This is a mini edition of The Photography Book , containing every sort of photography, from pictures of famous events such as the Royal Wedding and the first landing on the moon, to familiar shots by the masters of photography such as Bill Brandt and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Jane Bown has over 45 years' practical experience as a professional portrait photographer. Working exclusively in black and white, using only natural light and one SLR camera, she has photographed many of the most famous individuals of the second half of the twentieth century. Her unerring eye and talent for revealing the personalities of her sitters have won her tremendous critical acclaim. Here

This is a vision of the contemporary world (since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989) by the photographers of Magnum - from Henri Cartier-Bresson to the organization's newest recruits and presented in a sequence of photo-essays introduced by the photographers themselves.

Between 1954 and her suicide in 1971 Diane Arbus took some 150,000 photographs. She was the daughter of an upper middle class Jewish family that owned a Fifth Avenue clothing store. Her posthumous retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1972.