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Point Hope, Alaska Life on Frozen Water
ISBN: HB: 9781602230651, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2009
204 pp., 27.9x25 cm, 192 halftones
This book is a window to the daily life and the environment of the Tikigaq, the Inupiaq people of "Point Hope, Alaska", as seen in photographs taken by young Norwegian artist Berit Arnestad Foote from 1959 to 1962. In Berit Foote's days in Point Hope...
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£49,00
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Photographs of Homer Page The Guggenheim Year: New York, 1949-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300154436, Yale University Press, July 2009
144 pp., 28.4x28.4 cm, 98 duotone illus.
Focuses on Homer Page's New York photographs taken while he was a Guggenheim Fellow during the late '40s.
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£38,00
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Denver A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1973-1974
ISBN: HB: 9780300141368, Yale University Press, July 2009
136 pp., 19.1x18 cm, 117 tritone illus.
"Denver" and "What We Bought", together with "The New West", form a loose trilogy of Robert Adams' work exploring the rapidly developing landscape of the Denver metropolitan area from 1968 through 1974. In the former two books, Adams created a compre...
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£40,00
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Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance Ghost Story and Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9780300152555, Yale University Press, June 2009
96 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 65 colour illus.
The art of Willie Doherty (b. 1959), one of Northern Ireland's most important artists, joins history, memory, and language into an enveloping experience. This catalogue features two bodies of Doherty's work: "Ghost Story", a tensely beautiful 15-minu...
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£18,00
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Jo Ann Callis Woman Twirling
ISBN: HB: 9780892369560, Getty Publications, May 2009
96 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 69 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
This volume offers a superbly illustrated review of the work of renowned photographer Jo Ann Callis. An artist who has long exploited the emotional power of colour and texture, Jo Ann Callis is widely known for her inventive photographs involving tac...
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£25,00
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Paul Outerbridge Command Performance
ISBN: HB: 9780892369614, Getty Publications, May 2009
144 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 48 colour illus., 62 duotone illus.
In the 1920s, a young American – Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) burst onto the photographic art scene with images that were visually fresh, technically adept, and decidedly Modernist. Not only did he re-invigorate the photographic art of the period, he...
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£30,00
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Carleton Watkins in Yosemite
ISBN: HB: 9780892369454, Getty Publications, April 2009
88 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 50 colour illus.,1 map
This is a stunning photographic journey around the great Yosemite Valley, following in the footsteps of one of its first surveyors. Carleton Eugene Watkins (1829-1916) was one of the most highly acclaimed early western photographers, and one of the f...
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£25,00
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Jindrich Pribik
ISBN: PB: 9788072153473, DAP, Torst, April 2009
120 pp., 18.4x16.5 cm, 64 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Born in 1944, Prague photographer Jindrich Pribik makes supremely complicated work. Over more than 50 years, he has created 40 overlapping series, an intricate web of mutual references and quotations. Many of the works incl...
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£17,50
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Eva Fukova
ISBN: PB: 9788072153060, DAP, Torst, April 2009
128 pp., 17.8x15.8 cm, 80 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! After the Second World War, Czech avant-garde photographer Eva Fukova and her first husband, Vladimir Fuka, were close to the artists of Skupina 42. In 1967, they emigrated to the United States, where Eva Fukova has continu...
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£17,50
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Public Photographic Spaces Propaganda Exhibitions from Pressa to The Family of Man, 1928-55
ISBN: PB: 9788492505067, Bookport, MACBA, March 2009
504 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm
This book focuses from a chronological perspective on photography as a tool for a new visuality and the rupture of the role of the spectator: photographic exhibitions from 1928 to 1955, from the spaces designed by Lissitzky's to The Family of Man; th...
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£53,95
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