Photographs: collections

  • Cinemas

    £34.99

    Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned cinemas around the world. The ultimate visual reference from a skilled photographer.

  • Inside Formula 1

    £50.00

    Renowned automotive photographer Daniel Reinhard and his father, Josef (Sepp) Reinhard, have enjoyed unprecedented access to Formula 1 races and drivers since 1950. This book presents more than 300 of their best photos. Discover photos of top drivers like Stirling Moss, Michael Schumacher, Juan Pablo Montoya, and many more. See the drivers on the track, at play, and at rest. Top race cars and teams like McLaren, Alfa Romeo, Porsche, BMW, Alfetta, Ferrari, and more are pictured in full-colour dramatic shots. There are shots of the top track and street venues and images of both day and night races in the sun, rain, and snow. No matter how or where or by whom you might imagine a Formula 1 race being run, you’ll find it here. In addition, readers will find behind-the-scenes images of the pit crews, the track workers, the fans – even other photographers.

  • Photobox

    £25.00

    ‘PhotoBox’ presents a collection of 250 photographs by 200 of the world’s most prominent photographers, ranging from legendary masters to contemporary stars, in a compact paperback format. Photographers include Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliot Erwitt, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, David LaChapelle, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, and many more. Each image is accompanied by an engaging commentary and a brief biography of the photographer. This revised edition features fifty new photographs by an international array of practitioners, including Dayanita Singh, Cristina de Middel, Gregory Halpern, Lua Ribeira and more.

  • Cecil Beaton – the Royal portraits

    £35.00

    ‘Cecil Beaton – The Royal Portraits’ looks back in time to tell a very modern tale: the creation of a public image. Offering a fresh appraisal of Beaton’s portraits of the British royal family, the book explores not only the finished images but also the sittings in which they were created, revealing Beaton’s central role in shaping the public face of the House of Windsor and the ways in which he collaborated with his subjects.

  • Dacha

    £26.95

    A ‘dacha’ is a country house, made of wood, used by Soviet citizens to escape the rigors of the city for rural idyll. Widespread in the countries of the former USSR, this important cultural and architectural form has been largely ignored academically. In ‘Dacha’, Fyodor Savintsev documents this particularly Russian phenomenon.

  • World Press Photo Yearbook 2023

    £32.00

    Publishing the results of the most recent annual World Press Photo Contest, this volume contains the very best press photographs submitted by photojournalists, picture agencies, newspapers and magazines throughout the world. Selected from thousands of images, these prize-winning photos capture the most powerful, moving and sometimes disturbing images of the year.

  • 1964

    £1,500.00

    In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and beginning of 1964 when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and, after the band’s first visit to the USA, they became the most famous people on the planet. The photographs are McCartney’s personal record of this explosive time, when he was, as he puts it, in the ‘Eyes of the Storm’. ‘1964’ presents 275 of McCartney’s photographs from the six cities of these intense, legendary months – Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami – and many never-before-seen portraits of John, George, and Ringo.

  • 1964

    £60.00

    In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and beginning of 1964 when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and, after the band’s first visit to the USA, they became the most famous people on the planet. The photographs are McCartney’s personal record of this explosive time, when he was, as he puts it, in the ‘Eyes of the Storm’. ‘1964’ presents 275 of McCartney’s photographs from the six cities of these intense, legendary months – Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami – and many never-before-seen portraits of John, George, and Ringo.

  • The Queen’s green canopy

    £40.00

    A photography book showcasing 70 ancient trees and 70 ancient woodlands dedicated by the QGC initiative in honour of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. These photographs were taken over the course of a year by Adrian Houston and Charles Sainsbury-Plaice to celebrate the work of the initiative. ‘The Queen’s Green Canopy’ features their photographs alongside extended captions telling the stories behind these historic trees.

  • Beachlife

    £49.95

    The beauty of the beach embedded in the unique lifestyle of beachgoers complemented by special stories and extraordinary photographs. Text in English and German.

  • England

    £30.00

    This follow-up to the acclaimed Oxford: The Last Hurrah shines fresh light on the antics and opulence of the English upper classes in the 1980s.

  • Coolness

    £50.00

    Coolness as an attitude to life is what this extraordinary book is all about. Over 200 pictures show the term cool as a self-confident ‘attitude’, as a fashion trend or aesthetic overall concept.

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