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Looking at Photographs A Guide to Technical Terms (Revised Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780892369713, Getty Publications, November 2009
104 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, 61 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.
This is a comprehensive guide to the most frequently used technical terms used in photography – from the earliest processes to the latest technologies. From its origins at the end of the 1830s, photography has continued to evolve both aesthetically a...
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£14,99
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Alias Man Ray
ISBN: HB: 9780300146837, Yale University Press, November 2009
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 192 colour images, 54 black&white illus.
Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, the artist known as Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career – New York Dedaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portraitist, and fashion photographer – and produced important...
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Edge of Faith
ISBN: HB: 9781906497316, Seagull Books, November 2009
140 pp., 25.1x24.9 cm, 70 halftones
Located on the west coast of India along the Arabian Sea, Goa officially became an Indian state in 1987 after nearly 500 years of Portuguese rule. This conflict of cultures is captured by Indian photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta in "The Edge of Faith"....
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£22,00
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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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£45,00
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Photographs of the Past Process and Preservation
ISBN: PB: 9780892369577, Getty Publications, September 2009
350 pp., 24.1x19.1 cm, 336 colour and black&white photos
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the techniques, methods, and processes of photographic conservation and preservation available today. In recent years, interest in old photographs has grown significantly among the broad public,...
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John Gutmann The Photographer at Work
ISBN: HB: 9780300123319, Yale University Press, August 2009
176 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 150 duotone illus.
John Gutmann (1905-1998) was one of America's most distinctive photographers. Born in Germany where he trained as an artist and art teacher, he fled the Nazis in 1933 and settled in San Francisco, reinventing himself as a photo-reporter. Gutmann capt...
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£50,00
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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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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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