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In Ground, Bill McDowell has assembled a series of "killed" negatives from the FSA archives, many of which have never before been published. These include several photographs from 1936 that Walker Evans had made for Let Us Know Praise Famous Men, the...

Executive Order is a trenchant look at corporate America, featuring portraits and office interiors shot during the 1970s in Los Angeles and the Mountain West. A daring critique of wealth and power, Ressler wields photography with humor and insight, and...

Visual representations are an essential but highly contested means of understanding and remembering the Holocaust. Photographs taken in the camps in early 1945 provided proof of and visceral access to the atrocities. Later visual representations such as...

A fascinating account of the avant-garde photo-based arts from the early Soviet Union, featuring many previously unpublished images Finalist for a 2015 National Jewish Book Award in the Visual Arts category Following the 1917 Russian Revolution,...

The seventies in America were a time of social and cultural ferment, and Ira Resnick was there with his camera to capture it all. Now he is opening his archives to reveal hundreds of rare celebrity photos-many never seen since their original publication...

Does a photograph freeze a moment of time? What does it mean to treat a photographic image as an artefact? In the visual culture of the 21st century, do new digital and social forms change the status of photography as archival or objective - or are they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915098Author "Newark Advertiser"Format PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Since Apollo 11's first ground-breaking moon landing in 1969, the world has been engrossed in space exploration and infinitely curious about how we got there and what might be next. What enables us to break free from Earth's gravitational well? What does...

Nottingham Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of one of England's finest cities. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of Nottingham, the famous streets and the famous faces, and what they meant to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859374283Author John BainbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd.

Over the course of the twentieth century, travel experienced an unprecedented boom. As ocean liners broke speed records, aerodynamic trains roared down tracks, and stylish boat-plane clippers evolved into jumbo jets, travel transformed from a cushioned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845894047Author Julia SkinnerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint The Francis Frith CollectionPublisher The Francis Frith CollectionWeight(grams) 130g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953946013Author Keith BatchelorFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Weight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905900060Author Alan JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bryngold Books LtdPublisher Bryngold Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874538011Author Rayner RosserFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Old Bakehouse PublicationsPublisher Old Bakehouse Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953357703Author Arthur WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Arthur WardPublisher Arthur Ward

The landscape of Britain is dotted with remarkable features - Neolithic burial chambers, enigmatic hill carvings, standing stones and 15th-century memento mori. This book captures these mysteries and recounts their histories and the tales that surround...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902487014Author Colin C. HoughtonPage Count 28Imprint Darien-Jones PublishingPublisher Darien-Jones Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859371831Author Terence SackettFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd.

The photographs in this fascinating selection document the changes which overtook the county town of Staffordshire in the century following the discovery of photography. They evoke a time before the advent of the motor car, when the pace of life was so...

Upminster: The Story of a Garden Suburb is the story of how Upminster grew from a small village, regarded as an Essex beauty spot, to a thriving London suburb. It builds on previous histories and tells the story of the people and events that helped to...

A nostalgic celebration of the fabulous fifties.The 1950s was a heady mix of American excitement – cowboys, rock'n'roll, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe – and the British sense of fun that included Airfix kits, Plasticine and Hornby Dublo trains. It was a boom...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684815548Author Rob CrossFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MangoPublisher MangoWeight(grams) 1474g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859373798Author Dennis NeedhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The Francis Frith CollectionPublisher The Francis Frith Collection

London Colour Archive is a fascinating collection of early photographs, which take the reader on a tour of London. It is a tour with a difference, though, because rather than picturing historic scenes dating back to the 1850s in the usually expected...

This fascinating collection of over 200 old photographs and other documents records the vanished rural community of Norton as it was in the first half of the twentieth century. The old parish of Norton extended over a much wider area than present-day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905900145Author David RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Bryngold Books LtdPublisher Bryngold Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954209629Author Chris MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Tanners Yard PressPublisher Tanners Yard Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984518934Author Diane GleasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986282145Author Chris WemmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Brg ScientificPublisher Brg ScientificWeight(grams) 803g

Blackpool has seen massive changes in the last 120 years. At the beginning of the twentieth century, it was the leading holiday resort in England, famous for the entertainment on offer, its Illuminations and the Pleasure Beach, which drew millions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634994972Author Stephen MosierFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 9g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540235701Author Erin O WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978227323Author Dale E VictorineFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991541881Author Richard CahanFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Cityfiles PressPublisher Cityfiles PressWeight(grams) 1701gDimensions(mm) 286mm * 235mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463687694Author Adrianne Walline CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Published as a collection for the first time, these arresting and poetic and images of Northern Ireland reveal a rarely examined facet of the oeuvre of a celebrated twentieth century war photographer. Akihiko Okamura became a renowned war photographer...

"I Imagined It Empty" offers readers a deeply moving and introspective exploration of life, loss, and the enduring connections we forge with the spaces we inhabit. Immerse yourself in an emotional journey inspired by the author's personal experiences and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467127431Author William M. ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g