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History of Art

Stevenson Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780300095340, Yale University Press, May 2002
256 pp., 28.3x24.2 cm, 100 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.

David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) was a pioneer photographer, a painter and lithographer. In 1843, he entered into partnership with the young photographer, Robert Adamson, and in the next four years they took an extraordinary body of work, which has in...

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Taken by Design Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971

Travis David, Siegel Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226811673, University of Chicago Press, May 2002
272 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 20 colour plates, 250 halftones

One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of Design was among the most important schools of photography in twentieth-century America. It began as an outpost of experimental Bauhaus education and was home to an astonishing group of i...

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Mel Bochner Photographs, 1966-1969

Rothkopf Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300093483, Yale University Press, April 2002
192 pp., 26.6x21.2 cm, 119 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is considered a pioneer of the Post-Minimal and Conceptual art movements. Perhaps best known for his paintings, sculptures and drawings, Bochner became deeply involved with photography in the mid- to late-1960s, although most of...

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Design

Blower Snowboarding Inside Out

Curtes Jeff, Kotch Eric

ISBN: PB + DVD: 9781861542199, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2002
256 pp., 27.5x24 cm, 250 colour illus.

"Blower" is the comprehensive insider's view of the world's fastest-growing winter sport and the energetic subculture it has spawned. Compiled by Burton Snowboard's Jeff Curtes and Eric Kotch, it offers an holistic picture with action shots, behind-t...

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Contemporary Art

Photography

Helen Mirra Sky-wreck

Bervin Jen, Marcus Ben, Walker Hamza

ISBN: BOX: 9780941548441, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2002
72 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm

"Is a non-remote horizon always a concealment? If a portion of sky has been carved and set loose to rest upon land, is it the result of an illegal language spoken in the town?" – Ben Marcus, from A Horizon Grammar A hybrid of artist's book and catal...

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Proust in the Power of Photography

Brassai

ISBN: HB: 9780226071442, University of Chicago Press, December 2001
176 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 16 duotones

One of the most original and memorable photographers of the twentieth century, Brassai was also a journalist, sculptor, and writer. He took great pride in his writing, and he loved literature and language-French most of all. When he arrived in Paris...

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Zden K Tmej Totaleisatz

Farova Anna

ISBN: PB: 9788072151370, DAP, Torst, October 2001
160 pp., 18.4x16.5 cm, 87 duotone

Not for sale in Estonia! Published together for the first time are the photographs taken by the Czech photographer Zden Tmej during the years 1942-1944 in Breslau, Prussia, where he and others were taken to perform forced labor for the Nazis. Easil...

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Culture Studies

On European Ground

Cohen Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780226112947, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
128 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 94 duotones

A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember...

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Guerrero Viejo

Poniatowska Elena

ISBN: HB: 9780965526807, University of Chicago Press, January 1998
100 pp., 29.7x24 cm, 49 halftones

Celebrated as a triumphant collaboration between the American and Mexican governments, the damming of the Rio Grande in the early 1950s was expected to prove highly beneficial to the valley inhabitants of both countries. The success of this project,...

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Picturing Ourselves Photography and Autobiography

Rugg Linda Haverty

ISBN: PB: 9780226731476, ISBN: HB: 9780226731469, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
293 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convin...

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