Digital Camera World - UK (2019-12)

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Behind the

Photograph

£35/$45

http://www.charliewaite.com

T

he latest book from the

renowned landscape

photographer, Behind the

Photograph features 62 of Charlie’s

favourite images. And thanks to the

accompanying notes, delivered in

Charlie’s evocative prose, this is

definitely a book that lovers of the

landscape genre can learn from.

BEST FOR A treat for lovers of

landscape photography, and

anyone who loves landscapes

Remembering

Lions

£45/$54

rememberingwildlife.com

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tunning images from 70

top wildlife photographers

grace this book – and as

proceeds go towards conservation

projects in Africa, it should grace

your coffee table, too. Beautifully

printed on high-quality paper,

this book’s heft makes viewing

the images feel like an event.

BEST FOR Lovers of sumptuous

wildlife photography

Tony Ray-Jones:

The English Seen

£48/$55

http://www.rrbphotobooks.com

T

ony Ray-Jones was a fêted

photographer who died

tragically young, at just 31,

but his decade’s worth of shots has

been tremendously influential on

documentary photographers. More

than 75 of his images appear in this

book, which documents British life

in the mid- to late 1960s.

BEST FOR Followers of street

photography will savour Ray-

Jones’s observational genius

Early Works

by Martin Parr

£48/$60

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http://www.martinparrfoundation.com

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ans of the Magnum

stalwart’s oeuvre will think

Christmas has come twice

with this new book. Early Works

features more than 20 previously

unseen black-and-white Parr photos.

They take their place alongside

images from three other series.

BEST FOR Parr fans will revel in the

unseen images, which add breadth

and perspective to his work

This Empty

World

£50/$64

http://www.thameshudson.co.uk

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pic in scale and years in

the planning, Nick Brandt’s

thought-provoking book

fuses art with activism as it decries

the escalating destruction of East

African landscapes. Animals are

jarringly juxtaposed with man-made

settings, as the people in the images

are swept along by ‘progress’.

BEST FOR You don’t need to be

a conservationist to be moved

by these incredible photographs

Henri Cartier-

Bresson in

China

£50/$64

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T

he Magnum Photos

co-founder first

visited China in

1948, at the request of Life

magazine, and stayed for 10

months. 10 years later he returned, to witness a decade’s

worth of seismic change. The book features Cartier-Bresson’s

captions, contact sheets and correspondence.

BEST FOR Photography fans and history buffs: these

images helped shape our visions of Communist China

2019’s best photobooks

They may be too large to fit in a Christmas stocking, but

they’ll certainly enhance a photography lover’s coffee table

Seasonal wish list

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