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Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880
ISBN: 9780932171542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 photographs from these federal surveys. The selection includes breathtaking views of such iconic sites as Yosemite, as well as lesser-known ethnographic portraits taken by Timothy H. O Sullivan, William H. Jackson, and William Bell, among others. The accompanying essays discuss how the photographs were used to promote white settlement, how their...
As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U.S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories. Images of t...
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192,31 |
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Smokers and Sleepers: Photographs by Jerome Mallmann
ISBN: 9780932900029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Photographer Jerome Mallmann has captured images of New Yorkers in unguarded moments since the late 1960s. Images in this exhibition organized by the Elvehjem Museum of Art show a dispossessed population, those driven or escaping to the streets of New York to indulge in the compulsion to smoke or the need to sleep.
Photographer Jerome Mallmann has captured images of New Yorkers in unguarded moments since the late 1960s. Images in this exhibition organized by the ...
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54,26 |
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Wild Edges: Photographic Ink Prints
ISBN: 9780932900999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gregory Conniff's large-scale black and white pastoral images evoke the sensuality of nineteenth century photographic materials. In his affectionate and intelligent work, there is a visible connection to the history of landscape art, reaching back as far as Claude Lorrain and seventeenth-century Dutch drawing. Conniff is also a leading practitioner of a new pastoralism that is casting a contemporary eye on the current state of America's open land. Postmodern in the best sense, Conniff's pictures address the timeless human need to see beauty in the world that shapes our lives. A resident of...
Gregory Conniff's large-scale black and white pastoral images evoke the sensuality of nineteenth century photographic materials. In his affectionate a...
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113,52 |
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Photographs at St Lawrence University : A Critical Survey and Catalogue of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery
ISBN: 9780933607026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This text presents a critical survey and catalogue of the permanent collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery with selected photographs from special collections and university archives.
This text presents a critical survey and catalogue of the permanent collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery with selected photographs from spec...
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197,51 |
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Photographs at St. Lawrence University: A Critical Survey and Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery
ISBN: 9780933607033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This text presents a critical survey and catalogue of the permanent collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery with selected photographs from special collections and university archives.
This text presents a critical survey and catalogue of the permanent collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery with selected photographs from spec...
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113,52 |
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Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams
ISBN: 9780934211383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Poet and translator Dick Davis brings together a collection of epigrams by poets from the 'classic' period of Persian literature. It makes a fascinating introduction to a literature that is little known in the West, and incidentally provides insight into a vanished and extraordinary way of life. Davis's prodigious scholarship of Persian poetry has enabled him to select a wide range of poems, from both famous and little-known poets. Davis has maintained exceptional faithfulness to the original Persian while recasting the poems' grace and drive in English. The book also contains a lucid and...
Poet and translator Dick Davis brings together a collection of epigrams by poets from the 'classic' period of Persian literature. It makes a fascinati...
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129,97 |
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Space/Sight/Self
ISBN: 9780935573220 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The exhibition Space/Sight/Self was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues identity, vision, and place. The goal was to produce a portrait, as it were, of contemporary portraiture. This catalog documents the exhibition and helps to facilitate viewers' reflections and responses about the spaces, sights, and selves that enable us to construct and question our identity."
The exhibition Space/Sight/Self was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues identity, vision, ...
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59,78 |
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One/Many: Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9780935573435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Some of the most celebrated images of nineteenth-century American photography emerged from government-sponsored geological surveys whose purpose was to study and document western territories. Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell, two survey photographers who joined expeditions in the 1860s and 1870s, opened the eyes of nineteenth-century Americans to the western frontier.
Highlighting a recent Smart Museum of Art acquisition, One/Many brings together an exquisite group of photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan. Particularly noteworthy are their photographic panoramas, assemblages of... Some of the most celebrated images of nineteenth-century American photography emerged from government-sponsored geological surveys whose purpose was t...
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109,15 |
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Catalogue of Photography: Cleveland Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780940717404 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Catalogue of the Cleveland Museum of Art's photographic holdings.
Catalogue of the Cleveland Museum of Art's photographic holdings.
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187,64 |
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William Eggleston: 2 1/4
ISBN: 9780944092705 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Born and raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, William Eggleston began taking pictures during the 1960s after seeing Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment. In 1966 he changed from black and white to color film, perhaps to make the medium more his own and less that of his esteemed predecessors. John Sarkowski, when he was curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, called Eggleston the "first color photographer, " and certainly the world in which we consider a color photograph as art has changed because of Eggleston.
From 1966 to 1971, Eggleston would occasionally use a two and... Born and raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, William Eggleston began taking pictures during the 1960s after seeing Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisi...
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290,59 |
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Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9780944197585 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Although justly renowned for its luxuriant coastal rainforest, the Pacific Northwest also sustains an array of wildflower habitats ranging from mountains to deserts to river canyons."Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest" invites you to become part of this fascinating world.
Although justly renowned for its luxuriant coastal rainforest, the Pacific Northwest also sustains an array of wildflower habitats ranging from mounta...
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135,42 |
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Out of the Darkroom
ISBN: 9780955407208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is about the least known, yet very fascinating part of the photographic industry, namely Photofinishing. It converts images, be they digital or film, from the camera to print, greeting cards or other media. Ever since George Eastman introduced inexpensive films and cameras at the end of the nineteenth century, photography has been one of the most popular pastimes. Prior to that time, photography was very complicated not to mention expensive and very few people practiced it. Eastman realised that to popularise photography, a developing and printing service was required and he...
This book is about the least known, yet very fascinating part of the photographic industry, namely Photofinishing. It converts images, be they digital...
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117,12 |
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Martinez Celaya: Early Work
ISBN: 9780967360867 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press
Enrique Martinez Celaya s aesthetic project revives and reinterprets the classic Western metaphysical tradition relating aesthetics to ethics, the Beautiful to the Good and the True. His work embodies his belief that being a certain kind of artist means being a certain kind of person and that in and through art he gains clarity about himself and his relationship to the world. His project is thus profoundly ethical and, in important ways, spiritual. Through art Martinez Celaya reconciles himself to the... Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press
Enrique Martinez Celaya s aesthetic project revives and reinterpre... |
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267,34 |
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Humanlandscapes : Interpreting the Human Form
ISBN: 9780967903453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Humanlandscapes" is a special fusion of talent by physician and photographer P. Miller and poet Peter Crane, producing a lyrical and unabashed tribute to the human body, beauty, the feminine, and the natural world. The core of the book is comprised of images of the body in many different Southwestern settings as well as in the studio, and in both color and black-and-white. The oversized book allows the images to be presented elegantly and each to be paired with a poem specifically written for it, setting the tone and expanding the mood. "Humanlandscapes" is divided into four sections,... "Humanlandscapes" is a special fusion of talent by physician and photographer P. Miller and poet Peter Crane, producing a lyrical and unabashed tri... |
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296,26 |
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50 Principles of Composition in Photography: A Practical Guide to Seeing Photographically Through the Eyes of a Master Photographer
ISBN: 9780973905090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 50 Principles of Composition in Photography reveals how to capture more creative, imaginative and inspired photographs using both film and digital photography. With Klaus Bohn's clear and practical guidelines you will discover how to heighten your visual acuity and take more artistic, appealing and captivating images.
These principles of composition have been gained from a lifetime of learning and thousands of dollars spent attending private courses given by the world's top professional photographers including: Joe Zeltzman, Monte Zucker, Donald Jack, Rocky Gunn, Yousuf Karsh, Arnold... 50 Principles of Composition in Photography reveals how to capture more creative, imaginative and inspired photographs using both film and digital pho...
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151,66 |
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On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of North America
ISBN: 9780975496404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Rising from sandbars on the Platte River with clarion calls, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) feels the urgency of spring migration. Elegant, noble, and spiritual, the sandhill crane is one of the most ancient of all birds. More than a half-million strong, flying in squadrons, these majestic creatures point northward to their Arctic and sub-Arctic breeding ranges. Theirs is an epic story of endurance through the ages.With 153 stunningcolor photographs, On Ancient Wings presents sandhill cranes in their wild but increasingly compromised habitats today. Over the course of five...
Rising from sandbars on the Platte River with clarion calls, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) feels the urgency of spring migration. Elegan...
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177,75 |
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Friday Night Grind
ISBN: 9780976252337 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The old world character of New Orleans is at once elegant, cultured, and refined, yet dilapidated, boisterous, and vulgar. To document these abundant eccentricities, Jackie Brenner is drawn to subjects that expose the night people of her hometown with Bourbon Street and its strip clubs as the perfect tease. To gain entry into this darkened, shadowy world was difficult.
Friday nights, better known as date night in the Crescent City, were chosen to penetrate the fantasy, harshness, and humanity of the stripper's world; to become a witness to the reality of their "otherwordly" existence.... The old world character of New Orleans is at once elegant, cultured, and refined, yet dilapidated, boisterous, and vulgar. To document these abundant ...
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217,26 |
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Being There: Medical Student Morgue Volunteers Following 9-11
ISBN: 9780976879206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Being There is a collection of photographic portraits of, and interviews with, NYU medical students who volunteered in the New York City Medical Examiner's morgue following 9/11, conducted by Barry Goldstein, and with a foreword by Charles Hirsch, M.D., the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, who ran the massive effort to identify remains. Within 24 hours of the attacks, a complex of tents and refrigerated trucks appeared on 30th St. and 1st Ave, adjacent to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). This makeshift compound housed the temporary morgues that would receive...
Being There is a collection of photographic portraits of, and interviews with, NYU medical students who volunteered in the New York City Medical Exami...
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123,40 |
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Navajo Nation 1950: Traditional Life in Photographs
ISBN: 9780977753192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1950, Jonathan Wittenberg, student of biochemistry and biophysics, went to live among the Navajo, or Dine, in New Mexico. With a bulky twin-lens reflex camera, Wittenberg was recording a people and their lives from a time that is essentially unrecorded. Navajo Nation 1950 is an incredible historical document that is not only a unique entree to a time and place, but a surprisingly fine art foray by an untrained photographic eye.
In 1950, Jonathan Wittenberg, student of biochemistry and biophysics, went to live among the Navajo, or Dine, in New Mexico. With a bulky twin-lens re...
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193,73 |
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The Art Within Portrait Photography: A Master Photographer's Revealing and Enlightening Look at Portraiture
ISBN: 9780978116231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Exploring the art and creativity that exists in portraiture allows us to create a greater awareness of ourselves and our surroundings. From Glamour to Children, Couples, Families, Pets, Executives and more, Klaus Bohn's work lets us really see the emotions, feelings and art contained within these images.
Klaus Bohn explores unique compositional elements as well as the use of space, shapes and forms in many of his photographs. His skills have been honed over a lifetime of learning and thousands of dollars spent attending private courses given by the world's top professional photographers... Exploring the art and creativity that exists in portraiture allows us to create a greater awareness of ourselves and our surroundings. From Glamour to...
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173,37 |