Photography

When eminent photographer Stefan Ruiz stumbled across a treasure trove of old mug shots in a market in Mexico, he began a mission to explore these timeworn photographs and drawings, unique and surreal examples of portrait photography. Here the pictures...

"Seeing through Race" is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger's provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and...

Finally, here is a photography textbook authored in the 21st century for 21st century audiences.Photography: A 21st Century Practice speaks to the contemporary student who has come of age in the era of digital photography and social media, where every...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909054981Author Alicja Lorenc-WithersFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Magic Flute Publishing LtdPublisher Magic Flute Publishing Ltd

Nanuq: Life with Polar Bears features gorgeous wildlife photography of polar bears alongside firsthand accounts of experiences of living alongside the great sea bear. From close encounters with angry bears to the beauty of watching a polar bear climb an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587811Author Edgar MartinsFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1080g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958292604Author Anish KapoorFormat HardbackPage Count 752Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1710g

This lavishly illustrated volume, which comes in four different colours and with an open Japanese binding, looks from both sides of the Atlantic at 80 years of photography from Chicago. At the New Bauhaus and what later became the Institute of Design,...

A well-known naturalist, forester and nature photographer, Don MacCaskill died in May, 2000 while out for a walk in the forest he loved, his camera as ever at the ready. Faced with a collection of between three and four thousand transparences, his wife,...

In 1980 the book Judith Turner Photographs Five Architects was internationally recognized by architects who admired and valued Turner's unique way of seeing and photographing architecture. This new book contains photographs taken between 1974 and 2009 of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938461392Author Thomas Michael GuntherFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Pointed Leaf PressPublisher Pointed Leaf Press

Penelope Umbrico (Photographs)offers a radical reinterpretation of every-day consumer and vernacular images. As the artist describes, she works "within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of...

The Uses of Photography examines a network of artists who were active in Southern California between the late 1960s and early 1980s and whose experiments with photography opened the medium to a profusion of new strategies and subjects. These artists...

. An intriguing evocation of London's past through its present . Examines the rarely-travelled areas of marshland on London's outskirts, documenting their gradual urbanisation The photographer Michael Collins, armed with a large-format camera, has spent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587521Author Mark SealyFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 748g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915098Author "Newark Advertiser"Format PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

London is one of the world's greatest cities. Filled with people of all races, religions and nationalities, and packed with energy, it is a dynamic melting pot and a colourful testimony to the human spirit. Over five years, photographer Richard Slater...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887792826Author Nana ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith Books

From acclaimed photography instructor Henry Horenstein comes his most accessible, gift-friendly book yet. He distills decades of experience into easy to remember tips that will transform your photography on any device. With before-and-after images that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969000045Author Christoph BangertFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

To mark Aperture 's return to a US-based printer, we present an issue that reflects on the image of American manufacturing, from the automobile as a symbol of the rise and fall of domestic industry, to how the worker, as subject, has fascinated ...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969000786Author Rachel PapoFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

The second monograph by New York- and Paris-based photographer Matthew Brookes, Into the Wild is a vibrant celebration of surf life. For this project, Brookes followed a group of young surfers from Venice Beach on their adventures up and down the coast...

In southern Katanga, one of the richest regions in Africa and which is the economic heart of Congo, cities originated around copper and cobalt mines. The relationship between the mining industry and the population could almost resemble that between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931885850Author Michal ChelbinFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Twin Palms Publishing,U.S.Publisher Twin Palms Publishing,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789381566Author Yanai ToisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint IntellectPublisher IntellectDimensions(mm) 244mm * 169mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576878408Author Natalie JoosFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789185639519Author Jonnie CraigFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument ForlagWeight(grams) 868g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911306528Author Alan WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis Publishing

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), led by the infamous Joseph Kony, is a rebel group that was active in Northern Uganda from the second half of the 1980s. The rebellion became notorious for the use of extreme violence, in particular its large-scale...

By analysing the philosophical lineage of notions of representation, time, being, light, exposure, image, and truth, this book argues that photography is the visual manifestation of the philosophical account of how humans encounter beings in the present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958296794Author John CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 300g

Palestinian French artist Taysir Batniji is the third recipient of Immersion, a French American Photography Commission, a program launched by the Fondation d'entreprise Hermes in alliance with Aperture Foundation. In Home Away from Home , Batniji...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989265348Author Chris LaforetFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Christopher LaforetPublisher Christopher LaforetWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Safaris & Spices takes you on the same journey Nico Verster experienced while travelling to all corners of Africa. It captures the essence of African food steeped in tradition and ancient recipes, while highlighting the modern diversity in the current...

When the talk is about photographing celebrities, most inevitably think about the person in front of the camera. Actually, though, the one behind it is of much greater importance. Because it's the photographer who sets the stage, chooses the lighting,...

In the summer of 1971, Michael Lesy and a friend found most of the snapshots in Snapshots 1971-77 in a dumpster behind a gigantic photo-processing plant in San Francisco. The photos were in the trash because the machines that printed them made them so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440339585Author Vivienne GucwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PrintPublisher PrintWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 208mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969000182Author Museum TinguelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag