Photography

Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs presents the full spectrum of Adams' work in a single volume for the first time, offering the largest available compilation from his legendary photographic career. Beautifully produced and presented in an attractive landscape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566879Author Lee ShulmanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Sussex is a fascinating county, saturated with history, legends and mysteries. Everywhere there are remains of these stories: a curious relic preserved in a church, an unusual grave outside, some ruinous building down the road, or a bizarre artefact in...

The three towns of Paignton, Brixham and Torquay form the area of the Devon coast known as the English Riviera, due to the sandy beaches, mild climate and host of leisure attractions. However, all three towns have their own, unique heritage. The market...

Vogue has always been on the cutting edge of popular culture, and Vogue x Music shows us why. Whether they're contemporary stars or classic idols, whether they made digital albums or vinyl records, the world's most popular musicians have always graced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914314285Author Hoxton Mini PressFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the changes which have occurred in Ipswich. The town has experiences an enormous amount of development to keep up with its growing population. Attractive buildings, some centuries old, were swept away...

The definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life...

Just how long do you plan on defying the laws of gravity?" Responding to overwhelming demand, the Cambridge Women's Pornography Cooperative has researched deeply into the desires of women of a certain age. The result: forty steamy scenarios show hunky...

The Port of Liverpool handles more container trade with the United States than any other port in the UK and now also serves more than 100 other non-EU destinations, from China to Africa and the Middle East, and from Australia to South America. Liverpool...

"It reveals a unique look into the profession of photography." -Gerd Ludwig Photography Charles Moriarty, Stills department manager for Star Wars and photographer for Amy Winehouse, presents Photographers on the Art of Photography: a series of...

Tir a'Mhurain is a collection of photographs that reflects the impressions gathered by Paul Strand and his wife Hazel during their 3-month visit to the Hebrides in 1945. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's beautifully sequenced photographs depict...

'I have seen landscapes which, under a particular light, made me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.' - C.S. Lewis The magnificent mountains of Mourne have long inspired artists and writers. Here, author and...

A tender, warmly moving story of grief and self-discovery by the prize-winning author of When Life Gives You Mangoes Sometimes, the best adventures lead back home When Brie was younger, her mama used to surprise her with treasure hunts around...

"...Mario goes beyond basic reportage or documentation in an effort to create a timeless set of portraits." - Amateur Photographer "I try to read people's lives," says photographer Mario Marino. In this new photo book, the Austrian-born camera artist...

A World Heritage Site since 1999, the New Forest is not that new and not really a forest. Only half is wooded with the rest being mainly gorse, heathland, mudflats and farms. It was created around 1079 for William the Conqueror as an exclusive royal...

Crewdson's most recent series of photographs, Twilight, are created as elaborately constructed film stills, catching the mysterious moment of time between before and after, revealing unknowable or unimaginable aspects of domestic reality. A cow lies on...

Inspired by the work of an earlier generation of Japanese photographers, especially by Shomei Tomatsu, and by William Klein's seminal photographic book on New York, Daido Moriyama moved from Osaka to Tokyo in the early sixties to become a photographer...

Guernsey is the most western of the Channel Islands, with a proud maritime history spanning many centuries. Only 25 square miles, the island nevertheless has a great variety of landscapes, from the rugged cliffs in the south to the low-lying dunes in the...

It was the Belle Epoque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870-1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home. From the grand boulevards of Paris to China's Great...

A collection of essays accompanied by beautiful black-and-white photography from a diverse group of women on the moment they realized they were ready to fight for themselves-including Gloria Steinem, Lena Waithe, Joanna Gaines, Brandi Carlile, Beanie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889620Author Thomas MeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 179gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 134mm...

In September 1665, plague was inadvertently transported from London to Eyam in Derbyshire on a consignment of cloth. This small country village subsequently became famous for its decision to instate a 'cordon sanitaire', isolating itself to prevent the...

Eye-opening and candid, David Bailey's Look Again is a fantastically entertaining memoir by a true icon.'Rollicking . . . with roguish tales as vivid as his era-defining photos' - Daily Mail'Brilliant' - TelegraphDavid Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960...

From its earliest days as a Roman legionary fortress, through the Middle Ages when the town grew as a major trading centre and became Henry VIII's northern capital; through the grandeur and decadence of Georgian York and into the nineteenth century when...

Manchester is a modern and cosmopolitan city that is also home to a range of old and traditional public houses. Many of these establishments have retained their distinctive heritage, with some dating back to early modern times and many having witnessed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524732059Author Hamish BowlesFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 3317gDimensions(mm) 325mm * 249mm...

In this bestselling autobiography, completed shortly before his death in 1984, Ansel Adams looks back at his legendary six-decade career as a conservationist, teacher, musician, and, above all, photographer. Written with characteristic warmth, vigour,...

"A new photobook recalls the crucial but often overlooked role played by women in the Black Panther party" - The Guardian "... I guarantee this book will give you a new respect for a generation of women militants." - Socialist Worker "Comrade Sisters...

Over the past few decades, the long tradition of street photography has been wholly transformed by the proliferation of digital cameras, the Internet, and smartphones. A new generation of photographers have embraced this modern technology to capture the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lakeland Book of the Year 2022 (UK).Book InformationISBN 9781913159245Author Margaret WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Merlin Unwin...

This book tells the story of Bass, which during the mid-1800s grew from a small provincial brewery into the world's largest ale brewer. Spanning 230 years, the story is set against a backdrop of changing social attitudes, economic conditions and...

The last book completed by William Klein within his lifetime: A landmark retrospective encompassing Klein's legacy of creativity across photography, filmmaking, painting, book design, graphic design and beyond. Photographer. Filmmaker. Artist...

For the first time, stunning images of the women of the burlesque stage are gathered together in one great volume. In period photographs the timeless beauty of those exotic women who titillated, teased, and sometimes tortured their audiences is captured...

Originally opened in August 1879, Central Station became a Glasgow landmark and one of Scotland's great buildings following a rebuild between 1901 and 1905 supervised by Caledonian Railway chief engineer Donald Matheson. The Edwardian ticket offices and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566718Author Hoxton Mini PressFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

There is an astonishing world just waiting to be photographed underwater. With marine biologist Dr Alexander Mustard as your guide you can learn all you need to know to explore the amazing creatures and landscapes that lie beneath the surface. From...

From ice storms to fire rainbows, this is an A to Z guide to the earth's spectacular weather phenomena. Each entry has been crafted by experts at The Royal Meteorological Society, and many are illustrated with dramatic imagery from their annual Weather...

Kingston upon Hull is a fascinating city and over the last 150 years or so has witnessed great changes. The city centre in the late 1890s was made up of pre Victorian slum houses and tiny narrow streets. In the very last years of the 1890s much of the...

As more than 300 richly layered illustrations in the book reveal, this particular typeface bold, neo-Gothic, and imposing decorates the fabric of the most influential music and fashion subcultures of the last half-century. Having evolved from embellished...