Photography - Portraiture

Rare & Collectible The 40 full-page colour photographs presented here - which include landscapes, fashion and still lifes as well - form a kind of atlas on skin that also refers the observer, on the one hand, to Northern European painting from the 1500s...

Rare & Collectible Throughout Les McCann’s incredible jazz career, he took hundreds of photos―at clubs, studios, and festivals around the world―and documented the vibrant cultural life of jazz and soul between 1960 and 1980.  McCann here captures a very young Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone,...

This is the first comprehensive overview of influential American photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon (b. 1942) who distinguished himself with work that emphasised intimate social engagement. In 1962 Lyon traveled to the segregated South to photograph the civil rights movement. Subsequent projects on biker...

FunkyTown digs into British photographer Dean Freeman's archive to gather published and unpublished portraiture, fashion and reportage spanning three decades of youth culture, from the 1980s to the present. Freeman's star portrait subjects include Liz Hurley, Sandra Bullock, Rachel Weisz, George Michael, Dennis Hopper,...

In the 1990s, following the exhibition National Portraits, Photographs from the 1970s by Daniel Meadows (curated by Val Williams), there was a revival of interest in the journey I had made around England in the Free Photographic Omnibus and I wasn'talone in being curious about what, in...

In 1972, as a student at Manchester Polytechnic, I began experimenting with ways of doing documentary work with people, not to them. That spring, in the city's Moss Side district, I opened a free photographic shop where I ran weekly portrait sessions for passers-by....

Written by Marta Weiss, Curator of Photographs at the V&A, Making It Up: Photographic Fictions shows how, throughout its history, photography has been used to depict fiction as well as fact. With over 130 photographs supported by extended commentaries and an introduction, Making It Up: Photographic Fictions illustrates...

Rare & Collectible Condition: new copies with some discolouration to the pages -  very good condition considering the age. This book presents a selection of Andy Warhol's Polaroid pictures. From self-portraits to still lives, from anonymous nudes to New York high society, these polaroids...

Rare & Collectible Signed by Bert Stern ConditionEx-display copy in excellent condition.Clamshell box has a mark to one corner - see final image. Taschen has paired Mailer’s original text (his 1973 biography Marilyn) with Bert Stern’s extraordinary photographs—widely considered the most intimate ever taken of...

Philip Glass is one of the most important pioneers of American minimal music and scores for for well-known films such as The Illusionist, The Truman Show, Fantastic Four and Cassandra's Dream. This beautifully produced photobook is a portrait of the life and work of the famous pianist...

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....

Elizabeth Waterman is an American photographer exploring female sexuality, sex work and obsessions through portraits of performance artists. Waterman’s style has been described as both transcendent and transformative. “Goddesses of sex and light, fully owning their own bodies and sexuality with innate empowerment.” This...

Conceived by the artists on the occasion of their exhibition Le Grand Amour (The Great Love) in 2004 at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, this catalogue includes most of Pierre et Gilles’ works created from 2001 through 2004, with smiling portraits, these of children,...

Rare & Collectible Alvin Booth's Osmosis images are deliberately more abstract, diffuse, and otherworldly than his previous works. The human form is reduced to its bare lines, and like a delicate gouache the body dissolves into the paper. The exquisite tones of the images and...

Rare & Collectible In Dreams adds to our understanding of Dennis Hopper’s personal vision as an artist by tracing the threads of Hopper’s life through photography, and connecting his roles as an actor, husband, father, and photographer.  The book eschews Hopper’s iconic stand-alone images and...

Rare & Collectible This sequence of 12 images―all taken in Los Angeles, California on the same day in 1971―represents some of the earliest black-and-white work by American photographer Anthony Hernandez (b. 1947). Beautifully printed in tritone on McCoy Silk coated paper, the book features...

Christian Tagliavini uniquely combines craft, photography and stage design. Circesque is a celebration of an idea he had in 2008 and resulted in this photographic series produced in 2019. Exploring the world of the circus, this book is a unique invitation for the reader...

Sigune Hamann's work combines experimental approaches in photography, video, and sound with cross-disciplinary inquiry. She explores how time, perception, and attention shape the construction and experience of images through interventions and installations. Freshers was the first project of Hamann’s residency working with perception and attention in...

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 –...

 presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media. Ranging from funerary masks and masks in drama to the figural work of contemporary artists including Cindy Sherman and Nam June Paik, renowned art historian Hans Belting emphasizes that...