Photography

"New book gives fans a look at never-before-seen photos of Brigitte Bardot." - Yahoo "Rare photographs of the French actress Brigitte Bardot, from the archives of Douglas Kirkland and Terry O'Neill, are featured in a new book, Being Bardot." - The...

Capturing the grandeur of landscapes or mood of a certain natural light is challenging but often the simple details of a texture or color evade photographers most of all. In Close Up Photography in Nature, best-selling authors and nature photography...

The definitive illustrated volume on the work and life of Ann Lowe, a consummate couturier who designed lavish evening and bridal gowns for members of America s social registry, a Black woman working hard behind the scenes whose important legacy has...

This is an illustrated history of England's largest and most historically diverse county. It provides a nostalgic look at Yorkshire's ancient, medieval and industrial past, and highlights some of its most important historic sites, as well as the changing...

Norwich in 1950 was a different place. Still scarred by war the city was coming to terms with itself. Children played in the rubble of bomb sites, and workers strove to build a prosperous peace on building sites. By the end of the decade the retail heart...

From legendary visual artists Yoko Ono and Tracey Emin, to groundbreaking musicians like Annie Lennox and Debbie Harry, to fashion giants such as Miuccia Prada and Diane von Furstenberg, this collection of original interviews and Polaroid photographs of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781577314028Author Dharma MittraFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 544g

Railway photography has never been more popular. Good quality images, once only achievable with expensive professional hardware, are now within everyone's reach. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced photographer wanting to broaden your horizons,...

Looks at the last hundred years of Sunderland through a sequence of old photographs selected from the archives of the Sunderland Echo by journalist Carol Roberton. Here are the shipyards and the miners, the shopkeepers and publicans, the schools, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912733231Author David ArnoffFormat HardbackImprint Red Planet Publishing LtdPublisher Red Planet Publishing Ltd

Before becoming the critically acclaimed filmmaker responsible for such iconic films as Dr. Strangelove and The Shining, Stanley Kubrick spent five years as a photographer for Look magazine. The Bronx native joined the staff in 1945, when he was only 17...

Throughout England there are thousands of lost or deserted villages. Most were abandoned after the Black Death or other plague epidemics, but some were lost to coastal erosion or the encroaching sea, while others were resettled elsewhere when the...

Maidstone, the county town of Kent, has a colourful history shaped by battles, royalty, revolts, witches, mad priests, industrialists, brewers and Victorian benefactors. Situated between Dover and London and located on the River Medway, the town on a...

'A moving series of portraits honouring the lives of Grenfell's victims' Vogue In the early hours of 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in Grenfell tower a block of flats in one of the wealthiest boroughs in West London. This tragedy caused the deaths of...

Fancy designing your own classic and contemporary movie posters, books and magazine covers?Feel like turning your photographs into works by Turner, Matisse and Magritte?Want to create illustrations in the styles of The Simpsons, steampunk and Victorian...

This practical book explains the process of landscape photography, leading you easily through the stages of editing an image to lift your photographs and bring out the image you captured at the taking stage. Topics covered include: screen grabs, black...

You can follow all the tried-and-true rules of great landscape photography shooting in great light, making sure to have a clear subject in the scene, and maximizing sharpness throughout the image and yet your photos can still somehow fall flat. Compared...

First impressions count, especially in Milano. In this unprecedented photographic journey, editor Karl Kolbitz opens the door to 144 of the city's most sumptuous entrance halls, captivating in their diversity and splendor. These vibrant Milanese...

"I'm just passing through," Milton Gendel liked to say whenever anybody asked him what he was doing in Rome. Even after seven decades in the Eternal City, he refused to be pigeonholed. He was always an American - never an "expat," never an emigre - but...

A celebration of the great sneaker collaborations that have reimagined the shoe, elevating this most practical of footwear into the realm of wearable art.The ubiquitous sneaker is the canvas upon which so many defiers of convention--artists, musicians,...

Manchester has changed rapidly in the last 100 years. The Lancashire market town was transformed during the Industrial Revolution through the manufacture of textiles, becoming the world's first industrialised city. Its growth was largely unplanned but...

Palestine, 1850: a backwater of the Ottoman Empire, but soon to become the focus of intense jealousies. Locally Arabs and Jews became increasingly polarised, internationally the vacuum left by the demise of the Ottoman Empire was filled with the...

Barrow-in-Furness was transformed by the industrial expansion of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, leading to it becoming a centre for ship and submarine building. Located at the tip of a peninsula, known for its own micro-climate and a rich and...

This fascinating collection of over 200 archive images traces some of the changes and developments that have taken place in Wolverhampton during the last century, as many old agricultural communities were swallowed up by the development of modern...

Although little is recorded of its earlier history, Salford is a city of great antiquity. In 1228, Henry III granted the Lancashire town the right to hold a market and an annual fair. Centuries later, it was the Industrial Revolution that had a...

In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and...

When the Normans arrived soon after 1066 Shrewsbury was already well established as an administrative centre with trading links throughout both England and Wales. That early market town thrived so that by 1300 or so it was one of the dozen most important...

'This ad is gender neutral', proclaimed a 2016 poster for the fashion brand Diesel; 'I resist definitions', announced a Calvin Klein ad in the same year, while a Louis Vuitton shoot featured Jaden Smith, son of actor Will Smith, wearing a skirt like a...

ARE YOU READY FOR AN ELEMENTS BOOK THAT BREAKS ALL THE RULES? This book breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that's never been done before-it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly "how to do it." It's not a bunch of...

For New York Air, George Steinmetz, the superb aerial photographer of the Earth's remote and exotic regions, turns his camera on one of its most dynamic cities. New York City, with its iconic skyline; its mix of modern architecture and historic...

As a little boy of seven or eight, Jacques Henri Lartigue was given his first camera, and soon was developing his own photographs. Born into a prosperous family, from childhood Lartigue acutely observed the social rituals of the upper echelons of society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782815891Author Nick OakleyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint G2 Entertainment LtdPublisher G2 Entertainment Ltd

This collection of over 200 photographs draws on the archives of North Tyneside Libraries which have been built up through the donations of local people. The majority of the old scenes are from within living memory, but before the redevelopments of the...

Adobe Lightroom: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to using Adobe Lightroom for importing, organizing, editing, and outputting your images. Whether you re keywording your most recent shoot, organizing your photo library, or...

With the coming of the naval arms race with Germany, in 1903 the Admiralty decided to establish a naval base and dockyard at Rosyth, taking advantage of deep tidal water there. Construction work started in 1909 and the dockyard was finished in 1916, when...

This is a practical guide to the techniques of film photography, shown in over 400 step-by-step examples. It provides a simple-to-follow manual for film camera enthusiasts wishing to improve their skills, devised by one of the world's leading photography...

"So Audrey" is the most coveted of compliments among women who emulate Audrey Hepburn. To her legions of female fans, from teens on up, she is a paragon of class and style. Little black dress? That's So Audrey! Ballet flats? So Audrey! of you! A...

With a foreword from Jean-Marie Schaller, founder and creative director of Louis Moinet, this book introduces some of the most elegant watches the horological world has to offer, including several one-of-a-kind pieces that have never before appeared in...

Situated a few miles to the south of Manchester City Centre, the Four Heatons have always been popular residential suburbs for families wishing to swap the industrial clamour of the inner city for fresh air and fine views across open spaces to the...

A third selection of photographs of the Hampshire town of Fleet from the archives of local author Percy Vickery. Chapters include work, people, street scenes, sport and pastimes and wartime and provide a comprehensive history of the town and its...