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100 Great Street Photographs
ISBN: PB: 9783791384382, ISBN: HB: 9783791383132, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
208 pp., 25x23 cm, 110 colour illus.
This celebration of contemporary street photography – in all its edgy, strange, beautiful, haunting, colorful, and humorous glory – brings together the work of a new generation of talented artists. Over the past few decades, the long tradition of st...
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£19,99
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Modern Spaces A Subjective Atlas of 20th-Century Interiors
ISBN: HB: 9783791384689, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
224 pp., 28x24 cm, 176 colour illus.
In "Modern Forms", Nicolas Grospierre traveled the globe to sample the best modernist buildings from the 20th century. Now, he takes his camera indoors to show how modernist ideas are manifested within the walls of buildings both famous and obscure....
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Winslow Homer and the Camera Photography and the Art of Painting
ISBN: HB: 9780300214550, Yale University Press, July 2018
208 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 138 colour illus.
One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer's ar...
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£35,00
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Inadvertent Images A History of Photographic Apparitions
ISBN: HB: 9780226471877, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 18 colour plates, 58 halftones
As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how...
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£41,00
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Modern Forms A Subjective Atlas of 20th-century Architecture (Compact Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9783791384313, Prestel Publishing, February 2018
224 pp., 23x19.7 cm, 176 colour illus.
Now available in a new compact edition, this book offers a stunning visual archive of nearly 200 images of modern architecture by awardwinning photographer Nicolas Grospierre. Both a reference work and a personal exploration of modernist architectur...
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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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£30,00
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Indecent Exposures Eadweard Muybridge's "Animal Locomotion" Nudes
ISBN: HB: 9780300209488, Yale University Press, October 2015
184 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 80 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), often termed the father of the motion picture, presented his iconic Animal Locomotion series in 1887. Produced under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania and encompassing thousands of photographs...
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£55,00
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Enduring Truths Sojourner's Shadows and Substance
ISBN: HB: 9780226192130, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
224 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 131 colour plates, 27 halftones
Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling cartes de visite of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling car...
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Anca Munteanu Rimnic
ISBN: HB: 9783954760732, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, June 2015
192 pp., 26x20.5 cm, 125 colour illus., language: English / German
"I want to make art", Anca Munteanu Rimnic (b. Bucharest, 1974; lives and works in Berlin) swore to herself in 1999, and so she decided to focus all her energies on visual art. And she has kept her word, creating a multifaceted and powerful oeuvre of...
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£37,50
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Mastering: Wildlife Photography The Definitive Guide for Photographers
ISBN: PB: 9781781450864, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, May 2015
176 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, colour illus.
Wildlife is one of the most challenging and popular subjects for photographers. With strong emphasis on the ethics and legalities of animal welfare, the protection of the environment and the responsibilities of the photographer, Richard Garvey-Willia...
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