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Michael Kenna Rouge
ISBN: HB: 9783791382975, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
192 pp., 28x24 cm, 100 black&white illus.
One of the world's most acclaimed photographers working exclusively in black-and-white, Michael Kenna has traveled the world to create stunning, magical images of nature and manmade objects. Known for the ethereal tone and incredibly nuanced detail o...
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£45,00
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Autobiographies, 1970-2015
ISBN: PB: 9788416248742, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, October 2016
264 pp., 30x21.3 cm, illustrations throughout
In this book, this Australian photographer, one of the great contemporary photographers, gathers together a personal biography in which photographs mix with all kinds of personal and sentimental documents: facsimiles of his notebooks and diaries, pas...
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£40,00
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Drum Thing
ISBN: HB: 9783791382692, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
256 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.
The drummer is usually the least well-known member of any band. Yet behind every frontman is the person keeping the beat, and often acting as the music's driving force. In these incredible portraits, Deirdre O'Callaghan places drummers squarely in th...
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£35,00
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New York A Century of Aerial Photography
ISBN: HB: 9783791382937, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
240 pp., 32.5x24 cm, 20 black&white illus., 160 colour illus.
From the ground, New York City can feel like a chaotic jumble of traffic, pedestrians, one-way streets, parks, and buildings of every shape and size. But above the city, away from the cacophony and the commotion, New York can be tranquil and awe-insp...
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£29,99
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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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£14,99
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Jo Ractliffe The Borderlands
ISBN: HB: 9788416282067, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2016
176 pp., 30.5x24 cm, black&white photos
Since 2007 Ractliffe s photography has focused on the aftermath of the war in Angola. Ractliffe writes: For most South Africans, Angola was perceived as a distant elsewhere the border where brothers and boyfriends were sent as part of their military...
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£39,00
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Modelling for the Camera Photography of Architectural Models in Spain, 1925-1970
ISBN: PB: 9788416248551, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, July 2016
208 pp., 26x20 cm, black&white photos
This book pays tribute to two important systems of architectural representation: the model and the photography. It rescues over one hundred original photographs of outstanding models finally built or not built in Spain during the twentieth-century. A...
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£31,00
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Black Cowboys
ISBN: PB: 9788416248544, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, June 2016
160 pp., 29x24 cm, colour photos
The cowboy, one of America s most enduring cultural icons, has become identified with the white gunslinger in the popular imagination. However, in the 19th century over one-third of these cowboys were actually Black cowboys. With this photo series in...
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£31,00
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Style of Her Own
ISBN: HB: 9788416248483, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2016
256 pp., 28.5x21 cm, illus.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe transformed and modernized the look of fashion magazines in the thirties, forties and fifties, the period during which she was active, and hence played a significant role in providing the world of fashion with a new image. Similarly...
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£43,00
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Erik Kessels Image Tsunami
ISBN: FLEXI: 9788416282531, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, February 2016
313 pp., 23x17 cm, colour photos
We are living in the midst of a photographic renaissance in which we have become accustomed to consuming imagery with the same greed and gusto that we consume fast food. In order to cope with the deluge of images being force fed into our retinas on a...
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£20,00
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