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History and reference


Dispatches: In America

Dispatches: In America
The new quarterly publication that presents "an independent look at challenges facing an imperiled world".

Writers and a single photographer present essays in this debut issue themed IN AMERICA
Contributors to Issue 01: Paul Theroux, John Kifner, Muzamil Jaleel, Smantha Power, with illustration by Gerald Scarfe and photography by Antonin Kratochvil.

List price: £10.00
On offer: £8.00


A Maverick Eye<br>Street photography of John Deakin

A Maverick Eye
Street photography of John Deakin

The reputation of British photographer John Deakon rests chiefly on his remarkable documentary photographs and portraits of the creative souls and maverick talents who haunted the pubs and clubs of London’s Soho in the 1960’s
Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 0-500-542449-9

Price: £23.00
Member price: £11.00


1968, Magnum throughout the world<br>

1968, Magnum throughout the world

Unseen and iconic photographs of a tumultuous and violent year in world politics as seen from the photographers of Magnum.
Hardcover: 227 pages
Publisher: Hazan
ISBN: 2850255882


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Member price: £25.00


Reportage Vol.1 No. 5

Reportage Vol.1 No. 5
Volume 1 No. 5 (Summer 1994) issue of Reportage.

Price: £7.00


Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context (Boot SC)

Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context (Boot SC)
Paperback edition of the award winning book about the history of modern photojournalism

By Mary Panzer, with an afterword by Christian Caujolle
Paperback, 300mm x 230mm
384 pages, over 1000 photographs incl 600 colour
ISBN 1-905712-01-4
Publication date: September 2006
Published by Chris Boot in association with World Press Photo


List price: £25.00
On offer: £20.00


The Photographed Animal — Useful, Cute and Collected

The Photographed Animal — Useful, Cute and Collected
Animal pictures are reflections of the times in which they are made — whether it’s a big-game hunt in the 19th century or a recent shoot for a cat food commercial...

By Ute Eskildsen
336 pages, 78 colour plates, 220 duotone plates
22.5 cm x 28 cm
Hardcover
German / English text
Steidl & Partners
ISBN: 3-86521-209-3

Price: £28.00
Member price: £22.40


New York to Nova Scotia<br>by Robert Frank

New York to Nova Scotia
by Robert Frank

This collection of images and texts is a rich source for much of the most absorbing material on Robert Frank: there are letters from Frank to his parents telling them about New York, a facsimile of his 1954 proposal...

Author: Robert Frank
Introduction: Peter C. Marzio
Essays: Robert Coles, Philip Brookman and Anne w.Tucker
Paperback, 112pp
27 duotones and 4 colour plates, 227 x 304mm
ISBN: 3-86521-013-9
Imprint: Steidl

Price: £17.50
Member price: £14


 Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs

Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs
Gathered here again for the first time since 1935, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier Bresson and Walker Evans’ images represent an exceptional set of essential and sometimes unknown photographs...

Authors: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier Bresson, Walker Evans
Bilingual French / English text
Hardback, 192pp
89 tri tone plates and 29 text illustrations,
200mm x 240mm
ISBN: 3-86521-072-4
Imprint: Steidl and Partners
Documentary Photography

A reconstruction of the 1935 exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery New York.

Price: £20.00
Member price: £16


Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes

Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes
From 1845 to 1862, the Boston partnership of Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes maintained the most celebrated photography studio in the United States. Taking as their subjects both the greatest personalities of the day and the natural spectacles of the American landscape, ...

Author: Southworth and Hawes
Hardcover, 356 pages
150 colour plates, 2000 black & white plates 25.4 cm x 30.5 cm
Imprint:Steidl ICP
ISBN: 3-86521-066-X

Price: £70.00
Member price: £56


Arbus, Model, Stromholm

Arbus, Model, Stromholm
Diane Arbus, Lisette Model and Christer Stromholm belong to a generation of photographers who went out into society and used their cameras as tools for artistic exploration....

Author: Anna Tellgren with photography by Diane Arbus, Lisette Model and Christer Stromholm.
Hardcover 160pp.
100 tritone plates 26.2 x 26.8 cm
ISBN: 3-86521-143-7
Published by Steidl with Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Price: £20.00
Member price: £16


Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context (Boot HC)

Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context (Boot HC)
The history is told through the presentation of 120 magazine features made and published throughout the world, presented in context...

Author: Mary Panzer, Christian Caujolle, World Press Photo
Hardback, 400 pp
Over 1000 photographs from 400 magazine reproductions
300 x 230 mm
ISBN:0-9546894-5-3
Photojournalism

Winner ICP Infinity Best Book Award 2006
currently out of stock



Dialogue with Photography

Dialogue with Photography
A new edition of the classic interviews with the men and women who shaped 20th century photography including a previously unpublished interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson...

Author: Paul Hill & Thomas Cooper
Softback, 352pp
156 x 234mm
ISBN:1-899235-61-2
Reference/Interviews

New Edition 2005

Price: £12.99
Member price: £10



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