Book reviews

If you want to see your work in Practical Photography magazine, this is your best initiation into the world of the iconic landscape target. Guy Edwardes presents stereotype after stereotype, and even has a chapter headed 'Shoot Lighthouses' in his 100 better ways! Here we see all the PP perennials... read more

This is an ambitious title, and indeed, it is a remarkable bit of work. Ingledew is a Senior Lecturer at one of London's trendier art colleges, and crams into this chunky paperback all the countless snippets of history, artcrit, technical fact, biography and image-cuttings you would expect to find... read more

I suffer from a serious case of Tom Angst. If Mr Ang is so prolific, takes such good photos, travels so widely and can still find time to hold down several jobs and write such complex and structured volumes on something outside his specialisation, what chance have the rest of us? Even Tom's family... read more

Well, you can't complain about the price for this 8 x 6 120-page full colour nothing but photo book. Not even a caption clutters the pages, and the photography is sunny, simple and exactly what a visitor might want to see to research locations to shoot better examples. There is a quick location... read more

Here, in a great variety of unexpected and original compositions, Tom Mackie shows why decades behind the unrelenting groundglass of a 5 x 4 view camera have made him one of the world's best landscape photographers. Whether the landscape is urban at night or a tropical beach at noon, Mackie nearly... read more