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Blue Notes in Black and White Photography and Jazz

Cawthra Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226100746, ISBN: HB: 9780226098753, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 65 halftones

Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. John Coltrane, one hand behind his neck and a finger held pensively to his lips. These iconic images have captivated jazz fans nearly as much...

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Box of Photographs

Grenier Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780226308319, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
120 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 16 halftones

Most attempts to generalize about photography as a medium run up against our experience of the photographs themselves. We live with photos and cameras every day, and philosophies of the photographic image do little to shake our intimate sense of how...

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Boris Mikhailov Time is out of Joint

ISBN: HB: 9783942405645, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
176 pp., 27.5x23 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

Since starting out as a photographer in the mid-1960s, Boris Mikhailov (b. Kharkov, Ukraine, 1938; lives and works in Kharkov and Berlin) has built a wide-ranging and strikingly multifaceted oeuvre. A virtuoso of his art, he has explored a great vari...

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Berenice Abbott

Morel Gaelle

ISBN: PB: 9780300182002, Yale University Press, March 2012
240 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 150 colour illus.

The American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is known best for her documentation of New York in the 1930s and for her efforts to gain recognition for the work of Eugene Atget in both Europe and the United States. This attractive book feature...

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Brush and Shutter Early Photography in China

Cody Jeffrey W., Terpak Frances

ISBN: HB: 9781606060544, Getty Publications, February 2011
220 pp., 27.5x28.4 cm, 61 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.

This title offers a lavishly illustrated exploration of the history of photography in China. Photography was introduced to China in the 1840s through the West's engagement in the Opium Wars and the subsequent reforms of Chinese statesmen. As a result...

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Black in White America

Freed Leonard

ISBN: HB: 9781606060117, Getty Publications, August 2010
216 pp., 25.7x22.1 cm, 208 black&white illus.

This is a powerful and evocative photographic essay on African American life during the Civil Rights movement. "Black in White America" by Leonard Freed (1929-2006) is a facsimile edition of a powerful photo essay, first published 1968, that looks at...

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History of Art

Buddhist Art An Historical and Cultural Journey

Beguin Giles

ISBN: HB: 9789749863879, Prestel Publishing, River Books, October 2009
400 pp., 32.2x25.1 cm, colour photos

Buddhism and its art is the one truly unifying factor of the entire Asian continent and has become a fundamental part of our shared world heritage. To draw a unique portrait of this art in a single work is a formidable undertaking due to the great pl...

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Brought to Light Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900

Keller Corey, Tucker Jennifer, Gunning Tom, Groning Maren

ISBN: HB: 9780300142105, Yale University Press, September 2008
208 pp., 25.7x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

"Brought to Light" invites readers to step back to a time when photography, X-rays, and movies were new, when forays into the world beneath the skin or the realm beyond our everyday vision captivated scientists and the public alike. In this book, acc...

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Bohumil Krcil

Hlavackova Jitka

ISBN: PB: 9788072153091, DAP, Torst, March 2008
120 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 76 duotone

Not for sale in Estonia! The work of the legendary late photographer and samizdat publisher Bohumil "Bob" Krcil, who was born in 1952, is little known in his native country. He left Czechoslovakia in 1969, and for the next 23 years, traveled extens...

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Between Past and Future New Photography and Video from China

Hung Wu, Phillips Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780935573398, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, June 2004
224 pp., 28.5x25.6 cm, 75 colour images, 40 halftones

The massive political, economic, and social changes China has undergone during the past decade have dramatically altered its cultural landscape. The exhibition "New Photography from China" and its catalogue offer the first comprehensive look at the b...

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