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Collectible Moment Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum

Sander Gloria Williams, Mulligan Therese, Baltz Lewis, Barrow Thomas, Bunnell Peter C., Rice Leland, Sobieszek Robert A., Traub Charles, Wilson William

ISBN: HB: 9780300121001, Yale University Press, September 2006
384 pp., 30x25.8 cm, 600 colour illus.

Before the late 1960s, few museums or collectors acquired photographs or considered the medium as an art form. The moment arrived, however, when photography's profile ascended and the medium began to gain widespread acceptance in the art world as an...

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Eugen Wiskovsky

Birgus Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9788072152667, DAP, Torst, August 2006
144 pp., 17.8x15.9 cm, 75 duotones

Not for sale in Estonia! The oeuvre of the leading Czech avant-garde photographer Eugen Wiskovsky (1888-1964) is not large in size or subject range, but it is noteworthy in its originality, depth of ideas, and mastery. Wiskovsky's early New Objecti...

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One/Many Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan

Snyder Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780935573435, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, April 2006
125 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 70 four-colour illus.

Some of the most celebrated images of nineteenth-century American photography emerged from government-sponsored geological surveys whose purpose was to study and document western territories. Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell, two survey photogr...

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Camille Silvy River Scene France

Haworth-Booth Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780892362059, Getty Publications, March 2006
120 pp., 23.5x19.2 cm, 16 colour illus., 36 duotone illus.

The subject of this book, which is the first to be devoted to a single photograph, is Camille Silvy's remarkable River Scene. Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first exhibited in France in 1859, the photograph is accompanied here by newly commissio...

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Photographer of Genius at the Getty

Naef Weston J.

ISBN: PB: 9780892367498, Getty Publications, March 2006
176 pp., 28x23 cm, 60 colour illus., 54 black&white illus.

Celebrating twenty years of collecting photographs at the Getty Museum, "Photographers of Genius at the Getty" and the exhibition it accompanies spotlight the genius of thirty-eight seminal photographers selected from the hundreds of artists represen...

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Photography Discovery and Invention

ISBN: PB: 9780892361779, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 26.6x21 cm, 91 duotone illus.

This volume, based on the 1989 "Photography" Symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, discusses the pioneers of the first decade of photography (many of them instrumental in the development of modernism in art). The contributors, including...

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Picture Cape Town Landmarks of a New Generation

ISBN: PB: 9780892364442, Getty Publications, March 2006
120 pp., 27.6x26.8 cm, 10 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.

What is a landmark? A place of history? An event? A notable structure? What should we preserve? Ten young photographers, aged between eleven and eighteen years, from diverse cultural, economic and religious backgrounds, take up these questions in a u...

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El Pueblo The Historic Heart of Los Angeles

Ball Tevvy, Poole Jean Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780892366620, Getty Publications, March 2006
136 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 88 colour illus., 72 black&white illus.

"El Pueblo" de Los Angeles was founded in 1781 as a Spanish colony by settlers from present-day Mexico, as well as settlers of Indian, African and European descent. Its story represents a microcosm of the city's multiethnic history and heritage. Capi...

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Railroad Vision Photography, Travel, and Perception

Lyden Anne M.

ISBN: HB: 9780892367269, Getty Publications, March 2006
164 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 23 colour illus., 107 duotones

In 1830 the British actress Fanny Kemble described the sensation of riding in a train as "strange beyond description". This revolutionary new mode of transportation came into being at almost exactly the same time as an equally revolutionary new inven...

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Roger Fenton Pasha and Bayadere

Baldwin Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780892363674, Getty Publications, March 2006
120 pp., 24x19 cm, 18 colour illus., 40 duotone illus.

Roger Fenton's photograph Pasha and Bayadere is a fascinating image in its own right and is an expression of a more general Orientalist craze that grew steadily stronger during the nineteenth century in Europe. In his rich and detailed study, Baldwin...

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