Photography

How do homes serve as emblems of a moment, markers of the past, or articulations of future possibilities? The Spring 2020 issue of Aperture considers the meanings and forms of a home, and the relationships between architecture, design, and the domestic...

This tribute to the Land of Welcomes captures the spirit of the Irish people in traditional blessings and classic verse. Featuring beautiful full-colour photographs of the Emerald Isle, this inspiring keepsake is perfect for the beginning of a journey, a...

Zone Eleven is a reference to Ansel Adams' Zone System, a method to control exposure of the negative in order to obtain a full range of tonality in the photographic print from the deepest black of Zone 0 to the brightest highlight in Zone 10. Zone Eleven...

A collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story. Southern wetlands, with their moss-draped trees and dark water obscuring mysteries below, are eerily beautiful places, home to ghost stories and haunting,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788074372087Author Antonin KratochvilFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint KantPublisher Kant

This compelling publication traces the broad arc of photography's development in France from the 1970s to the present day. A decade-by-decade account reveals unexpected points of convergence between practices that are not usually considered in a...

Neil Leifer is the best-known sports photographer of the past half century. Beginning in 1960, his pictures have regularly appeared in every major national magazine, including the Saturday Evening Post, Look, LIFE, Newsweek, and, most often, Sports...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958299597Author Mark LudwigFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1420g

Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows...

Known internationally and variously described as the Godfather of Streetwear and one of the founding fathers of Tokyo's Harajuku scene, Hiroshi Fujiwara exerts a disproportionate influence over contemporary design culture. Fujiwara, who had collaborated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969990834Author Mitch EpsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1480g

Chatham History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this historic Kentish town and its former dockyard, now a major tourist attraction. This book guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its famous landmarks used to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648979029Author Chris BurkhamFormat PaperbackImprint Dossier IndustriesPublisher Dossier Industries

Pioneering Edinburgh photographers David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) and Robert Adamson (1821-1848) together formed one of the most famous partnerships in the history of photography. Producing highly skilled photographs just four years after the new medium...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991016393Author Robin MorrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587989Author Paul HillFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 787g

An American football pitch as a skateboard ramp and the Aya Sofia as a rollercoaster: the images by Turkish photographer Aydin Buyuktas are literally mind-bending. After going viral, they are now finally also available in book format, including entirely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048279Author Oksana SarkisovaFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1202gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 184mm *...

In 1962, Ernst Scheidegger published his first book using his own name as an imprint. This book was the German edition of Jean Genet's essay on Alberto Giacometti. The great artist and close personal friend of Ernst Scheidegger has been subject of a...

The Portable Antiquities Scheme has been recording archaeological finds from Hampshire since 1999. Since then, the wealth of man-made discoveries found, from the prehistoric to the post-medieval period, is rewriting the map of Hampshire as we know it...

Tracing the impacts of militarism on the American landscape, through the lens of art, environmental studies, and politicsDevour the Land considers how contemporary photographers have responded to the US military's impact on the domestic environment since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857242590Author Matthijs KuijpersFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1500g

Revisit the 1970s through 100 remarkable colour photographs taken for the Environmental Protection Agency's DOCUMERICA project. These images chosen, from 22,000 files in the National Archives of the United States, highlight the fashions, trends,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868281897Author Rose IssaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 1782g

Showcasing three decades of Glamour's Women of the Year, this book is a record of the ceiling-shattering achievements that have reshaped our world, and a manual for success for the women of today-and tomorrow For over 80 years, Glamour has...

Hershberger is the winner of a 2015 Insight Award from the Society for Photographic Education for his work on this book and for his overall contributions to the field! Photographic Theory: An Historical Anthology presents a compendium of readings...

In The Nikon Autofocus System, 2nd Edition, photographer Mike Hagen, author of the bestselling The Nikon Creative Lighting System, takes his deep knowledge of Nikon technology and concentrates on its focus features.With today's advanced camera...

An exact date for the invention of photography is evasive. Scientists and amateurs alike were working on a variety of photographic processes for much of the early nineteenth century. Thus most historians refer to the year 1839 as the first year of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958299016Author Mitch EpsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 2600g

In 1964, while on assignment for Newsweek magazine, photojournalist Elliott Erwitt spent a week in Cuba as a guest of Fidel Castro. There, he captured now-iconic photographs of the beloved Cuban president along with the revolutionary leader Che Guevara...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485311560Author J.M. CoetzeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 500g

Gillingham Forest provided a hunting lodge for the Angevin Kings, notably King John. In the 1820s, the artist John Constable stayed at Gillingham vicarage and, being impressed by the beauty of the countryside, executed several local sketches and...

This is the first ever field guide from best selling author Bryan Peterson, featuring material from previous titles plus new examples. It covers a broad list of topics & features Peterson's breathtaking imagery that never fails to inspire. Best-selling...

Gregarious or shy, curious or placid, playful or retiring, all the animals in Traer Scott's newest collection have one thing in common: a sparkling personality! This whimsical, soulful, and personal photo collection focuses on the lives of the farm...

The Hungry Years collects the early photographs taken by Pierson throughout the 1980s, which, since they were first editioned in 1990, have increasingly captured the attention of the art world. Informed in part by his artistic emergence in the era of ...

Collaged photo-portraits of creative communities in New York and London A comprehensive monograph on New York-based photographer Mary Manning (born 1972), Grace Is Like New Music includes hundreds of images that span the last decade of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869309729Author Paulo NozolinoFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 520g

A longtime favourite getaway for America's most influential families, Cumberland Island, off the Atlantic coast of Georgia, offers breathtaking white-sand beaches, rolling dunes, old-growth oak forests, and salt marsh tidal estuaries. At the centre...

'I spend a lot of time on Google Earth looking for places with an interesting or unusual aesthetic. My shooting days are usually quite simple. I shoot at sunrise and at sunset to capture the best light.' - Sebastien Nagy Award-winning Brussels-based...

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