Photography

Few countries went through the level of interest and development of pleasure piers like the United Kingdom. Built during the Victorian age and early twentieth century, they hark back to a romanticised British coastal holiday - donkey rides on the beach,...

From the lens of Magnum's Abbas - the mystical world of the Hindu revealed, from ancient rites to contemporary beliefs This latest in Abbas's transcendent series of books on major world religions, featuring ritualistic elements - wind, water, earth, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960700272Author David HeathcoteFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Hartmann BooksPublisher Hartmann Projects

Jersey is the largest of the British Channel Islands and is just 14 miles away from the French coast. Once part of the Duchy of Normandy, it became independent from France in 1204 and has governed itself ever since. St Helier is the historic capital of...

While illustration was an essential element in promoting fashion in the first half of the twentieth century, photography has been the medium of choice since the 1970s. So when Dior approached Swedish illustrator Mats Gustafson in 2012 to portray its...

Through the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko's photography, a new and provocative understanding emerges of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in Stalin's Soviet Union "Glebova's book is a valuable addition to the...

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.

This anthology offers a fresh approach to the philosophical aspectsof photography. The essays, written by contemporary philosophers ina thorough and engaging manner, explore the far-reaching ethicaldimensions of photography as it is used today. * A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946732507Author Laine CunninghamFormat HardbackPage Count 78Imprint Sun Dogs CreationsPublisher Sun Dogs CreationsWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587736Author Andrew BuurmanFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 582g

Walker Evans in his own words: the legendary interview, back in print In 1971, Art in America published an interview with Walker Evans conducted by Leslie George Katz, writer and publisher of the Eakins Press. The interview is charming and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683839279Author Ian ShiveFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Earth Aware EditionsPublisher Earth Aware Editions

Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. In more than 100 photos that span Maisel's career, Black...

First merging and examination of the subject of photography and in-depth psychological study. Contains 18 profiles of photographers exploring their lives as filters between conflict and the general population and the effect they have on us and themselves...

Girls on Film: Witty Life Lessons from Alicia Malone#1 Best Seller in Photography Criticism & Essays, Movie Guides & Reviews, Movie ReferenceWith humor and honesty, Girls on Film looks at the good, the bad, and the unfairly written women in film. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771604635Author Dave BroshaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

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

Lightstream represents Nigel Grierson's most recent foray into photographic abstraction as he makes long exposures of figures beside the light of the ocean. Taking the maxim from Dieter Appelt "A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802580723Author Jane SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869302249Author Mitch EpsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 900g

This is a comprehensive guide to the most frequently used technical terms used in photography - from the earliest processes to the latest technologies. From its origins at the end of the 1830s, photography has continued to evolve both aesthetically and...

Diane Arbus: A Chronology is the closest thing possible to reading a contemporaneous diary by one of the most daring, influential, and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Drawn primarily from Arbus's extensive correspondence with friends,...

Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called "the...

The title of this new book from renowned photographer and book-maker Torbjorn Rodland suggests that the artist is looking for the divine in his sitters. If the child in Madonna and child paintings sym-bolises truth, then the pregnant virgin might...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986600487Author Christian RadulescuFormat PaperbackImprint Psylon PressPublisher Psylon PressWeight(grams) 91g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969001226Author Dalia Johananoff KennethFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

John Chiara creates his own cameras and chemical processes in order to make unique photographs using the direct exposure of light onto reversal film and paper. Chiara describes his process: "When I'm out shooting, I directly expose the paper, dodge, ...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903261739Author Louisa BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Whitworth Art GalleryPublisher Whitworth Art Gallery

If you're a passionate photographer eager to learn the best ways to achieve tack-sharp focus in your images, these 50 focus-based principles are exactly what you need to take your work to the next level. While focusing your camera seems like it should be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969990056Author Peter W. Kunhardt JrFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1700g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865213624Author Philip BrookmanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 760g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958297449Author Jeurgen TellerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 2020g

Sally Castle's beautifully hand-lettered and illustrated edition of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince sets the story among Reading's parks, squares, rooflines and churches - the town that's shaped her and her artwork and where Oscar spent an unhappy period...

Born in Munich, Sepp Werkmeister has over the course of the last decades made a name for himself as one of Germany's leading jazz photographers. He created insightful black-and-white portraits of all of the greats, from Louis Armstrong and Ella...

With a life and career spanning nearly a century, Julius Shulman is credited with furthering the midcentury modernist movement through his flawless photographs of the pioneering architecture of Richard Neutra and Charles Eames, among others. While...

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...

Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity-industrialization, racialization, and...

For the second installment of Nomenus, a limited edition arts publication, Erik Madigan Heck has curated a special issue titled The Language of Flowers, that seamlessly weaves together a curated selection of floral and figurative contemporary paintings...