Photojournalism Books
Foto8 Ltd Taking Land Crimea 2010
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£23.74
Foto8 Ltd The Family The Life and Times of the Pyle Family
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£42.75
Uniformbooks Visible mending Everyday Repairs in the South
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£14.00
Methanol Press Strictly Shale Circling British Speedway
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£14.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Photofascism
Book SynopsisVanessa Rocco is Associate Professor of Humanities & Fine Arts at Southern New Hampshire University, USA and former Associate Curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP), USA. She is co-editor of The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s to the1960s (2011). Rocco organized numerous exhibitions and publications at the ICP, including Louise Brooks and the 'New Woman' in Weimar Cinema (2007), Modernist Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection (2005), and Expanding Vision: Moholy-Nagy's Experiments of the 1920s (2004). Her reviews and articles about photography and exhibitions have also appeared in numerous prestigious journals.Trade ReviewVanessa Rocco’s Photofascism is an outstanding achievement: a theoretically sophisticated and analytically compelling exposé of the way that the Italian and German dictatorships exploited exhibition culture in order to secure mass loyalty. Today, moreover, in light of fascism’s return, Rocco’s insights have assumed an uncanny contemporary relevance. * Richard Wolin, Distinguished Professor of History and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA *Photofascism provides a fascinating, timely, and theoretically rich analysis of the photographic exhibition as a potent piece of the twentieth-century fascist propaganda machine. Rocco has written a historically and geographically grounded study with compelling implications for contemporary society. * Dolores Flamiano, Professor, James Madison University School of Media Arts & Design, USA *Rocco’s study represents a timely addition to the consolidated literature on photography as a means of seductive political persuasion and the monumental staging of power in interwar Europe. * Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Professor of Art History, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA *Rocco delineates a history of the fascist exhibition spaces of spectacle in the 1930s and emphasizes just how much the mediums of photography and film have been engaged to enhance false narratives. Her extensive research provides a history for the way that photo-based imagery has been - and still is - engineered to immerse us in spectacle until we can no longer see the ideological water in which we swim. * Lisa Jaye Young, ArtPulse *A disturbing look into how German and Italian dictatorships of the 1930s utilized photography, film, and exhibitions—and how modern rallies aren’t much different. * Daily Beast, ‘Power of Photography’ *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Designing, Displaying, Facilitating Fascism Chapter 1: Last Stop Before Photofascism: Activist Photo Spaces and the Exhibition of the Building Workers Unions, Berlin 1931 Chapter 2: ‘Acting on the Visitor’s Mind’: Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution, Rome 1932 Chapter 3: Nazis Ascendant: The Camera, Berlin 1933 Chapter 4: “A Fundamental Irony”: The Venice International Film Festivals 1932-36 Chapter 5: Both/And: German and Italian Photography Exhibitions in 1936 and 1937 Epilogue: Total War, 1938-1942, and Visual Culture in the 21st century Bibliography Index
£25.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sagger AntiTank Missile vs M60 Main Battle Tank
Book SynopsisThe 1973 Yom Kippur War rewrote the textbook on the tactics of modern armored warfare. Unlike the previous major Arab-Israeli war of 1967, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) faced an enemy that had invested heavily in modern Soviet weapon systems and tactics.Using detailed color artwork and insightful analysis, this book explains how the effective use of the Soviet-supplied AT-3 Sagger (9M14 Malyutka) anti-tank missile allowed small Arab tank-killing teams to destroy Israeli armor at an astonishing rate. It also analyzes the tank that opposed it, the US-built M60A1, which had to fight for survival against the Arab Saggers, and shows how in both the Sinai and the Golan Heights, the IDF quickly learned that firepower and infantry/artillery cooperation were the keys to their survival.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Chronology / Design and Development / The Strategic Situation / Technical Specifications / The Combatants / Combat / Statistics and Analysis / Conclusion / Further Reading / Index
£14.24
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Making of Visual News
Book SynopsisThe Making of Visual News sets out to show how photography has changed the way we read, report and sell the news. It investigates how photographs first became news images at the end of the nineteenth century and how magazines in the USA, the UK, France and Germany have put them to use ever since. Drawing on a wide selection of images, author Thierry Gervais (in collaboration with Gaëlle Morel) analyses news photographs in the context of their original presentation in print. Highly illustrated, the book contains 85 full colour magazine layouts and spreads, offering the reader a view of how photographs were and are used in print publications, including Life, Picture Post, the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung and VU. It examines how photographs were employed to attract new readers throughout the twentieth century, arguing that photography was the main tool by which news editors sought to communicate the news and attract a broader readership. Looking beyond the roles of photographer and journaTrade ReviewRichly illustrated and clearly written, this book firmly and definitively anchors such well-known mid-century photo weekly magazines as LIFE in a much longer history. Photojournalism is meticulously and meaningfully given its vital role in shaping information and communication since the nineteenth century in this excellent survey - Co-Editor of Getting the Picture and The Visual Culture of the News - Vanessa R. SchwartzTable of ContentsIntroduction The invention of the magazine (1843-1918)From a photographThe halftone agePress photographersThe role of the art directorReflections of the warGeneral news magazines: European know-how (1919-1936)Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung before the warThe postwar German press: a competitive marketPropagandist visual strategies A style for news magazinesAn aesthetics of transparencyVU: a photographic workshopNarrating the newsThe Life model and the standardization of news magazines (1936-1976)From idea to actuality: the beginnings of LifeDramatizing the newsFrom the photographic essay to the pictorial essayChallenges to authorityTowards diversificationConclusion
£128.25
Arsenal Pulp Press Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971
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£32.29
Aperture Jonas Bendiksen: The Last Testament
Book SynopsisImagined as a sequel to the Old and New Testaments of the Bible by Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen, The Last Testament features visual accounts and stories of seven men around the world who claim to be the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Building on biblical form and structure, chapters dedicated to each Jesus include excerpts of their scriptural testaments, laying out their theology and demands on mankind in their own words. Through Bendiksen’s personal testimonies and intimate portraits, The Last Testament investigates the boundaries of religious faith, and a world in need of salvation, yearning for a new prophet. Whether escaping an angry mob in the streets with the Jesus of Kitwe, joining a Messianic birthday pilgrimage in Siberia, or witnessing the End of Days with Moses in South Africa, Bendiksen immerses himself among the disciples of each Jesus. He takes at face value that each is the one true Messiah returned to Earth, to forge an account that’s both a work of apocalyptic journalism and of a compelling artistic imagination.
£38.00
Triumph Books Patrice Bergeron: Icon: From Kid to Captain
Book SynopsisCelebrate Patrice Bergeron's legend and legacy with this vibrant retrospective After 19 years, 1,294 games, 427 goals and over 1,000 points in a Bruins uniform, Patrice Bergeron announced in 2023 that he was ready to hang up his skates. The team captain and 2011 Stanley Cup champion had long since cemented his status as an icon in Boston hockey history. Bergeron’s unforgettable career is chronicled in this commemorative keepsake from The Boston Globe including dozens of full-color photos. Icon features 128 pages of award-winning reporting, vivid storytelling, and extensive coverage of Bergeron's achievements with the Boston Bruins.
£14.20
Reference Press Icon Stations
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£42.12
Isola Press Urban Surfing: Poems and Photos from Hackney in
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£15.00
Amber Books Ltd Volcano
£9.49
The History Press Ltd Melancholy Witness: Images of the Troubles
Book SynopsisMelancholy Witness is the published collection of the images of Seán Hillen’s lauded exhibition of photography, documenting the years of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Combining personality with documentary history, what emerges is a powerful and compelling story of unrest, beauty and change.
£19.00
Camerapix Publishers International The Man Who Moved the World: Life and Work of
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£20.00
Trolley Books Homeland
Book SynopsisFeatures photographs, which capture the unsettling and surreal in USA.
£21.24
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd Shattered Dreams
Book SynopsisThese photographs are more than simply a journalistic record of conflict and turmoil. They are the product of a very personal journey in a place full of shattered dreams brought about by an endless conflict which crosses the boundaries of culture and time. It's a place where the young are robbed of their youth and the elderly stripped of their dignity. The people who live here glorify their past, curse the present, and have difficulty imagining a future. Publishing this book for the 60th anniversary serves as a way of explaining the profound sense of frustration and loss felt on both sides of the Israel/ Palestine divide.
£11.88
Fontanka Eyewitness 1917: The Russian Revolution through
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£21.25
Trolley Books Trolleyology: A Visionary in Publishing - The
Book SynopsisSince they were founded in 2001, Trolley Books has been highly regarded as a maverick independent publisher of photography, reportage, contemporary art and, recently, literature. Trolley's founder Gigi Giannuzzi was a well-known figure in the publishing and photographic industries for his original and dynamic approach to photobook publishing as well as his unrelenting support of photographers and important but underexposed stories. However aged 49 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died on Christmas Eve, 2012. Shortly before his death, work began on a new book TROLLEYOLOGY, a look at the story behind Gigi and Trolley, which also marked our first decade in publishing. TROLLEYOLOGY presents previously unseen material from the making of the award-winning books, including personal images, contact sheets and photographers' recollections, documenting the unique stories from each book and the importance of this small but potent publishing house. It also features interviews with our photographers, writers, artists and friends, from the worlds of photography, art and publishing. TROLLEYOLOGY brings together photographers including Nan Goldin, Alex Majoli, Stanley Greene, Paolo Pellegrin, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Tom Stoddart, Nina Berman, Thomas Dworzak, Alixandra Fazzina, Robin Maddock, and Jamie Morgan. It also includes contributions from other members of the Trolley family such as the artists Paul Fryer, Sarah Lucas, Polly Morgan, Mat Collishaw, Le Gun and writers Iphgenia Baal, Sean O Hagan, Julian Stallabrass and cultural historian Barry Miles. The book contains a foreword by Serpentine Gallery directors Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
£28.00
Trolley Books World Off Track
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£18.75
D Giles Ltd Double Exposure V 3 - African American Women
Book SynopsisDouble Exposure is a major new series based on the remarkable photography collection held by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Washington, D.C.. From daguerreotype portraits taken before the Civil War, to twenty-first century digital prints, Double Exposure is a striking visual record of key historical events, cultural touchstones, and private and communal moments, that helps to illuminate African American life. Volume 3 of Double Exposure highlights NMAAHC's rich collection of photographs of African American women, some of whom are cultural icons. This volume demonstrates the dignity, joy, heartbreak, commitment, and sacrifice of women of all ages and backgrounds, with photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Beverly Conley, Robert Galbraith, Ernest C. Withers, Wayne F. Miller, P.H. Polk, Joe Schwartz, and Milton Williams. Poems by Natasha Trethewey Essay by Kinchasha Homan Conwill AUTHOR: Natasha Trethewey was the United States Poet Laureate 2012?2013, and has written two new poems for this title. Kinshasha Holman Conwill is the deputy director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
£10.40
L-13 THE KROSSING
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£21.85
Carpet Bombing Culture Made in Britain: Look back Leap forward. A
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£17.95
Nomad Publishing The Fifth Pillar: The Hajj Pilgrimage
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£23.38
Five Leaves Publications Cuba '62: Preludes to a World Crisis
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£11.39
GOST Books Bitter Leaves
Book SynopsisOver the course of 10 years, photographer Rocco Rorandelli, travelled to India, China, Indonesia, USA, Germany, Bulgaria, Nigeria, Slovenia and Italy to document the impact of the tobacco industry on health, the economy and the environment. In Bitter Leaves, the resulting photographs are presented alongside texts by scientist Dr Judith MacKay, collectively examining the complexity of this global industry and the influence of corporate mechanisms and power
£28.50
GOST Books We Don't Say Goodbye
Book SynopsisMeloni’s original aim was to connect the history of troubled countries with their current events to explore new ways of capturing uprisings against totalitarianism and the after-effects of colonial ventures. ‘My intent was to try, within the limits of visual language, to understand and rationalise a conflict— its roots and evolution—and thus position it within its historical context. The Islamic State’s emergence was a logical development, and I can potentially understand why many young men in Iraq, Syria and Libya decided to join. I asked myself many times: if I had been born Iraqi and my family was killed by US soldiers, what might I have done?’
£38.00
GOST Books Campesino Cuba
Book SynopsisThe histories of these communities have formed the backbone of Cuba, and yet they are rarely depicted in photographic representations of the country. Sharum began researching Campesino communities in late 2015 and his resulting black and white photographs depict the intertwined relationship of people and the land they depend on.
£42.75
GOST Books Bank Top
Book SynopsisEaston’s photographs, alongside texts by writer, poet and social researcher Abdul Aziz Hafiz, aim to confront stereotypes and question the dangerous over-simplification of the challenges facing such communities. They do so by presenting the contemporary experience of residents as an ‘alternative history telling’. The black and white photographs in the book were all made in an area less than half a mile square in Blackburn during 2019 and 2020. Working with a large-format wooden field camera, Easton spent long days and weeks in the neighbourhood talking to residents and sometimes making pictures. The project melds image and text — Easton’s portraiture and landscapes combined with poetry and an essay by Aziz Hafiz and with the testimonies of residents. This long-form collaboration acknowledges the issues and impacts of social deprivation, housing, unemployment, immigration and representation, as well as past and present foreign policy. The result is a collective and nuanced portrait of the town — a sensitive response to the oversimplistic representation of such communities in both the media and by government, which deny the right of Bank Top to tell its own story.
£42.75
GOST Books Glad Tidings of Benevolence
Book SynopsisTwenty years ago, Moises Saman was working in Iraq as a photojournalist during the US-led invasion and occupation. Glad Tidings of Benevolence combines his photographs taken during this period and the following years with disparate documentation and texts. Collectively, these materials raise questions about the complex representation of war, competing narratives and the truths buried within the clamour—at a time when the war begins to recede from global public memory. ‘My photographs are not meant to represent an objective account of the Iraq war against which to compare the textual references. Rather, the book grapples with my own role and power as a narrator - particularly one with access to foreign publications - and the biases and limitations inevitably embedded in my work.’ Saman began working as a newspaper photographer in Iraq just before the invasion. He has covered the US occupation and withdrawal, displacement, ethnic cleansing and other human rights and humanitarian crises, governance issues and the rise and fall of ISIS.
£58.50
GOST Books Thatcher's Children
Book SynopsisThatcher’s Children was born out of a series first made in 1992 focusing on two parents and six children living in a hostel for homeless families in Blackpool, England. The project was made in response to a speech by Peter Lilley, then Secretary of State for Social Security, in which he announced his determination to ‘close down the something-for-nothing society.’ French newspaper Libération dispatched a journalist to northern England to find out what this society looked like, and Easton was commissioned to take the accompanying photographs. His resulting monochrome images of the overcrowded two-bedroom council flat in Blackpool sparked a reaction by both the public and the press. His images attached human faces and nuanced realities to a group of people casually maligned by politicians and media as an ‘underclass of scroungers.’
£42.75
D Giles Ltd PyeongChang 2018: The Olympic Games Through the
Book SynopsisThis fourth volume in a series celebrating the Olympic Games presents stunning photographs from the Winter Games in PyeongChang 2018. Photographers John Huet, David Burnett, Jason Evans and Mine Kasapoglu were granted access to the training zones and accompanied the athletes as they prepared for their events before the arrival of the crowds.
£10.40
Dewi Lewis Publishing War Is Only Half The Story
Book SynopsisWar is Only Half the Story is a ten-year retrospective of the work of the groundbreaking documentary photography programme, The Aftermath Project, which for a decade has supported post-conflict storytelling by some of the world's best photographers.
£31.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing Grozny: Nine Cities
Book SynopsisProvides extraordinary insight into the complexity of rebuilding the life of the city after such an extensive period of devastation.
£28.80
GOST Books Here and There: An expedition of sorts
Book SynopsisIn 2002, the same year that Edelstein had discovered Minna's photograph, she was commissioned to photograph the South African Sangoma shamans, whose rituals employ the intermediary healing powers of their ancestors. A shaman told Edelstein that her own ancestors were in conflict, fuelling her growing determination to untangle her family's hidden history. Thus Edelstein began a journey that took her from her home in London to the heartland of the Ukraine, and to her grandfather’s birthplace in Latvia. In turn the journey led her to the shores of Lesvos, the West Bank, the Jungle in Calais, to the boat graveyard on the island of Lampedusa. In Here and There, Edelstein refracts images and stories of displaced people through the lens of her family’s own mystery—reaching the refugee history we all have in common, whether its details are known or not. ‘And that’s the theme that runs through my family. A veritable diaspora. South Africa, Israel, Canada, Colombia, United States, Australia, Italy, Mallorca, Ukraine. How many continents can one family possibly inhabit? … I wonder how I would feel if, from the age of my late teens, I never got to see or hear of my siblings ever again.’ Edelstein’s grandfather, two brothers and their sister Minna had grown up in Sassmacken, Latvia, were separated as teenagers and never saw each other again. Minna’s life was a series of escapes from Germans in World War I, the Red Army in the Russian Revolution and during World War II from Ukraine to Uzbekistan where she died, the same year that Edelstein was born.
£42.75
GOST Books Silent Witness German edition
Book SynopsisIn Silent Witness, photographs of private houses and public buildings in which war crimesspecifically rapes of women of all ethnic groups living in Bosnia and Herzegovinawerecommitted during the Bosnian War (1992-1995) are combined with testimonies from the womenwho survived.
£38.00
GOST Books The Group for Mutual Improvement
Book SynopsisThe black and white photographs in The Group For Mutual Improvement were taken in a vacant lot behind photographer Jordan Baumgarten's home in Philadelphia. Over a period of 10 years, Baumgarten and his neighbours spent much of their time together in this lot. His book is a document of these gatherings.
£38.00
GOST Books Say Less
Book SynopsisOver the course of three years, Greg Gulbransen photographed Malik, a set leader of the violentstreet gang, the Crips. Malik was shot and paralysed in 2018 by the bullet from a rival gang, and as aresult his world now centres around his small Bronx apartment in New York.
£42.75
GOST Books Tarrafal
Book SynopsisJoão Pina draws upon his family history to tell the story of the Portuguese concentration campat Tarrafal, Cape Verde which operated between 1936 and 1974.
£58.50
GOST Books To the Ends of the Earth
Book SynopsisThe photographs in To the Ends of The Earth span 12-years and depict the underrepresented and often unseen dynamics of the relationships between a lesbian, her straight mother, and her girlfriend.Jeanette Spicer initially began the project in 2012 when working towards her thesis and was interested in the boundaries and rules?particularly from a western perspective?of the interactions between children and their adult parents. She began to stage photographs and videos interacting with her mother in strange, intimate, disturbing and sometimes humoros ways. A few years later, it became clear to her that she was a lesbian, inspiring her to make the work from another perspective. Spicer felt that visual representations of lesbians interacting with straight parents were missing and she wanted to show what this relationship could look like.
£42.75
GOST Books Body Copy
Book SynopsisBody Copy is a photo-text series exploring the performance of queer masculinities in digital culture.
£51.00
GOST Books Route de la Belle Etoile
Book SynopsisShot across four continents, Route de la Belle Etoile (Route of the Beautiful Star) is the first photobook to document the world of amateur astronomers who have an outsized impact on professional astronomical research.
£38.00
GOST Books Some Worlds Have Two Suns
Book SynopsisEvery three months a space rocket carrying three astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. At around the same time, to the north-east in remote grasslands, three other astronauts fall back to earth. The photographs in Some Worlds Have Two Suns document these comings and goings of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and the local community whose lives are accidentally intertwined with this portal to space.
£54.00
GOST Books Pillar to Post
Book SynopsisPillar to Post focuses on the vibrant and resilient Traveller and Gypsy communities across the UK and Ireland.
£38.00
GOST Books Death and Other Belongings
Book SynopsisDeath and Other Belongings is a story about a personal journey at home.
£38.00
GOST Books North North South
Book SynopsisAyda Gragossian made the photographs in North North South by walking rather aimlessly' andtaking pictures in different neighbourhoods to create a narrative of Los Angeles that reflectsthe socioeconomic marginalisation she encountered on a daily basis.
£42.75
Jonglez Forgotten Heritage
Book SynopsisRediscovering our forgotten heritage No Entry'; 'Dangerous Site Keep Out; Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted': common sights on walls or perimeter fences around many of the world's abandoned sites. These warnings allude to potential dangers and prove an ineffective deterrent against thieves and vandals. To the urban explorer/photographer these signs simply serve to whet the appetite for the promise of hidden wonders that may lie beyond. For those who ignore the warnings and climb the fences, what awaits is usually worth the risks. Vast industrial spaces that feel more like an alien landscape or poignant residential settings, which are slowly surrendering to the inexorable advance of nature. Places once alive with sound and movement, now silent and still, but no less sensory. Immense and powerful beauty resides in these forgotten places. For some, just getting inside a location to experience this alternative form of sightseeing is enough to satisfy a desire to simply go where one shouldn't. But for some there is a need to capture the essence of a location in words and pictures, giving others a metaphorical leg-up over the fences, to walk them through the remaining ruins. Matt Emmett falls into the latter of these groups, travelling regularly to places in the UK and across Europe. He seeks out vast power stations and their cooling towers, steel works, mines, bunkers, tunnels, schools, engine sheds, hotels, castles and a myriad of other buildings. All have their own stories to tell in a variety of voices and without the distraction, sounds and people who inhabited them, those stories are clear and strong and the character of each location is laid bare. Architectural Digest: "Photographer Matt Emmett has made a name for himself by pushing the boundaries to capture epic imagery of Europe s most forgotten ruins." International Business Times: "Matt Emmett's 'Forgotten Heritage' photography project uncovers the brutal beauty of abandoned buildings and derelict industry."
£26.99
Jonglez Abandoned USSR
Book SynopsisBeautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places in the USSR. Once thriving buildings now ravaged by nature and time are the subject of this fascinating, coffee-table book. Relics of the Soviet conquest of space, Moscow Pioneer camps, remnants of propaganda along a journey sparsely dotted with statues of Stalin or Lenin, from traditional Moldovan houses to ghosts of the Caucasian wars, by way of petro-chemical factories in the Donbass ... this report invites the reader to relive, through its striking pictures, more than a hundred years of history, from the beginnings of the Soviet period to the legacy of a communist era now fast fading from memory. Terence Abela has spent nine years travelling across the former USSR unearthing fragments from its past. His love of history, of photographing relics of the past and discovering the unknown, have combined to create this work. Driven by a desire to preserve the heritage abandoned by states that lurch between the threat of nationalism, dictatorship, wars and the will to invent a new history for themselves, he appeals to us through his pictures to protect these mementos which are at risk of disappearing in the not too-distant future.
£23.99
