Art- Photography and Television Used Books - Here are the latest additions to the Art- Photography and Television category of the Mary Ward Used Books catalogue http://www.marywardbooks.com/categories/22.htmlPenguin Books 1979 127 pages including index ; b/w photographs throughout. Condition: edges of cover worn; contents very clean and good. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0140040110.htmlIdea Books Edizioni, Milan 1985 first edition: soft cover with black and white photographic insets to front and back covers : approximately 9 x 11 inches tall: full-page reproductions of black and white photographs. Synopsis: An illustrated catalogue of Horst (Bohmann )' s photographic work, exhibited at Hamiltons, 13 Carlos Place London. Contents include a six page biography; 15 full-page photographs taking between 1933 and 1939 featuring fashion, models, and famous people including Paulette Goddard, Noel Card, Baron Nicolas de Gunsburg, Luchino Visconti; 12 full-page photographs taken between 1940 and 50 featuring fashion, and famous people including Marlene Dietrich, Myrna Loy ,Misia Sert, Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein and Horst; nine full-page photographs taken between 1951 -- 79 featuring fashion, and famous people including Yves Saint Laurent,Cy Twombly, Truman Capote , Paloma Picasso , Louise Brooks and a study entitled The End of the Party, Rome 1951 ; 5 full-page photographs taken between 1980 -- 83 featuring advertisements for the cigarette, fashion and beauty industries. Condition: Slight yellowing to cover edges: back cover and preceding page extreme lower corner creased: overall very clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/8870170519.htmlCollins 1948 first edition red cloth hardback with gilt lettering to front and spine : approximately 8 by 12 inches tall: no dust jacket: 163 pages including index and 120 full-page colour photographic plates. Synopsis: A photographic study of Holland's flowers provided by the authors In response to a request by the Dutch publishing firm, S Gouda Quint during the Occupation of Holland in the Second World War. The illustrated volume of the most important flowering plants, encompassing both scientific and aesthetic points of view, was completed in 1947; and the high-quality full-page coloured photographic plates include bulbs, shrubs, dahlias, roses, carnations, perennials, flowering greenhouse plants, and montbretia. Descriptive text precedes each section of photographs. Condition: no dust jacket: small crease upper corner page 35 -see photograph. very clean and good overall http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/MW00222271717.htmlCircolo Photographico Milanese 1980, hardcover in dust jacket, approx 9.5 x 9 inches tall: 188 pages of black and white photographs, short passages of descriptive text, and index, following an introduction by Enzo Passaretti . Synopsis: A collection of photographs taken in 1980 by members of the Circolo Photografico Milanese presenting the multi-faceted life of Milan from a diversity of views. Condition edges of dust jacket damaged and repaired: cloth cover and contents very clean and good. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/MW001776671.htmlQuality Book Club/Hutchinson, 1973: hardback in dust jacket: approximately 5 x 8 inches tall: 232 pages including index. Synopsis: Written by the television critic Peter Black, whose daily column appeared in the TV section of the Daily Mail, this analytical account covers the reopening of television in 1946, the end of the BBC monopoly, the effect of competition, the early days of independent television, and the authors views about the medium's future. Condition very clean and good overall http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/MW00100200100.htmlSynopsis: A photographic guide to the butterflies of Britain and Europe in which over 250 species are illustrated.Comments: very clean and ALMOST as new . Format: Paperback. Pages: 144. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/1853684147.htmlHeadline 2004/ Warner Brothers/ Worldwide publishing: decorative board hardcover: approximately 9 by 11 inches tall: purple photographic endpapers: 288 pages: colour illustrated throughout. Condition very clean and good overall/almost as new. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0755313216.htmlThe Album, A Journal of photographs of men, women, and events of the day. A compilation of 12 weekly editions :numbers 5, March 4, 1895 -- number 17, May 27 1895. Half leather on brown boards: approximately 9.7 x 1.2 by 13 inches tall. Synopsis:A compilation of photographs (accompanied by short explanatory articles) featuring notable men, women, events and frequented venues of the early 1895s. Full-page black and white photographs feature sportsmen, scholars,politicians, actresses, women of note, fashionable events and scenery. Subjects include the Master of the Quorn Hunt, the Earl of Lonsdale; the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette , Mr Frederick Greenwood; The Grand Duke and Duchess Michael of Russia golfing at Cannes ; the actresses Miss Winifred Emery and Miss Beatrice Lamb; the Countess Cadogan; Niagara Falls in Winter; the Thames Embankment and Cleopatra's Needle etc etc. Condition. lower front cover worn revealing board: corners and spine ends seriously bumped: ownership inscriptions dated 1898 and 1950: binding very frail: sporadic foxing : staining to approx 10 pages: small blue stains to double page April 8th issue: majority of good quality photographs clean and good : overall acceptable . Please note scanned image of contents not cover. A heavy volume, customers outside the UK please e-mail for shipping costs. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/MW00131314131.html Atkinson Parish/ Croom Helm: 1981 first edition black cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in dust jacket: approximately 8.5 by in 11.25 inches tall: black and white illustrations, diagrams and charts; colour illustrations. Synopsis: An instructive course on wildlife and nature photography including fundamental, advanced, and specialised projects. A description of equipment including cameras, lenses and accessories is followed by a section on general fieldwork and camara techniques including the use of motor drive, low level shooting, and altered exposure: with instructions for stalking, building hides, using bait and lures, photographing animals in flight, and taking close-ups of small animals and plants. Studio set-ups are examined, and tips given for photographing in controlled conditions, including tanks, aquariumsusing special lighting effects and microscopes. Unusual and interesting subjects for photography in arctic, desert, underwater, aerial, nocturnal, and underground settings are suggested; with a section on landscape photography, highlighting the use of unusual characteristics, unusual treatments, and the evocation of tangible elements in a single photograph. The volume includes a gazetteer of some of the world's best locations recommended by the author and consultant, with information on how and when to visit them for successful wildlife and nature photography. 150 colour and 350 black and white photographs and drawings support the text. Condition: upper edge of dust jacket slightly rubbed: overall very clean and good. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0709910088.html Collins 1981: hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 8.5 x 11.25 inches tall: 256 pages including index: colour illustrated throughout. Synopsis: A volume of photography instruction including the composition of better pictures, the qualities of colour, choosing a viewpoint, the perspective in photography, pattern emphasising, texture and form, photography in natural daylight, photography at night, and capturing movement on film. The contents are:- Introduction. Reasons for taking pictures. Composition ( the viewfinder, horizon, background, foreground, placing the subject edging the picture, frame within a frame). Perspective and view point (scale and depth, choosing of viewpoint, birds eye view, worm's eye view, balance, digital composition). Detail (line and shape, pattern, texture, tone and contrast, silhouette, the picture). Colour (awareness, contrast, harmony, accent, muted, multicoloured picture, seeing in black and white). Lighting (the source, different surfaces, positioning the source, photographing into the light, dawn till dusk, night photography). Movement and multiple exposures (expressing movement, using movement, zooming , techniques, pictures from a moving vehicle, multiple images, movement and light. ) Using your camera. glossary, index Condition very clean and good overall http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/00014116828.html A 1954 second edition published by Iliffe and Sons examining the craft of the photographer. 264 pages and many excellent photographs. A small area of slight edge damage to pages 59 to 69, otherwise in Very Good clean condition. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/mw05.html 432 pages. Pictures and text provide a chronicle of Britain since 1860.Synopsis: A Chronicle of Britain since 1860 comprising a series of historic photographs from the Francis Frith collection; up-to-date photographs by John Cleare, and Peter Ziegler's comprehensive text. The volume includes a biography of the Friths followed by sections on London, the cities, towns, villages, coasts, countryside, advertising, going to the seaside, dress, habits, occupations, recreations, and communications. Condition: very clean and good overall / not far from new. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/1841880957.html 216 pages slight creasing to cover- overall clean and good. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0330265237.html 302 pages Third edition 1975. edges of dust cover slightly worn - overall clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0240507436.html