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A century of National Geographic's best US photography, gathered together in one beautiful volume, makes me want to go out and shoot on film again

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news Timed for the USA's 250th birthday, TASCHEN's new 700-image retrospective is an intoxicating read

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Triptych image: left panel shows assorted colorful flowers on dark ground, center panel features a blue leaf print, right panel has pink leaves on orange textured background
Flower photography isn't just about pretty roses: photographers in this new collection found beauty from weeds in concrete and ghosts in cyanotype

By Tom May Published

NEWS Shutter Hub's new book 'Flora' proves that flower photography still has the capacity to surprise us

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The Vogue photographer who never let his models stand still: Neil Kirk spent decades capturing supermodels mid-stride, mid-leap and mid-laugh

By Tom May Published

NEWS A new monograph traces a fashion career based on catching genuine movement rather than staged poses

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Kate Moss sits on a staircase in a fur coat, gripping a cigarette packet on the handrail as she looks down at her feet.
For 20 years, everyone assumed Kate Moss was drunk on that staircase. Greg Brennan, who took the photo, says she was just waiting for a car home from a party

By Tom May Published

NEWS A new book from veteran press photographer Greg Brennan reminds us that the story people tell about a photo can matter as much as the photo itself

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Silhouette of moorhen in reed bed
Photographer Robert Canis spent 30 years shooting one nature reserve: here's what that patience can teach the rest of us

By Tom May Published

Book This one-off print run, built from decades of shooting, is an unspoken rebuke to our location-hopping Insta culture.

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Black and white photograph of children playing on a rope swing wedged between two brick walls, with two more boys crouched nearby covering their faces, taken in Byker, Tyneside, in 1976.
Chris Killip spent months living in deindustrialised communities in North-East England, photographing some of the most intimate images of 1970s and '80s Britain – using a huge camera that was never built for the job

By Tom May Published

News A new edition of his book North reveals how the wrong tool for candid photography became his greatest asset.

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Three small dogs in coats stand side by side on a London pavement, all looking directly at the camera.
A hyena, a fur seal and an elephant in the city: Leica photographer Alan Schaller finds humor, tension and black-and-white beauty in the animals that live among us

By Tom May Published

NEWS The London photographer's second monograph is the first title from his new imprint, Irys Publishing

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A grainy photogravure of several coated, hatted figures standing in silhouette on a pavement, their long shadows stretching across the ground beneath a glowing street sign.
Long before Bill Brandt, this 1920s postcard salesman worked out how to photograph London after dark without a tripod. A reissued photobook reveals just how he did it

By Tom May Published

BOOK Back in 1924, Fred Judge ditched the tripod, built his own camera and leaned on lamp posts to solve a problem that photographers still wrestle with today

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A candid, colorful 1960s photograph capturing a group of adults and a young boy laughing together while sitting with their legs dangling over a concrete sea wall at a public bathing area.
How do you define photography in a single sentence? No-one can agree – so this new book charts 200 years of it instead

By Tom May Published

NEWS An impressive new volume from Thames & Hudson features 320 pages of the landmark images that built the medium

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A weathered, gray wooden two-story farmhouse stands derelict and decaying in the middle of a barren, harvested cornfield under an overcast sky.
Ben Marcin photographed dozens of abandoned houses in exactly the same way for 20 years, and his new book is a masterclass in editing

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News This new photobook about Baltimore's stubborn, solitary buildings offers an important lesson about organising a series

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