Art & Photography Books
Orion Publishing Co The Pocket Photographer: How to take beautiful
Book SynopsisAn accessible guide to getting the best out of your phone camera, aimed at everyone who wants to take Instagrammable photographsEveryone has a camera on their phone. Author Mike Kus, a photographer with a strong Instagram following, demonstrates the simple tricks and techniques that take your photography to another level. His methods can be mastered by anyone, and the content avoids reference to specific phone camera technology, instead relying on the clear principles to make you a better photographer, regardless of the camera you own. The book is written, designed and illustrated by the author.Trade Review'Mike is an evangelist of smartphone photography; not because he's not at home with a camera, but because he feels that a great image matters more than what it was captured on. Over 144 pages, Mike's engaging visual approach guides you through how to produce memorable images with just the phone in your pocket. And as the principles in the book are as relevant to cameras as they are to camera phones, The Pocket Photographer is also an accessible and unstuffy primer about photography.' -- Niall Hampton * Digital Camera magazine *
£13.49
September Publishing Advice for the Soul
Book SynopsisA stylish gift and inspirational self-purchase that distills Van Gogh''s extraordinary writings, artistic talent, creative insight and ambition.With a flexibound cover and gold foiling, this beautiful book features more than 100 artworks from the Van Gogh Museum collection and quotes that bring affirmation, solace and spiritual guidance.Well placed to share advice for the soul, Van Gogh worked in the face of extreme mental health problems for more than a decade and overcame extreme adversity to become one of history''s most important and inspiring artists.Other titles in this series include The Healing Power of Nature and Creative Inspiration.
£12.59
Counter-Print Three Dimensional Type
Book SynopsisThis extraordinary compilation showcases the limitless possibilities of letter forms transformed into three-dimensional objects of art. Step into the captivating world of three-dimensional typography with Three Dimensional Type' by Counter-Print Books. This extraordinary compilation showcases the limitless possibilities of letter forms transformed into objects of art, inviting your imagination to take flight. Explore the fusion of the familiar and the extraordinary as designers push the boundaries of perception and creativity. Discover the freedom from rules and guidelines, the integration of AI and advanced software tools and the profound exploration of texture.
£17.00
Propolis Smiling At The Storm: East Anglian Folk Art
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£23.80
Tate Publishing Edward Burra
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£32.00
Chris Andrews Publications Ltd Romance of the Cotswolds Calendar 2026
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£999.99
Chris Andrews Publications Ltd Oxford Diary 2026
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£9.49
Chris Andrews Publications Ltd Oxford Large Desktop Calendar 2026
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£6.64
Chris Andrews Publications Ltd Jericho calendar 2026
£10.44
Smith Street Books Yum
Book SynopsisA delicious mix-and-match book for discovering shapes. Yum! is a mix-and-match book that invites you to flip through its pages to reassemble the fruit cups or create brand new ones. A deliciously fun and interactive way for little ones to discover shapes.
£13.50
Pointed Leaf Press Beauty All Around
Book SynopsisPointed Leaf Press is proud to introduce Beauty All Around, a new book by the extraordinary designer Kendall Wilkinson. Wilkinson is a joyful creator, taking her clients’ dreams and transforming them into beautiful homes. As one of the most sought-after designers on the West Coast, her interiors are luxuriously playful yet always deeply personal. Inspired by generations of strong women, Wilkinson’s family history helped to form the aesthetic principles she holds today. Her new book invites the reader into Wilkinson’s world, where she is the master of dualities: traditional and contemporary, textured and smooth, shape and color, all combining into a singular body of work. This book reflects Wilkinson’s uniquely collaborative approach, where the character of the house reflects its occupants’ own passions and interests. With rich illustrations of impressive penthouses and stunning family compounds, Beauty All Around exhibits the pinnacle of luxury and holistic, subtle refinement.
£68.00
Cameron & Company Inc Gold Mountain, Big City: Ken Cathcart’s 1947
Book SynopsisThe unique character of San Francisco’s Chinatown is revealed in a historical map and fascinating photographs This colorful and celebratory time capsule of San Francisco’s Chinatown—the largest Chinese community outside of Asia—shares the stories of the unique businesses, culture, and people encountered by map illustrator Ken Cathcart between 1939 and 1955. Each section of this stylized map, supplemented by Cathcart’s never-before-seen black-and-white photographs, is explained in meticulous detail, revealing glimpses of the immigration story universal to America and exploring the struggles, triumphs, and enduring legacy of this vibrant community.Trade ReviewUrban historians and armchair travelers alike will enjoy this spectacular tour. * Publishers Weekly *“... this stylized cultural map of the largest Chinese community outside of Asia is brought to life by vivid details and photographs.” * The New York Times *
£25.50
Remembering Wildlife Remembering African Wild Dogs
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£42.75
Editions Flammarion Dior in Bloom
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£63.75
Michel albin SA Ricard
£49.50
Michel albin SA Le Domaine des Étangs
£49.50
Florentin Best of Venice
£85.00
Braun Publishing AG Inspired & Inspiring: Labs, Studios and Workshops
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£31.96
Niggli Verlag Structuring Design: Graphic Grids in Theory and
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£23.96
Niggli Verlag Olympic Games: The Design
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£131.25
Taschen GmbH Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. 45th
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£20.00
Hatje Cantz Stefan Marx Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisKeep it like a Secret In 2019, Stefan Marx began his series of monotypes. In collaboration with Berlin-based screen printer Bjorn Wiede, he developed his own working method: Three individual images are created in three steps - one positive, one negative and the ghost. What initially fascinated him about this new approach was the bold application of paint and the intensity of the pigments. During the application of the paint, the surface of the picture itself is not touched - instead the image results from the manipulations on the silkscreen itself. Many of these Monotypes are typefaces - Marx's signature wry sayings and quotations-but there are also figurative motifs, including animal drawings and other symbols from his pictorial inventory. This book follows on from the volume Type Works from 2020. Again, Marx has developed this book as an artists' book, creating a fascinating interleaving between the final works and the design sketches from his notebooks.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz James Howell Bilingual edition
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£38.40
Hirmer Verlag All the Beauty at Hand: A Brief History of Hirmer
Book SynopsisThis attractively designed publication documents the work of Hirmer Verlag during the past 65 years. Since 1948 a total of over 1,100 titles have appeared under this brand name. True to the motto “Art books that set standards,” the publishers have always worked in the service of art, upholding their determination to maintain the very highest quality. A book about those who make books and those who sell them, about book art and art books, about partnership with museums and loyalty to authors.
£12.56
Prestel Egon Schiele
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£24.00
Taschen GmbH Rock Covers. 40th Ed.
Book SynopsisAlbum art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks—the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixtures in popular culture. Paying tribute to this art form, Rock Covers brings you a compilation of more than 750 remarkable album covers, from legendary to rare record releases. Artists as varied as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Iron Maiden, and Sonic Youth are presented in celebration of the cover art that defined their albums and their cult status. Each cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing the art director, photographer or illustrator, year, label, and more, while nearly 250 records that marked particular turning points for a band, an artist, or the music genre, are highlighted with short descriptions. This far-reaching catalog of visualized rock is contextualized with insider interviews with professionals who shaped the history of rock, and by top-10 record lists from ten leading rock collectors.Trade Review“The material is wonderful. The subject merits so thorough and authoritative an account and caption details are good.” * The Spectator *“A lovingly and illuminatingly annotated journey.” * Metal Hammer *“A full anthology of familiar – and wonderfully obscure – rock albums.” * Nylon Magazine *
£22.50
Taschen GmbH The Eiffel Tower
Book Synopsis“The Tower is also present to the entire world... a universal symbol of Paris... from the Midwest to Australia, there is no journey to France which isn’t made, somehow, in the Tower’s name.” — Roland Barthes When Gustave Eiffel completed his wrought iron tower on Paris’s Champ de Mars for the World’s Fair in 1889, he laid claim to the tallest structure in the world. Though the Chrysler Building would, 41 years later, scrape an even higher sky, the Eiffel Tower lost none of its lofty wonder: originally granted just a 20-year permit, the Tower became a permanent and mesmerizing fixture on the Parisian skyline. Commanding by day, twinkling by night, it has mesmerized Francophiles and lovers, writers, artists, and dreamers from all over the world, welcoming around seven million visitors every single year. Based on an original, limited edition folio by Gustave Eiffel himself, this fresh TASCHEN edition explores the concept and construction of this remarkable building. Step by step, one latticework layer after another, Eiffel’s iconic design evolves over double-page plates, meticulous drawings, and on-site photographs, including new images and even more historical context. The result is at once a gem of vintage architecture and a unique insight into the idea behind an icon.Trade Review“A superb homage to the architect and his creation.” * Francetoday.com *
£27.00
Taschen GmbH Tadao Ando. Sketches Drawings and Architecture
£127.50
Taschen GmbH Piranesi. The Complete Etchings
Book SynopsisThe most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. His startling, chiaroscuro images imbued the city’s archaeological ruins with drama and romance and became favorite souvenirs for the Grand Tourists who traveled Italy in pursuit of classical culture and education. Today, Piranesi is renowned not just for shaping the European imagination of Rome, but also for his elaborate series of fanciful prisons, Carceri, which have influenced generations of creatives since, from the Surrealists to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka. Loosely based on contemporary stage sets rather than the actual dingy dungeons of Piranesi’s day, these intricate images defy architectural reality to play instead with perspective, lighting, and scale. Staircases exist on two planes simultaneously; vast, vaulted ceilings seem to soar up to the heavens; interior and exterior distinctions collapse. With a low viewpoint and small, fragile figures, the prison scenes become monstrous megacities of incarceration, celebrated to this day as masterworks of existentialist drama.Trade Review“The Eternal City has never looked as poetic as in the hand of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the greatest printmaker of the 18th century. This new oversize coffee table book unites all his etchings of Rome’s crumbling monuments and fantastical gardens.” * The New York Times *
£57.00
Taschen GmbH Living in Morocco. 40th Ed.
Book SynopsisThough it lies just across the Mediterranean from Europe, barely a stone’s throw from Spain’s southernmost tip, Morocco couldn’t possibly be farther away. With its mountainous and desert landscapes, labyrinthine souks, delectable cuisine, exquisite rugs and textiles, vibrant mosaics, fragrant odors, mesmerizing music, and welcoming people, Morocco is a most alluring and tantalizingly exotic destination. Digging a little deeper into the myth of Morocco, Barbara and René Stoeltie bring us this eclectic selection of homes to demonstrate all that is most wonderful about the Moroccan style: from tiled, turquoise swimming pools and lavish gardens to carved wooden furniture and jade-colored marble fountains. With more than 500 pages featuring stunning, inspiring photographs, flipping through these fairy tale-like visions of exotic havens (ideally while sipping a steaming cup of sweet, fragrant mint tea) will instantly whisk you away.Trade Review“An absolutely gorgeous collection of images that goes beyond the well-trodden tourist path and into people’s homes.” * TNT *"This is one of those shamelessly beautiful books you can disappear into. You can almost feel the sun on your back and the promise of a mint tea." * Livingetc *“Open this fairy tale book of dazzling beauty and depart on your own journey into Moroccan style.” * QH Book *"Everything wonderful about Moroccan style." * London Evening Standard *
£22.50
Taschen GmbH The Little Book of Tom. Bikers
Book SynopsisIn 1953 Marlon Brando donned a black leather Perfecto motorcycle jacket, military cap, denim jeans, and engineer boots to portray Johnny, sneering leader of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, in The Wild One. In 1954 Tom of Finland abandoned brown leather in his artwork to create his own wild ones: muscular, hyper-masculine, black leather-clad rebels with powerful engines between their legs. The look was adopted by the Satyrs Motorcycle Club, the first gay outlaw club, that same year, making Tom’s fantasy world reality. Of course, being Tom, he soon customized his new gay icons, adding leather jodhpurs, knee high boots and leather caps, and every motorcycle bore the brand name “Tom” on the gas tank. Tom’s bikers first appeared as two “Motorcycle Boys” in Physique Pictorial, Winter 1958. Another made the cover of the April 1960 issue. Bikers dominated his PP content from then on, as a nod to its American readership as much as his growing obsession. When he sought an ongoing character, a personal avatar, in 1968, he created Kake as the ultimate biker leatherman, and elaborated on his riding adventures – of every kind - through 26-panel stories. Tom adopted Kake’s gear as his own, presenting in black leather jacket, white t-shirt, jeans, and high boots to the end of his life. The Little Book of Tom: Bikers includes Tom’s earliest images for Physique Pictorial, Kake in motorcycle gear, biker panel stories, and sizzling single drawings, all packed into 192 pages of sexy, masculine men enjoying other masculine men in black leather, blue jeans, and high black boots. On bikes.
£14.25
Taschen GmbH Hiroshige & Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along
Book SynopsisThe Kisokaidō route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country’s then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenance and lodging to weary travelers. In 1835, renowned woodblock print artist Keisai Eisen was commissioned to create a series of works to chart the Kisokaidō journey. After producing 24 prints, Eisen was replaced by Utagawa Hiroshige, who completed the series of 70 prints in 1838.Both Eisen and Hiroshige were master print practitioners. In The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaidō, we find the artists’ distinct styles as much as their shared expertise. From the busy starting post of Nihonbashi to the castle town of Iwamurata, Eisen opts for a more muted palette but excels in figuration, particularly of glamorous women, and relishes snapshots of activity along the route, from shoeing a horse to winnowing rice. Hiroshige demonstrates his mastery of landscape with grandiose and evocative scenes, whether it’s the peaceful banks of the Ota River, the forbidding Wada Pass, or a moonlit ascent between Yawata and Mochizuki.Taken as a whole, The Sixty-Nine Stations collection represents not only a masterpiece of woodblock practice, including bold compositions and an experimental use of color, but also a charming tapestry of 19th-century Japan, long before the specter of industrialization. This TASCHEN volume is sourced from one of the finest surviving first editions and revives the series in our compact anniversary edition.Trade Review“A masterpiece of Japanese woodblock prints, an exquisitely designed illustrated book.” * Kulturzeit *“An incredible ticket to travel.” * L’Express *“Spectacular views, local delicacies, hot spring baths, and other more carnal pursuits.” * The New York Times *
£22.50
Die Gestalten Verlag Handmade in Japan: The Pursuit of Perfection in Traditional Crafts
£34.00
Thames & Hudson Destiny Is a Rose
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£41.60
Vitra Design Museum Catwalk
Book SynopsisAn encyclopedic exploration of all facets of the fashion show, from its beginnings around 1900 to the present day An encyclopedic exploration of all facets of the fashion show, from its beginnings around 1900 to the present day Fashion shows are special moments in the fashion industry simultaneously ritualistic and dreamlike, both commercial and poetic. Their images spread across the globe in real time, shaping our cultural memory. Stage design, performance, clothing, light, and sound come together to form a temporary Gesamtkunstwerk a comprehensive artwork. The exhibition Catwalk offers a look behind-the-scenes and explores the fascinating evolution of the fashion show: from its modest beginnings in couturiers' salons around 1900 to the spectacular presentations of the twenty-first century; from haute couture to prêt-à-porter; from the era of supermodels to the celebration of diversity; from classic catwalk photography to the virtual fashion show. The exhibition catalog is conceived as an encyclopedic A to Z and sheds light on the fashion show phenomenon and its history in all its facets, from backstage to front row, from model to performance, from pose to vogueing. In text contributions and interviews, the book gives numerous experts and protagonists from the fashion world a chance to have their say. Illustrations range from archival materials and fashion show ephemera to backstage and catwalk photography.
£44.25
Hartmann Books After Nature Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 2025 Lisa Barnard
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£17.00
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Roses
Book SynopsisIn wise words, Christian Dior once proclaimed: "Flowers are, apart from women, the most beautiful gift God has given the world." The new teNeues series, Floramour, which henceforth honourably celebrates the most exquisite natural beauties that adorn our gardens, proves just how right he was. Each series title is dedicated to a genus of flowers, viewed from an aesthetic perspective. In a noble presentation with impressive pictures and interesting texts, an exciting portrait of our favourite flowers is created. It begins with the rose. Whoever gives a rose as a gift will conquer all hearts in an instant, for like no other of its fellows it is regarded as a symbol of romantic passion. As a faithful helpmate, it has been accompanying declarations of love since time immemorial, making it a real Everybody's Darling. But authentic message transmission is not limited to the gift of the much-loved rose. Flowers have always acted as mouthpieces - and sometimes they can express more than the most beautiful words can. The illustrated book enables flower enthusiasts to get to know their favourites from a different perspective. With less pragmatism, but more cultural history, the reader is stylishly introduced to their geographical origin, their significance in the world of art, religion and history, as well as their most famous followers in pop culture. It becomes clear that these flowers have real character! Text in English and German.Table of ContentsForeword 10 Wild Roses 18 Cultivated Roses, Old Roses 18 The Rose in the Garden 58 Cuisine, Cosmetics, and Medicine 68 Legends, Culture, and History 86
£23.96
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd It’s All About Denim
Book SynopsisWhat would the fashion world be without denim? The robust cotton fabric is without doubt one of the timeless materials in the fashion circus. Whether as trousers, dresses, for shoes or accessories, denim finds its justification everywhere. With the coffee-table book It's All About Denim, Suzanne Middlemass pays tribute to this unique circumstance and dedicates an entire book in her street style series to the blue all-rounder. The aesthetic images convey the casual look that is achieved specifically through jeans fashion. The well-known fashion photographer Suzanne Middlemass regularly publishes her street style and backstage photographs in well-known fashion and lifestyle magazines such as VOGUE, Elle, GQ and Grazia. Her work is also part of an international exhibition featuring the work of 50 female street style photographers. With her It's All About series, the artist now sorts her best shots thematically for the first time. Whether denim, animal print or dresses, Suzanne presents a varied portfolio for the respective different approaches to fashion.
£21.25
Gestalten Chanel Bags
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£41.25
Gestalten Living Heritage
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£52.50
Pie Intl Inc Junya Watanabe Photography Collection Yakousuikei
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£32.78
Museum of Fine Art, Budapest / Hungarian National Gallery The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
£44.00
Hopp Ferenc Azsiai Muveszeti Muzeum Why Theosophy
£44.00
Strandberg Publishing New Danish Architecture
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£52.00
Skira Editore Cézanne Renoir
Book SynopsisCécile Girardeau is conservator and curator at the Musée dell'Orangerie in Paris. Stefano Zuffi, an Italian art historian and exhibition curator, has published numerous volumes on art from the Renaissance to the 18th century.
£32.00
Skira Francesco Vezzoli
£36.00
Skira Editore Park SeoBo Korean edition
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£32.00
Five Continents Editions Bruno Sassarone Paris
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£36.90
