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Rise and Fall of Apartheid Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life
ISBN: HB: 9783791352800, Prestel Publishing, February 2013
544 pp., 28x24 cm, 90 colour illus., 410 black&white illus.
Featuring some of the most iconic images of our time, this unique combination of photojournalism and commentary offers a probing and comprehensive exploration of the birth, evolution, and demise of apartheid in South Africa. Photographers played an...
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£45,00
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Jose Manuel Ballester Abstraction in Reality
ISBN: HB: 9788415303329, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, October 2012
116 pp., 29.8x22.9 cm, black&white photos
This is a magnificently illustrated look at the most recent work of award-winning Spanish photographer Jose Manuel Ballester. The photography of Jose Manuel Ballester reveals the ephemeral and instantaneous in a way that seems a-temporal, even before...
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£9,00
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Factory Photography and the Warhol Community
ISBN: PB: 9788415303725, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, September 2012
168 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, black&white photos
Of the many ways in which Pop artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) has influenced contemporary art, perhaps the most significant is the collaborative sphere he orchestrated through The Factory. Established in 1962, The Factory was a studio space that also...
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£27,00
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50 Photos You Should Know
ISBN: PB: 9783791346113, Prestel Publishing, March 2012
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 150 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
This collection of world-renowned photographs offers a stunning visual history of photography and photojournalism. The birth of photography opened the doors to a new kind of art, one that recorded events with the immediacy not possible with painting...
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£14,99
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Frida Kahlo Her Photos
ISBN: HB: 9788492480753, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, March 2011
496 pp., 22.9x17.1 cm, black&white illus.
When Frida Kahlo died, her husband Diego Rivera asked the poet Carlos Pellicerto turn the Blue House into a museum that the people of Mexico could visit to admire the work of the artist. Pellicer selected those of Frida's paintings which were in the...
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£35,00
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Permanent Error
ISBN: HB: 9783791345208, Prestel Publishing, February 2011
112 pp., 29x24 cm, 60 colour illus.
The most recent publication from the award-winning photographer Pieter Hugo reveals the devastating consequences of toxic waste on one community in Africa. In his previous well-received volumes of photographs, Hugo offers unflinching yet striking po...
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£39,99
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Cheong Soo Pieng Visions of Southeast Asia
ISBN: HB: 9789810895990, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2010
280 pp., 27.4x21.6 cm, photos
Cheong Soo Pieng was an artist who created visually fresh pictures of Southeast Asia's landscapes and people by marrying the artistic traditions of the East and the West. Common Southeast Asian subjects, such as people busy drying fish or the gracefu...
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£44,00
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Andreas Serrano El Dedo en la Llaga
ISBN: PB: 9788496466432, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, February 2010
206 pp., 24.1x18.4 cm, illus.
This is a visually stunning showcase of the most iconic images from controversial photographer Andres Serrano. Since the beginning of the 1980s, photographer Andres Serrano has addressed the contemporary world's most controversial issues in his image...
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Grande Atlantico Cargo Ship Stories
ISBN: HB: 9788862420167, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, January 2010
96 pp., 24x16 cm, colour photos
The smell of naphtha fuel in the air, nostalgia clenched to the banister - the ship Grande Atlantico smokes under immense skies, which clear up and cloud over as she voyages from Buenos Aires to Hamburg, stops at Paranagua, Santos and Rio. Crossing t...
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Buddhist Art An Historical and Cultural Journey
ISBN: HB: 9789749863879, Prestel Publishing, River Books, October 2009
400 pp., 32.2x25.1 cm, colour photos
Buddhism and its art is the one truly unifying factor of the entire Asian continent and has become a fundamental part of our shared world heritage. To draw a unique portrait of this art in a single work is a formidable undertaking due to the great pl...
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