Our pick of the best titles about photography published this year – each one will make an ideal festive season gift for lovers of the medium…

Paul Hill considers…

Lee Miller’s artistic and historical sensibility

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

Spanning the 1920s to 1970s, Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape, at Firstsite in Colchester, examines the evolution of abstract art during periods of sweeping social and political

Sometimes a book deserves this slot just because it does exactly what it says on the tin – or, more accurately, the cover. That’s the case with Aston Martin – The Entire Story, which is a straightforw