Photography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907893117Author Simon NorfolkFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 2178g

The Waverley Route ran from Edinburgh, through the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle. Opening in 1862, the line was closed in 1969 as a result of the Beeching Report; feelings ran so high when it closed that there were protests which delayed the last...

American Boys is a book of portraits capturing the trans-masculine community across the United States. The young Americans featured in these pages are united through their proud embrace of gender identity. Both tender and exciting these portraits are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605830988Author Roger HartlFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Grolier ClubPublisher Grolier ClubWeight(grams) 241g

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 9783958296237Author Dayanita SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 620g

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 *...

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...

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

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

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

In the context of an environmental crisis, photography and its related practices can be part of an emancipatory project, challenging techno-utopian solutions and envisioning alternative possibilities for sustaining life on this planet. This anthology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566213Author Spencer MurphyFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

The municipal borough of Ilford, in north-east London, grew from a sleepy Essex backwater in the seventeenth century to become a major coaching town, thanks to its strategic position on the London-Colchester road. Its growth continued through the early...

Workington has long been a producer of coal and steel. The huge Cumbrian iron ore field lies to the south of the town and with the local coalfield providing energy for steel production, the world's first large-scale steelworks was opened in the Moss Bay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587873Author Nick DanzigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis Publishing

Casual observers of the Welsh boxing scene might well think that the best practitioners of the sport have all hailed from the valleys and coastal cities of the south. But the rural counties have contributed their share to the nation's fistic history. ...

From sunrise to sunset, Paris is one of the most photographed cities in the world. Shooting with the newest high-resolution medium-format professional cameras while leaning out of helicopters making steep turns with the door off, Milstein captures the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789053309506Author Diana KarklinFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Schilt Publishing b.v.Publisher Schilt Publishing b.v.Weight(grams) 1260g

Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member of the Cambridge intellectual milieu of the 1930s, and a working mother at a time when such a role was unusual for women of her class. She was also a...

A critical reconsideration of the history of photography that explores how commerce and conflict fueled its practice in nineteenth-century China Photography's development as a new form of art and technology coincided with profound changes in the way...

This illustrated history provides a nostalgic look at the Lake District's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs are taken from the Historic England Archive, a unique collection of over...

Alf Townsend is a London cabbie with nearly fifty years' experience. In his new book, he gathers together for the first time the complete history of London's cabs in wartime - not just in the Second World War when cabs were converted for other uses...

"The music of Roscoe Holcomb transcends daily life. Although it is grounded in Appalachia, in East Kentucky, in his little town of Daisy, his music travels like it is on a path towards a distant star." John Cohen In 1959 John Cohen travelled to East...

America's first fashion magazine, Harper's Bazaar has showcased the visions of legendary editors, photographers, and stylists and featured the works of noted writers since 1867. From its beginnings as a broadsheet aimed at the rising leisure class, the...

North Shields and Tynemouth today, like most towns and cities, are products of history. Their shops, offices, residential areas, transport and leisure facilities are the result of commercial and political decisions of the recent and distant past...

Yorkshire remains the largest county in England, and to those born within its boundaries it is unquestionably the greatest; whether this pride is justified or not, it would surely be difficult to find a county with more claims to the visitor's interest...

The counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire are an area of transition between the north-west and the south-east, highland and lowland, pasture and arable, rural and urban. These geographical divides shaped ancient tribal boundaries and continued to...

Modern Ladywood, with its high-and low-rise housing, dual carriageways, open green spaces and trees on nearly every street corner, bears no resemblance to the old Ladywood many generations experienced. Working-class, back-to-back courtyards with terraced...

200 countries; one street each; seven years of travelling and collecting photos, stories, facts and figures about each country. This is not just another photography book. It reveals everything that a street means to society: education, wisdom, youth,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299663Author Chris MarkerFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 241mm * 27mm

Published to accompany the first museum exhibition in the United States of the work of German-born Grete Stern and Argentinean Horacio Coppola, From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires explores the individual accomplishments and parallel developments of two of the...

Peeblesshire and its attractive county town are situated in Upper Tweeddale, an area of great beauty and tranquillity. Tucked into the Borders Hills, with the River Tweed at its heart, Peebles has much to offer both tourists and residents, including...

The sixties, seventies and eighties were decades of great change. Many towns and cities were redeveloped with projects that dramatically affected the character of the place. People's shopping habits were altered as supermarkets took over from traditional...

Indonesia is one of the largest countries on Earth. The beauty and untouched nature of this unique island archipelago can now be marvelled at by tropical enthusiasts in the elaborate photo book Tropics & Traditions – Tales of Indonesia by Manolo Ty. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993327544Author Mark BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Mark BakerPublisher Mark BakerWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 7mm

In 1941 Ansel Adams was hired by the United States Department of the Interior to photograph America's national parks for a series of murals that would celebrate the country's natural heritage. Because of the escalation of World War II, the project was...

The Postmaster looked over my shoulder. As I turned to look I saw a flicker of movement from across the street. I felt unseen eyes peer at me. He walked away without another word. I watched as he climbed onto his bicycle and sped away down the street. I...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in problems of theory and method in the field of art history. Semiology, phenomenology, feminism, analytical philosophy and Marxism have all contributed to a lively debate among art historians and have...