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Women Photographers From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
ISBN: HB: 9783791348148, Prestel Publishing, March 2014
240 pp., 27x21 cm, 200 colour illus.
This thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 19th century to today features the most important works of 55 artists, along with in-depth biographical and critical assessments. Since the inception of photograp...
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£29,99
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We Shall Photographs by Paul D'Amato
ISBN: HB: 9780978907471, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, January 2014
102 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 47 colour plates
In "Barrio", photographer Paul D'Amato turned his lens to the largely Mexican-American Chicago neighborhoods of Pilsen and the Little Village, capturing their residents' homes and lives in multifaceted, dynamic images of weddings and graffiti artists...
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£34,00
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Weegee Murder is My Business
ISBN: HB: 9783791353135, Prestel Publishing, September 2013
264 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 267 duotone illus.
Drawn from the International Center of Photography's archives, this book highlights the incomparable style and fascinating career of Weegee, one of New York City's quintessential press photographers. For a decade between 1935 and 1946, Weegee made a...
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£39,99
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Window in Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9781606061442, Getty Publications, September 2013
112 pp., 22.5x18.8 cm, 84 colour illus., 4 black&white photos
This title shows how the window has provided photography with one of its richest and most enduring themes. Photographers have been irresistibly drawn to the window as a powerful source of inspiration throughout the history of the medium. As one of th...
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£18,99
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William Henry Fox Talbot Beyond Photography
ISBN: HB: 9780300179347, Yale University Press, June 2013
328 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 colour illus.
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age – a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts,...
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£50,00
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Wildlife Photography Workshop
ISBN: PB: 9781907708572, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, January 2013
176 pp., 23.5x21 cm, 176 photos
Wildlife watchers and aspiring natural-history photographers – collect up your kit and get ready for a practical course with a difference. Photographic workshops are exceptionally popular, but not everybody has the time or budget to attend one in per...
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£16,99
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World in One Cubic Foot Portraits of Biodiversity
ISBN: HB: 9780226481234, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
224 pp., 30x30 cm, 985 colour illus.
Twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole world. With every step, we disturb and move through cubic foot after cubic foot. But behold the cubic foot in nature – from cor...
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£34,00
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Walker Evans Cuba
ISBN: PB: 9781606060643, ISBN: HB: 9781606060018, Getty Publications, May 2011
96 pp., 28.1x26.4 cm, 73 duotone photos
This is a stunning exploration of quintessential American photographer Walker Evans' images of Cuba in the 1930s. In 1933, Walker Evans travelled to Cuba to take photographs for "The Crime of Cuba", a book by American journalist Carleton Beals whose...
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£27,50
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What Can We Believe Where? Photographs of the American West, 1965-2005
ISBN: PB: 9780300162479, Yale University Press, October 2010
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 110 tritone illus.
Since taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams (born 1937) has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the evolving American landscape. Carefully edited by Adams from a remarkable body of work that spans over four decade...
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£17,00
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Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance Ghost Story and Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9780300152555, Yale University Press, June 2009
96 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 65 colour illus.
The art of Willie Doherty (b. 1959), one of Northern Ireland's most important artists, joins history, memory, and language into an enveloping experience. This catalogue features two bodies of Doherty's work: "Ghost Story", a tensely beautiful 15-minu...
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£18,00
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