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Power of Pictures Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film
ISBN: HB: 9780300207682, Yale University Press, October 2015
240 pp., 28x22.2 cm, 148 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist pho...
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Warhol and Mapplethorpe Guise and Dolls
ISBN: HB: 9780300214338, Yale University Press, September 2015
184 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 148 colour illus.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) are well known for significant work in portraiture and self-portraiture that challenged gender roles and notions of femininity, masculinity, and androgyny. This exciting and original book is...
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That Day Pictures in the American West
ISBN: HB: 9780300215397, Yale University Press, September 2015
232 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 11 colour illus., 107 duotone illus.
Renowned photographer Laura Wilson has captured the majesty, as well as the tragedy, of her home region of Texas and the wider West for more than three decades. A former assistant to Richard Avedon, she has published her work to wide acclaim over the...
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Children The Human Clay
ISBN: HB: 9780300215199, Yale University Press, September 2015
214 pp., 24.5x28 cm, 203 duotone illus.
In "Children", more than 300 photographs are presented in two sections. The first features images of children that the artist has known: being bathed or fed, laughing or crying with family members, posing with pets or mugging for the camera. The seco...
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Portraits The Human Clay
ISBN: HB: 9780300215205, Yale University Press, September 2015
224 pp., 24.5x28 cm, 234 duotone illus.
American photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has had an expansive career, photographing his subjects-from family and friends to political figures and celebrities-in their everyday environments, while simultaneously changing the very landscape of h...
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Germaine Krull
ISBN: PB: 9780300215151, Yale University Press, July 2015
265 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 200 duotone illus.
Germaine Krull (1897-1985) made a name for herself in avant-garde photography in the period between the two World Wars. After attending photography school in Munich, she launched her career in Berlin, and later worked in Paris and Monte Carlo. During...
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Palestinians Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day
ISBN: HB: 9780300212181, Yale University Press, March 2015
384 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus., 500 duotone illus.
A crossroads of religions, politics, and cultures with deep symbolic and historical significance, the holy land of Palestine has a resonance far greater than its size. Notably, the centuries-old conflict there has catapulted this tiny area to the cen...
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Sarah Charlesworth Stills
ISBN: HB: 9780300207767, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2015
64 pp., 22.2x19.7 cm, 30 colour illus.
This concise yet breathtaking book is the first publication of Sarah Charlesworth's (1947-2013) photographic series collectively entitled "Stills". Charlesworth made a name for herself as a member of the New York-based Pictures Generation artists whe...
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Aaron Siskind
ISBN: HB: 9780300210903, Yale University Press, November 2014
200 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 160 tritone illus.
Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), teacher, journalist and photographer, was an artist of great originality, unprecedented in American photography. This has tended to result in his work being misinterpreted, balanced as it is between the influences of Walker...
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Home and the World A View of Calcutta
ISBN: HB: 9780300209174, Yale University Press, November 2014
160 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 110 colour illus.
Photographer Laura McPhee, noted for her stunning large-scale landscapes and portraits of the people who live and work in them, has been traveling to eastern India for over a decade. There she has devoted her keen and perceptive vision to picturing l...
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