Photoessays & Documentaries

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,...

In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins (The Story of Film) offer an expanded, revised edition of their...

Comprehensive photographic study of surviving Battle of Little Big Horn artifacts with narratives authenticating each item. This book is a first-of-a-kind comprehensive, photographic essay regarding surviving artifacts of Custer and the Battle of the...

The Eye Mama book is a photographic portfolio showcasing the mama narrative and the mama gaze, what female and non-binary photographers see when they look at, and into the home.   Based on the Eye Mama Project, a photography platform sharing a curated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527266261Author Wayne HowesFormat HardbackPage Count 46Imprint Howes ImagesPublisher Howes Images

Cool. Whether it's a cool guy, cool sunglasses, or a cool film - the attribute 'cool', which until the early '90s was still the definitive identifier of rebellious youth culture speech, is now encountered globally and across all social classes in an...

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...

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...

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...

Understanding Photojournalism explores the interface between theory and practice at the heart of photojournalism, mapping out the critical questions that photojournalists and picture editors consider in their daily practice and placing these in context...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984860606Author Eilon PazFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It was on the banks of the Seine that Niepce and Daguerre officially gave birth to this new art that has flourished ever since, developing a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551523965Author Joe KeithleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 1114g

A timeless, universal meditation on the meaning of love, based on the author's travels through France, accompanied by stunning full-colour photographs 'A collection of intimate and heartfelt confessions of what love means, each with a wonderfully...

Now available in an updated and revised edition, 'Photos that Changed the World' gathers together images of pivotal moments in world history in one stunning volume. In lavish two-page spreads, this book presents nearly one hundred of history's most...

The story of Snoop's musical and spiritual journey to Jamaica, reaching its culmination during the recording of his most recent album and captured in VICE and Snoopadelic Films documentary Reincarnated. Immediately following the death of longtime friend...

A Scotsman Best Photography Book of 2017 Texts by Filippo Grandi, UN High Comissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, and Robert Del Naja, Massive Attack In October 2015, Giles Duley was commissioned by the UNHCR to document the refugee crisis. Over the next seven...

Part memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed Templeton’s Wires Crossed pulses with the raw, combustive energy of Templeton’s image-making from the last twenty-plus...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566893Author Harry BordenFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

"This modern, refreshing examination of today's American cowboys and cowgirls is something people will want to revisit time and time." - Yahoo "...captures the pioneering spirit of modern cowboys and cowgirls, turning the camera on high-stakes rodeos,...

At no time has the humming energy of New York City been more passionately and extensively captured than right now, through the lens of Instagram. Spurred on by the vibrant and creative Instagram community, both amateur and professional photographers...

A compelling social and cultural history of Britain since the Second World War, showing how photographers have depicted the country over the last seventy years. Another Country offers a lively, vital rethinking of British documentary photography over...

Teryoshin deliberately obscures the faces of the business men and women present as it is not his intention to fix blame on individuals. Thea nonymised arms dealers can be seen as a metaphor for a business operating in the shadows and under the radar of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934429839Author Hugh HollandFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint AMMO Books LLCPublisher AMMO Books LLC

Ballet is a breathtaking photographic collection, celebrating the precision, athleticism and artistry of classical and contemporary ballet. Live performances allow us to admire ballet's visual splendour from afar, but rarely are we given the...

This Is My Life I'm Talking About by Danny Lyon is a picaresque memoir written from inside the heart of the revolutionary twentieth century by one of its most crucial witnesses. From his groundbreaking documentation of the Civil Rights Movement and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904794424Author Sirkka-Liisa KonttinenFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Northumbria University PressPublisher McNidder & Grace

William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of colour photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of colour photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show...

In this gloriously illustrated companion to her crime novels featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, Ann Cleeves takes readers through a year on Shetland. Discover its past, meet its people, celebrate its festivals and see how the flora and fauna of the islands...

One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958-1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique, memorable effect. With thick black outlines, bright...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783888142925Author August SanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbHPublisher Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566619Author Mike GoldwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912213559Author Diane BarkerFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 10mm

Beautiful Bacteria merges stunning imagery with a new way of looking at something we interact with every day. Each chapter introduces the different types of bacteria around us, illustrated with singularly beautiful photographs of these minute life forms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467123662Author J. Gregory PirmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999643379Author Margot RaggettFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Remembering WildlifePublisher Remembering Wildlife

The first publication of Ernest Cole's photographs depicting Black lives in the United States during the turbulent and eventful late 1960s and early '70s After the publication of his landmark 1967 book House of Bondage on the horrors of apartheid,...

World War II is one of the first conflicts to be extensively recorded in detail by both combatants and journalists, and many iconic photos of the fighting and battlefields have been passed down to us today. But how do these battlefields look now,...