Photography

Czech artist Jan Svoboda (1934-1990) spent a lifetime laboring to redefine the language of photography. This catalogue gives an overview of his career, from early still lifes to works that questioned the rules and boundaries of the photographic image to...

A photographic guide to the 'White City' of Tel Aviv, which contains over 4000 white Bauhaus buildings. Celebrates the city's current state while placing it within its historical context. Over 4,000 white Bauhaus buildings give Tel Aviv its most...

During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. John Raeburn's A Staggering Revolution recreates the energy of the era by surveying photography's rich variety of innovation, exploring the aesthetic and cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958291119Author Robert PolidoriFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 4600g

Montauk's beautiful beaches, and its location just over 100 miles east of Midtown Manhattan, make it a go-to destination for city dwellers seeking summer bliss. More than 100 photos offer viewers an unfiltered peek into the all-American charm of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492498543Author Ouka LeeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica

This is a visual record of the British people's habits of dress from the Victorians to Britpop. Social history is reflected in the outfits of the time, from the wartime austerity of the 1940s to the new couture of the 1950s. It takes us on a fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857234397Author Carolina SandrettoFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 3220g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464998624Author HennequinFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 7mm

Every city has its ghosts. From Manhattan and Brooklyn's trendiest neighborhoods to the far-flung edges of the outer boroughs, Ellis captures the lost and lonely corners of the United States' most populous city. Step inside the New York you never knew,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685820Author Andrew DewdneyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958297920Author Irene HalsmanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1880g

Stirlingshire is central to Scotland and its history. Spanning the boundary between the Highlands and Lowlands, and standing at the heart of Scotland, the town of Stirling was 'the key of the Highlands'. Granted city status in 2002 as part of the Queen's...

Newcastle upon Tyne is one of England's great cities and one of the most historically significant, with a proud heritage dating all the way back to Roman times. The city grew as an important centre for the wool trade in the fourteenth century and later...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868287899Author Kenji TomaFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958291843Author Robert PolidoriFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1260g

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,...

Jan Tove's photographs of his home region are lyrical dabs of memory, the wide-eyed absorption of changes. For a period just short of ten years, the Swedish photographer and publicist returned to the Swedish countryside, at different points during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942185222Author Nathalie HerschdorferFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868288285Author Nicholas NixonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of 'first' photographs and proclamations of photography's death in the digital age, scholars have been rethinking who and what...

'Through this extraordinary selection of photographs and accompanying text,we follow elephants on their journey from Ancient Rome to Coney Island and beyond. Across battlefields and city bridges, in railway cars and circus rings, adored, applauded and at...

The legendary photographs of David Douglas Duncan explore the broad range of human nature, from the most quiet notes of life to the crashing crescendos of war. Duncan began taking pictures for newspapers in the mid-1930s, then joined the Marines, where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527293656Author Tom ConnollyFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Indelibe ImprintPublisher Indelibe ImprintDimensions(mm) 247mm * 282mm * 13mm

As Others See Us is based on a new photographic exhibition from Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie, who together form the renowned partnership broad daylight. It forms part of Homecoming 2009, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth. The...

In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photography's vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century.In the first half of the nineteenth century, the introduction of telegraphy, the development...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781364680336Author Andres ArnavatFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 6mm

The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we really know about those who experienced slavery?In their pioneering book, Envisioning Emancipation, renowned...

Publishing the results of the most recent annual World Press Photo Contest, this exceptional book contains the very best press photographs from the year 2015 - pictures submitted by photojournalists, picture agencies, newspapers and magazines throughout...

Over nearly eight decades, Louis Stettner (1922-2016) defined a singular poetic vision in photography, honing a style influenced by both American street photography and French humanism. Stettner began working in the 1930s, becoming a member of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958296855Author Martine FougeronFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1840g

The portraits in Skaters compel the subject, the photographer, and the viewer to slow down. These images, created with wet plate collodion, offer an honest glimpse into the skateboarders' core being: pensive, tough, playful, anxious, distracted, and...

Over the years, Swiss photographer Tomas Wuthrich has visited Borneo many times to document the daily life of the Penan, a partially nomadic indigenous people living in the rainforest of Borneo. The way of life that these hunter-gatherers lead in the...

The Brussels-based artist David Helbich started collecting Belgian Solutions in 2006; he made photos of the peculiar and sometimes hilarious, no-nonsense solutions that he spotted in his daily surroundings. Once he started to share his photos online on...

In the acclaimed first edition of Hopper's Places, Gail Levin paired paintings by Edward Hopper with her photographs of the subjects of paintings done in New York and environs, Maine, Gloucester, and Cape Cod to demonstrate how Hopper made art of...

Built in 1883, the Hotel Chelsea, on 23rd Street in New York City, quickly became the most famous and notorious hotel in the world. From day one, it has been a center of artistic and bohemian activity, with notable residents like actor Ethan Hawke,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905792306Author David AppsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Foruli CodexPublisher Foruli LimitedWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 7mm

Spanish-born photographer Fadia Ahma (b.1975) lives and works in Lebanon. Her poetic series of photographs of Beirut eloquently captures the street life of that resilient city; merchants on street corners, grocers, fishermen, bathers, street artists,...

Don McCullin (born 1935) has photographed dramas of everyday life in his home city of London as well as in the world's most dangerous conflict zones. This publication features 130 works, including social documentary work in England, the Berlin Wall...

This Is Mars offers a thrilling visual experience of the surface of the red planet. The multi-award-winning French editor and designer Xavier Barral has chosen and composed photographic frames, drawn from the comprehensive photographic map of Mars...