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Did you know…? In the mid-80s, Cornerhouse Publications started out as a publisher of specialist photography books. As an art form, the photobook is still very close to our heart and we offer one of the biggest selections of photography titles anywhere you may care to look. In fact, we are famous for it!
To celebrate the diversity of what we have, here is a list of our favourites over recent years…
1. James Barnor
Accra/London – A Retrospective
*THIS TITLE IS NOW OUT OF PRINT* “His portraits of the African diaspora in Britain in the ’60s capture both...
2. Sunil Gupta
From Here to Eternity
Joint-winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award 2021. From Here to Eternity is the first major retrospective of UK based photographer,...
3. Meridel Rubenstein
Eden Turned on Its Side (Artist's Signed Edition)
“Eden Turned on Its Side is a dazzling demonstration of the ways beauty (via inventive art and photography) can illuminate...
4. Bernhard Fuchs
MÜHL
Austrian photographer Bernhard Fuchs is an outstanding practitioner of portrait and landscape photography, whose images achieve a special stillness and...
5. Takashi Homma
Looking Through / Le Corbusier Windows
*This title is now out of print* Japanese photographer, Takashi Homma became acquainted with the work of Le Corbusier only...
6. Victor Burgin
Afterlife
Afterlife is a narrative text/image work on the model of the classic photobook. Victor Burgin conceives of the afterlife as...
7. Grace Lau
Portraits in a Chinese Studio
In the Summer of 2005, photographer Grace Lau set up a portrait studio on Hastings seafront. The studio was on...
8. Martin Parr
Kleingärtner
With ‘allotment gardeners’ renowned British photographer, Martin Parr has created a new series which he realised in five allotments in...
9. Franklyn Rodgers
The Philosophy of Strangers
Black British photographer Franklyn Rodgers has amassed a body of work both personal and commercial, which is breathtaking in its volume and level of accomplishment.
10. Vanley Burke
By the Rivers of Birminam
Vanley Burke has photographed the Jamaican Community in Handsworth since the mid 1960s. His images reveal a great compassion for his own people, expressed in his image of the Africa Liberation Day crowds gathered in Handsworth Park.
11. The Brooks Press of Wirksworth
Chris Brooks
For almost ten years Chris Brooks has been returning to his childhood home in Derbyshire (England) to photograph the land...
12. Janet Mendelsohn
Varna Road
“Mendelsohn’s monochrome images are striking: despite the bleak surroundings they have a wide-eyed quality that captures the details of her...
13. Arne Reimer
Long Play
Long Play is a subtle and intense photo book about the era of the vinyl record. For more than a decade,...
14. Karl Schenker
The Master of Beauty
Karl Schenker was one of the most famous society portraitists in the 1910s and 20s. Actresses, dancers and celebrated ladies...
15. Other Stories / Historia Bravas
Karen Miranda Rivadeneira
Other Stories is Ecuadorian-American photographer Karen Miranda Rivadeneira’s first monograph. It focuses on her relationships with the women in her...
16. Wolfgang Tillmans
Concorde
REPRINTED IN 2017 DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND ‘Concorde is perhaps the last example of a techno-utopian invention from the sixties still...
17. Going Back Home To Where I Came From
Mahtab Hussain
‘My art practice’s current core aim is to try and create a better understanding of Muslims globally. It is in...
18. Lewis Baltz
Lewis Baltz not only revive American landscape photography, but he also revolutionised the photographic pictorial language of the 1970s. Pictures of industrial landscapes, dreary suburban neighbourhoods and wastelands depict radically new motifs, which for the first time were publically presented in the renowned exhibition 'New Topographics' in 1975.
19. Andrew Jackson
From a Small Island
‘No-one on that ship…thought we’d be leaving home forever, but when my father hugged me on the dockside, for some reason,...
20. Hannes Schmid
Real Stories
Essentially self-taught, internationally-renowned Swiss photographer Hannes Schmid has been active for decades in various fields of photography. He spent almost a decade on tour with over 250 bands before entering the world of fashion and advertising photography when Schmid produced his famous icon – the Marlboro cowboy. Published on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bern (2013).
