A collection of work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, which takes a retrospective look at a lifetime's achievement. This work features photographs and contains work from various periods of Cartier-Bresson's life. It also features personal souvenirs from Cartier-Bresson's youth, his family and the founding of Magnum.

The Polaroid Corporation's photography collection has a huge collection of Polaroid images. It includes important pieces by artists such as David Hockney, Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff and Robert Rauschenberg. This title presents a survey of this collection. It includes a technical reference section featuring the various types of Polaroid cameras.

First published nearly forty years ago, this book broke new ground, offering an unprecedented glimpse of life inside the womb. This fourth edition uses a new high-definition ultrasound technique, scanning electron and light microscopes, and advanced fibre optics to make an unparalleled record of the unseen world within our bodies.

In a series of discussions of major themes and genres, Graham Clarke gives a clear and incisive account of the photograph's historical development, and elucidates the insights of the most interesting thinkers on the subject such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag.

Provides a framework and vocabulary for students' critical skill development. The fourth edition includes black and white and color images, commentary, a chapter on theory that offers a broad discussion of digital images, and an expanded chapter eight on studio critiques and writing about photographs, plus examples of student writing and critique.

This manual presents different visual techniques for making photographs work. Featuring practical, real-life examples and step-by-step exercises, it demonstrates techniques of composition, colour, lighting, perspective, and more. There are over 150 photographs.

When college student Laurel Estabrook is attacked while cycling through the forest trails in Vermont, her life is changed forever. So begins Chris Bohjalian's stunning new novel which travels between Jay Gatsby's Long Island and rural New England, between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century.

In the time since the establishment of the national parks, Ansel Adams has been paramount in his efforts to support the philosophical essence and practical evolution of the national parks idea . This book includes a selection of Adams' photographs of the national parks and of his writings.

The celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz, author of the New York Times bestselling book A Photographer's Life, provides the stories, and technical description, of how some of her most famous images came to be. Starting in 1974, with her coverage of Nixon's resignation, and culminating with her controversial portraits of Queen Elizabeth II early in 2007, Leibovitz explains what professional ...

Photographically documents one hundred US nuclear detonations from the 215 declared atmospheric nuclear tests conducted by the US between July 1945 and November 1962. This book also includes detailed captions, a chronology of the development of nuclear weapons, a list of the names of the declared 1030 tests, and a bibliography.

The very best from the archives of the alternative erotica website.

Collects many of the most visually significant photographs taken during the first forty-one years of orbital space travel, in a volume that reflects the achievements of the space program, the natural wonders of the planet, and the consequences of pollution. Reprint.

For anyone who worships the male body or wants to know why others do (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) While the female nude has long played a concpicuous role in western iconography, the male nude has not always enjoyed such adoration. This collection provides an overdue review of material that at one time could only be bought under the counter, beginning with the anonymous erotica of

A guide to various aspects of photography, from pre-capture to output. Suitable for photographers who want to understand the principles behind photography and how to create great images, this book teaches how images are formed and how to control what you capture; and the best camera and lens type for your work.

A beautiful book of 'four strips' from the past 75 years sitting in photobooths, providing intimate and candid portraits of everyday people.

It's the dark side that most cat owners never see. The side that wouldn't be caught dead purring. Here, in colour, in all their infamy, are hundreds of trouble makers and moggy delinquents. They're bad cats, with bad intentions and bad attitude. So the next time your cat misses the litter tray, ask yourself - was it really an accident?

Volume 2 explores works such as Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother (1936) and Robert Doisneau's Kiss in front of City hall (1950), up through Martin parr's 'new European photography'

This series depicts worldwide events of the twentieth century in a novel way. Fascinating black-and-white photographs from the Getty Images collection put images of the power of an event or the zaniness of new trends right before the viewers eyes. The force of wars and political conflicts is just as important a theme in these comprehensive volumes as world-shaking innovations in science and ...