Photography

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.

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.

In addition to the technical details of how each of the landscape photographs in this book was achieved, Peter Watson records the time he spent, once in position, waiting for the perfect light; often several hours. Watson uses large-format (4x5in) cameras and outlines his meticulous approach, exploring different landscape environments from rivers and woodland to mountains and coastlines, and describing how he sets about creating his compositions and controlling the light to realize his vision.

The Spanish-born photojournalist Enrique Meneses (1929–2013) had a knack of being in the right place at the right time, earning his reputation with a set of photographs following Fidel Castro and his guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra mountains before the Cuban Revolution. With text and captions in Spanish and English, this book collects the best of Meneses’ work, including coverage of Nasser’s Egypt, the American Civil Rights movement and the Khrushchev/Kennedy summit as well as Cuba.

The photographer Philippe Halsman (1906–1979) is known for his collaboration with Dalí in the 1940s and 1950s, for portraits of prominent figures including Albert Einstein and JF Kennedy and for the famous ‘jump’ portraits. This volume by his grandson presents Halsman’s ‘unknown’ work: more than 110 images mined from the photographer’s own archive, many dating from his years with Dalí, and accompanied by his handwritten texts reflecting on photography and creativity.

In an age where the parameters of public discussion are largely set by the mainstream media, Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park remains a rare forum for face-to-face political debate. This book offers a unique portrait of the people who come to argue, discuss, preach, protest, heckle and be heckled. Photographs stretching back almost four decades are accompanied by extracts from speeches, by turns intriguing, shocking, politically incorrect – and often very funny.

Robert Nickelsberg accompanied a group of mujahideen crossing the border from Pakistan to Afghanistan in 1988 and has been photographing in the troubled country for publications including Time magazine and Newsweek ever since. Illuminating the destruction, poverty and oppression of the continual conflict, this volume presents 100 of his images, from the withdrawal of Soviet troops to the departure of the Americans in 2014. The photographs are accompanied by essays by leading journalists and experts on Afghanistan.

During the golden age of Hollywood the style and elegance of the studios' most famous stars were enhanced by the regular appearance of well-groomed dogs in their promotional photographs. The images collected here feature more than 130 actors posing alongside their canine friends, from the greats of the silent era, such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Mary Pickford, to Joan Collins and Lee Marvin in the 1960s, while Elvis Presley meets a real-life Hound Dog.

Described by the Russian photographer Gusov as an 'anthropological investigation of contemporary man – who we are, who we have become and how absurd we can be at times', this collection of over 300 photographs has consumerism and tourism in its sights. Gusov's lens focuses on the odd juxtapositions of advertising and real life, and on people taking photographs, disporting themselves on beaches, eating street food, sleeping or working in locations that range from Ascot to Siberia.

Patrick Grant, the director of the men’s clothing house E Tautz, presents profiles and photographic portraits of 81 men with nothing in common but ‘uncommon-ness’. They are divided into four groups: the ‘Artists’ all made their living in the arts and include film directors, architects, writers and painters; the ‘Heroes’, who include Mohammed Ali and Ernest Shackleton, all achieved something outstanding by physical prowess or courage; the ‘Libertines’ lived life recklessly; and the ‘Stylists’, though not necessarily well-dressed, lived their lives with style.