Photography

This book reveals one of the most beautiful and complicated untold stories of our time. Westerners often imagine Jews in Iran as a captive and oppressed community, alienated within their home nation yet restricted from leaving it. The reality is much...

For more than fifty years, photographer George Lange has been obsessed with connecting with the world through his work. Whether he was shooting a movie star or a family member, he saw his own search for joy reflected in the images. While growing up in...

The town of Jarrow in the north-east of England transformed in the nineteenth century when heavy industry, particularly coal mining and shipbuilding, began to dominate the town. At its peak 80 per cent of the town's working population were employed...

Manchester can boast an unparalleled heritage. The 'Second City of the Empire' gave the world technological innovation as well as manufacturing strength. Its wealth came from textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. The great majority of...

'I may pay rent to a friend for my place in Greensboro, but the South's my landlord; and I'm trapped in its stomach trying to get to its brain. Here, I see butterflies with Confederate flag-grown wings and minstrel vestiges of Daddy Rice collecting dough...

Dayanita Singh is the winner of the 2022 Hasselblad Award. With this book, the internationally celebrated artist Dayanita Singh returns to her artistic beginnings. In the catalogue for the first comprehensive retrospective, the first stop of which is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683833826Author Samuel WasserFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Earth Aware EditionsPublisher Earth Aware Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788419233103Author Leon Munoz SantiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL

This issue of Aperture considers the natural world in the age of climate change, extreme weather, and dramatically politicized landscapes. Earth focuses on our relationship with the natural world, during a moment of continued debate about global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450837Author Taryn SimonFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 3243gDimensions(mm) 343mm...

Our beautiful planet is in danger: the warning signs are there, year after year - from vast forest fires across Australia to coral bleaching in the Pacific and the rapid break up of polar ice and the consequent rise in sea levels, threatening low-lying...

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...

When the new town established in East Shropshire acquired the name 'Telford' in 1968, sign boards set up on major roads entering the designated area announced, 'Telford - Birthplace of Industry'. This reflected an earlier label applied to one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593580127Author Corky LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

The Cotswold Hills run in a large swathe through south central England, chiefly in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, but also parts of Somerset, Wiltshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. The local limestone characterises the area, providing the main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969990933Author Juergen TellerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 900g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336955Author Bernard ByromFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 173mm * 240mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857239194Author Marco IulianoFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1590g

The Arctic is the ground zero of climate change, and the polar bear is on the front line. Filled with groundbreaking photography that reveals the breathtaking landscapes of the Arctic and the transformations of the environment through the changing lives...

Douglas Kirkland is the legendary photographer who captured the Hollywood elite. Kirkland has been at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, working for the world's most reputable magazines for more than 50 years. As a young...

Jessica Lange was granted a scholarship from the University of Minnesota to study photography in 1967, but the vicissitudes of student life led her to Spain and Paris where she chose to put dramatic arts before practical photography. Having left...

Saltash has seen many changes over the years. The waterside area beside the River Tamar has been occupied for over a thousand years and was the home to fishermen plying their trade for much of that time. A ferry ran between Plymouth and Saltash for over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912675920Author Aryla PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Aryla PublishingPublisher Aryla PublishingWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Show baby all the animals that love to splash in a book that's indestructible! Who plays in the mud? Turtle! Who glides across the water? Swan! Who sings on a tree branch? Kingfisher! Indestructibles is the trusted series for easing little ones into...

Barbara Cole's artwork is collected by public and private institutions and has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Canadian embassies in Washington, D.C. and Tokyo, Japan. Cole, who is often referred to as an inventor, uses a raw, hands-on...

The first longterm appraisal of the photography of Daniel Schwartz. Daniel Schwartz's photographs explore human activities set against an immense range of political geography and cultural history, touching on such monumental themes as imperial warfare,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682034385Author ,Kimberly HartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Amherst MediaPublisher Amherst Media

The East End of London has always been looked down on by those who live in the rest of the capital. Jack London's People Of the Abyss is just one of the many books written about the poverty, crime and suffering that has blighted the East End throughout...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380830Author Ben BurbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

The best photographs of the first 21 years of the 21st century take center stage in this incredible volume of National Geographic's world-famous imagery. In just two short decades of the 21st century, National Geographic has ushered in a new era of...

In Steidl's ongoing project to catalogue the life's work of this Italian master of the photographic medium, this slipcased edition brings together the two volumes which encompass all Massimo Vitali's images to create a collector's edition. Volume I is...

Gillingham was once an independent and separate borough with its own character and personality, but in 1998 it lost this separate identity when it joined Chatham, Rochester and Strood to become part of the unitary authority of Medway Council. Today,...

Gerard H. Gaskin's radiant color and black-and-white photographs take us inside the culture of house balls, underground events where gay and transgender men and women, mostly African American and Latino, come together to see and be seen. At balls,...

Time-lapse photography has grabbed the attention of photographers, but few understand how to maximize its potential. This practical book introduces its rich scope and explains how it can be used as a powerful communication tool. By drawing on the ideas...

Magnificently produced, two-volume publication is a superb chronicle of the Omo Valley's fast-vanishing and excruciatingly hard way of life, focusing on the fifteen or so tribes who live there. Silvester's beautiful and fascinating photographs portray...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869305028Author Robert FrankFormat HardbackPage Count 70Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 650g

The British West Indies cover a distinct geographical area. However, the countries within it have their own histories, sometimes overlapping, sometimes very different. British West Indies: The Postcard Collection brings together over 100 postcards...

What is the place of Critical Realism today, given the fact that both realism and commitment in art have become highly problematic notions since at least several decades? Realism in the first place appears to be relegated to the museum of pre-modern...

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)...

In the years following the invention of photography in 1839, practitioners in France gave shape to this intriguing new medium through experimental printing techniques and innovative compositions. The rich body of work they developed proved foundational...