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Mastering Film Photography
Paperback,
23/05/2019,
£19.99
£17.99
Mastering Film Photography is a fast-track guide to shooting emulsion in the digital age.
Exhibiting Photography: A Practical Guide to Displaying Your Work
Paperback,
01/06/2013,
£38.99
£35.09
Photography Rules: Essential Dos and Don'ts from Great Photographers
Paperback,
28/04/2020,
£16.99
£15.29
Photography Rules is an entertaining and educational guide to photography in over 150 dos and don'ts from great photographers.
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Paris Revisited
Hardback,
24/06/2021,
£40.00
£36.00
Explores the key role Paris played in Cartier-Bresson's artistic career, and the way he looked at the city he lived in - and loved.
I See a City: Todd Webb's New York
Hardback,
03/06/2021,
£30.00
£27.00
An evocative portrait of mid-century New York City by master documentary photographer Todd Webb.
Blind Spot
Hardback,
06/07/2017,
£20.00
£18.00
In more than 150 pairs of images and surprising, lyrical text, the author explores his complex relationship to the visual world through his two great passions: writing and photography.
Understanding a Photograph
Paperback,
07/11/2013,
£9.99
£8.99
Contains essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W Eugene Smith - and the lives of those photographed - with fierce engagement, intensity and tenderness.
Starting Photography O/P
7,
30/04/1997,
£14.99
£13.49
Written in a step-by-step logical manner, this manual explains how the key features of the camera operate, and the creative options each of these functions offer. There are suggestions on how to approach different subjects, and a section on assessing your own prints and identifying mistakes.
Ongoing Moment
Paperback,
12/07/2007,
£9.99
£8.99
* A brilliant, personal and original view of photography
Seaside: Photographed
Hardback,
23/05/2019,
£19.95
£17.96
Around eighty photographers capture over a century of the British seaside in all its raucous, joyful and sometimes seedy glory.
RESET THE APPARATUS!: A Survey of the Photographic and the Filmic in Contemporary Art
Hardback,
20/05/2019,
£31.00
£27.90
Book has special paperback binding with spine not covered.
Making Photographs: Planning, Developing and Creating Original Photography
Paperback,
26/02/2015,
£27.99
£25.19
Photography Exposure
Paperback,
19/11/2015,
£27.99
£25.19
Revision of: Exposure. Lausanne, Switzeerland: AVA Academia, 2009.
Reading Photographs: An Introduction to the Theory and Meaning of Images
Paperback,
27/07/2018,
£27.99
£25.19
Basics Photography 06: Working in Black & White
Paperback,
01/12/2008,
£19.99
£17.99
Covers various aspects of black-and-white photography for both film and digital formats. This book explains basic theory, how colours become greyscale tones and how photographers can learn to see in black-and-white. It also explores themes of black-and-white photography and how to develop a mastery of the necessary techniques are also explored.
Camera Lucida: Vintage Design Edition
Paperback,
12/03/2020,
£9.99
£8.99
Examining themes of presence and absence, these reflections on photography begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs - their content, their pull on the viewer, their intimacy.
LANGFORD'S BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY: THE GUIDE FOR SERIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS 10ED
Paperback,
26/11/2015,
£44.99
£40.49
Originally published under title: Basic photography.
Photoworks Annual: Photography, Art, Visual Culture. Issue 24: LGBTQ+
Paperback,
08/11/2017,
£20.00
£18.00
Photography: The Whole Story
Paperback,
25/02/2021,
£25.00
£22.50
A revised and updated edition of this ambitious and vibrant publication, described by Black & White Photography as 'superb ... a wide-ranging, comprehensive and informative book that is also a pleasure to read'.
Visual Culture
Paperback,
19/05/1999,
£38.99
£35.09
Visual Culture: The Reader provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines. Although underpinned by a focus on contemporary cultural theory, this Reader puts the study of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image at centre stage.
Ongoing Moment
Paperback,
15/11/2012,
£12.99
£11.69
'One of the most graceful ruminations on photography ever ... Dyer's tour de force is as inspirational as it is accessible.' Sunday Telegraph
Read This If You Want to be Instagram Famous
Paperback,
17/04/2017,
£11.99
£10.79
Packed with the essential secrets of the hottest Instagrammers around, all you have to do is put their advice into practice. With tips covering photographic techniques, captioning, codes of conduct, kit and managing your account, soon you too will be hailed as a Instragram icon!!!
Cindy Sherman
Paperback,
12/01/2007,
£20.00
£18.00
Critical essays on Cindy Sherman and one of contemporary art's most innovative bodies of work.
Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera
Paperback,
16/10/2006,
£14.99
£13.49
The first full-length biography of the legendary photographer Lee Miller
Exploring Visual Culture
7,
23/06/2005,
£28.99
£26.09
An introduction to the study of visual culture, this book offers a view of 'visual culture' that includes not only images, but also other visual media and forms of expression, from architecture to fashion, design and the human body.
On Photography
Paperback,
25/09/2008,
£9.99
£8.99
Features a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This title examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.
Photograph: A Visual and Cultural History
Paperback,
10/04/1997,
£19.99
£17.99
In a series of discussions of major themes and genres, Graham Clarke gives a clear and incisive account of the photograph's historical development, and elucidates the insights of the most interesting thinkers on the subject such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag.
Susan Sontag
Paperback,
03/10/2014,
£9.99
£8.99
Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1979, Jonathan Cott, of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. This title publishes the entire transcript of Sontag's conversation.
Lives of Lee Miller
Paperback,
11/04/1988,
£20.00
£18.00
Lee Miller's career encompassed several different careers: she was a successful model, then a leading Surrealist photographer; and then a war correspondent during World War II. Compiled by her son, this book offers a record of Miller's life and work.
Sebastiao Salgado: An Uncertain Grace
Paperback,
19/04/2004,
£19.95
£17.96
From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 men haul heavy sacks of dirt up and down ladders in search of a nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa, where starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastian Salgado explores the lives of the planet's often-ignored people.
Why it Does Not Have to be in Focus: Modern Photography Explained
Paperback,
16/09/2013,
£12.95
£11.66
Choosing 100 key photographs, the author examines what inspired each photographer in the first place, and traces how the piece was executed. She brings to light the layers of meaning and artifice behind these singular works, some of which were initially dismissed out of hand for being blurred.
Nick Brandt: Inherit the Dust
Hardback,
04/04/2016,
£45.00
£40.50
Three years after the conclusion of his trilogy, On This Earth, the author returns to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent's natural world. In a series of epic panoramas, he records the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do.
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