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Latoya Ruby Frazier The Last Cruze
ISBN: PB: 9780941548793, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, June 2020
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 colour plates, 116 halftones
As the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio halted production and faced possible closure, displacing its workers, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier joined with these workers, their families, and their local union leaders to tell the story of the plant in...
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£40,00
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After the Crisis Contemporary States of Photography
ISBN: PB: 9783035802023, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
160 pp., 18.6x11.8 cm, 20 halftones
"After the Crisis" offers a platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today. Contributors come from the realms of critical theory...
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£20,00
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Dark Lens Imaging Germany, 1945
ISBN: HB: 9780226625638, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 41 halftones
The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of them force us to identify with the suffering of the enemy and raise uncomfortable questions about forgivenes...
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£27,00
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Allowed to Grow Old Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries
ISBN: HB: 9780226391373, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 48 colour plates
There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet – a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been domesticated. Farm animals, for example, are usu...
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£30,00
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto Someday, Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780985096083, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, November 2018
152 pp., 22.9x26.7 cm, 30 colour plates, 90 halftones
This book examines the work of US-born photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012) through its connections to Chicago, where he lived for over a decade and returned to repeatedly throughout his life. Long celebrated in Japan as one of the most influen...
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£26,50
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Carrie Mae Weems Strategies of Engagement
ISBN: PB: 9781892850331, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2018
225 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 115 colour plates, 30 halftones
Few American artists today are creating work as striking and politically charged as Carrie Mae Weems".Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement" explores a unique body of aesthetically powerful work that is particularly relevant in the context of cu...
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£30,00
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Vivian Maier A Photographer's Life and Afterlife
ISBN: PB: 9780226599236, ISBN: HB: 9780226470757, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to b...
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£15,00
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£26,50
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Object Lessons Zofia Rydet's "Sociological Record"
ISBN: PB: 9788364177378, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, May 2018
280 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 140 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! In 1978, Zofia Rydet (1911-1097) began work on a monumental project that would come to be known as her "Sociological Record": photographing the people of Poland at their homes, she produced an extraordinary archive of around...
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£26,50
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Inadvertent Images A History of Photographic Apparitions
ISBN: HB: 9780226471877, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 18 colour plates, 58 halftones
As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how...
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£41,00
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There Was a Whole Collection Made Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman
ISBN: HB: 9780935573565, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, December 2017
240 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 235 colour plates
In 2014, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago received a generous gift from collectors Lester and Betty Guttman: 830 photographs, created by a total of 414 artists, that cover a time period stretching all the way from the early 1800s...
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