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Common Ground German Photographic Cultures Across the Iron Curtain
ISBN: HB: 9780300184440, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 10 colour images, 170 black&white illus.
This ambitious publication is the first book to thoroughly evaluate the photography that emerged during Germany's geopolitical division from the 1950s to the 1980s. With richly illustrated and exhaustively researched analyses of photographic projects...
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£50,00
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Maynard L. Parker Modern Photography and the American Dream
ISBN: HB: 9780300171150, Yale University Press, January 2013
288 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 97 colour images, 154 black&white illus.
As a prolific photographer for "House Beautiful", "Better Homes and Gardens", "Architectural Digest", and "Sunset" magazine, Maynard L. Parker was a pioneer in documenting domestic spaces and landscapes for postwar America. His extensively published,...
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£60,00
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Jean-Luc Moulene Opus + One
ISBN: HB: 9780300188820, Yale University Press, January 2013
264 pp., 29.2x19.1 cm, 100 colour illus.
Since the late 1980s, Jean-Luc Moulene (b. 1955) has developed a body of work informed by a critical investigation of artistic authorship, addressing such issues as autonomy, immanence, and anarchic politics. Although he is best known for his enigmat...
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£25,00
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Seduced by Art Photography Past and Present
ISBN: HB: 9781857095456, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2012
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.
Today's photography is part of our own cultural moment, but it also arises from artistic traditions of the past. Seduced by Art looks at the effects of art and its history on the creation of photographs, tracing continuities in aims, visual style, an...
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£30,00
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Skogen
ISBN: PB: 9780300187816, Yale University Press, October 2012
100 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 46 tritone illus.
Skogen is the Swedish word for forest, and while the dense woods featured in Robert Adams' most recent series of photographs grow near his home in Oregon, the pictures evoke a wild utopia, and convey a hushed, primeval awe. In this volume, the latest...
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£35,00
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Making a Presence F. Holland Day in Artistic Photography
ISBN: PB: 9780300180381, Yale University Press, April 2012
128 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 80 colour illus.
Boston photographer Fred Holland Day (1864-1933) first distinguished himself in literary circles as a critic, bibliophile, and co-founder of the progressive publishing firm Copeland and Day, before turning to photography in the 1880s. By the turn of...
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£25,00
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Jindrich Heisler Surrealism Under Pressure, 1938-1953
ISBN: HB: 9780300179699, Yale University Press, A+D Series, April 2012
144 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.
Czech poet and photographer Jindrich Heisler (1914-1953) joined the Czech Surrealist Group in 1938, just as Nazi occupation of the country was driving the movement and Czech artists underground. Heisler published his first book of poetry a year later...
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Berenice Abbott
ISBN: PB: 9780300182002, Yale University Press, March 2012
240 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 150 colour illus.
The American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is known best for her documentation of New York in the 1930s and for her efforts to gain recognition for the work of Eugene Atget in both Europe and the United States. This attractive book feature...
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John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1: 1956-1974
ISBN: HB: 9780300174489, Yale University Press, March 2012
550 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 500 colour illus.
The pioneering conceptual artist John Baldessari (b. 1931) began his career as a painter in the 1950s, but in the subsequent decades he expanded his practice in a new and groundbreaking direction by juxtaposing texts with found photography or appropr...
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£150,00
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This Day Photographs from Twenty-five Years, the Northwest Coast
ISBN: PB: 9780300180053, Yale University Press, February 2012
106 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 68 tritone illus.
In "This Day", Robert Adams observes two kinds of landscapes – that inside his home, including arrangements of nasturtium leaves and apples on the kitchen table, as well as the views outside his window and beyond. The windswept headlands, beach grass...
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