Photography

Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of social solidarity and self-help. Mining was central to working class life, drawing rural populations into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869309071Author Guido MocaficoFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 6100g

No superhero is a series of work by the acclaimed Scandinavian artist, Ole Marius Jorgensen. The work features meticulously staged, cinematic photographs that depict seemingly ordinary situations which are then infused with a juxtaposed narrative. This...

Paris - A Short Return is the first time that the significant body of photographs which Robert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950s have been brought together in a single book. His visit to Paris in 1951 was his second return to Europe after he had...

For nearly a century, members of the Dildilian family practiced the art of photography in Ottoman Turkey, Greece and the United States. This book contains over 300 photographs, most taken during the Ottoman era. The photos record a crucial half century...

At the turn of the twentieth century the simple postcard became the go-to means of communication for thousands of Victorians and Edwardians, sharing their greetings, their stories and their gossip. The equivalent of the modern-day 'status update', the...

Cassiobury Park has an incredible history. Not only is it one of the remnants of the greatest lost estates in the country, it is now one of the most popular parks in the country and locally is the largest park in Hertfordshire, and the principal park of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868287455Author Anna-Patricia KahnFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782490952144Author Andre CarraraFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HemeriaPublisher Hemeria

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417975852Author Roberto HuarcayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869309897Author David BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1090g

In 1999, photographers Robert Huber and Stephan Vanfleteren travelled through the US in the wake of their hero, Elvis Presley. Elvis (Huber) and Presley (Vanfleteren) invite you to share their journey across the American landscape, from Times Square to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958291805Author Mona KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 710g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643786728Author Leah DenbokFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams)...

Cambridge was at the forefront of the struggle for women to get the right to vote in Britain a century ago. Millicent Fawcett, who later became the national leader of the non-militant Suffragists and arguably one of the most influential women in Britain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584235798Author Soren SolkaerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, IncWeight(grams) 2000g

On a giant of Italian postwar photojournalism and portraiture Italian photographer Mario De Biasi (1923-2013) was celebrated for his photojournalism in Hungary and Siberia, as well as his celebrity portraits of figures including Sophia Loren, Andy...

Swiss-American graphic designer, musician, photographer and performance artist Mike Hentz ranks among the pioneers of new media art. He co-founded the legendary performance group Minus Delta T and the artist groups Frigo, Radio Bellevue and the European...

This is an easy-reference guide to the many aspects of portrait photography, from informal social photography to professional commissions. It features more than 100 stunning photographs from BIPP International Fine Art Photographer of the Year winner...

Sacred Ground is a sumptuous photographic portrait of New Orleans's legendary cemeteries. Robert S. Brantley celebrates the otherworldly landscapes, intricate ironwork, evocative memorials, and stately monuments as vibrant sites of remembrance. New...

Wild Britain is the photographic portfolio from professional photographer Barry Payling, one of a unique band of photographers in the world who practise 'pure photography'. Each Barry Payling photograph is a true rendition of the scene. The image is...

Italy is Out is the fruit of the collaboration between Mario Badagliacca, the established documentary photographer, and the research team of 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures' (2014-16)...

Taken in locations around the world, the images in this appealing volume bring to life the playful natures, endearing vulnerabilities, and irresistible brand-newness of a wide range of baby animals. At once heartwarming and enlightening, Baby Animals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980775525Author J TheisFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 367g

During World War II, Adolf Hitler gave the order for a line of defence to be constructed along the coasts of the western front. Ranging from the French-Spanish border to the north of Norway, this Atlantic Wall is a series of bunkers, barricades and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587538Author Edmund ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 699g

This prize-winning book tells the intertwined stories of photography and the American West-a new medium and a new place that came of age together in the nineteenth century. "Excellent . . . rewarding . . . a provocative look at the limits of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857244716Author Uberto FrigerioFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1620g

A cultural geographer and an art historian offer fresh interpretations of Muybridge's famous motion studies through the lenses of mobility and race. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed horses in motion, proving that all four hooves...

Twenty years ago Traub abandoned all pretense of trying to find specific themes and subjects in his photographic wanderings other than to make Taradiddles, embracing fully the digital image which is always questioned for its further and inherent...

The status of photographs in the history of museum collections is a complex one. From its very beginnings the double capacity of photography - as a tool for making a visual record on the one hand and an aesthetic form in its own right on the other - has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910401064Author S. RickettFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint GOST BooksPublisher GOST Books

Unwired combines two concurrent projects from the Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink (*1966 in Enschede), both of which sharpen our eye for an increasingly digitally connected world. In Unwired Landscapes she has sought out places where it is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986180101Author Luigi CassinelliFormat PaperbackImprint Materia Et LumenPublisher Materia Et LumenWeight(grams) 218g

In 1990, a year before the Zapatistas' armed revolt, Wendy Ewald was invited to conduct photography classes for Mayan, Ladino, and Tzotzil children living in Chiapas, the southernmost province of Mexico. The sponsoring organization was the Mayan writers'...

Pictures made by a lens are inextricably linked to the real world-the world the photographer not only sees but lives in and thinks about. The most ambitious photographs (in an earlier time one might confidently have said the greatest photographs)...

Blue Ridge Dreaming celebrates the magic and drama of one of the most breathtaking landscapes in the United States. When New York native Mike Poggioli moved to Asheville, North Carolina, he traded in cityscapes for the towering peaks, lush forests, and...