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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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Alfons Mucha
ISBN: PB: 9788072152506, DAP, Torst, November 2005
160 pp., 17.8x15.9 cm, 99 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Though Alfons Mucha, known as Alphonse Mucha, (1860-1939) achieved lasting international acclaim as an Art Nouveau painter, graphic designer and decorator, his photography is not as well known. In this new, expanded edition...
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£17,50
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Milton Rogavin The Mining Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9780892368112, Getty Publications, October 2005
144 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 126 black&white illus.
Born in New York in 1909, Milton Rogovin has been photographing coal miners since 1962, working first in Appalachia and later, in the 1980s, in Europe, Asia, South Africa, China, Mexico, and Cuba. Particularly in these later portraits he concentrated...
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£45,00
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In Focus Weegee
ISBN: PB: 9780892368105, Getty Publications, October 2005
144 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm, 50 black&white illus.
Stalking the streets of New York City at night alongside police detectives and barflies, the tough-talking, fedora-wearing, cigar-smoking photographer who called himself "Weegee" was ready at a moment's notice with his Speed Graphic to respond to the...
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£14,99
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Tunnels
ISBN: PB: 9781861542762, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, October 2005
112 pp., 26x20 cm, 125 colour illus.
Through reportage photographs of people in the private and public environment, "Tunnels" explores the idea of isolation and the boundaries of knowing others and ourselves. Andre Principe's work is about emotions. In "Tunnels", the artist looks at lon...
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£22,00
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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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£60,00
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Dora Lives The Authorized Story of Miki Dora
ISBN: HB: 9781890481179, DAP, September 2005
142 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 60 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The surfing iconoclast who became an icon, Miki Dora was the epitome of 1960s beach culture. His dark good looks were the envy of Malibu. His talent earned him trophies (which he disdained) and the nickname "Da Cat". And in...
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£40,00
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Eva Davidova
ISBN: PB: 9788072152346, DAP, Torst, August 2005
112 pp., 18.4x16.5 cm, 108 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Ethnographer, sociologist, art historian and photographer, Eva Davidova is one of the founders of Gypsy (Roma) studies in the Czech Republic and has been illuminating and investigating this secretive society for half a cent...
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£14,99
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Drive by Shooting
ISBN: HB: 9781861542786, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2005
56 pp., 34x34 cm, 25 colour illus.
The first in a planned series of books on photography by Max Forsythe, "Drive by Shooting" presents a unique and unrepeatable view of life, society and the myriad moments that surround us through photographs shot from inside moving cars, trains and r...
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£25,00
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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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