Decolonizing images

Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt’s local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera’s ability to conceal as much as it reveals in a compl...

The bitter landscapes of palestine

Through an interplay of words and images, this book documents the life of Palestinian communities of shepherds and farmers under Israeli occupation that threatens their very survival. Years of human rights activism in Palestine have guided the authors in crafting this unique visual and verbal rec...

Lexicon for an affective archive

To study an archive or archival materials is to encounter an affective and critical practice involved in the construction of memory. Lexicon for an Affective Archive is an international collection of these encounters, offering glimpses into the intimate relations inherent in finding, remembering ...

Postcards from the road

Jonathan Day's book expounds, explores and examines Robert Frank's work pictorially. Frank's candid images of men and women from all classes and walks of life is credited with changing the course of the art form. Day pairs images with commentary that details the aspects of the work that are visua...

Wildlife photography fieldcraft

An approachable step-by-step guide on how to find UK wildlife and use natural history understanding to aid successful photography. Inspiring images and comprehensive detail make this book an essential tool for the amateur wildlife photographer or naturalist who wishes to document their finds.

Night vision and daylight camera systems for wildlife

Only a small proportion of our most interesting wildlife is ever seen. This book describes how wildlife can be filmed in a non-intrusive way without disturbing behaviour. Step-by-step, clearly illustrated details lead the reader past technical challenges and allow many new insights.

Camera trapping for wildlife research

Camera trapping is a powerful and now widely used tool in scientific research on wildlife ecology and management. This book provides a much-needed guide to the sound use of camera trapping for the most common ecological applications.

Cctv for wildlife monitoring

This is a handbook on the use of CCTV in nature watching, conservation and ecological research. CCTV offers a unique ability to monitor wildlife in real time, stream video to the web, capture imagery of fast-moving species and maintain monitoring over long periods of time.

Photography and the art market

An essential guide to the state of the market for art photography today.

Photography of protest and community

Illustrated with many newly discovered photographs, this book tells the story of community photography produced by the radical collectives in the 1970s.

Lee miller and surrealism in britain

Presenting for the first time Lee Miller’s photographs of, and collaborations with, important Surrealist artists working in Britain (alongside their artworks), this important book tells the story of an exciting cultural moment.

Richard bryant

Beginning his career in the 1970s after studying architecture, Bryant quickly became one of the most sought-after photographers by the architectural press. This book reveals how, following the general shift from black-and-white to colour, his work went on to define the image of 1990s architecture...

Ori gersht

Ori Gersht's artistic practice bridges a history that is full of traumas, whether it is the scars left on the sunlit yet war-torn buildings in Sarajevo, the white noise of his train journey to Auschwitz, or the clearing of trees in a forest that once stood witness to mass murder in the Ukraine.

Australian women’s historical photography

Australian Women’s Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views focuses on the works of six Australian women who were working as photographers in the period 1850–1950. It critically examines their works against the historical backdrop of settler violence towards Indigenous Australians, the Fi...

The death in their eyes

Carnival of dreams

This book offers a glimpse into the wide-ranging 50-year career of the internationally renowned Hong Kong photographer/designer through his work in collages and photomontages. From his early album covers when he was an art director/designer for the music industry in New York, Los Angeles and Lond...

Watch with wonder

The distant rustle of a tusker emerging one morning from the forests of Nepal. The crack of the shifting expanses of ice in northern Mongolia. The swirl of mist around a lantern atop of Hong Kong Island. The squeaky whistle of diving kites over the holy waters of Varanasi. Black clouds carrying s...

The last emperor revisited

On the steppes of dreams

On the Steppes of Dreams is the latest collection of ‘dreamscapes’ by Basil Pao. Designed as a companion piece to his previous book Carnival of Dreams (2023) - which chronicled, from his first album cover and early cut & paste collages to the current CGI enhanced digital images of his photomo...

Closely observed

Touching the mekong

A visual exploration of life along the Mekong River in Southeast Asian countries in 150 unstaged images, taken with natural light and no props, capture arresting moments, grouped for visual resonance. They spark questions and invite exploration, appealing to archaeologists, anthropologists, stude...

Himalaya

The tlingit encounter with photography

Personal style blogs

From Style Rookie to Style Bubble, personal style blogs exploded onto the scene in the mid-2000s giving voice to young and stylish writers who had their own unique take on the seasonal fashion cycle and how to curate an individual style within the shifting swirl of trends. Personal Style Blogs ex...

So exotic, so homemade

Students and lecturers in photography, art history, Englishness and documentary studies

The wise girl’s guide to freelance modelling

This book will provide aspiring freelance models with the tools to get started in the fashion industry. ‘The Wise Girl's Guide to Modelling’ contains invaluable advice on how to avoid the many pitfalls of the trade and get work without having to spend money. 

Street fashion moscow

In this book, former Moscow resident Elena Siemens travels as an urban flâneur, taking photographs of contemporary fashion in action and setting it alongside explorations of modern and historic representations of fashion and beauty as seen in a wide variety of products of Russian culture. 

Greece through the lens of takis tloupas (english language edition)

Photographer Takis Tloupas was born in Thessaly, grandson of a coppersmith and son of a carpenter, and lived and worked there in Larisa.  He toured Greece, first by Vespa then in a Deux Chevaux, taking over 30,000 photographs of what he saw, but it was Larisa that he photographed most as time wen...

Photography, early cinema and colonial modernity

This volume is an account of the stage and screen practice of Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley, in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.

Fortunes of war

An extended edit of Eric Lesdema’s photographic series of the same name, with 83 colour photographs and essays from leading academics which analyse how his work provides an alternative approach to documentary photography. Twenty-first-century interpretations and applications of photography are qu...

Cosmopolitics of the camera

An in-depth intellectual and historical analysis of Les Archives de la Planète, Albert Kahn’s collection of early colour photography and documentary film. The book examines the extraordinary context of Kahn’s work, considers archival theory and visual culture, and investigates the cosmopolitan st...

Issues in curating contemporary art and performance

To stay relevant, art curators must keep up with the rapid pace of technological innovation as well as the aesthetic tastes of fickle critics and an ever-expanding circle of cultural arbiters. Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance argues that, despite these daily pressures, good cur...

Issues in curating contemporary art and performance

To stay relevant, art curators must keep up with the rapid pace of technological innovation as well as the aesthetic tastes of fickle critics and an ever-expanding circle of cultural arbiters. Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance argues that, despite these daily pressures, good cur...

Theatre in passing 2

This book discusses spaces of performance from formal opera houses to parks and graffiti around the world and is a companion to Theatre in Passing: A Moscow Photo-Diary. Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s notion of a 'second poetic geography', this new volume examines theatrical destinations in New Y...

Theatre in passing

Theatre in passing

Theatre in Passing explores spaces of performance in contemporary Moscow. Inspired by French philosopher Michel de Certeau’s model of a 'second, poetic geography' in which the walker – the everyday practitioner – invents the space observed by the voyeur, this book takes the reader on a tour of sp...

White paradise (english language edition)

The ice is beginning to melt, the icebergs of Greenland are breaking up and the legendary landscape of the Artic, threatened by global warming, is being destroyed. A lavishly illustrated and moving testimony to the region, those who live there and their demanding way of life. 236 colour photographs

A photographic itinerary on mount athos, 1969

Takis Tloupas, an artist-photographer best known for his work in Thessaly, visited Mount Athos in 1969. On his journey he captured the everyday life and faces of the monks, as well as the holy buildings. English and Greek bilingual edition. 115 b&w photographs.

The faces of israel

This book of photographs incorporates images taken between 1980 and 2015, from all of Israel's diverse communities. These photographs of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze, and tourists, of the religious and the secular, illustrate personal worlds distant from the conflict and complexitites so ofte...

Contingency in madagascar

Contingency in madagascar

As they set off for Madagascar in 2003, photographer Max Pam and writer Stephen Muecke adopted as their guiding principle the idea of contingency – central to which is the conscious embrace of risk and chance. In doing so, they established a new aesthetic in which image and text are inextricably ...

Talismanic

Imaging the ancient

The blind

Developed for naturalists by the Institute of Critical Zoologists, the Blind is a camouflage cloak that works on the principle that an object vanishes from sight if light rays striking it are not reflected. In fifty stunning colour photographs, this volume shows the cloak tested in nature reserve...

Watermark

Inspired by the most important female figures of the ancient Greek pantheon, fifty underwater photographs on the subject of woman. Fist exhibited at the Apothiki Art Gallery, Paros, Cyclades, Greece. 50 colour photgraphs. Bilingual text Greek and English

Chronography

The Archaeological Society of Athens is celebrating its 180th anniversary in December 2017 with the publication of a collection of photographs taken in the 1950s of major Greek Archaeological sites, most of which the Society has had a role in excavating and studying. The photographs were taken by...

The nissim levis panorama 1898-1944 (parallel text, greek and english)

A touching photographic journey, captured in stereoscopic glass plates by one member of a prominent family in the Romaniote Jewish community of Ioannina, in north-western Greece. Important historical events unfold over the years, and we also see the everyday lives of different ethnic and religiou...

Photography and landscape

With a focus on the settler societies of the United States and Australia, Photography and Landscape is a new critical account of landscape photography created through a unique collaboration between a photography writer and a landscape photographer. Beginning with the frontier days of the American...

Photography and landscape

With a focus on the settler societies of the United States and Australia, Photography and Landscape is a new critical account of landscape photography created through a unique collaboration between a photography writer and a landscape photographer. Beginning with the frontier days of the American...

The critical eye

The Critical Eye provides a comprehensive approach to the critical understanding of photography through an in-depth discussion of fifteen photographs and their contexts – historical, generic, biographical and aesthetic. Lyle Rexer argues that by concentrating on just a few carefully chosen works ...

The smyrna quay

Original research using new techniques shows the buildings of the legendary Ottoman port-city (modern-day Izmir) as a continuous architectural and historical ensemble. Includes architectural plans and reconstructions as well as photographs and photomosaics. 620 illus. 140 drawings 2-vol paperback...

Adventures in photography

The University Museum collection of vintage photographs documents diverse cultures. Despite early photography challenges, these images are an authentic depiction of the Museum's commitment to scientific accuracy in exploring human cultures worldwide. Includes essay on the significance of photogra...

Exploring iran

In 1931, Erich F. Schmidt led the Penn Museum's first archaeological expedition to Iran, documenting the Bronze Age site of Tepe Hissar and the Sasanian Palace. This book, featuring 64 prints and additional images on CD-ROM, captures Schmidt's journey, providing insights into the diverse cultures...

Globalization

Bringing together scholars of anthropology and social science, law and medicine, this book presents a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the way the world is changing. The contributors reveal the changing scale of social, economic, and financial diversity, examine the impact of globaliza...

Photography from the turin shroud to the turing machine

This book compares two conceptual models for theorizing about photography: the Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine. It explores new propositions about the theory of photography; the concept of quasi-photography; a unique model for photography as algorithmic art; and an interface between...

Photography as critical practice

A collection that combines visual works with critical essays around the theme of everyday life to explore the concept of otherness and highlight photography as a form of critical practice. Put together in this way, the book images and text work in dialogue with one another to construct a new pers...

Dark goddess

What does it mean when an item within a museum talks back? How are the concepts of the trained gaze, the panopticon, and the sacred feminine connected? Artist and writer Shanta Lee Gander probes these questions and more in Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine.

Photopoems

The photographs in this book are not the work of a photographer but of the poet George Douatzis. Through the poet's eye images of the everyday acquire another dimension; the verses which accompany them create a lovely, human and, primarily, poetic result. English and Greek bilingual text. 226 col...

Julia margaret cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’

Ignored or derided until now, this book looks at Cameron's allegorical work in relation to the political and artistic zeitgeist of the Victorian period.

The peeps

A book of photographs, interviews and commentary, recording the origins, recent past and current regeneration of the Ancoats area of Manchester

Photographic realism

Discusses uses of photography in the context of art practice, and relates them to wider cultural debates. Focusing on conceptual and political projects between 1970 and the turn of the century, it draws parallels between issues discussed in theory and those displayed visually in practice.

Photography and social movements

The first thorough study of photography’s interrelationship with social movements

Face: shape and angle

Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member of the Cambridge intellectual milieu of the 1930s, and a working mother at a time when such a role was unusual for women of her class. She was also a pioneering photographer, creating an extraordi...

Lee miller

Revises conventional biographical accounts of Miller’s work, examining unpublished and lesser-known works, and offering new insights into her relationship with surrealism and the American avant-garde.

Citizen manchester

An insight into the refurbishment of Manchester's Town Hall Extension and Central Library, through large-format photographs

The photobook world

This volume challenges the art-market definition of the photobook as a photographer’s book, proposing instead to show how books and photos come together as collective cultural productions. The chapters revisit canonical works and delve into institutional, digital and unrealised projects, illegal ...