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William Kentridge The Head & The Load
ISBN: HB: 9783791387185, Prestel Publishing, July 2020
348 pp., 31x23 cm, 240 colour illus.
For over thirty years, William Kentridge has been combining fine arts, performance, theatre, and opera to create dreamlike, political, and humanist works. His installation, films, and drawings often deal with the political situation in South Africa,...
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£49,99
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Surf Like a Girl
ISBN: HB: 9783791385952, Prestel Publishing, July 2020
256 pp., 30x24 cm, 280 colour and black&white illus.
If you thought surfing was a male-dominated sport, think again. The thirty women surfers profiled in this thrilling collection can rip a wave with the best of them. Hailing from all over the world, each surfer is featured in spectacular photography a...
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£35,00
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Anne Brigman The Photographer of Enchantment
ISBN: HB: 9780300249941, Yale University Press, June 2020
248 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 60 colour illus., 96 black&white illus.
In the first book devoted to Anne Brigman (1869-1950), Kathleen Pyne traces the groundbreaking photographer's life from Hawai'i to the Sierra and elsewhere in California, revealing how her photographs emerged from her experience of local place and cu...
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£50,00
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Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographer
ISBN: HB: 9783791384832, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
344 pp., 29.5x28.5 cm, 170 black and white illus.
Reproduced in exquisite black and white, the images in this book range from Henri Cartier-Bresson's earliest work in France, Spain, and Mexico through his postwar travels in Asia, the US, and Russia, and even include landscapes from the 1970s, when h...
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£60,00
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Latoya Ruby Frazier The Last Cruze
ISBN: PB: 9780941548793, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, June 2020
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 colour plates, 116 halftones
As the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio halted production and faced possible closure, displacing its workers, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier joined with these workers, their families, and their local union leaders to tell the story of the plant in...
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£40,00
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52 Assignments Travel Photography
ISBN: HB: 9781781454060, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, June 2020
128 pp., 21x14 cm, colour illus.
"52 Assignments: Travel Photography" is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised journal, and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. Small enough to fit into your travel bag, it is filled...
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£12,99
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Understanding Portrait Photography How to Shoot Great Pictures of People
ISBN: PB: 9780770433130, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, June 2020
176 pp., 26.6x21.6 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! Capture the perfect portrait even if it's with a selfie in this updated edition of a trusted classic, now with all-new photography. Great portraits go beyond a mere record of a face. They reveal one of the millio...
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£25,00
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Making Strange The Modernist Photobook in France
ISBN: HB: 9780300246186, Yale University Press, May 2020
224 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 120 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
France experienced a golden age of photobook production from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Avant-garde experiments in photography, text, design, and printing, within the context of a growing modernist publishing scene, contributed to an outpourin...
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Modern Look Photography and the American Magazine
ISBN: HB: 9780300247190, Yale University Press, May 2020
192 pp., 30.4x23.8 cm, 155 colour and black&white illus.
This dynamic study examines the intersection of modernist photography and American commercial graphic design between 1930 and 1960. Avant-garde strategies in photography and design reached the United States via European emigres, including Bauhaus art...
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£35,00
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Life Magazine and the Power of Photography
ISBN: HB: 9780300250886, Yale University Press, March 2020
336 pp., 31.7x22.2 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, the vast majority of the photographs printed and consumed in the United States appeared on the pages of illustrated magazines. Offering an in-depth look at the photography featured in Life magazine throug...
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£45,00
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