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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

Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 12 years since his death. With his paintings now breaking auction records (Egyptian Queen sold for $ 5.4 million in 2019) he's long overdue for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953238934Author Antony PenroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Lee Miller ArchivesPublisher Lee Miller Archives Publishing

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...

"The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a man's personal style, changing attitudes to the male face...

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...

In the late 1970s, the George Eastman House approached a group of photographers to ask for their favorite recipes and food-related photographs to go with them, in pursuit of publishing a cookbook. Playing off George Eastman's own famous recipe for lemon...

Platinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-out Process describes the mechanisms and chemistry of platinum/palladium printing in safe and practical ways. Clearly presented formulae allow the printer to work...

Angela Merkel: an era ends-and with it a project unique in the world. Between 1991 and 2021 this remarkable politician was photographed year after year, with a short hiatus, by Herlinde Koelbl. Each time they came together, a headshot and a...

A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian period In an era that saw the birth of photography (c. 1839) and the rise of the illustrated press (c. 1842), the British experience of their empire became...

Breathing new life into Ireland's history once again, this carefully restored and colourised collection of wonderful black and white images captures the beauty of the nation's fascinating past. This sequel to the bestselling The Colour of Ireland...

Focusing on fieldcraft techniques for macro and close-up photography, Thompson covers the vital but often overlooked skills necessary to achieve consistent professional results in the field. Case studies covering a broad and often challenging group of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500201343Author Walter S. GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson Ltd

"The blue and white print has the night-time glow of a Joseph Cornell ice-cube box or a Stan Brakhage film, the poppy glows candescent but is gone. Anna Atkins' dirty fingernails are pressing the damp skin of the poppy into cotton wadding and blotting...

Comet presents the amazing story of the Rosetta space probe and its interstellar voyage to the comet Tchoury. Its mission - to find clues to the origins of our solar system and the emergence of life on Earth. Following a ten-year voyage and a journey...

For many people there is no more satisfying expression of Greek art than its sculpture. It was the first, the only ancient art to break free from 'conceptual' conventions for representing men and animals, and to explore consciously how art might imitate...

Although known worldwide as the 'Home of Golf', St Andrews was also the ecclesiastical powerhouse in Scotland for centuries prior to the Reformation. Author Gregor Stewart takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the town's past, unearthing...

Why did Henri Cartier-Bresson nearly have a posthumous exhibition while still alive? What led Stephen Shore to work with color? Why was Sophie Calle accused of stealing Vermeer's The Concert ? And what is Susan Meiselas's take on Instagram and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899235179Author Bruce GildenFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1132g

"What a beautiful book...a great presentation and wonderful insight into these historic guitars." -Nils Lofgren on 108 Rock Star Guitars From the photographer of the critically acclaimed 108 Rock Star Guitars comes a new collection of guitar photos,...

This text introduces the concepts, essential tenets and basic techniques of Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography. Through the use of case studies and the author's own professional experience, this book covers the practices, together with their...

Autochromes were the first commercial colour photographs. Invented in 1904 by the Lumière brothers Auguste and Louis in Paris, colour photographs caused a great sensation at the time. They were an innovation and the first way to depict the world in...

Photography explores the photograph in the twenty-first century and its importance as a media form. Stephen Bull considers our media-saturated society and the place of photography in everyday life, introducing the theories used to analyse photographs and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967041187Author Lucia BondarFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

"Like the great German critic Walter Benjamin, Rosenberg is a master of dialectics whose sense of art is continuous with his sense of society, and (also like Benjamin) bears no taint of compromised, out-of-work radicalism. Instead, his radicalism is very...

David Busch's Canon EOS R Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for the exiting new Canon EOS R full-frame mirrorless camera. It sports a high-resolution 30 MP sensor embedded with 5,655 Dual-Pixel phase...

In a brand-new approach, this book presents photography in all its principal forms of experience, to portray the unique characteristics of this accessible and universally appealing medium. Arranged chronologically, legendary photographs are discussed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566282Author Sophie Harris-TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849029711Author Izaak WaltonFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 376g

A fast and easy way for visual learners to get a grip on Photoshop Elements Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer a single, crystal-clear screenshot showing you how to do something to a long-winded explanation telling you how to do it? If so, then this...

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...

"Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way." - Jack Delano Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDON In Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection of the funniest, weirdest and most moving real messages from the backs of old postcards. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788484789208Author Mark Julian EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Triangle Postals , S.LPublisher Triangle Postals , S.L

The second edition of Why Art Photography? is an updated, expanded introduction to the ideas behind today's striking photographic images. Lively, accessible discussions of key issues such as ambiguity, objectivity, fiction, authenticity, and...

You have the camera, you have the skills, and you have the pictures. Now what? Author Shirley Read expertly leads you through the world of exhibiting your photography one minute detail at a time. From finding a space and designing the exhibition to...

David Busch's Sony Alpha a7C Guide to Digital Photography is the most comprehensive reference book available for Sony's Alpha a7C.With this book in hand, you will discover all the capabilities of this new cameraLearn alongside the number one photography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914314254Author Hoxton Mini PressFormat HardbackImprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press