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The ‘Making of’ The Conquest of Everest

By Toby | Published: May 16, 2013

With the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest coming up on 29 May, our new title The Conquest of Everest takes a retrospective look at that legendary expedition through the photographs of the late George Lowe, the veteran mountaineer and explorer. Here is a selection of shots from the making of the book, [...]

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VIDEO: A Year in the Life of Face Hunter

By Toby | Published: March 14, 2013

We caught up with Yvan Rodic (AKA Face Hunter) at Paris Fashion Week to find out about his new book A Year in the Life of Face Hunter, an engaging travel diary that follows Yvan through more than thirty of his favourite cities on a typical year-long travelling session around the world. It captures his [...]

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New format for Steve Bloom’s nationwide tour Living Africa

By Toby | Published: February 15, 2013

As high-quality illustrated publications, Thames & Hudson’s books lend themselves naturally to exciting visual talks, which our authors give regularly at events around the UK and abroad. 2013 is no exception, with a full line up of talks planned for the Spring. In this article, Steve Bloom introduces his upcoming nationwide tour, Living Africa, and [...]

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Graham Diprose reports from ‘Focus on Imaging’

By Toby | Published: March 20, 2012
Photography: The New Basics

Graham Diprose, one of the co-authors of our groundbreaking new photography textbook, Photography: The New Basics, was at the recent ‘Focus on Imaging’ fair in Birmingham, UK, where he chatted to photography professionals and lecturers about the book. ‘Focus on Imaging’ at the NEC in Birmingham, UK, every March, is one of those exhibitions that [...]

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Magnum Contact Sheets – Sales and Publicity

By Toby | Published: January 25, 2012
Magnum Contact Sheets on BBC World News

In the final installment of our ‘Life Cycle of a Book’ series, we talk to a freelance arts and books PR and Thames & Hudson’s Territory Manager for Central London, about publicizing and selling Magnum Contact Sheets. a coup for Magnum Contact Sheets publicity When did you start planning the publicity of Magnum Contact Sheets? [...]

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A Tribute to Eve Arnold

By Andrew Sanigar | Published: January 13, 2012
Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Misfits, Nevada, 1960 © Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Working as a Commissioning Editor at Thames & Hudson can present you with the most wonderful opportunities to work with great and exceptional people. Brigitte Lardinois and I had the pleasure of working with Eve Arnold on her book Eve Arnold’s People. As many of you will know from the recent news coverage, Eve Arnold, [...]

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W.M. Hunt talks Paris Photo ’11

By Toby | Published: November 16, 2011
The Unseen Eye

The Unseen Eye author W.M. Hunt was visiting T&H headquarters recently on business and I managed to pull him aside for a quick chat about his recent trip to Paris Photo. Paris Photo is an international art fair of photography held annually in Paris, France in early November. The first Paris Photo art fair was [...]

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Street Photography Now Project – Winners announced

By Toby | Published: October 7, 2011
Street Photography Now book jacket

  The Street Photography Now Project has come to a close after 52 weeks and the winners (chosen for their outstanding contribution to the Project) have been announced as Jo Paul Wallace and Jack Simon. The two winners will each receive £500 worth of Thames & Hudson vouchers and their work will appear in the [...]

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Magnum Contact Sheets – Commissioning #2

By Andrew Sanigar | Published: August 10, 2011
Che-contact

For the second part of our new Life Cycle of a Book series, Andrew Sanigar looks back at the development of our new Autumn title Magnum Contact Sheets. Read the first part here. © Susan Meiselas To begin the process of gathering material for the book, a brief was issued which invited all the photographers [...]

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Magnum Contact Sheets: Commissioning #1

By Andrew Sanigar | Published: August 3, 2011
Courtsey Magnum Photos

For the first in our new Life Cycle of a Book series, Andrew Sanigar looks back at the development of our new Autumn title Magnum Contact Sheets. Courtesy Magnum Photos It was always going to be a challenge to distill the story of how Magnum Contact Sheets was developed as a project and then commissioned [...]

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