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Yupiit Yuraryarait Yup'ik Ways of Dancing

Barker James H., Fienup-Riordan Ann, Arevgaq John Theresa

ISBN: PB: 9781602231306, ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781602230828, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
237 pp., 25.5x25.5 cm, 100 halftones

Far more than just a dance, the dynamic choreography of the Yup'ik provides an illuminating window into the morality, social organization, and colonial history of this indigenous people. In "Yupiit Yurayarait", anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan begin...

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Photography

My Faraway One Volume 1: 1015-1933

Greenough Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300166309, Yale University Press, June 2011
800 pp., 25.7x19 cm

There are few couples in the history of 20th-century American art and culture more prominent than Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) and Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). Between 1915, when they first began to write to each other, and 1946, when Stieglitz died...

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Photography

Walker Evans Cuba

Codrescu Andrei

ISBN: PB: 9781606060643, ISBN: HB: 9781606060018, Getty Publications, May 2011
96 pp., 28.1x26.4 cm, 73 duotone photos

This is a stunning exploration of quintessential American photographer Walker Evans' images of Cuba in the 1930s. In 1933, Walker Evans travelled to Cuba to take photographs for "The Crime of Cuba", a book by American journalist Carleton Beals whose...

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Culture Studies

Lost Album A Visual History of 1050's Britain

Hyman Basil

ISBN: HB: 9781861543202, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, May 2011
240 pp., 30.2x24.1 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

"I had forgotten all about these photographs until recently when on my 70th birthday my wife presented me with an album she had treasured all through the years. This lost album of photographs contains the very essence of the 1950s for me" – Basil Hym...

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Media Studies

No Caption Needed Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy

Hariman Robert, Lucaites John Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780226316123, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
432 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 53 halftones

In "No Caption Needed", Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subseq...

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Photography

Peter Zupnik

Fierova Lucia L.

ISBN: PB: 9788072154005, DAP, Torst, April 2011
138 pp., 17.8x15.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A member of the 1980s Slovak New Wave generation of photographers trained under Jan mok, Peter Zupnik (born 1961) searches out hidden poetry in everyday objects, by means of close-ups, short depth of field and additional pa...

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Architecture

Josef Sudek Saint Vitus's Cathedral

ISBN: HB: 9788072153862, DAP, Torst, April 2011
104 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 107 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Saint Vitus's Cathedral" is the sixth volume in Torst's "Josef Sudek: Works" series. This volume is the first to compile Sudek's photos of St. Vitus's Cathedral, the spiritual and cultural heart of the Czech Republic, from...

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Photography

Art and the Early Photographic Album

Bann Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300135909, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2011
288 pp., 28.6x23.8 cm, 63 black&white illus., 131 colour illus.

One of the most prized categories of early photography was the reproduction of artworks, a role in which photographs largely replaced engravings in book imagery during the mid-nineteenth century. Photographs of paintings, sculptures, and other works...

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Photography

Frida Kahlo Her Photos

Ortiz Monasterio Mari Carmen

ISBN: HB: 9788492480753, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, March 2011
496 pp., 22.9x17.1 cm, black&white illus.

When Frida Kahlo died, her husband Diego Rivera asked the poet Carlos Pellicerto turn the Blue House into a museum that the people of Mexico could visit to admire the work of the artist. Pellicer selected those of Frida's paintings which were in the...

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Manuals

Expanded Guide: Techniques Understanding Exposure

Taylor David

ISBN: PB: 9781906672997, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, March 2011
192 pp., 17.8x14.5 cm, photos

"Understanding Exposure" is an invaluable guide to taking better photographs using today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras. Aimed at the novice or more experienced amateur photographer, jargon-free text explains the theory behin...

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