Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes by Peter Walther
$250.00 AUD
Category: Photography
At the dawn of the Victorian era in her open-air laboratory in Halstead, Kent, Anna Atkins embarked on a radical experiment to document botanical species using a completely new artistic medium. The inimitable cyanotype photograms of algae and ferns she created were made into the first books to feature p ...Show more
Walter Chandoha. Cats. Photographs 1942–2018 by Susan Michals
$29.99 AUD
Category: Photography
On a winter's night in 1949 in New York City, young marketing student and budding photographer Walter Chandoha spotted a stray kitten in the snow, bundled it into his coat, and brought it home. Little did he know he had just met the muse that would determine the course of his life. Chandoha turned his l ...Show more
Lee Miller: Photographs by Antony Penrose
$60.00 AUD
Category: Photography
One hundred of the most outstanding photographs taken by photographer, model and Surrealist muse Lee Miller, published in anticipation of the film Lee starring Kate Winslet as Lee MillerPhotojournalist, war correspondent, model and Surrealist muse, Lee Miller was one of the most important women photogra ...Show more
The Portrait Photographer's Manual by Cian Oba-Smith, Max Ferguson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Through simple projects on subjects such as "Making Self-Portraits" and "Capturing Personal Moments" as well as captivating profiles of twenty internationally acclaimed photographers from Gordon Parks to LaToya Ruby Frazier, authors Cian Oba-Smith and Max Ferguson give readers a visual tour of the mediu ...Show more
The Photographs of Zygmunt Bauman by Peter Beilharz (Editor); Janet Wolff (Editor)
$57.99 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Zygmunt Bauman is known internationally as the sociologist of postmodernity and 'liquid' society. But he was also a serious photographer. This book presents a selection of his black-and-white photographs, together with a range of essays by colleagues, friends and family about his work with images. The ...Show more
Gordon Parks: Segregation Story. Expanded edition by Gordon Parks
$110.00 AUD
Category: Photography
This new edition of Gordon Parks' Segregation Story includes several never-before-published photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks' original transparencies. A selection of 26 images from Segregation Story first appeared in the September 24, 1956 issue of Life magazine as part ...Show more
Ralph Ellison: Photographer by Michal Raz-Russo (Editor); John F. Callahan (Editor); Adam Bradley (Text by)
$100.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Ralph Ellison (1913-94) is a foremost figure in American literature, hailed for his seminal novel Invisible Man (1952), a breakthrough representation of the American experience and Black everyday life. Lesser known, however, is his lifelong engagement with photography. Photographer is the first book ded ...Show more
Claude Cahun Photofile by François Leperlier
$29.99 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Photofile Ser.
The perfect primer on the surrealist writer and photographer Claude Cahun. Claude Cahun (1894-1954), the chosen name of the artist born Lucy Schwob, was best known in her lifetime as a writer but built up a remarkable body of photographic work that only came to prominence after her death. Politically ac ...Show more
Masahisa Fukase by Masahisa Fukase
$145.00 AUD
Category: Photography
From darkly fascinating photographs of ravens to humorous self-portraits, Fukase created images of enormous emotional powerAmong the most radical and original photographers of his generation, Masahisa Fukase was famous for The Solitude of Ravens (1986), in which these birds of doom, in flocks or alone, ...Show more
Photography in Japan 1853-1912: Second Edition by Terry Bennett
$69.99 AUD
Category: Photography
The must-have classic work on early Japanese photography!"Writer Bennett crafted this beautiful and educational book from a collection of 350 old and rare images captured by Western photographers. This book offers a glimpse of life in Japan during one of its most dramatic periods in history." --Shutterb ...Show more
Inventing Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot in the Bodleian Library by Geoffrey Batchen
$79.99 AUD
Category: Photography
William Henry Fox Talbot is celebrated today as one of the English inventors of photography. He made early photographic experiments in the 1830s, released the details of his photogenic drawing process in January 1839, and introduced important innovations to the medium in the 1840s and 1850s.Drawing on a ...Show more