Art, Architecture & Photography - photography

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this book is priceless. Geoff Dale's professional life has been spent capturing the moments that have defined our current events. His retrospective of news and sports in New Zealand over the past forty years provides a thoughtful, provocative and insightful collection of iconic images and memories. If you lived through these events, fascinating background information will add a new dimension, as well as professional techniques from a highly skilled practitioner. From the now-infamous Fish and... read more

for more than 2 decades, New Zealand's preeminent social documentary photographer has documented New Zealand life, leisure and industry. His moving visual studies have provided a view of New Zealand in cross-section and defined New Zealand society. Images are of profound humanity, of pride, sadness, unbridled joy. And in each of them is a sense of familiarity - you know them to be true - and in each is a mirror of ourselves. This book is a unique photographic journey through time and place and gives a sense of how New Zealand has ... read more

A classic for years to come, Grahame Sydney's Central Otago is a spectacular photographic celebration of the heart of the Otago province. From sprawling landscapes and passing cloudscapes to poignant portraits, Sydney captures both the raw beauty of the area and the isolation of its inhabitants.

In this deluxe commemorative edition, "LIFE's" editors focus on the publication's achievements more tightly than they ever have before: This is truly the best of everything "LIFE" has accomplished. In these pages are the ten best war photos ever taken for "LIFE"; the ten best photo essays ever to grace our pages (including the works of Capa and Parks and Smith); the ten loveliest pictures from Hollywood (in fact, the ten best pictures of Marilyn Monroe ever taken by such as Halsmann, Eisenstaedt and her dear friend Milton Greene), ... read more

From one of the world's most exciting new photographers and the editor of world-renowned New Yorker magazine, Power is an extraordinary portrait of political power at the highest level. Especially commissioned by the New Yorker magazine, Platon has photographed over 100 members of the United Nations. Presidents, prime ministers and heads of state sit side by side with dictators and revolutionaries to provide an intimate and unique perspective on the world's leaders.

Miner Joseph Divis, born in Bohemia, photographed life in mining towns Blackball, Waiuta and Waihi where he worked between 1909 and 1935. Although an outsider, Divis loved this country. When he died in 1967 he was one of the last inhabitants in the ghost town of Waiuta, site of one of NZ’s richest gold-bearing quartz reefs. Thanks to Divis’s graphic, sensitive work, we have an extraordinary record of the isolated and often dangerous life in our frontier communities.

Everything you need to know about photography, both digital and film, written by a team of experts. This comprehensive and superbly illustrated guide covers all aspects from basic composition to the latest digital know-how and digital darkroom techniques. Practical, inspiring and informative, Collins Complete Photography Manual takes you from choosing the right camera and understanding what different lenses can achieve, to creating the best possible composition. In addition, key techniques, such as image manipulation, are illustra... read more

You're ready to forsake film and reap the benefits of the digital age - but how to really get the best from the miniature computer in your hands? Split into Camera and Computer sections, this guide covers everything from choosing the right camera for you and how to take great pictures with it, to sharing, printing and editing the results.

Brian Brake (1927-1988) was New Zealand's most well-known and internationally successful photographer, known worldwide for photo essays like Monsoon (1961) and locally for the book New Zealand, Gift of the Sea (1963). Twenty years after his death, however, Brake's vast body of work remains unseen - or critically considered - in its entirety. What was Brake's background and what were his influences? What sort of photographer was he? What was his popular reputation based on? How has he been he perceived by the generations of contempo... read more

Steve Bolt is a photographer with a vision-a vision of landscape beauty, of solitude, of remoteness still touched with small signs of our human presence in this, our living land. He travels New Zealand with (and usually in!) the ever-faithful Gruffy - a Nissan SUV with a distinct personality to find just such places, to photograph them, to encapsulate them in dvds of the images he brings back. This book tells the story of a year’s such travels, the stories behind some of the images that are, with a great many others, on the d... read more

Finalist in the Illustrated Non-Fiction category. From Maori moko to Dame Whina Cooper (Te Rarawa) and the 1975 Maori land march, from Rita Angus to Norman Kirk, from Israel to Fiji, Marti Friedlander's photographs have captured the transformation of our lives over the last 50 years. But Friedlander has not simply recorded the places, events, and personalities of recent history. She has brought to her subjects a distinctive eye. Arriving in New Zealand as a Jewish immigrant from England in 1958, Marti Friedlander has always view... read more

Introduction by Peter Ireland. Rick Alexander was born in Napier in 1956 and has lived there on semi-regular basis ever since. From 1976-79 he attended the Ilam School of Fine Arts at Canterbury University, specialisng in photography. He continued photographing full time for the next eleven year, contributing to numerous group shows and holding exhibitions. These included three solo shows, two of which were toured. The first one in 1984 entitled Esperanza, was shown at the Hastings Cultural Centre, Real Pictures Gallery in A... read more

Since the wolf first snuck into the caves of our ancestors to take warmth from the fire, Canis lupus familiaris has been man's constant companion. In this stunning follow-up to the critically acclaimed Equus, award-winning photographer Tim Flach sets out again to document human-animal relationships and provide a unique perspective on one of our closest companions. From the exquisite specimens on show at Crufts and the Westminster Kennel Club dog shows to shelter dogs lovingly rescued by volunteers; from the grace and agility of rac... read more

Featuring full colour photographs, this book displays the sheer beauty of the sky. It covers different aspects from diverse cloud formations, the golden colours of dawn and dusk, spectacular storms and unique weather, and a wide range of meteorological phenomena.

Illustrated in full colour and crammed with adventure, Diary of a Wildlife Photographer is an exciting account of one woman's incredible experiences in extraordinary places. Breakfast with a cheetah, touch the horn of a rhino, and survive an angry lion in the wilds of Africa - Just the start of a great adventure with wildlife photographer, Jan Latta! Jan was inspired to write children's books after coming face-to-face with a mountain gorilla in the African jungle. The experience changed her life. Jan has since travelled to Af... read more

To Maori, the governing principle of mauri brings to all objects the power and prescience of a living spirit. Objects that are hand-crafted from wood, stone, shell, bone or pounamu are imbued with life by their creators. Conveying the mauri of an object through photography requires an exceptional talent, one focused on distilling the essential energy of the original piece through shades of lighting, position and perspective. This is what Brian Brake achieved. The photos in this collection constitute the best of Brake's photographic... read more

This title shows the world through Linda's lens. This is a retrospective of Linda McCartney's life and photography. In 1966, during a brief stint as a receptionist for "Town and Country" magazine, Linda Eastman snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the "Rolling Stones" aboard a yacht on the Hudson River; her fresh, candid photographs of the band were far superior to the formal shots made by the band's official photographer, and she was instantly on the way to making a name for herself as a top rock 'n' roll... read more

Acclaimed war photographer Sean Smith has covered all the major conflicts of the past few years, from the Middle East to the Congo. "Frontlines" brings together some of his finest work, and offers both a chronicle of major flashpoints and a unique insight into modern warfare and its aftermath. Starting with the violence that erupted on the streets of Bethlehem in 2000, when Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli soldiers, Smith moves on to provide fascinating and poignant glimpses of life in Afghanistan before the US-led campaign ... read more

Captain Scott perished with four of his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole in March 1912. Almost immediately the myth was founded, based on Scott's diaries, turning him into an icon of courage in the face of impossible circumstances. But during the final months of that journey Scott also took a series of breathtaking photographs: panoramas of the continent, superb depictions of mountains and formations of ice and snow, and photographs of the explorers on the polar trail. But these photos have never been seen - ini... read more

There are many countries with magnificent scenes to be photographed, but none with the diversity of America - from the sunny beaches of Florida, to the rugged, hostile peaks and glaciers of Alaska, and the comfortable magnificence of the Grand Canyon. The landscape of America is indeed unique, and the freedom of flight in America is equally so.