Photography

TOTAL CHAOS is the first book telling Iggy Pop's story of The Stooges from his own words. Grammy winning editor and avid music historian Jeff Gold spent two days at the rock legend's home sharing pictures and memorabilia from his collection. Featuring a...

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,...

Restoring a gifted art photographer to his place in the American canon and, in the process, reshaping and expanding our understanding of early 20th-century American photography Clarence H. White (1871-1925) was one of the most influential art...

"With 240 pages filled with incredible art, the bird lover will enjoy flipping through and taking in the vast distinctions between species in the bird kingdom." - Prevention Australian artist Greg Oakley has had a lifelong fascination with birds and...

"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...

This unique book is a photographer's guide to the powerful medium of the environmental portrait. It explores in lucid detail the many "moving parts" of this imaging style, including the techniques and creative processes that drive some of this genre's...

In the summer of 1969, 400,000 people from across the country came together and redefined the music scene forever. Though the legacy and lore of Woodstock lives on in the memory of its attendees, a new generation can experience the real and unedited...

Like many towns and cities throughout the United Kingdom, Wakefield has evolved and changed over the last 1,000 years. Wakefield had long been regarded as the capital of the West Riding of Yorkshire since the Middle Ages, being one of the largest...

The seminal work by photographer and artist Roger Ballen, re-released in an expanded edition with never-before-seen images from Ballen's archive.The culmination of nearly 20 years of work, Outland marked Ballen's move from documentary photography into...

Photography is not dying and has not died. It has been an ever-changing medium since its earliest days, and while near-obsession with the technology of the day may have defined photography over the course of its existence, photography is so much more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937986889Author Alexander S WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint White Knight PressPublisher White Knight PressWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617755002Author Scott CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911306146Author Matthew FinnFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901122Author Reynaldo RiveraFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460224928Author Peter PostFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 814g

Now reissued in an attractively priced, compact edition, this classic and authoritative survey is the first detailed account of a seminal era in photographic history.Inspired and guided by Bernd and Hiller Becher, themselves pioneers in the area of...

This illustrated history of the City of London provides a nostalgic look at the Square Mile'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...

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

This book chronicles the various wars that have affected East Devon through the centuries, from the invasions of Celts and Romans, Saxons and Danes, to the First and Second World Wars. It is only in more recent times that we have had the benefit of...

Pictures for Charis offers a groundbreaking new work by artist Kelli Connell, synthesizing text and image, while raising vital questions about photography, gender, and portraiture in the twenty-first century. Pictures for Charis is a project driven by...

A MOVEMENT IN WORDS AND IMAGESAward-winning photographer Devin Allen has devoted the last six years to documenting the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement, from its early days in Baltimore, Maryland, up to the present day. The riveting images in...

Within a few years of the invention of the first commercially successful photography process in 1839, American slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass...

After Baby Cashmere and The Lotus Flower, Loro Piana tells us the story of the vicuna and its coveted fibre. The vicuna is a small camelid that lives in the high alpine areas of the Andes. Prized since the time of the Incas for its extraordinarily soft...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960700012Author Cindy ShermanFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Hartmann BooksPublisher Hartmann ProjectsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 170mm...

Having been granted city status during the Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002, Stirling is Scotland's smallest city, but has an enthralling wealth of architectural and historic heritage that would be the envy of much larger places in the country...

Versace-a name that epitomizes Italian opulence, bold sexiness, and a flair for the extravagant-holds its place firmly in the fashion world as a legendary and iconic luxury brand. Taking over the creative artistic direction of the family-run fashion...

Embrace the not-so-small world of minis--and your own tiny book!From teeny burritos and miniscule Chanel handbags to furniture no larger than a quarter, this mind-blowing collection of squeal-worthy miniatures features more than 250 of the tiniest...

This issue explores the myriad ways in which Asian American image makers have negotiated the tension between being seen and unseen as strategies of survival, play, and reclamation, from the pursuit of anonymity or effacement during times of exclusion to...

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...

Kingdom of Sand and Cement by Peter Bogaczewicz explores the challenges Saudi Arabia faces today as it rapidly transforms from a conservative and tribal desert culture to an influential world power. In less than a century the Saudis have experienced...

This book explores a range of photographic practices, including landscape and portraiture, still life and abstract, and considers techniques such as, directorial photography, photomontage and camera-less photography. With case studies and practical...

Uncovers the extraordinary breadth of designer Mariano Fortuny, including and beyond his fashion output, alongside the personal and political catalysts that inspired him Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949) was a polymath who experimented in a variety...

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...

A woman can be a firefighter, surgeon, astronaut, military officer, athlete, judge, and scientist. So what does it mean to dress like a woman? Dress Like a Woman turns that question on its head by sharing a myriad of interpretations across history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648230356Author Bruce G. BoyerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

David Bailey flew to Afghanistan earlier this year to take photographs for auction to raise money for 'Help for Heroes', a charity that aims to help wounded servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan. The result is his latest book of photographs, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781367592803Author Jason PotashFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 3mm

Before publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Lives - a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York's tenement houses - Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the United States as an immigrant and itinerant laborer,...

This is a stunning visual celebration of one of photography's most enduring and evocative subjects. Born like Venus on the half shell from the centuries-long tradition of the nude in painting, the nude first appeared as a subject matter in photography...