Contains a vast panorama of boxing history, from bare-knuckle fighting to the adoption of the Marquis of Queensberry rules which laid the foundation of modern boxing, to the present day.
This book is a comprehensive guide to skateboarding – including information on history, safety, maintenance, instructions and glossary terms.
Shot over four years, ‘Drifting in Paradise’ is a photo series that documents the grassroots car culture of Barbados, captured through the lens of Ollie Trenchard, a London-based photographer of Barbadian descent who spent much of his youth on the island.
Haraka Baraka is the second book published by SkatePal, a non-profit organisation that supports young people in Palestine through skateboarding. Since 2013, they have been building skateparks, providing equipment and teaching skate classes to young people across the West Bank. This book is the result of a collaboration between SkatePal and Lebanese designer Samar Maakaroun. Over 224-pages, Haraka Baraka gives a unique introduction to the Arabic language explored through a collection of expressions, ranging from simple everyday phrases shouted in the street, to more complex proverbs steeped in history.
This humorous visual book is based on the culture of football clubs and the language of "fanzines". The "fanzine", the most popular of which has a circulation of 70,000, provides a refreshing alternative to the views and interests of the football elite.
Beautifully reproduced in duo-tone, this collection of winter photographs shot in the Alphs, the majority of which are published here for the first time, reiterate Lartigue's position as one of the great masters of twentieth-century photography.
Maximilian Stejskal (1906-1991), an ethnologist and gymnastics teacher from Helsinki, carried out a study for his PhD thesis on “folk athletic” contests amongst Finland’s Swedish-speaking male rural population in the early 20th century. This book comprises his research – handwritten pages of travelogs, descriptions of exercises, tables, sketches, musical and phonetic recordings and photographs.
No Mundo Maravilhoso do Futebol, which translates to 'the wonderful world of football' is a book photographs taken by children at Favela do Cascalho in Brazil.
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US-Dominican artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern life rub shoulders daily.
Skateistan: The Tale of Skateboarding in Afghanistan shares the strange and beautiful intersection of traditional Afghan society and a new generation of Afghan skateboarders and artists. It features the innovative Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) 'Skateistan,' which since 2007 has taught skateboarding and creative arts to youth in Kabul, Afghanistan.
A beautifully printed first edition of striking black and white photographs of skiers in the mountains. All photographs are taken with a Leica camera, and this book was published as a means of displaying the camera's capabilities at capturing such scenes.
Sportscape tells the story of how sport has been shown by photographers over a period of 100 years, focusing on the beauty and interest of the photographs and what they can tell us about the development of sport.
Tek Hod is a contemporary photographic response to an ancient tradition: Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling. Documenting a legacy of romanticism on one hand and industrialisation on the other, David Ellison's photo series speaks to the complexity of the landscape's tradition via costume and archive as well as the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement.
This book presents a detailed account of manned space programmes of the US and the USSR as well as an account of the non-American and non-Soviet astronauts.
A book containing essays on boxing, illustrated by the remarkable photographs of Charles Hoff, one of the leading photographers of the 1940s and 50s.
This richly illustrated volume presents the first comprehensive photographic study of Soviet military uniforms from the Revolution through the Second World War. Featuring hundreds of detailed colour images of original uniforms alongside period photographs, it offers a rare visual record of Soviet military history, from decorated marshals to ordinary soldiers.