Monographs

The first monograph of trailblazing photographer Anastasia Samoylova is a vital - and gently humorous - meditation on environmentalism, consumer culture and our disorientating times. Adaptation is the first career survey on Anastasia Samoylova, one of...

This long overdue monograph presents a panorama of portraits from the photographer William Coupon. Coupon was given wide access to artists, musicians, politicians, authors, and the world's indigenous people on assignment from major publications like ...

Liam Wong's debut monograph, a cyberpunk-inspired exploration of nocturnal Tokyo.'I want to take real moments and transform them into something surreal, to make the viewer question the reality depicted in each photograph. This body of work encompasses my...

With a career spanning nearly half a century, Bill Brandt was a master of several major genres of photography: photojournalism, portraiture, the nude and landscapes. At first glance, Brandt's genres may appear unrelated, but when analysing his career in...

A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by Warhol and Mapplethorpe, presented side by side and in depth for the first time Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) are well known for significant work in portraiture...

The celebrated contemporary photographer Michael Kenna presents a gorgeous new collection of images, all photographed with plastic Holga cameras. Michael Kenna is internationally renowned for producing evocative black-and-white images of nature and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969993132Author Edward BurtynskyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1760g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525573883Author Vikki TobakFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

For more than 20 years, Vincent Peters has been playing in the first league of international photography. The Bremen-born artist is at home in Paris and Ibiza and sees the world as his playing field. His unmistakable signature of sensitive, classic shots...

The first sightings of newly discovered work from Saul Leiter's abundant archive of colour slides. Now widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923-2013) remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by...

An up-close portrayal of late-'90s London's many music scenes, from the pages of Sleazenation and beyond In the late 1990s, as a graduate from art school, the British photographer Ewen Spencer began making pictures for Sleazenation, in particular for the...

Instant Newton: A collection of Helmut Newton's test Polaroids Polaroids occupy a special place in the hearts of many photo enthusiasts who remember a time when "instant photography" meant one-of-a-kind prints that developed within minutes of...

Jim Marshall created iconic images of rock 'n' roll stars, jazz greats, and civil rights leaders. He had the power to look into the soul of an individual and to capture the mood of an entire generation. This deluxe, career-spanning volume showcases...

Powerful portraits from the 1960s "Black Is Beautiful" movement. In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the political slogan "Black Is Beautiful." This monograph-the first ever dedicated to...

The volume collects a rich selection of photographs from the archives of the Magnum Photos agency, taken by Robert Capa, in a combination of emblematic shots of his work and images that have appeared more rarely. The intent is to hint at some facets of a...

Daido Moriyama is one of two new books this season in Thames & Hudson's acclaimed 'Photofile' series. Each book brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an easily affordable price. Hailed by The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907893803Author Martin ParrFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 331g

Brooklyn-born photographer Helen Levitt (1913-2009) was an assistant to Walker Evans and a friend of Henri Cartier-Bresson, but forged her own path with fierce independence and endless curiosity about the world around her. She is best known for her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869251625Format HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporainPublisher Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporainWeight(grams)...

Magical images that defy time from the grand master of conceptual photography. Through his expansive exploration of the possibilities of still images, the internationally renowned artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has created some of the most...

"This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, there'd be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So I'm going at it this way, through photographs and quotes. And this is, I feel, a better way for me to do it." -...

In 1975, fresh out of art school, Martin Parr found poor footing in the London photography scene, so he moved to the picturesque Yorkshire Pennine mill town of Hebden Bridge. Over a period of five years, he documented the town in photographs, showing in...

"...a captivating book covering a wide spectrum of animal behaviour and species... this is a book to make you re-think the role of the female." -BBC Wildlife In the lion world, only the females hunt - because they do it best! The boss of a hyena...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171264916Format HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Bokforlaget Max StromPublisher Bokforlaget Max StromWeight(grams) 1120g

The updated retrospective published for McCullin's 80th birthday. Contains 40 new unpublished photographs and a new introduction - the definitive edition.McCullin's reputation has long been established as one of the greatest photographers of conflict in...

In 2011, Bruce Gilden was commissioned by the Archive of Modern Conflict to photograph the people and places of London. Working in both colour and black and white, Bruce Gilden captured the diversity of characters that populate the streets of London. One...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788862088190Author Alex PragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint DamianiPublisher Damiani

First published in 1967, Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage has been lauded as one of the most significant photobooks of the twentieth century, revealing the horrors of apartheid to the world for the first time and influencing generations of photographers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867199277Author Murray BowlesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1400g

'Yevonde's '30s portraits of high-society beauties and Hollywood stars are finally getting the attention they deserve.' - British Vogue 'Yevonde: Life and Colour opens at the revamped National Portrait Gallery ... and will feature a comprehensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967041262Author Chris BurkardFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

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When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of forty-eight, she was already a significant influence-even something of a legend-among serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known at the time...

Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert was one of the first European photographers to explore the creative potential of colour in the 1970s and 1980s. This book brings together his best work, including images from his renowned 1972 series TV Shots and...

"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...

Learn how renowned photographer and conservationist David Yarrow manages to get his incredible shots. For two decades Yarrow has been venturing further and further afield in search of amazing animals to photograph. Here he shares the incredible knowledge...

Ten years after publishing Illuminance in 2011, Aperture is delighted to bring this beloved book back into print, retaining Rinko Kawauchi's original sequence and signature melding of keenly observed gestures, quotidian detail, and a finely honed palette...

'An eerie record of disaster, absence, the power of nature and frozen time.' - Edwin Heathcote, in 'Best Books of 2020' Financial Times This photography-led book reveals the story of Chernobyl today, with unprecedented access to the Zone, it takes the...

The North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom. At the same time, it's a profoundly masculine myth-cowboys, outlaws, Beat poets. Photographer Justine Kurland reclaimed this space in her now-iconic series of...

Rarely-seen color work from the preeminent master of postwar American street photography This monograph stands as a groundbreaking tribute to the early color work of renowned American photographer Garry Winogrand. While he is most recognized for his...