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Douglas Kirkland is the legendary photographer who captured the Hollywood elite. Kirkland has been at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, working for the world's most reputable magazines for more than 50 years. As a young...

The photobook titled A little louder by Abdo Shanan on the protests in Algeria is the result of the I Premi Mediterrani Albert Camus Incipiens, organized by the Trobades & Premis Mediterranis Albert Camus of Menorca. This project whose strength of vision...

Color isn't 'just there' in photography, an ordinary fact of life. It's much more special and can be a subject and pursuit in its own right, because it triggers an emotional and aesthetic response like no other. Color is processed not in the eye, but in...

As global tensions rose and the Second World War began, many women photographers found themselves under threat or forced into exile. Others worked as war reporters or documented the aftermath of the conflict, but a great number found new creative energy...

We are returning to the world created by Maria Svarbova to deliver a comprehensive collection of her work around this photographer's biggest concept - Swimming Pools. In the initial set of images, we see models frozen in the composition, the swimmers...

Contemporary Photography and Theory offers an essential overview of some of the key critical debates in fine art photography today. Building on a foundational understanding of photography, it offers an in-depth discussion of five topic areas: identity,...

This dynamic introduction to the most important photographers from the inception of photography to today bears witness to the magic of the camera. From Fe lix Nadar's awe-inspiring aerial photos and Eugene Atget's images of fin de sie cle France to...

An expansive look at portraiture, identity, and inequality as seen in Dorothea Lange's iconic photographs Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) aimed to make pictures that were, in her words, "important and useful." Her decades-long investigation of how...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944092705Author William Eggleston, IIIFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Twin Palms PublishersPublisher Twin Palms Publishers

A longtime favourite getaway for America's most influential families, Cumberland Island, off the Atlantic coast of Georgia, offers breathtaking white-sand beaches, rolling dunes, old-growth oak forests, and salt marsh tidal estuaries. At the centre...

This deluxe, oversized monograph offers the most comprehensive collection of Richard Learoyd's color studio images to date-mostly portraits, but also including a handful of exquisite still lifes. The color images are made with one of the most antiquarian...

Photography is ubiquitous. The visual image is a predominant form of communication. Arguably it is a very democratic medium, since billions of people all over the planet take photographs on their phones, and digital storage means that expensive printing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912165452Author James ReidFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Black Dog PressPublisher Black Dog Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907893612Author Paddy SummerfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingDimensions(mm) 205mm * 245mm *...

Published in connection with an exhibition opening at Photo Elysee in spring 2024, this book presents more than 150 of Man Ray's portraits, primarily from the 1920s and 30s. Man Ray (1890-1976) was a man both of and ahead of his time. With his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839409Author Ron ShoesmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd

The Showbands phenomenon burst spectacularly onto the Irish music scene in the 1960s, and Spotlight photographer Michael O'Reilly had unique access to the biggest stars of that time. From national treasures like The Royal Showband, The Drifters, The...

The birth of photography opened the doors to a new kind of art, one that recorded events with the immediacy not possible with painting and drawing. This volume is a chronologically arranged compendium of memorable images of unforgettable people, places,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915081Author Matthew SpenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere-on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches. He photographed movie idols, pop stars, writers, artists,...

It is a familiar sight late night in the centers of major cities like London and New York: the rush of people sneaking drunken kisses and fumbling exchanges before stumbling home. But travelling the opposite direction there is a select few who only come...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994700995Author Marilyn NanceFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Fourthwall BooksPublisher Fourthwall Books

One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the WeekFrom Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the...

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...

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...

"Bruce Springsteen in All His Rock Star Glory." -Janet Macoska, The Daily Beast "Two careers were born on that cold night in 1974. Macoska would blossom into one of the most notable rock 'n' roll photographers of the last 50 years. And Springsteen...

Texas is unique, not only because it is the only state to enter the Union by way of a treaty, but because a clause in that treaty gives Texas the right, in perpetuity, to divide into as many as five separate states. These "Five States of Texas" reflect...

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...

The world in bold; Newfoundland in abstract."It is the landscape that endures, it is the landscape that remains in control." -- Ned PrattWith Ned Pratt, there is no nostalgia, no romance, no theatre. His interest in the Newfoundland landscape...

"There are photographs in this book that will stay in the hearts and minds of the people who view them, and who, like Corinne Dufka, will resolve to make it their life's purpose to do what they can to help stop war." - Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer, The...

To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the...

"If you're a lover of wildlife imagery, this is worth adding to your wishlist" -Amateur Photographer "...an amazing new photobook on the giants of the animal kingdom..." -Examiner USA "This is the type of book that makes a handsome gift for any...

Women began working as photographers in the second half of the 19th century, a time when the rules of the medium had not yet been codified and experimentation was the order of the day. Some opened their own studios, patenting their own equipment and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954684365Author Andy GottsFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Dewi Lewis Media LtdPublisher Dewi Lewis Media Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080204080Author Donation Jacques Henri LartigueFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 350g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566374Author Stephen McLarenFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

At the age of 48, when she moved to the Isle of Wight, Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was given a camera by her daughter: "It might amuse you, Mother, to try to photograph during your solitude at Freshwater." The gift was to begin Cameron's short but...

August Sander (1876-1964) was a documentary photographer whose greatest project lasted his entire working life. His series of portrait studies of the German people spanned three eras - the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany - and every...

First edited and published by Marcel Marien in 1968 in a limited edition of 230 copies, half a year after Paul Nouge's death, The Subversion of Images is a miniature classic in both the photobook and surrealist canons. It collects Nouge's notes and...