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Golden Prospects Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush
ISBN: HB: 9780300246216, Yale University Press, November 2019
168 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 172 colour and black&white illus.
The California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in depth by photography. This fascinating volume offers a fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the people, places, and culture of that historical episode as...
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£35,00
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Photographs of Ralston Crawford
ISBN: HB: 9780300241365, Yale University Press, January 2019
204 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 18 colour illus., 148 black&white illus.
Best known for his modernist paintings and prints, the multitalented artist Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) maintained a deep and intensive interest in photography throughout his career, using the camera as a tool of both documentary and artistic expres...
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£45,00
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Alexander Gardner The Western Photographs, 1867-1868
ISBN: HB: 9780300208245, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 28.6x28.6 cm, 275 black&white illus.
Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway and Scenes in the Indian Count...
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan The King Survey Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9780300179842, Yale University Press, February 2012
260 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 345 colour and black&white illus.
Clarence King's Survey, undertaken between 1867 and 1872, covered a vast swathe of terrain, from the border of California eastward to the edge of the Great Plains. It was the first survey to include a full-time photographer – Timothy O'Sullivan – who...
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Photographs of Homer Page The Guggenheim Year: New York, 1949-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300154436, Yale University Press, July 2009
144 pp., 28.4x28.4 cm, 98 duotone illus.
Focuses on Homer Page's New York photographs taken while he was a Guggenheim Fellow during the late '40s.
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£38,00
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Origins of American Photography From Daguerreotype to Dry-plate, 1839-1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300122862, Yale University Press, October 2007
560 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 650 tritone&colour illus.
"The Origins of American Photography" chronicles the emergence of a new visual paradigm, from the introduction of the daguerreotype in 1839 through the Civil War and the exploration of the West to the rise of popular photography in the 1880s. Beautif...
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£40,00
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Art of Frederick Sommer Photography, Drawing, Collage
ISBN: HB: 9780300107838, Yale University Press, April 2005
240 pp., 33x29 cm, 116 duotone & tritone illus., 104 colour illus.
"In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation" – Frederick Sommer This stunning book, published in the artist's centenary, chronicles the extraordinary life and work of Frederick Sommer (1905-1999). One of the great masters and key in...
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£50,00
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