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Bohumil Krcil
ISBN: PB: 9788072153091, DAP, Torst, March 2008
120 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 76 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! The work of the legendary late photographer and samizdat publisher Bohumil "Bob" Krcil, who was born in 1952, is little known in his native country. He left Czechoslovakia in 1969, and for the next 23 years, traveled extens...
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£17,50
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Josef Sudek Portraits
ISBN: HB: 9788072153190, DAP, Torst, March 2008
96 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 86 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Although the Czech photographer Josef Sudek was mildly reclusive by temperament, and although his photography is commonly characterized as unpeopled (in favor of what he termed "the inanimate life of objects"), a sizable po...
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£53,00
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Iren Stehli
ISBN: PB: 9788072152841, DAP, Torst, July 2007
176 pp., 17.8x15.9 cm, 125 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This survey of Iren Stehli's images from 1973 to 2001 captures Czech life over an intense three decades. The artist, born in Zurich in 1953, studied photography in Prague in the mid-70s. In the late 60s, her adopted country...
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£22,00
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Eugen Wiskovsky
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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£17,50
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Cindy Sherman Working Girl
ISBN: PB: 9780971219588, DAP, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, January 2006
56 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 1 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! When curators at Saint Louis's Contemporary Art Museum asked Cindy Sherman whether there was a moment in her career whose resonance might be underappreciated, one around which she might like to develop an exhibit and a book...
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£17,50
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Alfons Mucha
ISBN: PB: 9788072152506, DAP, Torst, November 2005
160 pp., 17.8x15.9 cm, 99 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Though Alfons Mucha, known as Alphonse Mucha, (1860-1939) achieved lasting international acclaim as an Art Nouveau painter, graphic designer and decorator, his photography is not as well known. In this new, expanded edition...
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£17,50
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Dora Lives The Authorized Story of Miki Dora
ISBN: HB: 9781890481179, DAP, September 2005
142 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 60 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The surfing iconoclast who became an icon, Miki Dora was the epitome of 1960s beach culture. His dark good looks were the envy of Malibu. His talent earned him trophies (which he disdained) and the nickname "Da Cat". And in...
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£40,00
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Eva Davidova
ISBN: PB: 9788072152346, DAP, Torst, August 2005
112 pp., 18.4x16.5 cm, 108 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Ethnographer, sociologist, art historian and photographer, Eva Davidova is one of the founders of Gypsy (Roma) studies in the Czech Republic and has been illuminating and investigating this secretive society for half a cent...
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£14,99
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Speed, Style, and Beauty Cars from the Ralph Lauren Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780878466856, DAP, MFA Publications, March 2005
210 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 196 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Bugatti and Bentley, Alfa and Aston, Mercedes and McLaren – these are not merely cars, they are some of the most exquisite automobiles ever assembled, selected by Ralph Lauren, one of the foremost designers of our time. Thi...
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£53,00
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Vaclav Chochola
ISBN: PB: 9788072152100, DAP, Torst, August 2004
136 pp., 17.8x15.9 cm, 83 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Moving between art photography, documentary and straightforward reporting, Vaclav Chochola has found many of his motifs on the outskirts of Prague, where he was born. Inspired by Surrealism, Skupina 42, urban life, and post...
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£13,99
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