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Race and Photography Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980
ISBN: PB: 9780226320885, ISBN: HB: 9780226320748, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones
"Race and Photography" studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the "science of race", what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enable...
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£24,50
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£78,00
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Donald Blumberg Words and Images from the American Media
ISBN: HB: 9780300215168, Yale University Press, November 2015
140 pp., 24.5x28.6 cm, 162 duotone illus.
Words and Images from the American Media gathers over 162 images that Donald Blumberg has photographed directly from newspapers and television screens since the 1960s. In his most recent work from this series, Blumberg's photographs also include clos...
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£40,00
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In Front of Saint Patrick's Cathedral
ISBN: HB: 9780300215175, Yale University Press, November 2015
96 pp., 24.5x28.6 cm, 77 duotone illus.
American photographer Donald Blumberg (b. 1935) began his career making black-and-white photographs of the streets and people of New York. He first gained national attention and widespread recognition for his 1965-67 series In Front of Saint Patrick'...
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£30,00
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Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others
ISBN: HB: 9783037784655, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2015
192 pp., 24.7x21 cm, 78 illus.
Pigeon languages our cities. When a speckled grey pigeon is trapped by artists and spray-painted in a miniature car wash, and released as an ultramarine green pigeon streaking through a public space, what happens to the "flying rat"? How do we really...
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£37,00
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China Through the Lens of John Thomson, 1868-1972
ISBN: HB: 9786167339658, Prestel Publishing, River Books, November 2015
168 pp., 29.1x28.6 cm, black&white photos
With over 150 photographs from late 19th century China, including stunning landscapes, architecture and city scenes, intimate portraits of Manchu brides in full wedding costumes and Mandarin officialsin government attire.
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£25,00
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Indecent Exposures Eadweard Muybridge's "Animal Locomotion" Nudes
ISBN: HB: 9780300209488, Yale University Press, October 2015
184 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 80 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), often termed the father of the motion picture, presented his iconic Animal Locomotion series in 1887. Produced under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania and encompassing thousands of photographs...
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£55,00
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Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's "Other Half" A Complete Catalogue of His Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9780300209167, Yale University Press, October 2015
336 pp., 22.9x30.5 cm, 25 colour illus., 375 duotone, 210 black&white illus.
Danish-born Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) found success in America as a reporter for the New York Tribune, first documenting crime and later turning his eye to housing reform. As tenement living conditions became unbearable in the wake of massive immigra...
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£40,00
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Power of Pictures Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film
ISBN: HB: 9780300207682, Yale University Press, October 2015
240 pp., 28x22.2 cm, 148 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist pho...
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£30,00
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First World War Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front
ISBN: HB: 9780226284286, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
280 pp., 32x22.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 80 halftones
A century after it began, we still struggle with the terrible reality of the First World War, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Due to the crude film cameras u...
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£49,00
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Nicolo Degiorgis: Hidden Islam Islamic Makeshift Places of Worship in North East Italy, 2009-2013
ISBN: HB: 9788890981708, DAP, Rorhof, October 2015
90 pp., 24.6x17.2 cm, 43 colour illus., 84 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In Italy the right to worship without discrimination is enshrined in the constitution. There are 1.35 million Muslims in Italy and yet, officially, only eight mosques in the whole country. Consequently, the Muslim populatio...
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£40,00
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