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Liberation of Europe 1944-1945 The Photographers who Captured History from D-Day to Berlin
ISBN: HB: 9781612004020, Casemate, September 2016
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 400 illus.
The Second World War presented a huge range of challenges to press photography both in terms of its execution and getting the results in print. Life on the home front was the main subject until the invasion of France changed everything in 1944. Pho...
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£25,00
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Camera Orientalis Reflections on Photography of the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9780226356402, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
224 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 80 halftones
In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and fa...
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£22,50
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Modelling for the Camera Photography of Architectural Models in Spain, 1925-1970
ISBN: PB: 9788416248551, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, July 2016
208 pp., 26x20 cm, black&white photos
This book pays tribute to two important systems of architectural representation: the model and the photography. It rescues over one hundred original photographs of outstanding models finally built or not built in Spain during the twentieth-century. A...
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£31,00
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Camera Does the Rest How Polaroid Changed Photography
ISBN: HB: 9780226176383, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 colour plates, 6 halftones
In a world where nearly everyone has a cellphone camera capable of zapping countless instant photos, it can be a challenge to remember just how special and transformative Polaroid photography was in its day. And yet, there's still something magical f...
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£22,50
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To See Without Being Seen Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare
ISBN: PB: 9780936316413, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, April 2016
96 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 86 colour plates
We are in the dawn of the drone age, a turning point in history when the United States and other countries are increasingly using unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor behavior, collect data, conduct surveillance, and wage wars. As the ubiquitous visio...
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£19,00
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Donald Blumberg Words and Images from the American Media
ISBN: HB: 9780300215168, Yale University Press, November 2015
140 pp., 24.5x28.6 cm, 162 duotone illus.
Words and Images from the American Media gathers over 162 images that Donald Blumberg has photographed directly from newspapers and television screens since the 1960s. In his most recent work from this series, Blumberg's photographs also include clos...
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£40,00
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In Front of Saint Patrick's Cathedral
ISBN: HB: 9780300215175, Yale University Press, November 2015
96 pp., 24.5x28.6 cm, 77 duotone illus.
American photographer Donald Blumberg (b. 1935) began his career making black-and-white photographs of the streets and people of New York. He first gained national attention and widespread recognition for his 1965-67 series In Front of Saint Patrick'...
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£30,00
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Liminal Infrastructure The Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio
ISBN: PB: 9780985096007, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, August 2015
16 pp., 21.6x26.7 cm, 12 colour plates
Led by artists Lauren Bon, Richard Nielsen, and Tristan Duke, the Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio is a team devoted to exploring and expanding the photographic medium. Working with the Liminal Camera, a massive, portable camera obscura fashio...
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£7,50
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Storyteller The Photographs of Duane Michals
ISBN: HB: 9783791353708, Prestel Publishing, November 2014
240 pp., 30x24.8 cm
Accompanying a retrospective of the pioneering photographer, this volume of more than 75 original works will thrill Duane Michals aficionados, while introducing younger viewers to an innovative artist who redefined the role of the photograph in artis...
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£55,00
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Paul Strand Photography and Film for the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300207927, Yale University Press, October 2014
400 pp., 33x30.5 cm, 300 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
Through his amazing variety of innovative images, photographer Paul Strand (1890-1976) played a crucial role in establishing the medium's significance as a modern art form. Celebrating the recent acquisition of the core print collection of the Paul S...
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