Mountains of Scotland (Colin Baxter Gift Book, #10)
by Des Thompson
Self-reflection by celebrities tends to be fraught with unmentionable difficulties. Not, though, when the star in question is the ever intelligent, self-aware, articulate, and magnificent Isabella Rossellini. For years, a wall in the entrance of Rossellini's apartment has been covered in pictures taken of her by different photographers. Looking at the Me Wall, Rossellini writes that she never really saw herself; instead she saw the photographer's work, their ideas, and our collaboration in captu...
Modelos de Arsenal del Museo Naval
by Cruz Apestegui and Jose Ignacio Gonzalez Aller Hierro
The greater Canterbury region is much loved by overseas visitors and New Zealanders alike. Its urban heart is the vibrant city of Christchurch, which belies its southern presence with strongly English architecture and parks. Forming a dramatic backdrop to Christchurch, the Southern Alps offer many opportunities for skiing, walking and mountaineering, and overlook the sweep of the Canterbury Plains, where traditional livestock and cropping farms are fast being joined by vineyards and olive groves...
The celebrated photographer Izis was born Israel Bidermanas in Lithuania; but in 1931, fleeing poverty, he arrived in the city he was to make his own: Paris. He found work in a portrait studio, but it was his pictures of fellow Resistance fighters, taken near Limoges during the Liberation, that made his reputation. On his return to Paris he met Brassai, and soon became the supreme recorder of his adopted home, the devotee of a "new way of handling the lens". Izis's style was established in his f...
From the earliest daguerreotypes of the 1850s to today's long-lens, close-up shots, the task of facing the cricket photographer has always been to increase our enjoyment and appreciation of the game. Early pioneers like George Beldam and Herbert Fishwick captured the leading players of the day with a style and grace that has seldom been bettered. This collection of cricket photographs emphasises the quality of the photographs, which are supported by detailed captions and a look at how cameras ha...
This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. "Picturing Chinatown" contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and many never reproduced before, to illustrate how this famous district has acted on the photographic and painterly imagination. Bringing together art history and the social and political history of San...
What is a contented cat? A cat that is sleeping, eating or just lolling in the sun.... This delightful book contains page after page of pictures so evocative you can almost hear the cats purr: Nobuo Honda's flawless photography captures the charm of these contemplative felines in beautiful full-color and black-and-white photographs.