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This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, but on the various artistic theories which influenced them or were expressed by them. Taking Alberti's...

Forty years ago, London's Docklands had become 6,000 acres of forgotten wasteland after over a century as the busiest port in the world. Now these once-derelict docks are again filled with ships and boats, forming homes and businesses for an...

London's East End History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous part of the city. This new book guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they've changed over the...

The most comprehensive resource and reference for Sony's innovative 61-megapixel full frame mirrorless camera. Filled with detailed how-to steps and full-color illustrations, David Busch's Sony Alpha a7R IV Guide to Digital Photography covers every...

The Experimental Darkroom is a book focused on traditional black & white photographic materials-darkroom chemistry and silver gelatin paper-now used in many non-traditional ways. The book starts with a comprehensive digital negatives chapter. Topics are...

"...Pagnano's photographs remind us of the importance of documenting moments as they occur so that we can savour the pleasures of the past and look at the present with fresh eyes." - Huck Brooklyn's Empire Rollerdrome opened its doors in 1941 and soon...

In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in colour and black & white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealisation. She demonstrates how the...

This ground-breaking book situates research at the heart of photographic practice, asking the key question: What does research mean for photographers? Illuminating the nature and scope of research and its practical application to photography, the book...

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...

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...

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...

'Brigid writes with warmth and appreciation of communities that she knows and loves, and she inspires us to explore them' - Rick Stein 'Whenever I am talking to customers about the NC500, I always recommend your book for the wonderful photographs and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566541Author Hoxton Mini PressFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Cyanotype is the most accessible and frequently used of all the alternative photographic processes. When utilized properly, it has the potential to rival other processes when it comes to detail and tonal range, but its Prussian blue color isn't always...

Africa State of Mind gathers together the work of an emergent generation of photographers from across Africa, including both the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa. It is both a summation of new photographic practice from the last decade and an exploration...

The history of Orpington reaches back to the Stone Age, but it was during the nineteenth century that the suburban town and surrounding areas began to take shape into something we would recognise today. Located on the outskirts of Greater London, road...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781389878213Author Michael Wescott LoderFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 540g

In Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and Their Behavior, acclaimed bird photographer and author Marie Read shares techniques and stories behind her compelling images, offering fresh insights into making...

Across photography, sculpture and painting, a new wave of Black artists is challenging persistent tropes in art and wider society to depict a richer portrait of the lives of Black people from all corners of the globe. As We See It brings together 30...

On the north bank of the River Ribble lies the city of Preston, the administrative centre of Lancashire. Despite being granted city status relatively recently in 2002, it has had a long and interesting past as a historic market town. Local author, Keith...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486236728Author Alphonse MuchaFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957424616Author Brian MayFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint The London Stereoscopic CompanyPublisher The London Stereoscopic Company

Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is a detailed study of the ekphrasis of photography in poetry since the 19th century. Unlike other critical studies of ekphrasis, Miller's study concentrates solely on the lyrical ekphrasis of photographs, setting out to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906878153Author Rose UgoalahFormat PaperbackImprint Griffith College DublinPublisher Griffith College Dublin

"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history...

Time-travel through the Automobile Age with a collection that puts you in the driver's seat. 20th Century Classic Cars offers a lush visual history of the automobile, decade by decade, via 400-plus print advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990691006Author Jonathan L MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Shikshana Parthika PressPublisher Shikshana Parthika PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989737422Author Chris GarbaczFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Grammar Factory PublishingPublisher Grammar Factory PublishingWeight(grams)...

Lucian Freud is not only the most celebrated artist working in England, but one of the most private. He has frequently stated his reluctance to be photographed and he has almost never agreed to be interviewed. Following the publication of the last ten...

A highly anticipated monograph from the internationally acclaimed documentary photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth is both a retrospective and an investigation into the subject of wealth over the last twenty-five years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569028124Author Lawrence F. SykesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838345518Author Mike ScottFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Flood GalleryPublisher Flood GalleryWeight(grams) 2321g

High magnification photography is immensely exciting and rewarding. Through the close-up lens, everyday objects produce striking images, and small creatures show amazing detail that usually goes unnoticed. This book is both a practical guide to each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914314278Author Tony MakFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Robert Dance's new evaluation of Joan Crawford looks at her entire career and-while not ignoring her early years and tempestuous personal life-focuses squarely on her achievements as an actress, and as a woman who mastered the studio system with a rare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836583633Page Count 260Imprint Taschen GmbHPublisher Taschen GmbH

Walter Benjamin's essay 'A Short History of Photography' (1931) made bold statements about photographic pioneers such as David Octavius Hill and Nicephore Niepce, and the social and historical context of their work. This first selection of Benjamin's...

Jill Enfield's Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes, 2nd edition, is packed with stunning imagery, how-to recipes, techniques and historical information for emulating the ethereal, dream-like feel of alternative processing.This fully updated...

Photographer Dominic Greyer has spent the last twenty years roaming the British landscape in search of the country's most unusual placenames. He has an eye for quirky, rude and downright ridiculous name signs, and has photographed them all. But this is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868288742Author Priya RamrakhaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag