Photography & Photographs

A Purple Heart, the honour given to US soldiers for their wounds, is one that many cling to when faced with the realities of both the return home a...

A collection of every 'official portrait' from the members of the United Nations, resulting in a fascinating insight into power and portraiture fro...

Recently commission photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin return to their homeland to document life there 10 years after the end of apar...

Named one of the "75 People You Should Know" by Trains Magazine, Jim McClellan was a railroading legend and one of the railroad industry's titans. ...

Focusing on fine art and documentary photography, this book provides a racially diverse and culturally inclusive version of photography history and...

"Serge Anton, the photographer who makes human wisdom visible" - La Libre.be "The old, mysterious faces, warped and waned by the touch of time...

Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and persp...

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were com...

Photographic stills of women, appearing in both press coverage and relief campaigns, have long been central to the documentation of war and civil c...

Swissair, Switzerland's former national airline, for many years was an icon of international air travel. Yet its history came to a sad ending, with...

Above and Across Chicago captures the stunning beauty of Chicago as seen from the sky. Showcasing the city's diverse architecture, iconic shoreline...

Salgado’s images of the Sahel famine and his colossal project ‘Workers’ would be enough to make his reputation and justify all the awards he has re...

One of the most important technologies a photographer can master is shooting and working with raw images. However, figuring out the best way to wor...

This study of Marcel Proust’s creative imagination examines an aspect of the novel that has hitherto been largely overlooked: the author’s dependen...

It is all but impossible to think of September 11th 2001 and not, at the same time, recall an image. The overwhelmingly visual coverage in the worl...

We have all felt the frustration of wasting time, paper, and effort when our prints or web images don’t match the images we see on our monitors. Fo...

Internationally acclaimed for the beauty and technical quality of his compositions, Sunil Janah's photographs are significant in their historical c...

In Looking for Mexico, a leading historian of visual culture, John Mraz, provides a panoramic view of Mexico’s modern visual culture from the U.S. ...

Dieses Buch präsentiert erstmals das Werk des Kurators, Kunstkenners und Kulturvermittlers Claus Friede als proaktiv schreibenden, überraschend vie...

Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40 is the first comprehensive publication to document and situate Portland’s nonprofit Blu...

Delhi Then and Now comprises two masterful essays that trace the story of Delhi from the days when it was known by other names Indraprastha, Firoza...

Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (1822–1865) produced over eight hundred photographs during her all-too-brief life. Most of these were portraits of...

With just under a thousand portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, the National Portrait Gallery boasts some of the most treasured and famous official por...

Street Beauty is high visual impact one-of-a-kind street art photography book by renowned international street art photographer Hannah Judah. Playf...

This publication maps out key moments in the history of environmentalist photography, while also examining contemporary examples of artistic practi...

The Visual is Political examines the growth of feminist photography as it unfolded in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s. This period in Britain wa...

Across photography, sculpture and painting, a new wave of Black artists is challenging persistent tropes in art and wider society to depict a riche...

The Armenian contribution to Ottoman photography is supposedly well known, with histories documenting the famous Ottoman Armenian-run studios of th...

The third brilliant volume in the Humanitas series captures the vibrant lives of the Burmese people. Following the success of Humanitas and Humanit...

Dorset, which lies in the south-west of England, boasts a wide variety of spectacular landscapes, from the cliffs and beaches of its Jurassic Coast...

Want to know what it’s like to write for a theme park attraction? Or an interactive toy? Or a virtual reality game? Wait – those tell stories? And ...

Take your best shot with your new Nikon D3300 Congratulations on your new Nikon D3300 DSLR! You probably want to get shooting right away, but firs...

A vivid portrayal of an American urban neighborhood

Beautifully reproduced and cleanly presented, the four hundred images in this volume represent the finest work of a pre-eminent landscape photograp...

The complete panoramas of Passchendaele from the author of The Battlefields of the First World War.Today, concertina'd into a single sombre entity ...

Dropouts, renegades, utopians. Children of the urban middle class and old beatniks living alone, as couples, in families, or as groups in the small...