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Playing for the Benefit of the Band New Orleans Music Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300204407, Yale University Press, April 2014
207 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 202 tritone illus.
Lee Friedlander first visited the birthplace of jazz in 1957 and immediately set about photographing the aging pioneers of the art form. His love of the music and the people of New Orleans drew him back to the city, and the relationships he formed ov...
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£40,00
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Michael Snow Photo-centric
ISBN: PB: 9780300196412, Yale University Press, March 2014
60 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 34 colour images, 2 black&white illus.
Canadian filmmaker and artist Michael Snow (b. 1929) is known as a pioneer of conceptualist and multimedia practice. His seminal film Wavelength (1967), described as a "45-minute zoom", investigates the relationship between time and space, a subject...
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John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2: 1975-1986
ISBN: HB: 9780300198102, Yale University Press, March 2014
496 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 500 colour images, 20 black&white illus.
Compiling four-hundred-plus unique works of art, this volume traces the shifts and developments in conceptual artist John Baldessari's work from 1975-1986. It covers his photo-based works such as the "Strobe", "Word Chain" and "Pathetic Fallacy" seri...
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£150,00
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In Flanders Fields The Great War Seen from the Air, 1914-1918
ISBN: HB: 9780300196580, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, December 2013
396 pp., 25.4x29.8 cm, 532 black&white illus.
Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over th...
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£45,00
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Itinerant Languages of Photography
ISBN: HB: 9780300174366, Yale University Press, November 2013
224 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 70 colour images, 80 black&white illus.
While photographs have been exchanged, appropriated and mobilized in different contexts since the 19th century, their movement is now occurring at an unprecedented speed. "The Itinerant Languages of Photography" examines photography's capacity to cir...
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£30,00
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Erwin Blumenfeld
ISBN: PB: 9780300199383, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 90 colour images, 90 black&white illus.
Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His work offers a unique perspective on the society and politics of the 1930s through the 60s. Born in Berlin, Blumenfeld's peripatetic career took him fi...
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JFK A Photographic Memoir
ISBN: HB: 9780300191080, Yale University Press, September 2013
60 pp., 21.6x23.5 cm, 49 tritone illus.
The public outpouring of support for newly elected President John F. Kennedy in 1960 was exceeded in scope and magnitude by the manifestations of grief and mourning after his assassination in 1963. These responses had an unusually strong visual compo...
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Abelardo Morell The Universe Next Door
ISBN: HB: 9780300184556, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2013
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 55 colour illus., 75 duotone illus.
Over the past twenty-five years, Abelardo Morell (b. 1948) has earned international praise for his images that use the language of photography to explore visual surprise and wonder. Born in Havana, Cuba, Morell came to the United States as a teenager...
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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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Photography of the American Civil War
ISBN: HB: 9780300191806, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2013
256 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 200 colour illus.
Six hundred thousand lives were lost between 1861 and 1865, making the conflict between North and South the nation's deadliest war. If the "War Between the States" was the test of the young republic's commitment to its founding precepts, it was also...
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