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Photographs Found A Personal Memoir of 1960's Britain
ISBN: HB: 9781861543325, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, August 2013
212 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
Keen amateur photographer Basil Hyman was struck by the difference in lifestyle between the 1960s and the present day, and in this photographic compendium lets the photographs themselves tell the story of a long-forgotten Britain. It was a decade of...
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£45,00
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From Here On Postphotography in the Age of Internet and the Mobile
ISBN: PB: 9788415118459, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2013
136 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, colour photos
This catalogue deals precisely with the evolution of the image as a result of the use of new technologies. The transit from the analog to the digital image and the globalization of access to internet and mobile telephones has radically changed the wo...
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£22,50
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LC FOTO Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer
ISBN: HB: 9783037783443, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2013
416 pp., 16.5x24 cm, 500 illus
In "Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer" Tim Benton reflects on the famous architect's use of photography, starting with the young Charles-Edouard Jeanneret's attempts to take professional photographs during his travels in central Europe, the Balkans,...
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£39,00
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Abelardo Morell The Universe Next Door
ISBN: HB: 9780300184556, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2013
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 55 colour illus., 75 duotone illus.
Over the past twenty-five years, Abelardo Morell (b. 1948) has earned international praise for his images that use the language of photography to explore visual surprise and wonder. Born in Havana, Cuba, Morell came to the United States as a teenager...
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£35,00
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William Henry Fox Talbot Beyond Photography
ISBN: HB: 9780300179347, Yale University Press, June 2013
328 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 colour illus.
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age – a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts,...
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£50,00
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Nuvuk, the Northernmost Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska
ISBN: HB: 9781602231955, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2013
80 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 76 colour illus.
For years, tour guide Daniel Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, Alaska, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the dark, sandy beaches. Over time, snapping...
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£19,00
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Photography of the American Civil War
ISBN: HB: 9780300191806, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2013
256 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 200 colour illus.
Six hundred thousand lives were lost between 1861 and 1865, making the conflict between North and South the nation's deadliest war. If the "War Between the States" was the test of the young republic's commitment to its founding precepts, it was also...
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£40,00
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Common Ground German Photographic Cultures Across the Iron Curtain
ISBN: HB: 9780300184440, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 10 colour images, 170 black&white illus.
This ambitious publication is the first book to thoroughly evaluate the photography that emerged during Germany's geopolitical division from the 1950s to the 1980s. With richly illustrated and exhaustively researched analyses of photographic projects...
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£50,00
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Box of Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9780226308319, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
120 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 16 halftones
Most attempts to generalize about photography as a medium run up against our experience of the photographs themselves. We live with photos and cameras every day, and philosophies of the photographic image do little to shake our intimate sense of how...
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£16,00
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Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments
ISBN: HB: 9781606061381, Getty Publications, March 2013
100 pp., 26.1x20.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 56 duatones illus.
This is a superbly illustrated look at the evolution of the photographic work of Ed Ruscha – the quintessential Los Angeles artist. Los-Angeles based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artist's books,...
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£18,99
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