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How to Secure a Country
ISBN: HB: 9783037785973, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2020
220 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, illus.
Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists is the development of a culture based on protection, which is supported by the...
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£30,00
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Anton Corbijn: 1-2-3-4 New Edition
ISBN: HB: 9783791384016, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
400 pp., 29x24 cm, 60 colour illus., 380 black&white illus.
Corbijn's interest in music has been the engine of an illustrious decades-long career that has most recently involved the making of feature length films such as The American, A Most Wanted Man, and Life. This gloriously illustrated, oversized book pa...
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£55,00
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NeoRealismo The New Image in Italy 1932-1960
ISBN: HB: 9783791357690, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
352 pp., 29x24 cm, 241 black&white illus.
This stunning book explores Italian Neorealism in photography, as it documented Italy's economic and social conditions in the mid-20th century and its rise as a democratic nation. Originally used for Fascist propaganda, the camera in Italy became a...
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£49,99
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it was always there, it's just grown stronger
ISBN: HB: 9783037784556, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2014
144 pp., 16.5x24 cm, 100 illus.
Over the now more than forty-five years that he has been studying and exploring photography, Christian Vogt has discovered new visual vocabularies again and again. In his new work, consisting almost exclusively of contrasting pairs of pictures, he co...
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£22,00
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Jan Svoboda
ISBN: PB: 9788072154241, DAP, Torst, September 2014
140 pp., 17.7x16.5 cm, 92 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Czech artist Jan Svoboda (1934-1990) spent a lifetime laboring to redefine the language of photography. This catalogue gives an overview of his career, from early still lifes to works that questioned the rules and boundarie...
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£22,00
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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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£15,00
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Harlem The Unmaking of a Ghetto
ISBN: HB: 9780226853369, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
269 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 268 colour plates
For more than a century, Harlem has been the epicenter of black America, the celebrated heart of African American life and culture – but it has also been a byword for the problems that have long plagued inner-city neighborhoods: poverty, crime, viole...
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£41,50
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