Photography (£5 or Less)

The phenomenon of recognising faces in everyday objects, called face pareidolia, is experienced widely. Once thought of as a symptom of psychosis, it is increasingly understood that pareidolia images are processed by the same mechanism that would normally process emotion in a real face....

From as early as 1839, artists began exploring photography's enormous potential for storytelling and often went to great lengths to stage pictures for the camera. Photography as Fiction opens with a short introductory essay summarising the history of staged photography, highlighting key debates on the...

Anyone who grew up holidaying on England's beaches is familiar with the distinctive features of these historic resorts - not the exclusive, paradisiacal haunts of the rich and famous, but the gritty, often rocky shores of the Atlantic and the Irish and North Seas,...

Rare & Collectible "Photographing kids is an adventure. You can't expect them to stay interested (or still)for long, and that can sometimes make life difficult technically. But on the other hand, when you are working with them, such difficulties become irrelevant because children can...

The rise of digital photography is perhaps the most manifest legacy of the digital revolution in art. Through the use of sophisticated software and scanners, artists are able to enhance photographs, saturate them with colour, and create mesmerising effects. Focusing exclusively on digital photography...

Rare & Collectible 95 sheet-fed gravure plates Contains sexually explicit images Ross Bleckner’s deeply personal camera work travels over the intimate contours of a lover’s body and the pages of his daily newspaper. The enigmatic and absurd landslide of images that inundate our daily...

Nicole Trevillan's London Club is a series of fashion photographs from influential new-music nightclubs in London between 2000 and 2010. The club night Trash, founded in 1997, changed the direction of music experiences in London from ubiquitous mainstream techno to something more special and...

In 2007, Candida Höfer selected some of Philadelphia's highly symbolic and venerable institutions that tell a story about the city's 300-year history, and explored them with her tried-and-tested approach to photography. The interiors of the Fisher Library, the Girard College, the Pennsylvania Academy of...

Kenzine is a collaboration between Toilet Paper magazine and Kenzo. Named after Kenzo's online blog, this fourth issue of Kenzine was published in a limited run of 2,400 numbered copies. Toilet Paper was founded in 2010 by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari with the...

Rare & Collectible Color Coordinated Interiors catalogues a little known but characteristic and illuminating early project of Laurie Simmons's from 1983, just a few years after her first solo show in New York. Simmons is best known for her chilling and sophisticated photographs of...

Rare & Collectible In 2010, photographer Dan Martensen was introduced to the Angulo brothers by filmmaker Crystal Moselle, who had just begun work on the hit documentary The Wolfpack. Chronicling the lives of the six home-schooled boys who recreated cult-classic films, fashioning props as well...

Rare & Collectible Wailed is an intimate chronicle of a group of friends who also happen to be the vanguard of alternative comics making. In stark black and white, the lives of these young artists are illuminated. Comics are often associated with the past, but...

Rare & Collectible In Fandomania, photographer Elena Dorfman examines the pop culture phenomenon of "cosplay," in which participants dress up in costumes and live part of their lives as characters from video games, animated films, and Japanese graphic novels. This exploding subculture flourishes at...

Relief Journal is a project that documents the space between making and exhibiting, concentrating on the intersection of art and curatorial practice with politics. Each issue is themed and contributors are invited to respond. Class is the theme for this first issue for which...

Relief is a journal that documents the space between making and exhibiting, concentrating on the intersection of art and curatorial practice with politics. The theme of issue is Drift, a modern take on the dérive, a term popularised by Guy Debord and adopted by...

Relief is a journal that documents the space between making and exhibiting, concentrating on the intersection of art and curatorial practice with politics. Issue 3 examines the theme of Surface and the gestures and histories contained within them. A surface is the point at...

Rare & Collectible Incorporating research in the fields of psychical research, psychology, physiology, photography and optical viewing, Susan MacWilliam's work explores ideas about the visible and the invisible, about vision and perception, reality and illusion. Through the use of video, photography and sculptural installation,...

100 Pioneering Women presents a selection of images of remarkable women, who have defied the expectations of their gender and made extraordinary contributions to British life over the past four centuries. This book features some of the National Portrait Gallery’s most famous sitters –...