Photography Books

The glamour and misery of mankind are at the heart of this book, but it also addresses the tradition and the renewal of the human image. Significant photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries engage in a sometimes surprising dialogue with Masters of European painting from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century. The book you're interested in is...

This book is the first of its kind to fully explain how to use photographs for research within Practical Theology. An essential tool for anyone exploring how visual material can shed light on their research questions, the book functions as a guide to using the methods well. It includes a rationale for using photographs within the emerging field of empirical...

How to represent sex as a place of ecstasy rather than pornography? How to transcend the unavoidable physicality of the sexual act, sometimes tender, sometimes violent, to reach what Diana Michener calls "the place of communion ... the unknown, the cosmic"? Diana Michener: Twenty Eight Figure Studies explores these themes with a unique artistic approach. Michener initially considered depicting live...

In Boksburg was published in 1982 as one of the earlier photobooks made in South Africa. David Goldblatt, himself from a white background and a critical observer of the dynamics inherent in the racist set-up of his native country, had become interested in capturing the "wholly uneventful flow of commonplace, orderly life" of the white population around him. Boksburg, a...

David Busch's Sony Alpha a7R III Guide to Digital Photography is the most comprehensive resource and reference for Sony's high-speed, high-resolution full frame mirrorless camera. Capable of 10 frame-per-second bursts even at 42 megapixels, the a7R III is fast enough for sports photography with the image quality that the most demanding landscape photographer seeks. Coupled with remarkable low-light performance, fast...

David Busch's Sony Alpha a7 IV Guide to Digital Photography is an essential resource for anyone looking to harness the full potential of the a7 IV camera, which is equipped with all the tools needed to take incredible images. This book will guide you through mastering those features as you delve into the world of digital photography and refine your...

David Busch's Sony Alpha a6300/ILCE-6300 Guide to Digital Photography is the most comprehensive reference and guidebook available for Sony's advanced APS-C mirrorless camera. This eagerly-anticipated enthusiast/professional digital camera features a new 24-megapixel sensor with 425 embedded phase-detect pixels for lightning-fast autofocus at up to 11 frames per second. With an electronic shutter that provides a silent shooting option, stunning 4K/UHD...

David Busch's Nikon Z6 III Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for the Nikon Z6 III, the company's next-generation enthusiast mirrorless camera. Equipped with the world's first partially-stacked CMOS sensor, this 24.5MP camera shares many of the advanced photography features of Nikon's top tier Z9 and Z8 flagship cameras, including a pre-capture feature that records...

The complete guide to mastering your drone! David Busch's DJI Mini 3/Mini 3 Pro Guide to Drone Photography is your comprehensive resource and reference guide to capturing high quality photographic still images and high-definition video with the ultra-compact DJI Mini 3 and Mini 3 Pro aircraft. These highly affordable, easy-to-fly Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are taking off all over the...

David Busch's Canon EOS 90D Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for the advanced Canon EOS 90D camera. With this book, photographers will be able to fully master the Canon EOS 90D camera. David Busch's guide offers more than just an explanation of the camera's functions and settings, giving readers insight into the world of...

"Mark is good natured. He finds the best in most things. To explain more would be too much. These are just pictures that Mark can do." – David Bailey David Bailey may be a master of the medium, but he also readily accepts that photography is technologically driven. The snapshot is a part of our visual culture; many photographs have...

In the 1980s, fashion wanted to make a statement and found in legendary British fashion photographer David Bailey its perfect chronicler. After Bailey shaped the style of the Swinging Sixties, fashion in the eighties posed a new challenge: brighter colours, higher glamour, statuesque models, extreme makeup, spandex, lycra, jumpsuits, power dressing, big hair, and as Grace Coddington puts it in...

During his short career, Bronx-born Darrel Ellis (1958-1992) created a multifaceted and expansive body of work merging painting, printmaking, photography, and drawing before his premature death due to AIDS-related causes. Ellis's greatest achievement happened in his early twenties, when he was given a group of negatives shot by his father, a postal worker and studio photographer who died in police...

Daido Moriyama first came to prominence in the mid-1960s. If there is one theme that jumps out from his work—one that can be regarded as his essential territory, the wellspring of his photography—it is Tokyo. He also draws inspiration from William Klein's confrontational photographs of New York, Shomei Tomatsu's trenchant social critiques, Andy Warhol's silkscreened multiples of newspaper images, and...

Inspired by the work of an earlier generation of Japanese photographers, especially by Shomei Tomatsu, and by William Klein's seminal photographic book on New York, Daido Moriyama moved from Osaka to Tokyo in the early sixties to become a photographer. He became the leading exponent of a fierce new photographic style that corresponded perfectly to the abrasive and intense climate...

CRITS: A Student Manual is a practical guide to help art and design students obtain maximum benefits from the most common method of teaching these subjects in college: the studio critique. CRITS positions studio critiques as positive, productive, and inspirational means to foster development – not occasions to be feared. It explains the requisite skills, knowledge, and attitudes for meaningful...

Own composition, use composition, and make composition your own in your photographs! In Composition & Photography, photographer and bestselling author Harold Davis teaches you how to perceive patterns and abstractions and incorporate them into your image-making process. If one of the goals of photography is to show viewers things that are new, or things they haven't seen before, or things...

The first volume on the Collezione Giuseppe Iannaccone covers the works produced in the period 1920-45, personally chosen by the collector and purchased up to the date of 30 November 2016. The collection was built up specifically as a homogeneous group of works essentially representing the course of artistic developments from 1920 to 1945 outside the canons of the Novecento...

Colin Westerbeck's criterion in choosing the 100 photographs published here was to seek out under-appreciated work by great photographers and great work by under-appreciated photographers. These 100 prints have all been drawn from the many thousands in the inventory of Howard Greenberg Gallery. Westerbeck was particularly drawn to Greenberg's wide-ranging taste in both American and European photography of the twentieth...

A stunning, wanderlust-inspiring collection of travel photography focused on water and coastlines from the premier online curator of travel photography, Tiny Atlas Quarterly. A wanderlust-inspiring photography collection of the world's most stunning waterways and coastlines from the premier online curator of travel photography, Tiny Atlas Quarterly. From tropical beaches in Hawai'i and icy fjords in Greenland to lush mangrove swamps...

Designed for photographers who haven't memorised every button, dial, setting, and feature on their Canon EOS R100, Rocky Nook's handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the shot when you're out and about. Confirm that your camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklist. Identify every button and dial on your camera. Learn the essential modes...

In this book, the authors explore and discuss the development of one of the most interesting and dynamic of photographic genres. Hailed as a landmark work when it was first published in 1994, Bystander is widely regarded by street photographers as the ‘bible’ of street photography. It covers an incredible array of talent, from the unknowns of the late 19th...

By Land, Air, Home, and Sea: The World of Frank Walter explores Frank Walter's relationship to Antigua through a range of works and writings that express his intimate connection to Caribbean nature, landscape, and place. "Nothing seems to be reworked—it is as if each piece drew or painted itself without being adjusted, revised, or fussed over." — Hyperallergic Influenced by...

With a career spanning nearly half a century, Bill Brandt was a master of several major genres of photography: photojournalism, portraiture, the nude, and landscapes. At first glance, Brandt's genres may appear unrelated, but when analysing his career in its entirety, a common theme comes to the forefront: what psychologist Sigmund Freud and philosopher Eugenio Trías called 'the sinister.' From...

Atlantic City is the story in pictures of this iconic American shore resort, as it emerges from its latest crisis.

Arnold Odermatt joined the police force in his native Swiss canton of Nidwalden in 1948, when he was just in his twenties. When he retired more than 40 years later as Vice Commander of the department and Lieutenant Director of Traffic Police, he found sudden, unexpected fame as an artist. His photographs of the vehicle accidents that had been part...

Why did Henri Cartier-Bresson nearly have a posthumous exhibition while still alive? What led Stephen Shore to work with colour? Why was Sophie Calle accused of stealing Vermeer's The Concert? And what is Susan Meiselas's take on Instagram and the future of online storytelling? Aperture Conversations presents a selection of interviews highlighting critical dialogue between photographers, esteemed critics, curators, editors,...

In relationships and communities, an expanding vision of what families can be. Family considers how artists and photographers have chronicled their relationships to their families and chosen communities. Aperture magazine is an essential guide to the art and phenomenon of photography, combining the smartest writing with beautifully reproduced portfolios. Published quarterly, each issue focuses on a major theme in contemporary...

The English illustrator Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was in every respect a modern woman. For the publication of her plant collections, she used the latest technology, the recently invented cyanotype. In 1843, she used the process to create the first photo book in history, with images of breathtaking beauty and originality that often look like modern art. At first, Anna Atkins...

The powerful religious sites of Uluru and Kata Tjuta in the Northern Territory of Australia have been of deep interest to the artist Anish Kapoor since he first visited them in the 1980s. At Uluru, he found a landscape of monumental scale which contained intimate and ritually resonant sites. A landscape of hollows and voids which he has read as...

Shortlisted for The Photographer's Gallery's Photography Foundation Prize FloodZone is Anastasia Samoylova's photographic account of life on the climatic knife-edge of the southern United States. Serious climate change is upon us, but this is not a visualisation of disaster or catastrophe. These beautifully subtle and often unsettling images capture the mood of waiting, of knowing the climate is changing, of...

Over four years, photographer Gabriela Maj travelled across Afghanistan collecting portraits and stories from inside the country's numerous women's prisons. Almond Garden pays homage to these individuals and provides a window into Afghanistan's shocking gender inequality and a reassuring portrait of the resilience of these powerful women. -Vice UK Gabriela Maj grew up in Poland, Germany, and Canada. Her photography...

Aliens: The Set Photography celebrates the 30th anniversary of James Cameron's groundbreaking science fiction classic with the first official record of the shoot. Through candid, high-quality stills, we see the cast and crew at work, in costume, rehearsing, in make-up, and during filming. Some choice pieces of original concept art add greater context to the shoot and showcase the remarkable...

Brooklyn, The City Within showcases Brooklyn as one of the most dynamic and ethnically diverse places on the planet. It's estimated that one in every eight US families had relatives pass through Brooklyn when settling in the country. Over the past five years, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb have captured a profound and vibrant portrait of this New York...

Jubileum is an artistic reportage of the 2015-16 Jubilee of Mercy, the historic celebration of the Catholic Holy Year proclaimed by Pope Francis and centred around St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The Jubilee, held every 25 to 50 years since first instigated by Pope Boniface VIII in 1300, is a time of universal pardon and indulgence, where pilgrims head to...

A complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived from Adobe Certified Instructor Jason Hoppe, you will learn the procedures needed to use Illustrator effectively and professionally. Adobe Illustrator CC A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to building vector graphics, whether you're creating logos, icons, drawings, typography, or other illustrations—and regardless of their...

An entertaining and comprehensive compendium packed with fascinating trivia, delightful oddities, and compelling stories that will captivate photographers of all levels and interests! Dive into photography's rich heritage with A Brief History of Photography, an engaging almanac-style book that offers far more than just the typical and dry historical accounts of the genre. With more than 400 fascinating trivia entries...

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith’s singular aesthetic, inspired by her wildly popular Instagram. In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple...

The history of photography began nearly 200 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognised as a medium in its own right. Cologne's Museum Ludwig was the first museum of contemporary art to devote a substantial section to international photography. The L. Fritz Gruber collection, from which this book is drawn, is one of the most important...

The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global—an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making...

An evocative photographic portrait of country footy and the role it plays in connecting communities across Australia – the people, the players, the places, the competition, the colour, the camaraderie, the emotion, the humour – and the deep connection that binds them all together. Photographer Cory White documents grass-roots footy from around Australia from Kalgoorlie to Cairns, and Darwin to...

Bhutan through the Seasons is an invitation to explore the rhythm of life in the Himalayan kingdom through the lens of ten extraordinary photographers. Following the cycle of the year—from snow-covered winters to vibrant spring festivals, from autumn harvests to quiet December nights—the book offers a poetic and nuanced portrait of Bhutan’s people, landscapes, and enduring spirit. With powerful images...

Light, for landscape photographers, is the element that makes all the difference. Dawn and dusk are known as the 'magic hours' for good reason. The interplay between sun, cloud and landscape can bring magic at other times of the day too. And when light is shed figuratively, it can bring clarity, insight, wonder and realisation. There is much to gain...

Trope Rome, the ninth volume in the Trope City Edition series, celebrates the rich cultural and historical heritage of Italy's capital city. The collection highlights the photographic images of 13 independent photographers from Rome and beyond, featuring the city's architecture and urban landscapes in a new light. This carefully curated and bound collection of over 200 photographs offers a new...

Trope Chicago: The Loop and Beyond, the eighth volume in the Trope City Editions series, celebrates the architecture, public artwork, and everyday beauty of Chicago. The collection highlights the photographic images of a group of talented photographers from Chicago and beyond who showcase the city in a new and exciting light. This carefully curated and bound collection of over 200...

Learn how to take professional-quality photographs when you travel, using the same tricks today's top photographers use! If you've ever dreamed of making such incredible travel photos that when your friends and family see them they say, 'Wait a minute, this is your photo!? You took this?' then you're holding the right book. Scott Kelby, award-winning travel photographer and author...

Get the most from your camera with this guide from award-winning photographer David Taylor. Are you looking to improve your photography repertoire? Take your photography skills and technique to the next level with this inspiring and informative guide. Featuring a comprehensive range of topics from experimenting with lenses, exposure, and aperture to useful post-production techniques, the easy-to-follow step-by-step tutorials show...

As sensitive to human suffering as to the simple pleasures of life, Robert Doisneau is one of the most celebrated exponents of the Photographie humaniste that swept through the 1950s. Cherished in particular for his soulful portraits of Paris, Doisneau demonstrated a unique ability to find—and perfectly frame—charismatic characters, entertaining episodes, and fleeting moments of humour and affection. A summation...

A comprehensive guide to all things photographic, from amateur snaps to professional-standard portraits. Discover the history behind photography and learn the skills to get the best from your photographs. A comprehensive all-in-one guide, Photography introduces you to the art, history, and culture of photography, and shows you how to take your own fantastic professional-standard photographs. An in-depth guide to all...

Photographs Not Taken is a collection of photographers' essays about failed attempts to make a picture. Editor Will Steacy asked each photographer to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph—camera, lens, film—and instead make a photograph using words, to capture the image (and its attendant memories) that never made it through the lens. In each essay, the photograph...

In 1975, fresh out of art school, Martin Parr moved to the picturesque Yorkshire Pennine mill town of Hebden Bridge. Over a period of five years, he documented the town in photographs, showing in particular the aspects of traditional life that were beginning to decline. Susan Mitchell, whom he had met in Manchester and later married, joined Parr in documenting...

The newest addition to the hugely popular Photicular series features the most colourful, most exotic creatures yet—and offers a look into one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. Jungle presents captivating animals in vivid colour and vibrant motion: A tree frog blinks his big red eyes. A tiger stalks his prey. A blue leaf monkey scratches his back....

In this volume of The Photography Workshop Series, Graciela Iturbide—known for her portraits and landscapes imbued with poetic ambiguity and documentary truth—explores photographing in ways that employ a deeply personal vision, while also reflecting subjects' rich cultural backgrounds. Aperture works with the world's top photographers to distil their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography—offering the workshop experience in a...

To ensure the ongoing availability of Diane Arbus: Revelations, Aperture is proud to release this vitally important volume on the fiftieth anniversary of the posthumous 1972 Arbus retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art and the simultaneous publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph. Revelations explores the origins, scope, and aspirations of Arbus's wholly original voice. Arbus's frank treatment of...

David Busch's Nikon Z7 II/Z6 II Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for Nikon's next-generation Z7 II and Z6 II mirrorless cameras. The company has upgraded these compact cameras with features most requested by enthusiasts, including two memory card slots, advanced autofocus features, and performance-enhancing dual EXPEED 6 processors. Serious photographers can select the high-resolution...

Uncover the transformative power of composition and elevate your photography! If you bought a book from the 1940s on photography composition, what would you imagine its chapters might be? "Rule of Thirds"? "Leading Lines"? "Using Patterns"? Exactly. Heck, the phrase "leading lines" in photography composition was first used back in the late 1700s, but after all this time, we're still...

The first comprehensive, posthumous monograph and retrospective on Bernd and Hilla Becher, best known for their photographs of industrial structures in Europe and North America. For more than five decades, Bernd (1931–2007) and Hilla (1934–2015) Becher collaborated on extraordinary photographs of industrial architecture in Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, and the United States. This sweeping monograph features 150 of...

The eight essays in Beauty in Photography provide a critical appreciation of photography by one of its foremost proponents. The result is a rare book of criticism, alive to the pleasure and mysteries of true exploration.

This monograph is the first to collect the photographs of internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Barry McGee. Though best known for the inventive graphic sensibility of his paintings, drawings, and installations, McGee's use of photography is an essential component of his artistic vision. Captured at all hours and around the world with whatever camera is at hand, McGee's images are immediate,...

ACE offers a look at the intersection of tennis and fashion, capturing the sport’s most iconic, stylish, and transformative moments, through the expert lens of fashion insider and author of CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion, Sunita Kumar Nair. From starch whites at Wimbledon to bold statement pieces on and off the court, the history of tennis has...

Like hardly any other artist of his generation, Wolfgang Tillmans has shaped our perception of the world. From early portraits of his friends to still lifes, travel shots, nudes, landscape and sky photographs, to his abstract work, Tillmans has created a multitude of iconic works in his unmistakable visual language, opening up new paths and possibilities for both photography and...

Trope Los Angeles, the seventh volume in the Trope City Edition series, celebrates the architecture and urban and natural landscapes of Los Angeles. The collection highlights the photographic images of emerging and independent photographers from LA and beyond, who through their passion for the craft, creative development, and social media smarts have attracted impressive followings on Instagram. This carefully curated...

We are in the dawn of the drone age, a turning point in history when the United States and other countries are increasingly using unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor behaviour, collect data, conduct surveillance, and wage wars. As the ubiquitous vision and remote engagement of drones redefine contemporary policing and warfare, their impact is filtering into art and visual culture,...

The Polaroid Corporation's photography collection is the greatest portfolio of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by Polaroid founder Edwin Land and photographer Ansel Adams, the collection now includes some 23,000 images by hundreds of photographers throughout the world, including pieces by the likes of David Hockney, Andy Warhol, and Jeanloup Sieff. The Polaroid Book dives into these archives, paying...

Designed for photographers who haven't memorised every button, dial, setting, and feature on their Nikon Z50 II, Rocky Nook's handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the shot when you're out and about. Confirm that your camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklist. Identify every button and dial on your camera. Learn the essential modes...

In The Heart of the Photograph, David duChemin discusses the questions "Is this a good photograph?" and "What does 'good' even mean?" What if you were equipped to ask better, more specific questions of your work so that you could answer them more directly, and in doing so, bring more specific action and intention to the act of creating photographs?...

Here are 150 award-winning photographers you should know. These exciting contemporary photographers hail from 42 countries on five continents, and they are making remarkable work right now in diverse cultures around the world. It's fresh, inspiring, insightful and thought-provoking. LensCulture is the leading online destination to discover the latest trends and freshest contemporary photography, and this volume compiles some of...

Instagram is a rich source of inspiration and aspiration. It's easy to set up an account, but to really master it, and gain a significant following you need two things: a strong personal brand and an aspirational style that people will want to emulate. Styling for Instagram will help you achieve both. Written by renowned Instagram expert and photographer Leela...

Sebastião Salgado's masterpiece Genesis is the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the mountains, deserts, and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society—the land and life of a still pristine planet. The Genesis project, along with the Salgados' Instituto Terra, is dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet, reversing...

As sensitive to human suffering as to the simple pleasures of life, Robert Doisneau is one of the most celebrated exponents of the Photographie humaniste that swept through the 1950s. Cherished in particular for his soulful portraits of Paris, Doisneau demonstrated a unique ability to find - and perfectly frame - charismatic characters, entertaining episodes, and fleeting moments of humour...

One-of-a-kind tribute from one of the best-selling bands in the world direct to their legions of fans. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' performances have become legendary as much for the music and antics on stage as the generous, loving community of people who stand side by side, screaming their approval. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Fandemonium is a fan appreciation book...

Peter Lindbergh photographed Dior's most exceptional muses, Marion Cotillard and Charlize Theron among them, and signed campaigns for Lady Dior and J'Adore with his inimitable style. Throughout his career, the photographer was one of the house's closest collaborators. This final book was an original co-creation that was close to the artist's heart—and to ours. Seventy years of Dior history projected...

It was on a Malibu beach in 1988 that Peter Lindbergh shot the White Shirts series, images now known the world over. Simple yet seminal, the photographs introduced us to Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Rachel Williams, Karen Alexander, Tatjana Patitz, and Estelle Lefébure. This marked the beginning of an era that redefined beauty, and Lindbergh would go on to alter...

A beautifully illustrated tribute to one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. Controversial, misunderstood, and sometimes overlooked, Minor White (1908–1976) is one of the great photographers of the twentieth century, whose ideas exerted a powerful influence on a generation of photographers and still resonate today. His photographic career began in 1938 in Portland, Oregon, with assignments for...

Rewind back to the midcentury, before the age of Instagram and Snapchat, where people were using 35mm cameras loaded with colour film to document both monumental and mundane moments in their lives. They took pictures of their loved ones, their vacations, their celebrations. They memorialised the births of babies; a child in a cowboy outfit; a new colour television set;...

"The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a man's personal style, changing attitudes to the male face and body." - Mario Testino From Rio to London, Cusco to Seville, Mario Testino...

The photographer and visual artist Erik Johansson creates surreal worlds through his own unique method. It often takes him months just to make one image, in a process where his photographs are combined so that an original place emerges. The result is often humorous, sometimes even scary, but always mind-blowing. Erik Johansson has become world-famous through his captivating and detailed...

Kate Moss by Mario Testino showcases the work of Mario Testino, celebrated as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation. His images of Kate Moss rise above the realm of fashion, offering a profound portrayal resulting from three decades of incredible friendship and phenomenal glamour. This iconic collaboration provides an intimate insight into the lives and minds of two of...

Japan Lights in the Darkness is an exquisite collection of meticulously curated images, spanning from 2018 to 2023. Devoid of any filler content, each photograph seamlessly transitions to the next, ensuring a consistently high standard throughout. This book is thoughtfully crafted to cater to a diverse audience, encompassing both photography enthusiasts and individuals with an appreciation for captivating depictions of...

Between 2005 to 2007, the international documentary photographer Debby Besford researched and photographed a complexity of issues around the representation of the contemporary female, with emphasis on the Burlesque Stage Performer. This led onto further creative intrigue and a questioning of the idea of play between photographer, private space, intimacy, fantasy and the real, and the mystique of the performer....