Photoessays & Documentaries

For Naked City, his first collection, Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. Lewd, louche, licentious but always brimming with life (except when brimming with death), Weegee's photographs have endured...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969001202Author Philip ArneillFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137487Format PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597114738Author Josef KoudelkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint AperturePublisher ApertureWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 163mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576875506Author Teruyoshi HayashidaFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 521g

"And now David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll With Me is out in the world - perhaps the closest you'll get to being on tour with Bowie in that era without a time machine and a backstage pass." - InsideHook "His photographic memoir reveals untold stories and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (Grand Prize) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780944092699Author Leon F. LitwakFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Twin Palms...

The name Titanic has become synonymous with catastrophe, the story of this luxurious liner legendary. Wrecked after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage, the loss of around 1,500 lives among her passengers and crew has gone down in history as...

Paris... so familiar and yet surprising. In pastel shades and dazzling details like the palette of French Impressionism, Serge Ramelli presents a unique and personal photo homage to the City of Lights. With romance and history in her blood, Paris shows...

This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world. It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people-mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others-lost...

Full of pop, punk and personalities, The 1970s Scrapbook sways through this energetic era on platform shoes to the beat of glam rock and disco mania. Teenyboppers screamed for their idols, whether David Cassidy, David Essex, The Osmonds, Bay City Rollers...

A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. In this neat, dependable monograph, we gather all of Klimt's major works alongside...

Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places in the USSR. Once thriving buildings now ravaged by nature and time are the subject of this fascinating, coffee-table book. Relics of the Soviet conquest of space, Moscow Pioneer camps, remnants of...

Illustrated with 200 outstanding photographs, Dangerous Animals presents an in-depth look at the natural world's most deadly creatures, from poisonous spiders and sea snakes to aggressive lions and man-eating sharks. The selection spans a broad spectrum...

With an introduction by Hubertus von Amelunxen Media philosopher Vilem Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science and politics provided him with new ways of...

WINNER OF THE 2021 WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, this book is a celebration of the elegance and timeless beauty of cricket its greatest and most stylish players, from past heroes to today s stars, along with its idyllic and hallowed grounds. Cricket...

'Remarkably powerful.' Washington Post'A compelling polemic, dismaying and often moving.' Jake Kerridge, Daily TelegraphNo issue divides Americans more deeply than the debate around guns. Paul Auster begins his examination of gun violence by looking into...

This hefty photographic portrait of Rome brings together hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through to today to explore the extraordinary history, beauty, and art of this incomparable cultural capital. From sepia and black and white to color, these...

Meet 50 women, from queens and politicians to explorers and sports figures, who changed the world. These 50 women pursued their ambitions and achieved their dreams - even when the world tried to tell them they shouldn't. They enjoyed successes and...

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...

Berlin has survived two world wars, was divided by a wall during the Cold War, and after the fall of the wall was reunited. The city emerged as a center of European power and culture. From 1860 to the present day, this book is the most comprehensive...

Hailed as the most successful and inspiring exhibition of photography ever assembled The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art in January 1955. This book, the permanent embodiment of Steichen's monumental exhibition, reproduces all of the 503...

From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city's cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. It...

Now available in Paperback. Get up close and personal with the world's best street photographers as they capture the drama of everyday life at 1/125 of a second. Prowl pavements and back alleys, encountering comic absurdities, small acts of kindness and...

As our closest relatives in the animal world, monkeys have always fascinated and amused humans in equal measure. Monkeys is an outstanding collection of photographs showing these complex, intelligent animals in their natural habitat. Arranged in chapters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914314407Author Sophie HowarthFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914314353Author Rachel Segal HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

The third literary anthology in the series that has been called 'ambitious' (O Magazine) and 'strikingly international' (Boston Globe), Freeman's: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and scope, with stunning new pieces from emerging writers...

A photography book that is a vital accompaniment to the many fans of Hilary Mantel's bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy 'At the very beginning of the twentieth century, Zola said, ''In my view you cannot claim to have...

Breathtaking photography captures the soul and passion of this spectacular land of bagpipes, heather, thistle, and tartans. This enchanting collection of images celebrates Scotland's world-famous vistas-the lofty highlands, placid lochs, and misty glens,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587798Author Martin ParrFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 787g

"While there's no shortage of incredibly chic photos from Hepburn's time in the spotlight here, original sketches of Holly Golightly's costumes and jewels truly can't be missed." - Natural Diamonds "This entrancing book portrays Hepburn's majesty both...

Day by day, tweet by tweet, it often feels like our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it possible the greatest and most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this acclaimed series, Freeman's Love asks this question,...

"If you're into space exploration, this stunning book is pretty much a must-have. It contains pretty much every legacy Apollo snap in one go, alongside some lesser-known pics that are just as spellbinding." - Amy Glover, BuzzFeed July 2019 marks the...

Don McCullin is one of four new titles being published in Autumn 2007 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...

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

*DEBBIE JOHNSON'S GORGEOUSLY ROMANTIC AND UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL, FOREVER YOURS, IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW!*'Emotional, beautiful, wonderful. Debbie Johnson at her finest' MILLY JOHNSON'Romantic, heartbreaking and packed with Debbie's trademark warmth...

Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays - meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems - and not a single image. Herve Guibert's brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to Roland Barthes'...

There is a layer of the public architecture that has become so familiar that we barely notice it. Street furniture has the capacity to define a city, to locate it and to anchor us within it. Benches, bollards, streetlights, signs, barriers, post boxes,...