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Meaning of Photography

Kelsey Robin, Stimson Blake, Batchen Geoffrey, Brunet Francois, Harper Sharon, LoCurto Lilla, Outcault William, Tan Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780300121506, Yale University Press, April 2008
208 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 75 black&white illus.

How can we write the histories of photography? How should art history and visual studies integrate the special technical and aesthetic challenges posed by the medium and respond to the intense interest it has provoked in the art world in recent years...

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Edouard Baldus at the Chateau de la Faloise

Ganz James A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300103526, Yale University Press, March 2008
48 pp., 26x17.7 cm, 30 colour illus.

Edouard Baldus (1813-1889) was the most important French architectural photographer of the mid-nineteenth century. This book offers an in-depth exploration of one of his most intriguing projects – a remarkable series of views of the Chateau de La Fal...

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Andrew Bush Drive

Bush Andrew, Morrison Patt, Rosenheim Jeff L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300136487, Yale University Press, March 2008
146 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 60 colour illus.

Many of us know that automobiles are expressions of our individuality and personality. We may not realize, however, that the car can also provide the most space over which we have complete control in our daily lives. Being in the car is private and p...

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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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Josef Sudek Portraits

Rezac Jan

ISBN: HB: 9788072153190, DAP, Torst, March 2008
96 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 86 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Although the Czech photographer Josef Sudek was mildly reclusive by temperament, and although his photography is commonly characterized as unpeopled (in favor of what he termed "the inanimate life of objects"), a sizable po...

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Graciela Iturbide Juchitan

Keller Judith

ISBN: HB: 9780892369058, Getty Publications, February 2008
75 pp., 27.3x24.8 cm, 50 black&white photos

Between 1979 and 1988, celebrated photographer Graciela Iturbide made a series of visits to Juchitan, Mexico, where – in her own words – she photographed the community and their way of life "in complicity with the people". Located in the state of Oax...

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Journey to Nine Islands

ISBN: PB: 9780939914098, University of Chicago Press, February 2008
96 pp., 30.5x22.8 cm, colour illus.

Accompanied by charming and accessible text, the floral centerfolds of "Journey to Nine Islands" invite the reader to participate in the world of the Chicago Botanic Garden – one of the nation's most visited public gardens and a preeminent center for...

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Ipswich Days Arthur Wesley Dow and His Home Town

Fairbrother Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9780300132915, Yale University Press, January 2008
136 pp., 19.1x19.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) is renowned for his paintings and prints that take their subject matter from nature and reflect the orderly design and fine handcrafting championed by the Arts & Crafts movement. This char...

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Edward Weston's Book of Nudes

Weston Edward, Newhall Nancy

ISBN: HB: 9780892369034, Getty Publications, November 2007
96 pp., 28.5x26.7 cm, 70 duotone photos

Edward Henry Weston (1886-1958) first started taking photographs at the age of sixteen with a camera given to him by his father. Over the next five decades, he would come to be regarded by his peers as one of the greatest photographers of the twentie...

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Chicago under Glass Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News

Jacob Mark, Cahan Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226089300, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
272 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 260 duotones

When the "Chicago Daily News" closed its doors in March 1978 after over a century of publication, the city mourned the loss of an American original".The Daily News" boasted the inventive, aggressive writing of such luminaries as Carl Sandburg and Ben...

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