Art, Craft & Photography Books

The Photographic Portrait Prize celebrates the vitality and excellence in portrait photography today. This prize is one of the most important platforms for contemporary portrait photographers internationally. Selected from over 6,900 submissions, this book offers an opportunity to see an inspiring range of portraits.

Fully revised and updated, this is the tenth edition of the world's most comprehensive and bestselling guide for the massive record collecting market. Based on nearly 25 years of detailed research by the staff of Record Collector Magazine, the world's leading publication for all pop and rock collectors.

Brings together the collected photographs of Slinkachu, a street-artist who for several years has been leaving little hand-painted people in the bustling city to fend for themselves, waiting to be discovered.

The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. This fully coloured illustrated volume presents the best of his work.

A lush sourcebook of nearly two thousand tattoo designs from artists around the world. From the editors of TattooFinder.com, it's a fantastic compendium for people who want to think before they ink!

No animal has captured the human imagination quite like the horse, depicted in cave drawings through countless renderings in paint, clay, ink, even film. From Arabians in the Royal Yards of the United Arab Emirates to purebred Icelandic horses in their glacial habitat; this book offers an insight into the physical dynamics and spirit of the horse.

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 ...

Bushcraft expert Ray Mears presents a memoir through photographs of the world's most beautiful wildernesses and their people.

Presents a collection of wildlife nature photographs. This book showcases more than 120 images from the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. It offers various photographs whose range of subjects and styles is diverse - from abstract nature images to animal behaviour and portraits to environmental reportage.

Full colour reproductions of the classic Eagle cutaways

This introductory volume shows the best of Francis Bacon's work.

A collection of Outsider art. It brings together the best of subversive, intelligent, attention grabbing artists, from Tank Girl and Gorrilaz creator, Jamie Hewlett to international artist collective Faile and Conor Harrington.

* A fascinating and witty tour of Britain's architectural history from the bestselling author of AMO, AMAS, AMAT AND ALL THAT

Dealing with the practicalities of how things were built, this book gives explanations of how things like great medieval castles and abbeys were built at a time when technology was limited and there were no power tools, no concrete, no steel, no engines and no heavy machinery. It takes us on a tour of Britain's great historic buildings.

Presents an account of Chagall, the man and the artist - and of a life as intense, theatrical and haunting as his paintings. This book draws on numerous interviews with the artist's family, friends, dealers, collectors, and illustrated with two hundred paintings, drawings and photographs.

Helps Cath Kidston fans to make their own projects and gifts using Cath's own motifs. This book is divided into chapters on different techniques - stencilling, applique, embroidery and patchwork. It includes a collection of 30 projects (among them bags, cushions, clothes and stationery) as well as ideas for how to use the patterns.

Tired of how you look? Style experts Trinny & Susannah show you how to get out of the rut of dressing the same way...

Presents a collection of National Geographic magazine photographs, the facts behind them, and the inside stories of the men and women who took them. This book describes the photographers' achievements from technical, journalistic, and artistic points of view.

A two-sided photographic tour of the world of modern American burlesque and fetish includes in the first part a cultural history of burlesque complemented by the author's provocative tips on erotic fashion and sensuality, and in the second part a photographic celebration of fetish style.