while others think it's an art. Despite the individual nature...

Albert Einstein is often viewed as the icon of genius, and his theories are admired for their beauty and correctness. Yet the final judge of any theory is the rigorous test of experiment, not the fame of its inventor or the allure of its mathematics. For...

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

From the popular Abbot Hall and Kendal Parish Church, to the maze of streets, yards and hidden history, Billy Howorth takes you on a tour of Kendal, explaining the history behind some of the famous landmarks in this historic town. Kendal over the years...

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,...

Prompted by the closing of New York s mythical CBGB music club in 2006 and her desire to capture it, photographer and artist Rhona Bitner set out to record the most iconic places of the American musical landscape the recording studios, concert halls,...

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...

Buildings of Colchester Through Time records some of the town's best preserved historic buildings. From the great Norman Castle and picturesque ruins of St Botolph's Priory, through to architecture of the twenty-first century, there is something here to...

The history of humankind has always been marked by natural catastrophes, migrations, discoveries, revolutions, and wars. But there have also been speeches that marked an era; instilling hope in crucial moments, reawakening the collective conscience of a...

A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian period In an era that saw the birth of photography (c. 1839) and the rise of the illustrated press (c. 1842), the British experience of their empire became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250182210Author Leela CydFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

"A lush, illustrated book shows the "Equestrian Life" in the rich paradise around New York - and is also great fun for non-equestrians." - Monopol "His book overflows with breathtaking imagery and rich history." - Frederic Equestrian life has an...

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...

CCTV for Wildlife Monitoring is a handbook on the use of CCTV in nature watching, conservation and ecological research. CCTV offers a unique ability to monitor wildlife in real time, stream video to the web, capture imagery of fast-moving species or cold...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647221430Author Frans LantingFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

From author and photographer David Pickford, The Light Elsewhere is a photographic essay in three parts. The first part is an exploration of the changing nature of wilderness landscapes. The second part is a celebration of adventure on rock, ice, snow,...

William Henry Fox Talbot, the English inventor of photography, created around 15,000 photographs in the nineteenth century, most of them attempts to produce compelling scientific documents or pictorial records of the world around him. However, among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969000861Author Nina Welch-KingFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

The significant historical and social differences between these two neighbouring towns are vividly brought into focus by the variation in pubs and other hostelries that have existed, or still exist, in each. Harrogate is a relatively new town which...

'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...

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 9781912339648Author Dorothea LangeFormat PaperbackImprint MackPublisher Mack

From the lens of Magnum's Abbas - the mystical world of the Hindu revealed, from ancient rites to contemporary beliefs This latest in Abbas's transcendent series of books on major world religions, featuring ritualistic elements - wind, water, earth, and...

Visit the Natural History Museum - 100 years ago. Featuring a wealth of stunning black-and-white photographs from the Museum's archives, this book offers a real flavour of life at one of London's oldest and most famous visitor attractions, from Victorian...

The Crawley and Gatwick area is fascinating and both have seen a great many changes. Gatwick Airport is central to this area, but has anyone stopped to think about its ancient Roman ironworks and how Crawley developed as a market town from the thirteenth...