Vintage Cameras

More than five hundred images, selected from the photographic archives of "Life" and other collections, portray the people and events that transformed the modern era.The 20th century...

Acquiring impressive footage over thousands of miles using makeshift high-speed and helmet cameras in challenging conditions, Brown’s directorial artistry was evident.

Tom Blake has a number of inventions attributed to his name including the waterproof camera. A great example of a historical surfboard design that played a pivotal roll in the evolut...

Projection has long been transforming space, from shadow plays to camera obscuras and magic lantern shows. Our fascination with projection is alive on the walls of museums and galler...

From the philosophical inquiry of what constitutes photography, to how to choose a camera, to various printing techniques. This rare edition is indispensable in the library of a phot...

Given a Polaroid SX-70 camera by Columbia Pictures at a corporate conference, he began documenting intimate moments of life around him. 44 years later, we finally get a first look at...

From that day onward—though it took years of hard work before he had the experience to earn his living as a photographer—the camera became his tool for interacting with the world.

Classic, beautiful and deeply sympathetic to the way of life of his subjects, Markus turns his Pentax camera, favoured by fashion photographers such as Terrence Donovan, onto the dra...

Books helped him discover places both literally and figuratively, creating romantic visions of lands he wanted to visit, and he has gone on to document his peripatetic life with his ...

Title: The Cities of London & Westminster, accurately copied from the table of the Camera Obscura in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich This is a rare plate from a serie of 22 landm...

Accompanied by Morris's own evocative and insightful commentary, "The Inhabitants" is a masterful work of art, a timeless portrait of a bygone era, and a testament to the power of th...

He walks the paths, forward and backward, and frequently stops so that his camera can memorize views and details. As a result of this time spent and such intense scrutiny, he sometim...

He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1960s and started taking photographs when he acquired a Polaroid camera in 1970. This comprehensive monograph is an ove...

Metinides, born in Mexico City to Greek migrant parents got his first camera at age 9, and from that day on he wandered the streets capturing dramatic incidents with an amazing sense...

The 6 plates depict: San Giovanni in Fonte, Battistero in Ravenna; San Miniato presso Firenze; Capella Palatina in Palermo; Il Duomo di Orvieto; La Libreria in Siena; Camera della Se...

They range from Talbot's Lilliputian pre-1839 negatives (made in "mousetrap" cameras) through botanical photograms to mid-1840s calotypes that demonstrate a sure command of the new a...

Together, the authors reveal how Hockney's creative development and concerns about representation can be traced through his portrait work: from his iconic double portraits of the lat...

Signed by Simon Upton Edited by Karen Howes Foreword by Rupert Thomas A striking visual homage by leading interiors photographer Simon Upton In his first book, renowned inter...

An outdoors man rather than a studio practitioner, Della Bella used his sketchbook and etching needle the way a magazine reporter today uses his camera." From DJ. A vast display of t...

Includes an editorial and an essay, "Peeled Paint, Cameras and Happenstance" by Minor White; a continuation of "More Books for the Creative Photographer"; Part 3 of "The Education of...

Extraordinary photographs by some of the most talented photographers working in America today include many produced in the new panorama format, as well as 360-degree views shot on an...

Taken with the simplest and cheapest pocket cameras, the photographs in this collection constitute Barker s family album for the years 1976-1978.

About the Author: Robert Cameron has been a photographer since 1921 when his father gave him a "Brownie" camera and encouraged him to use it. Cameron is now in his 90's and has publ...

Since he arrived in Vancouver from Germany in 1953, Fred Herzog has roamed the city's back streets with his camera. Herzog draws upon documentary traditions while incorporating an ou...

For thirty years Douglas Kirkland's camera has negotiated our relationship with the stars.

Preston and his "candid" camera were right t, on their private jets, at the after shows ; live recording sessions taking unique pictures during their 70's reign as the Lords of Misru...

These he reshuffled, reinvented, amplified, freeing the narrative from the convention of chronology and revolutionising the way a camera was used. Unlike the invisible Craft of someo...

Even more intimately revealing are photographs taken by the star herself, be they of pigeons while on downtime from the set of Reds in London or of the “greeters” of Hollywood Boulev...

A fascinating laboratory optical slide Displays a desirable aged patina Quality glass present in good order Presented in a sturdy carry case, dressed with small brass clasp Fou...

About the Author: Robert Cameron has been a photographer since 1921 when his father gave him a "Brownie" camera and encouraged him to use it. Cameron is now in his 90's and has publ...

Chaplin closely followed the structure of the DeMille production, seemingly stabbing Carmen to death in jealous revenge, only to reveal a prop knife at the end as both Chaplin and Pu...

"Robert Mapplethorpe began taking photographs in 1970 with a Polaroid camera given to him by a friend. Nearly twenty years later, when Mapplethorpe died at the age of forty-two, he w...

For over forty years , Zerbe has crisscrossed the world in pursuit of festive occasions; here are five hundred of his best pictures - racy, impudent, amused - which amount to a novel...

Unlike some collections there is no artifice for the camera here. Each view of the people shows them as they really live, and Prior's images focus on expressive qualities of costume,...

It is a place where the link with the dark side of existence is not hidden, as happens in the West, but exhibited. By means of his camera and his pen, in this book the author has enc...

Later he designed a "special naturalist's" camera which saved many of his zoo-going trips. He discovered and developed the use of wood wool as a foundation for his models.

But for this book, the camera, and the authors, also go indoors to show you the landscape as viewed from the inside out.

Klein's first assignment was to create a photo-journal of New York, a project that began his raw city portraits (succeeded ones of by Rome, Tokyo, and Moscow) where he aimed to perso...

This highly creative style made him the ultimate jeweler for the silver screen, with his bold pieces worn on and off-camera by iconic clients including Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn...

These major paintings are joined by the artist’s drawings, photo-composites, multi-perspective collages, stage designs, multi-camera video works, and iPad drawings, each a panoply of...

The accompanying print, Tear You Apart, taken in the waters of Guadalupe Island in Mexico, presents a stunning close-up shot of a great white with teeth bared to the camera. In lumin...

Best known for his modernist architecture and sculptural furniture designs, Mollino was an avid, if amateur, photographer (as well as skier, race car driver, and pilot) who utilized ...

First printing (stated) of this photo essay on Andy Warhol by his friend and collaborator Christopher Makos, “the man who first handed Warhol a camera and taught him how to use it.” ...