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Liminal Infrastructure The Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio

Bon Lauren, Weschler Lawrence, Harris Gregory J.

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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Willy Rizzo Photographies and Texts

ISBN: HB: 9791090294141, Bookport, Contrejour, July 2015
208 pp., 33x24 cm, black&white illus., language: French

This important, new, large format book from Contrejour examines the life and work of the world-famous photographer and renowned furniture designer, Willy Rizzo,( 1928-2013 ), throughout a lifetime spent at the top of both of his professions.He began...

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Germaine Krull

Frizot Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780300215151, Yale University Press, July 2015
265 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 200 duotone illus.

Germaine Krull (1897-1985) made a name for herself in avant-garde photography in the period between the two World Wars. After attending photography school in Munich, she launched her career in Berlin, and later worked in Paris and Monte Carlo. During...

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Enduring Truths Sojourner's Shadows and Substance

Grimaldo Grigsby Darcy

ISBN: HB: 9780226192130, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
224 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 131 colour plates, 27 halftones

Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling cartes de visite of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling car...

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Anca Munteanu Rimnic

Grosenick Uta

ISBN: HB: 9783954760732, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, June 2015
192 pp., 26x20.5 cm, 125 colour illus., language: English / German

"I want to make art", Anca Munteanu Rimnic (b. Bucharest, 1974; lives and works in Berlin) swore to herself in 1999, and so she decided to focus all her energies on visual art. And she has kept her word, creating a multifaceted and powerful oeuvre of...

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Edward Curtis One Hundred Masterworks

Cardozo Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9783791354217, Prestel Publishing, June 2015
192 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 150 colour illus.

Showcasing Edward Curtis's most compelling and important works, this beautiful publication highlights both iconic and rarely seen images, demonstrating his artistry and mastery of photographic mediums, and his commitment to documenting and preserving...

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Culture Studies

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DEAD A Celebration of Mortality

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781861543592, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2015
250 pp., 24.5x18 cm

In his new book, "DEAD: A Celebration of Mortality", Charles Saatchi confronts the inescapable subject of death, decay and mortality in a series of perversely entertaining essays written in his characteristically dry, sardonic and amusing style . The...

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Manuals

Mastering: Wedding Photography The Definitive Guide for Photographers

Cleghorn Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781907708534, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, June 2015
176 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, colour illus.

Capturing a couple's big day on camera is enough to give anyone wedding jitters. Whether you are planning to take up wedding photography professionally or have been given the role of photographer at a friend's or relative's big day, Wedding Photograp...

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Animals in Photographs

Kovacs Arpad

ISBN: HB: 9781606064412, Getty Publications, May 2015
112 pp., 25x15 cm, 92 colour illus.

This is a compelling look at one of photography's most beloved subjects. This volume is the ninth in a group of photography books drawn from the holdings of The J. Paul Getty Museum, each volume focusing on a specific theme or genre spanning the hist...

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Gull Juju

Felzmann Lukas

ISBN: HB: 9783037784495, Lars Muller Publishers, May 2015
168 pp., 25.4x16.7 cm, 137 illus.

The Farallon Islands in the Pacific Ocean are often called "California's Galapagos" and are home to one of the world's largest colonies of nesting seabirds. It's hard to imagine a better setting for Lukas Felzmann's latest book. But the photographer...

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