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The Sonia and Kaye Marvins Portrait Collection
ISBN: 9780890900680 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1984, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of their portrait studio, Kaye and Sonia Marvins proposed to build a photographic portrait collection for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Their passion to build this collection came from their long-standing interest in portrait photography and as Mr. Marvins explained, "because Houston Has been very good to my family and me, and we wanted to do something in return." Since the initial exhibition, the generosity of Sonia and Kaye Marvins, Michele and Michael Marvins, Libby and Buz Marvins, and Kaye Marvins Photography, Inc. has allowed the...
In 1984, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of their portrait studio, Kaye and Sonia Marvins proposed to build a photographic portrait collection ...
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54,26 |
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Journeys Into Czech-Moravian Texas
ISBN: 9780890967515 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Texas today has more Czech Americans than any other state in the nation. Though the total number who can claim Czech ancestry is unclear and disputable, possibly as many as four hundred thousand Texans are of Czech descent. But in the next few decades the ethnic heritage will change dramatically as the number of Czech-language speakers continues to dwindle.
In "Journeys into Czech-Moravian Texas, " Sean N. Gallup honors the multicultural richness of rural America by revealing a rich and still-flourishing culture that is relatively unknown. Through a combination of more than one hundred... Texas today has more Czech Americans than any other state in the nation. Though the total number who can claim Czech ancestry is unclear and disputabl...
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118,45 |
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George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile
ISBN: 9780890967799 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As forty-first president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush witnessed many great changes: the fall of the Berlin Wall; the first breath of freedom for millions of people around the world; and America's victory in the Cold War.
However, President Bush left the White House with the hope that not all things change. Some important facets of American life would remain constant: "our belief in a strong defense, in strong families, and in leaving the world a better and more prosperous place for the young kids here today." During his terms as vice president and president, Bush... As forty-first president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush witnessed many great changes: the fall of the Berlin Wall; the first breath ...
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158,00 |
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Land of the Desert Sun: Texas' Big Bend Country
ISBN: 9780890968352 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Big Bend region, outlined by the snakelike curve of the Rio Grande, is a land of deserts and mountains. The lowlands of the region, dominated by the desert sun, are the eastern margin of the Chihuahuan Desert, one of the most arid regions of the world. Rising above the desert floor are numerous mountain ranges, part of the Southern Sierras. These mountain islands of cooler and moister terrain above the sere desert give the Big Bend an incredible wealth of diverse biological communities. Together, the deserts and the mountains of the Big Bend are the largest and last wild area remaining in...
The Big Bend region, outlined by the snakelike curve of the Rio Grande, is a land of deserts and mountains. The lowlands of the region, dominated by t...
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74,01 |
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Working Hands
ISBN: 9780890969557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Hands on the saddle tamed the land. Hands on the pump jack tapped the vast resources beneath the land to bring new wealth. Now latex-gloved hands work in sterile clean rooms, built on but isolated from the land, to make the microcomputer parts that take Texas and the rest of the world economy into the twenty-first century. Hands at work - the lifeways of people. In more than seventy stunning photographs Rick Williams portrays the daily lives of Texans at work in the industries that comprise the three economic pillars of the state. Ranching, oil, and now microcomputer technology have...
Hands on the saddle tamed the land. Hands on the pump jack tapped the vast resources beneath the land to bring new wealth. Now latex-gloved hands work...
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177,75 |
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In Focus: Andre Kertesz - Photographs From the J.Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892362905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Hungarian-born AndrA(c) KertA(c)sz (1894-1985) was one of the most influential and popular photographers of the twentieth century. This volume presents for the first time selections from the Getty Museum's holdings of KertA(c)sz's photographs, including work from his Budapest, Paris, and New York periods. The book also offers an intimate look at KertA(c)sz through a dialogue among four of the people who knew the artist best during the last years of his life: Robert Gurbo, Curator of New York's AndrA(c) and Elizabeth KertA(c)sz Foundation; David Travis, Curator of Photography at the Art...
Hungarian-born AndrA(c) KertA(c)sz (1894-1985) was one of the most influential and popular photographers of the twentieth century. This volume present...
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88,31 |
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In Focus: László Moholy-Nagy: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892363247 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Hungarian born Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was influential not only as a photographer but also as a filmmaker, teacher, and painter. He taught at the Bauhaus in Germany and, after fleeing the Nazi regime, settled in Chicago, where he founded the Institute of Design. He pioneered the photomontage and created the camera-less medium of the photogram. This book, the second in the Getty's In Focus series, features sixty reproductions from the Getty's outstanding collection of this important photographer's work--each described by Katherine Ware of the Museum's department of photographs. The book also...
Hungarian born Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was influential not only as a photographer but also as a filmmaker, teacher, and painter. He taught at the Bauh...
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88,31 |
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In Focus: Doris Ulmann - Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892363735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Doris Ulmann, one of the foremost photographers in the United States in the 1930s, disappeared from public awareness until the 1970s. She is best known for her quintessentially American pictures of the rural South. A prolific creator, she died before many of her last images could be printed. The latest addition to the acclaimed In Focus series present fifty-five pictures by Ulmann from the Museum's collection. Judith Keller, associate curator of photographs, wrote the extensive accompanying captions and participated, along with William Clift, David Featherstone, Charles Hagen, Weston Naef,...
Doris Ulmann, one of the foremost photographers in the United States in the 1930s, disappeared from public awareness until the 1970s. She is best know...
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88,31 |
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Walker Evans: Signs
ISBN: 9780892363766 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Walker Evans: Signs traces one particular theme - signs of all kinds - through the long career of this master photographer. The book brings together images from the era and place most closely associated with Evans, namely, the rural South of the 1930s. But also included are photographs that will be less familiar to many of Evans' admirers, such as his images of New York City street scenes and advertising or the photographs he took in Chicago and Havana. Andrei Codrescu's essay brings a fresh perspective to this great photographer's passionate investigation of the signs he discovered in the...
Walker Evans: Signs traces one particular theme - signs of all kinds - through the long career of this master photographer. The book brings together i...
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88,31 |
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In Focus: Carleton E. Watkins: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892363995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume is devoted to the smaller and more unusually-shaped works of Carleton E. Watkins, many of which have not been published before. The book also contains an overview of his life, and an edited transcript of a colloquium on his career.
This volume is devoted to the smaller and more unusually-shaped works of Carleton E. Watkins, many of which have not been published before. The book a...
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88,31 |
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In Focus: Man Ray: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892365111 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a collection of photographs by avant-garde artist and photographer Man Ray, from the John Paul Getty Museum. The photographs date from 1910 to the 1940s, and each image is provided with a commentary. Also included is an edited transcript of a colloquium on Man's career.
This is a collection of photographs by avant-garde artist and photographer Man Ray, from the John Paul Getty Museum. The photographs date from 1910 to...
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88,31 |
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In Focus: Hill and Adamson: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892365401 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium. Their alliance began when Hill, while working on his large commemorative painting of the people involved in forming the Free Chruch of Scotland in 1843, began using photography as a tool to document the church elders.
Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamso...
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88,31 |
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In Focus: Eugène Atget: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892366019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Parisian photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) set out to capture those commonplace features that were gradually disappearing from the city he loved. Only towards the end of his 30-year career was his genius recognized. This volume contains 50 Atget works with comprehensive captions and an edited colloquium on his life and work by seven scholars.
Parisian photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) set out to capture those commonplace features that were gradually disappearing from the city he loved. ...
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88,31 |
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In Focus: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
ISBN: 9780892366255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The career of Manuel Alvarez Bravo (b. 1902) spans many decades and reflects numerous changes in artistic fashion. A self-taught photographer, he purchased his first camera at the age of twenty, and around 1925 he won first prize in a photographic competition in Oaxaca. He returned to his birthplace of Mexico City and in 1927 met Tina Modotti, who introduced him to many Modernists in the city's lively art scene. Among them was Edward Weston, who encouraged Alvarez Bravo to continue his photography. Though his work went unrecognized in mainstream art circles for years, Alvarez Bravo is now...
The career of Manuel Alvarez Bravo (b. 1902) spans many decades and reflects numerous changes in artistic fashion. A self-taught photographer, he purc...
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88,31 |
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Gustave Le Gray: 1820-1884
ISBN: 9780892366712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gustave Le Gray's life was as romantic as any novel. A young painter in Rome, then a fashionable portrait photographer in Paris, Le Gray received commissions from Napoleon III, and astonished viewers with his painterly landscapes and ravishing seascapes. Facing bankruptcy, he fled Paris with
Alexandre Dumas to Palermo, traveled to the Middle East, and finally settled in Egypt, where he became drawing master to the ruler's children and continued to make photographs until his death in 1884. Le Gray's work had remained largely unknown by the general public until he... Gustave Le Gray's life was as romantic as any novel. A young painter in Rome, then a fashionable portrait photographer in Paris, Le Gray received comm...
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233,89 |
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Photographers of Genius at the Getty
ISBN: 9780892367498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Celebrating twenty years of collecting photographs at the Getty Museum, Photographers of Genius at the Getty and the exhibition it accompanies spotlight the genius of thirty-eight seminal photographers selected from the hundreds of artists represented in the collection. The exhibition will be on view at the Getty Museum from March 16 to July 25, 2004. As the author, Weston Naef, writes, Genius causes us to stretch our own limits, and genius photographers take us into new realms of seeing through their eyes. The innovative pioneers presented here span the early nineteenth to mid-twentieth...
Celebrating twenty years of collecting photographs at the Getty Museum, Photographers of Genius at the Getty and the exhibition it accompanies spotlig...
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155,93 |
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In Focus: Paul Strand: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892368082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Paul Strand (1890-1976) defined twentieth-century American photography in a prolific career that spanned more than sixty years. His photographs explore the abstract and dynamic qualities found in the natural world, search for humanity in portraits of people and places, and document the experience of life itself. Highlighting the development of the photographer's aesthetic from his early encounters with Cubism to his humanistic depictions of people throughout the world, this book presents nearly forty years of Strand's wide-ranging and powerful work.
In Focus: Paul Strand is published to... Paul Strand (1890-1976) defined twentieth-century American photography in a prolific career that spanned more than sixty years. His photographs explor...
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88,31 |
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In Focus: Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892368099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (1886-1958) began his long and colorful career in Southern California. Among the more than fifty prints gleaned from the Getty Museum's important collection of approximately 240 works that span the photographer's career, this book
features pictures made in Claremont, Glendale, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and other locations in California and the U.S. Weston wed machine-age aesthetics with vernacular subjects, pursuing Modernism as a way of seeing. He produced works of art using subject matter as wide-ranging as sea... A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (1886-1958) began his long and colorful career in Southern California. Among the more th...
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88,31 |
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In Focus: Weegee: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: 9780892368105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Stalking the streets of New York City at night alongside police detectives and barflies, the tough-talking, fedora-wearing, cigar-smoking photographer who called himself "Weegee" was ready at a moment's notice with his Speed Graphic to respond to the police radio. From the mid-1930s to 1950s he captured hundreds of pictures of accidents, murders, arrests, fires, and natural disasters, producing works that are both empathetic and sensational. This volume in the "In Focus" series presents approximately fifty of the ninety-five "Weegee" prints in the Getty's collection, surveying the...
Stalking the streets of New York City at night alongside police detectives and barflies, the tough-talking, fedora-wearing, cigar-smoking photographer...
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88,31 |
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Milton Rogovin: The Mining Photographs
ISBN: 9780892368112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Born in New York in 1909, Milton Rogovin has been photographing coal miners since 1962, working first in Appalachia and later, in the 1980s, in Europe, Asia, South Africa, China, Mexico, and Cuba. Particularly in these later portraits he concentrated on the lives of miners as revealed at work and at home. Men and women portrayed at a mine entrance or in a changing room, covered in coal dust, are barely recognizable in the accompanying photographs, where they proudly stand in their living rooms or backyards, holding a pet or posing with their families, surrounded by their cherished...
Born in New York in 1909, Milton Rogovin has been photographing coal miners since 1962, working first in Appalachia and later, in the 1980s, in Europe...
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259,88 |