The Foto8 bookshop is proud to offer you a regularly changing selection of quality photography books with an emphasis on photojournalism, social documentary, and fine art photography. These books represent an enormous range of ways of seeing and representing the world with photography from "realist" and politically-engaged perspectives. Offerings include classic books, our favorites (both new and old) and important new contributions.
The Foto8 bookshop offers exclusive discounts, signed copies, hard to find small imprint releases, and limited editions, as well as subscriptions to award-winning 8 Magazine and back issues of 8.
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The Foto8 Summershow 2010 catalogue with 153 images, detailed image captions, sizes and prices and information on this year’s judging panel.
Price: £2.50
Vampire by David Gray text by Paul Summers and illustration by Marc Gooderham 28 pp. 10" x 8" singer-sewn paperback with 10" x 8" print Both individually signed and numbered in an edition of 100 Seventy Six Degrees and Clear 2009
Price: £25.00
On the Road by Bert Teunissen The offset printed tabloid comes in an edition of 2,500 and is presented rolled, tied with a specially printed ribbon and in a custom printed box.
Published by Bert Teunissen
’ON THE ROAD’ is an introduction to these Travelogs. A selection from the thousands of negatives produce a book that concentrates on the more that 50,000 miles that Bert traveled by car for this project. All images were shot from behind the steering wheel while driving through Europe. They were made with the Olympus Pen; the legendary half frame camera from the 60s and 70s....
Currently Out Of Stock Please email books @ foto8.com for more information on this item. Member price: £22.00
Small Wars by An-My Le Hardcover, 11.75 x 8.75 in. 128 pgs / 75 duotone Aperture 2005
Small Wars collects three eloquent series in one volume. As a trilogy, the works brilliantly elucidate the complicated nature of the aesthetics and spectacle of war.
List price: £22.00
On offer: £17.50
Member price: £14.50
Dream Street Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project Paperback 28x24cm 176 pages Publisher W. W. Norton & Co.; New Ed edition (26 Aug 2003) ISBN:0 393 32512 1 An epic portrait of Pittsburgh by one of the 20th Century’s most influential photographers.
Currently Out Of Stock Please email books @ foto8.com for more information on this item. Member price: £13.00
A Special Edition Print by Maurice Broomfield on the occasion of his exhibition at HOST. Only 200 prints will be made and sold!
Artist: Maurice Broomfield Media material: C-Type Dimensions: 8x10 inches Title and Edition: "Testing Thermal Insulation" from a special edition of 200
Caption: Fighting the cold in a draughty old farm building is quite a challenge. I was impressed by the aggressive stance of the operator. He was attacking the wall with a high-pressure spray gun, forcing insulating foam into the brickwork. When completed the increased warmth was quite remarkable. Photographed in 1963 at Shell International.
Price: £30.00
Member price: £24.00
Sweet Nothings by Vanessa Winship (Signed Copy) Signed and Numbered Copy of 300 Foreword by Max Houghton 16x20cm 112 pages 45 photographs (b&w) Published by Foto8 Ltd July 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9559580-0-7 Signed limited collectors Foto8 Edition available now
Currently Out Of Stock Please email books @ foto8.com for more information on this item. Member price: £25.00
Model American by Katy Grannan Hardcover with jacket, 9.875" x 11.5" 112 pages, 70 four colour and duotone images Aperture ISBN-10: 1931788812 ISBN-13: 978-1931788816
Each of her well-known series—“Poughkeepsie Journal,” “Dream America,” and “Morning Call”—began with a simple ad placed by Grannan in local newspapers: “Art Models. Artist/Photographer (female) seeks people for portraits. No experience necessary. Leave msg.”
List price: £20.00
On offer: £15.00
Sweet Nothings by Vanessa Winship Foreword by Max Houghton 16x20cm 112 pages 45 photographs (b&w) Published by Foto8 Ltd July 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9559580-0-7 This short run edition now available exclusively from Foto8
Price: £20.00
Member price: £18.00
Dreams of Flying 2 by Jan von Holleben signed copy New Release Version of this popular Sold Out book The celebrated CardBoard Book for adults and children alike is back! New edition, 15x25cm 24 Pages Artist Edition of 1000 Signed and numbered copy
Artist: Christopher Morris Media material: C-Type Dimensions: 8x10 inches Title and Edition: "My America" from a special edition of 200 Caption: Kristin Fontaine clutches the American flag as she listens to US President George W Bush speak at a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, October 5th 2002
With an introduction by Desmond Morris Hardbound in luxury paper with metallic foil 10 x 14 inches / 26 x 36 cm, 128 pages 58 colour plates (each 27”/70cm wide) ISBN 978-1-905712-12-0 Chris Boot Books October 2008
Published in an edition of 3000 copies
Between 2004 and 2007, James Mollison attended pop concerts across Europe and the USA with a mobile photography studio, inviting fans of each music star or band to pose for their portrait outside the gig...
Price: £40.00
Beaufort West by Mikhael Subotzky With an essay by Jonny Steinberg and commentary by Mikhael Subotzky Hardbound in cloth 14 x 11 inches / 28 x 35 cm, 80 pages 45 colour plates ISBN 978-1-905712-11-3 Chris Boot Books September 2008
Published in an edition of 3000 copies Available Now
With its prison in the middle of town, on an island in the highway, Beaufort West is a surreal road-stop that offers everything a traveller might want – food, gas, a place to stay, an hour of sex...
Price: £40.00
Manuel Alvarez Bravo Museum of Modern Art Hardcover 240 pages 30.5x25cm Publisher: Museum of Modern Art (21 April 1997) ISBN: 0 870 70133 9 This book accompanied a retrospective exhibition at Moma on the work of this influential Mexican photographer. Many of the plates are from rare vintage prints which have not been seen or exhibited since the 1930’s.
List price: £37.50
On offer: £16.00
Member price: £13.00
11-21 by Jan Von Holleben Signed Copy Photographs: Jan Von Holleben Text: Petra Coronato. Luxurious Clothbound Hardcover 16.5x22cm, 128 pages, Edition of 500 An intimate portrait of the artist’s adolescent years, through photo-booth photographs and text.
Price: £15.00
Member price: £13.00
Lovin’ It by Adam Hinton Signed Copy Photographs by Adam Hinton Text by John Gittings and Nigel Warburton Hardback, May 2008 112pp, 100 colour photos 240mm x 180mm
Price: £16.99
The World from my Front Porch by Larry Towell Hardback, 224 pages 315 x 250 mm / 12.5 x 9.8 inches Photographs: Album section – 58 duotone Object images – 350 colour Chris Boot Books in association with the Archive of Modern Conflict ISBN: 978-1-905712-09-0 June 2008
Larry Towell’s personal album is a book about his home, its history and the world seen from its viewpoint. Towell’s pictures of his family’s life on their farm is bookended by his family album and history, and by the journeys beyond his front porch, as photographer, poet and storyteller, into the lives and struggles of people dispossessed by conflict. It is both a rage against injustice and the romantic expression of an ideal worth fighting for.
List price: £40.00
On offer: £32.00
Village of the Nubas By George Rodger Village of the Nubas is one of a small number of publications that have become classics of photographic Literature. Hardcover: 120 pages Publisher: Phaidon ISBN: 0714838403 Dimensions: 13.5cm x 18.5cm
Price: £12.95
Member price: £8.00
Sea Change Incorporating a wide spectrum of photographic methods, these artists use photography to update our classical and romantic notions of the sea, creating contemporary renderings of this traditional subject....
Hardcover, 64 pp 31 x 25 cm ISBN 0-938262-32-7 Center for Creative Photography
List price: £15.00
On offer: £10.50
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