Book 1 from the series 'East London Photo Stories'. I ve Lived in East London for 86 ? Years by Martin Usborne. 96pp hardcover, quarter-bound cloth spine, gold foiled, 119 x 139 mm Joseph Markovitch has left London only once to go to the seaside with his mother. He loves Nicolas Cage, has five sugars in his tea, would have married a six foot two Hispanic woman but in the end had such bad chest catarrh he never had a girlfriend. Martin Usborne is a photographer and writer living in Hackney, East London and is also the co-founder and creative director of Hoxton Mini Press. He takes portraits, sometimes of people, often of animals and has had his work in galleries around the world.

Birds have been a source of fascination and mystery for humans throughout the world, and throughout time.The Encyclopedia of Birds reveals in striking detail the rich variety of bird life,from the exotic to the common that we can see everyday in our locality; birds whose songs and silhouettes in flight we often take for granted. But you will also find, photographed close-up with stunning clarity, occasional visitors to these shores, together with images of birds from all over the world.Splendidly illustrated, featuring more than 400 species in a highly informative text,The Encyclopedia of Birds offers a window on the world of the extraordinary diversity of birds on our planet.

A handsome photographic tribute to The Ramble, the untamed?wild garden? of Central Park in New York City. For many NewYorkers, Central Park is Manhattan?s crown jewel and what makes thecity livable year round. For tourists, this urban oasis is amust-see destination on any sightseeing visit. For acclaimedphotographer Robert McCabe, Central Park is defined by its Ramble?adensely forested 38 acres replete with stunning lake vistas,enormous granite boulders, a canopy of trees, winding paths andstreams, and ornate and rustic bridges. McCabe?s photographs in TheRamble in Central Park have captured this wooded labyrinth in itsoff-the-beaten-path glory in its most photogenic seasons. TheRamble in Central Park is primarily organized by four regions,supplemented by one large map by Christopher Kaeser of the entirearea and four close-ups of each area. The text is a series ofessays by writers including The New Yorker?s E. B. White and C.Stevens. Topics cover the history of the park?s creation byFrederick Law Olmst

An intimate portrait of the Kennedys at play, featuringcharming and exclusive photographs of the family by the late BobDavidoff - with the anecdotes and stories from behind thepictures.Up until his death in 2006, Bob Davidoff had been thephotographer in residence at the Kennedy 'Winter White House,'better known as their Palm Beach home. For almost fifty yearsDavidoff chronicled the extended Kennedy clan on holiday, capturingthe youthful JFK and his beautiful family during their moments offun and relaxation.Now, for the first time in book form, BobDavidoff's Kennedy photos of their days in the sun - in Palm Beachas well as in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; Sun Valley, Idaho; andother favorite get-away spots - have been collected in "The KennedyFamily Album", with text by Emmy Award-winning writer Linda Corley.An intimate and candid look at the Kennedy family, this 190-pagebook, filled with over 200 photos - over half of which have neverbefore been seen by the public - provides a relaxed and un-stagedportr

From the camera lucida to the latest in digital image makingand computer manipulation, photographic technology has dramaticallychanged throughout its nearly 200-year history, as succinctlyexplained and powerfully illustrated in "A World History ofPhotography". Thanks to the unique immediacy with which photographycaptures perspective and history, the popularity and use of thecamera spread rapidly around the globe. Today, photography isubiquitous: from newspapers and fashion magazines to billboards andthe film industry, cultures worldwide have embraced this malleableartistic medium for a limitless variety of purposes. NaomiRosenblum's classic text investigates all aspects of photography -aesthetic, documentary, commercial, and technical - while placingphotos in their historical context. Included among the more than800 photographs by men and women are both little-known andcelebrated masterpieces, arranged in stimulating juxtapositionsthat illuminate their visual power. Authoritative and unbiased,Rosenblum's chr

Baby Talk The Anne Geddes phenomenon Baby as bunny, baby as sunflower, babies upon a carpet of feathers. With her unique portraits of infants, Anne Geddes has become one of the world?s most widely known and loved photographers . Her portfolio has become a brand in itself, with posters, puzzles, apps, calendars, and clothing items all inspired by her baby photography. Like no photographer before, Geddes strives to capture the beauty, purity, and vulnerability of young children and to embody within an image her deeply held belief that each and every child must be ?protected, nurtured and loved.? Since its inception in 1992, The Geddes Philanthropic Trust has designated significant funds from the range of Anne Geddes products to help prevent child abuse and neglect in countries around the world. This Geddes retrospective offers access to her complete archive, reaching back to the late 1980s. With many previously unseen images , it honors not only a whimsical and endearing aesthetic but its underlying

The Great LIFE Photographers is the most comprehensive anthology of LIFE photography ever published, featuring the best work of every staff photographer who worked for the famous magazine, and that of a handful of others who shot for LIFE. It was always the photographers who made LIFE great, and this is the most vivid and exciting portrait of those men and women that has ever been produced. The book offers more than 100 portfolios including those of Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Ralph Morse, Nina Leen, Harry Benson, Philippe Halsman, and Joe McNally, whose work for LIFE in the aftermath of September 11 was in the finest tradition of the magazine. Each portfolio includes a short biography, offering an intimate look at the people behind the lens. Here are the defining moments of the 20th century, including MacArthur wading ashore by Mydans, Capa's D-Day landing at Omaha Beach and, of course, Eisenstaedt's sailor kissing th

During his prolific 60-year career, the godfather of Americanphotography captured iconic images for the Sierra Club and NationalPark Service, wrote best-selling books, campaigned for theenvironment, and even took President Jimmy Carter’s official WhiteHouse portrait. Even so, these make up only a portion of AnselAdams’s portfolio. These rare photographs in The Unseen AnselAdams come from the celebrated collection of the University ofCalifornia. During the 1960s, Adams spent time chronicling theuniversity’s campuses, including images of Berkeley’s majesticcampanile, Santa Cruz’s ferny forests, Santa Barbara’s pristinecoastline, and UCLA’s stern chancellor. Photography aficionadoswill certainly appreciate this fresh look at a master’slesser-known work. Spreads feature beautiful black-and-whitephotographs that are rich in detail and texture, showcasing Adams’sunmistakable style. Though best known for his photographs ofnature, Ansel Adams saw beauty in many forms, including manyman-made struc

It's simple question,but there's no simple answer-indeed,each of the 280 photographs in this wonderful book offers its own,unique answer,distilling subject,setting,and cerative skill into a single arresting moment that cap-tures the viewer's imagination.And though we may find this elusive quality hard to define,we recognze is imme-diately and instinctively. William Albert Allard,one of the essayists in the book,writes,A fine portrait has the potential to tell something about the spirit of the subject that can be sensed by someone half a world and a different language away.something universal and simple:This is another person in our world and I'd like you to meet him or her. Culled from National Geographic's extraordinary archive,this collection spans more than a century and explores every cornetr of the globe and every aspect of the portraitist's art.The pictures here represent both the special visions of some of the world's finest photographers and the universal appeal of our shared humanity in all i