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Josef Koudelka’s photographs document the Soviet invasion of Prague. A powerful shelf choice for readers exploring how photographic witness connects personal experience with political history.
Take a closer look ↗Explore Chris Killip’s photographs of northern England. An invitation to look at communities, working lives and places through a photographer’s sustained attention.
Take a closer look ↗Nathalie Herschdorfer considers photography’s history and its effects on how we see. A broad perspective for readers who want to connect image-making with the medium’s wider story.
Take a closer look ↗Rethink photography through collaboration rather than the lone photographer. This multi-author volume examines how relationships between people shape the images and histories we encounter.
Take a closer look ↗David Campany offers a route into Walker Evans’s work. For readers interested in documentary photography and the careful attention a camera can bring to people, places and everyday detail.
Take a closer look ↗Explore street photography through images from Magnum. A browsing companion for anyone interested in public life, unexpected encounters and the visual energy of everyday surroundings.
Take a closer look ↗Discover Lee Miller’s wartime photography through a volume edited by Anthony Penrose. A starting point for exploring an image-maker’s experience of conflict and photographic reporting.
Take a closer look ↗Explore Black presence in photographic archives through a multi-voice volume. A valuable shelf choice for readers interested in whose lives are represented, remembered and made visible.
Take a closer look ↗Laurent Jullier offers an introduction to looking at photographs. Read it when you want to slow down, ask better questions and develop a more attentive relationship with images.
Take a closer look ↗A practical companion for portrait photographers from Cian Oba-Smith and Max Ferguson. Explore the decisions and approaches involved in making photographs with people at their centre.
Take a closer look ↗Explore a selection from Saul Leiter’s photographic archive. For readers drawn to the ways colour, layers and everyday surroundings can become the material of an image.
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