Thames and Hudson

Creativity isn't an occupation.It's a preoccupation.It invents, perfects and defines oir world.It explains and entertains us....

Since 1955, the annual World Press Photo contest has set the standard in visual journalism. World Press Photo 44 brings you the winners - the most striking images and compelling stories from 2013. Selected from nearly 100,000 pictures taken by over 5,700 photojournalists and documentary photographers from 132 countries, the prize-winning pictures...

Design: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key developments, movements and practitioners of design around the world, from the beginnings of industrial manufacturing to the present day. Organized chronologically, it locates design within its technological, cultural, economic, aesthetic and theoretical contexts.From the high-minded moralists...

Hockney's Pictures shows the evolution and diversity of Hockney's paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints, and photography.The pieces are selected and organized by David Hockney himself, and track his lifelong experiments in ways of looking and depicting.With over 300 illustrations, accompanied by quotes from the artist himself that illuminate...

The results of the World Press Photo contest, described by the British Journal of Photography as 'the premier competition for photojournalism and reportage'  'Some of the very best work being done around the world today'   - News Photographer  'A compilation of the most shocking, heartbreaking, and sometimes beautiful...

The Museo Nacional del Prado is Spain's national art museum. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, and is unquestionably the best single collection of Spanish art.This luxurious volume is the definitive reference to the Museo del Prado and the first work of its kind to be published by the museum itself. It presents the...