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Oscar G. Rejlander Artist Photographer
ISBN: HB: 9780300237092, Yale University Press, November 2018
300 pp., 29.8x24.8 cm, 225 colour and black&white illus.
Oscar G. Rejlander (1813-1875) was a Swedish-born photographer who pioneered the genre of art photography. He is best known for combining negatives to form elaborate allegorical compositions and for his ability to communicate expression through his p...
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Old Paris and Changing New York Photographs by Eugene Atget and Berenice Abbott
ISBN: HB: 9780300235791, Yale University Press, October 2018
156 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus.
In this comprehensive study, Kevin Moore examines the relationship between Eugene Atget (1857-1927) and Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) and the nuances of their individual photographic projects. Abbott and Atget met in Man Ray's Paris studio in the early...
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Object Lessons Zofia Rydet's "Sociological Record"
ISBN: PB: 9788364177378, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, May 2018
280 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 140 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! In 1978, Zofia Rydet (1911-1097) began work on a monumental project that would come to be known as her "Sociological Record": photographing the people of Poland at their homes, she produced an extraordinary archive of around...
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Olivo Barbieri Images 1978-2014
ISBN: HB: 9788831721929, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
216 pp., 25.7x20.6 cm, 150 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Where pictures stop being photography and become images. Olivo Barbieri has been working to represent space, especially urban space, since the 1970s. Various series of images document his research in this book. They include...
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£34,50
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Out of Season
ISBN: HB: 9781861543783, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2016
226 pp., 30.6x24.4 cm
Exceptional colour photographs of the mid-twentieth-century motels of Wildwood, New Jersey, USA, the largest concentration of the exuberant architectural style sometimes known as "doo wop" complete with neon signs and plastic palms. The images in thi...
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Out of Focus
ISBN: HB: 9781861543318, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2012
364 pp., 43.3x32 cm, 360 colour illus.
"Out of Focus" is the book of the first major photography overview at the Saatchi Gallery in London since the highly acclaimed 2001 show "I Am a Camera". "Out of Focus "presents 38 international artists working with the medium of photography in diver...
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Origins of American Photography From Daguerreotype to Dry-plate, 1839-1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300122862, Yale University Press, October 2007
560 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 650 tritone&colour illus.
"The Origins of American Photography" chronicles the emergence of a new visual paradigm, from the introduction of the daguerreotype in 1839 through the Civil War and the exploration of the West to the rise of popular photography in the 1880s. Beautif...
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One/Many Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan
ISBN: PB: 9780935573435, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, April 2006
125 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 70 four-colour illus.
Some of the most celebrated images of nineteenth-century American photography emerged from government-sponsored geological surveys whose purpose was to study and document western territories. Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell, two survey photogr...
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£21,00
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On European Ground
ISBN: HB: 9780226112947, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
128 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 94 duotones
A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember...
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£48,00
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