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Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before

Fried Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300136845, Yale University Press, October 2008
320 pp., 27.5x19.5 cm, 70 colour images, 90 black&white illus.

From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and t...

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River of No Return

McPhee Laura, Hass Robert, Luktish Joanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300141009, Yale University Press, October 2008
160 pp., 26.7x31.8 cm, 94 colour images, 6 black&white illus.

The idea of the American wilderness has long captivated artists fascinated by the ways in which its unspoiled natural beauty embodies the nation's identity. This lavishly produced volume celebrates the unsurpassed splendour of a fabled region, while...

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Brought to Light Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900

Keller Corey, Tucker Jennifer, Gunning Tom, Groning Maren

ISBN: HB: 9780300142105, Yale University Press, September 2008
208 pp., 25.7x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

"Brought to Light" invites readers to step back to a time when photography, X-rays, and movies were new, when forays into the world beneath the skin or the realm beyond our everyday vision captivated scientists and the public alike. In this book, acc...

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State of the Axe Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words

Gibson Ralph, Wilkes Tucker Anne, Paul Les

ISBN: PB: 9780300142112, Yale University Press, September 2008
192 pp., 29.8x21 cm, 80 duotone illus.

In this appealing book, acclaimed photographer Ralph Gibson offers more than sixty intimate black-and-white portraits of guitar masters playing their instruments. Focusing his expert lens on musicians who have lent their unmistakable voices to virtua...

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Meaning of Photography

Kelsey Robin, Stimson Blake, Batchen Geoffrey, Brunet Francois, Harper Sharon, LoCurto Lilla, Outcault William, Tan Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780300121506, Yale University Press, April 2008
208 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 75 black&white illus.

How can we write the histories of photography? How should art history and visual studies integrate the special technical and aesthetic challenges posed by the medium and respond to the intense interest it has provoked in the art world in recent years...

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Edouard Baldus at the Chateau de la Faloise

Ganz James A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300103526, Yale University Press, March 2008
48 pp., 26x17.7 cm, 30 colour illus.

Edouard Baldus (1813-1889) was the most important French architectural photographer of the mid-nineteenth century. This book offers an in-depth exploration of one of his most intriguing projects – a remarkable series of views of the Chateau de La Fal...

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Andrew Bush Drive

Bush Andrew, Morrison Patt, Rosenheim Jeff L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300136487, Yale University Press, March 2008
146 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 60 colour illus.

Many of us know that automobiles are expressions of our individuality and personality. We may not realize, however, that the car can also provide the most space over which we have complete control in our daily lives. Being in the car is private and p...

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Ipswich Days Arthur Wesley Dow and His Home Town

Fairbrother Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9780300132915, Yale University Press, January 2008
136 pp., 19.1x19.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) is renowned for his paintings and prints that take their subject matter from nature and reflect the orderly design and fine handcrafting championed by the Arts & Crafts movement. This char...

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Origins of American Photography From Daguerreotype to Dry-plate, 1839-1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Davis Keith F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300122862, Yale University Press, October 2007
560 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 650 tritone&colour illus.

"The Origins of American Photography" chronicles the emergence of a new visual paradigm, from the introduction of the daguerreotype in 1839 through the Civil War and the exploration of the West to the rise of popular photography in the 1880s. Beautif...

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Marshes The Disappearing Edens

Burt William

ISBN: HB: 9780300122299, Yale University Press, March 2007
160 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 92 colour illus.

Drawn since boyhood to the beauty and allure of marshes, naturalist William Burt has prowled them by day and night, in every season, from one edge of North America to the other. For thirty years, he has hauled his large-format camera with him, seekin...

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