Product Description: Ian Jeffrey is a superb guide in this profusely illustrated introduction to the appreciation of photography as an art form.  Novices and experts alike will gain a deeper understanding of great photographers and their work, as Jeffrey decodes key images and provides essential biographical and historical background...read more

Product Description: The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price.Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography...read more

Product Description: Winner of the Leica-sponsored 2003 European Publishers Award for Photography.Kakarouhas’ empathy and passion for Cuba and its people is clear. The book is full of images with a richness of color and a warmth and sensuality that conveys a real feeling for the island and for the daily lives of its inhabitants...read more

Product Description: Kyffin Williams RA (b.1918) is the central figure in contemporary Welsh painting and this book, the first monograph to be published on the artist, examines the full range of his work from the mid-1940s to the present day. From the outset of his career, Kyffin Williams took both the landscape and the people of North Wales as his subjects, and he has remained faithful to them for almost sixty years...read more

Product Description: This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Shomei Tomatsu - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.

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Product Description: Since 1992 photographer Nicholas Sinclair has been photographing the major figures in contemporary British art. The result is a collection of portraits of artists photographed in their studios with their work. Artists featured include: Edward Allington; Kenneth Armitage; Peter Blake; Richard Deacon; Maggi Hambling; Julian Opie; Marc Quinn; Bill Woodrow; and many more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Taken from original glass negatives in the Hulton Getty's collection, this book reveals images of America, its dramatic landscapes and settler towns by the 19th century photographer William England. His views of New York, the Niagara Falls and Canada were the first images of North America commercially available in Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From the cameras of the world's top photographers illuminating images present a sweeping picture of human experience, showing photography as a visual history of the 20th century. Includes profiles of history's most memorable photographers. 40 color and 180 b&w illustrations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since it was first developed by Daguerre in the 1840s, photography has followed an interesting and varied course in its progress from a practical means of documentation to an art form with its own icons, heroes, galleries and collectors...read more

Shows modern paintings, engravings, watercolors, and drawings by British artists, and provides background information about each artist

A critical examination of the history and development of the art of photography ranges from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present (view table of contents)