Photography and photographs Books
Publications International, Ltd. 100 Years of American Cars
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£18.62
Publications International, Ltd. Built for Speed: The World's Fastest Road Cars
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£19.98
Graywolf Press See/Saw: Looking at Photographs
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human ConditionSee/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in photographers from early in the last century to the present day-including artists such as Eugene Atget, Vivian Maier, Roy DeCarava, and Alex Webb-the celebrated writer Geoff Dyer offers a series of moving, witty, prescient, surprising, and intimate encounters with images.Dyer has been writing about photography for thirty years, and this tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair gathers his lively, engaged criticism over the course of a decade. A rich addition to Dyer's The Ongoing Moment, and heir to Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Susan Sontag's On Photography, and John Berger's Understanding a Photograph, See/Saw shows how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, revealing a brilliant seer at work. It is a paean to art and art writing by one of the liveliest critics of our day.
£20.40
Publications International, Ltd. Classic Cars: 60 Years of Driving Excellence
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£999.99
Publications International, Ltd. Concept Cars: Designing the Future (Brick Book)
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£13.98
Authorhouse Empty: New York City in Lockdown
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£59.49
North Star Press of Saint Cloud Inc The Medicine of Place
Book SynopsisIn TheMedicine of Place, the reserved, spartan poetry of J. Vincent Hanson mixes seamlessly with the deep-hued photographs of everyday objects by Chuck Norwood. The result is an earthy and sweat-scented homage to old-fashioned hard work and the beauty to be found in the minutia of a life well-lived and a place well-loved.
£13.25
WW Norton & Co Seashells
Book SynopsisSeashells are tiny treasures, each one completely unlike any other. Their variety of shapes, colors, and sizes makes collecting—and even searching for—seashells a favorite pastime of avid and occasional beachcombers alike. As she did for the ocean’s other jewels in Sea Glass and Sea Glass Seeker, photographer Cindy Bilbao captures the ridges, striations, and hues of delicate shells everywhere she finds them. Displaying sun- bleached fragments, glittering, cantaloupe- colored nacre, and scallop shells washed by the tides, Bilbao’s photographs embody magic and mystery. From weathered quahogs and mussels on the cooler shores of New England to a rich, chestnut-colored Florida Fighting Conch shell nestled in the sands of its namesake state, she describes in intricate detail how these shells are formed and why they look the way they do. Complete with Bilbao’s expert tips for finding the most unique shells and enjoying the hunt, Seashells is the perfect gift for any anyone who loves the beach.
£11.99
WW Norton & Co Mushroom Wanderland: A Forager's Guide to
Book SynopsisForaging for mushrooms is a meditative and rewarding escape. Even if readers aren’t ready to head out into the woods, this enchanting visual guide is a welcome introduction to 25 easily identifiable species, organized by location and use. Author Jess Starwood has led hundreds of foraging trips, sharing her knowledge of nature with students. This, her first book, is a celebration of fungi—perfect for both beginner and longtime mushroom admirers. No matter their use, all mushrooms have specific characteristics that are easy to recognize with the right teacher. Under Starwood’s guidance, readers will learn to identify caps, stipes, gills, and pores. They’ll encounter species such as Reishi, Lion’s Mane, Candy Cap, Chanterelle, and more; learn the best harvesting seasons; and enjoy delicious recipes using culinary favorites. But, above all, this guide will have readers growing their connection to nature and dreaming of the wonderful world of fungi.
£19.99
WW Norton & Co Beautiful Wounds: A Search for Solace and Light
Book SynopsisCarved and scoured by catastrophic floods at the end of the most recent ice age, the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington State dazzle with their harsh beauty and the diversity of their natural features, including great waterfalls, sprawling canyons, and cinematic palisades. In this pictorial love letter to the region, writer and photographer Timothy Connor expertly combines stunning images, engaging field notes, historical narrative, and a touching personal sojourn. His photography captures the sweeping horizons, braided wetlands, and vibrant wildlife, while his words examine the once-mystifying landmarks of the area through the story of J Harlen Bretz, the geologist who, in the 1920s, first suggested that massive floods formed the Scablands’ epic cataracts and inexplicably deep lakes. Incorporating the poignant story of Connor’s own journey of grief, Beautiful Wounds offers a moving, visual tribute to the enduring power of nature and the healing power of time.Trade Review"Tim Connor frames the raw skeleton of the Columbia Basin landscape between his own acute visual sense and human emotion. The result is a delicately shaded personal journey that reflects all the twists and turmoil of our signature geological event." -- Jack Nisbet, author of Ancient Places and The Dreamer and the Doctor
£23.75
Time Inc. Books 100 Best Celebrity Photos
Book SynopsisSince its first issue debuted with a Great Gatsby portrait of Mia Farrow, People magazine has delivered not only outstanding celebrity journalism, but also the best in personality photography. Now, the Editors of People present The 100 Best Celebrity Photos. From a Marilyn Monroe pin-up to an internet-breaking Kim Kardashian Instagram, from Harry Benson's exuberant snaps of The Beatles' first visit to America to Bradley Cooper's star-packed Oscar selfie, these are the images that influenced how we understand fame and glamor. Included with each picture is the story behind it: A-list photographers tell how they created the images that turned stars into icons, or made legends seem as relatable as family. Here also are People exclusives from the magazine's history of unparalleled access into celebrity homes and off-duty lives that show us the real side of the stars who most captivate and intrigue us.
£22.50
Time Inc. Books Firsts: Women Who Are Changing the World
Book SynopsisWomen Who Are Changing the World
£18.00
America Through Time Dover, New Hampshire Through Time
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£20.39
America Through Time Somerset Through Time
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£20.39
America Through Time San Francisco Through Time
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£20.39
America Through Time Thanksgiving Traditions in Boston
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£20.39
America Through Time Jamaica Plain Through Time
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£20.39
America Through Time Buffalo Railroads Through Time
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£20.39
America Through Time Garden City: Pictures from a Pandemic
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£20.39
America Through Time Exploring the Hidden San Francisco Bay Area
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£19.99
America Through Time Oak Creek, Wisconsin Through Time
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£20.39
America Through Time Malmstrom Air Force Base Through Time
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£20.39
America Through Time Easter Traditions in Boston
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£20.39
America Through Time Beacon Hill Through Time
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£20.39
America Through Time San Mateo Through Time
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£20.39
America Through Time Dighton Through Time
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£20.39
America Through Time Albany Through Time
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£21.24
Sequence Press Always Starts with an Encounter: Wols—Eileen
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£27.20
Grandin Hood Publishers National Parks Conservation Association: A
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£44.96
Soulstice Publishing The San Francisco Peaks and Flagstaff Through the
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£999.99
Goats & Compasses Decay Wears the Palm
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£31.50
New Holland Publishers All Animal beings
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£30.42
Thames & Hudson Eden
£39.19
George Fischer Yukon, Rugged Beauty
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£35.96
Nimbus Publishing (CN) The Little Book of Peggys Cove and the South
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£18.00
Nimbus Publishing Limited Canada Above & Beyond
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£29.66
Acorn Press Charlottetown Then Now 2nd Ed
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£22.46
Reaktion Books Zooming In Histories of Photography in China
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£999.99
Columba Books Dark Ireland: Images of a Lost World
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£32.92
Intellect Books The Critical Eye: Fifteen Pictures to Understand
Book SynopsisBased on the highly successful course at the School of Visual Arts developed by the author, this book provides a comprehensive approach to the critical understanding of photography through an in-depth discussion of fifteen photographs and their contexts – historical, generic, biographical and aesthetic. This book presents an intensive course in looking at photographs, open to undergraduates and general audiences alike. Rexer argues that by concentrating on fifteen carefully chosen works it is possible to understand the history, development and contemporary situation of photography. Looking to images by photographers such as Roland Fischer, Nancy Rexroth and Ernest Cole, The Critical Eye is the only book to address the totality of issues involved in photography, from authorial self-consciousness to the role of the audience. Its subjects are not limited to art photography but include vernacular images, commercial genres and anthropology. With every chapter it seeks to link the history of photography to current practice. This highly illustrated and beautiful book provides a much-needed introduction to image production.Trade Review'It seems to me just what photo history needs now. People have forgotten how to look at photographs, so I applaud the concept, as well as the spot-on topics.' -- Stephen Pinson, curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art'Lyle Rexer poses a challenge from the get-go: it’s possible to understand photography. More than that: there are 15 pictures that will help us achieve understanding. Whether that's true doesn't matter because Rexer turns our attention back to what matters in photography: how to look at pictures, read them, engage with them. He suggests not that we’ve forgotten how to do this, but why it matters, and what new insights we can glean from doing so. Rather than swiping, liking, saving, downloading or sharing, Rexer suggests we need to stop. Stop, look, listen to photographs. Take time with photographs. Rexer invites us to be critical but also to be skeptical. Rather than asking what is a photograph, he starts with how is a photograph? By what means and method is a photograph? And how can we, as makers or viewers, ever claim to know a photograph? It’s Rexer’s questions in and through photographs in The Critical Eye that will see it become a key companion for those interested in the simplicities and complexities of the medium.' -- Odette England, PhD Assistant Professor of Photography and Graduate Program Director Photography Department, Rhode Island School of Design'You’ve brought together in a lot fewer words than I ever used, all the things I was trying for when I made my pictures. It’s a shame other critics have been less perceptive.' -- Simon Norfolk, photographer'Surely nobody still mistakes photography for reality—or if you do, this important book will disabuse you of that in a hurry. We may have lost our innocence, but Lyle Rexer brilliantly leads us to a deepened appreciation for the potential, poetry and pleasure of photographic images.' -- Sally Mann, photographer'With impressive clarity of thought, The Critical Eye examines what photographs, in all their complexity, mean. He views them as products of individuals’ intentions, as images surreally isolated out of context, and as cultural signifiers. And, he accomplishes this with a richness of literary and historical allusion.' -- Stephen Shore, photographer'Once upon a time, there was John Berger’s Another Way of Telling: now, we have this wonderful guide-book. The Critical Eye helps us navigate the complexities and intricacies of photographic practice. Within the arts that field has probably experienced the most significant of transformations over the last few decades, going from marginal to centre stage, from analog to digital, from decisive to nearly trivial in our daily lives. There are few books with this uncanny, piercing clarity; this one should be not only on every student's bookshelf, but on that of anyone interested in understanding how images function today.' -- José Luis Falconi, Brandeis University'Lyle Rexer's Critical Eye is a remarkably insightful look at photography through a survey of 15 photographs. Much more than a mere textbook, Rexer's choice of works and his wholly original analysis is entirely thought provoking and engaging. Not just students, but those who think of themselves as well versed in contemporary photography will benefit from this book and never think of photography quite the same way again.' -- Barbara Pollack, author of Brand New Art from China, co-founder and co-director, Art at a Time Like This, Inc.'In our overgrown jungle of photographs, Lyle Rexer has long been a skilled guide. Both intellectual and accessible, The Critical Eye is his machete.' -- Alec Soth, photographer'Excellent and thought-provoking. Move over, Susan Sontag.' -- Elizabeth Biondi, picture editor, curator, writer'Fresh structure, content and thoughtfulness.' -- Marvin Heiferman, writer, curator, “Why We Look”, Twitter-based writing and curation'The Critical Eye was a real treat! I was actually using it recently when writing about in-game photography. For this, I was particularly intrigued by your claim that the majority of attitudes to the photographic medium since its nascence have assumed ‘an independence for the photographer, a sovereign position of outsider and roving eye. They also assume the self-sufficiency of each captured moment, as if it were distinct, discontinuous, and capable of containing whatever might be significant about the reality of that place and time’. Building on your insight allowed me to develop this proposition that in its early incarnation the photographer’s physical and technical corpus all converged to become a disembodied eye. Subsequently, this led me to suggest that screenshotting, i.e. the practice of capturing 'photos' in a videogame, can offer a corrective to this mode of understanding photography by reversing the schema: in a videogame the whole body becomes a camera, with the photographer’s eye extended beyond the optical apparats with its line of vision to reach onto the world in a more dynamic and enfolded way. So thank you for the inspiration!' -- Joanna Zylinska, Co-Head of Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London'I love how curious, and sensitive these readings of pictures are, bringing me into the photographer’s mind. I felt I was seeing some images (that I know well) for the first time. The writing is totally visual, stimulated and stimulating, whether it is dealing with Julianne Nash in 2017, or a daguerreotypist in 1839. Even when Rexer is telling me something I already know historically, it feels like being there, and I am getting to know it in a new way.' -- Lisa Kereszi, photographer, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art, Yale School of Art'Rexer’s timely investigation in the shifting universe of photography underpins a number of arguments to which I subscribe wholeheartedly: that images need more "active viewers", that photography itself is no longer a medium but rather "a Swiss Army knife" i.e. a single approach and tool with many, and very diverse, applications; and that photographic practices can no longer be neatly separated into art, commercial, vernacular, or scientific domains. For this reason, the book is required reading for anyone who wants to grasp the changed - and still changing - territory of image making, especially in arts and cultural production. Through a laser-focused analysis of fifteen "hub" photographs, Rexer can tell us as much as fifteen books worth of reading on how to make sense of contemporary photography; how it is no longer a means to an end, but a form of "visually performing" our lives.' -- Alfredo Cramerotti, Editor, Critical Photography book series; Director, MOSTYN, Wales; author of Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing (2009) and Forewords: Hyperimages and Hyperimaging (2018)Table of ContentsIntroduction: How Is a Photograph? Life and Work: Does Biography Matter? Reading Photographs: Decisions in and Beyond the Frame The Origins of Photographies Portraits: The Other Side of the Mask Street Photography: Where the Sidewalk Ends From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Memes Come True Other Natures (Landscape in Five Views of Yosemite) Beyond Fashion Troubling Images: Don’t Look Now Them/Us Abstraction in Photography: Picture Nothing Photojournalism: A World of Witnesses Unphotographable Everybody’s Pictures
£999.99
Unbound Children of Las Vegas: True stories about growing
Book SynopsisOver forty million people a year travel to Vegas, more than to Mecca. It is a global celebrity, an improbable oasis, a place offering bank-breaking fortunes and instant gratification, 24/7, with no moral debits. Award-winning writer Timothy O’Grady lived in Vegas for two years. He finally began to understand it when he talked to people who had grown up there, the children of the card dealers and cocktail shakers, the jugglers and the dancers – young people who had been bearing witness to this strange city all their lives. One had her student loans and credit card limits stolen by her father. Another fled a sequence of exploiters until she found herself living in the storm drains under the casinos. There is the boy whose father entered him into a drinking contest when he was eight, the casino owner’s son, the erudite contortionist turned stripper. Each tells their own tale.In Children of Las Vegas, O’Grady renews his partnership with renowned photographer Steve Pyke. Through short essays, Pyke’s portraits and ten witness testimonies, he pierces the city’s glittering façade to reveal the darker reality that lies beneath.Trade Review'These are brave, honest, articulate stories, the children wise beyond their years . . . A modern fairy tale' Martina Evans, Irish Times
£19.04
Greenhill Books The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material
Book SynopsisHitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no conflict of the twentieth century has prompted such interest or such a body of literature. Approaching the canon of World War II literature is a challenge for a general reader but the 100 objects approach is a novel and accessible presentation. This is a compelling, frequently shocking and revelatory guide to the Third Reich that has been collated and presented by two of the world's leading World War II historians. The photographs gathered by Roger Moorhouse and Roger Moorhouse include Pervitin, Hitler's Mercedes, Wehrmach toilet paper, Hitler's grooming kit, the Nuremberg courtroom, the Tiger Tank, fragments of flak, the Iron Cross and, of course, the Swastika and Mein Kampf.
£25.00
Chronicle Books A Tree a Day
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£22.46
Phaidon Press Una Sola Mujer (the Only Woma)(Spanish Edition)
£29.60
Amber Books Ltd Ancient Egypt
Book SynopsisFrom the Neolithic cave paintings in Wadi Sura – created long before it was a desert when the region was savannah grassland – to the Valley of the Kings to the rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel, and from the vast temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor to the funerary mask of Tutankhamun and, of course, to the pyramids and the Sphinx, Ancient Egypt is a hugely colourful guide to the surviving wonders of Egyptian antiquity. Today the exceptional beauty and scale of the antiquities is legendary, drawing millions of visitors to Egypt’s monuments each year. Arranged by region, the book takes the reader along the ancient settlements that were established on the banks of the River Nile. Through beautiful photographs and expert captions, the reader gains an understanding of how ancient Egypt developed its trade links and became such a powerful and wealthy force across North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Alongside the world-famous places, there are also fascinating, lesser-known entries, such as the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the bent pyramid at Dahshur and the Statue of Khaefre. Featuring monuments and obelisks, hieroglyphics and jewelry, funerary masks, tombs and mausoleums, mummies of cats and statues of falcon-headed gods, Ancient Egypt includes 160 outstanding photographs and captions.Table of ContentsContents to include Introduction The Pyramids and Lower Egypt The River Nile The Nile Delta Giza Pyramids Menkaure Pyramid, Giza Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, Alexandria Saqqara, near Cairo The Sphinx and the Great Pyramid, Giza Roman Amphitheatre, Alexandria Pompey’s Pillar, Alexandria Tutankhamun’s Second Coffin, Cairo Tutankhamun Gold Coffin, Cairo Temple of the Oracle, Siwa Oasis Step Pyramid of Djoser Pyramids of Dahshur Pyramid Of Meidum, Fayoum Rosetta Stone Catacombs of Kom el-Shuqafa, Alexandria Valley of the Kings Tutankhamun, The Tomb, Valley of the Kings Theban Necropolis Tomb of Twosret Tomb of Ramesses III Merenptah’s stone sarcophagus Wall paintings in the Tomb of Ramesses IX Luxor and Karnak Medinet Habu, Luxor West Bank of Luxor Luxor Temple Tutankhamun Statue, Luxor Karnak, Temple of Amun, Upper Egypt Obelisk of Hatshepsut, Karnak Hathor Chapel, Memorial Temple of Thutmose III, Deir el-Bahari ‘Colossi of Memnon’, Memorial Temple of Amenhotep III, Luxor Ramesseum, Luxor First Pylon, Luxor Abydos and Dendera Temple of Seti I, Abydos Abydos, The Osireion Temple of Hathor, Temple complex, Dendera Temple of Hathor, Hypostyle Hall Dendera Dendera Zodiac, Temple of Dendera Roman Birth House Abu Simbel Cave paintings of Wadi Sura Esna Temple, Upper Egypt Abu Simbel, Nubia Edfu Temple, Upper Egypt Edfu Temple, The Façade, Upper Egypt Temple of Isis, Philae
£18.66
Amber Books Ltd Norway
£28.33
Amber Books Ltd Iceland
£28.33
Amber Books Ltd Italy
£16.02
