Festive photo reads

Our pick of the best books about photography released in recent months

£24.99/$29.99 www.ilexinstant.com

ublished on 4 January, this new book will have you capturing your own nocturnal masterpieces in no time. Kit requirements, technique and editing strategies are all covered in-depth by its author Adam Woodworth, who can call on more than a decade’s experience of astro and landscape photography.

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his book accompanies the BBC TV series of the same name, and sees Monty Don travel across the US with celebrated photographer Derry Moore. The pair seek out spaces that epitomise or redefine the American garden, and visit a series of historic examples.

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£35/$50 www.accartbooks.com his compendium of images, chronicling the early days of the Fab Four, features a fab four of photographers. Enjoy some great shots curated from the archives of Terry O’Neill, Norman Parkinson, Michael Ward and Derek Bayes – some never published before – taken in the halcyon days between 1963 and 1965.

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£50/$65 charcoalpress.com he first major monograph by photographer and publisher Jesse Lenz,

follows life on his farm in rural Ohio. Animals, insects, plants and children appear on his photographic canvases capturing the changing seasons. (You can also get this book by subscribing to charcoalbookclub.com.)

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£16.99/$22 www.tubemapper.com/book

uke Agbaimoni’s four-year quest covered all of the stations on the London Underground – a huge task. This amazing book is full of stunning shots, and is a remarkable document.

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