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Nicolo Degiorgis: Hidden Islam Islamic Makeshift Places of Worship in North East Italy, 2009-2013
ISBN: HB: 9788890981708, DAP, Rorhof, October 2015
90 pp., 24.6x17.2 cm, 43 colour illus., 84 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In Italy the right to worship without discrimination is enshrined in the constitution. There are 1.35 million Muslims in Italy and yet, officially, only eight mosques in the whole country. Consequently, the Muslim populatio...
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Frank Browne A Life Through the Lens
ISBN: HB: 9780300208153, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 220 tritone illus.
Born in Cork, Ireland, Francis Browne (1880-1960) was both a distinguished Jesuit and an accomplished photographer. At age 17, before commencing his studies for the priesthood, he embarked on a tour of Europe armed with a camera; Browne continued to...
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Vladimir Jindrich Bufka
ISBN: PB: 9788072154012, DAP, Torst, September 2014
148 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 78 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Despite a career that was curtailed at the age of 29, Vladimir Jindrich Bufka (1887-1916) was one of the most distinctive early-twentieth-century art photographers in Prague and indeed in all of Austria-Hungary. Bufka drew...
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We Shall Photographs by Paul D'Amato
ISBN: HB: 9780978907471, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, January 2014
102 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 47 colour plates
In "Barrio", photographer Paul D'Amato turned his lens to the largely Mexican-American Chicago neighborhoods of Pilsen and the Little Village, capturing their residents' homes and lives in multifaceted, dynamic images of weddings and graffiti artists...
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£34,00
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William Henry Fox Talbot Beyond Photography
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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Jean-Luc Moulene Opus + One
ISBN: HB: 9780300188820, Yale University Press, January 2013
264 pp., 29.2x19.1 cm, 100 colour illus.
Since the late 1980s, Jean-Luc Moulene (b. 1955) has developed a body of work informed by a critical investigation of artistic authorship, addressing such issues as autonomy, immanence, and anarchic politics. Although he is best known for his enigmat...
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Images in Spite of All Four Photographs from Auschwitz
ISBN: PB: 9780226148175, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 30 halftones
Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clan...
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan The King Survey Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9780300179842, Yale University Press, February 2012
260 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 345 colour and black&white illus.
Clarence King's Survey, undertaken between 1867 and 1872, covered a vast swathe of terrain, from the border of California eastward to the edge of the Great Plains. It was the first survey to include a full-time photographer – Timothy O'Sullivan – who...
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Edge of Faith
ISBN: HB: 9781906497316, Seagull Books, November 2009
140 pp., 25.1x24.9 cm, 70 halftones
Located on the west coast of India along the Arabian Sea, Goa officially became an Indian state in 1987 after nearly 500 years of Portuguese rule. This conflict of cultures is captured by Indian photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta in "The Edge of Faith"....
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Photographs of Homer Page The Guggenheim Year: New York, 1949-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300154436, Yale University Press, July 2009
144 pp., 28.4x28.4 cm, 98 duotone illus.
Focuses on Homer Page's New York photographs taken while he was a Guggenheim Fellow during the late '40s.
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£38,00
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