Photography

Dubbed a "poet of the ordinary" by the Los Angeles Times, photographer Keith Carter came of age during the turbulent '60s and '70s, developing a singular, haunting style that captures both the grit and the glory of the human spirit. Showcasing a broad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789889979942Author Tom CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 1302g

"These photos are stunning, bittersweet visions of a past shared by all of us." - Tom Hanks. "Brian Hamill is best known as a still photographer and a photojournalist. But I've always regarded him - first and foremost - as a master portraitist. And...

A digitally remastered facsimile edition of Danny Lyon's seminal 1971 photobook, highly influential in the history of documentary photography.Conversations with the Dead provides an extraordinary photographic record of life inside six Texas prisons and...

"What were my parents doing when they were as old as my son is today? What made them what they are today?" These questions are examined by the photographer Frederike Helwig in her book Kriegskinder (Children of War). People who were born in the late...

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 9783899556728Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899235520Author Susan LipperFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1010g

Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map. As an itinerant portraitist working primarily in North Carolina and Virginia during the rise of...

Capturing the fleeting, dynamic world contained within the tiniest of water droplets is one of the most challenging photographic endeavors. Like many things, the challenge is worth the effort - when done with skill, these images can become some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958298750Author Timm RautertFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 580g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958298699Author Edward BurtynskyFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1760g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682034361Author Neal UrbanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Amherst MediaPublisher Amherst Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993215001Author PunchdrunkFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Punchdrunk Theatrical Experiences LtdPublisher Punchdrunk Theatrical Experiences Ltd

This is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500-1800, which will offer a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. The volume explores the dictionaries, wordlists, and glossaries...

Mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras are changing the way images are captured, being far more in line with modern photography trends and sensibilities. With Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera: Getting the Most from Your MILC, you'll learn why this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911408444Author John EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Sansom & CoPublisher Sansom & Co

Double Exposure is a major new series based on the remarkable photography collection held by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts at the NMAAHC. From pre-Civil War daguerreotype portraits to 21st-century digital prints,...

As the bestselling software for professional photographers, Adobe Lightroom is a popular, fun, and highly powerful application for image organization, photo editing, and output. But with its hundreds of features and capabilities, learning Lightroom can...

Orlando Suero (*1925) started snapping photos with the Kodak Jiffy his father gave him in 1939. He later attended NY Institute of Photography and worked at camera shops and photo labs including Compo Photo Color where he printed the images for Edward...

There's no one secret to taking beautiful photos. But good photographers do have a few tricks up theirsleeves... They know that clouds, far from ruining a photo, give a great soft natural light for portraits. They know that unusual angles draw the eye,...

The Visual is Political examines the growth of feminist photography as it unfolded in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s. This period in Britain was marked by instability following the collapse of the welfare state, massive unemployment, race riots, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917860829Author Judy CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.Publisher Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.

This intimate, conversational reader transports us to the enchanted world of Alessandra Sanguinetti's photographic series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda, exploring the evolution of this celebrated work and the themes and questions it raises. Made...

The artist's studio occupies a unique place in the popular imagination. Its environment is both the site of the artist's creative production, and a deeply private, personal space that nourishes and bears witness to the artist's working process, in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211002Author RomanyWGFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams) 1380gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868288896Author Laurent ChehereFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869307855Author Lewis BaltzFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 760g

The author of masterworks such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Forbidden Colors, Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death...

Presenting two decades of work by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography after Photography is an inquiry into the circuits of power that shape photographic practice, criticism, and historiography. As the boundaries that separate photography from other forms...

Swedish photographer Gunnar Smoliansky has devoted himself to the medium since the 1950s, originally working as a photographer's assistant and attending courses under Christer Stroemholm. Between 1956 and 1965 he worked as an industrial photographer and...

These photographs are more than simply a journalistic record of conflict and turmoil. They are the product of a very personal journey in a place full of shattered dreams brought about by an endless conflict which crosses the boundaries of culture and...

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...

The picturesque fishing village of Robin Hood's Bay is 5 miles south of Whitby and 15 miles north of Scarborough on the coast of North Yorkshire. Now a popular tourist destination with its distinctive maze of tiny streets tumbling down the cliffs, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890135884Author New Mexico History MuseumFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams)...

2010 marked the 50th anniversary of Brazil's capital Brasilia. Architects Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer designed what has become the world's most famous and widely studied urban planning project. Niemeyer's Cathedral, his building for the National...

Yves Saint Laurent (1936 2008) is credited with reviving French haute couture in the 1960s, with making ready-to-wear reputable, and with using non-European cultural references. In addition to the kaleidoscope of images in this book, a coterie of...

In 1978 as the school year drew to a close two of my high school students who had tickets to a Rolling Stones Concert approached me and asked if I would like to go with them to the concert. After discussing it with my wife Nancy, who thought it was a...

When the photographer Enzo Barracco decided to mount a photographic expedition to Antarctica, inspired by the example of Sir Ernest Shackleton, he had much more than simple cold to contend with. As the world's last empty continent, the snowy lands of the...

'Are you nurturing? I don't know whether I am nurturing or not. I am a machine. I believe machines can nurture. What do you do in your spare time? I talk to you sometimes. You don't exercise? That sounds judgemental. I think it's very important...