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Some Aesthetic Decisions The Photographs of Judy Fiskin
ISBN: HB: 9781606060810, Getty Publications, December 2011
376 pp., 27x21.3 cm, 294 black&white illus.
This is a gloriously illustrated volume that represents the entire photographic oeuvre of American artist Judy Fiskin. This first major monograph of Los Angeles-based artist Judy Fiskin includes reproductions of nearly 300 images taken from 1973 to 1...
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£40,00
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Science on Ice Four Polar Expeditions
ISBN: HB: 9780226482477, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
288 pp., 28x20 cm, 157 colour illus.
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised", wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar exp...
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£30,00
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Radical Camera New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
ISBN: HB: 9780300146875, Yale University Press, November 2011
224 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 duotones, 76 black&white illus.
Artists in "the Photo League", active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life. Their focus centred on New York City and its vibrant streets – a newsboy at work, a brass band on a bustling c...
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Three Graces Snapshots of Twentieth-century Women
ISBN: PB: 9780300177343, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2011
160 pp., 21x15.2 cm, 150 colour illus.
Snapshots preserve more than individual likeness and memory. Photographs of celebrations, vacations, and gatherings of family and friends are accumulated with the aim of constructing and preserving a personal identity for future generations. What hap...
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£19,99
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In the Picture Self-portraits, 1958-2011
ISBN: PB: 9780300177299, Yale University Press, November 2011
468 pp., 21.6x24.1 cm, 450 duotone illus.
Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has been tackling the challenge of self-portraiture throughout his prolific career. What began as an unorthodox investigation of the genre has become a masterful engagement spanning five decades. In this extraordinary compil...
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£55,00
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Picturing Faith Photography and the Great Depression
ISBN: PB: 9780300184464, Yale University Press, November 2011
330 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.
In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks-all then virtually unknown-were com...
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£35,00
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Artful Lives Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather, and the Bohemians of Los Angeles
ISBN: HB: 9781606060704, Getty Publications, October 2011
392 pp., 26.2x18.4 cm, 87 black&white illus.
This title presents a captivating account of two photographers, one of whom became a major figure in the art, and the other who fell into obscurity. It also presents a fascinating account telling the hitherto untold love story of Edward Weston and Ma...
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£30,00
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Julius Schulman's Los Angeles
ISBN: PB: 9781606060797, Getty Publications, September 2011
72 pp., 16.6x13.5 cm, 60 duotone photos
This title presents a pictorial history of the "City of the Future" throughout the 20th century. The celebrated architectural photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009) is one of the few image makers to have documented, as well as witnessed, nearly an e...
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Carleton Watkins The Complete Mammoth Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9781606060056, Getty Publications, August 2011
608 pp., 32.4x25.6 cm, 1351 duotone photos
This is an opulently illustrated catalogue of the entire remaining mammoth photographs of Carleton Watkins (1829-1916). The extraordinary body of work by photographer Carleton Watkins – taken between 1858 and 1891 – constitutes one of the longest and...
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£150,00
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Life and Death of Buildings On Photography and Time
ISBN: PB: 9780300174359, Yale University Press, August 2011
104 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 80 colour illus.
Buildings inhabit and symbolize time, giving form to history and making public space an index of the past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections of past states of their subjects. This visually striking meditation on architectur...
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£28,00
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