Photography - Portraiture

Best known in the art world for his ceramic works, to the wider public Grayson Perry is perhaps equally famous for his cross-dressing alter ego. This book reveals a unique relationship between Perry and renowned portrait photographer Richard Ansett through a previously unseen archive...

From political leaders to celebrities, photographic portraits exert considerable influence over our reaction to public figures. As the first academic publication focused on the Taikang photography collection, this book explores both the mechanics of portraiture and its psychological effects.Taikang Space is one of the...

Rare & Collectible Young Photographer is a super-sized book featuring superb reproductions of Amy Adler's photographs of her own drawings. Adler selects photographs from her personal collection, and in some instances from magazines, then makes a life-sized pastel drawing of the figure. She proceeds...

Rare & Collectible Unspeaking Likeness is a series of images of forensic facial reconstruction sculptures. Occasionally, when investigators call for it, shortly after an unidentified corpse (or part thereof) is found, a forensic artists constructs an artificial face made of clay or plaster to better...

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...

What does “family” mean today? Which notions and prejudices come to light with it? How is modern family life shaped these days? In her project A Real Danish Family, the British artist Gillian Wearing asks these questions in ways that are both artistic and...

From the daguerreotype to the digital age, Face Time is an accessible introduction to one of photography’s most popular subjects: ourselves. With over 250 illustrations, it presents rarely seen treasures alongside works by the greatest names in photography, including nineteenth-century pioneers Hippolyte Bayard and Julia Margaret Cameron, twentieth-century...

All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways, having found their freedom, established their own communities or joined with indigenous peoples to forge new identities. Cimarron, borrowing a Spanish-American term...

Rare & Collectible Entirely realised by the artists, with more than 540 colour illustrations, this rare book is like a family album, illustrating almost all works created by Pierre et Gilles between 1976 and 2002. As an image album, the colour illustrations, from small-sized to...

Rare & Collectible For years, Chinese photographer Zhong Weixing has been dedicated to shooting the very best portraits of international masters of photography. Through his lens he has captured the faces of many of the world's foremost contemporary photographers, including Sebastião Salgado, William Klein,...

These photographs were made across Ukraine between 2015 and 2020 in the spring and summer seasons and form a collective portrait of being young in Ukraine. They were taken on the way to the sea along the banks of the Dnipro River to the...

SIXSIXSIX consists of 666 large-format Polaroid self-portraits (each 21.5 x 27 cm), produced in an intensive process by Samuel Fosso with a small team in his Paris studio in 2015 and 2016. Shot against the same rich, coloured backdrop, these striking photographs depart from...

Rare & Collectible Leather cover and gilded page edges Barmaid presents images by American photographer John Arsenault, who worked at the iconic gay bar Eagle LA as a barback, or "barmaid," as Arsenault liked to refer to the position. The series consists of customer...

Rare & Collectible PLEASE NOTE: Contains sexually explicit images Since 2002, through his enigmatic and compelling Polaroids, Jeremy Kost has been telling the stories of New York’s nights from within its hottest party spots. An outsider on the inside track, Kost is both a...

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...

"Load right, aim sharp, and shoot well. The satisfaction of good pictures will be your reward." – Brownie Hawkeye Instruction Manual, 1959David Pace was given a Brownie Hawkeye on his eighth birthday in 1959. He used it to document, from a child's perspective, family, church,...

Vivian Keulards is a conceptual portrait photographer. She creates visual human stories, often accompanied with text. Addiction is still a big taboo. With this photo book and project, Vivian Keulards breaks her silence around the addiction and death of her brother Hans. Years after...

From the filth and the fury to the elegant extravaganza, Peter Gravelle, the many named photographer, has remained in the shadows of punk rock, low culture and high fashion, deflecting attention while steadily producing an epic body of iconic work. The Death of Photography...

Rare & Collectible Best known for her controversial 2005 postmortem portrait series The Travellers, which The New York Times called "a peek... at the vibrant, living face beneath the mask of death," the former architectural photographer Elizabeth Heyert resumes her role as observer and...

On two cold grey days in 1966, LS Lowry was joined by a young photographer on one of his first assignments for Nova Magazine. Clive Arrowsmith had been commissioned to photograph Lowry at home. Perhaps it was Arrowsmith's youthful exuberance that resulted in him taking as...