Amanda Hopkinson Books

Featuring black-and-white and colour photographs, this volume aims to lead observers through 150 years of the history of photo-journalism. Including both everyday life and the grandest events, it conveys the ideals and fears of the decades.

The fascinating black-and-white and color photographs in this volume lead observers through almost two centuries of the history of photo journalism. Including both everyday life and the grandest events, the ideals and fears of the decades are conveyed through an exciting perspective. The book will captivate you with its varied and striking images. Viewers will be touched, shocked, amused, or even moved to tears. Photo Journalism is a must for everyone interested in photography and the events of our times.

Featuring a comprehensive 4000-word essay by a field expert, this series offers a deep dive into photography. It includes 55 chronologically arranged photographs, each accompanied by insightful commentary, enhancing the viewer's understanding of the images. Additionally, a biography of the featured photographer provides context and background, making it an enriching experience for photography enthusiasts and those interested in the art form's history.

Vol. 2. Images 1918 To The Present -- Aspects Of The 1920s And 1930s -- The Rise Of Facism -- Nazism -- War In Europe : The Blitz -- Postwar Fashion -- Cinema -- The Changing Role Of Women -- Music And Dance -- The Sixties -- Aviation And Space -- World Events -- Civil Protest -- Disasters -- Sport. Text By Nick Yapp (vol. I) ; Amanda Hopkinson (vol. Ii). Includes Index. Text In English, German, And French; German Translation By Birgit Herbst And French Translation By Sylvie Adam-kuenen.

“I think of women as the most natural subjects for me, in two senses. Firstly, because women often express more in their faces, and are less inhibited in showing emotion. Then because being a woman has been a great advantage to me personally in being a photographer. Women subjects are less threatened by a woman, so it is easier for me to approach them without seeming intimidating. I can win their trust, move in closer.” 'About Women' is Dorothy Bohm’s first book to focus exclusively on the subject of women. Taken throughout the world, from the late 1940s until the present day, her photographs range from images of ordinary women going about their everyday activities, to explorations of the role that representations of women, in the form of advertisements, posters and mannequins, play in contemporary westernised society. The photographs, many of which are previously unpublished, are complemented by an insightful foreword by novelist Marika Cobbold and an informative essay, based on conversations with Dorothy Bohm, by photography curator and historian Amanda Hopkinson.

Grace Lau's photographic journey through the world of sexuality, gender identity and sado-masochistic subculture has earned her a reputation as one of the leading photographers of the perverse. This retrospective details that journey from her earliest male nudes, to her life as a voyeur at Skin Two functions and in the dungeons of dominatrices, culminating in her most recent work on cross-dressing. From a feminist perspective, Grace Lau explores sex and power and produces work that is revelatory, liberating and that celebrates the variety of sexual experience.

The new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist, told with his usual masterly blend of wisdom, humour, and drama. A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. Burying these in the vicinity, the stranger strikes up a curious friendship with a young woman from the village -- Miss Prym. His mission is to discover whether human beings are essentially good or evil. In this stunning new novel, Paulo Coelho's unusual protagonist acts as the devil, setting the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover. A fascinating meditation on the human soul, The Devil and Miss Prym illuminates the reality of good and evil within us all, and our uniquely human capacity to choose between them