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Tree in Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9781606060322, Getty Publications, December 2010
112 pp., 22.5x19.2 cm, 81 black&white and colour photos
Visual artists as well as writers have long extolled the presence of the tree. From the origins of photography to the present day, photographers have considered the tree, with its strong graphic form and evocative power, to be a popular subject. Thro...
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£18,99
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Still Rainin' Still Dreamin' Hall Anderson's Ketchikan
ISBN: PB: 9781889963907, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
118 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 halftones
A staff photographer for the Ketchikan Daily News, Hall Anderson counted among his early influences photographers like Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who understood the visual bounty to be found in photographing the candid side of life. For...
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£26,50
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What Can We Believe Where? Photographs of the American West, 1965-2005
ISBN: PB: 9780300162479, Yale University Press, October 2010
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 110 tritone illus.
Since taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams (born 1937) has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the evolving American landscape. Carefully edited by Adams from a remarkable body of work that spans over four decade...
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Classic Rollei A Definitive Guide
ISBN: HB: 9781906672935, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2010
352 pp., 27.6x21 cm, 372 photos
"The Classic Rollei" guide is a comprehensive study of the Rollei twin-lens reflexes cameras made between 1929 and 1981. It covers all the production models and virtually all the accessories. The book looks at the reasons behind the rise of the Roll...
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£30,00
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Faces in Places Photos of Faces in Everyday Places
ISBN: PB: 9781906672904, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2010
176 pp., 19.7x15.9 cm, colour illus.
Faces in places began its meteoric rise to fame as an internet blog that celebrated a collection of quirky, hilarious, surprising and madcap images captured by ordinary folk with an eye for the bizarre: the ability to see human-like faces in everyday...
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Still Life in Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9781606060339, Getty Publications, September 2010
112 pp., 22.6x19.1 cm, 94 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
Still life is one of the great art forms. The first still life photograph was created around 1827, more than a decade before the news of photography's invention was announced in Paris and London in 1839. There is a resurgence of interest in the still...
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Arctic Sanctuary Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
ISBN: HB: 9781602230880, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2010
173 pp., 22.8x35.5 cm, 162 colour illus.
Guided by photographer Jeff Jones's sure and well-developed vision, "Arctic Sanctuary" leads the reader on a remarkable journey that few of us will ever take in real life: a trek deep into Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By turns celebrator...
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£41,50
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Tropical Gift The Business of Oil and Gas in Nigeria
ISBN: HB: 9783037782262, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2010
96 pp., 30x24 cm, 52 illus.
Christian Lutz continues his photographic study of power structures with "Tropical Gift". He took portraits in Nigeria of people who live by and with the economic force that dominates everything there, the oil and gas industry. The photographs observ...
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Black in White America
ISBN: HB: 9781606060117, Getty Publications, August 2010
216 pp., 25.7x22.1 cm, 208 black&white illus.
This is a powerful and evocative photographic essay on African American life during the Civil Rights movement. "Black in White America" by Leonard Freed (1929-2006) is a facsimile edition of a powerful photo essay, first published 1968, that looks at...
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£25,00
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Issues in the Conservation of Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9781606060001, Getty Publications, August 2010
752 pp., 25.4x17.9 cm, 36 colour illus., 55 black&white illus.,111 line drawings
This is an authoritative and insightful survey of the evolving field of photograph conservation. This volume is the first publication to chronicle the emergence and systematic development of photograph conservation as a profession. In 72 essential te...
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£55,00
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