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Cheong Soo Pieng Visions of Southeast Asia
ISBN: HB: 9789810895990, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2010
280 pp., 27.4x21.6 cm, photos
Cheong Soo Pieng was an artist who created visually fresh pictures of Southeast Asia's landscapes and people by marrying the artistic traditions of the East and the West. Common Southeast Asian subjects, such as people busy drying fish or the gracefu...
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£44,00
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Uncarved Block
ISBN: HB: 9783037782279, Lars Muller Publishers, June 2010
160 pp., 30x24 cm, 120 illus.
Hamish Fulton's photographic work focuses on nature and the way people experience nature. He has been hiking all over the world for 30 years, and translates what he experiences and sees into art. In 2009, Hamish Fulton and an expedition team climbed...
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£30,00
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Lee Friedlander America by Car
ISBN: HB: 9781935202080, DAP, Fraenkel Gallery, June 2010
200 pp., 45.7x44.4 cm, 190 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country's vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make th...
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£415,00
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Urban Vodou Politics and Popular Street Art in Haiti
ISBN: PB: 9781904955603, Signal Books, June 2010
192 pp., 27.3x21 cm, colour illus.
For sale in CIS only! From 1986 to 1994 the Caribbean nation of Haiti experienced a series of dramatic events: the overthrow of 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, the violent disruption of voting, the overwhelming electoral victory of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a co...
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£14,99
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Galleries of Friendship and Fame A History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums
ISBN: PB: 9780300154061, Yale University Press, April 2010
216 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 49 black&white illus.
"Galleries of Friendship and Fame" is the first comprehensive investigation of the origin, development, and practices of 19th-century American photograph albums. In this fascinating book, the author argues that the album – whether functioning as fami...
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£55,00
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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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Framing the West The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
ISBN: HB: 9780300158915, Yale University Press, March 2010
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 1 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.
The image of the untamed American West persists as one of that country's most enduring cultural myths, and few photographers have captured more compelling images of the frontier than Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Trained under Mathew Brady, O'Sullivan accom...
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£55,00
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Andreas Serrano El Dedo en la Llaga
ISBN: PB: 9788496466432, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, February 2010
206 pp., 24.1x18.4 cm, illus.
This is a visually stunning showcase of the most iconic images from controversial photographer Andres Serrano. Since the beginning of the 1980s, photographer Andres Serrano has addressed the contemporary world's most controversial issues in his image...
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£45,00
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Grande Atlantico Cargo Ship Stories
ISBN: HB: 9788862420167, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, January 2010
96 pp., 24x16 cm, colour photos
The smell of naphtha fuel in the air, nostalgia clenched to the banister - the ship Grande Atlantico smokes under immense skies, which clear up and cloud over as she voyages from Buenos Aires to Hamburg, stops at Paranagua, Santos and Rio. Crossing t...
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£17,99
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Circus Girl
ISBN: HB: 9781906497330, Seagull Books, January 2010
146 pp., 23.9x23.6 cm, 79 halftones
Circuses provide surreal, fantastic entertainment. At times magical and at others chilling, the circus is a world of magic and spectacle for the viewer, but for the performer, a career in the circus often brings with it a nomadic, lonely life. In "Ci...
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£26,50
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