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The Idea of Cuba
ISBN: 9780826341396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Everyone seems to be waiting. A young woman in a pink shirt leans against a pillar. Two men sit on a stoop and look in her direction. Like most Havana streets, this one, Calle Zapatos in Santos Surez, has seen better days. A glance reveals generations of faded paint, cracked plaster, and worn-down sidewalks. It's a curious kind of waiting--at once lethargic and restless--that I've become accustomed to in Cuba. Whatever is going to happen seems a long way off."--Alex HarrisThis remarkable journey into contemporary Cuba by photographer and writer Alex Harris is both a powerful and mysterious...
"Everyone seems to be waiting. A young woman in a pink shirt leans against a pillar. Two men sit on a stoop and look in her direction. Like most Havan...
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157,05 |
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Eye of the West
ISBN: 9780826343192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. More than thirty years ago and armed with little more than a camera and a vision, Western writer and photographer Nancy Wood set out in a battered Subaru to capture a vanishing part of the American West. Focusing on the Grass Roots People of Colorado, the Utes, Taos Pueblo, and homesteaders of Pie Town, New Mexico, Wood devoted nearly twenty years to cataloguing the lives of the rural inhabitants. The result is in an intimate portrait achieved through Wood's long associations with each subject.
"Eye of the West" covers Wood's photographic career and pays tribute to the ideas and techniques... More than thirty years ago and armed with little more than a camera and a vision, Western writer and photographer Nancy Wood set out in a battered Sub...
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78,48 |
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The Practical Methodology of Forensic Photography
ISBN: 9780849320040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Second Edition of this bestseller combines directions for the old tried and true methods of photographic documentation (cameras, films, lighting sources) with analyses of the latest methods used in the practice (video, thermography, digital imaging). Specifically, Redsicker discusses the "how-to" of basic photography, shows the essentials of videography, and offers the fundamentals of aerial, underwater, and surveillance photography as they relate to the presentation of evidence in court. Redsicker presents this information in a practical, step-by-step fashion that is bound to enable...
The Second Edition of this bestseller combines directions for the old tried and true methods of photographic documentation (cameras, films, lighting s...
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cena:
760,69 |
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The Usual Suspects
ISBN: 9780851708690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A heist thriller with a dazzling twist in the tail, this film "The Usual Suspects" has seen its reputation grow until it is now a major cult movie. Ernest Larsen examines the film's sophistcated narrative structure and the new spin it puts on an old genre.
A heist thriller with a dazzling twist in the tail, this film "The Usual Suspects" has seen its reputation grow until it is now a major cult movie. Er...
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67,11 |
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Eyewitness: Four Decades of Northern Life
ISBN: 9780862788445 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. By turns beautiful, poignant, frightening, and funny, "Eyewitness" is a personal pictorial record of life in Northern Ireland over nearly forty years. Murphy's photographs are accompanied by detailed and candid captions revealing the events, people, and atmosphere in the region.This book is distributed for O'Brien Press, Dublin and is for sale only in the United States, it's territories and dependencies, Canada, and the Philippines."
By turns beautiful, poignant, frightening, and funny, "Eyewitness" is a personal pictorial record of life in Northern Ireland over nearly forty yea... |
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196,31 |
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All Changed: Fifty Years of Photographing Ireland
ISBN: 9780862788735 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As Ireland has moved from a traditional to a modern society over the past fifty years, it has seen immense changes in attitude toward the Church, sex, relationships, property, emigration, and life in general. Here we see the faces, the landscapes, and the lives of the recently disappeared Ireland Jack Lynch, JFK, Grace Kelly, Dev, de Gaulle, the Troubles, folk traditions alongside the new faces and styles of modern society.
Distributed for O'Brien Press, Dublin As Ireland has moved from a traditional to a modern society over the past fifty years, it has seen immense changes in attitude toward the Church, sex,...
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157,05 |
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Classic Outdoor Color Portraits: A Guide for Photographers; It's Your Turn to Make a Portrait
ISBN: 9780865343023 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "It's your turn to make a photograph," states the author on the cover of this detailed handbook destined to become a classic instruction manual on portrait photography. And she shows the reader how by going through the basics of this photographic artform step by step in easy-to-follow instructions that will appeal to all levels of experience.
For beginners, a working knowledge of the camera is not even necessary; and for professionals there is more than enough to challenge them to exceed their own present excellence. It has taken the author years of working in the portrait profession to... "It's your turn to make a photograph," states the author on the cover of this detailed handbook destined to become a classic instruction manual on por...
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cena:
88,68 |
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Haunting Memories: Echoes Images Tennessees Past
ISBN: 9780870499302 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
127,55 |
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The Family of Man
ISBN: 9780870703416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in January 1955. This book, the permanent embodiment of Edward Steichen's monumental exhibition, reproduces all of the 503 images that Steichen described as -a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world. Photographs made in all parts of the world, of the gamut of life from birth to death.- A classic and inspiring work, The Family of Man has been in print for more than 40 years. The New York Times once wrote that it...
Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in Janua...
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cena:
126,15 |
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Images of the Rust Belt
ISBN: 9780873386265 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Over the last 150 years, steel production played a vital role in the shaping of our nation. This was especially true in Youngstown, Ohio, a part of what is now often referred to as "the Rust Belt." In their prime, however, the Youngstown mills ran along 25 miles of the Mahoning River and employed tens of thousands of people. All of that changed in September 1977 when the LTV Corporation announced that it was closing its Youngstown Works. Youngstown today struggles for its survival. Higgins's photography places these decaying traces of the industrial landscape squarely amid the magnificence...
Over the last 150 years, steel production played a vital role in the shaping of our nation. This was especially true in Youngstown, Ohio, a part of wh...
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cena:
98,10 |
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Big Picture: The Artistry of D'Arazien
ISBN: 9780873387514 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This visually stunning retrospective gathers highlights of d'Arazien's unparalleled photogenic accomplishments. Arthur d'Arazien's particular talent was to photograph American industry. He recorded with artistry, precision, and passion the powerful, emotional impact of giant machines, immense structures, and complex artifacts. His photographs are the result of meticulous planning and implementation on a grand scale. He was an experimenter and an innovator, pioneering such techniques as multiple exposures on a single sheet of film; lights in motion in the dark; and the use of reflectors, flash...
This visually stunning retrospective gathers highlights of d'Arazien's unparalleled photogenic accomplishments. Arthur d'Arazien's particular talent w...
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135,24 |
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A Singular People: Images of Zoar
ISBN: 9780873387675 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A pictorial view of the Separatist community of Zoar The community of Zoar has been a tourist attraction since it was founded in 1817, due in part to its uncommon experiment in Christian communal living, its German heritage, and its location on the Ohio & Erie Canal. There is an unusually rich photographic record of the community and its people as well as many descriptions and comments by writers who wished to share their impressions of the Old World town. Today a restored village with a ten-museum complex operated by the Ohio Historical Society, Zoar... A pictorial view of the Separatist community of Zoar The community of Zoar has been a tourist attraction since it was found... |
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115,73 |
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Cleveland's Urban Landscape: The Sacred and the Transient
ISBN: 9780873387712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Every city has its own textures, its own special relationship to land and water, its own light, its own night. Cleveland's history-haunted, labor-encrusted, smoke-grimed nights is a place as varied in texture as any in America. It echoes in the interior darkness of the camera lens during lonely, leisurely hours as Levy wanders the city. Levy's photos seek realities that can spark some recognition at a subconscious level, a combination of eye and time and device that suddenly, sometimes, generates a new type of seeing."--Douglas Max Utter, Foreword In 1999... "Every city has its own textures, its own special relationship to land and water, its own light, its own night. Cleveland's history-haunted, labor-... |
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96,41 |
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My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America, 1840-1860
ISBN: 9780873388375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. During the nineteenth century--a time of great technical and cultural change--fashion was a cultivating force in the development of American society, influenced by one's social status, geographic location, and economic standing. My Likeness Taken is a collection of daguerreotype portraits of men, women, and children taken between 1840 and 1860. Selected from the top collections in the United States, each image is analyzed to clarify datable clothing and fashion components. With subjects from among the best-dressed members of society, these portraits--reproduced in full color--reflect the...
During the nineteenth century--a time of great technical and cultural change--fashion was a cultivating force in the development of American society, ...
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255,20 |
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Growing Season : The Life of a Migrant Community
ISBN: 9780873388924 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When photographer Gary Harwood first stepped onto the K. W. Zellers family farm in Hartville, Ohio, to take pictures of the Mexican migrant workers there, he did not expect to find such a strong, tightly knit community. Over the next five years he used his camera to study the lives and work of these migrants in their northeastern Ohio home. His artful photography captures the migrants' portraits and movingly conveys their great pride in work and family, their struggles and joys. Accompanying these vibrant photographs are revealing first-person narratives written by David Hassler. The voices...
When photographer Gary Harwood first stepped onto the K. W. Zellers family farm in Hartville, Ohio, to take pictures of the Mexican migrant workers th...
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cena:
73,56 |
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Steel Remembered: Photos from the LTV Steel Collection
ISBN: 9780873389112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A photographic showcase of the heyday of the steel industry
Published in cooperation with Western Reserve Historical Society In the first half of the twentieth century, the steel industry was the major heavy industry in the U.S. and the bellwether of regional economic might. Today, the remnants of the steel industry are rapidly disappearing. The once giant mills that employed thousands are slowly decaying or have been torn down. This decay and decline has attracted numerous photographers, and a number of books have been published highlighting... A photographic showcase of the heyday of the steel industry
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157,05 |
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The Twin Cities: Then and Now
ISBN: 9780873513272 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Because of their relative stability, streets offer an incomparable framework for looking at the urban past and comparing it to the present," writes Millett in his introduction to Twin Cities Then and Now, which consists of seventy-two historic street scenes matched with new photographs taken from the same locations. Accompanying each scene is an informative essay that examines the often astonishing changes wrought by time and circumstance.
The historic photographs, some published here for the first time, include views taken from as long ago as the 1880s and as recently as the late... "Because of their relative stability, streets offer an incomparable framework for looking at the urban past and comparing it to the present," writes M...
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115,73 |
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Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969
ISBN: 9780873513548 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When photographer Jerome Liebling arrived in Minnesota from his native New York City in 1949, he was a young man of twenty-five launching what would be nationally recognized as a distinguished career in fine art photography.
Here, in 118 photographs, is portrayed Liebling's Minnesota. During two decades marked by social, political, and cultural change, Liebling traveled the state and found his largest subject--the depiction and interpretation of commonplace human experience. The images range from the grain elevators and skid row of Minneapolis to the slaughterhouses of... When photographer Jerome Liebling arrived in Minnesota from his native New York City in 1949, he was a young man of twenty-five launching what would b...
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231,26 |
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Voices for the Land: Minnesotans Write About the Places They Love
ISBN: 9780873514323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "A place is not a thing," writes Paul Gruchow in the foreword to Voices for the Land, "it is a relationship. A location becomes a place only in the context of time, of history." In this extraordinary tribute to the importance of the ordinary places in our lives, fifty-two Minnesotans write about the special, sometimes secret, places that give their lives meaning. For some it is their home or cabin or lake. For others, it's a family farm or neighborhood park, a backyard garden or north woods trail: all places where we find a personal and spiritual connection to the land.
Voices for... "A place is not a thing," writes Paul Gruchow in the foreword to Voices for the Land, "it is a relationship. A location becomes a place only in the co...
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91,74 |
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Strange Days, Dangerous Nights: Photos from the Speed Graphic Era
ISBN: 9780873515047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Fat men's races and fall-out shelters, murder victims and loose women, cheerleaders and immigrants, celebrities and children in distress were just some of the urban curiosities splashed across the pages of city newspapers during the Speed Graphic era (1930s-1950s). Championed by acclaimed news photographers like Arthur Fellig (a.k.a. Weegee), the Speed Graphic camera produced a new visual style that was as blunt, powerful, and immediate as a left hook.
Driven by the desire to fill newspaper pages with sensational images, press photographers shot everything, day and night:... Fat men's races and fall-out shelters, murder victims and loose women, cheerleaders and immigrants, celebrities and children in distress were just som...
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cena:
115,73 |