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…

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Between a Constable resonating with Nature and a Castiglione blaring with turbulence, a picture by Algernon Newton captured the quietude of absolute stillness

Lee Miller’s artistic and historical sensibility

Kerry James Marshall, ‘poised between narrative and allegory’

Works by Saariaho and Shostakovich Dudok Quartet Amsterdam Rubicon RCD1218 59:41 mins Carrying a dedication to ‘those who have departed’, Kaija Saariaho’s Terra Memoria for string quartet, composed in