Street Photography

If you were a graffiti writer in 1980s New York City, you wanted Martha Cooper to document your work-and she probably did. Cooper has spent decades immortalizing art that is often overlooked, and usually illegal. Her first book, 1984's Subway Art (a...

To be a skateboarder today is a much different experience than it was for much of the 1990s. The photographs, quotes, and anecdotal text in '93 til captures a time in skateboarding when making a liveable income as a professional skater was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868289664Author Fred SteinFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

The first definitive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier.Photographer Vivian Maier's allure endures even though many details of her life continue to remain a mystery. Her story-the secretive nanny-photographer who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817435936Author B TharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Amphoto BooksPublisher Watson-Guptill PublicationsWeight(grams) 654gDimensions(mm) 276mm *...

Sweeping contest wins since the age of thirteen, Gonzales quickly went from teen star to skate legend when he took to the streets. Widely revered as the inventor of street skating and for his groundbreaking, one-of-a-kind style, throughout the years Gonz...

Over the past few decades, the long tradition of street photography has been wholly transformed by the proliferation of digital cameras, the Internet, and smartphones. A new generation of photographers have embraced this modern technology to capture the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868288971Author Helen LevittFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

Let legendary fashion and portrait photographer Albert Watson guide you through how he captures his amazing images. In a series of bite-sized lessons Watson unveils the stories behind his most-famous shots and gives you the inspiration, tips and ideas to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524763503Author New York TimesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA Inc

Trope Tokyo, the fourth volume in the Trope City Editions series, celebrates the architecture and urban landscapes of this dynamic metropolis fusing the ancient and the ultramodern. The collection highlights the photographic images of emerging and...

From the Chanel suit to the Wonderbra, via Jackie Kennedy, Ziggy Stardust and Alexander McQueen, respected fashion journalist and editor Paula Reed explores each of the styles and visionaries that have defined the way we dress. Spanning fifty years -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203687Author Willy RonisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 350g

Discover the secrets to mastering street photography-from city streets to country roads and the alleyways in between-from an acclaimed international photographer, teacher, and bestselling author. Street photography offers treasured moments at almost...

George Byrne's photography depicts the gritty urbanism of Los Angeles in sublime otherworldliness. Arriving a decade ago, the Australian artist was immediately enthralled by the sprawling cityscape of L.A., mesmerised by the way the sunlight transformed...

Celebrate your uniqueness. Inspiring and captivating, Tattoo Street Style is a tribute to creativity and self-expression, a celebration of body, beauty and style, a manifesto for redefining the rules. Over four hundred original portraits capture...

New edition of poignant selected images from famed Life photographer W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh project. In 1955, having just resigned from his high-profile but stormy career with Life Magazine, W. Eugene Smith was commissioned to spend three weeks...

Japan's capital city for over 1000 years, Kyoto is the country's cultural and spiritual heart. Picturesque temples and prewar machiya - traditional townhouses - populate its historic districts, and are what most visitors expect to see. But one of Kyoto's...

It takes a particular blend of curiosity and courage to dive into a culture foreign to your own. In Across Japan, photographer Eren Sarigul takes us on a wide-eyed journey through the beautiful country that has fascinated him since he was a boy in south...

Learn to train your eye and improve your timing in order to capture the decisive moment!Whether it's due to social media or the introduction of great rangefinder-style digital cameras over a decade ago, street photography has experienced a remarkable...

From the creator of the popular blog Advanced Style, photographer Ari Seth Cohen's Advanced Love collects affectionate portraits of subjects who prove that love is bound by neither the constraints of age or time. The book includes 40 profiles of...

"Everyone that loves London will love this book." - Joanne Good, BBC Radio London "If you're looking for some inspiration for unusual places to photograph in the city, or just a good manual for avoiding the obvious, this is well worth looking into." - ...

Berlin Unseen is, like the first two parts of the Unseen series (London Unseen and New York Unseen), an authentic approach to the character of the German capital. At the same time, the images by Martin U. Waltz breathe the atmosphere of the metropolis on...

Cheap, democratic, easy to tag, and not always fast to fade, the sticker has been an ever-present medium from the New York and London underground punk scenes to skate culture and political expression. Featuring more than 3,000 images of stickers from...

WHAT IS THERE TO SEE? That was the question the authors of this book, Elke and Niko Rollman, heard all the time when explaining their photographic project. The answer is LOOK AGAIN, this book will encourage its readers to see the London Underground in a...

Like the first part of the Unseen series (London Unseen), New York Unseen is an authentic approach to the character of a world metropolis. It is the first illustrated book that attempts to capture the soul of the Big Apple without focusing on tourist...

The pandemic serves as background to this story of human life and dynamics in a period of great individual and global uncertainty. From self portraits taken at the height of the lockdown to street photography in New York, Europe and Argentina, Trapped...

California Locos brings together over 40 years of LA culture, presented through the eyes and hands of the artists who shaped it. Featuring three generations of legendary LA artists, this book chronicles the life and work of the five original locos, Chaz...

Starting with an early picture of a gang of badass gold prospectors who put this beautiful Northern California city on the map, this ambitious and immersive photographic history of San Francisco takes a winding tour through the city from the...

"Local or visitor, London courses through your body as if its rainbow-coloured system of underground veins is somehow intrinsically linked to your own." ~ Chris HolmesOften waking before dawn, photographer Chris Holmes captures rare moments of solitude...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681885056Author Bridget DaveyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Weldon OwenPublisher Weldon Owen

Another book from the Streets of... series, Streets of Amsterdam is yet another a contemporary take on the classic city photo book, and this time, it's wholly dedicated to MENDO's home base: Amsterdam, a city they know by heart. The book is an...

Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns. Andria Lo and Valerie Luu have been interviewing and photographing Chinatown's most fashionable elders on their blog and...

Dianne D'Cotta has always liked making records of her travel and local surroundings and a few years ago started to put together grids of 9 photos on different themes, to save space and tell a story. One day she posted one of them on social media and...

A moving, recognizable look at life on lockdown and the effect the coronavirus pandemic had across the world-because every city had a story to tell, and at the end of it all, we were all in it together. In the past year, hospitals filled, highways and...

"I never know what I'm going to capture, it's all spontaneous and that's what I love the most. I often find myself walking the streets for hours and hours taking photos. Every image I capture is the result of a little flicker that happens to catch my eye...

"Suzanne's fashion image are beautiful, bold and often strange. They perfectly capture the sartorial way of life on the runway of streets." - Amateur Photographer Shoes are part of the basic equipment of our everyday wardrobe. They can be seen as a...

Reissue of an acclaimed collection of images from photographer W. Eugene Smith's time in a New York City loft among jazz musicians. In 1957, Eugene Smith walked away from his longtime job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children...

"I prefer it when the skies are dramatic and mysterious. When I played the trumpet I used to play a lot of jazz. Jazz can be sad yet beautiful at the same time, and that feeling likes to come through when I shoot with the camera." ~ Ron Timehin Ron...

The first publication to bring together three major twentieth-century photographers - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Dorothy Bohm and Neil Libbert - presenting their artistic responses to three great world cities across three crucial decades. Today, London, Paris...