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At the core of this photographic collection are the images taken by the author during the 1960s, charting everyday events and people in his life. The addition of a variety of facsimiles of period ephemera, including excerpts of magazines, advertising and tourist brochures, and the fact that the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, was the author's cousin and appears in a number of the images, make this an unusual and fascinating evocation of the period.

Doris Kloster, the photographer and editorial director of FAD magazine, presents an album of 160 photographs celebrating the world of night people, drag goddesses, dominatrixes and divas that inhabited New York’s club scene in the 1980s and 1990s. Sexually explicit.

One of the first female members of the Magnum Photos agency, Inge Morath was at her most prolific during the 1950s and 1960s, travelling widely for magazines such as Life, Vogue and Paris Match. This collection of her work focuses on the style and fashion of the period in England, France and America, and ranges from street scenes and society parties to portraits of famous models, couturiers and actresses.

Paul Nash was 41 in 1930 when his wife Margaret gave him a Kodak pocket camera; between then and his death in 1946, Nash took around 1,200 photographs. Some were snapshots, some were studies for paintings, most display what fellow artist John Piper described as Nash’s ‘economical and obsessive’ eye. This book explores this aspect of the artist’s work, with 138 photographs depicting subjects as varied as standing stones, wrecked aircraft, fallen trees and the White Horse at Uffington.

In 1970s London the photographer Peter Gravelle shot portraits of The Sex Pistols, The Damned, Siouxsie Sioux and other punk icons. But the death of Sid Vicious convinced him to switch to fashion, beginning in 1980 with a shoot for Italian Vogue. This collection of Gravelle’s uncompromising and often experimental work also features personal musings on his relationships and career, both derailed by an addiction to heroin which would dominate his life. Contains graphic images and sexually explicit.

Once-impressive residences, enormous industrial facilities, schools, hospitals, castles and churches are sometimes left to decay; too big, remote or historically important to dismantle and too expensive or impractical to inhabit. Finding the poignant and beautiful in the empty carcasses of such buildings and their abandoned contents, this book presents photographs of forgotten chateaux, factories, asylums and public buildings in Britain and Europe, from an Italian aristocrat's Moorish fantasy to a sinister Belgian 'correction centre'.

Enlisted as stills photographer to work on Jean-Luc Godard's first film, Raymond Cauchetier employed a spontaneous style that perfectly matched the sensibilities of the French New Wave directors, and he collaborated on the iconic films of the movement over the next ten years. Including images of directors Godard and Truffaut, and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg and Jeanne Moreau, this collection features portraits, production stills and off-camera reportage from films including Jules et Jim and À bout de souffle. Foreword by Philippe Garner.

If fashion in the 1960s had broken barriers, 1970s style exploited the new climate with extravagant and exuberant costume, inspired by feminism, sexual liberation and daring new stars such as David Bowie and the Sex Pistols. This photographic collection features the supermodels and iconic celebrities of the period, including Farrah Fawcett, Debbie Harry and Jerry Hall in the work of leading fashion photographers such as Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson and Terence Donovan.

The photographer Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906–1984) was born near the Wichita Mountains in the Oklahoma and Indian Territories, which became the state of Oklahoma in 1907. In photographs taken between the 1920s and 1950s, he captured images of his community; a people in transition, but preserving its culture within modern America. This book, published to accompany an exhibition at The National Museum of the American Indian, presents over 150 photographs and several essays by Native American writers and scholars.

Earth is a desert planet. Nearly half its land area is either cold or hot desert, but these areas are rarely seen by residents of the outside world. Documentary photographer Michael Martin has ridden his motorbike across the Sahara and Atacama deserts, and traversed the ice-fields of Greenland and Spitsbergen by dog sledge. This volume charts his travels through more than 400 photographs, gripping reportage, scientifically exact maps and environmental analysis from contributing experts.

Although his photographic training was minimal, photography was the first medium which Robert Rauschenberg explored, the first in which he gained recognition, and it remained integral to much of his work. This first in-depth presentation of Rauschenberg’s photographs includes images documenting the creation of other works or destined to be integrated into the Combines series, as well as photographs of family, friends (notably Cy Twombly), New York and people and places in Europe and North Africa.

Whatever his subject matter, rubbish bins or the human body, Edmund Teske (1911–1996) used the medium of photography – its film, chemistry, optics and mechanics – to create serious, reflective and often composite works of art. This volume accompanied an exhibition of his photographs at the J Paul Getty Museum in 2004. As well as over 110 illustrations, the book contains Julian Cox’s biographical and critical essay and an interview with Teske’s close friend of 30 years, the artist George Herms.

The Hungarian photographer Lucien Hervé (1910–2007) was an athlete in Hungary and a fashion designer in Paris before turning to photography in 1938. In 1949 he was commissioned to do an article on Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation in Marseille and began the long collaboration with the Modern Movement pioneer which made Hervé the photographer of choice for many architects. In this volume, over 150 photographs – of architectural and other subjects – accompany a biographical and critical essay by Olivier Beer.

From Hergest Ridge and Offa's Dyke on the Welsh border near Leominster to Radnor Forest, the Elan Valley, the Vale of Rheidol and on to Cardigan Bay, this photographic journey moves westward through rolling fields, woods and rocky heather-covered high ground, past waterfalls and down slate scree slopes to the dramatic coastline. John Rux-Burton's portfolio includes studies of light and movement and explorations of details of nature and the landscape as well as grand panoramas.

Born in Paris in 1928, Elliott Erwitt grew up in Milan, and emigrated to New York in 1938, but he was a frequent visitor to his birthplace and photographed the city with a rare visual wit, producing what Adam Gopnik describes as ‘the artful, ballet-based comedy of a Jacques Tati’. This volume of 170 photographs taken between 1949 and 2009 shows us Erwitt’s Paris and his favourite Parisians: walkers, waiters, museum-goers, lovers and dogs.

Banaras, or Varanasi, stands on the banks of the Ganges in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, it is also the holiest in the Hindu religion. In these 249 photographs, the award-winning photographer Christopher Roche has captured the colours and energies of Banaras’ streets and temples, its sadhus or holy men, and the religious rites on the burning ghats of this great spiritual centre.

In 1912, trainee priest Frank Browne was given the unusual present of a trip on the Titanic from Southampton to his native Ireland. The photographs he took demonstrate the talent he had been honing since first acquiring a camera as a teenager. This portfolio of his documentary images mainly depicts life in Ireland between the 1920s and 1940s, but also includes photographs taken while serving in the First World War, and pictures from a trip to Australia in 1924.

The first successful crossing of the Antarctic continent was completed in 1957–58 by a British and Commonwealth expedition led by Vivian Fuchs and Edmund Hillary. Like Shackleton's journey four decades earlier, the mission produced spectacular photographs, this time by George Lowe, recording the men and their 'sno-cat' vehicles in the icy landscape. Led by these images, some in colour, this book tells the story of the expedition, with contributions and reflections on Antarctica by leading polar experts including Ranulph Fiennes.

Sarah Acland was inspired to take up photography by her acquaintance with artistic luminaries such as John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Following in the footsteps of Julia Margaret Cameron, whom she also knew, Acland became an important pioneer in the field of colour photography. This catalogue of her work includes the influential photographs she made using the Sanger Shepherd and Autochrome processes. Her subjects include Oxford scenes, architectural and nature studies, and portraits of people in her circle.

From the success of Roman Holiday in 1953, the arrival of the film industry in Rome and the release of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita in 1960, a new breed of celebrity-scoop photographers emerged, the paparazzi, with Elio Sorci at the forefront. A virtual who’s who of 1960s and 1970s cinema, this portfolio of Sorci’s work includes his famous ‘kissing picture’ that confirmed the love affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on the set of Cleopatra.

As Keats observed in his ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, music and art have been intertwined since antiquity. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art, this beautiful volume explores the connection from ancient pottery to contemporary video art. Superbly illustrated with more than 250 colour images, the essays examine the representation of music in the arts of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, collaborations between musicians and artists, and phenomena such as synaesthesia.

The photographer Cristian Barnett travelled eastward from Alaska, through Canada, Greenland and the countries of Scandinavia, completing the Arctic Circle in Russia, and capturing images of life and work along 'the line where each year there is one day when the sun does not set, and one when the sun does not rise'. Accompanying the portfolio of 182 colour photographs are an interview in which Barnett talks about his northern journeys and an Alaskan resident's reflections on the Arctic year.

Oscar Marzaroli (1933–1988) was Scotland's most prestigious photographer of the 20th century, renowned for his images of Glasgow, and particularly the Gorbals, in the throes of urban renewal. This volume brings together a selection of those iconic photographs along with previously unpublished pictures, including many of friends and family, a sketch biography by his widow, and essays examining less familiar aspects of Marzaroli's work in portraiture and landscape.

Keith Strickland's enthusiasm for steam led him to visit Austria in the 1970s to see the locomotives still running there on some secondary routes. The trip initiated a 40-year odyssey to experience and photograph steam railways around the world. This collection of his images focuses on regular service railways rather than heritage lines and includes chapters on Eastern Europe, China, India, South Africa and Cuba. The explanatory captions include technical details about the locomotives and railways. Foreword by Sir Mark Tully.

The largest and most luxurious ship afloat when it was built, Lusitania was famous even before it was sunk by a German submarine in 1915 with the loss of about 1,200 lives. This book tells the story of the vessel through a collection of contemporary postcards, charting its construction and service but also its cultural impact in the aftermath of its sinking, focusing anti-German feeling and helping to bring America into the First World War.

Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) became famous for his society portraits in the 1920s and went on to photograph people in all walks of life – from royalty to rock stars. This volume presents more than 120 of his portraits, accompanied by the photographer's written observations or reflections on his sitters. His thoughts are often wicked – John Betjeman is described as 'an Edwardian vaudeville tramp' – but always compelling as notes from Beaton's vast experience of the worlds of society, art, literature and performance.

In a preface to this magnificent collection of wartime photographs, Mark Holborn describes Cecil Beaton as 'able to realize the visual potential from the most mundane as well as the most dramatic circumstances'. Whether taken on the home front amid the London Blitz, in the Western Desert, in India, Burma, China or industrial Tyneside, Beaton's photographs for the Ministry of Information are unfailingly eloquent and a powerful record of the years 1939 to 1945. With commentary by Beaton and a detailed chronology.

Gerda Pohorylle and André Friedmann met in Paris in the 1930s and together the two political émigrés created the fictitious photographer Robert Capa under whose name they published and marketed their pictures. This beautifully printed book assesses the life and work of Taro who was tragically killed while covering the Spanish Civil War with Friedman (who kept the name Capa), and includes many images recently discovered from the so-called 'Mexican suitcase' containing negatives by Taro, Capa and David 'Chim' Seymour.

Art photographer Barbara Macklowe spent several years in India exploring the rarely visited areas populated by tribal peoples. This volume is the result of those travels and

This large-format, extravagantly produced volume presents a selection of colourful images by the Dutch photographer Hans Kemp, who has spent over 20 years taking photographs in Asia and the Far East.

This study of the photographer Heinrich Kuehn (1866-1944) sets his work in the context of his early association with the Viennese avant-garde and explores his close friendship with Stieglitz and Steichen.

The photographs of the British royal family by Sir Cecil Beaton (1904–80) are among the most widely published portraits of the 20th century and were instrumental in shaping the monarchy's public image. From teenage princess to mother and sovereign, Elizabeth II posed for his camera on numerous occasions. Containing over 50 formal portraits as well as candid behind-the-scenes photographs, and enlivened with anecdotes from Beaton's personal diaries, this book celebrates a unique collaboration.

Contemporary America is revealed in candid, unconventional photographs.