Photography and photographs Books
Chronicle Books Film Camera Zen
Book SynopsisThe must-have guide for any camera collector, avid film photographer, or novice creative seeking advice on what camera to choose and how to get started purchasing and collecting.Film Camera Zen is a carefully curated guidebook by Bellamy Hunt, the founder of Japan Camera Hunter and sought-after expert in all types of analog cameras and their histories. From European brands such as Leica and Hasselblad to Japanese makers Nikon, Canon, Pentax, and Minolta, Hunt provides all the technical knowledge needed to enable the best purchase, including: Technical capabilities Focus options Compatible lenses Accessories Like vinyl records and vintage watches, film cameras have captured the imagination of a new generation who are rediscovering them as collectibles and as an alternative to camera phones. The beauty of the cameras themselves, acquiring the skill to use them, and the photographic results offer a uniquely rewarding experience in the digital age. Film Camera Zen is the perfect guide for getting started and enjoying the process of learning, acquiring, and mastering the classic analog camera.
£18.69
Liverpool University Press Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics,
Book SynopsisDocuments and critically analyses the photographs that helped strengthen as well as bring down the Eugenics Movement. Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, the author argues that photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the Eugenics Movement's success -- not only did it allow eugenicists to identify the people with superior and inferior hereditary traits, but it helped publicise and lend scientific authority to eugenicists' racial theories. The author further argues for a strong connection between the racial-type photographs that eugenicists created and the photographic images produced by nineteenth-century anthropologists and prison authorities, and that the photographic works of contemporary liberal anthropologists played a significant role in the Eugenics Movement's downfall. Besides adding to our knowledge of photography's crucial role in helping to authorise and implement some of the most controversial social policies of modern times, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of racism. Most accounts of eugenics have been written by history of science scholars, with an emphasis on the history of science and medicine. In contrast, "Picture Imperfect" looks at eugenics from the standpoint of its most significant cultural data -- racial-type photography, investigating the techniques, media forms, and styles of photography used by eugenicists, and relating these to their racial theories and their social policies and goals. Indeed, the visual archive was crucially constitutive of eugenic racial science because it helped make many of its concepts appear both intuitive as well as scientifically legitimate. Discussion of the history of the eugenics movement encompasses a wide narrative, including Nazi history, US politics, criminology and prison studies, and propaganda.Trade Review"This book makes a significant contribution to an underexamined and important topic. Eugenics had an immense (mainly negative) impact on twentieth-century social and political history, and as Anne Maxwell demonstrates this was in large part because of its use of modern visual technologies, particularly photography. This story should not be allowed to disappear from cultural memory and Anne Maxwell's careful and path-breaking scholarship will do much to keep it there." -- Simon During, Johns Hopkins University.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Racial-type Photographs in the Colonial Period; The Degenerate Face: Nineteenth-Century Prison Photographs; The Eugenics Movement Begins: Galton and the Races of Britain; Building a Healthy Nation: Eugenic Images in the United States, 1890-1935; Creating the Master Race: Photography and Racial Selection in Germany; Sub-Human Versus the Master Race: Racial-Type Photographs and Nazi Party Propaganda; Eugenics Under Fire: the Racial-type Imagery of Boas, Du Bois, Huxley and Hadden; Conclusion; Index.
£100.00
Liverpool University Press Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics,
Book SynopsisDocuments and critically analyses the photographs that helped strengthen as well as bring down the Eugenics Movement. Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, the author argues that photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the Eugenics Movement's success -- not only did it allow eugenicists to identify the people with superior and inferior hereditary traits, but it helped publicise and lend scientific authority to eugenicists' racial theories. The author further argues for a strong connection between the racial-type photographs that eugenicists created and the photographic images produced by nineteenth-century anthropologists and prison authorities, and that the photographic works of contemporary liberal anthropologists played a significant role in the Eugenics Movement's downfall. Besides adding to our knowledge of photography's crucial role in helping to authorise and implement some of the most controversial social policies of modern times, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of racism. Most accounts of eugenics have been written by history of science scholars, with an emphasis on the history of science and medicine. In contrast, "Picture Imperfect" looks at eugenics from the standpoint of its most significant cultural data -- racial-type photography, investigating the techniques, media forms, and styles of photography used by eugenicists, and relating these to their racial theories and their social policies and goals. Indeed, the visual archive was crucially constitutive of eugenic racial science because it helped make many of its concepts appear both intuitive as well as scientifically legitimate. Discussion of the history of the eugenics movement encompasses a wide narrative, including Nazi history, US politics, criminology and prison studies, and propaganda.Trade Review"This book makes a significant contribution to an underexamined and important topic. Eugenics had an immense (mainly negative) impact on twentieth-century social and political history, and as Anne Maxwell demonstrates this was in large part because of its use of modern visual technologies, particularly photography. This story should not be allowed to disappear from cultural memory and Anne Maxwell's careful and path-breaking scholarship will do much to keep it there." -- Simon During, Johns Hopkins University.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Racial-type Photographs in the Colonial Period; The Degenerate Face: Nineteenth-Century Prison Photographs; The Eugenics Movement Begins: Galton and the Races of Britain; Building a Healthy Nation: Eugenic Images in the United States, 1890-1935; Creating the Master Race: Photography and Racial Selection in Germany; Sub-Human Versus the Master Race: Racial-Type Photographs and Nazi Party Propaganda; Eugenics Under Fire: the Racial-type Imagery of Boas, Du Bois, Huxley and Hadden; Conclusion; Index.
£36.59
Key Publishing Ltd Diesels in East Yorkshire: Four Decades of Change
Book SynopsisThis photographic journey illustrates East Yorkshire's fascinating passenger and freight trains, railway infrastructure, stations and signalling over a 40-year period from the late 1970s. Local knowledge has enabled many unrepeatable workings or interesting visiting locomotives to be captured on film giving a comprehensive record of the many changes that have taken place in the railways of East Yorkshire. The over 180 color photographs, many of which have never been published before, illustrate rail services have grown or declined and the infrastructure of the railways has evolved over 40 years to meet the needs of the modern railway era.
£13.49
MACK Lots Of Lots
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£25.00
Dewi Lewis Publishing On Mass Hysteria
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£41.40
Dewi Lewis Publishing Winterreise
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£63.75
New Documents Jon Rafman: Nine Eyes
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£38.00
Patrick Remy Studio Mapping Subconsciousness
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£36.90
RVB Books BETTER FOOD FOR OUR FIGHTING MEN
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£22.80
RVB Books EASTERN ORIENTAL EXPRESS
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£28.80
La Maison de Z Wild Grass
Book SynopsisGrowing up in a small town in southern China during the strict execution of the one-child policy in the 1980s, JT witnessed the heartbreaking reality of a newborn girl being abandoned due to economic hardships. In 2014, he encountered some left-behind children while travelling, whose resilience and vitality left a deep impression on him. Reflecting on their struggles and the uncertain future they faced, JT couldn''t help but wonder about the fate of the abandoned newborn girl from childhood memory.This experience led the photographer to embark on the Wild Grass project, documenting the lives of children in unofficial orphanages across the country. JT's visits to these orphanages revealed the challenges they face, including funding shortages and a lack of specialized knowledge in caring for physically and/or mentally disabled children. Despite these obstacles, he lived among the children, seeking to understand their daily lives and provide them with a voice through photography.
£54.00
PAN Remembering Songs
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£46.58
Books on Demand Modefotografie in Deutschland 1929-1955
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£33.72
About Books Mathematische Modelle 2019â2024
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£21.14
DISTANZ Verlag Period Drama
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£34.20
Kehrer Verlag Hong Kong
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£28.50
Kehrer Verlag Nothing Serious Can Happen Here
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£37.50
Kehrer Verlag Of Cages and Feathers
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£36.00
Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg Alexandre Morvan
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£28.50
Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg Seunggu Kim
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£33.75
Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg Athens 42 Days
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£45.00
Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg In Search of Amnesia
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£36.00
DruckVerlag Kettler Queer Horses
Book SynopsisStef Mosebach describes themselves as a former horse girl and queer person. In this work Queer Horses, Stef combines vintage horse postcards with codes and slang from the queer community. Sounds curious? It is!The result is a postcard book with a good pinch of self-irony and a proper wink at the elitist habitus of both scenes. A declaration of love to queer culture and horses!
£17.00
Apartamento Publishing S.L.v Berlin Living Rooms
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£44.10
Skira Editore Hidden Italy
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£40.00
APE MUSA
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£22.80
Leiden University Press Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography
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£37.00
Leiden University Press Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
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£90.95
Libraryman Co., Ltd. Old Sweater Gets New Uses
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£42.75
Libraryman Co., Ltd. A Minor Thought
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£29.45
APE (Art Paper Editions) Collages For Magazines
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£33.30
APE One Head and Thousand Years
Book SynopsisThe images capture moments that arise when lost in thought, evoking a connection to memories. This sensation dwells in my chest, ascending like an elevator into my brain-the essence of my narrative. Drawing from personal experiences, I used them as the foundation. Delving into scattered memories and anxieties, I forged a nonlinear storyline centered on myself. As both narrator and subject, I embarked on a complex journey. This exploration pushed my inner and outer boundaries, confronting vulnerabilities from family ties, especially my younger sister. I faced my humanity, photographer identity and existence in the post-Soviet Muslim context.
£27.00
Anura Editions Stop Following Me
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£44.10
10x10 Photobooks, Inc Flashpoint Protest Photography in Print
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£63.00
Colorado Music Experience On Record Vol. 10 1983 Images Interviews
Book SynopsisThe On Record series presents rare archival images and insightful interviews by long-time popular-music journalist and radio personality G. Brown. “G. Brown’s writing is informed, perceptive and incisive, often tinged with his hilariously irreverent sense of humor. He has an abiding respect for music and those who create it. All of these attributes reveal themselves in his On Record collections.” - Bruce Hornsby, Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and virtuoso pianist On Record Vol. 10 - 1983 covers bands at their commercial peak (Genesis, the Police), U2’s first international hit (“War”) and David Bowie’s biggest success (“Let’s Dance”). It also includes Prince, Bryan Adams and Def Leppard—actsthat finally start to make it big in 1983. In this year Kiss appeared without makeup (Lick It Up), Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All
£28.79
Thames & Hudson Ltd A Chronology of Photography
Book SynopsisAn entirely fresh perspective on the history of photography that uses timelines to trace the medium's development from its inception to the present.Trade Review'An intriguing and comprehensive timeline of the medium' - AestheticaTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Birth of Photography, to 1850 • 2. 1850–1900 • 3. 1900–1950 • 4. 1950–1975 • 5. 1976–2000 • 6. 2000 to the present
£14.96
Crecy Publishing Railways Remembered Images from the Derek Cross
Book SynopsisOver the years, Derek Cross'' photographs have graced the pages of many magazines and several photographic albums featuring his work have been published, recalling railway scenes which have changed radically in the space of a few short decades.Drawing upon his extensive collection of colour images taken from the late 1950s through to the early 1980s, this new collection of the photos of Derek Cross focuses on those years which saw the elimination the steam locomotive and its replacement by the first generation diesel and electric traction, a period which is of so much interest for many railway enthusiasts.The photos are arranged geographically and whilst they range across many parts of Britain, many were taken in those areas with which is work is synonymous including the south-west of Scotland, the Somerset & Dorset line and Kent and the south east. The book will include more than 200 colour photos and has been complied by Derek Cross'' son David who has also written the captions. Thes
£999.99
Kehrer Verlag Helen Levitt (second Edition)
Book SynopsisNew edition of the comprehensive publication about one of the foremost exponents of street photography.
£28.00
Kehrer Verlag Sapeurs: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Congo
Book SynopsisFashion as art form and personal statement in today's Democratic Republic of the Congo.
£28.80
Rizzoli International Publications NYC Ballet Fashion Gala
Book SynopsisCelebrating the art forms of ballet and fashion, this beautiful book explores the creative collaborations between New York City Ballet and the top fashion designers of our age, including Virgil Abloh, Christopher John Rogers, Anna Sui, and Valentino, among others.Featuring more than thirty contemporary fashion designers, New York City Ballet Choreography & Couture highlights their distinctive work for ballet. From the shorts suits of Thom Browne accommodating the movement of dancers, and the leather harness detailing of Prabal Gurung to the baroque flounces of Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen or the jewel-encrusted slip dresses of Carolina Herrera, this enchanting volume highlights how fashion design is adapted for dance to amplify movement and music.The stunning photography by Pari Dukovic features breathtaking images of the dancers in motion, along with detail shots highlighting the couture elements of the costumes. Author Marc Happel, NYCB’s DirTrade Review"The New York City Ballet has staged an annual fashion gala since 2012, bringing together choreographers and fashion designers for collaborations both whimsical and mind-bending. A decade’s worth of their creations are vividly showcased in “New York City Ballet: Choreography and Couture,” with a foreword by Sarah Jessica Parker." — New York Times"The list of designer collaborators for New York City Ballet’s annual Fall Fashion Gala reads like the ultimate fashion Rolodex. Carolina Herrera, Raf Simons, Dries Van Noten, Virgil Abloh, and Sarah Burton are just a few of the 30 names who have designed costumes for the annual celebration of dance and fashion over the past 12 years and whose work is celebrated in a new Rizzoli monograph titled New York City Ballet: Choreography & Couture." ~GRAZIA
£38.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Criticizing Photographs
Book SynopsisEmphasizing the understanding of images and their influences on how they affect our attitudes, beliefs, and actions, this fully updated sixth edition offers consequential ways of looking at images from the perspectives of photographers, critics, theoreticians, historians, curators, and editors. It invites informed conversations about meanings and implications of images, providing multiple and sometimes conflicting answers to questions such as: What are photographs? Should they be called art? Are they ethical? What are their implications for self, society, and the world? From showing how critics verbalize what they see in images and how they persuade us to see similarly, to dealing with what different photographs might mean, the book posits that some interpretations are better than others and explains how to deliberate among competing interpretations. It looks at how the worth of photographs is judged aesthetically and socially, offering samples and practical consideratioTable of ContentsPreface 1. About Art Criticism ; 2. Photography Theory: Is It Art? Is It True? Is It Moral? ; 3. Describing Photographs: What Do I See? ; 4. Interpreting Photographs: What Does It Mean? ; 5. Types of Photographs ; 6. Photographs and Contexts ; 7. Judging Photographs: Is It Good? ; 8. Writing and Talking About Photographs ; Bibliography
£39.99
Workman Publishing Cabin Tripping: Where to Go to Get Away from It
Book SynopsisA mountain lodge 5,000 feet up in Washington State’s Cascades mountains, accessible only by skis—or an SUV tricked out with bulldozer-size snow tires. A sleek cabin just 80 minutes from Manhattan, overlooking the property’s pond and 19 acres of woodland. A romantic, eco-friendly escape in the misty mountains of Bali’s Gunung Agung volcano. A glass-domed Finnish hut offering unobstructed views of the Northern Lights. Whether readers are seeking a once-in-a-lifetime adventure or a quiet retreat, a cozy night around a firepit or a summery lakefront sojourn, Cabin Tripping delivers. Divided into six chapters—Forest, Tropics, Mountain, Arctic, Water, and Desert—the book features a curated collection of over 80 of the most incredible cabins available to rent all over the globe. Each cabin profile includes information on how to get there, activities to enjoy in the area (hiking trails, fishing holes, thermal spas, and more), and tips like when to plan your visit to maximize your “leaf-peeping” or whale-watching opportunities.
£17.09
Historic Environment Scotland Above Scotland
Book SynopsisThe heart of Scotland is its landscape. Follow in the footsteps of countless generations to experience the drama, romance and mystery of this ancient country.Aerial photography has the power to capture the lasting impression left on the land across the centuries. From castles, lochs and cities to rivers, mountains and beaches, the view from above provides a unique picture of Scotland.Packed with wonderful contemporary and archive imagery complemented by an illuminating introductory essay and captions, Above Scotland reveals the true variety of Scotland.
£9.49
Hoxton Mini Press Portrait Of Britain Volume 2
Book SynopsisA completely new version of last year's sold out book of the best 200 portraits taken in Britain.
£19.51
Key Publishing Ltd Class 47s: Inverness to Dover Western Docks,
Book SynopsisFollowing on from Class 47s: Inverness to Penzance: 1982-85, this volume picks up the story and runs to the end of the summer 1986 timetable. It was a period of change, as the first 47s to be withdrawn started to fall by the wayside in the spring of 1986, since seriously damaged crash victims were no longer likely to be rebuilt. The first non-crash-damaged locos were withdrawn - sacrificed to provide a spares pool for the others. It was also a time of change with regard to how trains were heated, as steam heat became rare south of Hadrian's Wall. Christmas 1985 was a watershed as the relief trains were now routinely electrically heated, with the latest ETH conversions emerging from Crewe Works from November 1985. In 1986, regular trips to Scotland were required to sample the delights of steam heat. Further changes came in summer 1986 as InterCity started to operate some routes in Kent, and Dover Western Docks was now on the map. With over 200 images, this volume provides a visual journey of the Class 47s in 1985-86.
£14.39
Hoxton Mini Press Flower.
£15.26
Prestel Michael Kenna: Rouge
Book SynopsisMore than twenty years after its initial publication, Michael Kenna's seminal collection of photographs of the Ford River Rouge industrial complex is now available in a new, revised, and expanded edition. One of the world's most acclaimed photographers working exclusively in black-and-white, Michael Kenna has traveled the world to create stunning, magical images of nature and manmade objects. Known for the ethereal tone and incredibly nuanced detail of his photographs, Kenna is also a chronicler of environmental degradation. His images of an auto plant outside of Detroit, Michigan, are some of his best-known works. Long out of print, Rouge has been brought back to life with a spectacular new design, an authoritative essay by art historian James Steward, and many previously unpublished images that were part of the original series. As the city of Detroit struggles to reclaim its heritage as an American commercial and artistic hub, these photographs resonate more than ever with the stark realities and hidden beauty of the industrial landscape.
£38.25
