Photography

"Holds many surprises for the reader who has seen the Cuban reality . . . only through the distorting prism of propaganda." -The New York Times Book Review, 1967 On December 31, 1958, Lee Lockwood, then a young photojournalist, went to Cuba to cover...

This surreally lyrical, sexually charged book collects Jimmy DeSana's earlier work, made from 1980 to 1983. For his series Suburban, DeSana staged photos of nude subjects in various evocative poses, entwined with everyday objects and lit with gel-covered...

There are countless books on war photography, most of these focusing on dramatic images made by photojournalists in combat zones. Photography and War instead proposes a radically expanded notion of war photography, one that encompasses a far broader...

Just as Gumball 3000 is much more than a car rally, Gumball 3000: 20 Years on the Road is much more than a car book. A best-of compilation of the glitzy and famed international event from the past two decades, this volume is as effervescent and exciting...

An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series with the latest entry, Halo Infinite, out in 2021! October 2559. With the galaxy in the suffocating grip of a renegade artificial...

"In book form, Kitchen Table is more intimate.... Unlike the experience of meandering through a museum, stepping back to appreciate the images and nearing the text panels to skim them, the pace of exploration is now in a person's hands." -Hilary Moss,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782330000585Author Sophie CalleFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Actes SudPublisher Actes SudWeight(grams) 1210g

In this luxurious cloth-bound hardcover with glossy slipcase, renowned botanical photographer Jonathan Singer presents his breathtaking images of the world's most notable bonsai. In Fine Bonsai: Art & Nature, the finest extant achievements in the...

A stunning visual journey through Cambodian culture, history, art, struggle, and modernization.Cambodia has two parallel histories. One is the constant stream of adventurers and diplomats, kings and rebels, archaeologists and artists drawn to the...

Warwickshire is a county steeped in the supernatural, as befits the county of Shakespeare and the many ghosts and spirits that he conjured up in his works. The towns and villages of Warwickshire, its castles, houses, churches, theatres, inns and many...

Eastbourne History Tour offers an insight into the fascinating history of this town on the coast of East Sussex. Author Kevin Gordon guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042637Author Jim DonahueFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Subterranean Stockport reveals a hidden world beneath the streets of Stockport - a Greater Manchester town with a rich industrial past. It includes water tunnels from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - excavated to supply water-powered corn and...

In the mid-1970s in the United States as feminism gained huge momentum, three American photographers Eve Arnold, Abigail Heyman and Susan Meiselas published books of a new kind. Combining testimonies and images, they offer very original documentaries of...

The ancient city of Bath in Somerset was founded on the site of hot springs, which the Romans named Aquae Sulis, and their magnificent Bath House buildings still stand today. In the Middle Ages the wool trade brought great prosperity to Bath and the...

The seventeenth-century man of letters John Aubrey is remembered, above all, for his great biographical work, Brief Lives. He also wrote pioneering works dealing with education, geology, languages, archaeology, history, place-name study and folklore...

In the tradition of Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, Rodney Smith has a signature, timeless style. This dazzling collection, now in paperback and with a framable print, celebrates 50 years of Smith's photography. Rodney Smith bridges the gap between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464208600Author Michael HuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957167933Author Ray ElmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Hampton Wick HistoryPublisher Hampton Wick HistoryWeight(grams) 152g

In "The Cruel Radiance", Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images - and...

Gateshead has often been portrayed as the 'poor relative' in comparison to its larger and more glamorous Tyneside neighbour, Newcastle. But Gateshead has a long and proud industrial and social history, much of which has sadly gone, but in recent years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937986568Author Alexander S WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint White Knight PressPublisher White Knight PressWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370742384Author Simon BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 740g

The Sussex seaside town of Eastbourne was developed as a resort from a collection of villages in the nineteenth century by the Duke of Devonshire. The new town grew rapidly and by the end of the nineteenth century Eastbourne was a large borough,...

The Leicestershire town of Loughborough is a historic market and university town that holds regular markets and an annual street fair, but is also famed for its industrial heritage. It is the home of the world's largest bell foundry, dating from medieval...

Appreciate the Adornment of BirdsFeathers-possibly the most amazing body covering in the entire animal kingdom. No other covering does all that feathers do. From the delicate down feathers that keep birds warm to the sturdy flight feathers that allow...

Born in Doncaster in the 1950s, Peter Tuffrey grew up with the collieries around him: Yorkshire Main at Edlington, Denaby, Cadeby, Rossington and Askern. Although it might have seemed that things would never change, they did, and Peter has now compiled...

Berenice Abbott is to American photography what Georgia O'Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. Abbott's sixty-year career established her not only as a master of American photography but also as a teacher, writer, archivist and inventor. A...

Unique panoramic views in true perspective.Shot entirely with a classic panoramic camera, Mark Denton's distinctive photography reveals some of the finest ever wide views of London. This new, revised and updated edition, offers a unique introductions to...

'The Gateway to the Broads', Beccles is a thriving market town in Suffolk that has been central to local communications for two millennia, prospering as a hub of trade and industry, while still retaining its cohesiveness and welcoming atmosphere. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914314087Author The Anonymous ProjectFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868288971Author Helen LevittFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

A complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived from Adobe Certified Instructor Jason Hoppe, you will learn the procedures needed to use Illustrator effectively and professionally.Adobe Illustrator: A Complete Course and Compendium...

The market town of Castle Douglas, beside Carlingwark Loch in the southern Scottish region of Dumfries and Galloway, is relatively new, though the area has been inhabited from prehistoric times and the Romans had a military base close by. In the...

We are a nation obsessed with sport. From the local GAA club, which is at the heart of so many Irish communities, to the racehorses that are trained and raced throughout the country; from our national football teams to our boxers, cyclists, athletes and...

Beverley, founded around AD 700 by St John of Beverley during the time of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria, was an important centre of trade from the Middle Ages onwards. Beverley developed a considerable industrial base and enjoyed yet another boom in...

Runcorn History Tour is a unique insight into the fascinating history of this industrial Cheshire town and shows just how much it has changed during the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Readers are invited to follow local authors and...

The English Buildings Book is the most comprehensive single volume on English architecture for the general reader and it celebrates the English built environment, which is the richest and most diverse in the world. Where most general books on English...

In the 12 years that the National Socialist Party was in power in Germany, upwards of 15,000 concentration and labour camps were established in the Greater Reich and the occupied countries to incarcerate all who were deemed enemies of the state. Contents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337952Author Hugh MaxwellFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing