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An international bestseller when it was first published, The Earth from the Air is a definitive record of the geography and people of the world. In evaluating recent developments this revised edition reveals the earth’s fragility and the impact of humanity, but most of all the beauty of the natural world. In addition to the images for which the original is renowned, this version includes 100 new photographs and seven new essays by experts on environmental issues.

The result of a seven-year project to document the horse in places as far-flung as Iceland and the deserts of Utah, Equus is a remarkable gallery of over 135 photographs showing the variety of equine physique and breeds as diverse as zebra, donkeys and Thoroughbreds. From a tracking vehicle, Flach captured the image of an Arabian at full gallop, on the Mongolian steppes he photographed wild Przewalzski horses, and other techniques used range from studio close-ups to x-ray and, remarkably, underwater photography.

Starting out as photographer for jazz label Artists House in the late 1970s, Deborah Feingold graduated to Musician magazine and was soon photographing the leading names in the industry for Rolling Stone, Time and Newsweek. This collection of her best work includes portraits of Madonna, Bono and Prince.

Brad Elterman was a key Los Angeles photographer of the 1970s and 1980s music scene, capturing stars from Bob Dylan, Blondie, Michael Jackson and Joan Jett to the Ramones: this selection of his best images captures the wild spirit of the times.

Reflecting the impact of technology on social and cultural traditions, this collection of over 50 images considers how the human body is represented simultaneously in the physical and digital worlds. Blending photography and 3-D imaging, the reproductions include works created for Vogue Hommes Japan, installations for the Venice Dance Biennale and collaborations with award-winning fashion director Nicola Formichetti.

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From tourist destinations and historic monuments to markets, streets and suburbs, this photographic celebration sets out to capture the essence of London in the bustle and chaos of everyday life as well as the majesty of some of its famous sites. Over 230 large format colour images include aerial views and architectural studies as well as reportage of London life.

Most Bowie fans will be familiar with his ‘final’ Hammersmith Odeon performance in the Ziggy persona, which was filmed by DA Pennebaker. However his last portrayal of the role came a few months later in a Marquee show filmed for US television. Terry O’Neill, well known for photographing the glamorous and the good, captured the front and backstage action: his photos are accompanied here by reminiscences from fans who were there.

Eva Sereny's career took off in 1970 when she was hired as a 'Special Photographer' on the set of Catch-22, breaking the glass ceiling in what was then a male-dominated industry. She progressed to working behind the scenes on many of the films that shaped late 20th-century American and European cinema and captured some of the greatest stars of the age, including Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor. This retrospective presents more than 100 rare images, interspersed with her memories and anecdotes.

In February 1969 Rolling Stone magazine published a special issue dedicated to ‘the Groupies and other girls’, revealing a world of liberation and self-expression among women who had attached themselves to the music scene. Reprinting the classic articles and images from that issue, this photographic portfolio features chief photographer Baron Wolman’s celebrated portraits, with additional and previously unpublished out-takes and contact sheets as well as recent interviews with several of the women.

Photographer Derry Moore has been visiting India since the 1970s. This selection of his black-and-white photographs shows the faded majesty of the architecture of British India and includes some of his portraits of Indian cultural icons such as Indira Gandhi and Satyajit Ray.

Among over 120 full-page details of paintings in this volume are the naked feet of Christ, Napoleon’s gold-embroidered boots and the discarded pink slipper of Ingres’ La Baigneuse de Valpinçon. Posing the question, ‘How can we decipher the mysteries – or the enigmas – concealed in this fragmentary narrative?’ Margo Glantz discusses this intriguing way of approaching art and the meanings that feet and shoes can convey. The full paintings appear at the end of the book.

With this remarkable compilation of photographs, artworks and quotations, Lisa Vreeland has created a vivid and multi-layered portrait of Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), drawing together the many strands of his personality and his art. The book is arranged in nine chapters, each one devoted to a facet of Beaton’s life or career: his special friendships, scrapbooks, the designs for dance, fashion photography, his work in New York and in Hollywood, and his portraits of artists, literary stars and fellow photographers.

Eugène Atget’s photographs of Paris around the turn of the 20th century have become part of that city’s enduring image, but only found fame after his death in 1927. For much of his life, he recorded its ‘little trades’ in a series of postcards, 80 of which are reproduced here. They offer a glimpse of the working city – its butchers, fishmongers, greengrocers, flower-sellers, knife-grinders and rag-and-bone men – in all its reality.

Conceptual artist Sarah Charlesworth (1947–2013) lived and worked in New York, producing her most influential pieces, generally in the photographic medium, during the 1970s and 1980s. This retrospective includes examples of work from throughout her career as well as contextual essays.

The Barabaig are nomadic cattle herders in north central Tanzania, but the land development of recent decades has eroded their territory and threatens their survival. In the 1980s, as part of a project to highlight the threat, Charles Lane lived among the people for two years and has campaigned on their behalf ever since. Recounting his personal experiences, this photographic volume paints a portrait of their culture and lifestyle.

The photographer Clive Arrowsmith is renowned both for his work for publications including Vogue and Vanity Fair and his images of celebrities. This visual celebration of his career features a broad selection of his iconic portraits of famous figures including LS Lowry, David Bowie, Carrie Fisher and the members of Monty Python, as well as highlights from his magazine portfolio and stills from his two successive Pirelli calendar shoots.

Using a large format Polaroid camera, the documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark travelled to 13 schools across the USA in 2006–09, capturing images of teenagers at their traditional American rite-of-passage.

This selection of over 100 images by the award-winning South African photographer Pieter Hugo, author of The Hyena and Other Men, is presented along with essays by TJ Demos and Aaron Schuman.

Comprised of photographs taken during a three-year Time Magazine assignment, this is Christopher Morris’s personal view of Republican America during George W Bush’s second administration: ‘a nation that has wrapped its eyes so tightly in red, white, and blue that it has gone blind’.

George Steinmetz was in the Central Sahara using a motorized paraglider to take photographs when he made a slow, angled descent towards a rare sight of two camel caravans passing one another. The result – ‘a macro overview and at the same time a more human, three-dimensional sense of place’ – set Steinmetz off on a 15-year mission, paragliding over deserts across the world. In this magnificent book he tells the stories of his travels and shares images that show the variety and strangeness of Earth’s wildernesses.

Lucien Clergue, the notable French photographer and friend of Picasso, was invited by the architect Oscar Niemeyer to photograph the futuristic city of Brasília in the 1960s. Accompanied by informative essays, this collection of the resulting images is a tribute to the spectacular curves and brutal monoliths of modernist architecture and the movement’s vision of a future that never quite happened.

Born into a poor immigrant family in Philadelphia in 1912, Eve Arnold found her calling in photography in her late thirties, after studying briefly with Alexey Brodovitch. Drawing on her diaries, letters and extensive photographic archive, this celebration of her life and career demonstrates the range of her work, from recording the lives of the poor and dispossessed in China and India to intimate portraits of celebrities including Marilyn Monroe and Malcolm X.

The first official photographer to the royal court of Benin, Solomon Osagie Alonge (1911–1994) took portraits of its obas, or kings, in their regalia, and created a record of ceremonial life. Produced in collaboration between Washington’s Smithsonian Institution and Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments, this book reproduces many of his images, examines their role as a documentary record of an era of change, and explores the practices of early studio photography in West Africa.

After an introduction explaining the process of ageing in trees and their biological and environmental importance, the National Trust’s Ancient Tree Adviser Brian Muelaner and photographer Edward Parker survey the ancient trees in 40 National Trust properties, arranged alphabetically from Ankerwycke in Surrey, where the Magna Carta may have been signed under the great Ankerwycke Yew, to Sir Isaac Newton’s Apple Tree at Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire.

Using scanning electron microscopes, award-winning photojournalist Lennart Nilsson presents images of human development from conception to adulthood. His groundbreaking photographs capture with extraordinary detail the organs, hair and muscles that make up the body, as well as the bacteria and viruses that threaten life, including HIV and SARS. Likened to Leonardo da Vinci, his work combines technical skill with artistic flair to picture the intricate details of life. Slightly off-mint.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 in-depth presentation of his photographs includes images documenting the creation of other works or destined to be integrated into the Combines series, as well as shots 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.

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.

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.

Wildlife photography typically aims to capture animals in their natural environments, inviting us to study their behaviour as unseen observers. This portfolio takes a different tack, bringing tame or trained animals into the studio for controlled portraits. The resulting pictures frame each subject against a pure black background, focusing attention on their form and texture and drawing us to engage with the eyes and face of a kangaroo, a giraffe or a tiger as we would with a human subject.

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.

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.

Contemporary America is revealed in candid, unconventional photographs.