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No Caption Needed Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226316123, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
432 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 53 halftones
In "No Caption Needed", Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subseq...
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£22,50
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Still Rainin' Still Dreamin' Hall Anderson's Ketchikan
ISBN: PB: 9781889963907, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
118 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 halftones
A staff photographer for the Ketchikan Daily News, Hall Anderson counted among his early influences photographers like Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who understood the visual bounty to be found in photographing the candid side of life. For...
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£26,50
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Arctic Sanctuary Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
ISBN: HB: 9781602230880, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2010
173 pp., 22.8x35.5 cm, 162 colour illus.
Guided by photographer Jeff Jones's sure and well-developed vision, "Arctic Sanctuary" leads the reader on a remarkable journey that few of us will ever take in real life: a trek deep into Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By turns celebrator...
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£41,50
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Architecture Under Construction
ISBN: HB: 9780226306421, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
120 pp., 28x28 cm, 80 halftones
Mies van der Rohe once commented, "Only skyscrapers under construction reveal their bold constructive thoughts, and then the impression made by their soaring skeletal frames is overwhelming". Never has this statement resonated more than in recent yea...
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£36,00
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Point Hope, Alaska Life on Frozen Water
ISBN: HB: 9781602230651, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2009
204 pp., 27.9x25 cm, 192 halftones
This book is a window to the daily life and the environment of the Tikigaq, the Inupiaq people of "Point Hope, Alaska", as seen in photographs taken by young Norwegian artist Berit Arnestad Foote from 1959 to 1962. In Berit Foote's days in Point Hope...
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£49,00
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Look at me Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding
ISBN: HB: 9780226248523, University of Chicago Press, March 2009
144 pp., 33.6x27.3 cm, 68 duotones
Sight is central to the medium of photography. But what happens when the subjects of photographic portraits cannot look back at the photographer or even see their own image? An in-depth pictorial study of blind schoolchildren in Mexico, "Look at me"...
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£44,00
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Journey to Nine Islands
ISBN: PB: 9780939914098, University of Chicago Press, February 2008
96 pp., 30.5x22.8 cm, colour illus.
Accompanied by charming and accessible text, the floral centerfolds of "Journey to Nine Islands" invite the reader to participate in the world of the Chicago Botanic Garden – one of the nation's most visited public gardens and a preeminent center for...
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£16,50
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Chicago under Glass Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
ISBN: HB: 9780226089300, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
272 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 260 duotones
When the "Chicago Daily News" closed its doors in March 1978 after over a century of publication, the city mourned the loss of an American original".The Daily News" boasted the inventive, aggressive writing of such luminaries as Carl Sandburg and Ben...
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£34,00
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
ISBN: HB: 9780226293257, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
260 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 230 colour plates
Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U. S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America's military triumph as l...
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£28,00
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Images of the West Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880
ISBN: HB: 9780932171542, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, August 2007
136 pp., 28.6x23.3 cm, 100 colour plates
As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U. S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories".Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections", 1860-1880 presents memorable glass-plate photograp...
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