Continue with our Gift Guide series, we have today a selection of Art and Photography books from Lulu creators and artists.
These are some of the most incredible and thoughtfully created books you can find on Lulu. If you have an artist or photographer on your shopping list this year, you’ll find something amazing on this list to inspire them.
No need to go on about how amazing these books are, better to let them speak for themselves! Scroll on to see our 2018 Holiday Gift Guide for Art and Photo books.
First up, we have 4 selections of Photography bound and ready for sale:
VEKKING (Limited Edition)
Vek Neal is a creative thought leader and professional contemporary photographer who expresses his art in the form of illustration, photography, video, and graphic design. VEKKING is the first publication highlighting his journey of portrait photography works from 2013 -2018. The structure of the book is broken into five sections: Natural Light Shooting A Stranger Continues Lighting Collaborations COL’Her The book also features testimonials from models and friends as well as exclusive behind the scene looks into his process and approach.

Africa
A stunning photographic journey through Africa, depicting the people and places of Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.

Abandoned Classics – 2021 Calendar
A wall calendar featuring abandoned classic cars found across the United States and photographed by Laura Hatcher Photography, a Veteran-owned small business located in Old Town, Alexandria, VA.

Finding Calcutta: Memoirs of a Photographer
In 1984, Mother Teresa arrived in New Orleans to speak to a large crowd waiting in the Superdome. As Marie Bissell Constantin drove in from Baton Rouge to take her photograph, she had no idea that her encounter would mark the first of many, and that one day one of her images of Mother Teresa would be unveiled in front of over three hundred thousand people for her beatification ceremony in St. Peter’s Square.

Next, we have 6 books of Art that are sure to wow and inspire.
Dictionary Daze (HAAS)
Exhibition catalog of Dictionary Daze at the Hollywood Academy of Arts and Science by Peter Tunney

Colors Of The City
Colors Of The City by Aaron Maybin Artist, Writer, Author, Activist

El Sketchbook Lorenzo Deluxe Collection: 2005 – 2010
Join us, friends, as we crack open the bizarrely-formed skull of comic artist, LORENZO! and spread it’s unique mushy contents across 600 eye-popping pages! EL SKETCHBOOK LORENZO DELUXE COLLECTION: 2005 – 2010 collects together the first 4 volumes of the El Sketchbook series, and adds a further 200 pages of new concepts, scribbles and design sheets. The book weighs in at a whooping 600 pages, and features thousands of separate illustrations, together with step-by-steps, tutorials and exclusives. This surely is the one sketchbook to rule them all!

Big-Bellied Merbabes
A body positive coloring book featuring a diverse group of mermaids.

Pretty: A Book for the Girls Who Are Told They’re Not
‘Pretty: A Book for the Girls Who Are Told They’re Not’ is a small body-positive art book that I’ve created about something I’m very passionate about: wanting every lady on this planet to feel beautiful. It’s a colorful, 33-page paperback filled with my illustrations of all different types of women, as well as positive, inspirational quotes to make a combination that I hope will make at least someone feel as pretty as they really are!

Ralph Nagel: Being There
Published by the gallery for the exhibition “Ralph Nagel: Being There” at Bruno David Gallery. This exhibition catalog includes text by Michael Paglia, Cathy Wright, Dan Jacobs, Carmon Colangelo, Leslie Laskey, and afterword by Bruno L. David. (Softcover, 7 x 9 in., 97 pgs, color, October 2018)
