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Dateline Israel New Photography and Video Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300111569, Yale University Press, March 2007
144 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 111 colour illus.
What can art tell us about Israel today? Is there an artistic consensus among those living inside and outside the country? How does an artist come to terms with the disturbing realities in Israel – violence, political instability, insecurity, and soc...
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Collectible Moment Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum
ISBN: HB: 9780300121001, Yale University Press, September 2006
384 pp., 30x25.8 cm, 600 colour illus.
Before the late 1960s, few museums or collectors acquired photographs or considered the medium as an art form. The moment arrived, however, when photography's profile ascended and the medium began to gain widespread acceptance in the art world as an...
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Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools
ISBN: HB: 9780300115840, Yale University Press, February 2006
88 pp., 30.1x27.3 cm, 67 tritone illus.
Acclaimed for the emotional acuity of her portraits, Judith Joy Ross is an accomplished photographer whose work is found in the collections of America's major museums. This exquisitely produced book focuses on one of Ross's most personal series to da...
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Jewish Identity Project New American Photography
ISBN: HB: 9780300109160, Yale University Press, November 2005
240 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 138 colour images, 37 black&white illus.
While American Jews are commonly considered a homogeneous ethnic group, the reality today is far more complex. Conversion, adoption, intermarriage and immigration, have transformed the fabric of Jewish communities, as they have the United States as a...
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£35,00
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Perfect Medium Photography and the Occult
ISBN: HB: 9780300111361, Yale University Press, September 2005
288 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 280 colour illus.
In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substant...
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Art of Frederick Sommer Photography, Drawing, Collage
ISBN: HB: 9780300107838, Yale University Press, April 2005
240 pp., 33x29 cm, 116 duotone & tritone illus., 104 colour illus.
"In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation" – Frederick Sommer This stunning book, published in the artist's centenary, chronicles the extraordinary life and work of Frederick Sommer (1905-1999). One of the great masters and key in...
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£50,00
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Gary Schneider Portraits
ISBN: PB: 9780300100549, Yale University Press, February 2004
136 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 100 colour illus.
Considered one of the most thought-provoking photographers practising today, South African-born Gary Schneider creates unique luminescent portraits that transform their specific subject matter and probe the enigmatic character of identity. This remar...
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After 9/11
ISBN: HB: 9780300101829, Yale University Press, October 2003
176 pp., 22.8x20.3 cm, 150 duotones illus.
In response to the attacks on America of 11th September 2001, photographer Nathan Lyons, known for his honest and often questioning depictions of American culture, has created a portfolio of images. Photographing in small towns and large cities, Lyon...
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Manufactured Landscapes The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
ISBN: HB: 9780300099430, Yale University Press, March 2003
160 pp., 32x27 cm, 110 illus.
Over a period of 25 years, the internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places where human activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His astonishing large-scale colour photographs of the...
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£45,00
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Personal Art of David Octavius Hill
ISBN: HB: 9780300095340, Yale University Press, May 2002
256 pp., 28.3x24.2 cm, 100 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.
David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) was a pioneer photographer, a painter and lithographer. In 1843, he entered into partnership with the young photographer, Robert Adamson, and in the next four years they took an extraordinary body of work, which has in...
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