14/11/11

Christmas Present Ideas: Photography Book LOVE and our Gift Vouchers

Christmas gift suggestions from Mary and Greg for Christmas Presents and stocking fillers for the photographers in your life – Photo Book LOVE – something for everyone, including our own Ashford Daly Photography gift vouchers:

Frozen Planet_Christmas Book Suggestion by Ashford Daly Photography

1. Frozen Planet - BBC Books. Frozen Planet is the exciting successor to the ground-breaking Planet Earth and Blue Planet series, and has been created by the same award-winning team. Most of us will never travel to these great wildernesses and, even for those lucky enough to have gone, this portrait of our polar regions will surprise and astound. Take a journey to the last truly great wilderness regions. From the Great Melt in Spring to the 24-hour summer, the beginning of the Big Freeze and long dark winter, this epic series will follow the dramatic landscapes and the emotional life stories of the animals that live there. Following the stories of the polar bear and wolf in the North Pole and the adelie penguin and killer whale in the South Pole, we see how they survive these extremes, how they feed, mate and rear their young. Using the latest hi-tech cameras, the series will reveal animal behaviour as we’ve never seen before – the long, tender mating ritual of the polar bears, the vast penguin colonies, the Arctic’s most impressive hunter, the wolf as well as eider ducks, gentle seals and sociable ravens. But the real star of this series is the ice and Frozen Planet will tell its story, from its formation to its movement and its beauty. And of course what the future holds for it. This is the last chance to explore our Frozen Planet before it changes forever. ISBN-10: 1846079624 RRP £25.00

Magnum Contact Sheets_Christmas Book Suggestion by Ashford Daly Photography

2. Magnum Contact Sheets – This special and important photography book presents, for the first time, the very best contact sheets created by Magnum photographers. Contact sheets tell the truth behind a photograph. They unveil its process, and provide its back story. Was it the outcome of what a photographer had in mind from the outset? Did it emerge from a diligently worked sequence, or was the right shot down to pure serendipity a matter of being in the right place at the right time? This landmark publication provides the reader with a depth of understanding and a critical analysis of the story behind a photograph, the process of editing it, and the places and ways in which the selected photographs were used. For anyone with a deep appreciation of photography and a desire to understand what goes into creating iconic work, Magnum Contact Sheets will be regarded as the definitive volume. With 435 illustrations in total, 230 in colour, including over 3,600 frames on 139 contact sheets. ISBN-10: 0500543992 RRP £95.00

Dior Couture by Demarchelier_Christmas Book Suggestion by Ashford Daly Photography

3. Dior Couture by Demarchelier – Dior is one of the most revered names in fashion, the archetype of the Parisian couture house. Famous for launching the “New Look,” Christian Dior’s landmark first collection that marked a sea change in women’s dress after the Second World War, Dior is known today for its exquisite couture line of dramatic dresses. This book comprises a portfolio of portraits of over one hundred incredible gowns from the entire era of Christian Dior haute couture, including dresses designed by Dior himself. All of the images were shot by Patrick Demarchelier, known for his exquisite fashion portraits that grace the pages of Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, and many other magazines. ISBN-10: 0847838021 RRP £68.25

Chanel The Vocabulary of Style A Vocabulary of Style_Christmas Book Suggestion by Ashford Daly Photography

4. Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style: A Vocabulary of Style – Gabrielle Coco Chanel was, without doubt, the most influential designer of the 20th century. This book honours her influence by celebrating the key elements that defined and still define her style through inspired pairings of classic and contemporary photographs. Juxtaposing fashion plates from Channel’s own time with the most recent creations by Karl Lagerfeld, such as Cecil Beaton’s portrait of Coco Chanel presented alongside one of Cate Blanchett by Lagerfeld himself, the resonance between archive and contemporary photographs becomes sharp, vibrant and telling. The vocabulary of Channel’s style the little black dress, baroque inspirations, androgynous chic is revealed in eleven chapters that compare original forms in the 1920s with the full range of their later expressions through every fashion era. Channel’s legendary fashion house continues to captivate a huge audience with an insatiable appetite for one of fashions undisputed style perennials. ISBN-10: 0500515816 RRP £65.00

Perceptions by Patrick Lichfield_Christmas Book Suggestion by Ashford Daly Photography

5. Perceptions: Patrick Lichfield – The name of Patrick Lichfield, photographer, is indelibly associated with a world of beauty and style that he inhabited with conspicuous success for more than 40 years. From the time of his first commissions for Life, Queen and Vogue magazines in the mid-1960s, he was chiefly identified as a documenter of this lustrous milieu. Throughout his career he photographed personalities from all walks of life: stars of stage and screen, politicians, aristocracy and royalty, sportsmen and women, models and socialites, as well as ordinary men and women going about their daily business. He was an acute observer of the world around him and of the period in which he lived and worked. As Earl of Lichfield and cousin of The Queen, Lichfield had entrée to a world unknown to many. His intimate photographs of the Royal Family and their circle afforded a glimpse into an inaccessible world. His 1970s photographs of the British manufacturing industries are historic as many no longer exist today. His editorial and advertising work included fashion, motor, tobacco, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and airline campaigns. From 1978, for 17 years, he created the prestigious Unipart calendar, shot in a number of exotic locations worldwide. He also worked long term for Burberry, Olympus Cameras, the British Tourist Authority and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. Curated by Martin Harrison and divided into sections on Memory, Land, Empires, Cultures and Styles, Perceptions is filled with photographs from Lichfield s entire archive, from the 1960s to 2005, over half of which have never been seen before. This superbly produced retrospective, the first representing his complete career, establishes Patrick Lichfield as one of the great British photographers of the late 20th Century. ISBN-10: 1844009483 RRP £30.00

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Ashford Daly Photography_Gift Vouchers & Present Ideas for Christmas and the Festive Season - Photography Books - Photo Shoots by Cheshire and UK Photographers

6. Ashford Daly Photography – gift vouchers or personalised photo sessions - ideal for those who would like to have the photography experience for themselves or put towards a fine art print purchase – start from £50.00