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Photography, Trace, and Trauma
ISBN: PB: 9780226370163, ISBN: HB: 9780226370026, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
184 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 17 colour plates, 29 halftones
Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer – similar to what happens when a traumatic ev...
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£26,50
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£80,00
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Photo-Graphics: Exposure An Infographic Guide to Photography
ISBN: PB: 9781781452707, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, December 2016
176 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, colour illus.
Photographers are visual people. They communicate in pictures. So, what better way to explore and explain the creative tools and techniques of photography – and the science behind them – than through info-graphics? "Photo-Graphics: Exposure" looks be...
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£14,99
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Portable Studio
ISBN: HB: 9781861543806, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2016
608 pp., 22x17.5 cm
"Portable Studio" documents contemporary British youth culture, and was created in collaboration with the young people Appleson met and photographed on the streets of Birmingham in 2014. Inspired by the way identities are now curated online, the proj...
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£35,00
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Public Image Photography and Civic Spectatorship
ISBN: HB: 9780226342931, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 colour plates
Even as the media environment has changed dramatically in recent years, one thing at least remains true: photographs are everywhere. From professional news photos to smartphone selfies, images have become part of the fabric of modern life. And that m...
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£28,00
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Photos that Changed the World New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9783791382371, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
216 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 65 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.
In lavish two-page spreads, this book presents nearly one hundred of history's most memorable photographs – from the Wright Brothers' first flight to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech to Nelson Mandela's r...
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Pandora's Box Jan Dibbets on Another Photography
ISBN: HB: 9782759603343, DAP, Paris Musees, August 2016
256 pp., 31.8x22.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 200 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Jan Dibbets' dissenting and unashamedly biased "Pandora's Box" offers nothing less than a reinterpretation of the entire history of art photography, arguing that scientific photography was the realm where the medium's real...
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£22,00
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Pavel Dias, Photographs 1956-2015
ISBN: PB: 9788024630175, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2016
258 pp., 29.2x19 cm, 180 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Pavel Dias's work forms one of the touchstones of Czech journalistic and documentary photography. Working at a time when the stiffness of form and content called for by Soviet ideology was...
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Power of Pictures Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film
ISBN: HB: 9780300207682, Yale University Press, October 2015
240 pp., 28x22.2 cm, 148 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist pho...
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£30,00
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Practical Photojournalism A Professional Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781781451175, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2015
260 pp., 24.3x19 cm, photos
Press photography is not just a career – it's a way of life – and photojournalists have a ringside seat on contemporary history. This book explains how to capitalise on that ringside seat. Written by an expert in the field, "Practical Photojournalism...
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£19,99
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Portraits The Human Clay
ISBN: HB: 9780300215205, Yale University Press, September 2015
224 pp., 24.5x28 cm, 234 duotone illus.
American photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has had an expansive career, photographing his subjects-from family and friends to political figures and celebrities-in their everyday environments, while simultaneously changing the very landscape of h...
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