Auckland Through a Victorian Lens by William Main

$25.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

Photography Speaks. 150 Photographers on their Art by Brooks Johnson

$22.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good

Spans the history of the medium, including 150 of its most vital practitioners. An example of each artist's work is accompanied by biographical information and an original statement from each artist on their method and intentions, the start of the arts, or the medium itself.

Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography by Helen Ennis

$20.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good

A landmark biography of a singular and important Australian photographer, Olive Cotton, by an award-winning writer - beautifully written and deeply moving. Olive Cotton was one of Australia's pioneering modernist photographers, whose significant talent was recognised as equal to her first husband, the f amous photographer Max Dupain. Together, Olive and Max were an Australian version of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera or Ray and Charles Eames, and the photographic work they produced in the 1930s and early 1940s was bold, distinctive and quintessentially Australian. But in the mid-1940s Olive divorced Max, leaving Sydney to live with her second husband, Ross McInerney, and raise their two children in a tent on a farm near Cowra - later moving to a cottage that had no running water, electricity or telephone for many years. Famously quiet, yet stubbornly determined, Olive continued her photography despite these challenges and the lack of a dark room. But away from the public eye, her work was almost forgotten until a landmark exhibition in Sydney in 1985 shot her back to fame, followed by a major retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2000, ensuring her reputation as one of the country's greatest photographers. Intriguing, moving and powerful, this is Olive's story, but it is also a compelling story of women and creativity - and about what it means for an artist to try to balance the competing demands of their art, work, marriage, children and family. ...Show more

The Psychological Portrait: Marcel Sternberger's Revelations in Photography by Jacob Loewentheil

$45.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: near fine

Photographer Marcel Sternberger pioneered the technique of the psychological portrait, and redefined the boundaries of portrait iconography in the twentieth century. Combining an interest in contemporary art and science with the desire to break free from the constraints of conventional portraiture, Ster nberger's pictures reveal as much about their author and their time as they do about their subjects. He photographed many of the most influential figures in art, science, and politics, ranging from Franklin Roosevelt and Albert Einstein to Frida Kahlo and George Bernard Shaw. Engaging his subjects-encouraging conversation, play, and gesture during photography-he elicited expressions of their characters that transformed his portraits into living works of art, and defined the public perception of his subjects' personas. With an introduction describing Sternberger's remarkable career and hundreds of unseen photographs, sketches, notes, and contact sheets, this is the first book to celebrate the work of one of the twentieth century's most important image-makers. ...Show more

Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection by Richard Whelan

$95.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: near fine

This is the first book to reproduce the definitive set of 937 rarely seen and classic images by Robert Capa (1913-54), one of the most influential documentary photographers of the twentieth century. Capa, a founding member of Magnum photographic agency, had the mind of a passionate and committed journal ist and the eye of an artist. His lifework, consisting of more than 70,000 negatives, constitutes an unparalleled documentation of a crucial 22-year period (1932-54), encompassing some of the most catastrophic and dramatic events of the last century.This book represents the most definitive selection of Capa's work ever published - 937 photographs meticulously selected by his brother Cornell Capa (himself a noted Lifephotographer), and his biographer, Richard Whelan. The photographs, arranged in chronological order as stories and accompanied by brief commentaries, reveal the dramatic shifts in location and subject matter that Capa experienced from day to day - from war-torn Israel to Pablo Picasso on a sunny beach in France, and from Ernest Hemingway carousing in London to Capa's historic images of the Allied landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy in 1944. ...Show more

W. Eugene Smith - The Camera As Conscience by Gilles Mora (Editor); John T. Hill (Editor)

$120.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

This is a complete monograph on the work of W. Eugene Smith, one of the heroes of American photojournalism. Beginning in the 1930s working for Newsweek and other magazines, he created subjective photo essays of lasting impact. Drawing from Smith's own archives and including illuminating texts from histo rians and critics, this comprehensive volume features duotone reproductions of both famous and never-before-published images. ...Show more

Surviving the Lens - Photographic Studies of South and East African People, 1870-1920 by Michael Stevenson; Michael Graham-Stewart

$65.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good

Historians, public galleries and collectors have in recent years started re-viewing photographs of African people taken during the colonial period for their aesthetic merits as well as their historical significance.

Laurence Aberhart: Across the Bridge of Sighs by Peter Fay

$50.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

Beached As: Our New Zealand Beaches Then And Now by Craig Levers

$16.00 NZD

Category: Natural History

New Zealand's favourite beaches in magnificent "then and now" photographs. With nostalgic images that invoke memories of days gone by, each spread features a stunning photograph from over 60 years ago, taken by the author's aunt, and a present day image shot from the exact same spot. The beaches featur ed cover New Zealand from top to bottom. ...Show more

Caochangdi, Beijing Inside Out by Mary-Ann Ray (Text by); Pi Li (Text by); Darien Williams (Contribution by); Robert Mangurian (Text by)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Art

Provence 500 Photos by Gerard Shoen

$16.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good

Anyone who has visited Provence knows that it is more than a place of spectacular beauty; it is also a way of life. Attracting travelers from across the globe, Provence offers the visitor peace and tranquility in the striking beauty of landscapes ablaze with color: from ocher hills and lavender fields, to stark cliffs and swaying olive trees. Gerard Sioen, an internationally recognized photographer and himself an inhabitant of Provence, takes the reader on a personal photographical tour of Provence's most celebrated sights. He showcases the region's wealth of architectural styles ...Show more

Ann Shelton: Dark Matter by Zara Stanhope (Editor)

$50.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Ann Shelton: Dark Matter traces the 20-year career of a leading New Zealand photographer. Ann Shelton¿s evolution as a camera artist with a unique, penetrating vision into the culture and history of New Zealand is beautifully illustrated in this book, which includes multiple examples from all her important bodies of work. ...Show more