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How to Take Great Photographs
Successful Photographers Explain How and Why they created an Image
Ed. Clive Woodyear

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British Wildlife Photography Awards
Collection 7
Ed. Donna Wood

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British Wildlife Photography Awards
Collection 5
Ed. Donna Wood

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British Wildlife Photography Awards
Collection 4
Ed. Donna Wood

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British Wildlife Photography Awards
Collection 3
Ed. Donna Wood

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British Wildlife Photography Awards
Collection 1
Ed. Paul Mitchell;Donna Wood;Kat Mead et al

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A Fantastic State of Ruin
The Painted Towns of Rajasthan
David Zurick
Generally attributed to craftsmen from Jaipur in the 18th and 19th centuries, the painted murals decorating the mansions formerly owned by Rajasthan’s merchants are akin to public art, but with many of the buildings now abandoned, they are falling into disrepair. The images in this collection by award-winning photographer David Zurick capture the towns as they are today and portray the desert location, everyday life and local residents as well as the artworks.

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Stars and Wars
The Film Memoirs and Photographs of Alan Tomkins
Alan Tomkins;Gareth Owen;Fore. Oliver Stone

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The Premier Collection
1950s and 1960s Southern Steam in Colour
Terry Cole

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Somerset and Bristol
James Osmond

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The Art of the Locomotive
Ken Boyd
Ken Boyd’s railway photography is distinguished by his use of digital editing to emphasize details such as individual conduits or windows. Over 150 of his images, each with commentary on the subject’s history and technology, are reproduced in this volume, which traces the development of locomotives from the earliest years of rail travel to the introduction of diesel and the modern era.

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Art of the Corvette
Randy Leffingwell;Photo. Tom Loeser

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Lap of Honour
A Photographic Journey with Sir Stirling Moss
Tim Hain

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Time Machines
Stanley Greenberg
Stanley Greenberg;Intro. David C Cassidy
New York-based photographer Stanley Greenberg explores the strange world of nuclear and particle physics, with 80 black-and-white images of the huge, imposing and intricate machines from around the world, including PHENIX, TRIUMF and ZEUS, which isolate and analyse the smallest particles in existence. The book includes Greenberg’s own notes on the machines’ functionality and experiments.

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Amphibians of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East
A Photographic Guide
Christophe Dufresnes

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UFO
Unified Fashion Objectives
Albert Watson

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Wild Vision
In Celebration of the Natural World
John Beatty
A trip to the Falklands and Antarctica as a young man inspired John Beatty’s three decades of nature photography. The colour images in this retrospective feature the landscapes and wildlife of the Galapagos Islands, Himalaya, Africa, the Arctic, North America, and his native Britain, while the text recalls his passionate engagement with these wild and often challenging environments.

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1865: The Golden Age of Mountaineering
Gilles Modica
A former mountaineer himself, Gilles Modica presents an illustrated history of the greatest era of Alpine mountaineering, from the ascent of the Wetterhorn in 1854 to the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Along with photographs and paintings of the mountains, there are portraits of the climbers, including English visitors such as Charles Hudson, John Tyndall, Leslie Stephen and Edward Whymper.

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Faith in the City of London
Niki Gorick;Intro. Edward Lucie-Smith
London’s financial district might not seem the obvious setting for religious buildings, but it houses 40 Anglican churches, in addition to Jewish and Catholic places of worship, while its livery halls host Muslim prayers. In more than 250 photographs, Niki Gorick captures services, weddings, musical events, commemorations and parish administration to create an atmospheric record of the City’s spiritual life.

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Women of the Home Front
Serving the Nation in Photographs
Intro. Elisabeth Shipton
This photographic survey records the work and contributions of women on the Home Front in a wide variety of services and military branches supporting the war effort. With around 150 images, it illustrates the breadth of roles they filled, from agriculture, policing and meteorology to building bomber engines and maintaining anti-aircraft guns.

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Wonders of the Plant Kingdom
A Microcosm Revealed
Wolfgang Stuppy;Rob Kesseler;Madeline Harley
This collection of high-magnification photographs makes visible the tiny and beautiful structures that are found on fruits, seeds and pollen grains. A collaboration between an artist and two botanists from Kew Gardens, the book reveals how these minuscule details relate to the sophisticated strategies that plants have evolved to survive.

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India's Elephants (Limited Deluxe Edition)
Photo. Annette Bonnier

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India's Elephants
Photo. Annette Bonnier

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Eilean
The Island Photography of Margaret Fay Shaw
Ed. Fiona J Mackenzie
Born near Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania in 1903, Margaret Fay Shaw settled on South Uist in 1928 and began learning Gaelic and transcribing Gaelic songs. In 1935 she married the folklorist John Lorne Campbell, moved to Canna and began a photographic career recording images of Hebridean life and landscape. This volume presents almost 200 photographs, arranged by island from Skye to St Kilda, with excerpts from Shaw’s writings and a final chapter on life on Canna.

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Focus on Photography
The Fotografis Bank Austria Collection
Ed. Toni Stooss;Ed. Margit Zuckriegl
The company that became Bank Austria began acquiring the work of great photographers in 1975 and has amassed a collection that represents the most important milestones and leading artists of the medium. Alongside a series of essays discussing the development of photography as an art form, 75 works are reproduced in this book from pioneers Fox Talbot and Nadar to influential post-war artists including Henri Cartier-Bresson and Diane Arbus.

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1918
The Decisive Year in Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs
Richard van Emden
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Birds of Japan and North-East Asia
A Photographic Guide
Tadao Shimba
This illustrated handbook details all 520 bird species, both endemic and migrant, found in Japan, Korea, northern China and the Russian Far East, from the majestic Steller’s Sea Eagle to warblers and passerines. Each entry gives key identification criteria, range, habitat and a distribution map, and is illustrated by Japan’s top bird photographers.

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The Extended Moment
Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Canada
Ann Thomas;John McElhone
The National Gallery of Canada’s collection of photographs was established 50 years ago and represents the medium’s aesthetic, historical and technical range. Almost 200 images of artistic expression, portraiture and photojournalism are reproduced in this catalogue, which was published to accompany a 2019 exhibition.

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Unseen
London, Paris, New York
Katy Barron
This exhibition catalogue assembles three bodies of work by 20th century photographers, observing a city as an outsider: Wolf Suschitzky's London in the 1930s, Dorothy Bohm's Paris in the 1950s and Neil Libbert's New York in the 1960s. Depicting street scenes and local life, the black-and-white images across all three collections are in the tradition of Eugène Atget and Bert Hardy.

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The Exploration Treasury
Amazing journeys Around the World in Rare Artworks and Prints, Maps and Personal Narratives
Beau Riffenburgh

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Capturing the Universe
The Most Spectacular Astrophotography from Across the Cosmos
Rhodri Evans
Beginning with an image of a pale blue dot – Earth – obtained by Voyager 1 at a distance of around six billion kilometres from home, this book presents some of the most spectacular astrophotography gathered by robotic space explorers and ground-based telescopes. Dr Evans explains the technology used to capture these images and the celestial objects depicted, travelling from our own Solar System, via the Milky Way and the Local Group to the edges of the Universe.

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Heinkel He 111
The Latter Years – The Blitz and War in the East to the Fall of Germany
Chris Goss
The distinctive glazed cockpit of the He 111 is much in evidence in this selection of photographs of the bomber in action, from the British raids of 1941 to the Russian and Mediterranean theatres through to the end of the war. Among the images of crews, airfields, in-flight views and wrecks are some rare contemporary colour photographs of aircraft at a French airbase during the Blitz.

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The Legend of the Sea
The Spectacular Marine Photography of Gilles Martin-Raget
Gilles Martin-Raget
Award-winning photographer Gilles Martin-Raget presents a wide selection of his images, arranged thematically in sections on dinghy sailing, inshore racing, yachts, cruisers and the America’s cup. Many of the pictures show the crews and vessels in action around the world and reveal the drama and eye-catching angles for which he is known.

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Wonders
Spectacular Moments in Nature Photography
Ed. Rhonda Rubinstein
The survey of natural wonders in this photographic collection is the result of the California Academy of Sciences BigPicture competition. Showing over 100 of the best entries, it includes close-up views of sea creatures, a rare image of a Pampas cat in the wild, and aerial shots of pink flamingos, as well as phenomena such as icebergs, hot springs and aurora. Slightly off-mint.

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Equus
Tim Flach
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.

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Gemologue
Street Jewellery Styles and Styling Tips
Liza Urla
Describing jewellery as 'the ultimate means of self-expression', the stylist Liza Urla started her popular Gemologue blog in 2009, and since then has worked with brands including Chanel, Bulgari and Fabergé. This collection of photographs, interspersed with styling suggestions, chronicles her journey around the world in search of inspirational pieces of jewellery from private collections, boutiques and trade shows.

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Dog Dance
The Photographs of Brad Elterman
Brad Elterman
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.

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9 Photographers for the Planet
Gianni Berengo Gardin;Irene Kung;Joel Meyerowitz et al
Nine of the world’s leading art photographers bring their distinctive visual styles to bear on a different food, including rice, bread, coffee and chocolate. They depict the fields in which they are produced, the workers who toil there, and the consumers who enjoy the fruit of their labours. The text explores the issues of availability, sustainability and working conditions. In English and Italian.

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The Altering Eye
Photographs from the National Gallery of Art
Sarah Greenough
In 1949 Georgia O’Keeffe donated 1,600 photographs by Alfred Stieglitz to the National Gallery, Washington: the ‘Key Set’ that became the touchstone for the Gallery’s collection, now comprising 15,000 American and European photographs. This magnificent volume presents 290 of its finest examples, from Fox Talbot’s Leaf Study (1839/40) to Adam Fuss’s daguerreotype For Allegra (2012) and includes work by virtually every great photographer, along with essays on the evolution of the medium and some of its most important practitioners.

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Gidopark
Yelena Yemchuk

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Thomas Struth
Dandelion Room

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Graphis Photography 2008 (Photography Annual)
Design Graphis
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Archeology of Fear and Desire
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Thomas Hoeffgen African Arenas
Nadine Barth
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The World Atlas of Street Fashion
Caroline Cox
In this highly illustrated volume, the fashion historian Caroline Cox explores the derivation and development of sartorial movements in different regions of the world – such as the Chinese skinheads of Beijing, the feminist funkeiras of São Paolo, the raggare of Stockholm and the ravers of Ibiza. In doing so, she demonstrates how clothing choices can transmit messages of resistance, solidarity, subversion or musical affiliation.

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Taj Forer
Threefold Sun
Taj Forer

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Bori
Healers of the Soul (Imago Mundi)
Caroline Alida;Adeline Masquelier

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Guy Tillim
Second Nature
Guy Tillim

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Thomas Hoeffgen African Arenas
Nadine Barth

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Graphis Photography 2008 (Photography Annual)
Design Graphis

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In Prison Air
The Cells of Holmesburg Prison
Thomas Roma

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Chaotic Harmony
Contemporary Korean Photography
Anne Wilkes Tucker;Karen Sinsheimer;Bohnchang Koo

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The Calumet Region
An American Place
Gary Cialdella;Gregg Hertzlieb

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Motor Blues
Thomas Demand;Rineke Dijkstra;Candida Hofer;Thomas Struth
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Larry E. McPherson
Beirut City Center
Larry E. McPherson
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Touhami Ennadre
Moira
Okwui Enwezor;Lauri Firstenberg
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Burning Heart
Portrait of the Philippines
Jessica Hagedorn;Marissa Roth
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Koto Bolofo/Claudia Van Ryssen-Bolofo
The Prison
Claudia Van Ryssen-Bolofo

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London!
Marc Hoberman;John Andrew
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.

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Through Her Lens
The Stories Behind the Photography of Eva Sereny
Eva Sereny
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.

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Musée du Louvre
Painted Shoes
Margo Glantz;Ed. Catherine Belanger;Lois Lammerhuber
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.

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1969
The Year in Pictures
Contrasto

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Images of Home Counties Railways
Classic Photographs from the Maurice Dart Railway Collection
Maurice Dart
These vintage photographs from the well-known Dart collection are drawn from the Home Counties and suburbs of north and west London. Each of the photographs is accompanied by a brief text, the images are organized by locomotive wheel arrangement and types from the largest downwards, and the locations are identified according to the 1938 Railway Clearing House Handbook of Stations.

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Glorious Berkshire
Colin Roberts
The historic county of Berkshire stretches about 70 miles from the Marlborough Downs to the suburbs of West London, and its scenery includes forest, ancient chalk hills and Thames Valley lowlands. This collection of photographs from around the year is accompanied by the author’s personal reflections on the landscape and story of England’s Royal County.

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Provence and the Côte d'Azur
Discover the Spirit of The South of France
Janelle McCulloch
With an emphasis on discovering the spirit of each town, this tour of Provence and the Cote d’Azur characterizes each one, such as Cannes ‘the film star’, and Avignon ‘the art lover’, and explores its distinctive atmosphere, culture, food and architecture. Richly illustrated throughout, the book highlights experiences that could easily be missed, and concludes with a directory of guest houses, museums, galleries and markets.

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The Most Beautiful Villages of Normandy
With 256 Illustrations in Color
Hugh Palmer
Normandy’s varied landscape encompasses the fashionable resort of Varengeville, fishing ports such as Barfleur, tranquil Clécy in the Orne valley, and Monet’s famous garden at Giverny. Illustrated with 256 colour photographs, this book profiles more than 30 villages, with special sections on the region’s half-timbered architecture, its food and drink, and its châteaux and churches. A guide lists the most important sites, markets, hotels and restaurants by region.

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The Most Beautiful Villages of Burgundy
James Bentley;Photo. Hugh Palmer
Organized by département – Yonne, Côte-d'Or, Nièvre and Saône-et-Loire – this celebration of the ancient communities of Burgundy presents more than 250 photographs and detailed captions. Each village is introduced with historical and architectural notes, and three additional chapters focus in turn on the region's gastronomic tradition, its Romanesque structures and its distinctive patterned roofs. Also included are a map and traveller's guide.

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The Most Beautiful Villages of Brittany
James Bentley;Photo. Hugh Palmer
The granite-built communities of Brittany lie nestled within a varied landscape comprising jagged coastline, fertile plains and wild moorland. Arranged by département – Finistère, Morbihan, Côtes-d'Armor and Ille-et-Vilaine – this volume offers detailed historical and cultural notes about each of the featured locations, accompanied by more than 250 photographs of village architecture and scenes of village life, a map and a traveller's guide. Slightly off-mint

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Lives of the Great Photographers
Juliet Hacking
Juliet Hacking presents brief biographies of 38 major figures in the history of photography, arranged alphabetically from Ansel Adams to Madame Yevonde, the art and portrait photographer celebrated for her early use of colour. Each profile is illustrated by a portrait or self-portrait of the subject and one or two examples of his or her work.

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Landscapes of the Passing Strange
Reflections from Shakespeare
Rosamund Purcell;Michael Witmore
This collaboration pairs lines by Shakespeare with 70 photographs of landscapes reflected in antique bottles. Michael Witmore, who chose the texts, discusses the playwright’s visual imagination, while artist Rosamund Purcell tells how the distressed glass transforms sky, trees and human forms into something rich and strange.

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Through the African American Lens
Double Exposure
Rhea Combs;Deborah Willis
Based on the photography collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, each book in this series illuminates a facet of 20th-century African American history through 50–60 photographs, with brief captions and curators’ commentaries.This first volume in the series introduces the collection and illustrates the ways in which African Americans have used activism, community and culture to fight for social justice and better living standards.

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Revolution in Hungary
The 1956 Budapest Uprising
Erich Lessing| George Konrad| Francois Kejto| Nicholas Bauquet
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From War to Peace
A Photographer's View of British Aviation During the 1940s
Richard Riding
As an aircraft inspector during the Second World War, Richard Riding's father, Eddie, could only take pictures of the planes surreptitiously, but from 1946 to his death in 1950 he amassed many more images and his collection showcases the British aviation scene of the period. Accompanied by detailed captions, the photographs include air-to-air shots of light aircraft, the new generation of passenger craft operating from Croydon and Heathrow and innovations on display at the Farnborough Airshow.

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Dress Like a Woman
Working Women and What They Wore
Vanessa Friedman
Although women started to enter employment en masse in the early 20th century, it was not until the 1970s that they began to exercise a modicum of autonomy over what they wore at work. Accompanied by introductory essays by fashion journalist Vanessa Friedman and New York Times. bestselling author Roxane Gay, the 240 photographs in this volume depict the changes in women’s clothing in the workplace over the last hundred years.

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1000 Faces / 0 Faces / 1 Face
Gerardo Mosquera

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Horizons
Sze Tsung Leong
Sze Tsung Leong

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Robert Rauschenberg
Photographs 1949–1962
Nicholas Cullinan;Ed. Susan Davidson;David White

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Mr Salesman - Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton

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Inside the Favelas
Douglas Mayhew

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My America
Christopher Morris;Ed. Claudia Christen
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’.

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Timeless Journeys
Travels to the World's Legendary Places
Ford Cochran
For over a century, National Geographic teams have been travelling the globe and describing exotic sites in words and photographs. For this book, 50 places have been chosen as the most desired, but often challenging, places to visit. Arranged by continent, from Cappadocia in Asia to the Marquesas Islands in Oceania, the description and photographs of each place are accompanied by travel tips and a ‘Nat Geo Flashback’ to an early expedition or a ‘Classic Shot’ by one of the magazine’s photographers.

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The Life of Tea
A Journey to the World's Finest Teas
Michael Freeman;Timothy d'Offay
‘The taste and experience of pure nature, with all its exquisite flavours and aromas, are at the heart of the enjoyment of tea.’ For this spectacular three-part ‘Journey’, the authors, a documentary photographer and a tea expert, first went in search of the tea plants and the process from ‘earth to cup’, then explored the finest tea mountains of China, Japan, India and Sri Lanka and, finally, sought out the cultural world that has developed around tea drinking.

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Lucien Clergue: Brasília
Eva-Monika Turck
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.

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Indigenous
Peter Voss
Hiring local guides to take him into the hinterlands of countries in the West, South and East of Africa, Peter Voss made repeated trips to the continent between 2011 and 2013. His resulting photographs, reproduced in this large-format portfolio, comprise candid portraits of the people of remote tribes living traditional lifestyles, including the peoples of the Omo River in Ethiopia, the semi-nomadic Masai of Kenya, the Somba people of Benin and Togo and the Himba of Namibia.

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India
Peter Voss
The German photographer Peter Voss is fascinated by India and, despite setbacks of illness and camera equipment ruined by heat and humidity, he has returned several times to capture ‘the wonderful scenes which are acted out on a daily basis’ in the holy cities along the banks of the Ganges. His photographs are of people and sometimes animals, in Allahabad and Varanasi, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Jaipur and Agra, and Kolkata: a world ‘where time seems to have stood still’.

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A Vision of Snowdonia
Jerry Rawson
The subject of this photographic tribute covers an area of 827 square miles in the north west of Wales and boasts a varied landscape of heather moors, lakes, wooded valleys, craggy mountains and dramatic coastline. Capturing the majestic scenery at different times of the year and in different lighting conditions, each of the images is presented in a wide-view panoramic format and printed across a double-page spread.

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Perfect Bowland
Andy Stansfield
Designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1964, the Forest of Bowland lies to the south of the Yorkshire Dales National Park but its different geology makes it a notably distinct environment. This portfolio is a photographer’s portrait of the area, ranging from moorland views and studies of the flora and fauna to picturesque buildings and life in villages such as Slaidburn and Newton-in-Bowland.

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The Importance of Elsewhere
Philip Larkin's Photographs
Richard Bradford
The most widely read British poet of the 20th century, Philip Larkin was also a gifted amateur photographer. This handsome book reproduces the best of his images in short, thematic chapters arranged in chronological order to form a visual biography, capturing the places and people - including his lover Monica Jones and his friend Kingsley Amis - that meant the most to him. These haunting pictures are infused with the poignancy of everyday life that also informs his verse.

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Messerschmitt Bf 109
The Early Years – Poland, the Fall of France and the Battle of Britain
Chris Goss
The most numerous and successful Luftwaffe fighter of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was a formidable opponent for the RAF’s Spitfires and Hurricanes during the Battle of Britain. This photographic collection assembles over 150 archive images of the plane in active service in 1939 and 1940, from pilots and crew with their machines at base to the wreckage of downed aircraft.

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Flydogs
Ed. Todd R Berger
All the images in this portfolio, some spectacular and some slightly bizarre, capture dogs in a moment of dynamic vitality, leaping, bounding, playing or catching balls and frisbees. From thoroughbred greyhounds and whippets in full flight to springing spaniels and jumping Jack Russells, every dog is captured in mid-air. Top land speeds are given for each breed.

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Fragile Legacies
The Photographs of Solomon Osagie Alonge
Amy J Staples;Flora Edouwaye S Kaplan;Bryna M Freyer
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.

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The Swinging Sixties
An Iconic Decade in Pictures
Ed. Ian Penberthy;Caroline Watson
In this photographic portrait of the 1960s, drawn from the Mirrorpix archive, musicians, models, fashion designers, actors and artists dominate the ‘swinging’ scene; but amid the hair-dos, festivals and flower power, there’s also Bobby Moore kissing the World Cup and the new Concorde being wheeled out to meet its adoring fans.

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The 1980s
Britain in Pictures
PA Photos
The Falklands War, striking miners, the Brighton bombing and riots in Brixton; but on the plus side, Torvill and Dean won gold at Sarajevo, Live Aid had an estimated audience of 1.5 billion, and the photo-opportunity of the decade was Charles and Diana’s wedding.

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The 1970s
Britain in Pictures
PA Photos
As well as the fashion disasters, the Press Association pictures reveal extremes of good and bad in the 1970s – bomb blasts and industrial strikes, but also Red Rum winning his third Grand National, Concorde and Michael Caine looking devastating in Get Carter.

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Faraway Focus
Photographers Go Travelling (1880–2015)
Ed. Ulrich Domrose;Thomas Kohler
With 180 images by 17 photographers, this catalogue of an exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie explores how photography has shaped perceptions of the world since staged tourist images were created in the late nineteenth century. From the photojournalism of Erich Salomon and Thomas Hoepker to the more abstract work of modern artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans, it explores how photographers have engaged with the debate about how social reality is depicted.

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Yachting
A Visual Celebration of Sailing Past and Present
Olivier Le Carrer
With photographs of classic and historic yachts, regattas and racing scenes, harbours, marinas and yacht clubs, this illustrated volume considers all aspects of the appeal of sailing, pinpointing the essence of yachting culture down to varnished wood, Dockside shoes and the yacht club bar. Exciting and exotic locations, expensive boats and famous owners are part of the picture but the author also identifies the 'beautiful discomfort' that lies behind the glamour – the sailing itself. Off-mint.

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