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Gaia
ISBN: PB: 9788416248827, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2017
256 pp., 33x24.8 cm, colour photos
From Ha-Long Bay in Vietnam to the Grand Canyon in Colorado, Gaia is a collection of the most beautiful and startling natural landscapes in the world.It is a book that not only photography enthusiasts will enjoy, but also nature and travel lovers as...
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£35,00
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Ed van der Elsken Camera in Love
ISBN: HB: 9783791383255, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
288 pp., 30x24 cm, 50 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
This beautifully illustrated monograph accompanies a full retrospective on the acclaimed Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken. Known for his unconventional technique and gritty, evocative images of people and places, Ed van der Elsken...
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£40,00
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Pics or It Didn't Happen Images Banned from Instagram
ISBN: HB: 9783791383071, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
300 pp., 15.3x15.3 cm, 270 colour illus.
Featuring photographs that have been banned from Instagram, this generously illustrated book explores modern censorship. Instagram's user guidelines prohibit posting "violent, nude, partially nude, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, hateful, porn...
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£16,99
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Afterimages Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy
ISBN: HB: 9780226337265, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones
In 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconic – comparable to the infamous photo by Nick...
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£36,00
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Albino
ISBN: HB: 9788494423413, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
108 pp., 27.9x31.1 cm, 82 colour plates
In "Albino", photojournalist Ana Palacios takes us inside a shelter for people with albinism and reveals what daily life is like for those living with the genetic condition in Tanzania. As Palacios documents, widespread ignorance of the causes of alb...
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£24,00
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Unfamiliar Familiarities Outside Views of Switzerland
ISBN: slipcase : 9783037785102, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2017
312 pp., 23x16.5 cm, 200 illus.
Switzerland's image has been significantly shaped by photographs dedicated to tourism. Through spectacular mountain panoramas, snapshots of rural idylls, or portraits of local people, the country could be successfully marketed, and these photographs...
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£40,00
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Pieter Hugo Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
ISBN: PB: 9783791383842, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
304 pp., 30.2x25 cm, 200 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.
Pieter Hugo's images are unflinching and unforgettable. Beginning with "Looking Aside", his series of portraits of marginalized people, Hugo has striven to capture the African continent with empathy and impartiality. Whether confronting the aftermath...
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£40,00
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Photography, Trace, and Trauma
ISBN: PB: 9780226370163, ISBN: HB: 9780226370026, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
184 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 17 colour plates, 29 halftones
Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer – similar to what happens when a traumatic ev...
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£26,50
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£80,00
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Documenting the World Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
ISBN: HB: 9780226129112, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 40 halftones
Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would b...
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£28,00
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Spotlights Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
ISBN: HB: 9780936316420, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2017
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 75 colour plates
In 2015, the "U. S. News & World Report" raved that the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum "houses one of the most distinguished university collections in the country".Spotlights: Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum" commemorates the museum's...
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£30,00
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