Four Corners Books – förlag

Charting a century of popular photography in Britain: the birth of a new mass leisure pastime mainly marketed towards women, the growth of camera ownership after World War II, and behind it all, the working conditions of the people processing the camera films.

Women for Peace brings together images of protest banners displayed at the Greenham Common protests of the 1980s , often elaborately crafted in memorable and powerful designs. It celebrates the creativity of the thousands of womenwho protested and whose struggle continues to inspire activists today.

In the early 1980s, London's city-wide authority, the Greater London Council, embarked upon a radical experiment in how to run the capital, which transformed British politics. Campaigning and energetic, the GLC made extensive use of poster campaigns, public art and popular events to take aim against racism, sexism, nuclear war - and eventually, their own abolition.After the 1981 GLC election victory, a Labour paper ran with the headline, 'London's Ours!', a celebration but also a guiding principle of the GLC's approach to tackling London's inequality: expanding who could claim their right to the city and its resources, and who got a fair chance to succeed.Offering an ambitious alternative to Thatcherism, GLC Leader Ken Livingstone was a thorn in the side of central government, famously taunting Westminster with a running total of unemployment figures from the roof of County Hall opposite the Houses of Parliament. This combative attitude, combined with the pioneering work of committees addressing overlooked groups - including women, ethnic minorities and gay rights - put inclusivity and social equality at the GLC's political core.This book documents the remarkable visual culture of the GLC, with over 250 images. Sometimes confrontational, frequently humorous, it provides a unique picture of a remarkable period in British politics and of London itself.

Amid the chaos and violence of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, the Tsar’s opponents printed vast quantities of picture postcards. This is the first major study of the design, production, and distribution of these cards protesting the injustices of Imperial Russia.

Posters (from 1974 to 1988) form a remarkable collection: powerful, witty, and passionate, whose messages still resonate today.

A new illustrated edition of Treasure Island. Presented alongside Stevenson’s text, Bayjoo’s images take us from the brutality of the 18th Century colonial Caribbean, to the Indian Ocean, and to wider global histories of slavery, colonialism and violence which shaped that period.

Emerging from avant-garde art performances of the 1960s, light shows became the hip accompaniment to gigs and clubs in the 1970s. Wheels of Light brings together the images made by the key projection companies that sprung up in the UK, including Optikinetics, Pluto and Orion, and tells their story.

Living in a picture-perfect English village, two panda bears, Mr and Mrs Bearanda, bring up their plastic children, Candy and Andy.Devised by Gerry Anderson's Century 21 Productions, the images created for the photo-strips are a surreal, unique look at domesticity, the family and childhood.

Bringing together paintings and sculptures from over 40 years of work, Tam Joseph: I Know What I See is the first major publication to provide an extensive survey of the work of Dominica-born British artist Tam Joseph (b. 1947). Joseph’s wide-ranging career defies being pinned down to any one style or approach.

In the late 1960s, former art-school friends Richard Loncraine and Peter Broxton formed a partnership to make sculptures and desk-top toys for the burgeoning UK gift market. With a background in kinetic sculpture, concrete poetry, and the experimental art, Loncraine Broxton imbued their products with flair and inventiveness.