Ingenious Encounters: World Tour to Nobel Laureates
by Peter Badge and Sandra Zarrinbal
Public Images (Photography, History: History, Photography)
by Ryan Linkof
The stolen snapshot is a staple of the modern tabloid press, as ubiquitous as it is notorious. The first in-depth history of British tabloid photojournalism, this book explores the origin of the unauthorised celebrity photograph in the early 20th century, tracing its rise in the 1900s through to the first legal trial concerning the right to privacy from photographers shortly after the Second World War. Packed with case studies from the glamorous to the infamous, the book argues that the candid s...
The only book commemorating Barack Obama's historic Inauguration to be licensed by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, Barack Obama: The Official Inaugural Book lavishly documents the entire inaugural week, from Obama's train ride to Washington to his first days in office. With exclusive access to inaugural events, former White House photographers David Hume Kennerly and Robert McNeely led a team of award-winning photojournalists to capture this historic celebration, from the vast crowd on the...
Natalia Vodianova is one of the most respected and sought-after models working today. She has been the face of Calvin Klein, Chanel, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney, and L'Oreal. This book features an exquisite series of black-and-white nude photographs of Vodianova, many published for the first time, taken by acclaimed photographer Paolo Roversi at his studio in Paris. With his trademark 8-by-10-inch large Polaroid film camera and his mastery of light and shadow, Roversi deftly conv...
From his humble beginnings in London's East End, Ted Blackbrow went on to become one of the UK's greatest press photographers. Thrown out of a good grammar school at 15, Ted embarked on a career that would see him photograph members of the Royal Family, Enoch Powell, The Beatles, Sean Connery, Elton John and Mick Jagger, to name just a few! Long before social media, his images were being shared all over the globe. His pictures of the Vietnamese refugees on the Sibonga were a widely-syndicated wo...
'One of the greatest music photographers of all time...this book is indispensable to anyone who is a fan of Morrissey, or of great photography 'Classic Pop magazine'Unsurprisingly, given Cummin's history, the photographs are beautifully composed, from the live shots with their webbing of shredded shirts and outstretched arms to the lyrical portraits on staircases or Japanese streets'Q MagazineTaken by renowned photographer Kevin Cummins and featuring hundreds of previously unseen images, Alone a...
"Bleddyn Butcher has been taking pictures of me and my cohorts since I first got up on stage back in Australia right through to the shuddering present and some of these images are so familiar to me, so much a part of the fabric of my life, my little history, that much like the songs I have written, these photographs have become the props around which my memories collect. Without them so many of those days would be lost. Soul-stealer and dream-catcher - here he comes then - with his book of resc...
In New York in 1948, photographer Philippe Halsman had a chance meeting with Fernandel, a French movie star from the vaudeville tradition, and asked the actor to participate in a completely original photographic experiment. Halsman would ask Fernandel questions about America to which he would respond using only facial expressions. This book brings together the facial responses that Fernandel conjured up to such questions as “Does the average Frenchman still pinch pretty girls in a crowd?” (silly...
We didn't know where it was all going. We just didn't know. One day in 1968 Don McCullin, then regarded as the world's most accomplished war photographer, received a commission from the Apple Corporation to spend a day photographing the Beatles. McCullin had just returned from covering the bitter fighting during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, and was the most hardened photojournalist in the field. He was astonished by the invitation. On Sunday 28 September he met the Beatles at the "Sunday Times"...
For more than a decade, Kevyn Aucoin has been the makeup artist of choice for fashion and entertainment royalty. But Kevyn believes that makeup gives everyone the power to transform themselves and try out new personas. His new book, Making Faces, starts with unbeatable tips on the basics of makeup application and technique. Then he shows you how to use these fundamentals in all kinds of interesting and unconventional ways, with step-by-step directions for dozens of different looks. Making Faces...
The actor, photographer, and bestselling author reveals the Hollywood we see - and the one we don't - with a photography narrative featuring more than 250 emotionally charged colour and black and white photos. Keegan Allen is a Hollywood native, growing up in a world that millions visit and many more imagine. With an avid fan base that follows him on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and a busy career that includes seven years on the hit series Pretty Little Liars as well as films directe...
In this lavishly illustrated volume of the LIFE Unseen series, readers will experience an incredible, intimate story on the rise, fall, redemption and a late-in-life act unlike any other. As they once did in the pages of their magazine, LIFE will take readers through every stage of Tony Bennett's journey, from newly-returned WWII veteran to American idol and civil rights advocate. LIFE is perfectly positioned to do a book on the legendary performer; its managing editor first profiled Tony in the...