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Arctic Sanctuary Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
ISBN: HB: 9781602230880, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2010
173 pp., 22.8x35.5 cm, 162 colour illus.
Guided by photographer Jeff Jones's sure and well-developed vision, "Arctic Sanctuary" leads the reader on a remarkable journey that few of us will ever take in real life: a trek deep into Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By turns celebrator...
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£41,50
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Tropical Gift The Business of Oil and Gas in Nigeria
ISBN: HB: 9783037782262, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2010
96 pp., 30x24 cm, 52 illus.
Christian Lutz continues his photographic study of power structures with "Tropical Gift". He took portraits in Nigeria of people who live by and with the economic force that dominates everything there, the oil and gas industry. The photographs observ...
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£30,00
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Black in White America
ISBN: HB: 9781606060117, Getty Publications, August 2010
216 pp., 25.7x22.1 cm, 208 black&white illus.
This is a powerful and evocative photographic essay on African American life during the Civil Rights movement. "Black in White America" by Leonard Freed (1929-2006) is a facsimile edition of a powerful photo essay, first published 1968, that looks at...
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£25,00
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Issues in the Conservation of Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9781606060001, Getty Publications, August 2010
752 pp., 25.4x17.9 cm, 36 colour illus., 55 black&white illus.,111 line drawings
This is an authoritative and insightful survey of the evolving field of photograph conservation. This volume is the first publication to chronicle the emergence and systematic development of photograph conservation as a profession. In 72 essential te...
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£55,00
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Cheong Soo Pieng Visions of Southeast Asia
ISBN: HB: 9789810895990, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2010
280 pp., 27.4x21.6 cm, photos
Cheong Soo Pieng was an artist who created visually fresh pictures of Southeast Asia's landscapes and people by marrying the artistic traditions of the East and the West. Common Southeast Asian subjects, such as people busy drying fish or the gracefu...
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£44,00
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Uncarved Block
ISBN: HB: 9783037782279, Lars Muller Publishers, June 2010
160 pp., 30x24 cm, 120 illus.
Hamish Fulton's photographic work focuses on nature and the way people experience nature. He has been hiking all over the world for 30 years, and translates what he experiences and sees into art. In 2009, Hamish Fulton and an expedition team climbed...
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£30,00
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Lee Friedlander America by Car
ISBN: HB: 9781935202080, DAP, Fraenkel Gallery, June 2010
200 pp., 45.7x44.4 cm, 190 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country's vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make th...
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£415,00
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Urban Vodou Politics and Popular Street Art in Haiti
ISBN: PB: 9781904955603, Signal Books, June 2010
192 pp., 27.3x21 cm, colour illus.
For sale in CIS only! From 1986 to 1994 the Caribbean nation of Haiti experienced a series of dramatic events: the overthrow of 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, the violent disruption of voting, the overwhelming electoral victory of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a co...
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£14,99
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Galleries of Friendship and Fame A History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums
ISBN: PB: 9780300154061, Yale University Press, April 2010
216 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 49 black&white illus.
"Galleries of Friendship and Fame" is the first comprehensive investigation of the origin, development, and practices of 19th-century American photograph albums. In this fascinating book, the author argues that the album – whether functioning as fami...
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£55,00
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Architecture Under Construction
ISBN: HB: 9780226306421, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
120 pp., 28x28 cm, 80 halftones
Mies van der Rohe once commented, "Only skyscrapers under construction reveal their bold constructive thoughts, and then the impression made by their soaring skeletal frames is overwhelming". Never has this statement resonated more than in recent yea...
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£36,00
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