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Photography

Weegee Murder is My Business

Wallis Brian

ISBN: HB: 9783791353135, Prestel Publishing, September 2013
264 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 267 duotone illus.

Drawn from the International Center of Photography's archives, this book highlights the incomparable style and fascinating career of Weegee, one of New York City's quintessential press photographers. For a decade between 1935 and 1946, Weegee made a...

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Photography

Window in Photographs

Hellman Karen

ISBN: HB: 9781606061442, Getty Publications, September 2013
112 pp., 22.5x18.8 cm, 84 colour illus., 4 black&white photos

This title shows how the window has provided photography with one of its richest and most enduring themes. Photographers have been irresistibly drawn to the window as a powerful source of inspiration throughout the history of the medium. As one of th...

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Photography

William Henry Fox Talbot Beyond Photography

Dean Katrina, Ramalingam Chitra, Robson Eleanor, Brusius Mirjam, Smith Graham, Schaaf Larry J., Schaffer Simon, Wolf Herta

ISBN: HB: 9780300179347, Yale University Press, June 2013
328 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 colour illus.

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age – a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts,...

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Children's Books

Where is the Frog? A Children's Book Inspired by Claude Monet

Elschner Geraldine

ISBN: HB: 9783791371399, Prestel Publishing, February 2013
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 32 colour illus.

Based on the beloved series of water lily paintings by Claude Monet, this children's book draws readers into the atmosphere and colors of Monet's garden at Giverny, where a lovely but vain frog tries to insert herself into the artist's work.

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History of Art

Weatherbeaten Winslow Homer and Maine

Denenberg Thomas A., Bolton Kenyon, O'Gorman James F., Simpson Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300184426, Yale University Press, January 2013
184 pp., 20.3x26.7 cm, 73 colour images, 24 black&white illus.

In 1883 American artist Winslow Homer moved his studio from New York City to Prouts Neck, a slip of coastline just south of Portland, Maine. Here, over the course of 25 years, Homer produced his most celebrated and emotionally powerful paintings, whi...

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Manuals

Wildlife Photography Workshop

Hoddinott Ross, Hall Ben

ISBN: PB: 9781907708572, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, January 2013
176 pp., 23.5x21 cm, 176 photos

Wildlife watchers and aspiring natural-history photographers – collect up your kit and get ready for a practical course with a difference. Photographic workshops are exceptionally popular, but not everybody has the time or budget to attend one in per...

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Nature

Ecology

World in One Cubic Foot Portraits of Biodiversity

Liittschwager David

ISBN: HB: 9780226481234, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
224 pp., 30x30 cm, 985 colour illus.

Twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole world. With every step, we disturb and move through cubic foot after cubic foot. But behold the cubic foot in nature – from cor...

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Fiction

Cartoon Art

Waste Land

Rowson Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780857420411, Seagull Books, October 2012
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, halftones

In Martin Rowson's "The Waste Land", private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland". Cunningly contrived, this irreverent graphic parody i...

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Contemporary Art

Wim Delvoye Introspective

Dannatt Adrian, Duquenne Olivier, Marcade Bernard, Swauwaert Dirk, Verschaffel Bart

ISBN: HB: 9780300188677, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2012
384 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 317 colour and black&white illus.

Wim Delvoye (b. 1965) is known for his inventive and often controversial projects, and his work has been exhibited around the world. One of a generation of Belgian artists who have revolutionized contemporary art, Delvoye explores the body and its fu...

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History of Art

William Burton Conyngham and His Irish Circle of Antiquarian Artists

Harbison Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300180725, Yale University Press, May 2012
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

In the midst of a resurgence of pride in Ireland's history during the 18th century, William Burton, later Conyngham (1733-1796), strove to emulate his British counterparts in producing albums of engravings illustrating the beauties of the country's h...

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