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I Am Alaskan
ISBN: HB: 9781602232136, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2013
216 pp., 26.7x26.7 cm, 200 colour plates
What does an Alaskan look like? When asked to visualize someone from Alaska, the image most people conjure up is one of a face lost in a parka, surrounded by snow. Missing from this image is the vibrant diversity of those who call themselves Alaskans...
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£37,50
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Ingrid Bergman: A Life in Pictures, 1915-1982 Stockholm, Berlin, Hollywood, Rome, New York, Paris, London
ISBN: HB: 9783829606608, Schirmer-Mosel, September 2013
528 pp., 31x24 cm, 385 colour and duotone plates
Ingrid Bergman is arguably the greatest film actress of the 20th century. In conjunction with her upcoming 100th birthday, which will be celebrated on 29 August 2015, her four children—Pia Lindstrِm, Isabella, Ingrid and Roberto Rossellini—have given...
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£98,00
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I, Jack Russell A Photographer and a Dog's Eye View
ISBN: PB: 9781861543219, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, December 2012
232 pp., 25.5x20.3 cm, full-colour illus.
This thought and the fact that he had many more photographs of his dogs than his family and friends, led photographer Andy Hughes to this visual exploration of the relationship between dogs and their human companions and how they are increasingly int...
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£22,00
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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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£19,50
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In the Picture Self-portraits, 1958-2011
ISBN: PB: 9780300177299, Yale University Press, November 2011
468 pp., 21.6x24.1 cm, 450 duotone illus.
Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has been tackling the challenge of self-portraiture throughout his prolific career. What began as an unorthodox investigation of the genre has become a masterful engagement spanning five decades. In this extraordinary compil...
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£55,00
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Issues in the Conservation of Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9781606060001, Getty Publications, August 2010
752 pp., 25.4x17.9 cm, 36 colour illus., 55 black&white illus.,111 line drawings
This is an authoritative and insightful survey of the evolving field of photograph conservation. This volume is the first publication to chronicle the emergence and systematic development of photograph conservation as a profession. In 72 essential te...
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£55,00
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Ipswich Days Arthur Wesley Dow and His Home Town
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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£25,00
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Images of the West Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880
ISBN: HB: 9780932171542, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, August 2007
136 pp., 28.6x23.3 cm, 100 colour plates
As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U. S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories".Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections", 1860-1880 presents memorable glass-plate photograp...
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Iren Stehli
ISBN: PB: 9788072152841, DAP, Torst, July 2007
176 pp., 17.8x15.9 cm, 125 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This survey of Iren Stehli's images from 1973 to 2001 captures Czech life over an intense three decades. The artist, born in Zurich in 1953, studied photography in Prague in the mid-70s. In the late 60s, her adopted country...
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In Focus Edward Weston
ISBN: PB: 9780892368099, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm, 61 illus.
A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (1886-1958) began his long and colourful career in Southern California. Among the more than fifty prints gleaned from the Getty Museum's important collection of approximately 240 works tha...
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£14,99
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