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In close-up photographs of flowers and their pollinators, the wildlife photographer Heather Angel reveals the key floral parts which aid reproduction and shows precisely how and where pollen is transferred to particular visitors. Taken in Kew Gardens, her own garden in Surrey and 20 different countries, the photographs include studies of wind pollination as well as bees, blister beetles and butterflies, a honey possum and many different birds, all captured in the act of pollinating. Slightly off-mint.

The daughter of wealthy, well-connected parents, Joan Eyres Monsell defied convention by earning a living as a photographer, travelling to Russia and America, and conducting a series of affairs. In wartime Cairo she met Patrick Leigh Fermor; their love would last until her death in 2003. Drawing on Joan’s personal archive, this first-ever biography brings her out from the shadow of her famous husband, and sheds light on the mores of the wartime generation, determined to live life at full tilt.

The technically precise images in this collection of photographs by Swedish photojournalist Lennart Nilsson follow a biological tour of the human body, taking in DNA, the embryo, the eye, the organs, bone, hair and muscle. The photographer’s microscopic lens also falls upon bacteria and viruses, including HIV, SARS and herpes, and, as with all his imagery, captures the extraordinary colour, form and intricate detail of life, however hazardous.

Roland and Sabrina Michaud have spent most of their lives exploring Africa and Asia. Organized by region, this account of their travels features nearly 500 colour photographs depicting the temples of India, Chinese monasteries, and the tents of Mongolian nomads. Their commentary explains the background to the images and describes the sense of shared humanity they felt with people whose lives were very different from their own.

Bob Dylan, David Bowie and Alice Cooper, Aboriginal Australians, icons from the fashion world, East End club-goers from the 1960s, rock stars, film stars and Nelson Mandela: David Bailey’s photographs prove that, in the words of Sandy Nairne, the National Portrait Gallery’s director, ‘we stand equal in life’. Published to accompany the 'Bailey’s Stardust' exhibition in 2014, this volume contains over 250 portraits – each one extraordinary – chosen by the photographer himself and introduced by Tim Marlow’s essay, ‘Bailey and Portraiture’.

Jerry Dantzic was commissioned to photograph Billie Holiday during a week-long engagement at Sugar Hill jazz club in Newark, New Jersey, in 1957. Allowed into her inner circle, Dantzic was able to capture intimate moments backstage and at the singer's Manhattan apartment, as well as atmospheric shots of her performances. The 100 images in this portfolio present a poignant portrait of the troubled star two years before her death at the age of 44.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) witnessed and photographed the events, people and places of the 20th century with an instinct for the decisive and creative moment, the significance of the scene and its composition. In this biography, Pierre Assouline retraces Cartier-Bresson’s life ‘to tell the story of one man’s vision’.

An association with the sculptor Henry Moore led Gemma Levine into a career as a photographer, making portraits of many of the most influential figures in British life in the 1980s and 1990s, including Princess Diana, Robert Maxwell and Margaret Thatcher. Part autobiography, part portfolio, this book explains her early work with Moore and her travels across Israel in the 1970s, and presents the best of her portraits with anecdotes about the sitters.

From 1967's ‘Summer of Love’ to the end of the 1960s, Baron Wolman was a San Francisco-based photojournalist working for Rolling Stone – and at the centre of a cultural revolution. This volume is his photographic record of the era’s musicians and festivals.

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.