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Bernd & Hilla Becher Basic Forms
ISBN: HB: 9783791386652, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
160 pp., 24x17 cm, 61 colour illus.
During their 40-year career, Bernd and Hilla Becher created their own architectural typology as they photographed buildings in a unique style. Basic Forms represents the culmination of their career. Although the subject matter is unglamorous – mine s...
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£24,99
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Black Lives 1900 W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition
ISBN: FLEXI: 9781942884538, DAP, Redstone Press, November 2019
144 pp., 31.8x24.8 cm, 50 colour illus., 54 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois presented an exhibit representing the progress of African Americans since the abolition of slavery. In striking graphic visualisations and...
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£30,00
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Borrowed Light
ISBN: HB: 9783791357423, Prestel Publishing, January 2018
372 pp., 29.9x28.5 cm, 102 colour illus., 270 black&white illus.
This visual history of photography from its inception to the present day is a treasure trove of 400 color and black-and-white images, carefully sequenced and profoundly evocative. Culled from the idiosyncratic collection of photographer and curator...
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£55,00
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Baza
ISBN: PB: 9788417047290, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, January 2018
29 pp., 28.7x20.5 cm, illus.
Several years ago, having learned of the festival of the Cascamorras in the town of Baza in Granada province, Frederic Amat decided to witness in person the ancestral celebration, during which a group of young people climb a nearby hill in the mid-af...
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£23,50
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Black Cowboys
ISBN: PB: 9788416248544, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, June 2016
160 pp., 29x24 cm, colour photos
The cowboy, one of America s most enduring cultural icons, has become identified with the white gunslinger in the popular imagination. However, in the 19th century over one-third of these cowboys were actually Black cowboys. With this photo series in...
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£31,00
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Birth of Rock and Roll
ISBN: HB: 9780981734286, DAP, Dust-to-Digital, April 2015
160 pp., 30.4x24.7 cm, 134 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In "The Birth of Rock and Roll", Americana collector Jim Linderman has arranged a storyboard of sorts that dramatizes the spirit of rock and roll in its early days – when "a juke-joint with fifty patrons was a big show", as...
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£53,00
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BARCELONA Portrait of a City
ISBN: HB: 9788415691679, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2015
352 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, black&white photos
This is a stunning photographic celebration of everything that makes Barcelona one of the most inviting, exciting and inspiring cities in the whole world. Barcelona is special, its architecture, monuments, streets, its style, its history, its spirit,...
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£43,00
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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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Bruce Davidson/Paul Caponigro Two American Photographers in Britain and Ireland
ISBN: HB: 9780300201499, Yale University Press, May 2014
240 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 195 colour and black&white illus.
Bruce Davidson (b. 1933) and Paul Caponigro (b. 1932) are two of the greatest American photographers of their generation. Working in different traditions, and exhibiting fundamentally distinct approaches, they are both brilliant observers whose art i...
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£50,00
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Bedrooms of the Fallen
ISBN: HB: 9780226066868, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
120 pp., 22.8x30.5 cm, 40 duotones
For more than a decade, the United States has been fighting wars so far from the public eye as to risk being forgotten, the struggles and sacrifices of its volunteer soldiers almost ignored. Photographer and writer Ashley Gilbertson has been working...
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£26,50
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