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Art of the Selfie Hong Kong Style

Badger Gerry, Baterna-Patena Jhoane

ISBN: PB: 9783944721859, Bookport, seltmann and sohne, September 2016
96 pp., 20.1x14.2 cm, colour illus.

For ten months, the Philippine photographer Jhoane Baterna-Patena observed people pursuing one of their favorite activities: the photographic staging of themselves. For this, she visited Golden Bauhinia Square in Hong Kong, a centrally located touris...

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Real/Ideal Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France

Hellman Karen

ISBN: HB: 9781606065105, Getty Publications, September 2016
240 pp., 29.6x24.8 cm, 212 colour illus.

In the years following the invention of photography in 1839, practitioners in France gave shape to this intriguing new medium through experimental printing techniques and innovative compositions. The rich body of work they developed proved foundation...

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Liberation of Europe 1944-1945 The Photographers who Captured History from D-Day to Berlin

Barnes Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781612004020, Casemate, September 2016
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 400 illus.

The Second World War presented a huge range of challenges to press photography both in terms of its execution and getting the results in print. Life on the home front was the main subject until the invasion of France changed everything in 1944. Pho...

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Olivo Barbieri Images 1978-2014

Fabiani Francesca

ISBN: HB: 9788831721929, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
216 pp., 25.7x20.6 cm, 150 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Where pictures stop being photography and become images. Olivo Barbieri has been working to represent space, especially urban space, since the 1970s. Various series of images document his research in this book. They include...

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New York A Century of Aerial Photography

ISBN: HB: 9783791382937, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
240 pp., 32.5x24 cm, 20 black&white illus., 160 colour illus.

From the ground, New York City can feel like a chaotic jumble of traffic, pedestrians, one-way streets, parks, and buildings of every shape and size. But above the city, away from the cacophony and the commotion, New York can be tranquil and awe-insp...

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Desert of Pharan Unofficial Histories Behind the Mass Expansion of Makkah

Mater Ahmed

ISBN: PB: 9783037784853, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2016
400 pp., 24x17 cm, 400 illus.

Through a series of photographs, Ahmed Mater charts the city's origins to its more recent history over the last 5 years. It is a study of the site's recent transformation – Mecca, until recently, embodied a unique urban tapestry, layered with histori...

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Photos that Changed the World New Edition

ISBN: PB: 9783791382371, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
216 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 65 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

In lavish two-page spreads, this book presents nearly one hundred of history's most memorable photographs – from the Wright Brothers' first flight to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech to Nelson Mandela's r...

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Camera Orientalis Reflections on Photography of the Middle East

Behdad Ali

ISBN: PB: 9780226356402, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
224 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 80 halftones

In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and fa...

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Pandora's Box Jan Dibbets on Another Photography

Dibbets Jan

ISBN: HB: 9782759603343, DAP, Paris Musees, August 2016
256 pp., 31.8x22.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 200 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Jan Dibbets' dissenting and unashamedly biased "Pandora's Box" offers nothing less than a reinterpretation of the entire history of art photography, arguing that scientific photography was the realm where the medium's real...

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Jo Ractliffe The Borderlands

ISBN: HB: 9788416282067, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2016
176 pp., 30.5x24 cm, black&white photos

Since 2007 Ractliffe s photography has focused on the aftermath of the war in Angola. Ractliffe writes: For most South Africans, Angola was perceived as a distant elsewhere the border where brothers and boyfriends were sent as part of their military...

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