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Diary/Landscape
ISBN: HB: 9780226204123, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
160 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 126 halftones
For more than thirty-five years, James Welling has explored the material and conceptual possibilities of photography".Diary/Landscape" – the first mature body of work by this important contemporary artist – set the framework for his subsequent invest...
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£34,00
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Storyteller The Photographs of Duane Michals
ISBN: HB: 9783791353708, Prestel Publishing, November 2014
240 pp., 30x24.8 cm
Accompanying a retrospective of the pioneering photographer, this volume of more than 75 original works will thrill Duane Michals aficionados, while introducing younger viewers to an innovative artist who redefined the role of the photograph in artis...
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£55,00
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Aaron Siskind
ISBN: HB: 9780300210903, Yale University Press, November 2014
200 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 160 tritone illus.
Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), teacher, journalist and photographer, was an artist of great originality, unprecedented in American photography. This has tended to result in his work being misinterpreted, balanced as it is between the influences of Walker...
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£40,00
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Home and the World A View of Calcutta
ISBN: HB: 9780300209174, Yale University Press, November 2014
160 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 110 colour illus.
Photographer Laura McPhee, noted for her stunning large-scale landscapes and portraits of the people who live and work in them, has been traveling to eastern India for over a decade. There she has devoted her keen and perceptive vision to picturing l...
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Past's Threshold Essays on Photography
ISBN: PB: 9783037346914, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 40 halftones
Siegfried Kracauer was a leading intellectual figure of the Weimar Republic and one of the foremost representatives of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work of many of the...
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£15,00
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Kracauer. Photographic Archive
ISBN: HB: 9783037346716, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 30 colour plates, 280 halftones
Siegfried Kracauer was a leading figure on the Weimar arts scene and one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work o...
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£45,00
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Bad Luck, Hot Rocks Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Petrified Forest
ISBN: PB: 9780989785914, DAP, The Ice Plant, November 2014
144 pp., 26.4x19 cm, 140 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The Petrified Forest National Park in Northeast Arizona protects one of the largest deposits of petrified wood in the world. Despite stern warnings, visitors remove several tons of petrified wood from the park each year, of...
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£28,50
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Lisa Kereszi The More I Learn About Wom
ISBN: HB: 9780989531115, DAP, J&L Books, November 2014
112 pp., 21.6x15.2 cm, 100 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! While photographer Lisa Kereszi (born 1973) was researching for her previous book, "Joe's Junk Yard", her father, Joe Jr., gave her a worn and tattered old photo album that he had compiled in the 1970s and 80s. Inside were...
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Foundation Course Portrait Photography
ISBN: PB: 9781781450895, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, November 2014
176 pp., 23.5x21 cm, 200 photos
Portrait photography aims to capture the expression, personality and mood of a person or group of people. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or contex...
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Paul Strand Photography and Film for the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300207927, Yale University Press, October 2014
400 pp., 33x30.5 cm, 300 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
Through his amazing variety of innovative images, photographer Paul Strand (1890-1976) played a crucial role in establishing the medium's significance as a modern art form. Celebrating the recent acquisition of the core print collection of the Paul S...
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