Not a pretty picture

Can’t get out on safari? Let the wildlife come to you with these beautiful books. Amy Davies selects some recent releases for your shelf

What’s in a Year: A Countryman’s Tale Through ...

ON JULY 31, 2023, MATT WOLF RECEIVED NEWS that no documentarian wants to hear: the subject of his uncompleted film was dead. This was no mere talking head. It was a man who left an indelible mark on p

When Thomas Joshua Cooper and Paul Hill set out in 1974 to meet and interview the ‘movers and shakers’ of 20th-century photography (see Dialogue with Legends, AP 1 April) they had no idea that the project would take four years and become a unique archive that is still in print. Paul Hill describes the first interview – American photographer Paul Strand in Paris – that kicked it off, followed by extracts from the recorded encounter

ILLUMINATORS THE ART OF THE SCRIBE Practical ...

Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens