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Tunnels
ISBN: PB: 9781861542762, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, October 2005
112 pp., 26x20 cm, 125 colour illus.
Through reportage photographs of people in the private and public environment, "Tunnels" explores the idea of isolation and the boundaries of knowing others and ourselves. Andre Principe's work is about emotions. In "Tunnels", the artist looks at lon...
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£22,00
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Perfect Medium Photography and the Occult
ISBN: HB: 9780300111361, Yale University Press, September 2005
288 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 280 colour illus.
In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substant...
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£60,00
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Dora Lives The Authorized Story of Miki Dora
ISBN: HB: 9781890481179, DAP, September 2005
142 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 60 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The surfing iconoclast who became an icon, Miki Dora was the epitome of 1960s beach culture. His dark good looks were the envy of Malibu. His talent earned him trophies (which he disdained) and the nickname "Da Cat". And in...
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£40,00
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Eva Davidova
ISBN: PB: 9788072152346, DAP, Torst, August 2005
112 pp., 18.4x16.5 cm, 108 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Ethnographer, sociologist, art historian and photographer, Eva Davidova is one of the founders of Gypsy (Roma) studies in the Czech Republic and has been illuminating and investigating this secretive society for half a cent...
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£14,99
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Drive by Shooting
ISBN: HB: 9781861542786, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2005
56 pp., 34x34 cm, 25 colour illus.
The first in a planned series of books on photography by Max Forsythe, "Drive by Shooting" presents a unique and unrepeatable view of life, society and the myriad moments that surround us through photographs shot from inside moving cars, trains and r...
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£25,00
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Art of Frederick Sommer Photography, Drawing, Collage
ISBN: HB: 9780300107838, Yale University Press, April 2005
240 pp., 33x29 cm, 116 duotone & tritone illus., 104 colour illus.
"In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation" – Frederick Sommer This stunning book, published in the artist's centenary, chronicles the extraordinary life and work of Frederick Sommer (1905-1999). One of the great masters and key in...
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£50,00
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Red Empty (Chicago 2003)
ISBN: PB: 9780945323044, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, April 2005
128 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 56 colour plates
Light and darkness transform city buildings into surreal structures: an ordinary gray concrete building in plain daylight changes at night into a mysterious monolith or, under a blue-tinted lens, into an ethereal edifice. Swedish artist Carl Michael...
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£16,50
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Anthracite Ghosts
ISBN: PB: 9780940866454, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
103 pp., 28x21.7 cm
Walter Dinteman wandered the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1973, photographic the remains of the anthracite coal industry. Many of these buildings have long since decayed. Dinteman's photographs tell the story of beauty amid d...
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£19,00
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Speed, Style, and Beauty Cars from the Ralph Lauren Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780878466856, DAP, MFA Publications, March 2005
210 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 196 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Bugatti and Bentley, Alfa and Aston, Mercedes and McLaren – these are not merely cars, they are some of the most exquisite automobiles ever assembled, selected by Ralph Lauren, one of the foremost designers of our time. Thi...
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£53,00
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Vaclav Chochola
ISBN: PB: 9788072152100, DAP, Torst, August 2004
136 pp., 17.8x15.9 cm, 83 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Moving between art photography, documentary and straightforward reporting, Vaclav Chochola has found many of his motifs on the outskirts of Prague, where he was born. Inspired by Surrealism, Skupina 42, urban life, and post...
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£13,99
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