Photography

What does it mean to be cool? The quality has always been hard to define, but easy to identify. James Dean. Miles Davis. They were cool. Steve McQueen riding a motorcycle. Very cool. To that list, you can now add another towering paragon of cool: the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868287493Author Peter GowlandFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

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...

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

Liverpool was a small port on the River Mersey in the medieval period, but started to grow rapidly in the eighteenth century, benefitting from the expanding transatlantic trade. Wealthy merchants built large houses and invested in the city. During the...

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

In ancient times older women were the keepers of primal mysteries and were revered for their special wisdom. Today our culture is reawakening to the power of our elders and there is a new interest in this important part of the life cycle. For this book,...

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

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 September 2020, Kim Jones was named head of Fendi s couture and womenswear, marking a new era for the Italian brand. This publication examines Jones s relationship to the legendary Bloomsbury Set: the early twentieth-century community of British...

London is the royal capital of the world. Nowhere else is steeped in such regal riches. Royalty can be read about in history books, watched in colourful ceremonies and wondered at in lively gossip columns. But most of all, the royal city can be seen and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974356204Author Nick KarrasFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Nick KarrasPublisher Nick KarrasWeight(grams) 511g

"It stood out for me for a number of reasons. The first, and by far the most important to me, being that the composition is absolutely gorgeous." - Tim Clinch, Amateur Photographer "Packed with compelling visuals and important discussions around some of...

A cultural history of the sublime first image of a black hole, in photographs and documents "Peering into Light's Graveyard: The First Image of the Black Hole," read the New York Times' April 11 cover story. The headline, like many others that day,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771605861Author Dave BroshaFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Joyce Tenneson,s detailed photographic studies of luminous sea shells adrift on a velvet-soft background remind us that startling beauty exists even in the most ordinary places. These surprising images give us a unique window into these secret lives of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789053309414Author Brenton HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Schilt Publishing b.v.Publisher Schilt Publishing b.v.Weight(grams) 820g

With previously unpublished photographs by an incredibly diverse group of the world's top news photographers, Photojournalists on War presents a groundbreaking new visual and oral history of America's nine-year conflict in the Middle East. Michael Kamber...

Layers are the building blocks for working in Photoshop. With the correct use of the Layers Tool, you can edit individual components of your images nondestructively to ensure that your end result is a combination of the best parts of your work. Despite...

Lincoln can trace its history back to an Iron Age settlement by the River Witham, subsequently a Roman and Viking town. The Norman castle and medieval cathedral, built on a ridge, still dominate the city today, with the suburbs spread out below the hill...

In The Grey Ghost: New York City Photographs, Dan Winters turns his eye to New York City, collecting nearly 100 black-and-white images he created there in the years after moving to New York from California in 1987 at the age of 25. A highly personal...

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 9780941188906Author Steven D. KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 812g

Cinematography is the art and craft of visualizing and recording the moving image. The cinematographer therefore has to use their technical and creative skills to photographically capture the mood of the film and the vision of the director. Done...

The intellectual adventure of developing the atomic bomb at Los Alamos has been well documented, but the fact is that 90% of the Manhattan Project expenditures went to produce the exotic nuclear explosive materials required. That is the story told here,...

This book traces the development of popular cinema from its inception to the present day to understand why humankind has expanded its viewing of popular movies over the last century. Drawing from his extensive work as a psychologist studying artistic...

Manchester is one of the largest cities in the United Kingdom and has a history that stretches right back to Roman times. The city began life in around AD 79 as a civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of Mamucium, or Mancunium, based near...

How Lewis Carroll's photographs of children gave visual form to evolving ideas about childhood in the Victorian eraLewis Carroll began photographing children in the mid-nineteenth century, at a time when the young medium of photography was opening up new...

Mistral is a portrait of Provence seen through its legendary wind. Photographer Rachel Cobb illustrates the effects of this relentless force of nature that funnels down France's Rhone Valley, sometimes gusting to hurricane strength. The mistral is not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561641314Author Kevin M McCarthyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Throughout the history of photography the genre of landscape has been dominated by male perspectives. In this work, ten women photographers interpret the notion of landscape from a variety of perspectives.About the AuthorLiz Wells is Senior Lecturer at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999349400Author Jack LathamFormat PaperbackImprint Here PressPublisher Here Press

Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands' tourism industry in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681981185Author Derrick StoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rocky NookPublisher Rocky Nook

This collection evokes a mysterious and fragmented cityscape of two places - London and Athens - both of which artist Effie Paleologou has come to regard as almost home. Working nocturnally, when identities become blurred and indeterminate, Paleologou...

In "No Caption Needed", Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subsequent...

Studio photography is a common career path for aspiring photographers and students but the professional and commercial nature of the field makes it a challenging area to break into.Whilst other introductory books on the subject are often bogged down with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868288117Author Nina BermanFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958299580Author Ken LightFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 2280g

The Dailies collects snapshots of a world unmistakably our own yet equally strange. Made through Thomas Demand's renowned practice of constructing, photographing, and destroying meticulous paper models, this series captures minor, everyday moments based...