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Jo Ann Callis Woman Twirling
ISBN: HB: 9780892369560, Getty Publications, May 2009
96 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 69 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
This volume offers a superbly illustrated review of the work of renowned photographer Jo Ann Callis. An artist who has long exploited the emotional power of colour and texture, Jo Ann Callis is widely known for her inventive photographs involving tac...
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£25,00
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Paul Outerbridge Command Performance
ISBN: HB: 9780892369614, Getty Publications, May 2009
144 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 48 colour illus., 62 duotone illus.
In the 1920s, a young American – Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) burst onto the photographic art scene with images that were visually fresh, technically adept, and decidedly Modernist. Not only did he re-invigorate the photographic art of the period, he...
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Carleton Watkins in Yosemite
ISBN: HB: 9780892369454, Getty Publications, April 2009
88 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 50 colour illus.,1 map
This is a stunning photographic journey around the great Yosemite Valley, following in the footsteps of one of its first surveyors. Carleton Eugene Watkins (1829-1916) was one of the most highly acclaimed early western photographers, and one of the f...
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Jindrich Pribik
ISBN: PB: 9788072153473, DAP, Torst, April 2009
120 pp., 18.4x16.5 cm, 64 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Born in 1944, Prague photographer Jindrich Pribik makes supremely complicated work. Over more than 50 years, he has created 40 overlapping series, an intricate web of mutual references and quotations. Many of the works incl...
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£17,50
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Eva Fukova
ISBN: PB: 9788072153060, DAP, Torst, April 2009
128 pp., 17.8x15.8 cm, 80 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! After the Second World War, Czech avant-garde photographer Eva Fukova and her first husband, Vladimir Fuka, were close to the artists of Skupina 42. In 1967, they emigrated to the United States, where Eva Fukova has continu...
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Public Photographic Spaces Propaganda Exhibitions from Pressa to The Family of Man, 1928-55
ISBN: PB: 9788492505067, Bookport, MACBA, March 2009
504 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm
This book focuses from a chronological perspective on photography as a tool for a new visuality and the rupture of the role of the spectator: photographic exhibitions from 1928 to 1955, from the spaces designed by Lissitzky's to The Family of Man; th...
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£53,95
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More Than One Photographs in Sequence
ISBN: PB: 9780300149302, Yale University Press, March 2009
120 pp., 27.3x21.6 cm, 61 colour images, 32 black&white illus.
The essays in "More than One" examine sequentiality and serialism in the practice of photography from the medium's earliest years to the present. Contributors explore nuances of syntax and sense raised by works like photographic albums, books, themat...
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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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First Doubt Optical Confusion in Modern Photography: Selections from the Allan Chasanoff Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300141337, Yale University Press, January 2009
156 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 9 colour images, 77 black&white illus.
Many photographers have been intrigued with the baffling distortions, both subtle and disquieting, that can occur when the camera "captures" the real world. Not always intentional, some images dazzle with impossible juxtapositions or disorienting spa...
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