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In the Limelight The Visual Ecstasy of NYC Club Culture in the 90s
ISBN: HB: 9783791386812, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
224 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
Eichner was a fixture of 1990s New York City nightlife and served as both its official and unofficial photographer in an era before cellphones and selfies. In this book, readers go beyond the velvet ropes and into the spaces that witnessed some of th...
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£35,00
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Intimacy of Making Three Historical Sites in Korea
ISBN: HB: 9783037786529, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 150 illus.
In "The Intimacy of Making" Swiss photographer Helene Binet takes us on a visual journey through a world of stone, walls and gardens that define and celebrate the Korean art of making. In pure and calm black-and-white photographs we discover traditio...
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£55,00
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Into the Arctic Ice The Largest Polar Expedition of All Time
ISBN: HB: 9783791386706, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 160 colour illus.
Since September 2019, a team of 600 researchers from 19 countries have united in a common mission known as MOSAiC – the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate – whose mission is to chart conditions in the Arctic for on...
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Imogen Cunningham A Retrospective
ISBN: HB: 9781606066751, Getty Publications, September 2020
256 pp., 0x0 cm
Thoroughly researched and beautifully produced, this catalogue complements the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States of Imogen Cunningham's work in over thirty-five years. Celebrated American artist Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) enjo...
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I Can Make You Feel Good
ISBN: HB: 9783791386089, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
192 pp., 29x24 cm, 120 colour illus.
Even before becoming the first African American photographer to shoot the cover of Vogue in September 2018 with an iconic portrait of Beyonce, Tyler Mitchell was making a name for himself as a photographer and video director focusing on youth culture...
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Image and Exploration Early Travel Photography from 1850 to 1914
ISBN: HB: 9783791385921, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 230 colour and black&white illus.
In the second half of the 19th century, unprecedented advances in technology resulted in the collision of travel and photography. Explorers were able to document their journeys, hauling enormous amounts of equipment over arduous terrain. The results...
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£45,00
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Inge Morath: Magnum Legacy An Illustrated Biography
ISBN: HB: 9783791382012, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
192 pp., 27.3x23.5 cm, 68 colour illus., 114 black&white illus.
An illustrated biography of one of the 20th century's greatest photographers, this book looks at the life and work of Inge Morath. The late playwright Arthur Miller, speaking of his wife Inge Morath, said "She made poetry out of people and their pla...
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£39,99
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Icons of Style A Century of Fashion Photography
ISBN: HB: 9781606065587, Getty Publications, July 2018
368 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 176 colour illus., 147 duotone illus.
In 1911 the French couturier Paul Poiret challenged Edward Steichen to create the first artistic, rather than merely documentary, fashion photographs, a moment that is now considered to be a turning point in the history of fashion photography. As fas...
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Image Building How Photography Transforms Architecture
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791357294, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
144 pp., 30.5x22 cm, 47 colour illus., 54 black&white illus.
This generously illustrated examination of architectural photography from the 1930s to the present shows how the medium has helped shape familiar views of iconic buildings. Photography has both manipulated and bolstered our appreciation of modern ar...
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£29,99
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Inadvertent Images A History of Photographic Apparitions
ISBN: HB: 9780226471877, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 18 colour plates, 58 halftones
As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how...
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£41,00
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