Penguin Books Australia

Italy was her first port of call and became her true destination.

A decade after their debut, the pugs return for another adorable round of canine camera antics

Celebrity pet photographer Jim Dratfield captures quirky, bug-eyed pooches in all their silly splendor. Setting up his adorable subjects in the most unlikely of situations, Dratfield's portraits are full of whimsy and waggish charm. Artfully cute and delightfully comical, this series of shots that will have...

Edited by Akiko Miki, Yoshiko Isshiki and Tomoko Sato with an essay by Akiko Miki

The Nature of Photographs is the essential primer of photography, not only for students but for anyone with an interest in the medium. This book grew out of a college course that Stephen Shore taught for many years. Its aim is not to explore photographic content – the subject of an image – but to describe the physical and formal attributes of a photographic print, the very elements that...

David Bailey was part of a new generation who revolutionized fashion photography in the 1960s and made stars of models such as Jean Shrimpton. He was also among the first photographers to become a celebrity in his own right, socializing with and photographing many of the cultural icons of the 60s and 70s, such as Catherine Deneuve, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Michael Caine and Andy...

Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photographs of contemporary urban scenes and 'constructed' social situations. Wall is foremost among the...

A selection of books on five masters of photography.

Eugene Atget by Gerry Badger, Matthew Brady by Mary Panzer, Lisette Model by Elisabeth Sussman, Daido Moriyama by Kazuo Nishi, Jacob Riis by Bonnie Yochelson

Colour works by one of America's greatest social documentary photographers.